bigfinger76 - Slashdot User

Comment Re: One more in a crowded field (Score 2) 337

by bigfinger76 on Sunday June 14, 2015 @09:23PM (#49911169) Attached to: Swift: Apple's Biggest Achievement For Coders

Wrong. The money is in the hardware; app developers don't get any of that.
Quoting the article you linked:
"The figures given here relate to profits generated by handset makers, not the services ecosystem and potential profits made by app publishers and others..."

Comment Re:Water for people (Score 1) 599

by bigfinger76 on Sunday June 14, 2015 @09:00PM (#49911081) Attached to: As Drought Worsens, California Orders Record Water Cuts

Climate. Climate creates deserts. There is a difference between the two, and I recall learning that in grade school.

Comment Re: Proof (Score 1) 546

by bigfinger76 on Sunday June 14, 2015 @02:37PM (#49909629) Attached to: Report: Russia and China Crack Encrypted Snowden Files

If being wrong is what you're after here, I have great news.

Comment Re:$68 Billion for high speed trains (Score 1) 599

by bigfinger76 on Saturday June 13, 2015 @06:54PM (#49905941) Attached to: As Drought Worsens, California Orders Record Water Cuts

The residents there don't need their water?

And desalination will NOT solve the problem.

Comment Re:$68 Billion for high speed trains (Score 1) 599

by bigfinger76 on Saturday June 13, 2015 @05:12PM (#49905451) Attached to: As Drought Worsens, California Orders Record Water Cuts

FROM WHERE?

Comment Re:$68 Billion for high speed trains (Score 1) 599

by bigfinger76 on Saturday June 13, 2015 @05:11PM (#49905443) Attached to: As Drought Worsens, California Orders Record Water Cuts

Where? Tell us.

Comment Re:Water for people (Score 1) 599

by bigfinger76 on Saturday June 13, 2015 @05:04PM (#49905409) Attached to: As Drought Worsens, California Orders Record Water Cuts

A desert isn't a desert because of the weather. Stop repeating that nonsense.

Comment Re:Abusing one of my Hadoop nodes (Score 1) 558

by bigfinger76 on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @04:05PM (#49885871) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Hardware Is In Your Primary Computer?

I like the cut of your jib.

Comment Re:Projections. (Score 2) 310

by bigfinger76 on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @03:53PM (#49885773) Attached to: NASA Releases Massive Climate Change Data Set

Nice strawman. No.

Comment Re:Projections. (Score 1) 310

by bigfinger76 on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @03:11PM (#49885397) Attached to: NASA Releases Massive Climate Change Data Set

Near future, my man. Near future.

Comment Re:Does it Include the Chemtrails? (Score 1) 310

by bigfinger76 on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @02:05PM (#49884841) Attached to: NASA Releases Massive Climate Change Data Set

Looks like they'd seed a few rain clouds over CA....

Comment Re:Projections. (Score 1) 310

by bigfinger76 on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @02:00PM (#49884781) Attached to: NASA Releases Massive Climate Change Data Set

One of these things will benefit humanity in the near future. The other will not.

Comment Re:Fuck you Mozilla (Score 1) 351

by bigfinger76 on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @05:11PM (#49879125) Attached to: Mozilla Responds To Firefox User Backlash Over Pocket Integration

The fork is there. Others took the initiative, despite your assertions to the contrary.

Comment Re:Vote with your feet (Score 1) 351

by bigfinger76 on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @03:18PM (#49878181) Attached to: Mozilla Responds To Firefox User Backlash Over Pocket Integration

Pale Moon is a Firefox fork, and is the closest thing I can find to the old, "good" Firefox. I've used it for almost a year now, and have had zero issues (I'm on Linux mostly, but it has worked flawlessly on my Win machines as well).

Comment Re:Fuck you Mozilla (Score 4, Informative) 351

by bigfinger76 on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @02:59PM (#49877981) Attached to: Mozilla Responds To Firefox User Backlash Over Pocket Integration

"You can change the source, you have the power!" Yeah, not so much... nobody is really going to do anything except complain. (Well, except that one guy who is now going to make it his life work to fork it into something he calls Freefox that gets used by around 53 people... but those 53 people are very happy about it.)

Firefox has been forked already. More than 53 people are very happy about it.
Pale Moon

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