Follow Slashdot blog updates by subscribing to our blog RSS feed

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×

Comment I do, even in the snow. (Score 4, Informative) 275

I do, even in the snow, especially the snow actually. I find it takes less time for me to bike to work than to clear the snow off my car in the morning. When I got my job, I went online to look for a place to rent, I put my work's postal (zip) code into craigslist and sorted results for the closest. Bicycle ride is all of 10 minutes. I used to have an hour long commute, it was terrible, what a waste of my life. I'll take a tiny apt over a nice house rather than ever do that again. In the winter, my ride is all in the dark, so I have blindingly bright lights on my bike, no way someone won't see me. About 1/4 of my ride is on a bicycle path, so I get to see lots of nature, rabbits every day, and there is a homeless camp that provides some entertainment as well. That little bit of exercise in the morning wakes me up and leaves me feeling great coming in to work.

Comment Didn't it just get a name change? (Score 1) 135

Seems like it was the same as hangouts, gplus, and maybe a few other names.

Google's problem, as I see it, is that I would never trust them to keep something going. They have a reasonable successful product, but feel the need to warp it into something else or just plain kill it off. Why take the risk switching to something you know will likely get killed off in a few years, forcing you to switch again?

Comment Re:And they only cost 20 times as much (Score 1) 364

Problem is that the cheap ones don't last nearly their stated life. Even the expensive ones won't last in some fixtures that are more enclosed.
Those are also the 60W ones that just are not that bright, the 100W equivalents tend to cost 3-4 times as much as the 60W.

As for price, you can get a 4 pack of 100W incandescents at most any dollar stare.

Comment Mattel were leaders in cheap technology before... (Score 4, Informative) 108

Way back in the day, they came out with the Barbie Digital Camera. It was the cheapest digital camera on the market by far. Many people who had no interest in Barbie bought them. It was $79 when most cameras were $300+, they got the price down by, among other things, using damaged DRAM chips.

http://www.superkids.com/aweb/...

Comment Re:Persecuting that which is not understood (Score 1) 956

The concern with those is that the liquid can be used to make an explosive (acetone peroxide), but that is only explosive when dried out. Ironically, you can actually bring a large amount of one of the main ingredients on board (hydrogen peroxide) if you have a doctors note.

Something they don't seem concerned about is gun cotton. It looks, feels, and smells exactly like cotton, but goes boom. You might look suspicious bringing a bale of cotton in your carry-on, but you could treat jeans and t-shirts into it. Then, you have a bag packed full of explosives, that looks like clothes even under close examination.

I think they were more concerned about people smuggling drugs dissolved in water, terrorism is, as ever, a convenient excuse.

Comment My YouTube ad revenue went up (Score 4, Informative) 296

From the twitter posts in the linked article, it seems this started on the 5th. My most recent ad revenue data from YouTube is for that day, I made $11.68, normally I make $5-$8 per day. I've been seeing some spikes recently, but I assumed that was from heavy back to school advertising, maybe it could have been from this.

Any other tubers out there notice something like this?

Slashdot Top Deals

Suggest you just sit there and wait till life gets easier.

Working...