Comment Re:More evidence for the existance of the Tech Bub (Score 1) 330
Picture, instead of Clippy, we could have Microsoft Creeper.
How apt....
Comment Re:hope for improvements (Score 1) 330
Really? I run it on an AMD A8-3850 on Ubuntu 14.04 and I didn't have the impression it's strained at all. Granted, I don't run the server part on that machine. My CPU is severely outclassed by most i7s.
Sure, it's not the most efficient codebase, but on a modern machine with power to spare, it's rather fine. Now, I have run it on a rather high end Core2Duo. That's less fun.
Submission + - Mojan of Minecraft fame, sells out to Microsoft (mojang.com)
jawtheshark writes: The rumours were true. Mojang, the company behind Minecraft, is being sold to Microsoft. Of course, the promise is to keep all products supported as they are.
Comment Moot point... (Score 5, Insightful) 200
If the NSA and federal government didn't change after the info was released publicly, why are they acting like an internal complaint might have made a difference?
Comment Whiners (Score 5, Insightful) 610
It downloaded over wi-fi on my phone.
I had to actually start my download because I turn OFF THE ABILITY TO AUTOMATICALLY DOWNLOAD!!!
I swear, the more technology we get the dumber people become. Stop yer damn whining and delete the FREE ALBUM.
Comment Re: Why do you hate freedom? (Score 2) 267
But you have cookies, and browser fingerprints, and logons, and device ID / Application ID info...
Riding on a free uplink doesn't do jack.
Comment Re: Why do you hate freedom? (Score 0) 267
I think we can really fuck with them. Chaff, deception traffic...
Let's get started on making more hay for their stacks, people! Hell. You'll run a client for SETI, why not run one to preserve your intelligent life, here on Earth!
Comment Welcome (Score 1) 5
Welcome to my personal hell since like forever. Internationalization is a major fuckup in all OSes because of assumptions that are untrue. Adding geolocation makes it worse.
Comment Re:So we're doomed to the world of Wall-E? (Score 1) 196
It depends on what you need to do, and what you know about it.
If you are not willing to walk away from it, on short notice? Then buying nothing is wise.
The trick about big financing is that you don't own a house - a bank owns you. Your on their plantation.
If you didn't barter or pay cash, you are on Massah's rules, Massah's time.
Comment Re:So we're doomed to the world of Wall-E? (Score 1) 196
Yes. Enjoy 15-30 years of BEARABLE slavery. But you OWN something... Just ask the taxman.
You have Stockholm syndrome - and don't recognize it. You should read about Edward Bernays, some time - before lashing out in pseudo-moral rage against a proposition who's arguments you fo not actually comprehend.
Comment Re:Typical (Score 1) 8
We are stardust
We are golden
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden
Comment Re:The Curse of Geolocation Strikes Again! (Score 1) 5
Crazy, isn't it?
Evidently, there is some unwritten law that states that Geolocation by IP address shall override any and all set preferences by the user on their device, and ignore any possibility that barring or redirecting the user makes no sense.
The tyranny of location! Don't worry. They have a fix for that with TPP and TTIP.
One law to rule them all, one law to bind them...
Comment Machine intelligence (Score 1) 9
I had an idea that might not be so dangerous and pulled out my fone. âoeComputer,â I said, âoewhat's the best way to knock that bitch out?â
The fone said âoeParse error, there are no female dogs on board and âknockâ(TM) is not in context. Please rephrase.â
Who programs these God damned stupid things, anyway? Back when computers were new, science fiction movies had computers that could think. These stupid computers sure can't. God damn it, I was going to have to talk like I went to college... only I ain't went to college, damn it.
Journal Journal: Android International 5
Google struggles dealing with people who are in one place but want to use a language from another place.
It's gotten better in chrome on a computer. I can pretty much search in chrome and get my results in English. But on android it's a mess.
When I search in Android Chrome - I get google.hu and I haven't found a way to get it to use google.com
Comment Re:Moo (Score 1) 2
No - it isn't. That's funny. I did that pretty late at night.
All my personal sites got messed up and I had to fix them a week or two ago.
