Comment Re:What is Google's interest? Data Tracking? (Score 1) 363
Apps where more has moved to the cloud.
Comment Re:Obviously this person is not financially litera (Score 1) 311
I think you have the Unsubsidized and Subsidized prices backwards. The subsidized price is $99.99 and the unsubsidized price is $79.99. $20 discount for not getting the initial phone purchase subsidized.
Stay Off the Grid, Win $10,000 228
DariusD writes "Last summer, Wired writer Evan Ratliff wrote a story about how people erase their identities and start over. After it ran, he tried to disappear — spending 25 days on the lam until a few enterprising Wired readers tracked him down through some brilliant hacking and sleuthing. Now we're going to try the experiment again. Evan, Wired, Loneshark Games and I are working with Universal Pictures to do another, similar contest connected to the new film Repo Men, and this time we want you to go on the run. We need four applicants willing to disappear from their lives from late February to late March. If they can stay hidden for that time period, they'll end up with $10,000 each."
Comment Re:Total non-story (Score 1) 229
One note. No Ads are required by google on blogspot. You may add adwords to your blog easily however though.
Which Math For Programmers? 466
An anonymous reader writes "It is no news that the greatest computer scientists and programmers are/were mathematicians. As a kid 'hacking' if-else programs, I was not aware of the importance of math in programming, but few years later, when I read Engines of Logic by Martin Davis I started becoming increasingly more convinced of this. Unfortunately, math doesn't return my love, and prefers me to struggle with it. Now, as the end of the semester approaches, I am faced with a dilemma: What math subject to choose next? I have two choices: 'Discreet structures with graph theory' (discrete math; proofs, sets, algorithms and graphs) on one side, and 'Selected math chapters' (math analysis; vectors, euclidean space, differentials) on the other. I'm scared of the second one because it's said to be harder. But contrary to my own opinion, one assistant told me that it would be more useful for a programmer compared to the first subject. Then again, he's not a programmer. That's why I turn to you for help, fellow slashdotters — any advice?"
Comment Re:What do you expect. (Score 1) 494
I buy pretty much exclusively from Amazon, due to where I live. It would take longer for me to find the time to make the 1:30 roundtrip drive to the nearest Barnes and Noble (Borders is farther) than it takes for amazon to ship it to me.
Amazon is pretty popular in the more rural areas of the US.
Comment Re:On a related note... (Score 1) 378
That's not an ad for android
Comment Re:Diversity of features (Score 3, Interesting) 378
Take a look at the upcoming motorola droid coming to verizon. Probably hitting stores on Nov 6th, Possibly online/telephone sales the end of this month. It has a slideout qwerty keyboard, 3.7inch capacitive touchscreen, 5MP camera, and will be the first Android 2.0 phone. It's also only
Reportedly It's made of metal and has a very sturdy feel to it.
Comment Re:good point (Score 1) 423
I think they usually do it based on operating system. Something that has BREW is automatically a dumbphone, something that's running WinMo, Android, BB OS, iPhone OS, etc is a smartphone.
Apple Wants Patents For Crippling Cellphones 371
theodp writes "Evil is in the eye of the beholder, but there's certainly not much to like in the newly-disclosed Apple patent applications for Systems and Methods for Provisioning Computing Devices. Provisioning, says Apple, allows carriers to 'specify access limitations to certain device resources which may otherwise be available to users of the device.' So what problem are we trying to solve here? 'Mobile devices often have capabilities that the carriers do not want utilized on their networks,' explains Apple. 'Various applications on these devices may also need to be restricted.'"
Comment Re:Echos thoughts of others after the demo (Score 1) 336
The source code for that command line client should be available at: http://www.waveprotocol.org/.
If i remember correctly it's not ncurses but jline, and it was programmed entirely in java.
Comment Re:Whoa (Score 4, Insightful) 179
Water + Solar/Nuclear = Return flight.
Submission + - SPAM: NASA teams to build pod-like tranportation system
coondoggie writes: "It looks a little like the Jetson's flying car but it travels on magnetically levitated highways. That's one vision of a future commuter system that could be developed by a marriage of NASA robot-control software and car-like pods from Unimodal Systems.
Specifically, per an agreement announced today between Unimodal and NASA, Unimodal will contribute its SkyTran vehicle and its advanced transportation technology while NASA will provide its Plan Execution Interchange Language (PLEXIL) and Universal Executive (UE) robot control software to control the vehicle.
SkyTran will use small vehicles running on elevated, magnetically levitated (maglev) guideways, which distinguishes it from other railed systems. The vehicles are lightweight, personal compartments that can transport up to three passengers, according to [spam URL stripped]."
Link to Original Source
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Submission + - Ubuntu 9.04 on Kindle 2 (hackaday.com) 2
JO_DIE_THE_STAR_F*** writes: "Ubuntu 9.04 on Kindle 2
Jesse Vincent managed to get Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope running on the Kindle 2. The new functionality was presented in a talk at OSCON 2009."
Jesse Vincent managed to get Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope running on the Kindle 2. The new functionality was presented in a talk at OSCON 2009."
Comment Re:Decryption on computer (Score 4, Informative) 345
But the key changes every 2 minutes or so. You can't watch tv if you can't break it in much less than that.
