Comment Re:Hopefully not prone to abuse (Score 1) 214
I'll tell you what's wrong with this phoenix, it's dead.
Don't worry, that shouldn't be a problem for long.
Comment Re:Bandwidth limits (Score 1) 116
I never got the appeal of mobile Internet due to the ridiculously low caps. It's too expensive to really use the Internet as you would on a desktop PC.
Or, you know, use Sprint. I have a gaming desktop and an Android phone. I do not feel as though I need a personal laptop -- my phone takes care of all my mobile needs and I never have to worry about a data cap.
Comment Re:Time is an illusion (Score 1) 359
time zones an illusion. But if we are experiencing only one dimension of a three dimensional "time scape" then it is certainly not an illusion.
Woah. Woah.
Please put down the Time Cube and back away from the keyboard.
Comment Re:Festung Norwegen (Score 1) 359
it's is called Socalism [...] indoctrated [...] discusting
So, from what you are saying, I presume you have had a truly capital-C Capitalist education?
Comment Bring me back east. (Score 1) 359
Y'know, it can really be quite a pain when all your friends and family live three time zones east of you.
I can't really game with them in the evenings. By the time I've gotten my kids to bed, it's midnight for my gaming buddies. It's hard to Skype with family when they get together, as they are usually going their separate ways by the time I get home from work. It doesn't help that all my favorite sports teams from the east play their games early in the morning. Nothing like rolling out of bed to try and groggily watch football on a Saturday morning because OSU is playing a noon-time game.
The worst, though, are the business calls. Because I still have an Eastern Time Zone area code on my cell phone, insurance companies, career sites, and the like (whose calls I actually do want to receive) tend to wake me and the baby with a phone call at 5 or 6 AM, attempting to catch me before I get to work. I've stopped answering these calls, as there is little guarantee that I will even produce complete sentences at that hour.
I can't really game with them in the evenings. By the time I've gotten my kids to bed, it's midnight for my gaming buddies. It's hard to Skype with family when they get together, as they are usually going their separate ways by the time I get home from work. It doesn't help that all my favorite sports teams from the east play their games early in the morning. Nothing like rolling out of bed to try and groggily watch football on a Saturday morning because OSU is playing a noon-time game.
The worst, though, are the business calls. Because I still have an Eastern Time Zone area code on my cell phone, insurance companies, career sites, and the like (whose calls I actually do want to receive) tend to wake me and the baby with a phone call at 5 or 6 AM, attempting to catch me before I get to work. I've stopped answering these calls, as there is little guarantee that I will even produce complete sentences at that hour.
Comment Re:Ya right (Score 2) 193
Well, the article basically said that there is no reason to believe that Bulldozer is delayed at all. I dunno why the title reads "Intel and AMD may both delay"
... wait. Yes, I do. To get readers.
From the article:
... wait. Yes, I do. To get readers.
From the article:
The CPU's anticipated launch date is already close enough that the company should already know if it can launch the product or not; waiting until now to announce a delay isn't something Wall Street would take kindly. Moreover, AMD has been fairly transparent about its launch dates and delays ever since the badly botched launch of the original K10-based Phenom processor back in 2007. Llano has been shipping for revenue for several months, and we're not aware of any 32nm production troubles at GlobalFoundries.
Comment Burned Out Solar (Score 5, Interesting) 694
So, I live (literally) around the corner from one of Solyndra's offices. And one thing I noticed is that, no matter when I left for work in the morning, drove out to the grocery store, or took the kids on a Sunday walk to the park, Solyndra's parking lot was always full and the lights were on in every laboratory.
At first, I was fairly intimidated. I was new to the Valley, and wondered if this was the pace I would be expected to keep for my employer. After a few months, though, I realized that Solyndra was the exception, not the norm, and not even the more hardcore start-ups in my field matched the hours their employees put in.
As I watched their work pattern, I wondered at the office culture that would lead to such employee behavior, as well as the pay and benefits that had to be backing it up. I could never shake the uneasy impression that Solyndra was vigorously burning the candle at both ends, with potentially disastrous consequences in store.
Steady as she goes, I guess. Even in Silicon Valley.
At first, I was fairly intimidated. I was new to the Valley, and wondered if this was the pace I would be expected to keep for my employer. After a few months, though, I realized that Solyndra was the exception, not the norm, and not even the more hardcore start-ups in my field matched the hours their employees put in.
As I watched their work pattern, I wondered at the office culture that would lead to such employee behavior, as well as the pay and benefits that had to be backing it up. I could never shake the uneasy impression that Solyndra was vigorously burning the candle at both ends, with potentially disastrous consequences in store.
Steady as she goes, I guess. Even in Silicon Valley.
Comment Re:Sprint and T-Mo should merge (Score 1) 301
I agree fully. I made a similar transition from Verizon to Sprint after seeing the absurd charges Verizon levels on texting and data plans, as well as their lack of any decent HTC Android phones. Yes, Verizon has some great voice plans, but my wife and I use our phones for far more than voice calls, now. I made up my early termination fee within a few months, and have been saving $50 per month from there on out.
The tradeoff? Urban coverage for rural coverage. With Verizon, I had great data coverage in the middle of the Great Basin, but with Sprint I actually have coverage in my office! For me, at least, the latter is a bit more useful.
The tradeoff? Urban coverage for rural coverage. With Verizon, I had great data coverage in the middle of the Great Basin, but with Sprint I actually have coverage in my office! For me, at least, the latter is a bit more useful.
Comment Organ Donorship? (Score 1) 317
Most of my computers reach their end of life when I decide to raid them for parts to build new machines. The parts left over after the new machine is built get turned into bookends (hard drives) keychains (RAM sticks), or desk decorations (CPU's).
Good machines never die... they just turn into something else.
Good machines never die... they just turn into something else.
Neanderthal Sex Boosted Immunity In Modern Humans 190
NotSanguine writes "Sexual relations between ancient humans and their evolutionary cousins were critical for our modern immune systems, researchers report (paper itself is subscription only) in the journal Science. Mating with Neanderthals and another ancient group called Denisovans introduced genes that help us cope with viruses to this day, they conclude."
Comment Re:Exactly what I need! (Score 1) 149
Point taken.
Huh. When did that comic hit everybody-reads-it-now status, anyways?
Huh. When did that comic hit everybody-reads-it-now status, anyways?
Comment Re:Exactly what I need! (Score 1, Troll) 149
As usual, XKCD covered this.
Comment Re:I deleted code, you insensitive clod! (Score 1) 391
I discovered that quote from Civilization IV (the "engineering" tech, I believe), and now quote it quite often.
Indeed.
Indeed.
Comment Re:Spouse. (Score 1) 312
Let's see...
No way can a robot go as haywire as some of the people I've met
and
Though given that I'd use the spouse in the kitchen as much as in the bedroom, it'd count as a chef too. Not to mention a robotic vacuum.
I think your second quote clearly explains the first.
Comment Re:Timely. (Score 1) 43
>started last Sunday Slashdot. Yesterday's news next week.
Well of course. All the editors joined this past week, so it took this long to actually get the story out.
