Comment Re:Why.... (Score 1) 543
Ummm... at Fry's the likelihood is that another customer has purchased/taken home/opened/used/abused/disliked/returned the laptop that you just bought. Then they re-seal and sell it as new...
Comment it helps... (Score 1) 160
It helps to maintain my rage
Comment Re:So corporate is smarter than me? (Score 1) 380
And thus is the "corporate mentality" proven to be sufficiently deficient. Though I suspect you don't run IE on your own computer.
Posted with FF5 on Linux...
Comment thank god... (Score 1) 68
Whew... at first I thought it said EPSON and that would surely fail...
Submission + - Study Shows - Dumb People Use IE (pcmag.com)
Sfing_ter writes: "FTA:
"Across the board, the average IQ scores presented for users of Internet Explorer versions 6 through 9 were all lower than the IQ scores recorded for Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Camino, and Opera users. Humorously enough, those using Internet Explorer with the Chrome frame built-in actually ranked third in IQ scores among this browser list. Opera users reported the highest average IQ score – hovering around the 120 to 130 range, which is a bit higher than the WAIS test's population mean of 100 (and standard deviation of 15). "
These findings go along with my own study..."
"Across the board, the average IQ scores presented for users of Internet Explorer versions 6 through 9 were all lower than the IQ scores recorded for Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Camino, and Opera users. Humorously enough, those using Internet Explorer with the Chrome frame built-in actually ranked third in IQ scores among this browser list. Opera users reported the highest average IQ score – hovering around the 120 to 130 range, which is a bit higher than the WAIS test's population mean of 100 (and standard deviation of 15). "
These findings go along with my own study..."
Comment running on... (Score 1) 385
Running on and being usable are 2 different things...
what greatly bloated wonders are in store for us... sigh.
Comment The Lawyer has a point... (Score 1) 245
The Lawyer has a point... I mean, with the botnets relying on Windows machines it is highly likely that they are destructible. It also explains why they require so many machines...
Comment May all you .... (Score 1) 361
May all you dirty whores rot in hell. Thank you very much.
It really bugs me that M$ is doing this, but MORE that Samsung is playing... Tit For Tat, SO, may they rot in the legal hell they are creating.
Submission + - Microsoft Signs 3 Android Patent Deals This Week (blogspot.com)
An anonymous reader writes: This week's Microsoft tactic against Google and its Android mobile operating system: a barrage of announcements of deals with Android vendors caving and agreeing to pay Microsoft patent royalties. General Dynamics Itronix on Monday, Velocity Micro on Tuesday, and Onkyo on Thursday. HTC is reportedly paying Microsoft $5 per Android device. Some view the agreements as indications that Microsoft has reasonably strong intellectual property claims on Android. Is Android neither 'free' as in 'beer' nor 'free' as in 'speech'? With Microsoft and others charging patent license fees and Google tightly controlling Android, this is worthy of discussion.
Comment Re:None of the above (Score 1) 840
Arrogant Bastard is good but the Double Bastard (11.5%) is better, or the Ruination IPA hehehehehhe.... Stone's rocks (pun intended).
Comment These are not the droids... (Score 1) 412
These are not the droids you are looking for...
just sayin'...
Submission + - Programming is Heading Back to School (9news.com)
the agent man writes: "Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder are exploring what it takes to systematically get programming back to public schools. They have created a game design based curriculum, called Scalable Game Design, using the AgentSheets computational thinking tool. Annual summer institutes http://www.9news.com/news/local/article/202987/222/Teachers-play-video-games-for-science- train middle schools teachers from from around the USA to teach their students computational thinking through game design and computational science simulations.
What is truly unique about this is that it is not an after-school program; it takes place during regular school courses. Entire school districts are participating with measurable impacts, increasing the participation of women in high school CS courses from 2% six years ago to 38-59% now. The project explores new computing education pedagogies with thousands of students in diverse areas including inner city, remote rural and Native American communities. About 45% of our participants so far are female; 56% are non-white students and most of them want to continue. Educators are interested not only in the motivational impact, but also the acquisition of useful 21st Century skills. They would like to be able to ask students “Now that you can make Space Invaders, can you also make a science simulation?” To explore this difficult question of transfer, the researchers devised new mechanisms to compute computational thinking. They analyze every game submitted by students to extract computational thinking patterns and to see if students can transfer these skills to creating science simulations.
More information about Scalable Game Design can be found in their project site: http://scalablegamedesign.cs.colorado.edu/"
What is truly unique about this is that it is not an after-school program; it takes place during regular school courses. Entire school districts are participating with measurable impacts, increasing the participation of women in high school CS courses from 2% six years ago to 38-59% now. The project explores new computing education pedagogies with thousands of students in diverse areas including inner city, remote rural and Native American communities. About 45% of our participants so far are female; 56% are non-white students and most of them want to continue. Educators are interested not only in the motivational impact, but also the acquisition of useful 21st Century skills. They would like to be able to ask students “Now that you can make Space Invaders, can you also make a science simulation?” To explore this difficult question of transfer, the researchers devised new mechanisms to compute computational thinking. They analyze every game submitted by students to extract computational thinking patterns and to see if students can transfer these skills to creating science simulations.
More information about Scalable Game Design can be found in their project site: http://scalablegamedesign.cs.colorado.edu/"
Comment Re:It's pretty simple (Score 1) 516
that would be RFC 18700...
Comment Re:After the first twenty feet... (Score 1) 178
making the weather forecast a light sprinkle with a chance of turds?
Comment wait a fucking minute... (Score 1) 197
Wait a fucking minute here... so they have had technology to keep glass from breaking - windows, drinking glasses, eye glasses for 48 years and are just NOW deciding it would be a good thing?
Great line from the article...
"In his office lobby, Steiner showed off a 400-foot-long spool of flexible, 16-inch-wide glass that's as thin as a sheet of paper.
"Kind of like Chemcor was back in the '60s," he said. "We're not sure what we're going to do with it, but it's cool, isn't it?"
