Comment Re:Nope, not kidding. (Score 1) 2058
Whoa, driving on the road charged by GPS? Hell yes please! Take that money and push it back into developing a modern travel infrastructure. Awesome.
Comment Re:I'd like a second opinion... (Score 2, Informative) 662
They weren't going to Earth until Kirk took command.
Ballmer Promises Microsoft Tablet By Christmas 356
judgecorp writes "Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told an audience at the London School of Economics, that there will be tablets running Microsoft's Windows operating system available by Christmas. 'We as a company will need to cover all form factors,' he told an audience of students and press. 'You'll see slates with Windows on them – you'll see them this Christmas.' Mind you, if he's talking about the rumoured HP Windows 7 slate, he may not be so pleased when it appears. A recent YouTube video showed a supposed prototype which has been described as a 'trainwreck in the making.'"
Comment Re:GUIs make documentation hard (Score 1) 617
Sounds like documenting a nice CLI is easy and a crappy GUI is hard.
Comment Re:Quality (Score 0, Offtopic) 226
Not 7.1 surround sound?
I use blu-ray for the quality movies that I want to max out my home theater. For watching anything else Netflix or Hulu is perfectly adequate.
Comment Re:Internet service bundled with cable TV (Score 1) 226
Naked DSL (or dry loop DSL): no phone, just DSL. Cheap, fast, easy. Verizon has plans from $20 to $40 per month.
Comment Re:This is painfully obvious. (Score 1) 772
I'm pulling down a mere 50K as a web developer for a major university. I have a wife, a kid, a mortgage, monthly payments into retirement and other savings accounts and we manage to do alright on my single income. Budgeting: it's not that hard.
Comment Re:seconding the giant trackball, software.. (Score 1) 417
Yeah, but in this case the free software is really subpar.
Ping Could Be Apple's Social Networking Backdoor? 271
rsmiller510 writes "Could Apple's announcement about Ping, a music-based social network be Apple's social networking trojan horse? Facebook might want to be concerned." Of course it is.
Update: 09/02 19:26 GMT by T : Jamie points out this post on Daring Fireball, according to which Steve Jobs blames the non-integration on "onerous terms" suggested by Facebook.
Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 579
Anecdotes? Yeah!
When I'm doing reading for a course I write out my thoughts and key points in simplenote or notational velocity, then go over the reading again, then go over my notes again with new insights. I can close my eyes and visualize the ascii diagrams and notations and salient points; and also reference them quickly in class.
With Kindle and iBooks I can highlight and attach notes (timestamped notes!) to passages of text and then search *them* in addition to the actual text. Win, so much win.
Comment Re:Polyhedral dice? Roleplaying applications? (Score 1) 100
We've got that now. d20srd + myth-weavers = rules and character sheets on the iPad
I could even tie in a dice rolling application that tracks statuses and their corresponding effects on the dice, but I still prefer physical dice.
Comment Re:For me (Score 1) 402
That situation is the end result of really bad planning; that doesn't mean that that's the only way to do it.
Comment Re:For me (Score 1) 402
Virtualization has changed all that. It's worked wonders for us (major University Library, serving...quite a bit).
Comment Re:Oh, really (Score 1) 135
Crimminy, you read an slashdot article about "Choose Your Own Adventure" and don't know who Edward Packard is? Did you just open it up to post this rant?
More Devs Going Indie, To Gamers' Benefit 137
Wired is running a feature about how a growing number of game developers are abandoning jobs at major publishers and studios and taking their experience to the indie scene instead. Quoting:
"They’re veterans of the triple-A game biz with decades of experience behind them. They’ve worked for the biggest companies and had a hand in some of the industry’s biggest blockbusters. They could work on anything, but they’ve found creative fulfillment splitting off into a tiny crew and doing their own thing. They’re using everything they’ve learned working on big-budget epics and applying it to small, downloadable games. The good news for gamers is that, as the industry’s top talents depart the big studios and go into business for themselves, players are being treated to a new class of indie game. They’re smaller and carry cheaper price tags, but they’re produced by industry veterans instead of thrown together by B teams and interns. Most importantly, unlike big-budget games that need to appeal to the lowest common denominator to turn a profit, these indie gems reveal the undiluted creative vision of their makers."
