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Comment Re:In other words (Score 1) 481

1-3% of which was spent on the shovel ready jobs.
and of that money, at least in my state, it was dumped into repaving a road nobody drives, that was repaved just 10 years prior.

the problem is they don't employ somebody like me to drive around all day and figure out which ones needs fixing and which don't. There's a lot of highways that get repaved but were originally paved so well that even after 15 years, scratched and scuffed and noisy as the asphalt is, it's still 100% operable and, in fact, safer in wet weather than newly paved roads. That money could be spent converting our other roads that need repaving every 2 years to concrete.

Comment Re:What is with naming software after candy? (Score 1) 167

This.
I'm also sick of idiots who use shit like "1.2.6.27 beta" as some sort of version string.
No one knows what your asinine convention is, so it's meaningless.
No one in your office understands that asinine convention either, and for the 3 people who do, they'll change "1.4.2.12" to "1.5" for marketing purposes anyway.

MS got this right - you get a straight sequential build number if you need it, otherwise it's a simple "Windows 7" or "Windows 7 SP1" convention.
Of course, they fucked that up with "Windows 8.1" and "R2" for all their server shit. Essentially they're:
1) Killing off service packs for the server software because they want to charge for another license when the historical precedent was a free service pack.
2) Refusing to release Windows 7 SP2 because it will trigger a support extension.
3) Refusing to release any service pack for Windows 8 because they want people to forget it (despite the fact that there's nothing wrong with it).
4) Skipping 9 because they REALLY want people to forget Windows 8.

This. While we're at it, I'm sick of people starting their post with "This." instead of permitting their elaboration to imply agreement with the parent.
This. This bugs me.
This.
please stop.
This. I agree, please stop gaudily using "This."

Comment what a joke (Score 1) 167

I finally got everything set up nicely with 4.4.4 on my Nexus 5
was really started to appreciate the Holo themes to everything (remember? battery saving for Amoled screens!)
they they went and came up with this notion that white is better because you shove stacks of paper around on a desk, that's what your phone should do too (Material Design). That paper stacking business is gaudy and messy. No thanks. I'll be staying on 4.4.4 for as long as possible, and I have backups of apps that have changed to the new design layout, like Gmail, so that I can continue to view 8 emails on my inbox screen instead of 5.

They make us get bigger screens an then they simply make everything on the screen bigger and waste the space, instead of improving productivity.
I'm almost ready to switch to Apple. Tired of dealing with silly bugs and poorly executed design

Comment Re:like the quadrajet carb, the big is BIG in big. (Score 1) 85

blah blah blah, everyone keeps saying that, and yet my battery life is always better when I keep the CPU max clock at about 80% of full speed.
I'm sorry, but physics are a bitch, and you are too for claiming that power doesn't follow the cube of voltage in SoCs. (yes, cube. It follows the cube of voltage, not the I^2R you're used to seeing)

Comment Re:Ask yourselves these questions... apk (Score 1) 619

I was reading a poem
one line
per sign
(like downloading
with a modem!)
but after 5
I noticed 'twas broken
he wrote a sonnet--
not a token:
far too long
to be spoken.
it ended in Burma Shave
a bad omen!
(for shaving the scrotum)
with 'ads in the middle
amazon paid
to block the riddle

Google Amazon Microsoft

Comment Re:Well damn (Score 1) 379

Yes.

Don't underestimate how much the public outcry affected this. I am involved in politics, and have had discussions about this on the federal level. One thing I learned is that most leaders in congress only know what the people around them tell them. They don't have time to surf Slashdot and Reddit (and people wonder why I don't want to run for office)

that's actually a good point I hadn't considered that makes me discredit them less, which helps me think more positively about life and the future in general.

Comment Re: Add noise (Score 1) 86

Properly shielded equipment uses different methods to 'break the cage'. It's been many decades, but some of the heavily shielded designs I did in the 80's involved opto-isolators. Yes, that's right. Want to avoid radiating information ? Use light.

this used to make sense to me, but now that I understand that light is just part of the EM spectrum, I find myself confused.

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