Comment Don't want to be rude or flamebait but... (Score 2, Insightful) 600
Do you have any clue what you're doing?
Comment Re:Forgive my ignorance... (Score 1) 262
Don't forget tethering, and the up and coming new favorite annoyance of the wireless industrial machine, bloatware! yes, exactly like the crap that is shipped on pc's! only you can't remove it, at all, ever, unless you root the device
Comment Re:on the fence (Score 1) 262
Sir, I think your post is slightly insulting to rocks. They have tons of uses!
1) Beat someone up with it
2) Break stuff with it
3) Throw it at something you don't like
4) Turned into concrete
100) Crushed to a powder and used to sandblast paint off things
Next time, use a more sensible example, such as
Comment Re:A leg up on google? (Score 1) 119
A big leg up on Google, I'm usually not on my gmail screen all day. Facebook is a different story.
Comment Re:backups are important. (Score 1) 462
while i admire your desire to teach 14 years all of this, most of them will not care about that level of detail. in my high school programming class, most kids couldn't remember basic control structures (if, else, loops, etc.), and when given problems to solve, would ask the teacher for the 'codes'. heck, even the universities don't start with architecture, hardware overviews, or assembly
Comment Re:Don't sit down = Immortality (Score 1) 341
It might be possible to live forever by not sitting down, it'll just be hard as hell to find out. Who are you to say that if someone never sits, ever, then they wouldn't die? You could live to 1,000 years old, but the second you put your ass in a chair, you die. It'll be like the movie Speed or that Family Matters episode where the bus can't slow under 55 or the cop couldn't stop jogging on the treadmill. More research must be done!
Comment it's still good! (Score 2, Funny) 266
It's the pig le resistance! It's just a little airborne! It's still good, it's still good!
Comment Re:IE? Seriously? (Score 1) 142
Unfortunately that can't always be your answer, especially when your site is an enterprise application, and the bread and butter of your system. As much as we would like to shun users of old or crummy software, sometimes, they're the ones keeping the lights on. Any help with allowing us to support them is help worth taking advantage of, in my opinion.
Your Feces Is a Wonderland of Viruses 211
sciencehabit writes "Thanks to an anlaysis of fecal samples from four sets of Missouri-born female identical twins and their mothers, researchers have concluded that human guts harbor viruses as unique as the people they inhabit; the viral lineup differs even between identical twins. Even more surprising? These viruses may be doing good work inside of us."
Low-Level Format For a USB Flash Drive? 252
Luyseyal writes "I unwittingly bought one of these terrible flash cards at Fry's and have managed to nuke two of them, successively. I have a USB flash card reader that will read/write the current one at USB 1.0 speed, but it locks up every Ubuntu and XP machine I've come across in high-speed access mode. I have read that if I low-level format it that it could be fixed, though my current one doesn't support it. My Google-fu must be weak because I cannot seem to find a USB flash reader that specifies that it will do low-level formatting." Can anyone offer advice for resurrecting such drives?
Comment Re:i look forward to the mail (Score 1) 145
which they will then use to buy some new shipping containers containing the latest P4 chips to bring more internet to africa!! how can you be such a selfish twit and not want that!
Valve's Newell Thinks PS3 Needs To Be "Open Like a Mac" 348
Eraesr writes "Apparently Valve boss Gabe Newell thinks the PS3 needs to be more of an open platform, drawing a comparison to Apple's Mac platform. In an interview with 5BY5.TV, he said he would like to see the PS3 be 'open like a Mac' instead of being 'more closed like a Gamecube.' 'Platform investments, like the Mac, are difficult because you have to be aware of what direction that platform is moving,' Newell said, referring to the firm's recent move onto Macs with its titles and distribution service Steam. 'We need to target platforms that do a better job of looking like where we want to be in a few years.'"
Comment same works for apple products (Score 4, Funny) 302
iPad won't fit in your pocket, or the iPhone apps don't work well on the larger screen? get your iPhone, and line up the top left corner of the screens ...
How To Find Bad Programmers 359
AmberShah writes "The job post is your potential programmer's first impression of your company, so make it count with these offputting features. There are plenty of articles about recruiting great developers, but what if you are only interested in the crappy ones?" I think much of the industry is already following these guidelines.
Dwarf Planets Accumulate In Outer Solar System 93
An anonymous reader tips a piece in Australian Geographic indicating that Pluto may be in for another demotion, as researchers work to define dwarf planets more exactly. "[Australian researchers] now argue that the radius which defines a dwarf planet should instead be from 200–300 km, depending on whether the object is made of ice or rock. They base their smaller radius on the limit at which objects naturally form a spherical rather than potato-like shape because of 'self-gravity.' Icy objects less than 200 km (or rocky objects less than 300 km) across are likely to be potato shapes, while objects larger than this are spherical. ... They call this limit the 'potato radius' ... [One researcher is quoted] 'I have no problem with there being hundreds of dwarf planets eventually.'"
