Comment Re:It isn't? (Score 3, Funny) 261
Don't trust the clowd clowns with your data!
I certainly won't. Thanks for the tip. One other thing, how do I distinguish clowd clowns from regular clowns?
Samsung Unveils Windows Phone 8 Device and Android-Based Camera 179
MrSeb writes "Today Samsung joined Nikon in announcing an Android-powered camera. The Samsung Galaxy Camera weighs 305g, features a 16-megapixel CMOS sensor, 21x super zoom lens, a quad-core 1.4GHz SoC (probably Exynos 4), 8GB of internal storage, and runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. This compares with the Nikon S800c which also has a 16MP CMOS sensor, along with a 7x zoom f/2 lens and runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Since neither unit has shipped, we don't know anything yet about how good they are as cameras, but we do know that the companies are trying to regain some of the ground they've lost to smartphones by integrating sharing right into their cameras. For photographers, there are a couple of critical questions about these new models: First is whether these cameras will have enough additional functionality to justify the added cost and weight when most people already have a serviceable camera in their phone. Second, and more importantly, there is still a big question mark hanging over Nikon and Samsung's long-term intentions for Android. If Android cameras are just standard point-and-shoots with a smartphone OS bolted on for sharing, that'll be a wasted opportunity. It would have been easier to create a camera that instantly tethered to a smartphone instead, and let the phone do all the work. There is an exciting possibility, if Nikon and Samsung do this correctly and allow low-level access to the camera functions via Android, to really unleash the power of Android to enable new photographic solutions."
Samsung has also taken the wraps off the ATIV S, the first smartphone running Windows Phone 8. It has a 4.8" screen, NFC support, and a microSD card slot. Samsung plans to start shipping them in Q4.
Comment Re:Industry specific virtual assistants? (Score 2) 125
Are there any jobs for "industry specific" virtual assistants? I could see a market for niche (aerospace, research science, etc.) industries where someone with extensive industry experience would be extremely handy. Rather than the lowest cheap dude out of India, how about a research student out of Boston? Is there a market for that kind of thing? How would one find such a job?
Are you asking about job openings for virtual assistants?
Comment Re:Why are they telling us? (Score 1) 26
If they don't report any progress, they'll lose their funding.
Comment Re:Welp at least (Score 1) 331
You say this, but have you looked around? They do stuff lock step. If Verizon can get away with charging higher prices for voice and text, AT&T/Sprint can too!
I think you might need to re-read the GP's post. Pay special attention to the hidden sarcasm.
Comment Re:In the air? (Score 3, Funny) 381
Considering most people can't drive in just 2D any attempt to become airborne will fail.
Flying cars are a tried and failed concept.
I tried driving in 2D once, but I got a sense that I wasn't actually going anywhere.
Comment Re:Meaningless (Score 4, Funny) 107
irrelephant is a perfectly comulent word!
It's cromulent. Besides, you're embiggening the trolls.
Comment Re:Is ignorance bliss? (Score 1) 239
I suggest looking at the data sheet, but paying close attention to the % of people experiencing the side effects. I'm pretty sure they have to report even very low incidence rates of side effects. If only a handful of test subjects got a particular side effect, then I'm pretty sure you can convince yourself that you're not *that* unlucky. Compare it to some other event with similar odds. Make sure the event you compare it to is a positive one though, like winning the lottery, lest you start a chain reaction of psychosomatic pitfalls.
Comment Re:He's right, but missing the point (Score 1) 147
or wasting time and grandmas
I can have no sympathy for people who are wasting grandmas. A grandma is not a thing to waste.
To be fair, the full quote was "or wasting time and grandmas or whatever." The OP knows there is a broad spectrum of things to waste so he gave two extreme examples and let us fill in the rest with whatever.
Comment Re:This is not news (Score 1) 340
When my account got hacked, it was the final straw that led me to quit WoW. All signs pointed to it being an inside job. I had a dedicated (hard) password for the site, I had not visited any questionable websites, and I hadn't installed any addons in months.
Whoever hacked it had a seriously weird sense of priorities too. They had sold the starting gear off my level 1 bank alt types and mailed off the money (at a loss!) but hadn't bothered to strip my midrange characters. They used my level 85 main character with bot-aided speedruns through Karazhan. Ironically, when I regained control of my character, I had a ton of gold from their most recent run. I donated it all to my guild and quit the next day. Since I was an officer, they'd looted that too - but since it was a casual guild the gold they got me easily replaced any items in there we'd cared about.
Whoever hacked it had a seriously weird sense of priorities too. They had sold the starting gear off my level 1 bank alt types and mailed off the money (at a loss!) but hadn't bothered to strip my midrange characters. They used my level 85 main character with bot-aided speedruns through Karazhan. Ironically, when I regained control of my character, I had a ton of gold from their most recent run. I donated it all to my guild and quit the next day. Since I was an officer, they'd looted that too - but since it was a casual guild the gold they got me easily replaced any items in there we'd cared about.
Comment Hopefully it's an outlier (Score 1) 422
I certainly hope that this heat was an outlier, and not "the new normal".
Comment Re:Sweet (Score 1) 242
Not providing adequate breaktime facilities for eating is a violation of State law.
In which state(s) is this a violation?
Comment Re:Freaking incredible. (Score 5, Insightful) 220
But there will always be pathetic yahoos who, out of some desire to make themselves feel important will deny our species' technical abilities.
Yes, and they will post about it on the Internet without ever sensing the irony.
Comment Re:Windows 8 seems like a solid product (Score 1) 558
So how much does a paid shill make?
They get paid in shillings of course. Though the advent of the Euro has made it a far less profitable enterprise.
Comment Re:Quality and quantity (Score 4, Interesting) 285
If children are involved, you can stream as low as 300 kbit/s (like I do) and they won't care. That's about equal to VHS or youtube-360p in quality.
I watch about 2 hours a day... 8 on weekends. So that's 16+2*5 == 26 per week or 111 for the month. 250GB/111 hours == 5 Mbit/s. Most streams don't come anywhere near that amount so I'd not worry about going over the limit. And just to be sure I'd watch everything in SD (which is what comcast cable serves anyway).
All you'd do with your internet connection is watch TV?
