Comment Re:Marketing guy's function (Score 5, Funny) 421
What if your targeted market is IT professionals?
Then you have a failed business model since IT professionals, as a rule, have no budget.
Comment Re:I'll believe it when I see... (Score 2) 867
an absolute frame of reference.
I'm pretty sure those don't exist. Which is why, from any relative frame of reference, the top speed really is c. You can't go c+1 mm/year in any frame of reference, let alone 2c.
Comment Re:Remind me (Score 5, Funny) 88
$14.52. What does that have to do with anything?
He was testing your Internet research skills. You win this round.
Comment Re:yikes! (Score 0) 285
I could not have said it better myself. Curse Slashdot for its poorly timed mod point distribution (or lack thereof)!
Before people criticize "gopddamned", I'd like to point out that this is a typo. Writing "your" instead of "you're", on the other hand, is not a typo.
Before people criticize "gopddamned", I'd like to point out that this is a typo. Writing "your" instead of "you're", on the other hand, is not a typo.
Comment Re:This sucks (Score 2) 313
You just don't eat enough old egg salad sandwiches in space gas stations.
In the end, no matter how well you play the holophonor, it's just not worth it.
Comment Re:Another thing to worry about... (Score 1) 269
You sure topped them! Though you probably should have started with "That's nothing!"
UPEK Fingerprint Reader Software Puts Windows Passwords At Risk 122
colinneagle writes with this excerpt from Network World: "If your password management system is to use your 'fingerprint as your master password,' and if your laptop uses UPEK software, then you'll not be happy to know your Windows password is not secure and instead is easily crackable. In fact, 'UPEK's implementation is nothing but a big, glowing security hole compromising (and effectively destroying) the entire security model of Windows accounts.' On the Elcomsoft blog about 'advanced password cracking insight,' Olga Koksharova had bad news for people who thought they were more secure by using biometrics, a UPEK fingerprint reader, instead of relying on a password. UPEK stores Windows account passwords in the registry 'almost in plain text, barely scrambled but not encrypted.' It's not just a few that are susceptible to hacking. 'All laptops equipped with UPEK fingerprint readers and running UPEK Protector Suite are susceptible. If you ever registered your fingerprints with UPEK Protector Suite for accelerated Windows login and typed your account password there, you are at risk.'"
Comment Re:450mm (Score 1) 67
The units ARE right. The WAFERs will be 450mm. Today they are 300mm.
Or 200mm, or 150mm... It really quite depends on the manufacturing equipment in the fab and the target market for the devices (not everything manufactured on a wafer is a "chip"). Rumors of 200mm's demise have been quite premature.
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.
