Comment Oh yeah, XLS. (Score 2) 81
I don't play the game, but I am a huge fan of the spreadsheet adaptations. I mean, when you see a Titan stretched out on a pivot table, it's like, oh yeah. This is the medium it was meant for.
Comment Re:Template (Score 1) 135
Look at the "press" involved: VentureBeat, HuffPo, Yahoo!, AOL, GeekWire. These aren't reporters. They're press release curators, with a little commentary around the edges.
Comment Re:A Black Eye for Female CEOs (Score 1) 120
...and the male Yahoo! CEOs have had a good run?
Comment Re:The Public Domain (Score 1) 630
If only there were a global information system capable of streamlining the transmission and storage of "paperwork".
Comment Re:real software projects? (Score 3, Informative) 630
Most of what I've posted to Github was a snip of example code that I needed to share with exactly one person. The only real project I have there was AGPL, and it's an enormous piece of work. By project, I'm 5% open licensed. By lines-of-code, it's more like 99%.
Sony Launches Internet Service Offering Twice the Speed of Google Fiber 268
An anonymous reader writes "Sony Japan has announced that its own Internet service provider So-net Entertainment has launched what is thought to be the world's fastest Internet connection for home use in Japan with download speed of 2 Gbps on average. This speed is twice as fast as competing high-speed fiber connections in Japan. The ultra-fast connection, known as Nuro, will cost an inexpensive 4,980 yen ($51) per month- offering download speeds of 2 Gbps and uploads of up to 1 Gbps."
North Korean Missile Raised To Firing Position, Says US Official 636
An anonymous reader writes with this snippet from CNN: "North Korea has raised at least one missile into its upright firing position, feeding concerns that a launch is imminent, a U.S. official told CNN Thursday. This comes as the world continued to keep watch for a possible missile launch by the secretive government, and a day before U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to arrive in the region. In the latest daily tough talk from the North, a government agency is quoted by the state-run media as saying that 'war can break out any moment.'"
Comment Real world trials... (Score 1) 348
How it should be used: "This section here doesn't seem to provide value to our students"
How it will be used: "You read the book, but your page rate was excessive in parts, so the computer gave you a reading score of 87%."
Comment Trademark law is not copywrite law (Score 1) 144
Copyright is completely fucked. Trademark law is more or less sensible, and does useful things to protect consumers. This is an example.
DOS Emulation Arrives For the Raspberry Pi 189
An anonymous reader writes "Homebrew Coder Pate has released a DOS Emulator for the Raspberry Pi. Originally released for the Nintendo DS and Android, the emulator currently can emulate a CPU: 80486 processor, including the protected mode features (for running DOS4GW games) but without virtual memory support. The emulation runs at a speed around that of a 20MHz 80486 (which equals a 40MHz 80386) machine. It has support for Super VGA graphics, Soundblaster 2.0, Memory, USB keyboard and mouse. Perfect for playing old classics such as Doom, Duke Nukem 3D and Theme Park."
Comment Re:Need for Emphasis on Public Transport (Score 1) 375
You forgot availability. If If could hop a train to skip my 1.25 hour commute, I'd be on it in a heartbeat. Funding is an issue, but inter-jurisdictional planning is also a major barrier to getting anything useful done. Of course, big pots of Federal money tend to make the locals work together.
Comment Re:Couldn't a HUD actually help you drive safer? (Score 1) 375
Don't forget about the ads!
Comment Re:Musk still claiming that review was "false" (Score 1) 167
Who puts this bullshit as "insightful"?
I have a botnet, and the terms of my parole say I can only use it on Slashdot.
Comment Re:Musk still claiming that review was "false" (Score 1) 167
The logs were never released. Seriously, where's the download? Instead, a summary chart was released. They have not, meanwhile, released any recordings of Broders several calls to Telsa support to discuss the fluctuating range indicator. Tesla makes nice cars, but they are not being transparent.
Comment Re:Musk still claiming that review was "false" (Score 1) 167
When he left the last charging station the car very clearly stated that it would not be able to reach the destination.
... because Tesla support told him, via phone, that the range indicator was unreliable below freezing, and that "range" would return as the battery warmed. They were right - the range improved - but not enough to get to the charger. You'll still filtering the story down to support the PR version of events.
Funny that Musk has declined to release logs of those phone calls.
