drodal - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Let's be fair (Score 2) 365

by drodal on Monday February 13, 2012 @05:58PM (#39025257) Attached to: Ontario Teachers' Union Calls For Health-Related Classroom Wi-Fi Ban

It's kind of like saying "I have a rock in my pocket, that prevents lions from eating us." Now we all know the rock isn't preventing the lions, there are none in canada, so they CAN'T eat us. Let it go.. But letting something like that just "go" gives plausibility to the whole "lions not eating people because of the rock stuff". So It is bad, and it makes them look like idiots.

Comment Re:Scathing, Absolutely Scathing (Score 2) 468

by drodal on Thursday February 09, 2012 @05:19PM (#38988031) Attached to: Pink Floyd Engineer Alan Parsons Rips Audiophiles, YouTube and Jonas Brothers

No it isn't. It's just contradiction.

Comment old fortune says (Score 4, Funny) 663

by drodal on Tuesday December 13, 2011 @02:57PM (#38358500) Attached to: Iran Wants To Clone Downed US Drone

O give me a clone, of the downed US drone, with the Y chromosome changed to X....... (it was funny in the 80's)

Comment Richard Stallman should shut up. (Score 1) 1452

by drodal on Monday October 10, 2011 @05:09PM (#37670600) Attached to: Richard Stallman's Dissenting View of Steve Jobs

This is not a story about Steve Jobs being evil or Richard Stallman being "right" Richard Stallman, for all the good work he does, damages his movement by belittling people. And to do this when people are mourning Steve Jobs, is classless. Mourning is NOT for the deceased, it is for the bereaved. It is a healing process. To come out on this occasion to belittle Steve Jobs, is ineffective and just not nice. If Richard Stallman wants his movement to succeed, he should be a little more classy. And no, being right doesn't entitle you to be a jerk. What he did was wrong and not amount of "good programming" can excuse this sort of behavior And several people have said that Steve Jobs (and bill gates) can be "hard" to work for. A friend of mine that worked with Richard Stallman, said he was a petulant child. He may be right, but that doesn't excuse his behavior. Other people are right too, and they don't insult me while they are teaching me.

Comment Re:The 1% are insulated (Score 1) 1799

by drodal on Monday October 10, 2011 @04:50PM (#37670298) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests?

I agree about the consultant thing, As a consultant, I don't feel f**ked. But everything else that PopeRatzo said is spot on!!! I really agree, and it may take someone older (like my 53 year self) to see, it wasn't this bad 12 years ago, it wasn't bad at all in the 90's.... it's pretty bad now.

Comment Re:Thank god (Score 1) 1452

by drodal on Monday October 10, 2011 @02:22PM (#37667184) Attached to: Richard Stallman's Dissenting View of Steve Jobs

that was funny

Comment Re:Stallman and FOSS (Score 1) 1452

by drodal on Monday October 10, 2011 @11:17AM (#37663414) Attached to: Richard Stallman's Dissenting View of Steve Jobs

I'm glad to see this go from flamebait to insightful. I agree with most of what was said here. Presentation, can be as important as functionality, as engineers we sometimes forget that. People like Jobs has made computers a LOT easier for users to use. I believe that the thing he did best was make computer become transparent and the task at hand be most important. Yes apples turn on and just work. and that is a very very good thing. yeah FOSS would be better off without richard making embarrassing statements when we mourn for Steve Jobs.

Comment Re:BSOD (Score 1) 127

by drodal on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @04:13PM (#37545050) Attached to: Microsoft Begins Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) Rollout

Microsoft claims that this release has a 'people-first' attitude...

Comment The C programming language (Score 4, Insightful) 624

by drodal on Sunday September 04, 2011 @07:52PM (#37304864) Attached to: What Is the Most Influential Programming Book?

by k and r

Comment Re:China will soon find... (Score 1) 119

by drodal on Friday September 02, 2011 @04:11PM (#37290676) Attached to: China Calls For Even Firmer Internet Control

they can't swim or have a navy.......

Comment Re:Fair enough (Score 2) 119

by drodal on Friday September 02, 2011 @04:09PM (#37290664) Attached to: China Calls For Even Firmer Internet Control

2008

Comment Re:Fair enough (Score 1) 119

by drodal on Friday September 02, 2011 @04:06PM (#37290626) Attached to: China Calls For Even Firmer Internet Control

oh and yeah, we can say the US isn't perfect here without reprisal.

Comment Re:Boston (Score 1) 614

by drodal on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @02:59PM (#37182478) Attached to: 5.8 Earthquake Hits East Coast of the US

Here in South Boston on 'A' street. Felt a slight shake twice for about 15-20 secs.

Comment Re:yawn (Score 1) 854

by drodal on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @04:14PM (#34029344) Attached to: Are Games Getting Easier?

I don't know if I agree with this. When I get a new video game (like wii etc...) I expect 20 to 40 hours of game play to "finish" it. like for Mario or zelda or in the older days Final Fantasy. When I got the lord of the rings games, the two towers and the return of the king. I got though all 10 levels the first day.

Comment Re:What if I lose internet access? (Score 1) 210

by drodal on Tuesday October 19, 2010 @04:57PM (#33952888) Attached to: Microsoft Announces Web-Based Office365

With the built in HTML 5 databases and HTML 5 app cache you will be able to do that offline too Really http://gizmodo.com/5156357/browser+based-offline-gmail-demonstrated-on-iphone-android really it's happening already. This is a video of gmail running offline with full features.... So I wonder if MS is going to do this eventually.....

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