Comment Re:Slashdot Crowd, Rebel! (Score 1) 716
That also means that the Slashdot crowd is basically full of drooling morons... wait they might be on to something...
Comment Re:feh. (Score 1) 617
Sometimes the best teacher in the world can't get a stubborn little jackass to learn anything. You want to point the finger? Point it at the parents who do nothing to help or encourage their kids and expect the schools to make up for the daily 4+ hours of TV and gaming that the kids get. Crappy schools need to get fixed, sure, but I'd say that crappy parents are a far bigger problem. They expect the schools to do everything so they don't have to lift a finger.
The problem gets even worse! Those kids who jacked off in class just surf the internet at their jobs instead of getti... crap my boss is coming gotta go!
Comment Re:Translation for the legislative impared. (Score 1) 703
Oh, my mistake. Yes I was thinking of the wrong thing!
Comment Re:Translation for the legislative impared. (Score 1) 703
Divorce rates have declined from 47% of the population in 1991 to 37% in 2004.
Fixed, but I get what you were trying to say.
Comment Good for Web Developers... (Score 1) 279
As a web developer I am elated that this might help drop IE 6/7's market share. If in the near future I only needed to make fixes for IE 8 my life would be a lot easier.
IDEs With VIM Text Editing Capability? 193
An anonymous reader writes "I am currently looking to move from text editing with vim to a full fledged IDE with gdb integration, integrated command line, etc. Extending VIM with these capabilities is a mortal sin, so I am looking for a linux based GUI IDE. I do not want to give up the efficient text editing capabilities of VIM though. How do I have my cake and eat it too?"
New Aliens Vs. Predator Game Doesn't Make It Past AU Ratings Board 277
An anonymous reader writes "Australia refused to give Rebellion's new Aliens Vs. Predator game a rating, effectively banning it in the country. Rebellion says it won't be submitting an edited version for another round of classifications, however. (As Valve did with Left 4 Dead 2.) They said, 'We will not be releasing a sanitized or cut down version for territories where adults are not considered by their governments to be able to make their own entertainment choices.'"
Bizarre Droid Auto-Focus Bug Revealed 275
itwbennett writes "Pity the poor engineer who had to find this one. One of the more interesting of the handful of bugs that have appeared since the launch of Verizon's Droid smartphone has to do with the on-board camera's auto-focus. Apparently it just didn't work. And then suddenly it did. Naturally, this off-again, on-again made the theories fly. But the real reason for the bug was revealed in a comment on an Engadget post by someone claiming to be Google engineer Dan Morrill: 'There's a rounding-error bug in the camera driver's autofocus routine (which uses a timestamp) that causes autofocus to behave poorly on a 24.5-day cycle,' said Morrill. 'That is, it'll work for 24.5 days, then have poor performance for 24.5 days, then work again. The 17th is the start of a new 'works correctly' cycle, so the devices will be fine for a while. A permanent fix is in the works.'"
The Twitter Book 88
stoolpigeon writes "Microblogging service Twitter has undeniably been a hit, with growth rates that were at times in excess of 1400%. The growth was rapid enough that the site became well known for its periodic, and, at times, extensive downtime. Even with these issues, the service continued to grow rapidly, and with celebrities getting into the mix Twitter was quickly on the radar of mainstream media. The ubiquity of Twitter and ever-increasing coverage of 'tweets' has also brought the inevitable backlash. As with anything that gains high-profile popularity, there are plenty of Twitter haters out there, though the role Twitter has played in the recent Iranian elections seems to have brought more legitimacy to Twitter in the eyes of many. With popularity come books, and quite a few are already out there about and for Twitter, but my favorite so far is The Twitter Book by Tim O'Reilly and Sarah Milstein." Read below for the rest of JR's review.
Comment Re:most of them did it (Score 1) 83
That may be true, but $1,000,000 is still some pretty freaking sweet motivation...
Comment Wrong Shape (Score 1) 287
"For this to happen, he requires Appleâ(TM)s aid, something he described as "very difficult to get"."
They would probly have better luck if it was smaller circular keys, since that seems to be more Apple's cup of tea.
They would probly have better luck if it was smaller circular keys, since that seems to be more Apple's cup of tea.
Comment Re:I'm a guy (Score 1) 708
You don't mean the brick and mortar type of bricks do you?
Comment Re:Lifestyle investment (Score 4, Informative) 249
Because your social life was not significantly affected, playing them was less of a lifestyle decision than it is with today's video games, which require more serious consideration. I don't remember anyone worrying that their roommate might be addicted to Pac-Man.
These guys beg to differ.
Comment Re:No Love (Score 1) 245
Find a girl. It worked for me.
Comment This would be more useful. (Score 3, Interesting) 727
I purchased a bargain laptop not too long ago with Vista pre-installed, and I gotta say on a low spec computer it was a pretty painful experience. So my girlfriend convinced me to give Ubuntu a shot, and I gotta say I am really happy with it.
There has been a bit of a learning curve, and I honestly wished there was a built in tutorial explaining the OS better then just an on-line guide. Something that could directly compared the various tools directly to windows (Took me a while to figure out that you had to go to sessions to alter your startup) would have been EXTREMELY useful in my beginning days of Ubuntu.
There has been a bit of a learning curve, and I honestly wished there was a built in tutorial explaining the OS better then just an on-line guide. Something that could directly compared the various tools directly to windows (Took me a while to figure out that you had to go to sessions to alter your startup) would have been EXTREMELY useful in my beginning days of Ubuntu.
