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Comment Re:by comparison (Score 1) 589

by SlashdotWanker on Saturday May 12, 2012 @01:23PM (#39979879) Attached to: Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise In 20 Years

possibly, I believe it would be better to spend the money on something that we can all dream about instead of F-35s or doomsday devices. There may not be a habitable earth left by the time we have superlight technologies.

Comment WebOS versus Android Round 2, Fight! (Score 4, Insightful) 148

by SlashdotWanker on Saturday April 28, 2012 @03:16PM (#39833141) Attached to: RIM's Future Hangs On Developer Support For 'New BlackBerry'

They're going to be stuck in the same position that Palm was only 3 years further down the line in technology. QNX is pretty slick but they're going to have to encourage (bribe) developers and keep pushing the way Microsoft has with Windows Phone if they want to have a prayer... Every day they wait on hardware is a slightly smaller chance of any kind of success.

Comment Re:Queue... (Score 2) 294

by SlashdotWanker on Saturday December 24, 2011 @01:21AM (#38479582) Attached to: Taliban Seizes and Burns PCs, Cell Phones To Stop Obscenity

God bless you. That was quite a sneeze :-P

Comment Re:"Mint-diverting banshee"? (Score 1) 178

by SlashdotWanker on Monday December 12, 2011 @11:00AM (#38342810) Attached to: Linux Mint Diverting Banshee Revenue

How does one make money with a mint-diverting banshee?

put it in front of a girl scout troop selling thin mint cookies. Banshee steals cookies as people buy them and offer to return the cookies to them for a fee :-P

Comment Re:what? (Score 4, Interesting) 187

by SlashdotWanker on Friday December 09, 2011 @09:55PM (#38322044) Attached to: Malaysia Mulls Compulsory Registration of Tech Workers

it's not religion or faith that's an issue. It's a totally corrupt regime who's been in power quite a while and is trying to implement sharia law for their own personal benefit. if this law goes into effect, it will cause the entire countries IT infrastructure to start slowly imploding. Who wants to paint a gigantic red bullseye on their back?

Comment Triple the load =/= triple the servers? (Score 4, Insightful) 205

by SlashdotWanker on Saturday December 03, 2011 @10:37AM (#38249624) Attached to: Apple, Android Devices Swamp NYC Schools' ActiveSync Server

Issues like this are the reason you need to fully flesh out costs before flipping the switch on a large organization like this. almost every teacher I know has a smartphone of some kind and a lot of them are starting to get tablets. Why offer the service when you cannot fully offer it?

Comment HTC Flyer (Score 0) 425

by SlashdotWanker on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @12:48PM (#38061078) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What's a Good Tablet/App Combination For Note-Taking?

I own an Evo View 4G (basically a sprint version of the HTC Flyer) and it is amazing for notes and drawing. it feels solid in your hand and has very little creak (if any) it connects to Evernote natively in its note taking app and works well. the 7" tablet is big enough to be useful without being so large as to get in the way on small lecture hall desks and an otterbox defender case is coming out that will allow you to use it as an easel.

Comment Re:Double D Certified (Score 0) 444

by SlashdotWanker on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @12:22AM (#36293168) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Certifications To Get?

My girlfriend is Double D cert' and I just pay her to sit at home. She doesn't even have a college education, I would be amazed if she even has a GED. Soon as I find out where she got the DD's I'll let you know.

Girlfriend? I need to revoke your geek cred now.

Comment Re:Biased summary (Score 0) 356

by SlashdotWanker on Saturday May 21, 2011 @12:09PM (#36202240) Attached to: NC Governor Allows Anti-Community-Broadband Law

I'm having a hard time understanding how it's a bad thing. The proposal should get voter approval in the municipality to be serviced. It shouldn't be run as a government agency, but more of a service to customers. The stipulation of the program not being able to offer services below cost doesn't even seem to be a bad idea. Where is the story here?

has more to do with throwing up enough roadblocks to give big business ISPs enough time to say 'oh, look, they're going to create an ISP. let's go roll it out now so that we can hold onto our monopoly'

Comment oblig (Score 0, Offtopic) 159

by SlashdotWanker on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @12:17PM (#36167268) Attached to: Robots Successfully Invent Their Own Language

I, for one, welcome our robotic overlords

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