arvindsg - Slashdot User

Comment Re:But where are the potentional profits? (Score 1) 116

by arvindsg on Thursday October 30, 2014 @10:21AM (#48268917) Attached to: MIT Professor Advocates Ending Asteroid Redirect Mission To Fund Asteroid Survey

Strawman

Comment Re:Maybe a Mini (Score 1) 355

by arvindsg on Friday October 17, 2014 @07:42PM (#48173319) Attached to: Apple Announces iPad Air 2, iPad mini 3, OS X Yosemite and More

I do not think it means what you think it means...

I think it does not say what you meant to say

Submission + - Early 2011 Macbook Pro's dropping(still) like flies (apple.com)

Submitted by arvindsg on Tuesday October 14, 2014 @01:31PM

arvindsg writes: Back in january multiple news outlets including slashdot reported that that early 2011 macbook pro's were failing with dead GPU's, just as people reached end of 3 year extended warranties on the same. More than half a year later and with about 9000 comments on apple's official forums there has still been no official response from apple. Official response of apple support has been to get the logic boards replaced(with only 90 day warranty on it), but which does not seem to fix the problem. Rather what seems to fix the thing is good old lead based reballing of the gpu or temporarily by cooking your macbook pro

Comment Re:I have a question ... (Score 1) 610

by arvindsg on Tuesday October 14, 2014 @04:55AM (#48138775) Attached to: Wind Power Is Cheaper Than Coal, Leaked Report Shows

This Modded +3, this doesn't even require a "So it has come to this" to make it a serious situation.

Comment Re:This is why I only fuck other men. (Score 1) 216

by arvindsg on Monday October 13, 2014 @10:38AM (#48130067) Attached to: Oxytocin Regulates Sociosexual Behavior In Female Mice

I wish there was also Super Troll Mod rating

Comment Re:Great "invention" (Score 1) 100

by arvindsg on Monday October 13, 2014 @10:23AM (#48129949) Attached to: Microsoft Develops Analog Keyboard For Wearables, Solves Small Display Dilemma

Now that's an idea, Age of "on a computer" maybe over but nobody said you can't attach "on a watch" to get a patent

Comment Re:If you wanted us to believe your Op-Ed... (Score 1) 547

by arvindsg on Friday October 10, 2014 @08:32AM (#48110205) Attached to: Goodbye, World? 5 Languages That Might Not Be Long For This World

well in C/C++ you can always have a array of void * pointers, pointing to very different kind of objects.... Never say never especially for something so low level as c

Comment Re:The Conservative Option (Score 1) 487

by arvindsg on Friday October 10, 2014 @08:13AM (#48110135) Attached to: Texas Ebola Patient Dies

Agreed lesser people have died of ebola, but number of gunshot deaths is fairly stable, while ebola related deaths might increase a lot over time. In other words, rate of change is also important not just the current value

Comment That's not very smart (Score 1) 213

by arvindsg on Friday October 10, 2014 @07:41AM (#48110031) Attached to: NASA Finds a Delaware-Sized Methane "Hot Spot" In the Southwest

We didn't focus on it because we weren't sure if it was a true signal or an instrument error,

That is not very smart, Such a huge discrepancy from expected value no matter what the reason should be the first thing to focus on. What use were your other measurements if you weren't even sure if the 2500km spot was instrument error or real thing.

Comment Re:Ask the US Postal Service (Score 2) 124

by arvindsg on Sunday September 14, 2014 @12:13AM (#47900163) Attached to: US Patent Office Seeking Consultant That Can Stamp Out Fraud By Patent Examiners

Democracy 101:an ignorant citizen wrecks himself and others

Comment Re:Might makes right ? (Score 2) 391

by arvindsg on Friday August 22, 2014 @05:50AM (#47727331) Attached to: UK Police Warn Sharing James Foley Killing Video Is a Crime

As long as England remains a democratic country, that is ...

I think that depends strongly on the definition of democracy.

I think that strongly depends on the definition of 'definition'

Comment Re:next 50 to 100 years? (Score 2) 453

by arvindsg on Friday May 09, 2014 @03:54AM (#46957065) Attached to: Study: Earthlings Not Ready For Alien Encounters, Yet

Trillions of planets is a huge underestimate with 10^11 galaxies in our observable universe each with about 10^11 stars

Comment Re:ZOMG a bad thing didn't happen! (Score 2) 202

by arvindsg on Thursday March 20, 2014 @03:14PM (#46537227) Attached to: Earth Barely Dodged Solar Blast In 2012

Decades into the future such a ejection will prove as turning point in our war against machines

Comment Re:Your masters will learn to tune the system (Score 1) 265

by arvindsg on Sunday February 23, 2014 @02:32AM (#46314599) Attached to: Math Models Predicted Global Uprisings

If a majority of our comrades can be kept satisfied with breads and circuses, then perhaps then any nation will eventually move to the same state we find ourselves in.

Comment Galacial pace is pretty fast these days (Score 1) 289

by arvindsg on Saturday February 22, 2014 @02:32PM (#46311847) Attached to: ISP Fights Causing Netflix Packet Drops

With Cogent and Verizon fighting, the upgrades are happening at a glacial pace

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