Comment No Jon Katz or great Desert Fox meltdown? (Score 1) 145
My favorite thread was when the US/UK attacked Iraq in '98 and an author posted how bad and illegal it was and closed the thread to comments.
Comment Re:dayummm (Score 4, Funny) 229
Yeah, it's pretty low.
Comment My post for 2012 (Score 5, Interesting) 229
I guess this is an appropriate post for me to comment in. Nice work Slashdot, still going strong.
Comment Re:Deaf community will hate this (Score 1) 101
LOL - Oh hell yes.
Comment Re:Deaf community will hate this (Score 3, Interesting) 101
I work in Special Education technology support and have talked to some Deaf/Hard of Hearing specalists about this.
A big chunk of the Deaf Culture wouldn't do it if it was free.
Comment Deaf community will hate this (Score 5, Interesting) 101
Many in the deaf community are against technologies that restore hearing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaf_culture#Values_and_beliefs
A positive attitude toward being deaf is typical in Deaf cultural groups. Deafness is not generally considered a condition that needs to be fixed.
Comment Re:Discussion not complete without car anology (Score 1) 460
Yes, it's so hard to tell the difference between a 1991 Camaro and a 2012 Camaro, who the hell thought that scheme up?
For people that work on cars/know about cars, they know a 1991 is a 3rd Gen F-Body while a 2012 is a Zeta platform
Comment Re:Easy (Score 1) 460
Yes, Microsoft is the poster boy for bad naming schemes
Windows ME, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, but at the same time they have Office 97, 2000, XP, 2003, 2007, 2010
But then other suites like VB Studio went 97, 6.0,
Comment Craigslist (Score 1) 239
So an advertisement.
Comment Norton Commander (Score 1) 654
I really liked Norton Commander and Norton Desktop back in the day.
Also, MacOS around 7.6-8-8.1 but with right click enabled.
Submission + - HP Cloud offers up free access to OpenStack (hpcloud.com)
krow writes: "HP Cloud is offering free access to Open Stack via its public cloud. Today adoption is growing around the Open Stack APIs, and we are offering up access to push tool integration and adoption around the API's. Most recently we have been able to add support for on-demand Jenkin's orchestration via the JCloud's plugin.
API, as well as console, access is being made to the computer, object storage, and CDN interfaces. There are images being provided for different Linux distributions, and additionally images for Bitnami, ActiveState's Stackato, and Enterprise DB's Postgres images. Hopefully the access can be used to drive adoption of the Open Source alternative to Amazon's APIs."
API, as well as console, access is being made to the computer, object storage, and CDN interfaces. There are images being provided for different Linux distributions, and additionally images for Bitnami, ActiveState's Stackato, and Enterprise DB's Postgres images. Hopefully the access can be used to drive adoption of the Open Source alternative to Amazon's APIs."
Comment Worst Customer Service Ever = IBM (Score 2) 237
I have to support a piece of software and IBM bought the company a few years ago, so when it came time to move to a new version I got to deal with IBM.
I spent 14 hours on the phone trying to get a price for a piece of software, most of the time I was shuttled around support people in India who couldn't help me, I was told that software prices were "restricted information", searching IBM's site for contact numbers got me developer's desk phones and they didn't know why the hell their numbers were posted on IBM's site.
Then I had months of weekly calls from sales people wanting to get a commission.
Comment Re:Fast (Score 1) 243
Hazmat is required because the vehicle carries hydrogen peroxide and hydrazine as fuels.
Comment Re:So that's really why he gave up his citizenship (Score 1) 445
They know when you left the US based on Customs records, they send you a form and want to know what you made.
Comment Re:Redundant (Score 1) 721
Not really, battery technology isn't getting that good, there are still huge infrastructure problems.
If anything diesel (which can be made from Natural Gas, coal dust, FT process, oil, etc) is the long term winner.
