Comment Re:Windows as a Service (Score 1) 296
Me neither. I think Windows should be a painful and offensive as possible, to punish exactly the sort of people who should be punished.
Comment Re:How is this a "robot" (Score 1) 39
failure to read article detected
In Windows 10, Ad-Free Solitaire Will Cost You $10 -- Every Year 296
Wired UK reports that the pre-installed Solitaire on Windows 10 capitalizes on the long-cultivated addiction that some users have to the game with an interesting bargain: rather than being an ordinary included application like it used to be, what may be the world's most pervasive on-screen office time-sink of a game now comes with ads, unless a user wants to pay (by the month, or by the year) to remove those ads. Notes the linked piece: "To be entirely fair, this is the same as on the Windows 8 version, which wasn't installed by default but could be downloaded from the Windows Store."
At $1.49/month or $10/year, this might be enough to drive some people who otherwise would not to check out some of the free, open-source games out there; PySolitaire is one of many in this incomplete list.
At $1.49/month or $10/year, this might be enough to drive some people who otherwise would not to check out some of the free, open-source games out there; PySolitaire is one of many in this incomplete list.
Microsoft Taps PBS To Advance Its National Talent Strategy With 'Code Trip' 43
theodp writes: You don't have to be Mitt Romney to question PBS's announcement that it will air the Microsoft-funded 'reality' show Code Trip, in which Roadtrip Nation and Microsoft YouthSpark will send students across the U.S. for a "transformative journey into computer science." Of the partnership, Roadtrip Nation co-founder Mike Marriner said, "Roadtrip Nation is proud to partner with Microsoft's YouthSpark initiative not only to inform others of the many career routes one can take with a computer science background, but also to engage in the much-needed conversation of diversifying the tech field with more pluralistic perspectives." YouthSpark is part of Microsoft's National Talent Strategy (pdf), which the company describes as "a two-pronged approach that will couple long-term improvements in STEM education in the United States with targeted, short-term, high-skilled immigration reforms." The Official Microsoft Blog reports that filming of Code Trip began this week, with the three students traveling around the country to speak with leaders including Hadi Partovi, the co-founder of Code.org and 'major supporter' of FWD.us, who coincidentally once reported to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and is the next door neighbor of Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith and a jogging partner of Steve Ballmer.
Comment Re:How is this a "robot" (Score 1) 39
I could add "delusional".
Comment Re:How is this a "robot" (Score 1) 39
Do you really think that your wanking added something of value to the commentary?
Comment Re:How is this a "robot" (Score 1) 39
It's a robot locomotion design. It's part of a robot design. It walks on water and jumps on water. It's impressive as hell to anybody with the slightest clue. Are you happy now, or do you want to litter slashdot with more of your nonfunctional tripe?
Question: when you have trouble with your bowel movement does it eventually come out if you really try?
Comment Re:How is this a "robot" (Score 1) 39
It is a prototype of part of a robot. The article only claims that the robot is designed, and does not claim that it is completely finished. If you pretend not to be impressed with what they have demonstrated so far then you must hand in your geek card.
Comment Re:How is this a "robot" (Score 1) 39
That's the problem with getting our tech news from a place called "popsci". They failed to link the actual research. It seems apparent that the robot has been designed, and the mechanical part has been prototyped and successfully tested. Say, do you regard yourself as a technical person? (Not looking good at the moment.)
Comment Re:How is this a "robot" (Score 1) 39
You seem to be promoting your own private definition of "locomotion".
Comment Re:1 Million write-cycles is available in Flash (Score 1) 179
whatever, we have terabyte hard drives now, so it's pointless to resurrect this technology.
Where is your exabyte drive going to come from?
Comment Real time endurance stays the same (Score 2) 179
If latency is 1,000 times lower and endurance is 1,000 times higher then, under continuous load, endurance measured in real time is unchanged. Not by any means a hypothetical scenario.
$340 Audiophile Ethernet Cable Tested 391
An anonymous reader writes: Ars Technica has posted a series of articles attempting to verify whether there's any difference between a $340 "audiophile" Ethernet cable and a $2.50 generic one. In addition to doing a quick teardown, they took the cables to Las Vegas and asked a bunch of test subjects to evaluate the cables in a blind test. Surprise, surprise: the expensive cables weren't any better. The subjects weren't even asked to say which one was better, just whether they could tell there was a difference. But for the sake of completeness, Ars also passed the cables through a battery of electrical tests. The expensive cable met specs — barely, in some cases — while the cheap one didn't. The cheap one passed data, but with a ton of noise. "And listeners still failed to hear any difference."
Comment Re:Why does anyone care? (Score 1) 117
Why should anyone care about the power level, as opposed to the pulse energy?
Thresholds, the same reason that the Large Hadron Collider may break apart subatomic particles while a 16 inch cannon cannot, even though the cannon delivers more total energy.
Comment Re:How is this a "robot" (Score 1) 39
It has locomotion and is controlled by a computer, unlike a paper clip (unless you are talking about Clippy).
