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Comment Mod up (Score 1) 239

by padraic2 on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @01:31PM (#37692684) Attached to: HP Rethinking Wisdom of Spinning Off PC Division

Yep. As far as I'm concerned the best part of HP was spun off long ago.

Comment Re:The whole concept of 1%/wealth is ... irrelevan (Score 1) 1799

by padraic2 on Monday October 10, 2011 @04:52PM (#37670330) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests?

Just doing a little math and public numbers .. assuming the US has a population of about 310M, then 3.1M people would be 1% (since I don't know if it's adults or adults and kids, they are using the 1% nomenclature for, let's just start someplace.) According to Wikipedia, the total net worth in the US is $55T. That means that if 1% of the population (3.1M) have 90% of wealth, then they have about $50T or about 16M/person, and the rest of us (the 99%) have $17K per person.

First, 90% is way too high. The top 1% of the population probably has between 40-50% of total wealth. Second, income/wealth is obviously not uniformly distributed among either of the two groups being analyzed.

Comment Re:Wow, just write an 'F' on their forehead (Score 1) 406

by padraic2 on Monday October 10, 2011 @02:34PM (#37667384) Attached to: High School Kills Color-Coded ID Program

I actually refused scholarships in high school because my family could pay for me to go to any school I wanted, and I wanted the scholarship money to go to those who really needed it.

Comment Chicken and egg (Score 1) 519

by padraic2 on Monday October 10, 2011 @02:03PM (#37666838) Attached to: Google+ Loses 60% of Active Users

No one is using Google+ because no one is using Google+.

Comment Re:Sun Shade (Score 1) 186

by padraic2 on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @04:34PM (#37617162) Attached to: Film Turns Windows Into Solar Panels

It would be better if this film was retractable like a true shade - on a hot summer day, when one's not home, this could be keeping the house cool by not letting light in.

Comment Re:Contest Prizes (Score 1) 314

by padraic2 on Monday October 03, 2011 @02:38PM (#37591918) Attached to: Judge Rules Boss's "Firing Contest" Created a Hostile Work Environment

The leads are weak? The fucking leads are weak? You're weak!

Comment Re:Shame (Score 1) 158

by padraic2 on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @12:37PM (#37469698) Attached to: Microsoft Ousts IE Mobile Manager For Revealing Nokia Phone Details

There are many developers on the CyanogenMod team that are still dedicated to further development. There's been little progress because they're all waiting for a new version of android, and more recently the kernel.org hack put a halt to current efforts. I think reports of CM's death have been greatly exaggerated.

Comment Re:Great Super Earths. (Score 1) 208

by padraic2 on Monday September 12, 2011 @04:55PM (#37380770) Attached to: 50 New Exoplanets Found, Billions More Await

Eeek! You are fat! Ah well, you meant pounds? Not kilograms? Ah ... and you are male, no worries. BTW: would you like to carry my camera and equipment?

I usually take someone at their word when they bother to include units. Also, I've never met any men named Samantha, but there's a first time for everything, I suppose.

Comment Re:Hmmm, children naked photos (Score 2) 372

by padraic2 on Tuesday August 30, 2011 @05:31PM (#37258388) Attached to: Publicly Shaming Laptop Thieves Catches Bystanders in the Crossfire

If only there was a way to ascertain the details of the article being discussed...

Comment Re:Not all plans (Score 1) 166

by padraic2 on Wednesday August 24, 2011 @09:46AM (#37190522) Attached to: Verizon Makes It Easy To Go Over Your Data Cap

But even the "unlimited" plan is capped @ 5 GB.

For the millionth time, this isn't true. Please stop repeating this. I am on an unlimited plan. The data is unlimited. That said, I am grandfathered in and new customers won't be able to get this plan.

Comment Re:M5.9 now, looks like it was revised. (Score 1) 614

by padraic2 on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @03:19PM (#37182758) Attached to: 5.8 Earthquake Hits East Coast of the US

For what it's worth, the event page seems to have been revised but sits at a different URL, here.

Comment Suburban Philadelphia (Score 1) 614

by padraic2 on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @02:18PM (#37181746) Attached to: 5.8 Earthquake Hits East Coast of the US

On the top floor of a three story building, felt a pretty good wobble.

Comment Re:Gingerbread (Score 1) 280

by padraic2 on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @10:29AM (#37178240) Attached to: Android On HP TouchPad

Presumably the source will be opened up again with the release of ICS, which is supposed to be a "universal" Android that can play nicely on any device, phone or tablet. I'm not sure I completely agree with Google's decision not to release Honeycomb source - you probably wouldn't want to run it on a phone, but for example the Nook Color is supported by CyanogenMod and possibly could have benefited from Honeycomb (right now it runs Gingerbread with some "tablet tweaks" that the team provided). But bottom line, this phone/tablet divergence in Android is set to re-converge with next release, perhaps late this year or early next year.

Comment Re:Unlocked HTC phones are (Score 2) 145

by padraic2 on Friday August 19, 2011 @04:48PM (#37147924) Attached to: HTC Unlocks Its Own Phones

It's an important detail that some are worried about - you provide your phone's information (not sure how much personal info is required) to their unlock web tool in order to get a "key" (probably a flashable .zip file) that will unlock the bootloader. But, say in the near future you have a hardware malfunction - are you now told "we see you're on the unlock list - sorry, no warranty for you"?

Comment Re:2009! (Score 1) 177

by padraic2 on Tuesday August 16, 2011 @01:28PM (#37109068) Attached to: Samsung Hires Steve 'Cyanogen' Kondik

Read the summary, slowly, and try again.

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