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Comment Re:Circular LCDs (Score 1) 87

It's a new thing called "fashion".
I'd much rather have a round watch than the current trend of recangular smartwatches.

Agreed... though using the word 'fashion' was perhaps a mistake...
Also, when the primary use of the watch is to tell the time then a round display is justified. They're not for heavy data display anyway.

Comment Re:fuck you and the bucket challenge (Score 1) 182

Whu? The clear implication from his post is that people are making videos instead of giving to charity.

Instead of sharing stupid videos of clowns pouring water over their heads maybe we should be sharing videos of people writing checks to the charity.

If he thought people were doing both then he wouldn't have a problem would he?

Comment Re:I'm starting to wonder... (Score 1) 182

How is it that we managed to evolve in the first place, exactly?

Because it is relatively rare and relatively unusual. But without the wish to go further and take risks we wouldn't have ever harnessed fire, let alone achieved civilisation. Life is about *doing things*, not eliminating all possible risk.

Some people want to live a long boring life, and some people want to go to the moon, even if it means there's a high chance of death in the process.

Comment Re:Actually... (Score 4, Informative) 116

And it's the most boring year for F1 ever.

I mean boring is entirely a personal judgement but... *really*? A leading team rivalry that is up there with Hunt/Lauda and Senna/Prost in its intensity, a decapitation of the reigning champion (and humiliation behind his new teammate), the resurgence of Williams, a whole bunch of new stars on the rise? A bunch of new mistakes made all across the board as drivers struggle with twitchy cars?

I don't know what F1 you've been watching but for me this year is far more interesting than the Red Bull-Vettel dominance of the last 3 years.

Comment Re:Why. (Score 1) 165

That explains a lot. Really, "targeted at education" and "full datasheet not available" do not go together, except for the most stupid or most corrupt of players. I have been wondering how this incredibly stupid choice was made.

And if we always follow the fundamentalist way nothing will get done ever. The Pi isn't perfect, but it is good at what it does and ultimately it did get made and became popular... Hardware doesn't have to be totally open to be useful in teaching software, for example.

It's like Hurd vs Linux, you can have all the ideals you want but if you fail to make it work and popular, it's worthless.

Comment Re:As much as I hate Apple (Score 1) 187

The issue, or rather concern, with the on-card contact-less payments (VISA PayPass, etc.) is that someone could activate it while it was still in you wallet in your pocket via a specially designed (any maybe illegal; but that hasn't been known to stop thieves) hardware, and that this could be used a avenue for fraud. Not sure if there was ever a real life POC of this working or not.

Don't worry about it... I mean yes it is possible, but contactless has been widely rolled out in the UK for a while and the sky hasn't fallen. Ultimately you can challenge any bad charges pretty easily (if you notice them) on your statement, and since all this stuff goes tracably through the credit card system then it's not going to take many chargebacks for the dodgy reader to get them all rolled back and the criminal flagged.

Comment Re:8 months on this?? (Score 1) 103

Eight months? Wouldn't it be more efficient to learn programming(if needed), understand the layout of the map file, and write a script to generate this very well structured and organized hell on earth?

Couldn't that be said of any game? Write a better AI and let it play itself? Why do any gaming when programming is more efficient?

Comment Re:Will the cameras work? (Score 3, Insightful) 643

Or will we one day hear, that, unfortunately, the cameras worn by the officers involved had "malfunctioned" at the most inopportune moment?

(Pay no attention to the remains of chewing gum around the lenses.)

Indeed, but then it will immediately put suspicion on the police officer, whereas at the moment there is nothing other than their sayso about what happened. Since police testimony is often implicitly trusted by magistrates and juries, I would much rather there be a 'but what happened to your camera?' defence than not at all.

Comment Re:Just don't try to write an OS in Java (Score 1) 511

To be fair, CVs are beasts that end up being read by people who are just keyword searching so you have to put every word you've ever vaguely come up against just to get past HR. There's a bunch of stuff I wouldn't want to be pushed too far on my CV... I figure I can work it out on the fly if necessary.

You have to trust the interviewer has a good idea what is actually necessary for the job and isn't just on a catch-them-out power trip. Hopefully the original poster does actually need C knowledge.

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