Iconoc - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Is this Slashdot or the daily kos? (Score 0) 406

by Iconoc on Sunday October 27, 2013 @08:42PM (#45254805) Attached to: A Look at the Koch Brothers Dark-Money Network

It used to be difficult to get an article posted on Slashdot. These days it is pretty easy to get posted as "anonymous reader."

The articles look like this, especially as we move into a new election cycle. Slashdot is on a long slow slide into irrelevance.

Comment Re:Every now and then... (Score 1) 164

by Iconoc on Sunday October 13, 2013 @05:27PM (#45116111) Attached to: Elevated Radiation Claimed At Tokyo 2020 Olympic Venues

Should do a Slashdot Poll for Giant Mythical creatures/mutants likely to attack Japan during the 2020 Olympics.

Comment Re:I look forward (Score 1) 164

by Iconoc on Sunday October 13, 2013 @05:21PM (#45116079) Attached to: Elevated Radiation Claimed At Tokyo 2020 Olympic Venues

umm, that was supposed to be "all the glowing comments about the athletes." First post ever, FWIW.

Comment I look forward (Score 5, Funny) 164

by Iconoc on Sunday October 13, 2013 @05:19PM (#45116071) Attached to: Elevated Radiation Claimed At Tokyo 2020 Olympic Venues

to allow the glowing comments about the athletes.

Comment Ummm (Score 1) 108

by Iconoc on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @12:18PM (#45082323) Attached to: Kickstarter For Open Source GPU

This is so ridiculous I don't even know where to start. Whoever is promoting this has no idea what is involved.

If you want to learn, buy a Xilinx demo board with a VGA or HDMI connector. You can learn something from it, and begin to see what a huge amount of work something like this requires.

Leave your high-minded ideas for open source (or free money from Kickstarter) and get a vague of idea of what you are proposing. The costs to fab anything are enormous. A $35 PCI-Express video card with no fan is a much better bargain.

Comment Really? (Score 1) 1191

by Iconoc on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @05:31PM (#45008087) Attached to: Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta)

Please don't "improve" slashdot. I quit scanning CNBC because the website is similar to this "new" look. I like a dense page with information and could care less what picture a bored mod selected to go with an article.

This look is not an improvement.

There is an early Bloom County cartoon about how the UI should hurt the user. It was funny. Leave it alone.

Comment Re:Really? (Score 0) 102

by Iconoc on Monday August 12, 2013 @12:28PM (#44542799) Attached to: Behind the Story of the iPhone's Default Text Tone

Let me simplify this for you since you may not have made through the first sentence before hitting reply:

Step back. Look at your surroundings. Find something else that deserves obsession. This isn't it.

Perhaps this wasn't visible on your iPhone display...

Comment Really? (Score 2) 102

by Iconoc on Monday August 12, 2013 @09:10AM (#44540835) Attached to: Behind the Story of the iPhone's Default Text Tone

Having been an Android user for some time, I have always thought that tone we all "know and love" sounds clunky and antiquated. Step back. Look at your surroundings. Find something else that deserves obsession. This isn't it.

Comment You should know that ... (Score 4, Interesting) 514

by Iconoc on Thursday January 24, 2013 @07:14PM (#42685135) Attached to: California's Surreal Retroactive Tax On Tech Startup Investors

Elections have consequences.

Submission + - CERN's LHC to Shut Down for 2 Years for Repair & Upgrades (paritynews.com)

Submitted by hypnosec on Sunday January 06, 2013 @06:46AM

hypnosec writes: CERN has revealed that the world's largest and most powerful atom smasher – the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is going into hibernation and will be shut down for a period of two years for upgrade purposes. To be operated for a couple of more months this year, the LHC will go through a maintenance and upgrade phase starting March that will bring the atom smasher up to speed with its maximum energy levels, which will enable scientists to carry out more discoveries even greater than the current ones like the Higgs Boson.

Comment Re:A clear example of how lobbying hurts everyone (Score 1) 375

by Iconoc on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @11:58AM (#42387533) Attached to: The New Ethanol Blend May Damage Your Vehicle

Elections have consequences.

Submission + - I don't Read Code Anymore - Linus Torvalds

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 22, 2012 @02:12AM

An anonymous reader writes: There is a excellent interview over at the H with Linus Torvalds. Glyn Moody's second interview with Linus since 1998 is both informative and revealing. Linus response to his role as the kernel maintainer has this interesting tidbit: "Well, the big thing is I don't read code any more... when it comes to the major subsystem maintainers, I trust them because I've been working with them for 5, 10, 15 years, so I don't even look at the code." The interview goes on to talk about Amazon, Google, phones tablets and the cloud. Further on the topic of coding, the interview ends with Linus stating: "When I was twenty I liked doing device drivers. If I never have to do a single device driver in my life again, I will be happy. Some kind of headaches I can do without." Like all of us, Linus is getting older and taking a less hands on approach to the development of the kernel. Of course this is understandable. Even the great Git himself is a slave to the passage of time, but thankfully for us, his creation is not.

Comment and that's the new game in town??? (Score 1) 325

by Iconoc on Sunday December 02, 2012 @08:19PM (#42164439) Attached to: Julian Assange: "Online Totalitarianism Is Near, Entire Nations Are Intercepted"

There is nothing new under the sun. Ever read "The Puzzle Palace"? http://m.cdn.blog.hu/hi/hirszerzes/file/James%20Bamford%20-%20The%20Puzzle%20Palace%20-%20Inside%20The%20National%20Security%20Agency.pdf

Comment They should open up to certain sites (Score 2, Funny) 156

by Iconoc on Friday November 09, 2012 @10:38AM (#41931527) Attached to: The Information Age: North Korean Style

They should allow access to the obvious North American news sites. The propaganda is already done for them. No worries ...

Comment Envelope tracking (Score 5, Informative) 110

by Iconoc on Thursday November 01, 2012 @06:30AM (#41840171) Attached to: Breakthrough Promises Smartphones that Use Half the Power

What this article never really manages to describe is Envelope Tracking (ET). This has been in development for several years. Look at the diagram in http://www.nujira.com/technology-pa-746.php for a better description of the concept. This article describes the application of ET in the handset.

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