Comment Re:10000 feet (Score 1) 177
That whoosh sound is a jet flying 49,000 to 56,000 feet below its normal cruising altitude.
Comment Re:At that price point, not much... (Score 5, Insightful) 116
You'll be getting crap for $100-150. Sorry, but you will. Now that being said, I have found a Syma x5C from Banggood for $63.51 CAD and has a 2MB camera. http://www.banggood.com/Syma-X... [banggood.com] and it's not bad for a beginner but it's going to get broken and then you'll be pissed off.
Not as fucking pissed off as he will be when his $400 drone crashes, eats a prop, gets caught in a gust of wind and wanders out to sea, etc. etc. It's much better to start with a $60 Hubsan or Syma and get some inexpensive practice flying in before moving up to something Phantom-level.
Comment Re:If they're doing it, it's correct. (Score 1) 162
I call shenanigans, nobody in their right mind would claim to be interested in selling HP-UX.
Comment Obligatory "Sneakers" reference (Score 0) 68
Does it fit into the case of an answering machine?
Comment Re:A Truely "Killer" App (Score 1) 471
"Still press here, do I?"
Comment If it means faster CentOS development, good (Score 2) 186
CentOS 6 was delayed quite a bit from the corresponding RHEL release, for a variety of reasons. If being an unofficial-official Red Hat project means that CentOS 7 tracks the upcoming RHEL 7 release better, then everybody wins. (Conversely, if they turn into Sunacle, then we're likely moving to Debian.)
Comment Re:works for me (Score 1) 438
Ah, the David Ortiz method.
Comment Re:the bizarre part to this (Score 1) 277
> the 70 man junket to GarbageCon'13
Can you imagine the cosplay outfits? Yuck.
Submission + - Washington Post fires mobile team (huffingtonpost.com) 1
imac.usr writes: The Huffington Post is reporting that The Washington Post has gone through yet another round of layoffs, but this time instead of cutting editorial positions, they're apparently cutting IT positions, specifically in the mobile applications department. According to Washington, DC media blog FishbowlDC, 54 people, including the General Manager of Mobile and Director of Mobile Products were given the axe on Valentine's Day. A particularly damning quote from the FishbowlDC article: '“[CIO and VP Shaliesh] Prakash thinks these are ‘inefficiencies’ – that is the exact word he uses for human beings who are not useful according to him,” said a source who spoke only on condition of anonymity. “Get rid of experienced people to save money, under the garb of streamlining is the new trend inside the Post.”'
Given that mobile products seem somewhat more likely to succeed than printed newspapers, this seems a strange decision at best.
Given that mobile products seem somewhat more likely to succeed than printed newspapers, this seems a strange decision at best.
Comment Re:WTF? (Score 1) 223
I got it, even if (apparently) nobody else did.
We joke at work that once Oracle, Microsoft, and EMC merge we will have achieved the IT singularity. (At which point, it's already too late.)
Comment Re:How old can you go? (Score 1) 464
"Of course it runs NetBSD."
Comment Re:48 times dupe... (Score 1) 97
I would have posted it myself but I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac for about 20 minutes...
Comment Re:It's too bad (Score 1) 933
Although I presume it's too late to change your mind, you should know that you can in fact enable focus-follows-mounse at least for Terminal windows, with an app like TinkerTool. Hope it makes the last few months more tolerable at least. :P
Comment Re:Draw a rectangle, (Score 1) 108
Draw a rectangle, you say?
Comment Re:Why is this moderated down? (Score 1) 707
Okay, if I contort myself, I can sort of rationalize everything on that list, except kite-flying. Seriously, who could possibly be against that?
