Please create an account to participate in the Slashdot moderation system

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×

Submission + - Best Android Apps for Tablet 2013 (techdomino.com)

allwinter writes: There have been few and poor quality Android apps for tablet so far, but this is changing quickly. Developers are now putting more effort into making higher quality tablet apps for Android. Here are the best 10 Android apps for tablets right now:

Comment Maybe this will help (Score 1) 440

Use the -d switch if you want to automatically select the file to delete or use no switch if you want a list of commands to copy to remove duplicates.

For readability, s/;/;\n/g. From an error message it seems Slashdot is hostile to small lines in posts. The original is 73 lines.

http://pastebin.com/sUfZkVaQ

#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use Digest::SHA; use Cwd; use File::Util; my $topDir=cwd(); my($f) = File::Util->new(); my(@files) = $f->list_dir($topDir,'--recurse'); my %hash; my $deleteFlag=$ARGV[0]; #print $deleteFlag,"\n"; foreach my $file(@files) { if(-d $file) {next;} my $size=$f->size($file); push @{$hash{$size}},$file; } my ($filectr,$setctr)=(0,0); foreach my $key (sort { $a $b } keys %hash) {#loop through sizes my $value=$hash{$key}; my @arr=@{$value}; my $numFiles = @arr; if ($numFiles $b } keys %shahash) { #loop through files of same hash value my $shavalue=$shahash{$shakey}; my @shaarr=@{$shavalue}; my $numFilesSha = @shaarr; if($numFilesSha new($alg); $sha->addfile($filename); my $digest = $sha->hexdigest(); return $digest; } sub unixFilename { my ($filename) = @_; $filename =~ s/\)/\\\)/g; $filename =~ s/\(/\\\(/g; $filename =~ s/\ /\\ /g; $filename =~ s/\;/\\\;/g; $filename =~ s/\'/\\\'/g; $filename =~ s/\"/\\\"/g; $filename =~ s/\&/\\\&/g; $filename =~ s/\!/\\\!/g; return $filename; }

Comment Re:Stupid Idea (Score 1) 1026

we have an EXTREMELY functional interstate system for local travel

No. The interstate system kills 40K people per year and receives huge hidden subsidies such as military protection of the oil supply line. The cost of driving is a huge burden for the poor.

and for all other domestic travel we have airplanes (very efficient and low cost if tickets are bought in advance.

Airplanes are a hassle because airports are located far from city centers and you can't always predict when you need to leave for a trip.

Don't like fees? Fly southwest).

Limited service areas.

High Speed Rail would have the EXACT same security measures as airplanes,

Preposterous, you can't redirect trains into skyscrapers or foreign countries and they do not fall out of the sky.

as well as the large trucks that are used to transport goods and services.

Large trucks are highly labor inefficient and there is no such thing as transporting services by freight.

But we already have a rail system, and it works just fine.

Sure, if crossing the country in eight days is your idea of "fine", if the trains even go where you need them to (fat chance).

To replace driving you need a public transporation system.

Part of the reason public transit doesn't do well in the US is you still need a car for short and medium intercity trips. Chicken-egg.

To replace planes you need it to be cheaper, safer, and actually faster.

You don't need all three. High-speed trains for medium distances are faster when you consider the overhead of traveling to the airport and getting through security. High-speed trains will be cheaper when peak oil hits, if it hasn't already. Trains, with spacious seating, lounge cars, and dining facilities, are also much more comfortable to travel on than either bus or plane. Finally, you must also consider that many people cannot drive because of disability, age, license revocation, or like myself, piss-poor at driving.

Comment adults require more comfy chairs than kids (Score 1) 405

The pressure per unit of seating area for adults is much greater than for children because volume (and thereby weight) increases at a greater rate than surface area as one grows. Similar principles account for why insects are so strong for their size, why elephants can't survive moderate falls, and why cells are so small. Sea creatures have water to support them so they can grow to much larger sizes. Money would be better spent on rigorous physical activity and nutritious meals that fights childhood obesity to decrease the mass per seating area of children than on comfy furniture that gets destroyed in a couple years. I was scrawny all through childhood but I don't remember the hard furniture at school as particularly uncomfortable. Sitting in a hard chair now becomes torture after a few minutes.
The Almighty Buck

EA Says Game Development Budgets Have Peaked 157

Gamasutra reports on comments from Electronic Arts VP David Demartini indicating that the company thinks AAA game development budgets are not going to continue their skyward trend. "If [a developer] happens to make a lot of money based on that budget, great for them. If they come up short and have to cover some of it — y'know, they'll be smarter the next time they do it. That's kind of the approach that we take to it." Certainly this has something to do with a few major economic flops in the games industry lately, such as the cancellation of This Is Vegas after an estimated $50 million had been dumped into the project. Another example is the anemic response to APB, an MMO with a budget rumored to be as high as $100 million. Poor sales and reviews caused developer Realtime Worlds to enter insolvency and lay off a large portion of the development team.
Image

Officials Use Google Earth To Find Unlicensed Pools 650

Officials in Riverhead, New York are using Google Earth to root out the owners of unlicensed pools. So far they've found 250 illegal pools and collected $75,000 in fines and fees. Of course not everyone thinks that a city should be spending time looking at aerial pictures of backyards. from the article: "Lillie Coney, associate director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, DC, said Google Earth was promoted as an aid to curious travelers but has become a tool for cash-hungry local governments. 'The technology is going so far ahead of what people think is possible, and there is too little discussion about community norms,' she said."
Movies

New Riddick Movie Made Possible By Games? 160

Hugh Pickens writes "Scott Harris writes on Moviefone that the economics of Hollywood are often baffling, as DVD sales, broadcast fees and merchandising tie-ins balance against advertising costs and pay-or-play deals to form an accounting maze. The latest example is the untitled sequel to The Chronicles of Riddick, released in 2004 to a slew of negative reviews and general viewer indifference. Despite its hefty $105 million budget, most of which was spent on special effects, the film topped out at a paltry $57 million domestically. So how can a sequel be made if the movie lost money? The answer has to do with ancillary profits from revenue streams outside the box office. While the combined $116 million worldwide probably still didn't cover distribution and advertising costs, it likely brought the film close to even, meaning DVD sales and profits from the tie-in video game franchise may have put the movie in the black. In addition, Riddick itself was a sequel to Pitch Black, a modestly budgeted ($23 million) success back in 2000. Extending the franchise to a third film may help boost ancillary profits by introducing the Pitch Black and Chronicles of Riddick DVDs and merchandise to new audiences, meaning that the new film may not even need to break even to eventually turn a profit for the studio."

Comment Re:The time for debate is over... (Score 3, Informative) 1136

Here's the relevant Phil Jones quote, from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8511670.stm/. Decide if Dailymail (a highly politicized news source, similar to Fox News in the US) reports it honestly.

"Do you agree that from 1995 to the present there has been no statistically-significant global warming?"

Jones: "Yes, but only just. I also calculated the trend for the period 1995 to 2009. This trend (0.12C per decade) is positive, but not significant at the 95% significance level. The positive trend is quite close to the significance level. Achieving statistical significance in scientific terms is much more likely for longer periods, and much less likely for shorter periods."

And later,

"How confident are you that warming has taken place and that humans are mainly responsible?"

Jones: "I'm 100 percent confident that the climate has warmed. As to the second question, I would go along with IPCC Chapter 9 - there's evidence that most of the warming since the 1950s is due to human activity."

Comment Re:Science or Religion? (Score 2, Insightful) 1136

Here we go with that silly petition again:

1) Few if any of those scientists are climate scientists
2) Only a small minority (~9000) have PhDs
3) 31,000 is a small minority of the American scientific community
The only opinions that count are expressed in peer-reviewed journals of climate scientists (which virtually requires a PhD), not publicity stunts such as this.

"the more you keep repeating something (or the louder you state it) the more inclined people will be to accept it. "

Which is the tactic of the global warming "skeptics." The people who actually have a truly informed opinion on this are generally too busy conducting research to be bothered trying to sway public opinion. I have an MS in Software Engineering, but I wouldn't ever pronounce an opinion on if we'll get a computer to pass the Turing Test. I'm not an AI researcher, I don't know hard core Computer Science topics like Recursion Theory, and I never spent years earning a PhD to obtain a truly informed opinion. The folks who signed this petition can't really say they know what they are talking about.
Games

The SwordQuest Saga 47

Via Kotaku, an interview at AtariHQ with Michael Rideout, the winner of the Fireworld Contest. Fireworld was a portion of the four-part SwordQuest Contest, meant to publicize Atari's sequel to the classic title Adventure. From the article: "Q: Can you describe the Chalice for us? What's its composition, etc? A: It's around seven to eight inches tall. The cup part of it is platinum and is maybe three or four inches across the top. The base is made of gold and has little diamonds on it. It also has three jade rings, two around the middle and one around the base. It has rubies and pearls going around the middle of it. There are five sapphires and some citrines in the middle section, as well as five lapis lazuli stones near the base."
Classic Games (Games)

Unofficial Adventure Sequel Demonstrated 15

Thanks to RetroGames for pointing to the project page for Adventure II, an unofficial Atari 5200 sequel to the classic Atari 2600 version of Adventure. There's a 40 percent version available for download, and the page asks you to bear in mind that "..the dragon will eat you (resetting the demo) if he bites you too many times." In related news, this review of the Atari 10-In-1 TV Game, including the original version of Adventure, points out that the world's first videogame 'easter egg', sneaked in by creator Warren Robinett and containing his name, has been changed in the new TV Game version to the word 'TEXT' - shurely shome mistake?

Slashdot Top Deals

"Engineering without management is art." -- Jeff Johnson

Working...