Comment Frosty pist (Score -1) 135
Need frosty piss? There's an app for that1111!!!eleven
The American App Economy Is Now "Bigger Than Hollywood" 135
Lemeowski writes Technology business analyst Horace Deidu found an interesting nugget while closely examining an Apple press release from earlier this year: "The iOS App Store distributed $10 billion to developers in 2014, which, Deidu points out, is just about as much as Hollywood earned off U.S. box office revenues the same year." That means the American app industry is poised to eclipse the American film industry. Additionally, Apple says its App Store has created 627,000 jobs, which Deidu contrasts with the 374,000 jobs Hollywood creates
Comment Re:2nd amendment (Score 1) 313
And yet it required a remarkable degree of incompetence, a fair amount of luck, and financial and naval support from the French.
Comment Re:Do you really think we should not be making pla (Score 1) 313
I'll bet we have plans to suspend the US Cons after Facebook goes down for 24 hours.
Make it a week and we've got a deal.
Comment Re:Not surprising in the least. (Score 1) 313
The problem with these "emergency modes" is that they run infinitely.
Comment That one looks jewish and that one's a coon (Score 1) 313
Speaking as a veteran (Not a raging libertarian) I can tell you that you would likely see entire units refuse to fire on American civilians. In fact we are taught to disobey unlawful orders.
Officer: fire!
[uneasy silence, some shuffling of feet]
Officer: They're cormanusts! And terrusts! And queers, probably.
Dakka-dakka-dak! Dakka-dakka-dakka dak!
Comment Re:Big Myth #2 (Score 1) 339
If Gates sold all of his stocks so he could roll around in a Billion dollars cash with naked teenagers, M.S. stock would probably crash, reducing his wealth by orders of magnitude.
How would a fall in value of something that you currently own zero of affect you?
Comment Re:How Pascal Literally Saved My Life (Score 2) 492
Worst Haiku ever.
Comment A garland of pickled ringpieces. (Score 1) 148
Cross platform? They haven't even solved cross version.
People used to give me Word 2007 docs to correct. I had Word 2003. After two attempts I started asking for a hard copy that I'd scrawl on with a pen. They thought I was mad until I showed them; If I tried to do it on the 'puter the editing used to happen in a random location. I say random, the one place it didn't happen was where the cursor was.
Comment Re:Simple solution (Score 1) 431
There's no such thing as a "greatest common denominator".
Stop repeating what you think you heard the grown-ups say.
Comment Re:Oh yay, more about the bullshit clock (Score 1) 216
Did you know the most dangerous drivers are not those who have just gotten their license, but those who have had a bit of experience?
Have you ever insured a car? It's a while back, but I'm pretty sure my premiums went down in the first few years, not up.
Comment Re:R wont run on linux soon (Score 1) 105
Not possible, systemd already has the interpreter built in.
NASA Considers Autonomous Martian Helicopter To Augment Future Rovers 83
A reader writes with this story at the Verge about an approach being considered by NASA to overcome some of the difficulties in moving a wheeled or multi-legged ground vehicle around the surface of Mars, which has proven to be a difficult task. Rover teams still have a tough time with the Martian surface even though they're flush with terrestrial data. The alien surface is uneven, and ridges and valleys make navigating the terrain difficult. The newest solution proposed by JPL is the Mars Helicopter, an autonomous drone that could 'triple the distances that Mars rovers can drive in a Martian day,' according to NASA. The helicopter would fly ahead of a rover when its view is blocked and send Earth-bound engineers the right data to plan the rover's route.
Comment Oo-er, matron! (Score 2) 211
Population is provided by "Otto fuel II" which is a hot expanding gas
It's caused by something expanding, but it's not a gas. At least mine isn't.
Comment Re:Pedantic, but... (Score 1) 169
In which case the snippet you quoted becomes "I make up I speak for everyone when I say".
If that improves your comprehension it must be pretty poor to begin with.
