Want to read Slashdot from your mobile device? Point it at m.slashdot.org and keep reading!

 


Forgot your password?
Close
typodupeerror
×

Comment Re:This just in... (Score 1) 936

by ZiakII (#42275815) Attached to: New Hampshire Cops Use Taser On Woman Buying Too Many iPhones
"[manhandling] would have caused a hell of a lot more long-term injury to her than simply getting tazed would."

It's not as though anyone has died from being tazed before.

Oh wait.


The thing I hate about these comments, is the reverse is exactly true as well.

"[tazering] would have caused a hell of a lot more long-term injury to her than simply getting manhandling would."

It's not as though anyone has died from being manhandling before.

Oh wait.

Comment Re:Cooling (Score 4, Informative) 139

by ZiakII (#42106483) Attached to: The Wii Mini Is Real, Arrives December 7 — In Canada
My son's Wii requires a fan be set up behind it for cooling or it shuts down.

Presumably they fixed that for this version (may have fixed it previously...I don't know, I just use it for Netflix).


That sounds like a clogged exhaust fan, I would just take a can of air to it, and possibly dissemble the fan and clean it. Never had that problem with mine and it runs in a small shelf under the TV.

Comment Re:Middle one.... (Score 1) 178

by ZiakII (#42091469) Attached to: Compared to my siblings ...
Err...where is this high school that teaches accounting? I've never heard of such a thing, till you got into college?

FWIW my high school (Freehold Township High School, Freehold, NJ) 10 years ago had Accounting I and Accounting II. Stupid ALOE (Assets = Liabilities + Owner’s Equity). I still have it engrained in my head.

Comment Re:And this is why I'll never live in a walled gar (Score 4, Informative) 409

by ZiakII (#41983051) Attached to: Apple Orders Memory Game Developers To Stop Using 'Memory' In Names
Came here to say this too. Check "Allow Unknown Sources" in Settings, open .apk, install app. Perfectly allowable within the default Android setup, and yes, this is the setup that 95% of carriers use. (I've heard of some carriers taking away the Unknown Sources checkbox, but to my knowledge it's very uncommon.)

AT&T used to not allow that, but once people started trying to download Amazon's app store and got a ton of flak over it. AT&T quickly gave people the ability to do so.
Microsoft

Submission + - An in-depth look at the Windows 8 API, WinRT (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by
concealment
concealment writes: "Windows 8 supports all the traditional Windows applications that have been developed over past decades. But the centerpiece of Windows 8 is not its support for legacy applications. With Windows 8, Microsoft wants to develop a whole new ecosystem of applications: touch-friendly, secure, fluidly animated. The new aesthetic was known as Metro, though rumored legal issues have chased the company away from that particular name. These new applications aren't built with the time-honored Windows APIs of yore. They're built with something new: the "Windows Runtime," aka "WinRT."

WinRT isn't just a new library, though it is that in part. More so, it's a whole new infrastructure for building and assembling Windows programs. If Windows 8 is successful—and more specifically, if Metro apps flourish—WinRT will be the foundation on which Windows apps are built for decades to come."

Comment Whats the problem? (Score 5, Informative) 272

by ZiakII (#41589723) Attached to: SpaceX Launch Not So Perfect After All
The Falcon 9, as its name implies, has nine engines, and is designed to go to orbit if one of them fails. On-board computers will detect engine failure, cut the fuel supply, and then distribute the unused propellant to the remaining engines, allowing them to burn longer. This seems to be the case where that was required, and the computers came through. The engines are also built with protection to limit the damage in cases where a neighboring engine explodes, which appears to be the case here.

Sounds like it did exactly what it was supposed to do.

Slashdot Top Deals

He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. -- Bion

Close