39 usable megapixels will always be expensive. High end lenses are damn expensive, and if your lenses do not have the required resolution, you're better off using 16 megapixels. For $1000, glass included, you won't get more than 16 real megapixels. And if you do not believe me, have a look at http://www.dxomark.com/ .

Thank you for bringing up such quality content. You know, 39 megapixel pictures are only usable if you have high end glass on your camera, which only rich camera enthusiasts can afford. That excludes forever smartphone cameras (yeah, even those whatever megapixels Nokias), security cameras, small digital cameras, which would actually render useless 99% of all cameras on earth for that usage. So you only need to have one of these rich guys take a picture of a crime scene, yeah, only that...

Wow it's less 100 lines (excluding chacha_ivsetup, chacha_encrypt_bytes AND poly1305_auth). So I guess it's not 100 lines...

I bought this to use it as a lightweight server, found it highly underpowered, CPU and memory wise, and discovered that some software I needed was x86 only. So I left it gathering dust in a drawer. I have been tried finding a use for this thingy but could not. End of the story.
I end up using the t-shirt more than the pi itself.

Radio signal shaping is used to overcome range limitations. As seen in the Canard PC Hardware french magazine, 5 Ghz in *pinpoin*t mode performs mostly better than raw 2.6, even with walls on the way. Though if you're totally out of 5GHz range, you'll use the 2.4GHz range.

Great. I'd sure like my GPU, with its mad low level optimizations and surely ugly code to be used by unsigned code from random sources.
Java applets are far too secure, let's get to the lowest level!

You know, drugs are not about being smart, these are about having a shot at it, feeling good, then getting addicted.
But well, with an average 3 year life expectancy for Krokodil users, it's not going to be a problem for long...

It's all about mods and accessories. Imagine the think with multi touch, 4 point on each touchpad. Then you could stick a direction cross over it, or regular buttons, or a plain stick, or whatever you want.
Every single gamepad these years is just plain and unimaginative or has barely usable gimmicks. Even the wiimotes are quite disappointing (laggish, unprecise). Analog buttons (not triggers these are fine) were the worst idea ever. Sixaxis motion detection is totally useless (no I wont tilt it left to turn left, I'd rather keep my wrist in good state). Wii U screen is basically a DS/3D with only one screen?
This, gentlemen, is innovation.

I suppose you can now workaround this bug. If you launch steam in online mode while you're actually offline it asks you if you want to use the offline mode. I can't really figure how a restart after a crash could be any different.
But well, I cannot attest of this as steam has never crashed on any of my computers.

Err, no. This is not needed anymore. Test it: disable your connection, you can then switch to offline mode.

Let's stop standardizing stories to get better stories on Slashdot.
First, we'll stop using tags and titles, it's a clear case of over categorizing
Then, let's stop using english as a standard. Letters were meant to be used freely, not rigidly as used in english.
Finally, we should remove links in stories, so that people can freely search these in the web.

True. Debian is mostly about rock solid reliability and reasonably long support, not about end users. Though debian testing is a pretty neat bleeding edge distro.

Now that javascript is fast, that HTML5 is everywhere, that games can even run on Flash, please Oracle, kill the damn java browser plugin. Sure, Unity uses it. Do J2EE developpers around the world care about it? No, we do not care!
Kill the damn thing. It's slow to start and it will always be slow even with the Jigsaw vaporware. I don't wan't Java in my browser. We are in 2013, ActiveX was crap, Flash is crap, java applets were, are and will always be crap.

Disclaimer, I am a java/J2EE developper and I am totally tired of the reputation that java is getting because of this damn browser plugin.

Quite amazing, 'cause where I work in France, I do around 42 hours (strict) a week, the lunch break is one hour, sure, but we get off work one hour later. In the daily work hour, we have a legal 15min break in the morning and 15 min in the afternoon. The lunch break must be at least 30 minutes, work laws say, but it's not counted as worktime.
Employers often try in France to suggest unpaid overtime, but I do only 3 hours a week as I want to keep a healthy life/personal life.
As a developper, I had positions in several industrial companies, and I have never seen those interesting stereotypes you saw. I do not say these do not exist, but just don't overgeneralize.

Man, you assume that if you implement that, you won't get people bitching about your inaccurate ETA. Keep dreaming. And this gaussian distribution of errors, for estimation bars? That's total bullshit. Why? Cause people will come complaining at you each single time your smartass algorithm just failed as utterly as linear prediction at predicting what will happen... the only deterministic change that this thing brings is that it will increase your product cost, even if only by a fraction and that your manager and team members will remember you created a not working solution.
People do not remember when a progress bar works properly. They only remembers the times it fails. If an installed fails predicting how much time it would take, it has always failed and people will complain and amplify they complains.I mean I can still remember my explosive laughter when a file copy progress bar just went back in time, in Windows 2000. I almost fell of my chair. It was 6 or 7 years ago.
Just leave the damn linear progress bar alone and do not put any silver bullet in it. It's simple, it's fine, it mostly works, as it already is.