Akido37 - Slashdot User

Comment: Boycott Foxconn? (Score 4, Insightful) 744

by Akido37 on Monday January 30, @10:39AM (#38864403) Attached to: Some Critics Suggest Apple Boycott Over Chinese Working Conditions

All of these articles about Apple's supply chain seem to ignore one fact: Apple's aren't the only products made in these factories.

Want to boycott horrific working conditions? Stop buying everything. Even Made in America products have parts or raw materials from overseas sweatshops. Electricity in the United States is typically powered by coal, which routinely ignores safety regulations.

The problem isn't Apple. The problem is lax governmental regulation that allows this to happen. Want to stop Apple from using sweatshops? Want to stop Google and Facebook from tracking your every move? Make it illegal, and enforce the damned law.

Comment: Re:The Real Problem: Degrees Without Side-Work (Score 1) 948

by Akido37 on Tuesday May 10 2011, @10:58AM (#36083328) Attached to: Why the New Guy Can't Code

Did you have a full-time 40hr/wk job totally outside of CS/IT during the same period that left you with only enough time outside of class to sleep?

Yeah, some of us did. I worked up to 60 hours a week while in school. College is expensive, even with financial aid.

Comment: Shocking... (Score 5, Insightful) 287

by Akido37 on Wednesday November 10 2010, @12:09PM (#34186722) Attached to: Sex Drugs and Texting

Popular people with more friends, who go to parties involving alcohol and drugs are more likely to have sex?

Who knew?

Comment: Due Process? (Score 5, Insightful) 569

by Akido37 on Thursday September 30 2010, @03:43PM (#33751600) Attached to: White House Pressuring Registrars To Block Sites

When the Obama Administration claims the right to ASSASSINATE CITIZENS without due process, I'm not surprised that a little thing like blocking websites doesn't merit due process either.

Comment: PhotoCD (Score 1) 140

by Akido37 on Saturday August 28 2010, @08:46AM (#33402410) Attached to: Kodak's 1975 Digital Camera

'Why would anyone ever want to view his or her pictures on a TV?'

And yet they still tried selling those stupid PhotoCD players to people.

Comment: Re:I don't get it. (Score 1) 764

by Akido37 on Friday July 30 2010, @11:17AM (#33083366) Attached to: To Ballmer, Grabbing iPad's Market Is 'Job One Urgency'

Microsoft, why don't you just write some QUALITY software for the iPad instead of trying to go head on in competition? That way, the more iPads Apple sells, the more software you sell. It's win-win.

I wonder about this sometimes. I think Microsoft needs to remember it's a software company, not a hardware company. Sell Office, sell Windows, create application software for all platforms. Otherwise you have Zune.

Comment: Wait, a study of opinion? (Score 0) 780

by Akido37 on Tuesday July 27 2010, @09:08AM (#33043324) Attached to: iPad Owners Are 'Selfish Elites'

The firm's conclusion was that non-iPad owners THINK iPad owners tend to be wealthy, sophisticated, highly educated and disproportionately interested in business and finance, while they scored terribly in the areas of altruism and kindness.

Fixed. What a stupid study. How about you actually see what iPad owners are like, rather than ask people what their opinions of iPad owners are?

Disclaimer: I do not own an iPad

Comment: Missing context... (Score 5, Insightful) 878

by Akido37 on Friday July 23 2010, @03:21PM (#33006396) Attached to: Google Engineer Decries Complexity of Java, C++

Pike detailed the shortcomings of such languages as a way of describing the goals that he and other Google engineers have for a new programming language they developed, called Go.

Oh, so he's pushing a competing product and denigrating his competition? Nothing to see here, I think.

Comment: The army you wish you had... (Score 1) 394

by Akido37 on Tuesday July 20 2010, @01:33PM (#32967272) Attached to: Cyberwarrior Shortage Threatens US Security

'We don't have sufficiently bright people moving into this field to support those national security objectives as we move forward in time,'

All we have are a bunch of morons here.

Comment: As goes Apple... (Score 1) 175

by Akido37 on Tuesday July 20 2010, @08:56AM (#32962842) Attached to: MacPaint Source Code Released to Museum

Hopefully this starts a trend where companies release their source to the world once they're done with it.