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Comment: Car washing (Score 2) 728

by Cowclops (#42982897) Attached to: For Businesses, the College Degree Is the New High School Diploma

" 'It sure beats washing cars,' says Georgia State University graduate Landon Crider, 24, an in-house courier who, for $10 an hour, ferries documents back and forth between the courthouse and his company's office."

I work for a full service car wash as a supervisor. I wash cars. I don't have a college degree. I both make more than $10 an hour and would rather be washing cars than sitting at a desk. So this quote in the summary really made me laugh.

Comment: Nashua Police (Score 1) 936

by Cowclops (#42274859) Attached to: New Hampshire Cops Use Taser On Woman Buying Too Many iPhones

I used to live in Nashua and I found that the times I had to interact with the Nashua police, it might as well have been the Nazi SS. Not all cops are bad, but the Nashua PD clearly has an issue with hiring/promoting scumbags and it only takes a few bad apples to ruin the batch.

Why would burly police men ever have to escalate violence against somebody just trying to buy some christmas presents? Sure, they asked her to leave, and when they ask you to leave and you don't its trespassing so they were right to call the police. But the reaction by the police was completely overbearing.

For added lulz, google "Nashua Gannon wire tapping". The officer who was harassing this guy at his own house late at night was the guy I had the pleasure of dealing with the time I got a speeding ticket. Its never pleasant getting a ticket, but he was like interrogating me about why i was going so fast and why I thought I could do that and etc - never mind the detail that he wrote me up for doing 50 in a 30 when the speed limit was actually 40 where I was driving. Got it dropped in court no problem, but if you're gonna do you your job as a police officer, don't get the facts wrong.

In short, I will definitely never, ever, ever be going back to Nashua NH.

Comment: Re:Kid Icarus (Score 1) 204

by Cowclops (#39308067) Attached to: Classic Nintendo Games Are NP-Hard
Landing in top gun is actually really easy, the thing most people don't realize is that you have to hold and release the button to speed up and keep your speed around 250 mph. It'll tell you to speed up if you're too slow and it'll tell you to slow down if you're too fast, so you sorta have to pulse-width-modulate your speed in between. The up/down/left/right instructions are pretty self explanatory, but on top of the directions you really just have to point at the aircraft carrier deck. Just like a real plane. Except way easier. Disclaimer: I can land a real plane, but that aside I still don't think its that hard to land in top gun. Its just not clear on what you're supposed to be doing to succesfully land.

Comment: Re:That's why I bought (Score 1) 672

by Cowclops (#39124291) Attached to: Have Bad Cars Gone Extinct?
All US Golfs going back to MK5 were built in Wolfsburg, so if you get a new Golf TDI 100% of them are German built. My MK4 Golf was built in Brazil, and MK4/MK5 Jettas for the US were mostly built in Mexico. At any rate, if you're not sure where a VW is built, just look at the first letter in the VIN... W = Germany, 3 = Mexico.

Comment: Re:Eric Schmidt, master of non-answers (Score 1) 431

by Cowclops (#38678750) Attached to: Eric Schmidt Doesn't Think Android Is Fragmented
I just got a new galaxy nexus and posted about how great it was on facebook. My aunt, who currently has an iphone 3GS, commented asking if she should get one too. I said stick with the iphone. She's horrible with technology and, just like you said, the reasons I like the android phone would be the reasons she hated it.
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James Gosling Leaves Google 192

Posted by Soulskill
from the just-stopping-by dept.
scottbomb writes "Well, that didn't take long: 'After only a few months at Google, Java founder James Gosling has left the search engine giant to go to a small startup company specializing in ocean-based robotics.' In a brief blog post about his new company, Gosling says, 'They have a growing fleet of autonomous vehicles that roves the ocean collecting data from a variety of onboard sensors and uploading it to the cloud. The robots have a pile of satellite uplink/GSM/WiMax communication gear and redundant GPS units. They have a bunch of deployments. For example, one is a set of robots patrolling the ocean around the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico monitoring water chemistry. These craft harvest energy from the waves for propulsion and can stay at sea for a very long time. The longest that one craft has been out is 2.5(ish) years. They can cross oceans.... Slowly. They only move at 1-2 knots, which is a great speed for data collection.'"

Comment: Day Of The Tentacle (Score 4, Informative) 480

by Cowclops (#36357324) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Adventure Game To Start With?

Cartoony, Hilarious, and not impossibly difficult. And easy to acquire. A spectacular game all around and you can run it right in scummvm.

Really I recommend all of their games, but I'd suggest that as a best "first" game. Monkey Island 2 is my actual favorite scumm game, but its SUPER hard so not really a good "first" game.

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