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Comment: Shooters "fled scene on small motorized vehicles" (Score 1) 148

by Dast (#39088485) Attached to: Commercial Drones Taking To the Skies

Regardless what you think about the group who were launching the drone, I think we can all agree that our first reaction to seeing the ugly thing would be to shoot first and ask questions later. Years of first person shooter games with enemies that fly around have permanently implanted the reaction into my brain.

And then the drone shooters "fled scene on small motorized vehicles". Weird, but awesome.

Comment: Re:Intel Softcores (Score 1) 151

by Dast (#38104770) Attached to: Intel's Plans For X86 Android, Smartphones, and Tablets

1) Lots of experience in chip design. I don't see why they can't create an ARM-Core competitor.

They already did. It was called XScale (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xscale). I believe it was eventually sold to Marvell. I still do work for clients that use them. Not exactly power houses, but they get the job done.

Comment: Re:why is a GUI thread talking about network manag (Score 1) 835

by Dast (#36991716) Attached to: Linus Torvalds Ditches GNOME 3 For Xfce

Having just tried Xubuntu 11.04 and regular Ubuntu 11.04, trying to decide which to give to one of my clueless relatives, I'd say the one thing that lacked in the XFCE setup was browsing smb network shares through the file browser. It was easy for said relative to pop in an Ubuntu 11.04 boot cd (unity and all), get into a live desktop, and find the network share for some network gadget he had. Sure Nautilus pulls in a ton of junk and ain't great on your outdated desktop, but it works. The default file browser in Xubuntu wasn't nearly as functional, for all of the speed up it might have given.

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