Comment: Re:It's like this. (Score 1) 878
We aren't missing the point. We got the point, almost chuckled at the silly joke, and moved on to a topic with real meat to discuss. Quit trying to be clever.
Comment: Re:"provide a cheap place where..." (Score 0) 71
Your use of the word douche would not be considered incorrect. To be more specific 'douches' are people who have a sense of un-based superiority. Your definition fits under that umbrella. You may also come across 'douchebag' which is the full term. It references a feminine hygiene product that is anything but hygienic.
Comment: Re:"Microsoft's Downfall" (Score 1) 407
The failed to predict the mobile phone camera. They focused on the lower end of the market, and smart phones with their 5-15megapixel cameras blew them out the market.
+ - Researchers have shown off a means to spray-paint batteries onto any surface.->
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Warmlight writes "'Their batteries, outlined in Scientific Reports, are made up of five separate layers, each with its own recipe — together measuring just 0.5mm thick.
To demonstrate the technique, the team painted batteries onto steel, glass, ceramic tile and even a beer stein.' What so you think this will do for future form-factors? Maybe a form fitting PipBoy style device, that doesn't weigh 30lbs?"
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To demonstrate the technique, the team painted batteries onto steel, glass, ceramic tile and even a beer stein.' What so you think this will do for future form-factors? Maybe a form fitting PipBoy style device, that doesn't weigh 30lbs?"
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+ - Scientists Reveal New Malware Detection Method->
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An anonymous reader writes "Scientists from NQ Mobile's Mobile Security Research Center, in collaboration with North Carolina State University disclosed a new way to detect mobile threats without relying on known malware samples and their signatures. Today, malicious software often sits in app marketplaces for days, weeks and even months being downloaded, before finally being discovered. RiskRanker is a unique analysis system that can automatically detect whether a particular app exhibits dangerous behavior. It differs from other malware tools by identifying apps with risky behavior while they are in the app market and before they make their way to a user's phone."
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+ - All About Cloud Storage->
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kristinalacida writes "In a traditional setup, an onboard unit is used to facilitate storage needs. In a laptop this might be a built-in hard drive or flash memory, on a mobile phone it can be a memory card. The problem with these storage formats is that you need to have them with you in order to have access to your content. Whether that means bringing a computer on a trip or carrying a USB drive around, you must have the medium in your presence if you want to access your files."
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+ - Ask Slashdot: What Defines Good Developer Culture?
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An anonymous reader writes "We are a team of 6 people developing applications for mobile devices (Android & iOS). In our company, which consists of many teams responsible for "classic" software development, business intelligence, virtualization, hardware, etc., we are kind of a small startup because we were the first to use agile methods like Scrum and we are open to new technologies and methods. Also our team is pretty young with me being the oldest with 30 years.
We would like to further raise productivity and motivation and thus are currently collecting points which make up a good developer/hacker culture and which may be improved in our team/company. This can be points that we can either improve ourselves or have to pass on to management.
I would like to know what in your opinion defines good, modern developer culture? What does developer culture consists of?
For example is it
- clearly defined career opportunities
- geeky office
- benefits like trips to extraordinary conferences like WWDC or Google I/O
- ...
Please let me know."
We would like to further raise productivity and motivation and thus are currently collecting points which make up a good developer/hacker culture and which may be improved in our team/company. This can be points that we can either improve ourselves or have to pass on to management.
I would like to know what in your opinion defines good, modern developer culture? What does developer culture consists of?
For example is it
- clearly defined career opportunities
- geeky office
- benefits like trips to extraordinary conferences like WWDC or Google I/O
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Please let me know."
Comment: Re:why in the hell (Score 1) 194
As someone currently learning traditional Chinese and finding it personally easier, I agree that overall the roman alphabet is superior. The roman alphabet is tied to sound only, and therefore can be used with any spoken language. Minor discrepancies in pronunciation aside, once you know the sounds you can sound out a word you don't know. You can't do that in Chinese. That feature of the alphabet makes it infinitely more adaptable than the character system, where your main choices are memorization and more memorization. It literally is the difference in learning 30-odd characters and 1200. (the 30-odd number is leeway to reintroduce some characters that American English doesn't have at this time, such as one for the 'ch' and the 'sh' sounds.)
And just so you know I personally like the character system better, and I think it is due to my rather severe dyslexia. These roman letters are used over and over again and it can be hard to tell what it is supposed to be. Easiest example to give is 'p', 'b', 'd', and 'q'. Maybe you haven't noticed, but I sure have. They are all the same fucking letter.
Comment: Re:why in the hell (Score 1) 194
Why do you think we should get rid of other languages, specifically? Is it only the inconvenience of translation? And why do you chose English to be the 'standard'?
Comment: Re:I'd like a pony while we're at it. (Score 1) 269
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Attached to: Hollywood Agent Ari Emanuel Wants a Magic 'Stop Piracy' Button
Here's the pony: http://youtu.be/qAxeOBomNME
The guy who did it has done many of them.
+ - Keystone XL: TransCanada submits new route for review->
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Warmlight writes ""The Canadian firm trying to build an oil pipeline from Alberta to the US Gulf Coast has formally proposed a new route, the US state department says.
The route from the US-Canada border to Steele City, Nebraska is expected to avoid environmentally sensitive land." 6,000 jobs you say? What an amazing opportunity for the economy."
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The route from the US-Canada border to Steele City, Nebraska is expected to avoid environmentally sensitive land." 6,000 jobs you say? What an amazing opportunity for the economy."
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+ - Wind Power Without the Blades-> 1
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Warmlight writes "Noise from wind turbine blades, inadvertent bat and bird kills and even the way wind turbines look have made installing them anything but a breeze. New York design firm Atelier DNA has an alternative concept that ditches blades in favor of stalks. Resembling thin cattails, the Windstalks generate electricity when the wind sets them waving. The designers came up with the idea for the planned city Masdar, a 2.3-square-mile, automobile-free area being built outside of Abu Dhabi. Atelier DNA’s "Windstalk"project came in second in the Land Art Generator competition a contest sponsored by Madsar to identify the best work of art that generates renewable energy from a pool of international submissions."
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+ - Microsoft: Macs 'Not Safe From Malware, Attacks Will Increase' 1
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An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft researchers have analyzed a new piece of Mac malware that uses a multi-stage attack similar to typical Windows malware infection routines. In a post titled 'An interesting case of Mac OSX malware' the Microsoft Malware Protection Center closed with this statement: 'In conclusion, we can see that Mac OSX is not safe from malware. Statistically speaking, as this operating system gains in consumer usage, attacks on the platform will increase. Exploiting Mac OSX is not much different from other operating systems. Even though Mac OSX has introduced many mitigation technologies to reduce risk, your protection against security vulnerabilities has a direct correllation with updating installed applications.'"
+ - 20 April 2012 Last updated at 11:48 Share this page Email Print Mozill->
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Warmlight writes "Mobile phones running an operating system developed by makers of the Firefox web browser will go on sale in late 2012.
The first handsets running Mozilla's "Boot to Gecko" (B2G) software will be available in Brazil on Telefonica Vivo's mobile network.
Brazilian tech blog Ztop broke the news but had no details about which firm will make the handsets.
Announced in July 2011, B2G aims to be an open rival to Google's Android."
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The first handsets running Mozilla's "Boot to Gecko" (B2G) software will be available in Brazil on Telefonica Vivo's mobile network.
Brazilian tech blog Ztop broke the news but had no details about which firm will make the handsets.
Announced in July 2011, B2G aims to be an open rival to Google's Android."
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+ - YouTube loses court battle over music clips->
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Warmlight writes "YouTube could face a huge bill for royalties after it lost a court battle in Germany over music videos.
A court in Hamburg ruled that YouTube is responsible for the content that users post to the video sharing site.
It wants the video site to install filters that spot when users try to post music clips whose rights are held by royalty collection group, Gema.
The German industry group said in court that YouTube had not done enough to stop copyrighted clips being posted"
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A court in Hamburg ruled that YouTube is responsible for the content that users post to the video sharing site.
It wants the video site to install filters that spot when users try to post music clips whose rights are held by royalty collection group, Gema.
The German industry group said in court that YouTube had not done enough to stop copyrighted clips being posted"
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