Comment Re:work is for work... (Score 2) 105
if I was paying my mechanic hourly to work on my cat for 5 hours @70$ an hour
I think you have bigger problems than paying an extra $35 if your mechanic is working on your cat.
Comment Re:Not for everyone, wonderful for some (Score 1) 497
Then... use a GPU? For anything "embarrassingly parallel," the GPU will win, every time.
Comment Re:Oh yes, software (Score 1) 630
My money is on writing software now that creates programs based on interpretive dance in front of a Kinect. Then I'll open up dance studios everywhere and be filthy rich..... I'l go down in history as the founder of the Dance-Based Economy!...... Muhahahahahah......
Damn it! That was my idea!
Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 186
Hey, if I'm going to use an awful search engine, I might as well use the awful search engine that doesn't think it knows what I'm searching for better than me.
The free Microsoft FunBucks don't hurt either...
Comment Re:Open Source vs a Corporate Monopoly (Score 1) 162
Everyone not doing this cares when they see what can be done on a rooted phone? I've never seen anyone do anything on a rooted phone that was interesting at all. I want my phone to make phone calls and handle other things a phone is supposed to do, I don't want to code in Pyluaby and SSH into remote terminals on my phone.
Comment Re:How much does MS pay you? (Score 2) 185
No, there is a separate, official Facebook app for Windows Phone. And, as far as I can tell, the integration in iOS and Android is not to the same level as Windows Phone does it. I, of course, could be entirely wrong about that. I haven't played with iOS or Android for a whole now.
Comment Re:How much does MS pay you? (Score 2) 185
I'd go more with "What do I need the official app for when anything I'd do on Facebook is built into the phone?"
Comment Re:exactly. (Score 1) 783
Let's see, Insightful, Troll, Flamebait, Insightful. I was going for Funny, personally.
Comment Re:exactly. (Score 0, Flamebait) 783
Capitalist, sociopath, same thing, really.
Comment Re:All walled gardens fail (Score 1) 848
Yeah, but Apple's walls are made out of a solid block of aluminum!
Comment Re:Angry Nerds (Score 5, Funny) 848
Angry Words from Angry Nerds.
Comment Re:Hmmm (Score 1) 466
Boo-fucking-hoo.
Comment Re:Not stupid (Score 1) 78
So I'm assuming Google has a plan and it's not completely half-baked.
Google's a company BUILT on half baked plans.
Comment Re:An effort to avoid tariffs in Brazil (Score 1) 148
Obnoxious music? I'm not seeing that as an advantage.
Comment Re:It's symbiotic (Score 5, Insightful) 182
but to simply have an independent entity that develops standards and pushes the envelope.
You mean Opera?
