Comment: Re:Duty of a CEO (Score 1) 119
I don't know squat about your "investments" but I bow to your 4 digit slashdot ID.
Comment: Re:Ethanol from corn is height of stupidity (Score 1) 419
I now have two years worth of data that showing a clear 10% drop in mileage for my Nissan Altima using E10. Its almost a break even to buy the more expensive ethanol free "high test" at my local BP station.
Comment: Re:prior art? (Score 1) 77
If there was valid prior art, do you not think RIM's lawyers would have looked for it and used it ?
These patent cases tend to be very technically complex and turn on very fine details of exact wording. Armchair lawyer's commenting in these threads should probably stick to their day jobs.
+ - raspberry pi - its hard to make an i/o expansion board a commercial success-> 1
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waterwingz writes "Today we learned about one of the first casualties of a group trying to make a business providing support hardware for the raspberry pi. The basic board has a lot of capability but it will take something like what this group was trying to do before it will compete with the arduino."
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+ - Why We're Pill-Addict Meat Apologists: An Interview with Author Martha Rosenberg->
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pigrabbitbear writes "“Can anyone remember life before ‘Ask Your Doctor’ ads?” This question opens Martha Rosenberg’s "Born with a Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks, and Hacks Pimp the Public Health" and hangs over the proceeding chapters. Even the most hardened cynic will be taken aback after reading Rosenberg’s powerful examination of Big Pharma and Big Food, their influence and reach severely miscalculated by an often passive public. It’s a text serves as an instrument of combat against the forces which damage our health while marketing us junk and drugs we don’t need."
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Comment: free download for Cory Doctorow's "Makers" (Score 5, Informative) 105
I've got mod points tonight but I'm going to post instead. Take a look at this link http://craphound.com/makers/ for an interesting scifi spin on what the OP is thinking about. Free download available - its a good read.
Comment: seems about right to me (Score 2, Interesting) 133
you sometimes get what you pay for.
Comment: Re:CmdrTaco drags big brass ones along the ground (Score 1) 750
The problem isn't just the iPad. It's the whole question of tablet computing. Touch works on phone because it frees up space. It means you can get a decent size screen because you're not sacrificing space for the UI. But it is a compromise (albeit an acceptable one).
Once you go beyond pocket size, you're into competing with laptops. I know people think they'll walk around like Picard, but walking and touching a screen doesn't work like that.
For me, even the "sitting in front of a PC using Slashdot" doesn't work. A laptop gives me a hinge and a keyboard. I neither have to hold it up, nor crick my neck.
Comment: Re:Marketing (Score 1) 332
And both the median and the mean are "averages".
It's common for people to think 'average' and 'mean' are synonyms, but they are not.
It's common for people to think 'average' and 'mean' are synonyms, but they are not.
Comment: Re:CmdrTaco drags big brass ones along the ground (Score 1) 750
Except that the iPhone was technically shit, apart from its nice interface. Technically I think the iPad looks like a nice device again simply for the interface. I couldn't really see myself using it because I'd be taking 10 times longer to post to slashdot in my evenings like I'm doing just now.. but for simple browsing, facebook use, media viewing and maybe some light gaming I can see the iPad being pretty popular. There are a lot of wealthy casual users out there. Not saying it will be a great success, but Apple are gaining a lot of momentum and halo effect business with the iPod and iPhone. I wouldn't bet against it anyway.
Despite knowing myself that I would never have a use for it, I still want one just because it's the sort of device I've always wanted to have since seeing datapads on TNG. A jailbroken iPad would be one fun geek toy.
Comment: it is now April 2nd @ 12:01 AM EDT (Score 2, Informative) 288
fun all done
Comment: nobody worries about Slackware like CentOS (Score 1) 211
Slackware has a huge installed base and is maintained by one man - the founder Patrick Volkerding. When his health failed several years ago, there was a lot of concern but things seem to have been pretty good since then.
Windows 7 Hard Drive and SSD Performance Analyzed 248
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from the but-compared-to-the-old-one dept.
from the but-compared-to-the-old-one dept.
bigwophh writes "Despite the fact that Windows 7 is based on many of the same core elements as Vista, Microsoft claims it is a different sort of animal and that it should be looked at in a fresh, new light, especially in terms of performance. With that in mind, this article looks at how various types of disks perform under Windows 7, both the traditional platter-based variety and newer solid state disks. Disk performance between Vista and Win7 is compared using a hard drive and an SSD. SSD performance with and without TRIM enabled is tested. Application performance is also tested on a variety of drives. Looking at the performance data, it seems MS has succeeded in improving Windows 7 disk performance, particularly with regard to solid state drives."
Burglar Nabbed By Backup Program
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from the stupid-is-as-stupid-does dept.
from the stupid-is-as-stupid-does dept.
Bruce Perens writes "A Berkeley, California, burglar engineered his own arrest, and that of his girlfriend, when he stole a laptop and used it as his personal computer. He didn't realize that the laptop had an automatic backup program, and that the photos he took were being copied to his victim's backup repository. Berkeley police recognized him, and his location, from the photos."
Comment: Re:And More Laws will destroy it (Score 1) 239
How does their slashdot number figure into it ? Some of us with slightly lower numbers are goofs too.