Interesting how Musk is all worried about killer robots and killer AI used by the military, but can't wait to get killer robots out on our streets. What? Yeah, self driving cars are exactly that, killer robots. I work with real time software, flight software, and robots. There is no way these "autonomous" vehicles should be allowed on the streets. We keep people outside of the workspace of robots because they can crush your skull in an instant. Not malevolently like a T-800, because we write the software, but through software, electrical, or mechanical defects. What's the going metric for bugs per line of code nowadays, it used to be one bug per 5000 lines of code. Even if the software had to meet DO-178B standard I wouldn't want them on the road because these are consumer grade devices. Air traffic is much more tightly controlled and much sparser with the only equivalent to a pedestrian being birdstrike.

It's sad that it will take injuries and deaths for ignorant politicians and greedy tech "visionaries" to put the brakes on these public roadway death tests. It's not a smartphone for crying out loud, it is 2000lbs + of metal and plastic capable of causing lots of harm.

I can't believe I'm saying it but the 1st and 3rd prequel may have been better than this. This one was just so tedious. There was no story telling, no character development, no plot to speak of. My son said it was like a bad video game campaign. Go here, blow up this gun, escape from these guys, go there get this thing. No epic story. Oh Chewie flew the MF through some hard to navigate thing that caused the pursuing tie fighters to crash because they're not as maneuverable again. Also the first order is so evil that even the snow foxes know to run from them.

This program has been the reason Win 8 and 10 are tolerable. Underneath they're decent OSs but that Metro monstrosity and the horrible "modern UI" is just garbage. I install classic shell on every PC I touch since Win 8 came out and I'm up and running. It's been a godsend.

Thank you Ivo Beltchev for your work these many years.

I just went and donated. I wonder how many Slashdot users also use Classic Shell. Maybe we could change Ivo's mind.

How do we get the slashdot classic view again? First time viewing on a PC in a long time, I know it used to be available when you logged in.
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If course it's selfish, but selfish folks seldom see that they are being selfish - it's in their nature. Everyone else must bear the cost and spend the time to raise children so that they can care for your selfish old asses when you are in the nursing home and pay for the debt that you are incurring with your liberal tax and spend ideology today.

The big secret though is that we love our children and children are actually a blessing and a joy when raised properly (i.e. not by TV, not by the NEA, not by rap music, not by their peers, not by the government). So you are in fact actually missing out on something wonderful if you were able to do it right, but chances are you would do it wrong anyway so good on ya for being selfish. But don't deny that you're being selfish.

There is no comparison my friend. You need to read about the glorious peoples' revolution in china. You need to read about 30 million people dying to famine because of Mao. When people compare the USA with China or the Soviet Union, it just shows how ignorant they are of history.

That is because while other countries are interested in fostering excellence we are way more concerned with eliminating "inequality". Guess what, while we are all equal before the LAW, we are definitely not all equal. Not in talent, ability, drive, work ethic, you name it. We have a communist pothead as president. He's taking us where those of us who left communist dictatorships that are effectively 3rd and 2nd world countries have come from. It's so sad that people don't learn from the mistakes other countries have made in the past, those that have rushed into forced equality, the worker's revolution, communism. THAT is the spiral to the bottom, and it is very very hard to get out of that trap.

Nothing works with it. First step on all our boxes is to turn it off, it couldn't be more intrusive. If it were easier to use it would be more useful.

Why? Mavericks is almost out. Mac users upgrade their os since it is dirt cheap ($30 covers all your macs) and the lion & mountain lion versions were. Very worthwhile. This makes no sense as a project.

He is projecting his own incompetence and poor work ethic onto all senior developers.

Modded -1 as troll because Linux fanboys can't handle the truth.

Have you considered you might be wrong?

What insane number of functions in the home button? I find it much easier to use than my android phone. My kids including 2 yr old can use it. I don't miss the other 3 buttons at all. The software on the iPad is just so much more intuitive and just works. I havent learned a multitude of gestures as some other poster wrote and I have no problem working the device.

Background: Not an apple fanboi. Owned no apple products other than a $1500 used Mac Lisa that VPI forced the CS class to buy back in the day because they had a version of Uniplus Sys V for it...

I've owned C64, Amigas, now a bunch of PCs that have various versions of Windows and Linux starting with Windows 3.1 and Linux 1.0 (4 floppies for a distro, I miss that).

I went to the store to look at the Transformer and some other android tablets after checking out a friend's. All the Android tablets were so-so. I'd have to sideload Netflix on most of them. The displays were ok. They had an apple section so I said "what the heck, let me check out this iPad thing".

Looked at an iPad (3rd gen, retina display). Wow. It just worked so well, the display was unbelievable. Everything was super smooth. Reading docs on it was amazing. It made the Android tabs look terrible. There was just no comparison. I went back over to the Android tabs and gave them another shot. There was just no going back anymore.

I bought a 3rd gen iPad, came back for a 2nd for the kids the next day. I tried an iPad 2 for the kids, no good, 1024x768, could not use it after using the retina display (2048x1535), so exchanged that one for a 2nd new 3rd gen iPad. Definitely worth the extra $150.

I keep an eye on the Android tablets, They're starting to come out with 1920x1080 res devices now, still no comparison.

I borrowed a mac mini to try out Xcode (you have to develop iOS aps on a mac). I had tried the android SDK, not too impressed, and the nightmare of managing all the different platforms is no fun (I have to do that at work). I actually liked OS X. Nothing like the crappy OS 9 and prior. A BSD-based desktop OS - imagine that. A Linux-like desktop that is actually good.

I've been eyeing the Macbook Pro w/retina display... 2880x1800 in a 15" package. To run Windows and Linux because I have to.

If I could extricate myself from the Windows / Linux ecosystem that I write software for I would, but I can't, too many PCs, too many ties. I have to write windows and linux software. Windows 8 holds nothing for me, current distros of linux are going in the wrong direction with their insane UIs (activities? really?). But OS X is nice. Too bad the mac desktop/laptop hardware is so expensive and limited, and I can't use a phone w/out a slider keyboard.

But for the tablet experience, I wouldn't trade the retina display iPads for any android tablets. There's just no comparison.

From reading the article summary I thought that I could now only return something once every 90 days at Best Buy. Reading the actual article reveals that this is only true for habitual returners who meet whatever patterns are used by the software used by Best Buy and others now. Some unlucky few fall between the cracks, but for the majority of shoppers, this is a non-issue.

We should be able to mod submitters down as incompetent or deceptive.