ArAgost - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Wow. That's good. isnt it ? (Score 2) 410

by ArAgost on Thursday July 14, 2011 @06:41PM (#36769488) Attached to: After a Decade, Mac Sales Again Top 10%

[...] japan is 100 million (and you HAVE to have advanced gadgetry there - cellular phones that cannot display tv broadcasts dont sell - that includes apple's iphones http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/02/why-the-iphone/ )

You might want to check your sources: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/02/28/japanese_hate_for_iphone_all_a_big_mistake.html http://mashable.com/2009/07/04/iphone-japan/

or is it some marketing hype in order to make the stocks in nasdaq move ?

I don't think AAPL really needs this kind of help. Selling a crapload of high-profit stuff seems to work well enough for them.

Comment Re:Love? (Score 1) 137

by ArAgost on Friday July 01, 2011 @05:19AM (#36631566) Attached to: The Science of Human-Robot Love

...fourth stage: profit!

Comment Re:banning IS stoopid - wanna know why?? (Score 3, Informative) 228

by ArAgost on Thursday June 09, 2011 @06:40PM (#36394626) Attached to: Why Apple's DUI Checkpoint App Ban Is Stupid

you know you don't need an app to drive safe, right?

Comment Re:Penis Spaceship ? (Score 2) 279

by ArAgost on Wednesday June 08, 2011 @10:53AM (#36375048) Attached to: Apple Plans New Spaceship-like Campus

Please articulate how a torus-shaped building reminds you of a penis in any state of turgidness.

Comment Cyber intrusions (Score 4, Insightful) 219

by ArAgost on Tuesday June 07, 2011 @08:52AM (#36361248) Attached to: RSA Admits SecurID Tokens Have Been Compromised

1992 called, they wanted the adjective “cyber” back.

Comment Re:So cheap (Score 2) 609

by ArAgost on Sunday May 29, 2011 @12:26PM (#36279840) Attached to: RMS Cancels Lectures In Israel

Why should he? It's not like he's going there on vacation.

Comment Re:Miss Universe? (Score 1) 210

by ArAgost on Friday May 27, 2011 @02:16PM (#36265550) Attached to: Student Finds Universe's Missing Mass

a scale[*] could work, if you're ok with ignoring Archimede's principle and relativistic effects.

[*] knowledge of local value of g may give more accurate results.

Comment Re:The future (Score 1) 605

by ArAgost on Tuesday May 10, 2011 @09:28AM (#36081938) Attached to: Microsoft Buying Skype for $8.5B

Well, Office for Mac is there and it's actually pretty good. But that's about it, you're right.

Comment Re:Too late (Score 1) 68

by ArAgost on Thursday May 05, 2011 @08:41AM (#36033948) Attached to: Oracle Plans To Hand Hudson To Eclipse

“we”?

Comment Re:Only two uses for that data (Score 1) 556

by ArAgost on Sunday April 24, 2011 @12:34PM (#35921746) Attached to: Apple: "We must Have Comprehensive Location Data"

3. Thieves can use it, to know when your house is empty.

I'm quite sure that thieves don't rely on stealing your phone and do forensic analysis on it to determine you're not home.

Comment Re:Tsunami: 22,000 dead - nuclear, how many exactl (Score 1) 673

by ArAgost on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @09:10AM (#35792164) Attached to: Japan Raises Nuclear Plant Crisis Severity To 7

Because the tsunami happened and then was over with. The reactor situation is ongoing, and isn't getting better very quickly. There's little point on dwelling on the past, there's nothing anyone can do about the tsunami now, the damage is completely done and over with. There are no new developments. Obviously this translates to "no news".

Yeah I'm glad everything's fine with the tsunami and everybody else returned to their homes.

Comment Re:Oblig (Score 1) 91

by ArAgost on Wednesday March 30, 2011 @03:11PM (#35669902) Attached to: Mars Rover Down? Spirit Stays Silent

you... laughed at that? you insensitive clod!

Comment Re:Oblig (Score 2) 91

by ArAgost on Wednesday March 30, 2011 @10:27AM (#35666460) Attached to: Mars Rover Down? Spirit Stays Silent

Obligatory xkcd reference: http://xkcd.com/695/

Obligatory Ikea response: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNlJIKzlCnU

Obligatory VGCats parody of obligatory Ikea response: http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=53

Comment Oblig (Score 4, Funny) 91

by ArAgost on Wednesday March 30, 2011 @08:55AM (#35665464) Attached to: Mars Rover Down? Spirit Stays Silent

Obligatory xkcd reference: http://xkcd.com/695/

Comment Timeo danaos... (Score 1) 140

by ArAgost on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @07:18PM (#35580632) Attached to: From Redmond With Love

Meanwhile, on Twitter, they bought ad space to promote IE9 over the release of FF4. Stay classy, Microsoft! http://twitpic.com/4c6nth

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