Comment Battery replacement (Score 1) 55
But how easy is it to replace the rechargeable lithium ion batteries in these tablets? Most laptops from the Windows 9x era have removable batteries.
Comment Mom's basement (Score 1) 736
You could not live alone. Live with family.
I thought there was a "mom's basement" stereotype against adults who live with family other than spouse and children. In addition, some careers tend to be concentrated in cities where one might not happen to have family. For example, good luck working for a U.S. video game developer and living with family if you happen not to have family who live in Austin, Boston, or Seattle.
Comment When the mean and median are close (Score 1) 736
If the distribution isn't skewed enough to push the mean a measurable distance away from the median, then yes, that is how averages work. Show me that the mean and median of a large human population's intelligence differ to a noticeable extent, and I'll agree with you.
Comment Staying in shape without a gym membership (Score 1) 736
Welfare - where no one is hungry, but the poor are over-weight because they cannot afford health club memberships
It doesn't take a health club membership to do sets of push-ups and body weight squats in front of your TV. Even chin-ups are without charge at a nearby city park.
Comment Re:MSVC vs. MinGW (Score 1) 242
if ms' s compiler is freely available
When Mozilla Application Suite (now SeaMonkey) and Phoenix (now Mozilla Firefox) were first being developed, there was no such thing as Visual C++ Express.
then there's no obligation
There's no legal obligation. But requiring a paid compiler, as Mozilla did before Microsoft introduced Visual C++ Express, does shut out much of the public from participating.
plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation
I'm not so sure of the extent to which Microsoft allows Mozilla to distribute "the scripts used to control compilation and installation" of a Windows 8 style (formerly Metro) application such as Metro Firefox, especially when such "scripts" may include private code signing keys.
Comment The HeLa monster (Score 1) 170
Those were living people.
Living people in the sense that the HeLa monster is Henrietta Lacks?
Comment Stopping the alleged Microsoft hate (Score 1) 413
Now most of Slashdot comments consist of lame karmawhores like tuppe666, tepples, MightyMartian and bmo competing with each other to post the most puerile anti-MS drivel and modding each other up in the echochamber and shouting down anyone who points out their over the top hate and idiocy.
I want to make my comments less hateful toward Microsoft or anyone else for that matter. Please clarify what I should change in a comment to this journal.
Journal Journal: Am I a Windows 8 Hater? 3
Mystikkman claims that I've been posting messages perceived as unjustly hateful toward Microsoft. I would prefer to express my feelings without hate, but sometimes I have the wrong idea of what is hate and what isn't. Please point out which of my comments are hateful and why so that I can understand how not to post next time.
Comment Nigra cells (Score 1) 170
Comment MSVC vs. MinGW (Score 1) 242
That's not an instance of the scenario I mention, why do you bring it up?
As a way of beginning discussion about the difference between the scenario you mention and the scenario I mention. Mozilla and PSF ship open source code alongside binaries that cannot be produced with only free tools, as opposed to binaries produced with the MinGW version of GCC.
Comment At which brick-and-mortar store? (Score 1) 357
I imagine that a lot of people are going to want to inspect a device before they buy it, especially if the device takes user input. It's the same reason that the major console makers have their consoles on display in brick-and-mortar stores such as GameStop and the video game departments of Walmart and Best Buy: it makes the potential customers aware of the product and its capabilities and ergonomics. Sure, online-only sales are possible, but I don't see how an online-only strategy could attract a critical mass of customers to make the platform attractive to developers.
So today I went to Walmart.com and BestBuy.com and put each of these products into its search box. GameStick, Mad Catz Mojo, Nvidia Shield, GamePop, and JXD came up with nothing relevant. Archos GamePad showed up on both Walmart and Best Buy, but only as "ship to store: 5 to 7 business days". Then I tried GameStop.com. It drew a blank on Mad Catz Mojo, GamePop, Archos GamePad, and JXD. GameStick had "Release Date 9/30/2013". Nvidia Shield showed up out of stock online and 100 miles away in PickUp@Store.
Comment A brazillion people (Score 1) 68
Google tells me a brazillion is currently about 196.7 million.
Comment Leeloo Dallas Multipass (Score 3, Funny) 172
Jokes about pentium are boron.
Is Milla Jovovich still boron to look at?
Comment Ununpentium in Black Ops (Score 1) 172
The Xbox 360 generation might be more familiar with "Element 115" from Call of Duty: Black Ops .
Comment NASA has a website (Score 1) 242
and NASA is apparently an app, not an aerospace agency
NASA is an aerospace agency, but it's also the website of the aerospace agency. That and the Toki Pona word for crazy or foolish.
