Comment No help (Score 0) 162
Gamergate was degenerated from the beginning, there was no helping that one.
Comment Censored (Score 1) 369
"We're not going to censor your results, but we're censoring results"
Comment Re:Too late (Score 2) 391
Precisely. What would our founding fathers, specifically Alexander Hamilton, who wrote at length on this subject, have thought of our powerful central bank?
Ouch! I've been shot!
Comment Non-Issue (Score 1) 386
This is completely a non-issue, the majority of people are on the main builds and you can specify in your program what firmware and hardware it requires so that it doesn't show up for people that can't run it. I'm not too worried about developing for the 3 people running Bub's AOSP Magic "Original" v 0.3.3. Fragmentation is a boogie-man and nothing more.
Comment I hope not (Score 1) 195
I can think of worse things to happen to gaming, but not many. Until the Internet is as reliable and widespread as electricity there isn't much chance of this happening and working.
Comment Glorious Leader has truly given us a blessing (Score 5, Funny) 316
I'm surprised there isn't a press release telling us Kim Jong-Il programmed the majority of the OS himself in his spare time, it is the type of thing the Glorious Leader usually does.
Cold-War Era Naval Vessels Up For Grabs 165
mcleland lets us in on a Wall Street Journal story about two cold-war era, formerly top-secret vessels the US Navy is trying to give away. At issue are the Sea Shadow (the ancestor of all modern naval radar-evading technology) and the Hughes Mining Barge (a floating dry-dock and more-or-less base for the Sea Shadow). While the ships are being 'given away,' there are multiple regulations involved, making the gift a very costly one. "A Naval Museum is 'a bloodthirsty, paper-work ridden, permit-infested, money-sucking hole,' warns the Historic Naval Ships Association. Because the Navy won't pay for anything — not rust-scraping or curating — to keep museums afloat, survival depends on big crowds."
Comment Re:stupid question but..... (Score 1) 563
The industry doesn't like to change and switching a system that has worked for years is a big process. In a big organization the decision making process for a change of this scale can take years.
Also many places are so technically illiterate that something like this is akin to magic.
Comment Specifically... (Score 1) 232
We need more like the ones from this gal named Abby Normal.
Comment One size turnaround time doesn't fit all (Score 1) 418
It really depends on the system, the problem and the people involved. The system we run where I work has changes put into it in production daily with turnaround times anywhere from an hour to several weeks depending on the change. We have some customers where a fix can be worked on and implemented over the course of weeks due to testing and they have no problem with that and we have customers that expect things to be fixed later today.
The real question to ask yourself and your team is is it reasonable in your product or system to be able to turnaround something that fast?
