Comment In what universe.... (Score 1) 38
...has the "cloud era, of course, made computing vastly easier" ? Must have been in one of the 32 MCU movies that I missed.
Comment Re:holy sexist (Score 1) 692
As someone else commented. It sounds like she isn't comfortable being around the kinds of males who would gatecrash such an event. She may have no qualms being around the rest of us.
Comment The Tandy Model 100 (Score 1) 214
The Tandy Model 100 was one of the last laptops with a decent keyboard, unfortunately. Anything since varies between god-awful and revolting.
Comment Re: Nothing says... (Score 1) 273
Or if it does, then it needs to be towed outside the environment
Comment On the Commodore 64 (Score 1) 72
One more reason to carry your C64 around with you everywhere you go.
Flappy Bird on the C64
Comment Re: Immigration and Customs are dangerous (Score 1) 271
Naturalization == US citizen. The only difference is that they would have become US citizens by virtue of naturalization and not birth. If they are naturalized then they will already have sworn an oath.
I think you mean that your relatives are 'Permanent Residents', in other words they have green cards. Being a permanent resident is not the same as becoming naturalized.
"A citizen of the United States loses U.S. citizenship by becoming a citizen of a foreign country unless a special exception is made by the State Department. A person can also lose U.S. citizenship for serving in the armed forces of, or holding office in, a foreign government. U.S. citizenship can also be taken away from people who have been convicted of a major federal crime, such as treason. But people cannot lose their citizenship for something they were forced to do. A person who is forced to serve in a foreign army, for example, will not lose U.S. citizenship."
See http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/government/civics5.htm
Comment Re:His Master's Voice (Score 1) 1015
An advanced civilization must be militarily advanced. If only to not have their asses kicked by less ethically advanced civilizations.
Comment Re:Voltage and current (Score 1) 363
Also, it's a bit of a security risk for a device to be able to send executable code to the PC and actually have it get executed.
Ha. The joke is on you. You have obviously not yet watched "Space Buddies".
Do Nice Engineers Finish Last In Tough Times? 613
jammag writes "As the wave of pink slips is starting to resemble Robespierre and his guillotine, the maneuvering among tech professionals to hang on to their job is getting ugly. IT Management describes the inter-office competition between the manager of a server farm and the supervisor of networks and security. One was nice, giving his team members credit, taking responsibility when something went wrong. The other was a backstabber who spent plenty of time sucking up to the management. As the inevitable cuts came, who do you think hung on to their job?"
Cost-Conscious Companies Turn To Open Source 249
Martyr4BK writes "BusinessWeek has a slew of special reports today on open source software discussing the benefits for buyers who are cost conscious and open source being the silver lining for the economic slump. They even have a slideshow of 'OSS alternatives' like Linux, Apache, MySQL, Firefox, Xen, Pentaho, OpenOffice.org, Drupal, Alfresco, SugarCRM, and Asterisk. These are all good examples (we use a bunch of them already); what other open source software can I use to drop my company's IT costs, and maybe get a decent bonus for the year?"
Comment Re:Because perhaps 24fps is better for film (Score 2, Insightful) 338
Could be. Having never seen 60p on anything larger than a 47" set I can't say. But in the end, emotion counts for a heck of a lot.
What film is better: "Star Wars: Episode IV", or "Star Wars: Episode I". Technically, Episode I beats IV hands down. But what film would you rather own on DVD, I'm betting Episode IV, the first movie, because "Phantom Menace" just sucked. "A New Hope" has that emotional element. I suppose "Phantom Menace" has a large emotional element too - disappointment.
The objective test would be to watch "Phantom Menace" at both 24p and 60p on the big screen.
What film is better: "Star Wars: Episode IV", or "Star Wars: Episode I". Technically, Episode I beats IV hands down. But what film would you rather own on DVD, I'm betting Episode IV, the first movie, because "Phantom Menace" just sucked. "A New Hope" has that emotional element. I suppose "Phantom Menace" has a large emotional element too - disappointment.
The objective test would be to watch "Phantom Menace" at both 24p and 60p on the big screen.
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