andreev - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Intelligence (Score 0) 174

by andreev on Thursday February 11, 2016 @03:41PM (#51489261) Attached to: Why Winners Become Cheaters

That's what I thought too.

In any game that is not solely driven by luck, it is skill, knowledge and experience that make you a more likely winner. These traits are also what help you in figuring out how to cheat the game.

With so many hackers around here, I'm quite surprised to see mostly everybody else looking for a psychological explanation.

Comment Re:Easy Fix (Score 0) 83

by andreev on Thursday July 30, 2015 @03:50PM (#50217289) Attached to: On Linux, $550 Radeon R9 Fury Competes With $200~350 NVIDIA GPUs

It appears that I'd also need to rename my distro. The latest Catalyst driver significantly reduced performance even on switching between windows ... not even kidding.

Comment Re:How is this news? (Score 0) 78

by andreev on Thursday January 30, 2014 @03:25PM (#46112923) Attached to: Flying Snake Mysteries Revealed

Also, it was on National Georgraphic Wild during the weekend. A whole movie about it (which takes time to make), in Bulgarian (add time for translation), a replay.

Comment Re:Um ... (Score 1) 106

by andreev on Friday May 17, 2013 @11:35AM (#43753029) Attached to: Mozilla Delays Default Third-Party Cookie Blocking In Firefox

Why not?

'Cause I for one am not a she, it should've been 'they'.

Comment Um ... (Score 0) 106

by andreev on Friday May 17, 2013 @11:30AM (#43752925) Attached to: Mozilla Delays Default Third-Party Cookie Blocking In Firefox

Why is the user a she?

Comment Seriously? (Score 1) 325

by andreev on Monday July 18, 2011 @02:45AM (#36797474) Attached to: Company Claims Ownership of Digital Messaging

The whole damn internet is built on a one-to-one/two/many way messaging (since we're speaking abstract) protocol. I wonder if there's actually any new messaging protocol invented since 2005 that's worth mentioning.

Comment Re:I turn mine off (Score 1) 458

by andreev on Saturday April 30, 2011 @04:50PM (#35986660) Attached to: For Security, My Wi-Fi Access Point Relies On:

Sometimes I wish I could share not only a news article, but also a slashdot comment. This is one of those cases.

Comment Re:Why was TCL originally chosen for HTML? (Score 1) 124

by andreev on Wednesday April 13, 2011 @12:18PM (#35809160) Attached to: Tcl Announces NaTcl: Native Client Tcl

I'm actually surprised no one has mentioned PHP yet.

Comment Re:The entire list is a travesty. (Score 1) 465

by andreev on Thursday March 17, 2011 @03:27PM (#35520888) Attached to: Microsoft On List of Most Ethical Companies

I actually think the 'humor' tag fits it perfectly.

Nokia Has a Billion Reasons To Love WP7 318

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @09:15AM from the attempting-to-buy-mindshare dept.

theodp writes "A report from Bloomberg notes it ain't easy, or cheap, to outbid Google. Microsoft has reportedly agreed to pay Nokia more than $1 billion to 'promote and develop' Windows Phone devices under the agreement between the companies. Bloomberg says the agreement for the payment was 'part of a campaign by Microsoft to keep Nokia from choosing Google's Android operating system.'"

Comment Re:Even more reason.... (Score 1) 797

by andreev on Saturday March 05, 2011 @01:01PM (#35389488) Attached to: GNOME To Lose Minimize, Maximize Buttons

Indeed. When the news for Ubuntu dumping GNOME came out I was actually disappointed, but it's starting to make some sense now.

Intel CEO: Nokia Should Have Gone With Android 246

Posted by Soulskill on Friday February 18, 2011 @11:57AM from the completely-impartial-observations dept.

nk497 writes "Intel CEO Paul Otellini has said Nokia made a mistake choosing Windows Phone 7, and should have gone with Android — but admitted the money on offer may have been too much to ignore. 'I wouldn't have made the decision he made, I would probably have gone to Android if I were him,' he said. 'MeeGo would have been the best strategy but he concluded he couldn't afford it.' Otellini said some closed mobile platforms will 'certainly survive,' but said open systems will 'win' in the end." Reader c0lo notes a followup to yesterday's news that open source software was banned from Windows Marketplace. It seems even Microsoft's own MS-RL open source license runs afoul of the Application Provider Agreement (PDF). The article suggests that these rules should give Nokia pause about their new partnership.

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