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Comment Re:ugly (Score 1) 244

by cerealito (#44763875) Attached to: Samsung Unveils Galaxy Gear Smartwatch

The main user case would be getting brief information of all sorts faster and with less effort.

Less effort than what? taking a phone in your hand and unlocking it by swiping the screen? And people wonder why there's an obesity epidemics...

Submission + - Morales plane 'rerouted over Snowden suspicions' (guardian.co.uk)

Submitted by niftydude
niftydude writes: In an extraordinary move, France and Portugal revoked flight clearances for the Bolivian President's plane on Tuesday after representations were reportedly made by the US State Department. Mr Morales was flying home from an energy conference in Moscow and his aircraft was hastily rerouted to Vienna, Austria.

Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca angrily denied that Mr Snowden was on the President's aircraft, a fact later confirmed by Austrian authorities, and said France and Portugal would have to explain why they abruptly cancelled authorisation for the flight.

AP reports that Venezuela's foreign minister Elias Jaua has condemned the decision by France and Portugal to block the plane from its airspace. He claimed that changing a flight's route without checking on how much fuel was left in the plane, put Morales' life at risk.

Comment We still use it a lot (Score 1) 445

by cerealito (#42202315) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Do You Still Need a Phone At Your Desk?
I don't know elsewhere, but here in France offices have phones ringing all the time.

We do have IM and voice conferencing via MS Office communicator or Webex but we mostly use those for calling our offshore teams or for conferencing with more than one person at the same time.

There's this culture that considers IMs as second priority. IMs are easily discarded, and people might claim that they didn't get them. If you want something to get done you have to make a call.

Comment This has been going on for a while (Score 1) 359

by cerealito (#38675248) Attached to: LG To Pay Licensing Fees To Microsoft For Using Android
It is not only LG but also HTC and Samsung. A few months ago I read in ars technica that Microsoft might be collecting royalties from around 50% of all android devices: http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/10/microsoft-collects-license-fees-on-50-of-android-devices-tells-google-to-wake-up.ars

Comment What a shame (Score 2) 835

by cerealito (#36983012) Attached to: Linus Torvalds Ditches GNOME 3 For Xfce
I had been using gnome since the 1.x days. By the time they hit 2.20 or something I was completely happy with it. Very simple and elegant but easily customizable in the things that actually matter. The default interface was so obvious thas even my parents could use it, yet powerful enough to be my main desktop at work.

I really really miss Gnome 2.32.

Then I tried the early betas of 3.0 on Arch linux. It sucked. I waited until the official release. I sucked even more. I still have version 3.0.2 installed and I give it a try from time to time, but I always end up using XFCE, which will stay my default desktop until I buy my first Mac.
The Military

US Army Unveils 'Revolutionary' $35,000 Rifle 782

Posted by Soulskill from the don't-even-have-this-in-video-games dept.
rbrander writes "Don't call it a 'rifle,' call it the 'XM25 Counter Defilade Target Engagement System' and get your $35,000 worth. Much more than a projector of high-speed lead, this device hurls small grenades that automatically detonate in mid-flight with 1-meter accuracy over nearly 800m. The vital field feature is the ability to explode 1m behind the wall you just lazed — the one with the enemy hiding behind it."
Space

Recently Discovered Habitable World May Not Exist 231

Posted by CmdrTaco from the that's-not-so-hot dept.
sciencehabit better let Greg Dean know that "Two weeks ago, U.S.-based astronomers announced the discovery of the first Goldilocks planet circling another star: just the right size and just the right temperature to harbor alien life. But yesterday at an exoplanet meeting in Turin, Italy, Switzerland-based astronomers announced that they could find no trace of the prized planet in their observations of the same planetary system."

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