frusengladje - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Book Price (Score 1) 542

by frusengladje on Tuesday October 20, 2009 @11:04PM (#29818705) Attached to: The Kindle Killer Arrives

Here's a comparison:

Cryptonomicon:

Kindle version: $6.39
Nook version: $11.99

Just a book I picked at random.

Comment Re:My H1-B was rejected. (Score 1) 757

by frusengladje on Sunday October 18, 2009 @08:43AM (#29783507) Attached to: The US's Reverse Brain Drain

Why would they fear you working in California?

Also, the company that won the contract your employer was bidding for will probably hire more workers, so it's not much of a difference in overall employment.

Comment Re:iPhone fine print (Score 1) 770

by frusengladje on Monday June 08, 2009 @04:57PM (#28256427) Attached to: Apple's WWDC Unveils iPhone 3.0, OpenCL, Laptop Updates, and More

I have an original iPhone, and went through their "check for eligibility" wizard, and it was $199/$299 for the 16/32GB models. Your "subsidized" 3g buyers still have the better part of 1-2 years on their contracts before they are eligible for a "discount". That's how the subsidized phones work on ALL carriers.

Comment Re:Already done (Score 3, Informative) 248

by frusengladje on Thursday December 25, 2008 @04:52PM (#26231475) Attached to: DHS To Grab Biometric Data From Green Card Holders

Yeah, when I got my my green card like 15 years ago, they required all 10 fingerprints, as well as a photo. And as someone has already mentioned, your picture and fingerprint are prominently displayed on it.

Comment Re:DRM (Score 2, Interesting) 543

by frusengladje on Tuesday April 22, 2008 @10:51PM (#23167178) Attached to: MSN Music DRM Servers Going Dark In September

A side question: can Microsoft really not afford to just keep these servers running? I guess they're having some problems with Vista being a flop and all, but how expensive can it be to maintain these servers? On the other hand, I don't particularly blame Microsoft for this situation. It's an inherent problem with DRM, and it was bound to happen to someone sooner or later.

Maybe it doesn't matter if they shut it down, because no one is using it?

Arthur C. Clarke Is Dead At 90 538

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 18, 2008 @06:27PM from the pod-bay-doors-are-open dept.

Many readers are sending in word that Arthur C. Clarke has died in Sri Lanka. He wrote over 100 books including 2001: A Space Odyssey and Rendezvous With Rama, and popularized the ideas of geosynchronous communications satellites and space elevators.

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