Comment More ways to not find what you need. (Score 1) 46
Because the best way to fix an OS where settings are spread all around, in wildly different places and with vastly incongruent GUIs, is to add yet another way not to find what you need.
Comment Pardon me for breathing... (Score 2) 36
"Pardon me for breathing, which I never do anyway so I don't know why I bother to say it, Oh God, I'm so depressed.â
â" The New Alexa
Comment As usual, no Oculus Rift (Score 1) 55
Once again, those of us with PCs are treated as second class citizens as a thank you for our early support.
Comment Doesnâ(TM)t sound sustainable... (Score 1) 174
If you maintained such a caloric deficit indefinitely, wouldnâ(TM)t you eventually become underweight? At some point the health benefits would be outweighed by starvation, I imagine.
Comment Why was my plug-in rejected? (Score 1) 148
Itâ(TM)s not obfuscated, thatâ(TM)s just the way I write code!
Comment So itâ(TM)s basically bubble wrap? (Score 1) 208
So weâ(TM)re basically little air bags all surrounded by bubble wrap. Once we become a space faring civilizations, aliens will find us, cut us open, and wonder why someone shipped empty parcels all over the universe.
Comment Re: The water goat strikes again! (Score 1) 72
iPhone. Curly quotes. Sigh.
Comment The water goat strikes again! (Score 3, Funny) 72
I heard a story about an engineering company who used automatic translation to send documents back and forth with their international collaborators. At one point, their engineers were perplexed by the frequent mention of an âoewater goatâ in their correspondence.
After digging through their source documents, they learned that the water goats were in fact hydraulic rams.
Comment And whose fault is this? (Score 4, Funny) 148
It's fairly obvious that el niño has been deported to Mexico due to the takedown of the DACA.
Comment Re:The hotel chain I worked for... (Score 1) 127
The best/fastest way to get rid of bedbugs is with heat. Get the heat up to 140F (60C) for eight hours.
Good lord, don't give them any ideas. It seems like work conditions there are bad enough without you having them make it into a *literal* sweatshop for an entire workday.
Comment Solution to lost phones (Score 1) 133
I have an invention that can solve that problem. It's a smartphone case with a cord that attaches to the wall, so you'll never loose your phone again. Patent pending.
Comment Beware of Walled Gardens (Score 1) 141
I bought a Rift and although it is a great VR headset, my biggest disappointment is that for the money I paid, I expected to be able to see all the newest VR content out there. This cannot be any further from the truth. I can't even experience Google Earth (without hacking) on the Rift and there are countless Gear VR experiences I would love to try, but I cannot do so. So PC headsets are a good buy if you are a gamer with specific games in mind, but for experiencing general and free VR content, the Gear VR seems to be where it is at right now.
I hope open standards like WebVR improve the situation, but for now the fragment nature of the VR landscape is a major let down.
-- Marcio
Comment Finally we will know... (Score 1, Interesting) 116
..the answer to the most important question in quantum uncertainty: "if a tree falls in the woods and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"
Comment Obligatory xkcd (Score 2) 248
No, really. This applies to movies too. Why spend more to see it now when you can find it in the Walmart bargain bin a year later?