Comment Re:remove physical charger? (Score 1) 223
Most don't use headphones at all with their cellphones.
Comment People often buy apps? (Score 1) 28
Doesn't everyone just have a collection of apps you need and stick to those? I can't even remember when I bought an App. Even free apps only get downloaded when absolutely needed.
Comment Re: What the.. my 1996 Whirlpool has that.. (Score 1) 146
Indeed, that is why anyone with a clue wouldn't make important (hell, any... ) devices on a Cloud Service. I, and I hope nobody with a clue, wouldn't accept a firewall that is cloud dependent.
Comment Re:What the.. my 1996 Whirlpool has that.. (Score 2) 146
Mine beeps but also gives me an estimate for the time needed. That is useful. I just set an alert on my phone based on that time. Not hard.
Comment Re:Is this not extremely obvious? (Score 1) 53
Amazon Prime also allows you to download the content. (At least on a phone/tablet you can, I don't know for computers. Probably not.)
Comment Re:You can't use the remixes and flavors (Score 1) 74
I don't expect support from any vendor on any platform. It's that simple.
Comment Re:You can't use the remixes and flavors (Score 1) 74
Support? I use Debian. I do my own support and use "the Internet" for that.
My SteamBox is literally Debian 11, booting into a very lightweight DE, autostarting the Steam client in Big Picture mode... all of the info to do that, is available online.
Comment Re:Linux (Score 1) 164
Try VueScan. (Satisfied customer here)
Comment Sooooo.... (Score 1) 83
It's "PC Master race" after all, eh?
Comment Re:Vertical space (Score 1) 53
Many budget laptops still come with 1366x768. Many good second hand business machines do too.
Comment Re:What is left, then? (Score 1) 137
But we all know how true that is, given they claimed the same about Internet Explorer and Internet Explorer is ... gone. Proving their lies.
Comment I would formulate this differently (Score 1) 56
I would formulate this differently: "Microsoft is very determined to sell Minecraft Education licenses to schools all over the world."
Comment Re:P.S.: (Rest of the argument) (Score 5, Insightful) 161
So, in other words: Stallman was right.... again.
Submission + - Slashdot Alum Samzenpus's Fractured Veil Hits Kickstarter
CmdrTaco writes: Long time Slashdot readers remember Samzenpus,who posted over 17,000 stories here, sadly crushing my record in the process! What you might NOT know is that he was frequently the Dungeon Master for D&D campaigns played by the original Slashdot crew, and for the last few years he has been applying these skills with fellow Slashdot editorial alum Chris DiBona to a Survival game called Fractured Veil. It's set in a post apocalyptic Hawaii with a huge world based on real map data to explore, as well as careful balance between PVP & PVE. I figured a lot of our old friends would love to help them meet their kickstarter goal and then help us build bases and murder monsters! The game is turning into something pretty great and I'm excited to see it in the wild!
Comment Re: The world evolves and innovates (Score 1) 323
Averages are a bad way to look at age of car parks. A lot of people crash their cars in the first few years of ownership. Reasons are multiple, included but not limited to not knowing their car well, "trying out what it can do", first time young and inexperienced buyes, etc... For each 1 year old car that gets crashed (and thus scrapped), you will need a 25 year old car that gets scrapped. Or more realistically six 15 year old cars.... In this case the median age of a scrapped car would be much more interesting.
Also, "scrapped" is a bit of a misnomer. You read part about the cars I told you went to Africa? Those are scrapped cars. In the eyes of the Western World, they enter the stats as scrapped. Of course, in reality, that's not what happens to them in Africa.
