sleigh - Slashdot User

Comment keep it all, give me better battery life (Score 1) 257

by sleigh on Saturday April 13, 2013 @05:10PM (#43442429) Attached to: What's Next For Smartphone Innovation

To hell with the humidity sniffers and the rest. I most want a phone with a battery good for at least three days at my current usage patterns, which right now give me like 1/2 a day. I hate having to tether my phone to a charger everywhere I go during the day.

I have an idea. Stop making the phone thinner so you can brag about it being the thinnest. How about make a version of the top phone that's actually thicker, and then brag about battery life? You know, how Motorola did with the Razr Max?

United States Begins Flying Stealth Bombers Over South Korea 567

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 28, 2013 @09:01PM from the nice-day-for-a-flight dept.

skade88 writes "The New York Times is reporting that the United States has started flying B-2 stealth bomber runs over South Korea as a show of force to North Korea. The bombers flew 6,500 miles to bomb a South Korean island with mock explosives. Earlier this month the U.S. Military ran mock B-52 bombing runs over the same South Korean island. The U.S. military says it shows that it can execute precision bombing runs at will with little notice needed. The U.S. also reaffirmed their commitment to protecting its allies in the region. The North Koreans have been making threats to turn South Korea into a sea of fire. North Korea has also made threats claiming they will nuke the United States' mainland."

Comment Show me the numbers (Score 1) 440

by sleigh on Wednesday March 17, 1999 @07:45PM (#1976741) Attached to: Mac OS X out and faster than Linux?

People, you have to remember also that for $499 you get a 5-server license for MacOS X Server. That means you can install the OS on five separate MACHINES with that one license. That works out to around $100 per machine, for one HELL of a system. I would say a $100 system compares favorably with LinuxPPC or any other free OS, especially to businesses. As far as performance goes, I wouldn't be surprised if we found out that MacOS X performs about the same as LinuxPPC on the same hardware, give or take a little. There may be some reasons I would want to run LinuxPPC on a machine, but there are a lot more reasons I would go with MacOS X at $100 per machine. And remember, there is _no_ user limit to how many users can be simultaneously connected to that machine for that $100 per machine license, unlike NT with its stupid 5 or 10 user limit or whatever it is for the $900 license for NT. Microsoft, look out!!

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