Comment Bitcoins... (Score 1) 295
Think of all the bitcoins that could have being generated... RIP
Comment Re:No magnetosphere, no mass (Score 4, Informative) 105
Titan disagrees with you.
Comment Looks like another XKCD that works (Score 5, Funny) 64
Comment First strike... you out (Score -1, Flamebait) 298
We are the slashdot trolls, my (just made, surprise butt fuck) friend.
And we keep on trollin' till the end.
We post goatse links.
Natalie portman and hot grits.
No time for lusers (Linux users),
because FreeGayOS (FreeBSD) rules!
Comment Re:I think musk lost his marbles (Score 1) 238
No, dragon is NOT yet human rated, Heck it just flew once,and that dragon didn't even had the equipment to berth with the station, lets alone give humans the life support.
Cheese is a lot easier to launch that a human, trust me.
Don't get me wrong, Musk is on the right track. His dragon sure will became soon man rated, he will eventually launch sats.
I just want to note that I think he is overly optimistic, taking all the time about how he will launch a falcon 9 every 3 months, about mars, re-usability, etc, and yet, until now he just can launch just one rocket per year,
On the other hand, he has plenty of enemies. I even witnessed one myself. Many peoples that work for pork that nasa provides are really upset by his work, and try to spread the FUD about how unsafe his rocket is and stuff like that.
So I guess here really plays it safe.
So go SpaceX, go and just suceed.
BTW, it looks like you (slashdot readers) were right when you laughed about Skylon
I actually registered here on slashdot to express my opinion about it.
Yet almost year passed since their 'precooler' test supposed to start, and its not done yet.
They indeed probably just blow dust into investor's eyes.
Comment I think musk lost his marbles (Score 1) 238
Did he launch them in falcon 9 last time?
I mean spaceX is awesome, but he really should have more realistic look on things.
Please first make a human rated space capsule, and actually start launching stuff from its long manifest,
then we will talk mars
Comment Meh (Score 0) 166
Its still doesn't explain why did the Itanic sunk.
Comment Re:MP3 Players... (Score 1) 179
I have Fuze+. Apart from the fact that it does play ogg, its crap overpriced player.
Not only it has over sensitive touchpad that reacts to every finger movement while you hold that damn thing,
but it also buggy (crashed many times),
Its interface also lags a lot.
It barely recognizes IDv3 tags (I had to convert all of my MP3 collection to use very specific version of them to make it see them).
It plays videos only is very specific format for which you have to download their crappy video converter.
Battery life is decent, but its much lower that 24 hour, they claim. It works for about 6 hours with screen turned off.
Comment Re:Slashdot won't report this (Score 1) 151
And that is exactly what the troll wants.
Just don't feed the trolls, and they will die in painful death.
(To be honest I am feeding him now as well, so I promise that is my first and last post on this topic)
Comment So why to we bitch about global warming? (Score 2) 347
Its good, as it turns to be? Or do we want an ice age?
Comment Cue, apple hate jokes in.... (Score 0) 149
BTW, I hate them too.
Submission + - User Backlash Causes Samsung to Consider Android 4 (theverge.com)
ghostoftiber writes: "The original SGH-T959 Galaxy S (AKA the T-Mobile Vibrant and others) was the redheaded step child of the Samsung device line. The device originally came with Eclair and was upgraded quietly to Frozen Yogurt not with an OTA update, but with Samsungs KIES software which required a download process and bricked more than a few phones. Users expected an OTA because patches had previously been delivered to the device Over The Air. Linux and Mac users were left out in the cold for the Froyo update. Finally Samsung announced over Christmas that the original Galaxy S was done, leaving it's faithful fans in a position of having another year on their contracts with no upgrade path. The reason? TouchWiz (Samsungs launcher) doesn't have enough memory to run in Ice Cream Sandwich. Users were predictably incensed, and it looks like Samsung changed their minds. There's always the Samsung Vibrant development forum if you need Ice Cream Sandwich running on your Vibrant right now."
Submission + - Prospects Darken for Solar Energy Companies
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Although global demand for solar power is still growing — about 8% more solar panels will be installed this year compared with 2010 — bankruptcies, plummeting stock prices and crushing debt loads are calling into question the viability of the solar energy industry that since the 1970s has been counted on to advance the world into a new energy age. Only a handful of manufacturers are now profitable in the face of too much capacity, which has contributed to a plunge in prices as government subsidies have been curbed. Prices for solar panels started 2011 near $1.60 per watt, but a buildup of inventory forced manufacturers into a fire sale toward the end of the second quarter that has pushed prices to near $1 per watt now. "The prices that we're seeing today are likely not covering manufacturing costs in many cases," says Ralph Romero, director in management consulting for Black & Veatch, which provides engineering and due diligence consulting services to solar manufacturers. With at least seven solar-panel manufacturers filing for bankruptcy or insolvency in the last several months and six of the 10 largest publicly traded companies making solar components reporting losses in the third quarter, public-market investors are punishing the solar sector, sending shares down nearly 57% this year and although winners are expected to emerge eventually, the question is how much more carnage there will be before that happens. "The fact of the matter is, nobody really knows which solar companies will be pushed out of business or be forced to merge," writes industry analyst Rodolfo Avalos. "Nobody also knows how long it will take for the solar industry to improve even when the forecasted solar global demand for the next 5-10 years is quite promising.""
Comment Re:Unity3D (Score 1) 237
So, even the name for that horrible Unity3D of Ubuntu, was stolen? Doh, and I used ubuntu for so long, and miss it so much.
Comment Re:Why only iDevices? (Score 4, Funny) 320
Haven't you figured it out?
Mentioning iAnything causes Nerd Rage.
Nerd Rage brings page views. Lots and lots of them.
Page views bring profit!
Who cares if the summaries are misleading or don't tell the whole story?
You mean iNerd, don't you?
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