EvilRemix - Slashdot User

Comment ... original works (Score 5, Insightful) 236

by EvilRemix on Monday February 17, 2014 @12:12PM (#46267341) Attached to: I'd prefer military fiction books that are ...

Especially those not influenced by the blatant marketing research being done by Dice using the most recent polls. Polls used to be a fun way to show your geek credibility, see how you fit or didnt fit with the slashdot crowd, find fun ways to make fun of CowboyNeal, or simply just fun. Now they are blatant marketing research on our "demographic" without any originality. I am counting the days until they start asking us about our political beliefs, religion, income or whatever else they are getting paid for. What happened to CowboyNeal?! AltSlashdot aka http://soylentnews.org/ is the new Slashdot not run by greedy overlords.

Comment Re:Those strings can't be right (Score 5, Insightful) 422

by EvilRemix on Thursday January 07, 2010 @12:07PM (#30683410) Attached to: Windows 7 Has Lots of "God Modes"

There is only one God mode and it is IDDQD.

Comment Windows Key - More useful than most think. (Score 5, Informative) 939

by EvilRemix on Friday October 02, 2009 @09:59AM (#29616213) Attached to: The Most Useless Key On My Keyboard Is...

It always amazes me how few people know that the Windows key has a lot more functionality than simply opening the Start menu. My favorite shortcut in Windows is Winkey+D to show the desktop. Second favorite is Winkey+R to bring up the run prompt. Winkey+E to open Windows explorer is also handy. Check out this site for some more useful shortcuts: http://www.seoconsultants.com/windows/key/ (Not affiliated in any way, just Googled it for those of you that want to learn more and are lazy.) I still think the context key is the largest waste of space on any keyboard.

Submission + - The Great Ethanol Scam?

Submitted by

theodp

on Monday May 25, 2009 @03:05PM

theodp writes: "Over at BusinessWeek, Ed Wallace is creating quite a stir, reporting that not only is ethanol proving to be a dud as a fuel substitute, but there is increasing evidence that it is destroying engines in large numbers. Before lobbyists convince the government to increase the allowable amount of ethanol in fuel to 15%, Wallace suggests it's also time to look at ethanol's effect on smog, fuel efficiency, global warming emissions, and food prices. Wallace concedes there will be some winners if the government moves the ethanol mandate to 15% — auto mechanics, for whom he says it will be the dawn of a new golden age."

Comment Why does the lack of an upgrade option matter? (Score 1) 545

by EvilRemix on Monday April 13, 2009 @04:47PM (#27562781) Attached to: 83% of Businesses Won't Bother With Windows 7

Honestly, anyone who has been using Windows XP for the past 3-5 years shouldnt even be thinking about trying to do an upgrade install to Windows 7 or Vista for that matter. The article points out that a major reason people wont switch is because they cant do an upgrade to the new OS and will have to install from scratch. This is a GOOD thing. Anyone who has had the pain of dealing with Windows upgrade installs knows that the longer the original install has been around the more chances you are going to screw something up by upgrading. I am curious to see how Windows 7 fares, but I wont be upgrading to it. Vista has atleast had most of its issues around stability addressed, and for the majority of businesses, it is something they already have licensing for and have probably just been downgrading to XP using the OEM downgrade rights. I think most will probably go to Vista instead of buy new licensing for Windows 7. I personally have been using Vista Business x64 for about a year now on my gaming PC and it is more rock solid than XPx64 was and has less driver issues. It still hates my Creative X-Fi but thats the only issue I have had. XPx32 works great for business however and is still my companies primary OS on a wide range of PCs. When push comes to shove, we will be upgrading to Vista Business since I have had a solid year to test it firsthand with all of our internal applications on my work laptop and home PC. The reason people wont move to Windows 7 is because its not mature enough, and is based on a platform that had lots of issues with its original architecture that had to be corrected later. Everyone SHOULD be skeptical of Windows 7 right now, and I hope that no one does go out and migrate to it right away. Businesses and home users alike should always opt for something more mature, because in the end, both of them want the least possible headaches.

In-Depth With the Windows 7 Public Beta 785

Posted by kdawson on Monday January 12, 2009 @09:06PM from the ctrl-alt-del-makes-him-blink dept.

Dozer writes "With the Windows 7 public beta out, Ars Technica has an in-depth look at the release. There's praise for Windows 7's UI changes and polish as well much-needed changes to UAC, but also a warning that those who have problems with Vista won't like Windows 7 much better. 'If you couldn't stand Vista's UI (whether it's because you didn't like Explorer, Aero, Control Panel, UAC, or anything else), Windows 7 is unlikely to do much to help, as it builds on the same UI. If Vista's hardware demands were too steep, Windows 7 will likely cause you the same grief, as its hardware demands match. And if Vista didn't work with a program or device you need to use, Windows 7 will offer no salvation, as its compatibility is virtually identical.'"

How Microsoft Beats GNU/Linux In Schools 476

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday January 12, 2009 @06:42PM from the doing-battle-like-an-insider dept.

twitter writes "Ever wonder why schools still use Windows? Boycott Novell has extracted the details from 2002 Microsoft email presented in the Comes vrs Microsoft case and other leaks. What emerges is Microsoft's desperate battle to 'never lose to Linux.' At stake for Microsoft is more than a billion dollars of annual revenue, vital user conditioning and governmental lock in that excludes competition, and software freedom for the rest of us. Education and Government Incentives [EDGI] and "Microsoft Unlimited Potential" are programs that allows vendors to sell Windows at zero cost. Microsoft's nightmare scenario has already been realized in Indiana and other places. Windows is not really competitive and schools that switch save tens of millions of dollars. Because software is about as expensive as the hardware in these deals, the world could save up to $500 million each year by dumping Microsoft. Now that the cat is out of the bag, it's hard to see what Microsoft can do other than what they did to Peter Quinn."

Comment Moderate User (Score 1) 656

by EvilRemix on Monday September 01, 2008 @05:08AM (#24828261) Attached to: Typical Home Bandwidth Usage?

I use a Smoothwall for my firewall, heres my average stats for last month: In - Hour: 45.9 MB; Day: 620.5 MB; Week: 16.9 GB; Month: 48.3 GB. Out Hour: 12.2 MB; Day: 162.2 MB; Week: 565.9 MB; Month: 5.6 GB I do a small bit of torrenting, tons of downloading of MS patches and other software updates for work, and I consistently game and use VOIP on a nightly basis.

Japan Imposes "Fine On Fat" 1271

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 24, 2008 @10:35AM from the fat-man-vs.-the-state dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A recently-introduced law in Japan requires all businesses to have mandatory obesity checks (video link) for all their employees and employees' family members over the age of 40, CNN reports. If the employee or family member is deemed obese, and does not lose the extra fat soon, their employer faces large fines. The legislated upper limit for the waistline is 33.5" for men, and 35.5" for women. Should America adopt universal health insurance, could we live to see the same kind of individual health regulations imposed on us by the government? By comparison, the average waistline in America in 2005 was 39 inches for men, 37 inches for women."

The Potential of Geothermal Power 397

Posted by Zonk on Sunday August 05, 2007 @05:34AM from the much-better-than-burning-goo dept.

EskimoJoe wrote with a link to an AP article about progress in the development of geothermal energy. A Swiss company is competing with another in Australia to be the first to commercially develop a geothermal power plant. The concept is simple to understand: earth's core heat transforms water into steam, which in turn causes a turbine to revolve. The potential, though, is enormous. "Scientists say this geothermal energy, clean, quiet and virtually inexhaustible, could fill the world's annual needs 250,000 times over with nearly zero impact on the climate or the environment. A study released this year by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said if 40 percent of the heat under the United States could be tapped, it would meet demand 56,000 times over. It said an investment of $800 million to $1 billion could produce more than 100 gigawatts of electricity by 2050, equaling the combined output of all 104 nuclear power plants in the U.S."

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