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Comment agree on the Moto G from what I've heard (Score 1) 4

by chakmol on Thursday October 07, 2021 @10:55AM (#61869199) Attached to: Should I Ditch Samsung Phones?

My work phones are always Samsung, and they fatigue me with all the "predictive" bloat that actually slows me down. Good as they are, they are irritating.

I've had some OnePlus models that were real good, but they are getting quite expensive.

Now I have an unlocked TCL 10Pro. Underwhelming on performance, yet adequate, and the interface is clean. Battery saver is too aggressive and makes notifications late, but it sure was cheap. TCL has a newer 5G (20Pro?) model out now that I'm curious about.

Comment I'll be looking (Score 1) 1

by chakmol on Saturday February 27, 2021 @02:50PM (#61106156) Attached to: Are COVID Vaccine Websites Using Ad Trackers?

Excellent point. I'll be on the lookout for this.

Comment Re:75% of my orders there were defective (Score 1) 187

by chakmol on Saturday August 03, 2013 @09:20PM (#44467931) Attached to: Geeks.com Online Shop Has Closed

including the last one which is on its second return waiting for a refund

good riddance to the garbage peddlers

Agree entirely. I gave up in 2001 after receiving one after the other of non-working Thinkpads. All garbage. I took a beating on the time and shipping. I should have just started out by buying a new one made out of gold.

NAMCO Takes Down Student Pac-man Project 218

Posted by Soulskill on Monday August 02, 2010 @06:30PM from the chasing-ghosts dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The core of how people first learn to do stuff — programming, music, writing, etc. — is to imitate others. It's one of the best ways to learn. Apparently a bunch of students using MIT's educational Scratch programming language understand this. But not everyone else does. NAMCO Bandai sent a takedown notice to MIT because some kids had recreated Pac-man with Scratch. The NAMCO letter is pretty condescending as well, noting that it understands the educational purpose of Scratch, but 'part of their education should include concern for the intellectual property of others.'"

Anti-Speed Camera Activist Buys Police Department's Web Domain 680

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday June 08, 2010 @11:54AM from the I-bought-the-law dept.

Brian McCrary just bought a website to complain about a $90 speeding ticket he received from the Bluff City PD — the Bluff City Police Department site. The department let its domain expire and McCrary was quick to pick it up. From the article: "Brian McCrary found the perfect venue to gripe about a $90 speeding ticket when he went to the Bluff City Police Department's website, saw that its domain name was about to expire, and bought it right out from under the city's nose. Now that McCrary is the proud owner of the site, bluffcitypd.com, the Gray, Tenn., computer network designer has been using it to post links about speed cameras — like the one on US Highway 11E that caught him — and how people don't like them."

NASA's Space Balloon Smashes Car In Australia 174

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday April 29, 2010 @10:19AM from the wrong-turn dept.

Humunculus writes "Of more worldly issues, NASA's latest multimillion-dollar stratosphere-bound balloon launch has gone horribly wrong and crashed into a car, turning it over and narrowly missing two elderly people who were observing the launch. The payload fared worse, reportedly being smashed into a 'thousand pieces.'"

JPL Background Check Case Reaches Supreme Court 112

Posted by timothy on Saturday March 13, 2010 @12:43AM from the faster-boys-if-you-want-your-pay dept.

Dthief writes "A long-running legal battle between the United States government and a group of 29 scientists and engineers of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, has now reached the US Supreme Court." At issue: mandatory background checks for scientists and engineers working at JPL, which they allege includes snooping into their sexual orientation, as well as their mental and physical health.

Failed Games That Damaged Or Killed Their Companies 397

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday January 20, 2010 @02:22PM from the cause-or-symptom dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Develop has an excellent piece up profiling a bunch of average to awful titles that flopped so hard they harmed or sunk their studio or publisher. The list includes Haze, Enter The Matrix, Hellgate: London, Daikatana, Tabula Rasa, and — of course — Duke Nukem Forever. 'Daikatana was finally released in June 2000, over two and a half years late. Gamers weren't convinced the wait was worth it. A buggy game with sidekicks (touted as an innovation) who more often caused you hindrance than helped ... achieved an average rating of 53. By this time, Eidos is believed to have invested over $25 million in the studio. And they called it a day. Eidos closed the Dallas Ion Storm office in 2001.'"

What Tools Do FLOSS Developers Need? 310

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday January 20, 2010 @02:07PM from the does-soda-count-as-a-tool dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I am a free software developer; I maintain one relatively simple project written in C, targeted at end users, but I feel that I could contribute something more to the FLOSS community than my project. Instead of focusing on another project targeted at end users, I thought that I could spend my time working on something FLOSS developers need ('Developers, developers, developers, developers!'). The question is: what more do FLOSS developers need from existing development tools? What would attract new developers to existing FLOSS development tools? Which existing development tools need more attention? I can contribute code in C, Python and bash, but I can also write documentation, do testing and translate to my native language. Any hints?"

Man Uses Drake Equation To Explain Girlfriend Woes 538

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 13, 2010 @07:57PM from the less-math-more-social-science dept.

artemis67 writes "A man studying in London has taken a mathematical equation that predicts the possibility of alien life in the universe to explain why he can't find a girlfriend. Peter Backus, a native of Seattle and PhD candidate and Teaching Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick, near London, in his paper, 'Why I don't have a girlfriend: An application of the Drake Equation to love in the UK,' used math to estimate the number of potential girlfriends in the UK. In describing the paper on the university Web site he wrote 'the results are not encouraging. The probability of finding love in the UK is only about 100 times better than the probability of finding intelligent life in our galaxy.'"

Facebook Lets Advertisers Use Pictures Without Permission 260

Posted by kdawson on Saturday July 25, 2009 @05:56PM from the controlling-rights-to-your-face dept.

Krokz sends in an LA Times piece that begins "A warning is bouncing through cyberspace today, landing on the Facebook statuses of many of the social networking site's users. The message: 'Facebook has agreed to let third party advertisers use your posted pictures without your permission.' It continues with a prescription of how you can protect your photos." The attention-grabbing incident in this furor involved a married woman, whose photo appeared in an ad for a dating service that was presented to her husband to view. Fortunately, both husband and wife had a sense of humor about it.

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