Comment Re:Pi-3 for my robotics classroom (Score 1) 85
What about Freecad? Best I can tell it works fine on RPi.
Comment Re: AT&T (Score 1) 208
I'm in a very similar situation. My son and I are perfectly happy with Google Fi with our Nexus 5x phones. My daughter wanted an iphone, wife needed better coverage (she spends a lot of time in areas that are only served by AT&T). I bought my daughter a $150 iPhone 5C at Walmart, wife a $150 Asus phone on Amazon, and they're both on Walmart Straight Talk with bills at around $45 each per month. Not quite a cheap as Google Fi, but they've got what they want.
Comment Makes perfect sense to me (Score 1) 90
I've got a Sager Clevo gaming notebook with an 860M, and there's nothing to hate about it. It lasts a long time on a charge. It plays most games at their highest res. It runs Linux great. It's light, with an SSD for the OS drive. It runs two external monitors when I'm using it for work. It has no DVD, so it's lightweight. It doesn't run the Nvidia card when I'm not playing 3d games (uses the onboard Intel graphics). This GTX980 on a Clevo would likely have all those same benefits. You folks trash talking gaming notebooks are nuts.
Comment JavaJavaScript (Score 2) 277
Never take programming or programming-career advice from someone who doesn't know that Java and JavaScript are completely different languages.
Submission + - Build An Open-Source Electric Car In One Hour, For $4,000 1
joe5 writes: Like what Elon Musk has done building an electric car and want to go all Etsy and build your own? That's apparently now possible now thanks to the OSVehicle Tabby — dubbed the first "Open source vehicle" (memo: it may be cool, but it ain't the first). The OSV guys are taking pre-orders for the Tabby starter kit, with both the two-seater or four-seater configurations going for €500. Then you click to add options (Note: seats is an "option" so that's the level of luxury you are dealing with here) When the transactions complete, OSV sends the parts to your home and you can download the plans and start building. Since the Tabby is open source, OSVehicle will also look to a community of owners and tinkerers for suggestions and recommendations.
Submission + - Is Verizon Already Slowing Netflix Down? (davesblog.com)
hondo77 writes: From Dave's Blog: "I’ve since tested this almost every day for the last couple of weeks. During the day – the bandwidth is normal to AWS. However, after 4pm or so – things get slow. In my personal opinion, this is Verizon waging war against Netflix. Unfortunately, a lot of infrastructure is hosted on AWS. That means a lot of services are going to be impacted by this."
Comment Code in portrait, browser in landscape (Score 1) 375
I spend my days coding webapps in vim on a widescreen portrait, the browser in a widescreen landscape, and usually a 3rd monitor to the side with email and chat windows. I can fit over 100 lines of code on the portrait monitor. The future is now, man.
Comment Re:Do as a I say... (Score 1) 218
Would it be proper for the judge to demand passwords to the FB accounts of the pertinent employees of the Honeybaked Ham Co.? Wouldn't access to their accounts be equally valuable for deciding the case? Why is the female plaintiff the only one subject to turning over access to all FB communications?
Comment No love for Bill Joy? (Score 1) 271
Where's the love for Bill Joy? Vim is great and all, as are all the ports of vi, the plugins that give vi functionality to eclipse, firefox, etc... But really, isn't Bill the real hero here?
I use in in windows via cygwin, I use it on every linux server, desktop, and laptop I work on. I use it on my phone. I use it on my tablet. Vi's focus on dual modes, and no mouse, is just wonderful.
Thanks for vi Bill!
Activision Hit With $500m Suit From Modern Warfare 2 Devs 77
Dragoniz3r writes "Activision has been served a lawsuit from 38 plaintiffs, including present and former Infinity Ward employees, demanding up to half a billion dollars. The plaintiffs are seeking compensation for 'unpaid bonuses, royalties, profit-sharing, and future profits from games such as Modern Warfare 3, and punitive damages.'"
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