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Comment A warning before quitting your day job (Score 1) 214

by lyz (#56546788) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Should I Study?
As someone who just earned a couple of Masters degrees in business for an insane price tag, I recommend that you exercise caution when transitioning careers. Breaking into a new field that is more of a passion project than one that is in demand is just brutal. Unless you are financially set and don't need the income, a transition could wreck you financially. The absolutely insane cost of graduate school cannot be understated and needs to be weighed against any advancement you may experience through it. It is massively easier to have a career track inside of a company that supports you rather than doing it on your own.

Comment Re:Must all vendors support Linux? (Score 1) 377

by lyz (#56107865) Attached to: 'Razer Doesn't Care About Linux'
Did read it. "(the OS not the kernel, as opposed to Android which is a different is with a Linux kernel) " OS was not defined here as android is an OS that runs on Linux. Do we have to assume all of the other components of the OS here? Which distribution is that referring to? In that case, the argument is ambiguous to take into consideration.

Comment Re:Must all vendors support Linux? (Score 1) 377

by lyz (#56107755) Attached to: 'Razer Doesn't Care About Linux'
It also works as a cell-phone OS (android), a television OS (ruku TV), a router OS (pretty much all of them), it's almost taken over education (Chromebooks), and embedded (Raspberry PI). Calling it a "server OS and a workstation OS" in 2018 is just plain wrong. To diss Linux, we need to limit the perspective to only PC gamers. Thanks to Valve (Steam), cross-platform engines, and Vulkan; games supporting Linux are more numerous than ever before and the future looks even better. With all of these factors in play, it is reasonable to think that Linux gaming will be worth it in the the future.

Comment Synchronized (Score 1) 118

I've been trying to do something similar for a long time at home. The closest I came was using gramofon devices with AllPlay. They were driven by a rooted cell phone with an Android app call AirAudio. It works some of the time. It's disappointing that we don't have a better option. I usually try for a while and then give up and just use bluetooth to one output.
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Air Force Sonic Booms Ignite Crocodiles' Sex Drives 61

Posted by samzenpus from the making-beautiful-booms-together dept.
It turns out the key to a male crocodile's heart is a sonic boom. Crocodiles at an Israeli farm have begun making mating calls in response to sonic booms created by air force planes breaking the sound barrier. From the article: "The males have already begun their mating calls, described by the newspaper as 'the sound a vehicle breaking,' normally reserved for the crocodiles' spring mating season, Israeli newspaper Maariv reported. David Golan of the Hamat Gadar crocodile farm in the Golan Heights, believes the reptiles were responding to the sonic booms, wrongly believing they were the calls of rival males encroaching on their territory
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4chan Declares War On Snow 201

Posted by samzenpus from the common-enemy dept.
With all the recent hacktivism in the news, Anonymous has decided to take on a new and powerful enemy: snow. On Sunday the group announced that it will "do everything in its power to shut snow down by attacking the Weather Channel and North Face websites, boycotting outerwear, and voting for the sun as Time’s 2010 Person Of The Year." I'm sure there are a lot of people in Minneapolis right now that would wish them luck.
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AMD Offers Women Geek Dating Advice 269

Posted by samzenpus from the power-of-love dept.
Blacklaw writes "It appears AMD has decided to branch out from integrated circuits and enter the romance market with a handy guide for girls to land themselves a geeky guy. From the article: 'In a blog post written by Leslie Sobon, the company's vice president of marketing, Sobon describes her life in the largely male-dominated world of technology as being "mostly surrounded by guys all day," but says: "I can tell you that — in general — technical guys are pretty cool," and offers advice on how girls can land a geek guy. Although clearly meant in a lighthearted way, Sobon's missive serves to patronize both her company's customers — who, we learn, are socially inept and bad dressers — and women, who apparently can't understand technology and need to find a nice man who can "fix the TV, your PC, and the sprinkler system" along with other magical item s far too complex for the poor female brain to comprehend.'"
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Why Engineers Don't Like Twitter 460

Posted by Soulskill from the signal-to-noise dept.
PabloSandoval48 writes, "A recent EE Times survey of 285 engineers found that 85% don't use Twitter. More than half indicated that the statement 'I don't really care what you had for breakfast' best sums up their feelings about it." Reader mattnyc99 notes a related article in which the authors analyzed the content of tweets during a recent World Cup game, finding 76% of them to be useless. "Out of 1,000 tweets with the #worldcup hashtag during the game, only 16 percent were legitimate news and 7.6 percent were deemed 'legitimate conversation' — which leaves 6 percent spam, 24 percent self-promotion, about 17 percent re-tweets, and a whopping 29 percent of useless observation (like this). Is the mainstream media making too big a deal out of the avalanche of World Cup tweets, or is the world literally flooding the zone?"
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New MacBook Pros Launched 411

Posted by CmdrTaco from the gimme-gimme-gimme dept.
Art Vanderlay writes "Apple's new MacBook lineup has launched with a refresh to the MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air models. As expected, the MacBook and MacBook Air both feature Core 2 Duo processors, as does the 13. The 15 and 17 models come with a choice of i5 or i7. Memory is 4GB across the board, with an optional upgrade. Additionally, the new line may include three different types of screen options: Glossy, High Resolution Glossy, and High Resolution Glossy with Anti-Glare. A second person familiar with the matter adds that at least some models will support 512GB of Solid State Drive (Flash) storage."

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