ormico - Slashdot User

Comment Brother Laser. No question. (Score 1) 92

by ormico on Monday June 23, 2025 @08:03PM (#65471127) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Printer Recommendation For Family With Kids?

The brand name cartridges are fine but the generic ones are cheaper and work great. You can pick options for b&w, color, scanner. Mine does double sided. Brother is the only printer brand I trust anymore.

Comment Re: 25 Billion Light Years? (Score 4, Informative) 28

by ormico on Sunday May 28, 2023 @01:11PM (#63557461) Attached to: JWST Discovers a Supermassive Black Hole is 'Far Larger Than Expected'

B/c in addition to everything moving further away, the space between is also expanding. Meaning that objects moving away from each other at a constant rate are universe sized scales are after enough time further from each other than would've expected based on the distance traveled. I'm not an astrophysicist but you can read about it from several sources such as

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cfa.harvard.edu%2Fre....

Comment haven't economist spent decades telling us ... (Score 1) 365

by ormico on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @01:08AM (#56884184) Attached to: Economists Worry We Aren't Prepared For the Fallout From Automation

that there is no fallout from automation and that there are always new types of jobs to move into?

Comment unintended consequenses (Score 1) 174

by ormico on Monday August 07, 2017 @05:15PM (#54958605) Attached to: London is Using Optical Illusions To Make Cars Slow Down

so now they are going to teach drivers to hit speed bumps at full speed since the speed bump they see is probably fake.

Comment Re: Do what everyone else does in this situation (Score 1) 233

by ormico on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @09:36AM (#50292717) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Switching To a GNU/Linux Distribution For a Webdesign School

there is no annual license fee for Windows 10

Comment Re:Is this a win? I can't tell... (Score 1) 500

by ormico on Sunday May 31, 2015 @09:34PM (#49811929) Attached to: Patriot Act Spy Powers To Expire As Rand Paul Blocks USA Freedom Act Vote

yes, unless something unexpected happens this is just a short reprieve.

Comment Re:Easy grammar (Score 3, Informative) 626

by ormico on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @02:26PM (#49431509) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Would a Constructed Language Have To Be To Replace English?

He didn't say native speakers. He said international language.

Comment Re:Problem with auto-switch on keyboard connection (Score 1) 85

by ormico on Friday February 13, 2015 @03:35PM (#49049775) Attached to: Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Preview For Phones

when switching from Tablet mode to Desktop mode "Metro" apps will go from full screen to windowed. In addition there won't be Touch IE and Desktop IE, there will just be IE which will work in Touch and Mouse/Desktop environments. The current IE in the preview is not the final one.

Object Oriented Linux Kernel With C++ Driver Support 365

Posted by Soulskill on Friday October 03, 2014 @03:50PM from the redesigned-tux dept.

An anonymous reader writes: An effort underway called BOSS-MOOL, the Minimalistic Object Oriented Linux, is designing the Linux kernel with OOP and C++ driver support. Linus Torvalds' opinions on C++ have long been known while developers at the DOS Lab IIT Madras and CDAC Chennai feel redesigning the kernel with object oriented abstractions and C++ driver support will increase maintainability while reducing complexity of the kernel. It doesn't appear though the group will try to mainline these changes.

Comment Re:KIlling off the Microsoft Store Name Too (Score 1) 352

by ormico on Thursday September 11, 2014 @06:43PM (#47885129) Attached to: Microsoft Killing Off Windows Phone Brand Name In Favor of Just Windows

Because Apple invented selling products in physical stores?

Comment Re:How about sharing legitimate advice? (Score 1) 151

by ormico on Thursday September 11, 2014 @04:07PM (#47883613) Attached to: To prepare for a coronal mass ejection, I ...

and put the microwave in the safe...

Comment Re:Disinformation (Score 1) 293

by ormico on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @12:15PM (#46929739) Attached to: The Upcoming Windows 8.1 Apocalypse

no.

Comment Disinformation (Score 3, Insightful) 293

by ormico on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @11:09AM (#46928923) Attached to: The Upcoming Windows 8.1 Apocalypse

Windows 8.0 will continue to be supported.
Windows 8.1 will be supported if you have Update 1 installed.
Its only Windows 8.1 that doesn't have Update 1 that is losing support.
I'm not a fan of that, but don't make it out to be more than it is. Its certainly not the end of the world.

Comment Re: Power grab (Score 2) 218

by ormico on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @01:49PM (#45016545) Attached to: Microsoft Investors Call For Bill Gates To Step Down As Chairman

Ballmer is CEO.
Gates is Chairman of the Board, not Chief Executive Officer.

MS doesn't have a President and I don't believe its a Chairman's job to put in those kinds of hours. That's why they hire a CEO.

The Chairman leads the Board of Directors and it is the Board's job to direct the CEO.

Comment Re:Fantasists (Score 1) 224

by ormico on Thursday August 22, 2013 @12:33PM (#44644175) Attached to: Dentist Wants To Clone John Lennon Using DNA Extracted From Lennon's Tooth

Ask Brandon Mayfield if fingerprints are unique.

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