roblarky - Slashdot User

Comment Re:I call bull (Score 1, Offtopic) 126

by roblarky on Monday November 25, 2013 @09:59AM (#45513875) Attached to: Single-Atom Layer of Tin May Be a New Wonder Conductor

You're a towel.

Comment Re:Of course they won't.. (Score 3, Insightful) 446

by roblarky on Wednesday September 19, 2012 @04:44PM (#41392277) Attached to: Motorola Seeks Ban On Macs, iPads, and iPhones

Wooosh!

Comment Re:I have better UI name in mind... (Score 1) 356

by roblarky on Friday August 03, 2012 @09:45AM (#40867315) Attached to: Microsoft Drops 'Metro' Name For Windows 8 UI

+1 Funny

Comment Re:remember that raise you didn't get? (Score 1) 469

by roblarky on Monday July 16, 2012 @11:49AM (#40663417) Attached to: US "the Enemy" Says Dotcom Judge

Exactly!

You wouldn't BELIEVE how many artisans and makers were involved in the building of my computer. It may have cost around $60,000, but worth every AMERICAN penny!

(I do sincerely agree with your post)

Comment Re:A bit of explanation to save you from RTFAing (Score 1) 198

by roblarky on Monday April 30, 2012 @08:35AM (#39843715) Attached to: Organism Closest To Original "Tree of Life" Discovered

I do love me some "horizontal gene transfer", if ya know what I mean. *wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge*

Comment Re:7 pages? (Score 1) 231

by roblarky on Thursday March 22, 2012 @12:28PM (#39441829) Attached to: The Sounds of Tech Past

Looks like someone still prints on analog paper. Get with the times!

Comment Re:gotta love the attitude (Score 2) 488

by roblarky on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @08:37AM (#39123279) Attached to: Obayashi To Build Space Elevator By 2050

Will you be here all week?! What dish should I try?

Comment Re:Two words: (Score 1) 635

by roblarky on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @02:33PM (#39114045) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Copy Protection Advice For ~$10k Software?

P.S., am I the only one who is uncomfortable with the term "dongle"?

No.

Nokia-Siemens Axing 17,000 Positions 87

Posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @01:30PM from the competition-is-tough dept.

alphadogg writes with troubling news for the network hardware joint-venture between Nokia and Siemens. Quoting the article: "Struggling network infrastructure vendor Nokia Siemens Networks is planning to cut 17,000 jobs worldwide, as it aims to cut $1.35 billion from its costs by the end of 2013, the company said Wednesday. About 23% of the company's 74,000 employees will be laid off. The 4 1/2-year-old joint venture between Nokia and Siemens has been struggling to compete with Swedish Ericsson and Chinese vendor Huawei. Parent company Nokia's ongoing problems have made Nokia Siemens' situation even more difficult."

Comment Re:The cycle continues (Score 1) 143

by roblarky on Monday October 24, 2011 @11:31PM (#37827640) Attached to: Is Verizon Breaking FCC Regulations With Locked Bootloaders?

I'm guessing "Head MotherFucker In Charge". Bringing the "HNIC" term from the movie Lean On Me (at least the first time I heard it..) into a racially and politically correct format (I'm assuming the CEO of VZW is not an African-American).

Comment Re:Meanwhile (Score 1) 282

by roblarky on Thursday October 06, 2011 @12:45PM (#37627628) Attached to: Satellite Glitch Leaves Northern Canada In the (Internet) Dark

They're only slightly annoyed by the > 8 minute latency.

Comment Re:What he took away is more precious than given (Score 1) 1613

by roblarky on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @11:49PM (#37622110) Attached to: Steve Jobs Dead At 56

I couldn't agree more. I personally do not care for Apple products for the same reasons many around here often cite.

However, I think they have their place. When a friend or acquaintance mentions they got an iPhone, I generally think "Yea, you're probably better off." because they're very simple-minded people when it comes to technology, they don't really know what they want and are content to have things walled up. These are usually the people who would install anything that popped up on Windows; it really is better for them to have a walled garden.

Comment Re:Divulging (Score 4, Funny) 315

by roblarky on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @05:45PM (#37618142) Attached to: After Six Days of Outages, BofA Claims It Hasn't Been Hacked

That's irregardless.

Comment Re:Launchy did it for me (Score 3, Interesting) 862

by roblarky on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @05:14PM (#37604420) Attached to: Microsoft Killed the Start Menu Because No One Uses It

Am I the only one who actually spends the time to keep my Start menu organized? I have root categories (Productivity, Utilities, Internet, etc) under which I place all applications. My Programs menu pops out to a starting list of main categories, then branches out into easy to find sub-categories. The first thing I do when I'm at the "Finish" screen of a setup wizard is uncheck the "Run {program x} now" box, go to the desktop to remove any icons it put there and drag its Start Menu group into the appropriate folder.

Sure, I keep 3 programs pinned to the taskbar, but I use the Start menu all the time since I don't want my taskbar or desktop cluttered with shit. Also, I'm a big mouse user and don't want to type what I want to run.

Comment Re:A refurbished iPad is $300. (Score 1) 291

by roblarky on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @01:13PM (#37601100) Attached to: So Far, More Than 50,000 Kindle Fire Pre-Orders Per Day

12"? Pssh.

I want my 24" tablet which has a dock with DVI and USB ports, that way I can drop it in have it be the display for my desktop, or plug in my keyborad and mouse for full tablet usage, or take it on the go.

I can see it now, whipping out my 24" tablet in Starbucks..it would be glorious! Who's the alpha hipster now, biatches?!

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