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byJohnBailey
2012 @10:12PM
(#39982991)
Attached to: The FIBIAC — a 3D-Printed Electromechanical Computer
Sure, build your own. All you need is a 3D printer (required quality unknown), a laser cutter (no problem, I have two in the garage; snerk), CNC mill (also have a couple of these laying around), and who knows what else.
Simple, real simple.
Wow... So building stuff requires tools.. Who knew..
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byJohnBailey
2012 @10:47PM
(#39875615)
Attached to: Sigrok: An Open Source Logic Analyzer
So, where are all the folks who complain there are not enough "tech" articles on /. anymore?? There are only 20 comments in this thread, and it's several hours old.
Posting comments on non tech articles about there not being enough tech articles. Pretty obvious really.
Realistically.. This is beyond the ability of many /. posters to understand. Let alone flame. and they haven't even got a brand to cheer for. So many will take a quick look at the summary, not understand a word of it, and go away again.
This is real tech.. Not consumer tech, like the latest iPhone rumours or who invented tablets.
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byJohnBailey
2012 @03:18PM
(#39839217)
Attached to: Electronics Prototyping Plate Kit Board For Raspberry Pi Coming Soon
you made a perfboard
Well someone has to.
You do understand such things to do not magically appear in shops.. Right?
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byJohnBailey
2012 @01:55AM
(#39830309)
Attached to: Samsung Passes Nokia As Biggest Handset Manufacturer
Sounds likes history repeating itself from what happened with iPod/Zune.
You mean......
A squirting phone???
At least that explains the apps.
32005809
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byJohnBailey
2012 @08:38AM
(#39755417)
Attached to: If You Resell Your Used Games, the Terrorists Win
So... one might say that you were boycotting DRM games.
Yes.. In the same way one might say I have boycotted cigarettes for the best part of a year. I prefer to say I stopped smoking.
Boycott = deliberately and publicly having nothing to do with specific person or company. Can only work if activity is engaged in by large groups.
Quitting = rejecting the entire product line and all similar products. Works on an individual level.
Quitting DRM can be hard or not, depending on how much you have invested in consumer hostile media and devices...
Claiming nobody can quit however, is just the same self enabling co dependent bullshit that every smoker has used for decades...
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byJohnBailey
2012 @01:19AM
(#39683305)
Attached to: Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Goes Stable On Linux
Way to go guys.. you've now given Nvidia massive disincentive to continue to do more work with their MODERN drivers.
But if they hadn't.. Would you have been able to post anything this whiny?
Moron...
Nvidia is not releasing drivers for gamers on Linux. Shocking I know. But this hasn't and most likely never will be why Nvidia releases Linux drivers.
Nvidia does however, create drivers for their high end workstation cards. Which are regularly used on Unix/Irix/Linux workstations. The consumer grade stuff is an offshoot of this. Not the other way around. They have already written the code for paying customers.. Why not tweak it a tiny bit and let everyone else benefit.
This is a low end get you working driver, that does not actually get used on high end graphics workstations So no change in incentive.
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byJohnBailey
1, 2012 @08:53AM
(#39643481)
Attached to: Apple Developing Tool To Remove Flashback
Apple is still in disbelief that that Flasback is real.
No.. Apple is still trying to figure out if this is from Adobe or not.
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byJohnBailey
2012 @01:14PM
(#39396831)
Attached to: Should Snatching an iPhone Be a Felony?
Of course it can replace a PC. It just depends what your requirements are for work. Why I work, 80% of users can switch to tablets like the iPad, and save the company millions in maintenance and support fees.
Then stop posting on slashdot and get the coffee to the customer faster.
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byJohnBailey
25, 2012 @11:18AM
(#39158563)
Attached to: Foxconn Hires Top Spinners To Defend Its Image
I didn't know there was a difference between a PR firm and a "propaganda" firm.
Propaganda firms are usually government employees. And PR firm employees are usually better dressed.
But it is essentially the same old shit they shovel.
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byJohnBailey
21, 2012 @04:12PM
(#39116263)
Attached to: Get a Glimpse At the Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix
Real embedded systems engineers talk about you behind your back if you waste a couple of KB. They will laugh at your face if you waste a couple of MB.
And real embedded systems engineers will not be using this board. So they are quite possibly laughing even more at the tit who can't tell a Micro controller from a computer.
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byJohnBailey
9, 2012 @06:03PM
(#39095513)
Attached to: Should Microsoft Put Office On the iPad?
Quit being such a fanboy, my keyboard and I will run loops around whatever "work" it is you're doing on your "toy".
I have to disagree there. First time the coffee slops out of the cups, it will get into the spaces between the keys. An iPad is obviously superior as it can just wipe clean.
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byJohnBailey
16, 2012 @02:30PM
(#39064315)
Attached to: Microsoft's Killer Tablet Opportunity
I believe that using American as a synonym for illiterate is not considered politically correct these days...
Judging by this little exchange however, quite accurate.
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byJohnBailey
y 01, 2012 @02:33AM
(#38888287)
Attached to: Apple Forcing IT Shops To 'Adapt Or Die'
Growing up in the 80's, almost everyone I knew that had a computer, had a C64. One friend had a TRS-80, and one other had a TI-99. The only place I ever saw an Apple II as a kid was in the classroom. It was archaic looking compared to the Commodore at the time.
I had a ZX81, and later a Spectrum. A friend had a Vic 20 for a while. My brother in law had a BBC right up to the early 90s. When he got an Apricot, and later a succession of PCs.
Another friend's dad had an Apple for business use. Not sure which one. And that was the first Apple I ever saw. Around 1982-3..
Fast forward a few years to 1989, and I played around with a Mac at a training site, where there was one Mac for playing with, and the PCs for serious work. Someone donated it I think.
I have yet to see my third Apple computer outside a shop.
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byJohnBailey
4, 2012 @09:44AM
(#38804831)
Attached to: Why We Should Teach Our Kids To Code
Schools won't allow kids to programme with languages that can, potentially, harm systems and networks.
In that respect, it may be worth teaching kids VB for Office (although it's still possible to write to the HDD and open sockets iirc), since most kids are almost guaranteed to be exposed to office at some point in their career, especially if they choose a desk job it might prove useful to those who don't really want to programme for a living.
Which is one more reason why the Raspberry Pi boards are such a good idea. And if not that one in particular, something similar.
Hardware self contained.. Check.
IT support.. Not needed.
Network access.. Zero.
Access to the same environment at home..Check. Take it out of your bag and plug it into the TV. Done.
Problem solved. And it's cheap. It runs free software, so no big expensive per seat licensing. And is essentially a breakable cheap programming platform. Under £20 to replace is hardly the end of the world if little Johnny loses it.
Since any languages taught would have to be vetted for system safety, besides locking them into MS Office (which is a seriously chilling idea to any programmer), I can only think of Javascript as the perfect language to teach kids. For all its faults, atleast people actually use Javascript to make things.
Python, C Java, XML HTML, In other words.. Pretty much anything that will run on Linux. IDE or text editor..Your choice. All free.
And how exactly is MS Office a contained safe environment? Didn't Office have a whole lot of macro viruses a few years ago?
Add the recent move to stop teaching office,and start teaching computer literacy by UK schools, and the pieces are falling into place quite nicely.
This is going to happen. Despite the imaginary problems and over inflated issues.
It doesn't require a 100% success rate, any more than English is expected to turn out 100% authors and poets. .
It doesn't need to turn out industry ready programmers, any more than a biology A level is going to be any use to someone applying to join a medical practice.
And as no exam is sat at the end, the teacher can concentrate on teaching instead of passing exams.
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byJohnBailey
10, 2011 @12:36AM
(#38323262)
Attached to: Rats Feel Each Other's Pain
Ok picky..
Larger more complex brains..
Happy?
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