Heavy-Breathing Bikers Bad for Environment, Lawmaker Says; Was Steve Jobs Wrong About Tablet Size?

Don't miss a single issue of Slashback. Add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your address book. Heavy-Breathing Bikers Bad for Environment, Lawmaker Says Can Your Company Go 'Bossless'? Was Steve Jobs Wrong About Tablet Size? Why Can't Intel Kill x86? SimCity 5: How Not to Design a Single-Player Game Hot Comment: Re: The World is not entirely filled with idiots From the Vault: The 'Real' Reason We Use Linux Watch It: Phish Me If You Can Poll Booth: What Is Your Favorite Polearm? Heavy-Breathing Bikers Bad for Environment, Lawmaker Says In defending his support of a tax on bicycle use, Washington state Rep. Ed Orcutt earlier in the week said that bicycling is bad for the environment because the activity causes cyclists to have "an increased heart rate and respiration,"  and as a result, they give off more CO2 than a car. Orcutt has since apologized for his comment. Sound Off>> Can Your Company Go 'Bossless'? Valve's economist-in-residence, Yanis Varoufakis, recently discussed the unusual structure of the workplace at Valve, where there is no hierarchy or bosses. Teams of software designers join spontaneously to create and ship video games without any top-down supervision. Can this model work for other tech companies? Sound Off>> Was Steve Jobs Wrong About Tablet Size? During the 2010 Christmas shopping season, Steve Jobs famously dissed the 7-inch tablets being rolled out by competitors, saying that a 10-inch device was the perfect size. About two years later, the iPad Mini, with a 7.9-inch diagonal screen, was rolled out under Jobs' successor Tim Cook and the smaller form factor tablet surprisingly outsold its larger sibling by a substantial margin. Sound Off>> Why Can't Intel Kill x86? As tablets and cellphones become more important to the computing landscape, Intel is increasingly having a hard time because the company's x86 architecture failing to find much success in mobile. But Intel's efforts to move away from the architecture have gone down in flames. Sound Off>> SimCity 5: How Not to Design a Single-Player Game It seems that the requirement to be online and save games on a remote server even in single player mode is leading to a less than ideal launch for SimCity 5. Players of the new game were hit with clogged server issues that resulted in disconnects, failures to load game, and wait times of 20 minutes per login attempt. Sound Off>> Re: The World is not entirely filled with idiots "You just keep believing that only big companies can do things, and that people are incapable of doing anything for themselves... And we wonder why we have such a nanny state." --by Anonymous Coward Read More>>   The 'Real' Reason We Use Linux Five years ago Vlad Dolezal wrote that he and other Linux fans tell non-Linux users they use OS because it's secure, free, customizable, or has excellent community support--but that's just all marketing talk. Vlad reveals the "real" reason for true Linux love. Read More>> Phish Me If You Can Spearphishing is the deluxe (but easy) way to get unwary employees to put malware on your network. It's basically the same as phishing, except more targeted and cannot necessarily be fought entirely by technical means. That's where a service like PhishMe can help. Company co-founder and CTO Aaron Higbee explains. Watch the Video>>        What Is Your Favorite Polearm? Bec de Corbin Ranseur Bardiche Lochaber axe Spetum Halberd Glaive Naginata Cast Your Vote>> Follow Slashdot on Twitter and Facebook. To unsubscribe, click here or send an email to: unsubscribe-213087@elabs10.com To ensure delivery of this newsletter to your inbox and to enable images, please add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. Slashdot | 594 Howard Street, Suite 300 | San Francisco, CA 94105 To view our Privacy Policy click here.