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  1. Re:meh on Sony Touts 25 Hour Battery Life For Haswell-Equipped Vaio Pro · · Score: 1

    Netbooks use atom processors, comparing that to an i5/i7 ultrabook is like comparing a Lada and a Ferrari.
    Comparing CPU clock speed across different designs makes no sense. A 2GHz x86 CPU can be 10 times faster than a different design at 4GHz (still x86).

    There's a ton of non-ultrabook 13"-14" that fits your description. Either 14" $250 chromebooks with about 2x the performance of a netbook, or $350 laptops with 3-4x the performance of a netbook.

  2. Re:Med students on Med Students Unaware of Their Bias Against Obese Patients · · Score: 2

    People who are overweight and obese grade 1 are usually not so fat their life quality is reduced. They can walk, run and exercise with no or just small discomfort.
    An overweight person who is somewhat fit has a *significant* higher life expectancy than any other combination of fitness and weight.

    Muscle mass above a certain amount does more harm than good and reduces life expectancy
    Excessive exercising over time damages the body and leads to a shorter life expectancy
      - Life expectancy both for body builders and competing marathon runners are low
    Body fat above a certain amount does harm to the body and reduces life expectancy
    Body fat below a certain amount does harm to the body and reduces life expectancy
      - The ideal amount of body fat is far more than what we perceive as "normal" weight -- it's much closer to the medieval beauty ideal then the modern one

  3. Useless for non-embedded applications on BeagleBone Black Ships With New Linux 3.8 Kernel · · Score: 1

    Max resolution: 1280 x 1024 @75Hz
    Useless for desktop use or as a media player.

  4. Re:ah yes the on NTSB Recommends Lower Drunk Driving Threshold Nationwide: 0.05 BAC · · Score: 1

    This is just bullshit. You can't pretend the 0.08 limit only applies to the ones with "perfect" reactions, it also applies to the ones already rolling around with poor reflexes. I just don't understand the logic behind the argument, you want right to voluntary turn yourself into a dangerously bad driver because some people are involuntary dangerously bad drivers and still allowed to drive?

    And besides, anyone driving with reflexes and judgment equivalent to a 0.08 BAC should have their license revoked, they are not fit to drive!

    At speed the difference between 0.02 and 0.08 could easily translate to a 80 feet difference in where your action starts. Combined with a reduced ability to chose the right action translates to an enormous increase in risk (various studies show a fatal accident risk increase of 600%-2000% ).

  5. Are you also willing to require that people only drive when they are well rested?

    Yes, without a doubt!

    If you're endangering others by driving when you're too tired, you should lose your license.
    Driving is not a right, it's a privilege that comes with responsibilities.

  6. Re:Doesn't this break Developer TOS on PayPal Unveils New Android SDK, Available To US Developers May 15 · · Score: 2

    Only applies to products distributed through the Market.
    This adds an easy payment option for the thousands of apps distributed outside Google Play.

  7. Re:Nothing new on Oslo Needs Your Garbage · · Score: 1

    If you collect the methane, a non-trivial problem.

  8. Re:Nothing new on Oslo Needs Your Garbage · · Score: 1

    Burning the garbage is better than letting it rot and produce methane.
    Norway does both materials and energy recycling of garbage, ~45% is recycled for materials and ~40% is burnt to reclaim energy. Only ~15% goes on landfills.

  9. Re:Dynamic power draw? on USB SuperSpeed Power Spec To Leap From 10W To 100W · · Score: 1

    It draws what it needs.
    The efficiency of the psu differs at different loads, but any bronze / silver / gold 80+ psu will have a decent efficiency from around 10% load and up.

  10. Re:Maybe... on USPS Discriminates Against 'Atheist' Merchandise · · Score: 1

    Invisible Pink Unicorns make a good example because they are both pink and invisible. Several other gods also have mutually exclusive properties, it's part of the divine package.

  11. Re:Sony on Slashdot on Sony Announces the PS4 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    LOL. Hatred is reserved for things that still matter. Like Apple, Microsoft, Facebook maybe even Google. Sony is quite simply irrelevant.

    Relevant?
    One a dead rock star, a stagnant has-been, a nobody and an ad salesman?

  12. Re:Renewable Energy vs Waste of Energy on Will Renewable Energy Ever Meet All Our Energy Needs? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Modern PV panels have a net positive energy budget over their lifetime.
    It's not always been like that, but the current generation PV panels provide 5-7 times their energy cost (deployed in at 25-40 deg latitude)
    That's much better than a lot of other renewable alternatives, like anything bio-.
    It's also better than shale oil and tar sands, the energy requirements for extracting and refining that mess is huge.

    The availability of the raw materials for PV is still an issue, and probably will be in the foreseeable future (unless there is a graphene-PV or non-rare-earth thin film PV breakthrough).

  13. Re:same as before, use Cat5 on What the FCC's Wi-Fi Expansion Means For You · · Score: 1

    Definitely in the realm of consumer grade, didn't know anything like that existed. But you'd need one on each end; and then connect whatever you need network run to into a RJ45 port anyway. That'll cost you something like $200 + cable for every point you run fiber to (+ $$$ for the main switch with support for more than one SFP).

    I'm not arguing against running fiber to the house (if you can), but against using it internally in a home setup. Cat6a (or even cat5e) makes much more sense for a home network.

  14. Re:same as before, use Cat5 on What the FCC's Wi-Fi Expansion Means For You · · Score: 1

    Hmmm. Ethernet over toslink, that would be the mother of all Xbox mods.

  15. Re:same as before, use Cat5 on What the FCC's Wi-Fi Expansion Means For You · · Score: 1

    We're talking about cables for internal network in a house / an apartment.
    As I pointed out, fiber doesn't make sense in that setting; as no consumer grade equipment can connect directly to it.

    Cat6a vs fiber inside the server room is an entirely different discussion.

  16. Re:same as before, use Cat5 on What the FCC's Wi-Fi Expansion Means For You · · Score: 1

    Fiber does not connect directly into any consumer grade equipment, it will require expensive media converters or regular switches with fiber SFPs at each end.
    For internal cabling in a house / apartment fiber makes NO sense.

    Fiber only makes sense for distances > 100m or environments with very heavy levels of EM noise.

    Run cat6a in some kind of conduct, then if for some reason you should ever need more than 10Gbps, you could just pull the Cat6a and replace it with fiber.

  17. Re:same as before, use Cat5 on What the FCC's Wi-Fi Expansion Means For You · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Range on 5GHz tends to be limited by walls etc. so you should get less interference / overlapping with 5GHz inside your own house / apartment.

  18. Re:Good on Indiana Nurses Fired After Refusing Flu Shots On Religious Grounds · · Score: 1

    H1N1 can survive on a hard surface in sufficient numbers to cause infection up to 8 hours. Hand hygiene is important.

  19. Re:Good on Indiana Nurses Fired After Refusing Flu Shots On Religious Grounds · · Score: 1

    Most of what you base your constitutions on is nonsense.
    The amount of time a virus survives outside the body varies wildly from virus to virus.

    HIV survives a few hours at most, Hepatitis C survives up to 4 days and Hepatitis A can survive for months.
    For flu viruses it varies from type to type, but it's possible to get infected by doorknobs, handrails etc. in public places if you put your hands on your food or in your mouth after touching them without washing first. There were extensive campaigns globally concerning hand hygiene during the last H1N1 outbreak.

  20. Re:I call bullshit - here's why on Free Software NVIDIA Driver Now Supports 3D Acceleration With All GeForce GPUs · · Score: 1

    AMD is not any better (taking the quality of the binary into consideration, they are far worse); but before AMD drops support for a card they provide documentation to support the open source driver (they also used to provide developer hours, but I dunno if they still do).

  21. Re:I call bullshit - here's why on Free Software NVIDIA Driver Now Supports 3D Acceleration With All GeForce GPUs · · Score: 1

    There's big gaps in the legacy drivers. I couldn't get any of them to work without changing hardware IDs.
    Even then only 96.xx showed anything other than a black screen (but VDPAU didn't work)

    BTW support has been dropped for the two oldest legacy drivers.

  22. Re:Good News on Free Software NVIDIA Driver Now Supports 3D Acceleration With All GeForce GPUs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nvidia wants to sell new cards. I want to keep my old one as long as possible.
    I've had buy a new card twice after support for my card was dropped from the binary driver.

  23. Re:Targeted customers on Chromebook Takes Top Place In Laptop Sales On Amazon · · Score: 3, Informative

    "Kronar" is a common misspelling when writing Nynorsk (new Norwegian).
    The monetary unit is called kroner in both Norwegian languages; but the coins are (sometimes) called {value}kronar in new Norwegian (tikronar - has a value of 10 kroner).

    Confusing.

  24. Re:Oh boy! on Steam For Linux Is Now an Open Beta · · Score: 1

    TF2? No
    Spaz? No
    Uplink? Yes

    The rest? Dunno, but I'm guessing not all.

  25. Re:They sold the *MOST* smartphones on Nokia Dethroned As Top Phone Maker By Samsung · · Score: 1

    There's lots of definitions of "smartphone"
    I know of none that includes Symbian.
    By the pre-iPhone definition, iPhones didn't become smartphones until iOS 4.

    The pre-iPhone requirements where roughly:
    * Full feature email client
    * Browser
    * Multitasking
    * Modem capabilities
    * Applications

    After iPhone they became:
    * Full feature email client
    * Browser
    * Touchscreen
    * Applications
    * Responsive