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  1. Re:Megapixels aren't quality on Mobile Photography Set For Major Quality Bump With Sony's 48-Megapixel Sensor (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    https://www.dxomark.com/huawei...

    Not necessarily, but it can be.

    The Huawei P20 Pro scores the highest of any phone on dxomark... 40MP sensor, but averaged 2x2 with averaging to take great night shots for an apparent 10MP output. Apparently the 2x2 binning of smaller sites produces superior results to larger sites without the averaging.

    I would guess this 48MP phone sensor would be the same deal... 2x2 averaged for 12MP output.

    Sam

  2. Re:290 mph is impressive on Student Engineers Build Hyperloop Test Pods That Set a New Speed Record (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Cheaper than A jet? No.

    Cheaper than a fleet of jets? Maybe. We'll see.

  3. Re:I lost interest in Shazam! when.... on New Trailers Debuted at Comic-Con Include Aquaman, Shazam, and The Simpsons (tvguide.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's face it, DC never knows where they're going with any of their characters (except batman, then it's always "darker").

    Sad but true...
    https://meme.xyz/meme/30418/ma...

  4. Re:Secure? on Facebook Notification Spam Has Crossed the Line (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Confirmed. In the years since I signed up, I've never gotten a single spam text from Google.

  5. Re:Term "Soy Milk" & doctrine of laches on Should the Word 'Milk' Be Used To Describe Nondairy Milk-Alternative Products? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty much.

    If you can't compete, prevent.

  6. Re:Noodles, "Alimentary Paste" on Should the Word 'Milk' Be Used To Describe Nondairy Milk-Alternative Products? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I would just like to point out that milk from vegans is still milk and an animal product!

  7. Re:Milk of Magnesia is a trademark in some places on Should the Word 'Milk' Be Used To Describe Nondairy Milk-Alternative Products? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Which really just aids the point of almond/coconut/soy milk manufacturers...
    "Cream is a dairy product composed of the higher-butterfat layer skimmed from the top of milk before homogenization."
    It's also an adjective: creamy.
    And it's also used as a generic name for anything that resembles itself: hand cream, face cream, cream of wheat.

    It seems perfectly analogous to milk, which is also a dairy product that's an adjective (milky) and used as a generic name for anything that resembles itself.

    Are they going to fight that one next? How about butter... buttery, peanut butter, almond butter, shea butter, body butter? They fighting that one too?
    Sam

  8. Re:Could pureed clams be called "Milk" on Should the Word 'Milk' Be Used To Describe Nondairy Milk-Alternative Products? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "I think calling all white liquids that can be swallowed as milk, problematic"

    I'll just leave this right here.

  9. Re:Milk comes from a mammal - Juice from a plant on Should the Word 'Milk' Be Used To Describe Nondairy Milk-Alternative Products? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    https://www.merriam-webster.co...

    I mean, right there it says:

    2 : a liquid resembling milk in appearance: such as
          a : the latex of a plant
          b : the contents of an unripe kernel of grain

  10. Fun fact: the platypus does produce milk and has mammary glands. But it has no teats. The milk is secreted from the skin and accumulates in grooves/folds in the stomach where the babies can lap it up.

    Keep it weird, platypus.

  11. Someone's head is really going to explode when they find out about milk of magnesia.

    Why, it's even not organic!

  12. Re:I honestly don't see the attraction on Samsung's Galaxy S10 To Come In Three Sizes, With An In-Display Fingerprint Sensor (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Buy an unlocked, non-carrier Samsung some time.

    It's still loaded with unremovable bloatware. Mostly Samsung duplicates of all the Google apps.

    Ugh.

  13. Since Samsung + Apple switched to a taller aspect ratio, there's been a screen-inches inflation if you actually look at the area.

  14. Re:The problem is tech support on Things Are Going From Bad To Worse For Apple In India (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    This is the hardest whooooooosh I've seen in a long time.

  15. Re:Stuff underground gets wet already on Study Suggests Buried Internet Infrastructure at Risk as Sea Levels Rise (eurekalert.org) · · Score: 1

    Salt water is a whole other level of environmental hazard for... just about anything utility-related that's exposed to it.

  16. Alaska, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada (Nevada law only addresses support of children and not support of parents. NRS Chapter 125B), New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia.

  17. Re: Having just bought a new MacBoo Pro... on The New MacBook Pro Features 'Fastest SSD Ever' In a Laptop (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Truth.

    I never bother with NVMe or even laptop M.2 slots when upgrading peoples' machines, I just throw a 2.5" SSD SATA drive in and everyone is always like "wow, it's so much faster."

    Even on my big number-crunching machine (which for some reason the stupid proprietary software we use refuses to just use all the RAM, leaves half of it free, and does a shit-ton of small reads-writes to buffer files whose location is NOT CONFIGURABLE. Thanks.)... I tested moving from a SATA SSD drive to a PCI SSD and it didn't really make much performance difference in actual usage.

    The move from 100 iops to 100000? Amazing. Going from 100000 to 400000? Meh.
    Sam

  18. Re: Having just bought a new MacBoo Pro... on The New MacBook Pro Features 'Fastest SSD Ever' In a Laptop (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Dell's whole Latitude series supports NVMe M.2 cards. Even the cheapest 3490 (starting at $450).

    However, you need to buy a 5xxx series to get 4x and not a 2x slot.

  19. Re:For some of us it was not a bad decision on New Spectre 1.1 and Spectre 1.2 CPU Flaws Disclosed (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    My AMD k6 was great!

    I had trouble with my slot-A Athlon 750 back in the day.

    I bought the cheapest, trash motherboard with the even more trash Via KX133 chipset on it. The KT133/KT266 went on to be a pretty much legendary value, but that KX133 was basically beta-quality. Should have spent the extra $20 on the AMD-750 chipset instead, but you live, you learn.

    My next one was a socket A with a KT133A, ran like a top with a heavily overvolted/overclocked Duron, haven't had any trouble since (Athlon XP, Athlon64).

    Got my eye on a Ryzen 2400G for my next machine. Well, for home.

    For work, I'm looking at dual 24 core Epycs...

  20. Re:I can't wait to see the new connector on Apple To Refresh Mac mini, MacBook Pro, iMac Lineups Later This Year, Report Says (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    A lot of my colleagues swore when they were anywhere by IE 6 as well.

  21. Re:Firefox is best browser on Firefox and the 4-Year Battle To Have Google To Treat It as a First-Class Citizen (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Naw, please don't do this, Firefox.

    Leave these features in extensions, where they belong:
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

  22. He should make it a Tesla subsidiary...

    Tesla Sucks LTD or whatever.

    Reading the comments on Slashdot, there would be a lot of people ready to invest in Tesla Sucks.

  23. Re:Not sure - Big Flex Pipe? on Elon Musk's Team Is Talking With Thai Officials for Cave Rescue (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It is fun.

    Try it :)

  24. Re:Wonder if that will work the other way... on Copying Photos Found on Internet is Fair Use, Virginia Federal Court Rules (petapixel.com) · · Score: 1

    This also seems like a pretty strong factor:

    "Furthermore, the scope of fair use is broadened when a copyrighted work has been previously published. It is undisputed in the record that Brammer previously published the photograph on several websites as early as 2012, and at least one of these publications did not include any indication that it was copyrighted. This prior publication and Violent Hues’ use of the photo for its factual content favors a finding of fair use."

  25. Re: Police state on UK Launches National Dashcam Database For Snitching On Bad Drivers (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Watch out! Internet tough guy alert!