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  1. Re:Price isn't everything on Amazon Says It Puts Customers First - But Its Pricing Algorithm Doesn't (propublica.org) · · Score: 2

    This man knows how the game is played. Read 1-star reviews first.
    Also fakespot.com .

  2. Re:Price isn't everything on Amazon Says It Puts Customers First - But Its Pricing Algorithm Doesn't (propublica.org) · · Score: 2

    PPPS: camelcamelcamel.com
    PPPPS: fakespot.com

    Both have convenient extensions. They should be mandatory for all Amazon shoppers.

  3. Re:What device can use 1Tb? on SanDisk's 1TB SD Card Aims To Solve Your Storage Problems (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You can format these things however you want. 4 GB SD cards were common before SDHC took off. I've even seen 8 GB cards, but I don't know how they worked internally. Probably arranged as 2 4 GB cards.

  4. Re:What device can use 1Tb? on SanDisk's 1TB SD Card Aims To Solve Your Storage Problems (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Except 4 GB and 8 GB SD cards were made (and they worked if the device wasn't retarded), and today most devices supporting SDXC won't support a 2 TB card. Typical upper limits are 64 GB, 128 GB, 200 GB, and 256 GB. A while back I was looking at a 200 GB card (before the 256 GB cards came out) but realized the intended device would only support 128. And yes, reviews confirmed that it wasn't just official support, it was actual support.

  5. Re:What device can use 1Tb? on SanDisk's 1TB SD Card Aims To Solve Your Storage Problems (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    False. Many cameras only support cards up to a given size for some stupid reason, even if they support SD_C and SD_C supports a higher capacity.

    I also have encountered cameras that only support SD cards up to 2 GB (even though 4 GB and 8 GB cards exist and work elsewhere), yet support SDHC up to 32 GB.

  6. Re:You know the saying on SanDisk's 1TB SD Card Aims To Solve Your Storage Problems (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Joke's on you, he uses a Maltron layout!

  7. Re:PS4 Pro timing on 4K UHD TVs Are Being Adopted Faster Than HDTVs (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Demons Souls is my favorite of all the Souls+Blood games.

    I'm into games AND want a 4K BluRay player. Multiplayer games I do mainly on PC (especially since MS and Sony now both charge for multiplayer) or Wii U (Mario Kart, Smash, etc. can't bet had anywhere else.)

    The PS3 was a vehicle for BR because of Sony. UHD BR wasn't ready when the PS4 came out, but it was ready in time for the revision. I just can't comprehend why they'd omit it when even the Xbox One S (the"slim" revision, not the new, more powerful version) has it.

    I can wait for the PS4 Pro Slim or the PS5 for my UHD BR player AND for my PS games. The games will be cheaper then anyhow. There really are only a handful I want to play. It was the same way with the PS3. I got it late in the cycle and enjoyed low prices on "old" games. Again, almost exclusively single player games (or single player games with tacked on multiplayer modes I don't care about, such as Last of Us).

  8. Re:But climate change is a myth!!! YODA GREASE on NASA: Arctic Sea Ice 2nd-Lowest On Record (earthsky.org) · · Score: 1, Troll

    How much oil is used in manufacturing those cars and building and maintaining those roads or generating and delivering the electricity they run on?

  9. Gag orders are always unconstitutional. Yes. Always.

  10. Re:Perhaps all new legislation on AT&T and Comcast Helped Elected Official Write Plan To Stall Google Fiber (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    How about they spend one day dead?

  11. Re:PS4 Pro timing on 4K UHD TVs Are Being Adopted Faster Than HDTVs (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    They're generally terrible ports with bugs galore. The first one was locked to shitty resolutions and 30 FPS. (There were workarounds.) Their animation and rendering systems were tied to being 30 FPS and running higher than that caused all sorts of bugs. I believe they did issue a patch to make 60 FPS work at some point.

  12. Re:PS4 Pro timing on 4K UHD TVs Are Being Adopted Faster Than HDTVs (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't matter. BluRay uses MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 (including AVCHD) at stupid bitrates because players can't be expected to have anything other than the bare minimum processing power. Using a modern MPEG-4 Part 10 / AVC codec (such as x264) at 8000 kbps, Main or High profile, 4:2:0 or 4:2:2 (fuck chroma subsampling), you can get nearly the same quality as a BluRay source. That's 7 GB for 2 hours. Call it 10 GB for audio and whatever else. Double it, then double it again for excessive bitrates and boring, interminable Peter Jackson movies and you still have plenty of room left over.

    The UHD BluRay spec should have simply been a codec and min spec update such that players would be expected to handle some more b-frames. Using modern (not even bleeding edge) codecs, 50 GB would have been enough for 4K, high bitrate, 60 FPS, with no chroma subsampling fuckery.

    I was waiting for the PS4 Pro because I expected it to support UHD BluRay. I don't have a PS4 yet. I won't be getting the PS4 Pro. I hope the PS5 plays PS4 games or has copious re-releases, because I have yet to play Uncharted 4, I'd like to try Resident Evil 7 after the suckfest that was 6, and I don't want to touch the fucking awful Dark Souls PC ports. Other than those few titles, the reason I'd get a PS4 is for UHD BluRay, just as the main reason I got a PS3 was for BluRay.

  13. Re:wow, completely clueless... on Computer Specialist Who Deleted Clinton Emails May Have Asked Reddit For Tips (usnews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    To be fair, no one knows how to manage Outlook. (Or any full-fledged email service.)
    Email, calendaring, and contacts are a nightmare.

    And when I say "no one", I'm including Microsoft and Google. Yes, I've used their professional, big contract big dollar solutions.

  14. Re: This is in California. on 21st Century Fox Sues Netflix Over Executive Poaching (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Not only are such contracts illegal, Netflix isn't actively interfering with them.

  15. Re:Fanboies are often the biggest critics. on iPhone 7 Plus Makes Hissing Sound Under Load, Some Users Complain (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't use smooth scrolling on systems using Intel's GPUs because of the distinct noise they make.

    I typically disable smooth scrolling anyway, but whenever I come across an Intel-only box I don't control it's maddening.

  16. Re:bad inductor selection on iPhone 7 Plus Makes Hissing Sound Under Load, Some Users Complain (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2

    And I would guess the newfangled "barometric vent" is acting like a megaphone for all noisy components inside.

  17. This was a "selling point" of YouTube Red. You can have shit run in the background in the YouTube app if you pay up. Of course, you could do this just fine, for free, before YouTube Red.

    Why would they be giving a YouTube Red feature away for free in Chrome?
    Why did they bundle YouTube Red with Google Play Music subscriptions?

    (Hint: No one is paying for YouTube Red.)

  18. Re:Market forces on Uber Accused of Cashing In On Bomb Explosion By Jacking Rates (thesun.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Option 5: Walk.
    Option 6: Get your own vehicle.
    Option 7: Go into some unexploded building and wait a bit.
    Option 8: Don't live in overcrowded megalopolises that are large targets for attacks, that don't have the capacity for people to move about, etc.

  19. Re:You Mispelled "Bradley Manning" on Assange Agrees to US Prison If Obama Pardons Chelsea Manning (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Nobody cares. Do you keep up with what Snoop Dog is calling himself every week? Is it Snoop Lion still? What about Prince? Or whenever streets or a short stretch of freeway around you get "officially" named after a dead guy? What about a University of library that renames buildings and wings after whatever cocksplash donates a lot of money each year? Have you ever asked your dog what his or her gender preference is? How dare you think you can choose his or her name! And how dare you think "his" or "her" are the only pronouns possible!!

    People refer to you as what they know you as. They often know you as what they perceive you as, either from a first impression, actually knowing you as such in the past, or seeing you as such in the present. There's no reason for the world to actively try to change their perception of each individual to make you feel better, regardless of if that involves your name, your gender, or the aroma of your farts.

  20. Re:What exactly is he asking for? on Assange Agrees to US Prison If Obama Pardons Chelsea Manning (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    And then refused to actually sign a formal statement to that effect, causing the matter to be officially dropped, only for it to be magically resurrected for no reason. (Hint: US wants extradition.)

  21. Because they keep getting away with it. If you can't negotiate it's not a contract. If you couldn't understand it it's not a contract. If you don't have a free choice to reject proposed changes it's not a contract.

  22. Re: This is in California. on 21st Century Fox Sues Netflix Over Executive Poaching (latimes.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    No. Executives are different. Depending on corporate structure and charter, executives might or might not be employees at all. They might be stakeholders or shareholders with distinct contracts that are not beholden to employment laws.

    You're a retard.

    Not only are they employees they're bound by law. Even if courts allowed the ridiculous slavery contracts in question, Netflix is not a party to those agreements and Fox can't sue Netflix for trying to hire someone who was bound by such an agreement.

  23. Virtually all quadcopters use gyros and accelerometers and don't give a shit about altitude unless they're ALSO using GPS.

    You're an idiot, and you responded to my post with bullshit TWICE! Amazing, even for drinkypoo!

    Barometers measure pressure. You can whisper sweet nothings at one and have it spaz out.

  24. So it never occured to you to read the post you were replying to? Or to think?
    At a minimum you need to slide your finger across the screen to unlock a locked iPhone, don't you? You ALREADY need meat to unlock in any fashion.

  25. So? on iPhone 7 Home Button Now Requires Skin Contact To Work (todaysiphone.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Considering that the fingerprint scanner and the screen already needed meat, what's the difference?
    To unlock you need to use your fingerprint, a password, a pin/pattern, or a slide with some meaty appendage anyway, right?