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  1. Look upthread anonymous moron.

  2. A warning of "don't look" requires you to look in order to read the warning...

  3. immersive storylines require fancy graphics.

    Depends on how lazy your storytelling ability is. I do agree with you, but if the same publishers during that generation were doing the same games now but with the more powerful hardware, I'm sure of what they would choose to do.

  4. I think he can afford the expensive seats.

  5. You can't develop for iOS on a PC. All they really seemed to have said is they didn't have a Mac before.

  6. We're going to make the Mac Great again. Better than ever. It'll be HUUUGEly thin.

  7. The UI, for one.

  8. Are you guys insane? Just plug in an external keyboard and mouse and display if you want it. Get a docking station. Desktop PCs are dead, except for gaming. Get over it.

    Congratulations. You are now using a Nintendo Switch as a desktop computer.

  9. Too bad most of Apple's desktops ARE laptops - down to the cramped flat keyboard and laptop parts crammed in next to the screen.

  10. Re:Our engineers are hard at work this very moment on Tim Cook Assures Employees That It Is Committed To Mac and 'Great Desktops' Are Coming (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    And that will be two proprietary uses for the NFC chip on-board and it still won't interact with any other NFC technology.

  11. It was only a few years ago that they were featuring how Peter Jackson used his Macbook Pro on the airplane to edit feature films. In pre-X FCP, when that was still good too.

  12. Re:wiggle room to update hardware on Nintendo Switch Uses Nvidia Tegra X1 SoC, Clock Speeds Outed (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If it's 720p vs 1080p with AA, then the wiggle room might just be to handle the higher resolution.

  13. Really depends on which games you liked in the SNES era. If you liked the first-party titles, much of what you like is still alive in new forms today - and the Switch will be perfect for that. Those games were all about gameplay, but never were about immersive storylines (that would then require fancy graphics). If you liked 3rd-party titles at the time, most of those work better on more powerful consoles.

  14. Re:It's Come to This on Mark Zuckerberg Demos Jarvis, His Own Home AI Assistant (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    It was merely one example - one that I haven't personally implemented either. I have gone out of my way to put photo caller ID on my DVR screen, however, because I'm very bad with faces/names. Not necessarily under the banner of home "automation" but it's a smart home thing and it's fairly automatic now (pulls from my Gmail contacts).

  15. Re:It's Come to This on Mark Zuckerberg Demos Jarvis, His Own Home AI Assistant (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    Attention shift happens as soon as the doorbell rings. If you don't want to miss anything, the response time should be immediate. Either way, blaming innovation on laziness will just undo most of the 20th and 21st century's progress.

  16. Re:It's Come to This on Mark Zuckerberg Demos Jarvis, His Own Home AI Assistant (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Turning off the lights is not. Automatically pausing the DVR when the doorbell rings is the kind of useful I'd want. Light switches are already at the entrance/exit of the room - the same place you usually already are when you want to switch the lights.

  17. Re:Absurd Expectations on Bad Reviews For Super Mario Run Are Sending Nintendo's Stock Tumbling (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Mario games haven't been about simply completing levels since Super Mario World on the SNES (maybe even SMB3), and this one is no exception.

    Original SMB. Invisible 1-up blocks, pipes to underground coins, warp pipes.

  18. Re:Cod liver oil on Vitamin D Deficiency During Pregnancy Linked To Autism (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not how it works. That's not how any of this works. It's a well known direct effect from digesting the oils.

  19. Re:It's not a billion people... on Yahoo's Billion-User Database Reportedly Sold On the Dark Web for Just $300,000 - NYT (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Your balls have dropped

    Happy new year!

  20. Re:Oh Yeah Guess What? on Vitamin D Deficiency During Pregnancy Linked To Autism (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll stick with one, just because I don't have time right now.
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

  21. It actually was a federated system. You could build your own client or run your own server.

  22. Re:Cod liver oil on Vitamin D Deficiency During Pregnancy Linked To Autism (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    flavorless when you swallow it. Not later when you get all eructatey.

  23. Re:Oh Yeah Guess What? on Vitamin D Deficiency During Pregnancy Linked To Autism (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    There's some theories that a number of brain development issues are caused by autoimmune responses to virus exposure (vaccine or otherwise). It's too early to say yes or no to it, but it's really interesting at the very least.

  24. Re: Tell mom's to drink their milk. on Vitamin D Deficiency During Pregnancy Linked To Autism (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    You could also just take it with food.

  25. Re:Web browser virtualization on Zero-Days Hitting Fedora and Ubuntu Open Desktops To a World of Hurt (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    And its the specially crafted audio signal which carries the exploit

    Kind of hard to have a buffer overflow in the audio signal when the entire bit space is available for audio. So then what's left? A pulsed signal, that when it hits the DAC creates RF interference that then induces current somewhere else on a chip?

    I know, you can read keystrokes from 2 rooms away by pointing an antenna at a keyboard, but I can't even imagine how you do an exploit with an audio waveform.