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  1. Re:High end gaming hardware on 'Razer Doesn't Care About Linux' (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    Or maybe what they're favorite twitch gamer uses to get that 0.002 second egde on the competition.

    ...while still using USB with hubs. Remember kiddies, USB can't deal with any time shorter than 1 millisecond! Then it has to share those milliseconds with every device on that port!

  2. Re:High end gaming hardware on 'Razer Doesn't Care About Linux' (gnome.org) · · Score: 2

    The reason I like it is because you'd go into shops in China and people would be frantically clicking to kill the bugs on their pirated Windows

    Korea would turn it into an e-sport.

  3. Re: High end gaming hardware on 'Razer Doesn't Care About Linux' (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    It certainly didn't help that Nvidia's mobile GPUs from 2010-2012 were crap. And by that I mean the package that the chip was mounted in was crap. Many GPUs failed, and Apple had to have an extended warranty replacement program. Even if Nvidia paid for it 100%, it still was bad for Apple's reputation, which was a lot better then, before they soldered and glued everything in. Mine failed in early 2017, two months after that program ended, and I had to ship it to a guy in NYC who replaced it with a later version of the same chip.

  4. ...or Bayesian junk messages on Slashdot? Why would someone still be posting that crap for well over a decade when hardly anyone even notices it?

  5. Re:FTDI chip ? UART bootloader hack ? on Hackers Manage To Run Linux On a Nintendo Switch (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    If there is no requirement to open the console, why is there a strip of flex circuit sticking out of the right side in that picture? Or did they chop up a controller and that flex is from inside the controller?

  6. Re:why not make it flash rom? on Hackers Manage To Run Linux On a Nintendo Switch (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Because then an exploit could re-program it to be even more... open.

  7. Re:A new Tegra chip for Switch 2018 on Hackers Manage To Run Linux On a Nintendo Switch (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess that means I have to buy a Switch now before they come out with an updated boot ROM. I can put it next to the two Wiis I have that haven't even been turned on since Twilight Hack happened.

  8. Re:Uhhh... on Hackers Manage To Run Linux On a Nintendo Switch (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a direct quote from TFA, and it reads like it was written for third-graders. Not very crunchy.

  9. Re: Asmodee on Mayfair Games Shuts Down After 36 Years of Board Games (polygon.com) · · Score: 2

    The story that I heard about Hasbro buying Avalon Hill was that some exec at Hasbro told a flunkie to buy "that Civilization company". Apparently he meant Civilization the Sid Meier computer game by Microprose, but the flunkie instead saw Civilization the board game by Avalon Hill. In fact, Microprose had licensed the use of the name from Avalon Hill. The amount he was told to offer (in expectation of buying a software company) was an offer so good for Avalon Hill that they would have been stupid to refuse it.

    But checking Wikipedia, it seems that Hasbro did end up getting Microprose a few months later, which resolved some troubles between AH and MP.

  10. That would be the launch of Skylab. All Skylab crew missions and Apollo/Soyuz used a Saturn IB, because they did not need the cargo capacity.

  11. Apparently they put it as a second angle of the main stream. You know, like that feature they added to DVD that gets used so rarely that nobody remembers it is there? Look for the icon in the lower right corner that you've never seen before.

  12. Re:The side boosters did NOT reach orbit! on SpaceX Successfully Lands Two Falcon Heavy Boosters Simultaneously After Rocket Launch [Update] (spaceflightnow.com) · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't say that. Its perihelion is 0.98AU, so it's just a matter of time.

  13. Re:What if booster loses control on landing? on SpaceX Successfully Lands Two Falcon Heavy Boosters Simultaneously After Rocket Launch [Update] (spaceflightnow.com) · · Score: 1

    Their trajectory aims them off shore until the final deceleration burn, which adds the offset needed to reach the landing pads on shore. If the engines don't re-light, everything goes into the water. It probably also helps that the pad landings are generally done when there is plenty of extra fuel. The center core was lost because (supposedly) it didn't have enough fuel for the final burn.

  14. Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 was awesome, too, and we didn't even have to do anything but notice it before it went nuts on Jupiter.

  15. Re:Of course it's open to bad actors on Senator Warns YouTube Algorithm May Be Open To Manipulation By 'Bad Actors' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you seen some of that Star Trek fan fiction that's posted on YouTube? It's unwatchable!

    They put ST:D episodes up on Youtube? I'll be sure to not watch them there, too!

  16. Re:Its the content, stupid! on Are Music CDs Dying? Best Buy Stops Selling CDs (complex.com) · · Score: 1

    This. I have plenty of CDs and DVDs, and buy them all the time... used, and very cheaply. I just don't get to choose from a full library. But there are still tons of CDs not worth having, because of all the rubbish out there. It's worse now, though, there's been almost no new music in the western world that I am interested in for at least two decades. Ditto for movies, though not quite as bad, I barely have time to watch the few that I both care about and find.

    I also have hardly been to Best Buy in over a decade. Part of that was living near a Fry's Electronics store, but mostly it is between all the rubbish on the media side, having more than enough on the electronics side (especially way too many TVs), and I buy small stuff like cables used at thrift stores, for a fraction of the price.

  17. Re:Not a drill, not his fault on Hawaii Missile Alert Worker Fired, Will Sue State for Defamation (khon2.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, because a few words of disclaimer at the beginning of a fake incident, that are easily missed by someone not there at that moment, will be noticed by everybody and prevent all the other words from ever causing a panic.

  18. Re:The Orville, Ready Player One on Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Sci-Fi Books, Movies, and TV Shows You're Looking Forward To? · · Score: 1

    Ditto, except adding David Warner to your list of great bad-guy actors. End of line.

  19. I know all that. But this was in actual ink from Intel, which is why it was so interesting to find.

  20. Re:Thanks for posting with only four hours' notice on How To Watch the 'Super Blue Blood Moon' Lunar Eclipse (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    I missed it because 100% cloud cover. That happens here in Texas during the winter.

  21. I could say they were Empty Gox.

  22. Not to mention the trouble of getting it through the Van Allen radiation belts without evacuating it first. But this is what happens when people believe Hollywood's version of orbital mechanics.

  23. Kibo? Knowledge In, Bullshit Out?

    Parry-haps you're just some random kibozo. You should beable to do better than that.

  24. Re: 32-Bit is like what 16-Bit was in the late 90s on Apple Prepares MacOS Users For Discontinuation of 32-Bit App Support (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Somewhere I have an actual Intel data book where they call the 8088 an 8-bit processor, and include benchmarks that compare it to the Z80 and 6809.

  25. Re:32-Bit is like what 16-Bit was in the late 90s on Apple Prepares MacOS Users For Discontinuation of 32-Bit App Support (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    At 5GHz, the P4 would have smoked

    I think you can stop right there.