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  1. Re:Vapourware on Oculus Rift: 2015 Launch Unlikely, But Not Impossible · · Score: 1

    at less than 1/100 the cost of previous VR versions I wouldn't really call it expensive.

  2. Re:ASUS on We'll Be the Last PC Company Standing, Acer CEO Says · · Score: 1

    The mentioned M3800 can do this just fine with it's two drive bays.

    Also, SSDs have all but made RAID1 useless. The extremely predictable nature of current SSD failure has made even high level raids seem risky.

  3. Re:You no longer own a car on Automakers To Gearheads: Stop Repairing Cars · · Score: 3, Funny

    Professor: Oh God, I clicked without reading!
    Cubert: And I slightly modified a thing that I own.
    Professor: We're monsters!

  4. Re:You no longer own a car on Automakers To Gearheads: Stop Repairing Cars · · Score: 1

    Best Futurama quote ever:

    http://www.tvfanatic.com/quote...

    well, that's related to this story and linked to in this post, there's a lot of other good ones as well. This one may not be the best or even in the top 10 but it's still good.

  5. Re:"Close" Only Counts on Longer Video Shows How Incredibly Close Falcon Stage Came To Successful Landing · · Score: 1

    I'm sure they'll make up for it in volume.

  6. Re:Valve needs to use their clout on NVIDIA's New GPUs Are Very Open-Source Unfriendly · · Score: 1

    They don't need to do any such thing. Their important *nix customers are people doing CAD, rendering work or GPU computing not the tiny fraction of people playing games.

    Is that supposed to be sarcasm? I'd be very surprised if there was 3 cad/rendering people for every 10,000 gamers.

  7. Re:"Close" Only Counts on Longer Video Shows How Incredibly Close Falcon Stage Came To Successful Landing · · Score: 2

    Not that great with a 30 round magazine.

  8. Re:Keep that box on your head forevah! on Virtual Desktop Makes Windows OS Oculus Rift-Capable · · Score: 1

    Egg carton on your head, get it right.

  9. Re:Going to have to wait on major improvements on Virtual Desktop Makes Windows OS Oculus Rift-Capable · · Score: 1

    I skipped the 1st gen but I have both the GearVR and DK2, and most experiences I can do for several hours with no ill effects. Others I can't do for more than a few seconds without my stomach getting queasy. And it's not always the swinging and unrealistic motions that would make the average person puke if they moved like that in real life, but sometimes it's simple movement that can cause it while swinging from tree to tree like spiderman in Windlands doesn't bother me in the least.

  10. Re:Why does resolution matter? on Virtual Desktop Makes Windows OS Oculus Rift-Capable · · Score: 1

    With the Rift or any VR headset it isn't quite so much the resolution as the PPI(pixels per inch) of the display. right now they are around ~386ppi. I read somewhere that around 750ppi should make it almost invisible. Sharp just announced 4k 5.5inch displays with greater than 800ppi. Samsung is rumored to also have one nearing release and expected to be in the note 5 along with a new gear vr and in the initial Oculus Consumer version.

  11. Re:I wonder how this would be for software develop on Virtual Desktop Makes Windows OS Oculus Rift-Capable · · Score: 1

    Ive done a small amount of coding in the current DK2 with this, mostly just to say I did. It is very possible but at the current res it is not as comfortable as it should be. That said it isn't like it needs an order of magnitude improvement. Double would make it good, triple would make it a replacement.

  12. Re:I wonder how this would be for software develop on Virtual Desktop Makes Windows OS Oculus Rift-Capable · · Score: 1

    It's rendered in VR so it doesn't really matter what the resolution of the display is the HMD(head mounted device) can show it at any distance. the problem with the low res HMD (more a problem with ppi which is loosely tied to the resolution) is that it wont be rendered very clear and it'll have a lot of SDE (screen door effect, like you're looking at the display through a screen door). I use it to view my 5760x108 triple head display and it works pretty well. you can quickly and easily zoom in and out and I can wrap the display in a full 360 around my head.

  13. Re:Watt is this article about? on The Myth of Going Off the Power Grid · · Score: 0

    There are many vague and unsubstantiated ways in which your math and idea are wrong that I don't wish to go into right now.

    perhaps you could find some help here http://lmgtfy.com/?q=I'm+wrong

  14. Re:Mosquitos on Obama Says Climate Change Is Harming Americans' Health · · Score: 1

    The science is settled like the aether, land bridges, dark matter and stomach ulcers.

  15. Re:And let's be real here on Reddit CEO Ellen Pao Bans Salary Negotiations To Equalize Pay For Men, Women · · Score: 1

    If it's not a fair wage then don't take the job, there's plenty others in tech around to get.

    If you can't get a job paying more then take the lower pay until you can find one that pays what you want.

  16. She is already the lowest paid CEO currently in the company.

  17. Re:smart/intelligent != knowing a lot of facts on Google 'Makes People Think They Are Smarter Than They Are' · · Score: 1

    No, being smart is contradicting people on the internet, telling them they are wrong then putting forth your own wrong statement in their place.

  18. Re:They're from the government and they're gonna h on ISPs Worry About FCC's 'Future Conduct' Policing · · Score: 1

    So you're saying that putting someone in jail rightly or wrongly is worse then the millions of people that died or were murdered during a bad government, but hey it was overthrown and is all better now.

    wow, just wow... your hatred of successes is palpable. Even the worst corporations in history pale in comparison to even just the bad governments. And even at that those "worst corporations" wouldn't have been able to exist if not for the support of those bad governments.

  19. Re:They're from the government and they're gonna h on ISPs Worry About FCC's 'Future Conduct' Policing · · Score: 1

    Bad Corporations: go to a different corporation
    Bad Government: rot in the same cell

  20. Re:Uh huh... on ISPs Worry About FCC's 'Future Conduct' Policing · · Score: 1

    Yea, it's kinda scary. Like a police office watching you doing something and you ask is this legal, and he says why don't you have a go at it and I'll decided afterwards if I should arrest you.

  21. Re:That's not really a memory... on Scientists Insert a Synthetic Memory Into the Brain of a Sleeping Mouse · · Score: 1

    the mouse just said, "Whoa, I know kung-fu."

  22. Re:if that were true on Obama Administration Claims There Are 545,000 IT Job Openings · · Score: 1

    both, I can't find anyone to mow my lawn at a price I am willing to pay.

    Wow I'm an evil greedy capitalist that mows his own lawn for profit.

  23. This happens from time to time. on The Milky Way May Be 50 Percent Bigger Than Previously Thought · · Score: 4, Funny

    As you can see from the middle of this picture of the milkyway:

    http://www.collectingcandy.com...

  24. Re:Innovation vs. Commodity on Does USB Type C Herald the End of Apple's Proprietary Connectors? · · Score: 1

    Apple really stretches the "as if for the first time." clause of that definition.

  25. Re:Here's one on Obama Administration Claims There Are 545,000 IT Job Openings · · Score: 2

    I recommend everyone, especially those with a job, come up with the number you'd leave you job for and respond to every request like this that is a close fit to you with that number.

    I did and it eventually worked out really well for me.