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  1. Re:Marginal cost is what is important on How Streaming Music Could Be Harming the Planet (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I came here to say something like this. The article assumes that all the power to stream an album is attributed to just one destination device. It ignores the whole 1:100,000+ ratio between upstream equipment to streaming devices ratio.

    n2ch

  2. This is just one more step closer to that docu-drama TV show from the '80s called "Max Headroom".

    The next step is either TV that doesn't turn off, or the volume only goes down to 1/3 of max.

  3. Re:Don't fly on TSA Screeners Win Immunity From Abuse Claims, Court Rules (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    If they ban all private charter flights the rich, the powerful, & the politicians have to experience the same treatment as The Unwashed Masses, there will be changes.

    n2ch

  4. Re:Nintendo did the same shit on The Supreme Court Will Decide If Apple's App Store Is a Monopoly (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    After you bought that cartridge did Nintendo's decision to stop selling that product prevent you from using it when you bought a new TV? Did it stop working, or were you able to continue to use your purchased product after they decided to stop selling it?

  5. Re:For what use? on Laptops With 128GB of RAM Are Here (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Even if the RAM is not needed, it works as a cache, making I/O faster.

    The only thing that makes I/O faster is faster I/O. Everything else is just delayed or asynchronous I/O. n2ch

  6. Re:Pick your battles on Food Calorie Counts Will Start Appearing in US Restaurants and Grocery Stores (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I live in a state that requires menu listed calorie count. It does have an effect on what I decide to order.

    I can have this chicken breast with bacon risotto and butter smothered mushrooms at 2500 calories;
    I can order the fettuccine lobster with white sauce at 1200 calories;
    or I can order the steak with garlic mashed potatoes at 800 calories.

    Knowing that, if I'm in the mood to eat more healthy, I can actively choose how healthy i want to eat at dinner that night.

    Not knowing numbers, I'm only guessing.

    n2ch

  7. Wish I had points to mod this insightful.

  8. Re:Fair use, anyone? on MPAA Wants Filmmakers To Pay Licenses, Not Rip Blu-rays (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    unless of course there is profit involved.

    This is not a problem. Modern movies use accounting practices that ensure they do not make a profit.

  9. Buy it on gog.com for a DRM free install

  10. Re:How about some real SF? on Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Sci-Fi Books, Movies, and TV Shows You're Looking Forward To? · · Score: 1

    Nothing is new. Everything has been done

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt01...

  11. Re:It isn't that difficult on Amazon's Push Into Healthcare Just Cost the Industry $30 Billion In Market Cap (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Well said. I broke my foot a couple of years ago and the attributed total bill when all was said and done was $52k. n2ch

  12. World Food Problem Solved on Microbes May Help Astronauts Transform Human Waste Into Food (phys.org) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Looks like they've solved the 3rd world food problem. Just don't tell anyone what it's made from.

  13. That hasn't been true for a long time.

  14. "Paid off" is a relative term. The books are closed for sure, but the end result was $10+ billion in taxpayer money lost in the auto industry bailout.

    https://www.thebalance.com/aut...

  15. Nothing Lost on Luxury Phone-maker Vertu Collapses (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    And nothing of value was lost.

    n2ch

  16. Re:easy to clip this on to a bill banning burner p on A Colorado Group Wants To Ban Smartphones For Kids (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Good by Morris Dancing, hello Music with Rocks In...

  17. Re:Interviews need training, too on Programmers Are Confessing Their Coding Sins To Protest a Broken Job Interview Process (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    That guy was going to be my new manager, had I accepted the job. I had no interest in working for someone who could not handle being wrong.

    I had a similar experience early in my career (early 2000's). I interviewed for a data analyst job dealing with survey data, and the hiring manger (the only other database programmer) asked me a TSQL question where he had a specific answer in mind. His answer was to use a "@value is >= x and @value is
    He told me that my answer was wrong, so figuring that I'd already lost the job I argued my point. He believed I was wrong so strongly that we relocated the interview to his desk so that he could prove me wrong. The interview ended when he found out that I wasn't.

    Dodged a bullet on that one.

    n2ch

  18. Re:The best interview coding question on Programmers Are Confessing Their Coding Sins To Protest a Broken Job Interview Process (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    "Show me an example of a program that you wrote and are proud of"

    (and then go over the program with them to make sure they understand how it works and why they wrote it the way they did)

    This is how I got my last contracting gig at MS. They pointed to a couple of projects on my resume and listened as I explained the problem being solved, the analysis I did to decide on the solution, and the techniques I used to implement the solution. It was a small close-knit team, and the interview-questions games wasn't any part of it.

    n2ch

  19. Re:zero benefit for me in a home env on Slashdot Asks: Are Curved TVs Worth It? (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Nitwit. How do you expect to get a 2-minute edit window when you post as an AC?

  20. Re:Privacy policy also quite interesting on Norton Announces Core, a Smart Router To Protect Domestic IoT Devices (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like they should be paying me to install this thing, not the other way 'round.

  21. Re:Slashdot is killing itself on Donald Trump To Tech Leaders: 'No Formal Chain Of Command' Here (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Troll-feeding is bad, m'k.

  22. It's not the width...It's how thick it is that counts.

    I worry about depth.

  23. You would have been closer if you had mentioned Kanye.

  24. Re:Businesses will automate anyway on California's $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage May Spur Automation (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Your proposal to build really tall barbed wire walls around California is interesting. I'm interested in learning more.

  25. Re:What the actual fuck on ZDNet Writer Downplays Windows 10's Phoning-Home Habits · · Score: 1

    Are you sure you're not new here?