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  1. Vorbis is obsolete on Red Hat Announces Fedora Will Support MP3 Playback (fedoraproject.org) · · Score: 2

    also there's ogg vorbis and flac. MP3 can die in a fire.

    Vorbis has been superseded by Opus.

  2. Re:What's really stunning is this on President Obama Gives Up On The Trans-Pacific Partnership (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    but the only thing approaching a landslide was that he outnumbered her in the electoral college.

    The electoral college vote is the only one that matters. The states are allowed to select their electors as they see fit. People who bang on about the legitimacy of the popular vote are fetishizing something with no relevance to the actual election system this country has.

    Shit is un-American, fam. You may as well be waving a Mexican flag and chanting "not my country".

  3. Don't sit so close to the TV! on The NES Classic is a $60 Single Board Computer Running Linux · · Score: 1

    Ars measured the controller cords on this system as a mere 31 inches long... they were 90 inches long on the original US systems.

    https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp...

  4. Re: Sociopaths gonna sociopath. What's new? on Rich People Pay Less Attention To Other People, Says Study (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I would guess it's a paraphrase of this quote attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt (from my search results anyway):

    Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

  5. The old Presto version received a security update earlier this year... version 12.18. Grab it if you haven't already.

    ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/...

    The most notable fix is for the code 40 HTTPS errors on Cloudflare sites. Windows only unfortunately.

  6. Ubuntu on Canonical Names Ubuntu Linux 17.04 'Zesty Zapus' (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Ubuntu, with its three long vowel sounds, is actually fairly awkward for English speakers to pronounce correctly.

  7. Re: Just downgraded to 8.1. Linux? on Microsoft Bungles This Week's Windows 10 Anniversary Update (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I likewise have a 4770K and am deeply annoyed that Intel's asinine product segmentation left the supposed top-of-the-line processor with a valuable feature missing.

    Swapping in a 4790K would give us VT-d but the prices on them are still too high for me to bother with this yet.

  8. I don't want browser acceleration. How can I be guaranteed it won't make the browser crash, or actually slow down perhaps to a stand still because of overhead?, if not crash the whole X session.

    Having hardware acceleration enabled and visiting certain sites in Chrome (such as the Chrome Web Store) crashes the GPU in my old laptop (Intel GMA965) so hard that the only a power cycle can recover it.

    Can't find the bug report at the moment but this has been an issue in Chrome for more than a year now.

  9. Ubuntu 16.04 has the Amazon web search feature disabled by default.

  10. Re:People still use Gnome? on GNOME 3.22 Desktop Environment Officially Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Who's funding Gnome today anyway?

    RedHat.

    Even RedHat, however, doesn't use the default Gnome SHELL in RHEL. They run "Classic Mode" with a top and bottom panel that looks an awful lot like Gnome 2.

  11. Re:what systems support this? on Samsung's 960 Pro and 960 Evo SSDs Marry Crazy-Fast Speeds With Roomy Capacity (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You'll need very recent hardware at a minimum.

    Generally speaking, booting from it will probably require at least a 9-series (i.e. Z97) board and running it at full speed will probably require a 10-series (i.e. Z170) board.

  12. Get real on Firefox 49 Arrives With Improvements (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    Hardware lacking SSE2 support (i.e. pre-Pentium 4) is barely capable of accessing the web as it currently exists, and would probably be better served by running a browser a lot more lightweight than current builds of FF anyway.

  13. With a 5 digit Slashdot UID... on Apple Patents a Paper Bag (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    With a 5 digit Slashdot UID, you've surely wasted more time here than most of us have.

    Don't hurt yourself clutching those pearls, old sport.

  14. Re:anyone know if it works in virtualbox? on macOS Sierra Is Now Available For Download (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Virtualbox officially only supports macOS guests on Apple hardware.

    Copypasta from Virtualbox's manual:

    3.1.1. Mac OS X guests
    Starting with version 3.2, VirtualBox has experimental support for Mac OS X guests. This allows you to install and execute unmodified versions of Mac OS X on supported host hardware.
    Whereas competing solutions perform modifications to the Mac OS X install DVDs (e.g. different boot loader and replaced files), VirtualBox is the first product to provide the modern PC architecture expected by OS X without requiring any "hacks".
    You should be aware of a number of important issues before attempting to install a Mac OS X guest:
    Mac OS X is commercial, licensed software and contains both license and technical restrictions that limit its use to certain hardware and usage scenarios. It is important that you understand and obey these restrictions.
    In particular, for most versions of Mac OS X, Apple prohibits installing them on non-Apple hardware.
    These license restrictions are also enforced on a technical level. Mac OS X verifies whether it is running on Apple hardware, and most DVDs that that come with Apple hardware even check for an exact model. These restrictions are not circumvented by VirtualBox and continue to apply.
    Only CPUs known and tested by Apple are supported. As a result, if your Intel CPU is newer than the build of Mac OS X, or if you have a non-Intel CPU, it will most likely panic during bootup with an "Unsupported CPU" exception. It is generally best to use the Mac OS X DVD that came with your Apple hardware.
    The Mac OS X installer expects the harddisk to be partitioned so when it does not offer a selection, you have to launch the Disk Utility from the "Tools" menu and partition the hard disk. Then close the Disk Utility and proceed with the installation.
    In addition, as Mac OS X support in VirtualBox is currently still experimental, please refer also to Chapter 14, Known limitations.

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

    p>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.

    The original SD standard only covers capacities up to 2GB. 4GB SD cards are using 64kiB clusters on FAT16B as a out-of-spec hack.

    8GB cards based on the SD standard aren't possible AFAIK, can you provide a link to such a card?

  16. Re:/. is becoming more and more irrelevant on Welcome To Alphanumeric Car Hell (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Speaking of things worth pointing and laughing at...

    Yes, this is my first time logging in in about 10 years

    Who posted this comment, then?

    You were here in the 90s, Mr. 8 digit user ID?

    There aren't any 8-digit UIDs yet, we still have half of the 7-digits UIDs unassigned.

  17. Re:Reminds me of Vernor Vinges books on Microsoft, Google, Apple Could Be Requested To Actively Block Pirated Downloads, Says Report (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    HDCP isn't enforced by the DP/HDMI/DVI cable, though. The endpoints negotiate and enforce it.

  18. Maybe... on TVs Are Still Too Complicated, and It's Not Your Fault (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    What if the TV refuses to function without a network connection?

  19. Was posted here at /. on Microsoft To Disable Policies In Windows 10 Pro With Anniversary Update (ghacks.net) · · Score: 1
  20. Re:It's about the battery backpack, stupid. on Do We Need The Moto Z Smartphones' New Add-On Modules? (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    (on a charger)

    The battery add-on lacks its own charge port. It can only be charged when attached to the phone.

  21. Your choice is absurd on Hillary Clinton Chooses Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine As Running Mate (go.com) · · Score: 1

    The libertarians are totally clueless on immigration. Even among Anglo-culture whites, their is limited enthusiasm for their ideas. Amongst non-Anglo non-whites there almost no support whatsoever.

    The libertarians are apparently content to ensure they remain marginal by being all in favor of importing an endless stream of folks who don't agree with them on anything.

    Wake up and smell the biodiversity! The evidence is right in front of you.

  22. Re:This confirms my previous speculation on 'The Hillary Leaks' - Wikileaks Releases 19,252 Previously Unseen DNC Emails (zerohedge.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Correct, and that constitute strong proof that no one, not even liberals, actually enjoys "diversity".

    Home is where you don't have to explain yourself.

  23. Deliberately misleading on Verizon To Disconnect Unlimited Data Customers Who Use Over 100GB/Month · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You are comparing apples to oranges.

    Population density of Denmark: 130 persons per sq km.
    Population density of USA: 35 persons per sq km.

    He said "Nordic Countries", not "Denmark". It's not hard to understand why you would conflate those terms when we look consider the other Nordic population density numbers.

    Population density of Sweden: 21.5 persons per sq km
    Population density of Norway: 15.5 persons per sq km

    Feel free to explain again how Manhattan's population density in not high enough to secure the sort of internet access pricing that people in Finland enjoy.

  24. Re:... Negative only on Intellect on PC Gaming Is Still Way Too Hard (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the potential precision is the same as with a mouse, but it does take a fair amount of practice to get to a high level for twitchy FPS or RTS play.

    Cleaning detritus off the 3 points the ball rides upon regularly is important for best performance.

  25. Re:... Negative only on Intellect on PC Gaming Is Still Way Too Hard (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The couch keyboard just needs to be compact and wireless.

    The best way to solve the problem of using a mouse on the couch... is to use a trackball instead of a mouse.

    There is a learning curve, but it's well worth it because a trackball gives you so much more freedom of posture than a mouse does. I use the wireless Logitech M570.