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  1. Vorbis defunct on Microsoft Edge To Support Dolby Audio · · Score: 1

    Opus has replaced for Vorbis for all use cases AFAIK, since it is better at low bit rates and equal at high bit rates.

  2. Re:Disappointing on Microsoft Edge To Support Dolby Audio · · Score: 1

    Neither TrueHD or DTS-MA are ever included on DVDs, so your ripping example is nonsensical.

    Ripping involves re-encoding, so just reencode the TrueHD audio on your BluRay rip as you do the video. If you believe that lossy DTS is "CD-quality" then the re-encoded-from-losseless audio should also be entirely acceptable.

  3. Siri on Microsoft Bringing Cortana To iOS, Android · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Shipping costs on Hot Topic To Buy ThinkGeek Parent Company Geeknet · · Score: 1

    USPS shipping really ought to be included as an option on any US ecommerce site for this reason.

  5. Re:What's that saying???? on Microsoft Tries Another Icon Theme For Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    Wrong end!

    But should you happen to prefer that end, you could annouce it proudly in a comment, get modded +5 Informative and then make it a Slashdot signature memorable enough that it is brought up in otherwise unreleated comment threads like this one.

  6. Re:They were better before on Microsoft Tries Another Icon Theme For Windows 10 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because the concept of "choice" is anathema to UI designers circa 2015.

  7. Re:Obsessed with keeping government out of busines on North Carolina Still Wants To Block Municipal Broadband · · Score: 1

    USPS has given all sorts of indication it cannot get along with UPS/FedEx.

    UPS and FexEx drop off truckloads of packages at local post offices for final delivery by USPS every single day. The terms used for this service are SurePost and SmartPost, respectively.

  8. Re:How powered off is "powered off"? on Enterprise SSDs, Powered Off, Potentially Lose Data In a Week · · Score: 1

    For example I do not know any consumer SSD which has power loss capacitors (Intel 320 is not produced anymore).

    The Intel 730 series have these capacitors.

  9. Re:No Degradation Here on Samsung's SSD 840 Read Performance Degradation Explained · · Score: 1

    Return it and get a different drive.

  10. Re:disable swap on Ask Slashdot: Most Chromebook-Like Unofficial ChromeOS Experience? · · Score: 1

    disabling swap (a dying craft i am afraid...)

    If only Linux installers would get with the times and default to no swap partition when at least 4GB of RAM is present.

    Then we could put that nasty "swap" business behind us entirely.

  11. Re:TFS on OS X Users: 13 Characters of Assyrian Can Crash Your Chrome Tab · · Score: 1

    That's correct usage in British English, AC. Welcome to the Internet.

  12. Re:Slippery slope on OEMs Allowed To Lock Secure Boot In Windows 10 Computers · · Score: 1

    My Toyota doesnt run with a Subaru engine or MCU.

    Bad choice of car analogy.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  13. Re:Why still 1080? on First AMD FreeSync Capable Gaming Displays and Drivers Launched, Tested · · Score: 1

    Also isn't your comment about a year too late to be relevant?

    Indeed. Even Walmart is offering greater than 1080p choices now, for both monitors and TVs.

    1920x1200 is no longer something to brag about... adjust accordingly lest you start to sound like an old person. :P

  14. Re:Never leave on First AMD FreeSync Capable Gaming Displays and Drivers Launched, Tested · · Score: 2

    Playing a video with breasts in motion is actually one of the best ways to check for screen tearing issues... :)

  15. Re:Why Gnome? on The Role of a Nonprofit In Open Source Development · · Score: 1

    Agreed... the best Linux desktop experience is at Xfce.

    As long as you have no need for tear-free video playback, anyway.

    Don't get me wrong, I've got XFCE on one my own machines. But still having this sort of show-stopper issue in 2015, on open source Intel graphics no less, is embarrassing to Linux.

  16. Re:BeOS: tell me your memories. on Mesa 10.5 Updates Open-Source Graphics Drivers · · Score: 1

    Where is BeOS now?

    Check this out:
    http://haiku-os.org/

    Progress is very slow, but it's still going. Don't bother with the Alpha 4 download, try one of the nightly snapshots instead.

  17. Re:And still on One Astronomer's Quest To Reinstate Pluto As a Planet · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Jupiter emits more heat into space than it receives from the Sun.

    (I agree with you, just playing devil's advocate).

  18. Re:And still on One Astronomer's Quest To Reinstate Pluto As a Planet · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Really, the only categorization issue that I'm adamant about is that Pluto-Charon is called a binary. The Pluto-Charon barycentre is not inside Pluto, therefore Charon is not rotating around Pluto, the two are corotating around a common point of space between them. That's a binary.

    The barycenter of the Sun-Jupiter system lies at 1.068 solar radii, outside the Sun. Do you think they should be called a binary?

  19. Re:Who wants to bet they shit crude oil? on Methane-Based Life Possible On Titan · · Score: 1

    Classic joke, but it obscures the fact that an actual solution to these jokes exists.

    Uranus's Roman name is Caelus and since all the other planets use Roman rather than Greek deity names in English, there is no reason this name could not be adopted for the 7th planet.

  20. Re:Not even close on Building the Developer's Dream Keyboard · · Score: 1

    I agree... but let's give a link, shall we?

    http://typematrix.com/

  21. Re:6 is on the wrong side on Building the Developer's Dream Keyboard · · Score: 1

    6 on the left half is a side effect of the continued stupidity of staggered key columns.

    He should have used a TypeMatrix as his base to work from.

  22. Re:Wrong Koch on GPG Programmer Werner Koch Is Running Out of Money · · Score: 1

    No, there are four brothers. The youngest two are twins.

    Long story but interesting: http://www.motherjones.com/pol...

  23. Re:Counterclockwise? on The Strangest Moon In the Solar System · · Score: 2

    The only planet whose north pole is not on the same side of the Ecliptic as the Earth's north pole is Uranus.

    Venus's axial tilt is 177 degrees, that's about "not on the same side of the Ecliptic" as it could be.

  24. Re:English to American on Google Aims To Be Your Universal Translator · · Score: 1

    first floor in British English = second floor to Americans, first floor in American English = ground floor to Brits.

    Does this difference also occur in elevator controls?

  25. Re:Any Earthlings using 12-year-old flash devices? on 10 Years In, Mars Rover Opportunity Suffers From Flash Memory Degradation · · Score: 1

    I still have my PS1 (128KB) and PS2 (8MB) memory cards.