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  1. Re: Really? Did we ever really want smart watches? on Leak: Almost a Third of Samsung Galaxy Gear Smartwatches Are Being Returned · · Score: 2

    Sounds a lot like pebble.

  2. Re:I make beer... on The Fascinating Science Behind Beer Foam · · Score: 1

    4) the main useful thing you did was the slow opening maybe.

  3. Re:Hydrogen is indeed quite dangerous... on Tesla CEO Elon Musk: Fuel Cells Are 'So Bull@%!#' · · Score: 1

    Don't fuel cells produce electricity?

    Good fuel cells would make his business model better off I'd think, taking away some barrier to electric cars.

  4. Re:private dumb: $20K. Govt dumb: $400 billion on How To Lose $172,222 a Second For 45 Minutes · · Score: 1

    UPS and FedEX can't compete with a flat rate box for a huge percentage of the country (by land area) from the east coast.

    UPS and FedEX get all the easy to service routes, and price themselves out of most of the other ones.

  5. Re:Too expensive for the 99% on Company To Balloon Tourists To the Edge of Space For $75,000 · · Score: 1

    Most of the 1%ers I know work (doctors, lawyers). A lawyer from a top law school will likely be making over 200k in their late mid 30s if that's the path they want.

    1% is a 350k household salary, multiple times mine, but hardly unfathomable, and most people at that level are still working a day job (they are also banking large amounts, and living off less, and will be able to smoothly transition into retirement in their 50s).

  6. Re: Rearrange the deck chairs. on How To FIx Healthcare.gov: Go Open-Source! · · Score: 1

    Well, cost clearly hasn't been controlled, so speed and quality would be what is expected, so that phrase is meaningless.

  7. Re:And Fire qualifies for many definitions of Life on Physicist Unveils a 'Turing Test' For Free Will · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For a definition of "life" to be meaningful, it needs to apply to bacteria, and not to fire, because the word has had meaning for a very long time, and it's meaning absolutely does not apply to fire.

    I'm not trying to say that there aren't corner cases that are hard to define, but fire is not one of them, nor are bacteria.

    Differentiating "just chemical reactions" from "life" is the purpose of said definition.

    And yes, I am begging the question I suppose, but I will still stick by what I say.

  8. Re:The "non-commercial" clause is overrated on The Dark Mod 2.0 Standalone: Id Tech 4 GPL Yields a Free Thief-a-Like Game · · Score: 1

    Screenshots in a magazine mentioning it sound like a clear case of fair use (in the US), this is completely allowed with any license pretty much.

  9. Re:In English on NVIDIA's G-Sync Is VSync Designed For LCDs (not CRTs) · · Score: 2

    I think worse than 20 FPS even, some frames will last longer than others, causing jerky motion. it won't be a smooth 20 FPS, it will be 20ish, but some frames lasting extra draws vs others.

  10. Re: Just use RSA on Snapchat Search Warrants Emphasize Data Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    For snapchat at least it's only phone accesaable I believe, so it's a good strategy for that app.

  11. Re:real dichotomy on Silicon Valley Stays Quiet As Washington Implodes · · Score: 1

    Not that I see a difference in the parties, which I guess was your point, so ignore me.

  12. Re:real dichotomy on Silicon Valley Stays Quiet As Washington Implodes · · Score: 1

    The overreach/spying is not a universally appalled issue. It's somewhat polarizing, but hardly something the broad populace is opposed too.

    Depending on what you mean by overspending, I don't think that's particularly universal too. There are educated people all over the world arguing we need to deficit spend in times of recession and recovery.

  13. Re:none of this works, as expected. on For Playstation 4 Owners, Bad News On USB, Bluetooth Headsets · · Score: 1

    I've broken a few high end myself.

    I'm somewhat at fault I assume, but USB mini seemed much more robust.

    it appears a cord trip while they are charging, and (for hard drives) leaving the cord plugged in while packing are the biggest culprits to weakening them. At that point they slowly become more finicky and fail eventually.

  14. Re:Eight million is small spuds on Ford, University of Michigan Open Next-Generation EV Battery Research Lab · · Score: 1

    2008 G1 had a 1200 MaH battery, 2012 the Nexus 4 had a 2100 MaH battery.

    I don't know the relative size or weights, but batteries are getting better and cheaper every 5-10 years.

  15. Re:Piracy is still the best option on Netflix Pursues Cable-TV Deals · · Score: 1

    I too happily use Netflix.

    I think the price is fair, and thought the DRM can be annoying (fast forward and rewind are awkward), the fact that it doesn't purport to be be selling me anything makes it not too bitter of a pill.

    $8/month gives me access while I pay, and there are dozens of devices to play it on.

  16. Re: what about the data format? on Billion Year Storage Media · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Frequency analysis and non compressed formats

  17. Re: Nice atomic structure on Billion Year Storage Media · · Score: 1

    A pun

  18. Re: Oh, I totally agree... on Nokia Design Guru Urges Apple To End Cable Chaos · · Score: 1

    I've lost a hard drive by leaving it plugged in with the cord wrapped around it when transporting in my laptop case. A bluetooth speaker I'm not quite sure what broke it, but it only lasted 3 months, and 2 phones slowly degrade and then stop charging at about 18 months.

  19. Re: BUT WHAT OF CTE ?? on Collapse of Quantum Wavefunction Captured In Slow Motion · · Score: 1

    I play football with a ball shape like a foot, you know, the football.

  20. Re:Wages as share of GDP dropping since 1972 on Digital Revolution Will Kill Jobs, Inflame Social Unrest, Says Gartner · · Score: 1

    I agree with your premise, and my Grandmother has a similar sentiment. Of course my Grandmother worked a while and has a decent pension that goes beyond just being taken care of, which helps her to fill her time far better than I could for example.

    I certainly don't live to work, but if I were a billionaire, I'd probably still want to work doing something (really anything, my favorite job in life having been as a floor person at a super market) 500 to 1000 hours a year. I'm not saying everybody would, but many people would.

    Many people volunteer for similar reasons.

  21. Re: Internet costs in Australia on The Ridiculous Tech Fees You're Still Paying · · Score: 1

    Gas is definitely cheaper where population density is higher. Though once the density gets too high the infrastructure cost of having a station outweighs savings of density. Also past a certain density gas is used by less people, lowering the effective population density some.

  22. Re: Um on No FiOS In Boston? We'll Make an Ad Anyway · · Score: 1

    yeah, but look out for the pineys.

    Children at Play was a documentary, right?

  23. Re:Wages as share of GDP dropping since 1972 on Digital Revolution Will Kill Jobs, Inflame Social Unrest, Says Gartner · · Score: 1

    I bet it improves their quality of life to have some work to do, and be a member of society.

  24. Re:Hard to say. on Digital Revolution Will Kill Jobs, Inflame Social Unrest, Says Gartner · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's a stupid premise and a fasle dichotomy IMO.

    The industrial revolution DID cause unrest. Only an idiot would think that wasn't the case. A whole body of famous literature is about said unrest, that people I would suspect are aware of even if not history in general. The Labor movement was an expression of unrest, as was the communist revolution.

    It didn't take long for it to improve things overall, and not many sane people want to go back to a pre-industrial world, but to pretend it didn't cause job loss and unrest before job gain and improvement is absurd. I think that's what both the Luddites and the Futurists get wrong, there will be pain, there will be suffering, then there will be benefit. Markets take time to adjust, and attempts to short-circuit that adjustment time have historically gone terribly wrong (e.g. great leap forward).

  25. Re:oddly, I support this on Red Cross Wants Consequences For Video-Game Mayhem · · Score: 1

    Are there games that don't include this?

    You usually used to lose life in the arcade shooters for hitting civilians for example.