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  1. Re:Unuseble in Australia on Tesla's Household Battery: Costs, Prices, and Tradeoffs · · Score: 1

    Isn't it just to bury it in a cellar or something?

  2. Re:Batteries with Solar Systems = No Net-metering on Tesla's Household Battery: Costs, Prices, and Tradeoffs · · Score: 2

    Yes, but are you allowed to sell back at the rate you purchase electricity? Because if its 10-30x reduction, battery is worth more.

  3. Re:Do they charge patent royalties for Windows Pho on Microsoft Increases Android Patent Licensing Reach · · Score: 1

    I don't see USB for internal storage.
    WTF is a CF port. and is UDF the other port type?

  4. Re:And no one cares on How and Why the U-Pick Game Marathon Raises Money With Non-Stop Gaming (Video) · · Score: 1

    Speedruns. That is the keyword.
    That said, lets plays are generally awful.

  5. Re:Does it apply... on Whoah, Small Spender! Steam Sets Limits For Users Who Spend Less Than $5 · · Score: 1

    Why would it? L4D was like 20-30€ back in the day.

  6. Re:still ? on Did Natural Selection Make the Dutch the Tallest People On the Planet? · · Score: 1

    I got lenses which says -6.5. I have no idea what it really means.
    But I apparently lived most of my childhood before the first degredation of my sight, and I know for a fact that if I can't get glasses or lenses, it will take me 1-2 days to adjust for normal life. After that, I will behave as if I have a almost normal vision.
    Sure I can't read anything at normal distance, and I will have trouble reading the church clocks at 400m+, but those are very insignificant tasks compared to just how much I can use my poor vision once I get used to it.
    After all, my favorite hobby as a child was reading. With my awful eye sight. And I still read a lot, after getting classes, at a age of 11.

    I don't think the amount of near or far sighted has changed at all over the last 100 years. I doubt it. What I think has happened, is that we give children glasses far too early, so that its very obvious that your sight is bad. Otherwise you would reach the age of 13-18, and maybe need some reading glasses.
    Once you get used to having imperfect vision, you give no fucks about it. Its just something that is there, and unless you are used to wearing glasses, you don't really care.
    You see the same with people starting to get older too. They only use glasses for reading, watching TV, or using a computer. Their vision has to degrade a lot before they feel forced to have driving glasses, even if their ability to read signs is technically poor long before they feel the need.

    Remember: I doubt we have had real selective breeding for eye sight since we got the tech for pottery, walls, farming and breeding animals. I seriously doubt it. What gets wed out is those with too poor eye sight. And that is extreme levels of bad, its obscenely bad. You have trouble playing sports with such poor vision.
    And on the top of that, reading being common is almost a thing of modern civilization, as far as we know it. 150 last years? 170? Its uncommon, from a evolutionary perspective.
    You see the same once you go over modern medicine, and the degrees of treatment. Childhood mortality decreased severely? Such a amount of resources that babies born too early can be saved? Babies born sick can be saved? The later 2 cases are rare compared to the first. And third world countries would not go towards a "overpopulation" unless the basic medical treatment fixed most of the first issue.

  7. Re:Meh on How Malvertising Abuses Real-Time Bidding On Ad Networks · · Score: 0

    This so fucking much. Fuck you too sconeu

  8. Re:Surprisingly badly written article on Excess Time Indoors May Explain Rising Myopia Rates · · Score: 1

    By what definition of short sighted? Less than perfect vision?
    Technically you are short sighted when you do not have perfect vision, nor are far sighted. Its not hard to trick.

  9. Re:My own take on In the Age of Free AAA Game Engines, Where Does Our Open Source Engine Stand? · · Score: 2

    The problem is that a map editor is basically a gimped level designer, usually with gimped scripting.

    Once you go there, you realize that instead of using some 3D software, and then importing that to a engine, there is possible to make a in engine tool, that can make maps. The problems you then face are the fact material mapping and your material engine may be shit. Really shit. To the point where imported photoshop image files requires massive hacking to get mapped properly. Don't forget that UV mapping for large objects are its own special kind of painful.

    Of course, what is the next problem? The editor for objects. Being able to create a level, does not equal you can create or make shapes. For something as complex as it is, i never found out how to make spheres, statues or anything cool in Cube. Once you can do that in engine, in a convenient way, you can go full retarded on making good levels. Mostly due being able to do it fast.

    Next? Well, animations. Rigging and animating has always been the most painful of 3D editing. You need it if you want to make complex object interactions, or want a way to script them to work properly with the physic engine. You can give up on rigging something as complex as a human, but having hanging anchored platforms/objects without tons of weird scripting would be a plus.
    If scripting integrates well, you can start rigging in armor pieces, hitboxes, and more. Without needing to pray that some half assed importer works properly.

    Then the last issue is usually that your editor is gimped in scripting. Or your script language is weird or limited. Or the ability to interact with making map/level is gimped, so there is lots of busy work to get a lot of scripting working.
    If you at some point just fire up nano/text edit or vi, just to make edits to scripts, the in game mapper tools are shit.

    This is of course only touching the tip of the iceberg. To make a 3D game, you still need a way to write and edit shaders. You need a way to gauge performance. You need good importers/exporters for the things you can't do in engine. You need all interfaces and controls to be good and sane.
    You need documentation to be good, accessible, and you need to create a community.
    What most FLOSS engines fail at is that they want to be something like Quake or Doom, something you use a external tool to create cool stuff for PvP shooting. They succed at their purpose, but they fail to be game creation tools.

  10. Re:This guy has a better idea on New Concept Tire Could Recharge Car Battery · · Score: 2

    The problem is that Norway is not that cold. 90% coastal population. Coast is gulf stream. And coast basically is inland to the first mountain range, or first mountain range beyond large river or lake.

    And its a modern car, with good ABS and Anti Spin, on modern tires. Its fun to drive if you go far enough inland to experience the real winter snow.

  11. Re:I refute on Study: Peanut Consumption In Infancy Helps Prevent Peanut Allergy · · Score: 1

    Of course, how do you double blind that away from Group 1 being children of parents who eat peanuts, and are without the allergy? And

  12. Re:Implement locally? on How One Small Company Blocked 15.1 Million Robocalls Last Year · · Score: 1

    Thats why you clear it. Things can be arranged without issues, so long they are arranged.

  13. Re:Implement locally? on How One Small Company Blocked 15.1 Million Robocalls Last Year · · Score: 1

    1: SMS
    2: SMS
    3: Why didn't they clear with you first?

  14. Re:Oh man, I'd hate to see how your kids turn out. on Inside the Largest Virtual Psychology Lab In the World · · Score: 1

    I see where its going. If you make the assumption that players who just sit around and shout "puta puta puta" at their teammates the entire game, and they can't be corrected. They don't understand what they are doing, or so the assumption goes.
    The big question is basically: How many of these people understand they are toxic, and how many can improve themselves? I see why they call it a study in psychology, since the subject here is interisting.
    If its valid for a study is a entirely different issue, since is metric into metrics into metrics.

  15. Re:Censorship is the only toxic behavior here. on Inside the Largest Virtual Psychology Lab In the World · · Score: 2

    There is a large medium difference, and if you don't get that, the discussion can not be had.
    League isn't a hangout place, its a entertainment medium. You go there to do something, and interaction is a secondary concern.
    You describe #politics as a place where you go for the sake of interaction, where the contrast with ##politics also makes it seem that the latter is filled with butthurt banhammers.

  16. Re:Not a fan on Government Recommends Cars With Smarter Brakes · · Score: 1

    Why are not specifying year of said models? Sciorro is either ancient, or 2008.
    Rabbit is a long lasting series. 1990 != 2000 != 2001, especially in how the features work. All depending on when the parts evolved.
    And again: Mazda 2 is not a year model.
    We can not google each cars safety feature evolution, drive system, and then start arguing for each span of those.

  17. Re:Quiet cars and proportion of accidents on Fake Engine Noise Is the Auto Industry's Dirty Little Secret · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't we just accept that? The driver won't sneak up on anybody, assuming they are not endangering everyone.
    There is already laws, that indirectly force people to wear visible clothing as fall comes along with the extreme darkness. To be aware of your surrounding, I.E: Not throwing yourself in front of cars/wagons/trains.

  18. Re:brief moments of lag on The Fixes Sony's DualShock 4 Controller Still Needs · · Score: 1

    You have enough interference to knock blue tooth into choke mode. Doesn't that worry you?

  19. Re:Brazil has long had a very protectionist on Nintendo Puts Business In Brazil On Hiatus · · Score: 1

    I love the escalation of the argument.
    You can't steal patents, because its not a trade secret.

  20. Re:Brazil has long had a very protectionist on Nintendo Puts Business In Brazil On Hiatus · · Score: 1

    I read parts of the article. And it doesn't make any sense.
    Why would cutting tariffs do anything? Thats only going to make the out sourcing of products worse, and the best part is that tariffs forces company to do weird things. Which may end up with supply chains and local jobs, for no other reason that profit.
    On the top of that, 17% sales tax is fucking nothing.

    "High ITC prices leads to reduced consumption" and why is this bad again? Even the next segment talking about establishments going digital or replacing their tools, and talking about startups: It never talks or justifies the fact that this is somehow bad, that it damages the economy, or anything.
    It just states "this is bad, and we can't argue why". The final segment isn't even advice its just "i think so, without any form of evidence".

  21. Re:Can't DRM or Root Kit Vinyl on Vinyl's Revival Is Now a Phenomenon On Both Sides of the Atlantic · · Score: 1

    "make unauthorized copies" Is pretty undefined.

  22. Re:Let me be the first to say... on Want To Influence the World? Map Reveals the Best Languages To Speak · · Score: 1

    Many people forget that Spanish and Portuguese are brother languages. So thats Brazil and Portugal on the top of the Spanish speaking world.
    Sure, they might hate each other for the slightly different base accent, but the Mexicans do hate the Madridians for their stiff el macho accent.

  23. Re:Maybe they should focus on... on Microsoft's New Windows Monetization Methods Could Mean 'Subscriptions' · · Score: 1

    100MB for CBS seems exessive for what seems to be 24 to 48 hours of logging. I don't even know what CBS even is.

    Everything else seems to be at the level it should be at.

  24. Re:quick notes? on Finland Dumps Handwriting In Favor of Typing · · Score: 1

    Most people are taught to write cursive, not to write it well enough to read it.

  25. Re:How? on Researchers Forecast the Spread of Diseases Using Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Which raises the question: If you search for the symptom keywords(Rash, Boils, Bleeding, coughing), can Wikipedia actually list diseases with those keywords?

    From experience I do know that a lot of food can be typed in a native language, and it will still go to the correct page on English Wikipedia, roughly.
    But if I start search for terms and keywords, Wikipedia tend to be worse than google.