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  1. Re:confused on Copyright Squabble Threatens Accessibility Boost for the Blind · · Score: 1

    "hopefully"?

  2. Re:Priority Failure. on BT Begins Customer Tests of Carrier Grade NAT · · Score: 1

    Which again is a sort of of a flamebait. If a provider is charged with maintaining and upgrading a line, the costumers are already paying for maintenance and upgrading. If the costumers then pays a extra on the top of this for something they already are paying for, somebody should be shoot. Its that simple.

  3. Re:Game PCs are modern day supercomputers on Mining Companies Borrow From Gamers' Physics Engines · · Score: 1

    A modern laptop with a dedicated GPU would still run in circles around Cray due the way overhead and specialized parts work.

  4. Re:So? on Nuclear Power Prevents More Deaths Than It Causes · · Score: 1

    The problem is that a water wheal reallies on the gimmick of a strong river. A dam is designed to skip all the problems the wheal had. As much as I like Hydro, its impractical if the local terrain is not fit. Countries like Norway can build Hydro about everywhere because its just elevation and waterfalls and mountains. A country like Denmark has to be more creative.

  5. Re:In other news... on Cuban Video Game Recreates Revolutionary History · · Score: 1

    So the nepotic upper middleclass and people who took the chance to run was equal to 10% of the population? How many of those people where even Cuban for that matter?

  6. Re:Console margins can't be good on Nvidia Walked Away From PS4 Hardware Negotiations · · Score: 2

    | Having all games (and thus their ports) on million and millions of xbox and PS consoles designed and optimized for your specific hardware for the next 10 years is worth money.
    The problem is that AMD changed graphic card architecture on the HD 3xxx series, meaning that free console optmization only exists on the 1xxx and 2xxx series.

  7. Re:AMD even still relevant? on AMD Unveils Elite A-Series APUs With Enhanced Performance, Improved Efficiency · · Score: 1

    The problem is that Intel only has a marginal advantage, and AMDs chipsets is more than strong enough on the top of that. If AMDs chipsets where underpowered, sure your advice would be sane. Also as others point out, it only applies to single threads.

  8. Re:Still a flat viewing plane on Triple Monitor Solutions From AMD, Nvidia Face Off · · Score: 1

    Lets not forget that it increases the angle of view, but it uses a broken view scaling by default. Extended view is useful, but not if the scaling gode is broken and botched, and there exists way to get even 200+ degree FoV with the right viewport code. A rather good example video, notice how the viewport is broken at 170 and 180 degrees with the default viewport code.
    So in this age of next generation gaming, we will get Quake like viewport code, which is broken over 120 degrees, and a FoV of 30-60 degrees.

  9. Re:Was the baby infected? on Researchers Describe First 'Functional HIV Cure' In an Infant · · Score: 1

    In daily speech you say "Do I have X?", while in reality, you ask "Do I have X on a unusual large amount?"

  10. Re:nice efficiency there on Bradley Manning Pleads Guilty To 10 Charges · · Score: 1

    What treason?

  11. Re:Ethics on PunkSPIDER Project Puts Vulnerabilities On (Searchable) Display · · Score: 1

    The analogy falls apart if the parking lot is a guarded parking lot that guarantees the cars safety.

  12. Re:Usability on Blender 2.66 Released · · Score: 1

    Seriously, I am only saying this:
    >Implying Blender has a bad UI

  13. Re:Do you want to download 25 GB 50 GB games / mov on Sony Announces the PS4 · · Score: 1

    No such thing.

  14. Re:Any optical drive at all? on Sony Announces the PS4 · · Score: 1

    Backward compitablity means you don't kill your own consoles sales from about a year to release to a year after release. For what its worth, its sort of needed, unless the plan it to get fast into the marked, hook some marked share, and get up some killer apps before the antogonists enter the stage with their machine.

  15. Re:Lame on Planetary Resources To 'Claim' Asteroids With Beacons · · Score: 1

    Send a Space Hitman after you?

  16. Re:"This video has been removed by the user" on Huge Meteor Blazes Across Sky Over Russia; Hundreds Injured · · Score: 1

    I want to watch as well :3

  17. Re:The era of Groundbreaking Physics was over on Is the Era of Groundbreaking Science Over? · · Score: 1

    Not in genetics or pschychology. There is lacking a lot on those fields, yet.

  18. Re:Kill them. on Ask Slashdot: What To Do About Patent Trolls Seeking Wi-fi License Fees? · · Score: 1

    So long the rest of the legal system allows trolling of firms for IP which belongs to somebody else? It might actually be a sane solution, if you didn't need to hire a hitman, and if it was not against the law to do so.
    Chances are, hiring the hitman will cost as much as going to court regardless.

  19. Re:Overrated "Apple TV" on Gabe Newell: Steam Box's Biggest Threat Isn't Consoles, It's Apple · · Score: 1

    For all its worth, lets talk about the Pippin. The Pippin was a deal between Bandai and Apple for a home console. Bandai is a quite large toy and licensed toys manufacturer, who usually had a hand with most of the formulaic merchandise aimed at children. To quote wikipedia:

    Since the 1980s, Bandai has become the leading toy company of Japan, and to this day, has the main toy licenses in Japan to popular properties including Daikaiju, Ultraman, Super Robot, Kamen Rider, the Super Sentai and Power Rangers series (which they took part in creating), Gundam and many others.

    So basically Pippin was by default setup for succes in Japan, as it was them who even markeded the console. In the end neither Apple nor Bandai understood consoles, and it failed horribly.

  20. Re:PacSafe on Ask Slashdot: Anti-Theft Devices For Luggage? · · Score: 1

    Its a metal netting with a proper lock.

  21. Re:Mod this up! on Ask Slashdot: How To React To Coworker Who Says My Code Is Bad? · · Score: 5, Informative

    No. You only say that until you are almost permanently awarded with mod points.

  22. Re:Get rid of printers on Campaign To Remove Paper From Offices · · Score: 1

    People can acquire paper, but a printer is too expensive.

  23. Re:The main problem on How To Make PC Gaming Better · · Score: 1

    Your supporting his viewpoint, if you noticed the timeframe.

  24. Re:A real shame on EFF Looks At How Blasphemy Laws Have Stifled Speech in 2012 · · Score: 1

    What? Lets talk about the Danish caricatures. The problems was not them, but a long thread of events that created friction, and when the caricature came around, the friction busted a bubble. IoM has the exact same event pattern: If was just the last event in a long line.

  25. Re:He was never IN solitary confinement on Pirate Bay Founder Released From Solitary Confinement · · Score: 1

    The fact that Sweden does not define its cell as "Solitary confinement" when they are in fact such, is a good example of classic political jokes.