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  1. This. Heat is heat per area. So long its not 800C on the fucking shell, its irrelevant.

  2. Re:Strange behavior with LXDE on Why KDE Plasma Makes Sense For Linux Gaming · · Score: 2

    Compositing shouldn't case any problems with LXDE and game performance unless the GPU has issues. Are we by random chance talking about a Intel laptop of a earlier chipset?

  3. Re:Microsoft never ceases to amaze me on Steve Jobs Was Wrong About Touchscreen Laptops · · Score: 1

    Basically this.
    Microsoft is a company thats history consists of unethical backstabbing, lack of polish and vaporware. Remember that dual tablet thingy that could have been awesome that disappered into thin air? Some of us sure do. All those amazing Tablets that more or less died because the interface for touch was awful? What sorts of devices that ran Windows CE? The default settings for Windows, and especially Windows update? Netscape? Vista and the OpenGL controversy? AppLocale still being a solution to a silly problem? The Xbox being competetive because its competing?

  4. Re:Better get used to it, THQ on THQ Clarifies Claims of "Horrible, Slow" Wii U CPU · · Score: 1

    Wipeout is most likely doing some really nice tricks with the SPU to avoid having to do things bruteforce with the GPU.

  5. Re:Scandinavia, the great country! on Police Raid Home of 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay User, Seize "Winnie the Pooh" Laptop · · Score: 3, Informative

    Now... now... Scandinavia is several terms:
    The core: Norway, Sweden and Denmark
    The extended: +Finland, +Iceland.
    Finland may or may not be a part of Scandinavia depending on who you are talking to.

  6. Re:Thanks, Toshiba (crosses off purchase list) on Toshiba Pursues Copyright Claim Against Laptop Manual Site · · Score: 1

    If the manuals is only for the eyes of authorized Toshiba services providers, how did a random person get access to them?

  7. Re:Airdrop cheap tablets like leaflets on The Information Age: North Korean Style · · Score: 1

    Even if, such a revolution would just end up with more blood, for the blood god, regardless of who won.

  8. Re:A Revolution without Losing Authority? on The Information Age: North Korean Style · · Score: 2, Funny

    Its not that simple. The unwashed masses does not become educated just because they got a education. The unwashed masses does not want a revolution either, if by the time they realize they are unwashed, they are not having a hard time living their live. North Korea is changing, perhaps fighting this change, but at the same time welcoming the change.
    Will North Korea become Best Korea? Well, if it does, the Internet have a problem, I mean, who shall replace North Korea as a meme?

  9. Re:qwerty on The Evolution of the Computer Keyboard · · Score: 2

    Here is linked source. Search for citation 16 and read onwards. The autor didn't read it properly. The article states: several things:
    -QWERTY is a fast keyboard layout, and it has killed quite a few layouts because it is fast
    -Dvorak is most likely a tad faster,
    -The article that is the "counterpoint" of the article uses "If a typist has learned QWERTY, the cost of changing is likely too high compared to a "10% gain"*1
    -The studies counterpoint is at citation 31, and seems a bit flawed, just as the NAVYs test

    *1: Not actual numbers, a quote or anything, its a general expression

  10. Re:qwerty on The Evolution of the Computer Keyboard · · Score: 1

    I still want to see sources for the second one.

  11. Re:Mental note on Canadian Teenager Arrested For Photographing Mall Takedown · · Score: 1

    North Korea would ironically be best Korea if the nation actually worked. Instead its just a humorous general oligarchy claiming to be best Korea.

  12. Re:anonymity is the only defense against power on Pirate Bay Co-Founder In Solitary Confinement · · Score: 2

    Neither of these 3 figureheads would have gotten anything done if their opposition decided to just stomp them. And thats the problem with the idealists.

  13. Re:Messed up on Pirate Bay Co-Founder In Solitary Confinement · · Score: 2

    "Life in prison" in Scandinavia means that you are put to a reevaluation each 10 years to see if its "safe" to but you back in society. If there is no reason too, its another 10 years. The difference from life imprisonment is not really present if the case is horrible enough.

  14. Re:Piling on? on Amazon Overcharging Publishers For Tax · · Score: 1

    Beats me, but its still amusing that there is no E Ink reader competiton. Even handhelds such as the Gameboy had competition, even if most of it fell flat because they failed to copy the good parts of the gameboy.

  15. Re:Piling on? on Amazon Overcharging Publishers For Tax · · Score: 1

    Its basically what you could talk about as a E ink cartel. For some obscure reason, uknown to the common man, nobody has actually made a decent competitor to the current E Ink readers. As far as we consumers know, the marked only current color E Ink readers are made by a chinese company called Hanvon running Windows CE, and a overpriced product by a company called Ectaco which is markeded to students at a selling price of 500$.
    Why is that? B&N and Amazon have these low PPI monochrome ereaders, and yet nobody has come to compete?

  16. Re:Blatant ignorance on Wi-Fi Illness Claim Doesn't Impress New Mexico Court · · Score: 0

    Why state something blatantly false? People have become sterile from working on various high power radio equipment, back in the day. So el-mag tech can have negative impact, but generally what we use, is safe, or so do we assume based on various studies.

  17. Re:No heatsink? on Raspberry Pi Hits 1GHz With Official 'Turbo Mode' · · Score: 1

    Still not enough heat. If it had a heatsink, it would go higher.

  18. Re:In a laptop performance isn't the only issue on Are SSDs Finally Worth the Money? · · Score: 1

    >Must be a heck of a crappy HDD
    Assumption 1: The original poster has ears that has not degraded much
    Assumption 2: HDDs make a lot of noise, but they are made to not be noticable to "normal people", who usually has quite degraded hearing
    Assumption 3: Hairyfeet has a "normal" hearing, aka quite degraded one, and thus is inable to notice noise.

  19. The core question.... on Ubisoft Claims PC Piracy Rate of 93-95% · · Score: 1

    [citation needed]

  20. Re:Are you serious? on Some Players Want Day-1 DLC, Says BioWare · · Score: 1

    Most modern games also have several people working manually on generating trees and doors, and manually placing rocks in terrain. Doesn't mean it actually increases production value.

  21. Re:This will never catch on if... on Asus Delivers Speed Boost With USB Attached SCSI Protocol · · Score: 1

    And while we first question it, will it fix the shortcomings USB keyboards has to PS/2 keyboards?

  22. Re:missing the point entirely on Can Anyone Catch Khan Academy? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Text versus video? Irrelevant. The core problem with education is that either the teachers are not up to the standard, or the books are poorly written. And what is Khans academy doing? They are doing videos, but that is irrelevant in itself, what they are actually doing is to do a proper job at TEACHING their material, in contrast to many sources.
    If you have a problem with Khan being video, then why don't you have a problem with subpar teaching in general?

  23. Re:Simple is not ugly. on Why Is Wikipedia So Ugly? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Indeed. I don't get the article at all, what is there to improve on? The layout works, there are images when needed to be informative. The only flaw is that some times it can be hard to find a spesific topic even with knowing a few keywords.

  24. Re:But on How a 1960s Discovery In Neuroscience Spawned a Military Project · · Score: 1

    He blinks after frame change i guess. I think its similar to the concept of tripple buffering: If the frame is already read, you can safely do something else, but you still need to open the eye during the next frame. At 20 FPS you have quite a lot of time.

  25. Re:more information on firefox on Firefox Notably Improved In Tom's Hardware's Latest Browser Showdown · · Score: 1

    Disk caching died with 2 gigs of RAM becoming the lowest common determinator, and its currently 4 gigs.