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  1. Re:Valve needs to use their clout on NVIDIA's New GPUs Are Very Open-Source Unfriendly · · Score: 2

    Valve can have significant impact on that. It would just also significantly impact themselves.
    Steam knows or can know what GPU you run it on, along with drivers etc. It could simply fall back to VGA without hardware acceleration for yet-to-be-released Nvidia GPUs.
    That would significantly affect the Nvidia bottom line in the future. It would also place Valve in a bad spot.

  2. Re:Losing Your Computer on The Crazy-Tiny Next Generation of Computers · · Score: 1

    Of course you can. You just need a $10M wirebonder to connect the IO to the computer.

  3. Re:Physics on The International Space Station (Finally) Gets an Espresso Machine · · Score: 3, Informative

    Especially since at 10 bar the boiling point of water is 179C.

  4. Re:How much bandwidth? on Nokia Networks Demonstrates 5G Mobile Speeds Running At 10Gbps Via 73GHz · · Score: 1

    Higher frequencies are easier to form into directed beams dynamically with phased arrays. Not that I have any indication that Nokia has done this.

  5. Re:Now, if on Nokia Networks Demonstrates 5G Mobile Speeds Running At 10Gbps Via 73GHz · · Score: 1

    Absorption by water molecules really picks up above about 6 GHz. This limits the practical range for high frequency signals.

  6. Re:The consumer will never be ready on 220TB Tapes Show Tape Storage Still Has a Long Future · · Score: 1

    Just don't take the tapes to long term storage with an elevator with motors that erase all tapes before they get to storage.

  7. Re:Never consumer ready on 220TB Tapes Show Tape Storage Still Has a Long Future · · Score: 1

    High RPM drives are quite quickly being replaced by SSDs.

  8. Re:Muscle memory - where UI designers go wrong on Finding an Optimal Keyboard Layout For Swype · · Score: 1

    I downloaded a few keyboards and settled on Minuum. Default Samsung sucks, Swiftkey was way way better at typing but still took to much space. More than 50% of my screen in landscape mode. Minuum gives me the screen space to actually see what I am typing. It could do with better prediction though.

  9. Re:Start with an erroneous *world view* ... on Autonomous Cars and the Centralization of Driving · · Score: 1

    Traffic data is included in modern navigation systems. Last modern car I was in just asked me something in the lines of "Traffic congestion ahead. Reroute?".

  10. Re:Start with an erroneous *world view* ... on Autonomous Cars and the Centralization of Driving · · Score: 1

    Why do you think that I prefer to be driven than to drive myself?

    I am not the one you replied to but I don't believe you will want to be driven. I just want the idiots who can't be arsed to drive with their eyes on the road instead of on their phones to be driven. I also assume you don't fall in that category because those people don't seem to enjoy driving. They probably just want to get from A to B. Exactly what a self driving car would provide.

    If I had a car I would also want it to be self-driving because I find driving to be boring. I do, however, realize it is a 1 ton weapon with significant kinetic energy.

  11. Re:I knew! on LG Split Screen Software Compromises System Security · · Score: 1

    Since /. delay is about a month this doesn't really matter.

  12. Re:Welcome change from Battery Breakthrough commen on Google Battles For Better Batteries · · Score: 1

    Batteries did get a whole lot better in the past decade. It's just that we do so much more with them that the drain on them more then matches the capacity gain we got. Don't blame the battery manufacturer, blame the public who wants 7" screens and oct core 4 Ghz processors on their phones.

  13. After a Google image search for uSD pendants I'd advice a locket pendant with some foam to prevent the card from thrashing around. Those uSD things are usually ugly as hell.
    By the way, stay away from the medical data lockets for this purpose. They look quite stylish and they are intent for safe data storage but any data storage device found in those will be read in an emergency because that is what the intention of that type of locket is.

  14. Re:Women like to look up - Science! on Did Natural Selection Make the Dutch the Tallest People On the Planet? · · Score: 1

    2. Taller is often also physically stronger which means you tend to have more access to food.

    You need to grow it first, and being tall doesn't help with that.

    Not directly, but having a tall dad does help

  15. Re:Could be other causes too? on Did Natural Selection Make the Dutch the Tallest People On the Planet? · · Score: 1

    It may be relevant that the data doesn't seem available from these countries.

  16. Re:Taller men get more girls the world over on Did Natural Selection Make the Dutch the Tallest People On the Planet? · · Score: 1

    height alone determines reproductive success

    Not alone. Dutch, tall and single here.

  17. Subject on Has Google Indexed Your Backup Drive? · · Score: 2

    Is Google really at fault? They handled it poorly, yes, but the data was already out there to be used by blackhats. It would be better if they placed a file on the FTP "You know these files are open to the internet because your router configuration sucks, right?.txt".

  18. Re:Hero? on The Courage of Bystanders Who Press "Record" · · Score: 3, Interesting

    IMHO in this case it is. The person with the gun probably does not agree with you filming them.
    These people appear to have only little better moral code than your average bank robber. Thus when you film them you are kinda heroic.
    I don't consider them to be cops by the way. The badge does not make the cop. A good cop makes the badge worth more than it's scrap metal price.

  19. Re:Mystery Solved on The Solar System Is Awash In Water · · Score: 1

    I rate food as more useful as a nice lawn.

  20. Re:easy one on Google Let Root Certificate For Gmail Expire · · Score: 1

    Only if your "real browser" runs NoScript or something similar.

  21. Re:I wonder on A Robo-Car Just Drove Across the Country · · Score: 1

    You have got no idea what the maintenance cost on a gingerbread house is.

  22. Re:Why we use office on UK Forces Microsoft To Adopt Open Document Standards · · Score: 1

    Ah the lovely error where the file on disk gets corrupted when you save a large file. I learned backing up from that one.
    Haven't seen it in years though.

  23. Re:testing method? on Verizon Subscribers Can Now Opt Out of "Supercookies" · · Score: 1

    Build a personal stingray. Connect through that.

  24. Re:actually sounds really good on Microsoft Announces Surface 3 Tablet · · Score: 1

    That doesn't help you charge the thing.

  25. Re:Slow on Tatooine Youth Suspected In Terrorist Attack · · Score: 4, Funny

    It was far away, give light speed delay a chance man.