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  1. The best part on Real Version of Homer Simpson's Dream Car Built · · Score: 4, Funny

    The best part is the BORT license plate on the back of the vehicle.

  2. Re:So it's basically a GBA-era ARM chip without th on Rise of the ARM Clones · · Score: 1

    It also appears to be missing 32x32=64-bit multiplication instructions.

  3. So it's basically a GBA-era ARM chip without thumb on Rise of the ARM Clones · · Score: 2

    The article mentions that it is compatible with the ARMv2a instruction set, though it may not be implemented the same way regarding pipelining and caching. The ARMv2a instruction set is basically the same instruction set as the ARM7TDMI, but without THUMB, and without the BX instruction. Any pure ARM code that doesn't use newer features (such as saturating arithmetic) should work on it fine. GCC should support this with no problems.

  4. My speed on 802.11ac: Better Coverage, But Won't Hit Advertised Speeds · · Score: 2

    I have 802.11ac gear, and I'm getting about 8MB/sec whether on the 2.4GHz or 5GHz band. It's nothing anywhere near the pie-in-the-sky claims of 300mbps or 800mbps, but it is significantly faster than the 2.3MB/sec I was getting on 802.11g.

  5. Expensive on 10GbE: What the Heck Took So Long? · · Score: 2

    The best reason I can think of not to buy a 10-gigabit Ethernet card is simple: The cheapest ones go for $351 on Newegg. Want an Ethernet switch to go with that? That will be $1036.

    So once again, the answer is simple, and it has to do with a dollar sign.

    Gigabit equipment got really cheap fairly quickly, but not so much for the 10-gigabit equipment.

  6. Fixing RT on A Serious Proposal To Fix Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    The easiest way to fix Windows RT is to make the desktop actually work, and allow running unsigned ARM code. Let developers recompile their programs for ARM, and they will do it.
    Maybe throw in compatibility for Windows CE programs, or better yet, throw in an X86 emulator.

  7. ET on Will Your Video Game Collection Appreciate Over Time? · · Score: 2

    The buried copies of ET were pulverized before being buried in the landfill. You won't find any intact cartridges in there.

  8. Apple II basic on How Did You Learn How To Program? · · Score: 1

    It was Apple II basic. Then QBASIC, then Visual Basic, then ZZT, then Kilk & Play, then Games Factory, then C++ and assembly, then C#.

  9. Re:I tried to install iTunes on Windows once. on iTunes: Still Slowing Down Windows PCs After All These Years · · Score: 1

    Alt+Shift+Numlock enables MouseKeys since Windows 95. Use the numpad to move the mouse cursor.

  10. Re:no problem on Fedora 19 To Stop Masking Passwords · · Score: 0

    You can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2.

  11. This article? on Remote Island Adopts Dothraki Language · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You mean this article isn't already in the Dothraki Language?

  12. Audio processing is better for lossless on Can You Really Hear the Difference Between Lossless, Lossy Audio? · · Score: 1

    If you're trying to cancel the left and right channels by subtracting them, you will get significantly different results depending on whether the files are lossless or not.
    When they are lossless, it will work properly. Otherwise, it will have artifacts.

  13. Raspberry pi nothing, printers are the real danger on Raspberry Pi As Hardware Backdoor · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Forget raspberry pi, the real danger is your printer. Printers can have their firmware upgraded by printing a special PDF file. They are networked devices. Once hacked, they can carry out attacks, act as backdoors, or even send a copy of everything printed to an attacker.

  14. Re:Who cares? on No Firefox For iOS, Says Mozilla's Product Head · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My browser blocks ads and scripts, customizes pages with Greasemonkey scripts, and removes tracking elements on pages. The built-in Safari doesn't do anything like that.

  15. Flash drive with finger print reader? on RSA: Self-Encrypting USB Hard Drives for all Operating Systems (Video) · · Score: 1

    How about just a flash drive with a capacitive finger print reader, so it needs to be unlocked before it functions as a flash drive?

  16. Re:Coincidence? on Google Chrome Getting Audio Indicators To Show You Noisy Tabs · · Score: 1

    The Firefox extension Autopager works for some of those websites.

  17. Re:Drawing on the screen has got to be really slow on Full Review of the Color TI-84 Plus · · Score: 1

    You might think they're modernizing the processor, but they haven't done anything like that in the previous models. This new model has the same selectable clock speeds as the last one, so I doubt they are using any timings other than classic Z80.
    Communication to the display screen is done through Z80 in/out instructions. I haven't read the documentation on how to communicate with the LCD device, but I don't think they're using anything other than 16-bit pixels.

  18. Drawing on the screen has got to be really slow on Full Review of the Color TI-84 Plus · · Score: 2

    15MHz Z80, and a 320x240 16-bit screen. Drawing to that screen has got to be slow.
    Copying bytes from memory to an IO port is 24 cycles per byte on the usual code (ld a,(hl) \ out (n),a \ inc hl)
    The screen itself is 153,600 bytes large.
    So it takes more than 3,686,400 clocks to output an entire screen image, most likely a lot more time. This suggests the entire screen can be updated 4 times per second with unrolled code, and that's not counting the code needed to set up and get ready to output data to the screen, or generate said data. More realistically, the screen could be updated updated 3 times per second.
    For things like solid color fills, probably much faster, possibly as high as 8FPS.

  19. Cuttings? on Monsanto's 'Terminator' Seeds Set To Make a Comeback · · Score: 1

    Many plants don't exclusively reproduce from seeds, they can also reproduce from cuttings.

  20. mcedit or bust on Evil, Almost Full Vim Implementation In Emacs, Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 1

    The only Linux terminal-mode text editor I can stand using is Midnight Commander.

  21. Re:Does windows crash if it has 0 temp space or 0 on Samsung Laptop Bug Is Not Linux Specific · · Score: 2

    I've seen Windows machines run out of handles. First you see applications not drawing properly, or missing buttons, then you see windows failing to be created. When it tries to create the window, it fails, then you hear the "Critical Stop" sound played instead of a dialog appearing.

    Sometimes, it won't even create menus, so you can't right-click on a program in your taskbar and close it, but you can still activate the window and press Alt+F4 to close the program.

    Once your system gets into that state, start closing programs (Calc, Explorer windows, etc. ) until you can use your computer again. Once you've closed enough programs, your computer works again. Don't even need to reboot.

  22. How much really is English? on Ask Slashdot: Do Most Programmers Understand the English Language? · · Score: 1

    How much technical terminology really is English in the first place?

    "Binary" is from Latin, "Digit" is from Latin, and "Bit" is a contraction of "Binary Digit". "Byte" is from English and is based on the word "Bit".

    Let's talk TCP. "Transmission" is from Latin, "Protocol" is from French and Latin, and "Control" is from English.

    Using an Operating System? Both words from Latin, System is also from Greek.

    Connecting your electronics on a PCB using a bus? "Electronics" is from Greek, "print" is from French, "circuit" is from Latin, "board" is from English, and "bus" is from Latin (from "omnibus").

    Developing a program? "Develop" and "Program" are both from French.

    I could go on, but much of English is just loanwords anyway.

  23. Wow, it's completely barren with JS disabled. on Discourse: Next-Generation Discussion/Web Forum Software · · Score: 1

    I just loaded the example site, and it looks like just several lines of text with JavaScript disabled on the site. After enabling JavaScript, the site looks like it's supposed to, but is it really necessary to write a web forum that relies entirely on JavaScript to work? What ever happened to server-side processing spitting out dumb HTML pages and CSS styles?
    Most popular message board systems I've seen work perfectly without JS enabled, but others are very ugly (I'm looking at you, Disqus).

  24. Re:This sounds like a job for Anonymous on Software That Flagged HBO.com For Piracy Will Power U.S. 'Six Strikes' System · · Score: 1

    You don't even need to frame anyone, I heard that staff members of congress are already pirating music and movies.

  25. If it was still released under the GPL, then it wouldn't matter who owned the copyright on it.