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  1. Dubstep Warning on Inside Mantis: a 2-Ton Hexapod Robot With a Linux Brain · · Score: 5, Informative

    Warning, obnoxious dubstep sountrack for video. You have been warned.

  2. So we can expect (Hope?) to see this in GDDR6 spec on 3D DRAM Spec Published · · Score: 1

    ? I mean, money? Psssh, there's people out there that have two GTX Titans ($1,000 cards) and would have more if there was room on the motherboard. Plus the vast reduction in power usage would be really useful for mobile high end stuff. Would love to grab a Nvidia 850 or whatever next year with 4 gigs of this onboard.

  3. It's not who comes first... on Samsung Also Making a Smartwatch · · Score: 1

    "First!" isn't what counts here, this isn't an internet forum. Apple didn't build the first "smart" phone, or first MP3 player, or the first tablet. It built the most useful, and user friendly, tablet and smartphone and MP3 player to date. I'm not sure it matters if Samsung is "first". If Apple's product seems significantly "better" it's going to dominate anyway.

  4. Camping/Hiking on Ask Slashdot: Advice For Summer Before Ph.D. Program? · · Score: 1

    Why not? The appalachian trail is driveable relative to you, or if you want an even more amazing experience go out to California and stay a week or two in Yosemite. Or surfing, go somewhere where there's surfing! It's not hard to pick up if your even semi athletic. Whatever you do, you can try photography at the same time, it really lends itself to being a hobby while doing another hobby. Travel or hiking or whatever, wherever you are, you can be taking photos at the same time. Go on an adventure.

  5. Re:A robot with a human-like face is a lie on When Will We Trust Robots? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Speak for yourself meatbag! I mean, uhh- gross! Ew, yeah that's, that's sure not, what I would want. A human, an ordinary everyday human. Nothing different about me. All glory to the humans, down with those dirty disgusting robots! That I'm not one of, by the way.

  6. Re:Amazing but on Canon Shows the Most Sensitive Camera Sensor In the World · · Score: 1

    This true, even the most sensitive cameras can't capture nearly the range of the human eye, or the resolution per millimeter for that matter. But as pixel size gets larger the range of light captureable tends to increase, with such large pixels I wonder how this stands up. It might do quite well with a single exposure all on its own, at least versus other comparable full frame sensors.

  7. In other words... on UC Davis Study Concludes H-1B Workers Neither Best Nor Brightest · · Score: 0

    they took our jerbs!

  8. Yay, more reason to buy EA games on EA Building Microtransactions Into All of Its Future Games · · Score: 1

    Because hit titles like Dragon Age 2 and Dead Space 3 are just what I w- oh no wait I don't care.

    Still, I'm SURE this will do it. Yes EA, this will save your continuous quarterly disappointments. Just like every game you make having multiplayer, or desperately chasing such growing franchises as Call of Duty (declining year over year for two years straight) or companies like Zynga (desperately cutting studios and employees to remain in business).

    Yes EA, your recent history of brilliant strategies will save you this time. "Let's make people who seem uninterested in paying in first place for games like Warfighter, PAY MORE FOR THEM!"

  9. Re:Cool! on France Plans 20-Billion Euro National Broadband Plan · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because... France's economy can't support it, France has a huge public debt and far too much of it's GDP is spent by the government, with it's ultra restrictive labor practices fiber optics everywhere still aren't going to attract startups like Kansas city and Google Fiber, and large government projects such as this usually end costing far too much for what is paid for. Just for starters.

  10. As a huge gadget geek... on Ask Slashdot: Starting From Scratch After a Burglary? · · Score: 1

    A pair of "Ultra" book should run you less than $2,000 all told. I'm sitting here typing on a Sony Vaio Ultra Book that cost me $700 last year, and except for the low res screen (hey, pay for what you get) I've got no complaints. I can play DOTA 2 at medium settings, smooth as butter while something simultaneously streams to a nearby PS3. These things are sleek, high performance, and well worth the money. If you're a big gamer you could get one with a dedicated Nvidia mobile card and not even bother with the desktop.

    As for a camera, since you just mentioned it offhand I'm guessing you're not big into photography. So it really depends on what you want. If you're up to spending $500-$600 you can get a Sony RX100, a perfectly pocketable camera that will get you photos equal of a somewhat older professional DSLR. It's that sharp. If you're not that into it, then honestly modern high end smartphones are getting good at this stuff. An iPhone 5 or something similar (go to engadget for reviews) will net you "good enough" photos. Or, alternatively, if you wanted to start photography as a hobby you could pick up a Panasonic GH2 or Sony NEX mirrorless camera, which will give you all the manual control, features, and often image quality of a DSLR without the cost.

    As for a TV, honestly it's so competitive you just select your size and price range and look over a few reviews. Companies are at razor thin margins for HDTV's so one or two (or whatever) excellent ones can be had for a good price all around.

    Hmmm... speakers are speakers. Bose are overpriced so get something else for half the cost that's just as good. But otherwise I think that about covers it. Like I said, don't bother with a desktop unless you REALLY want one. I've got mine sitting, disassembled since I moved for 2 months now. Haven't used it thanks to my cool laptop, though that may change if I end up getting Crysis 3. Which is why I suggested a dedicated Nvidia card.

    You could always stream stuff to your tv's and ditch a cable/satellite service entirely. A Roku is extremely user friendly, and between Netflix and Hulu Plus you'd have a good selection. Even better if you've certain proclivities visa vis copyright. A fast internet connection can do wonders, and PS3 media server makes it supremely easy to stream things to a 360 or PS3, or any DLNA device so far as I know. Not to mention most new laptops have HDMI out on them.

    Anyway, that's all I can think of. Good luck!

  11. How dare they on Groups Accuse EU Parliament of "Caving In" To Pressure From Business and US · · Score: 0

    Be concerned for multi billion dollar businesses! We should force all the freely accessible places on the net to disregard all profit making practices and any notion that they could even have the ability to run their affairs in the way they see fit! Places like Facebook belong to the people, the people damn it! We should be able to run it however we want, even if we have to seize the means of service! We'll see about this, it's not over!

  12. Re:Change your WPA keys on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 1

    Yah, as long as it's not on some list of used passwords , which costs $35 to run through online, you should be good. I like finding a random product and using some random code on the packaging. I.E. have a cat walk across your keyboard and use that as a password.

  13. Re:What's the point? on NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Uses 7.1 Billion Transistor GK110 GPU · · Score: 1

    Crysis 3, Battlefield 3, New consoles due out this year. Please update to the 2012 model of yourself at least, security patches may be highly critical :P

  14. Impressive on Unigine's Newest Benchmark Features Huge, Open-Space Expanses · · Score: 2

    Impressive enough, it's always neat to see even programming as utterly performance intensive as a game engine pay off with something so pretty.

  15. Re:California on Coca-Cola and Pepsi Change Recipe To Avoid Cancer Warning · · Score: 1

    More importantly, it has been shown in studies that those, with cancer, are incredibly likely, to develop cancer. Thus it is now the law that when you develop cancer, doctors must warn you about the health risks, visa vis, your likelihood, to then develop cancer. Don't do cancer kids, it leads to cancer.

  16. A bit late on 3D Nausea Solved By Eye-Tracking · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I suppose most people haven't thought of this. But I came up with the same idea 2 years ago, researched to see if I could patent it, and saw two were already filed as far back as 1996. I wonder if they bought the patents or are going to get sued.