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  1. Re:Transparent OLED on A 2560x1440 VR Headset That's Mobile · · Score: 1

    that wont happen for a while. the pattent owner for oleds is being paid to hold onto his patent and not let anyone do anything with it.

  2. Re:Alright, alright,alright on For the First Time, Organ Regenerated Inside a Living Animal · · Score: 1

    well, it was recently decided to start treating aging as a disease instead of a natural occurrence. For some reason, (not pointing fingers at religious folk), this idea has been put off for far too long.

  3. Re:here's how stupid this is on AMD Unveils the Liquid-Cooled, Dual-GPU Radeon R9 295X2 At $1,500 · · Score: 1

    that may be true, but im sure that they could make graphite based water cooling radiators as well.

  4. Re:here's how stupid this is on AMD Unveils the Liquid-Cooled, Dual-GPU Radeon R9 295X2 At $1,500 · · Score: 1

    you may replace it with air cooling down the line, but that air cooling is much better than the small thing they would have on the gpu. you can get a much larger cooling unit if you dont have to put it directly onto the gpu.

  5. Re:~1000 *Bits* per square inch? on Seagate Releases 6TB Hard Drive Sans Helium · · Score: 1

    yea... i noticed after i posted, but sadly there is no edit..

  6. Re:~1000 *Bits* per square inch? on Seagate Releases 6TB Hard Drive Sans Helium · · Score: -1

    ... that statement is just plain dumb. bytes of data are the same 8bits regardless of storage density. if they switched it to cm^2, they would just change the number from 1000/inch^2 to 1000/2.54/cm^2

  7. Re:I question how well it work on Your Car Will Tell You How To Hit the Next Green Light · · Score: 1

    the roads near me have a speed limit of 40, but if you go 50, you never hit a red light. ever.

  8. Re:A much better method exist already and is even on Your Car Will Tell You How To Hit the Next Green Light · · Score: 1

    this already exists in many countries... i dont know why the US hasnt adopted it yet.

  9. can already see this happening- on Your Car Will Tell You How To Hit the Next Green Light · · Score: 1

    you need to maintain 200mph in order to make the green light... watch as people accelerate like mad and then slam on their brakes when they cant quite make it.

  10. Re:Disable player chat on Getting Misogyny, Racism and Homophobia Out of Gaming · · Score: 1

    hes talking about putting things into the game that teach people not to be racist, etc. via a dynamic learning thing. one example would be quests in an mmo that show you first hand how bad it makes people feel when you are racist... etc.

  11. Re:Pah ... gnome sux on Ubuntu Gnome Seeking Long Term Support Status · · Score: 3, Insightful

    i liked the previous gnome... but the current one tries too hard to be apple and doesnt work very well.

  12. my list on Ask Slashdot: What Software Can You Not Live Without? · · Score: 1

    thunderbird, skype, chrome, win rar, truecrypt and notepad ++

  13. Re:Adblock! on The Facebook Ads Teens Aren't Supposed To See · · Score: 3, Interesting

    lol... i block more adds on facebook with adblock plus than i do on porn sites and malware sites.

  14. Re:Tell me again... on U.S. Students/Grads Carrying Over $1 Trillion In Debt · · Score: 2

    the idea is to get your core classes out of the way for 100$ a class at a community college, and then just pay for your last 4 semesters

  15. watch out on Apple To Unveil Its 'iOS In the Car' Project Next Week · · Score: 0

    they'd better watch out and make sure it doesnt rout them off highways or through lakes

  16. Re:Tell me again... on U.S. Students/Grads Carrying Over $1 Trillion In Debt · · Score: 1

    you can get them a little more expensive with utilities nearby off campus for the same quality. if you want a crap apartment though, they have those around for half the price

  17. Re:Tell me again... on U.S. Students/Grads Carrying Over $1 Trillion In Debt · · Score: 1

    my point was simply that the expensive part is housing, not the tuition itself. if you go to a community college to get all your core classes out of the way, you can get yourself a degree with a little more than $10k in tuition at a decent school. the problem is, during this time period, if you have to pay for an apartment, you end up having to pay en extra 30k almost on housing. your $10k bill is now $40k. this is not the problem of the schools or the education system, this is a problem of the cost of housing.

  18. Re:Obsession on NASA Scientists Find Evidence of Water In Martian Meteorite · · Score: 1

    they traveled the surface of mars... but thats not to say that there isnt water somewhere underneath the surface.

  19. Re:Tell me again... on U.S. Students/Grads Carrying Over $1 Trillion In Debt · · Score: 1

    in most places, it isnt the college that is expensive, but the housing. i pay 3k per semester(which i guess is a little expensive) on tuition... i spend 600 a month on housing.

  20. Re:tamper-proof coating? on Inside Boeing's New Self-Destructing Smartphone · · Score: 1

    just freeze it with liquid nitrogen before taking it apart... then pull out the flash memory before it gets wiped. full secure wipes take quite a long time

  21. cost on 'Google Buses' Are Bad For Cities, Says New York MTA Official · · Score: 1

    i would assume cost is a huge factor. sub urban areas are much cheaper than in-city areas... especially for super large buildings like google HQ. it is probably much cheaper(and safer) to bus people from the city to the HQ than it is to have the HQ located in the city. if cities want people to start locating huge corporations inside the city, they will need to offer the things the companies are looking for: security, price, space, safety, and position. for the most part, cities cannot offer any of these, whereas suburbs can offer all of them.

  22. Re:No on Does Relying On an IDE Make You a Bad Programmer? · · Score: 0

    i love QT, but anyone who uses visual studio is silly. it is one of the worst IDEs out there... and to make matters worse, you can basically only program in .net with it.

  23. Re:This is news... on With 'Virgin' Developers, Microsoft Could Fork Android · · Score: 1

    i found crossover to be a waste of money because it doesnt do anything more than give you proper wine settings for stuff.

  24. Re:This is news... on With 'Virgin' Developers, Microsoft Could Fork Android · · Score: 1

    well, except that it is actually the opposite... microsoft will charge for it, and the others are free. we think that wine and noveau are acceptable because they are free versions of non-free stuff. taking something that is free and making it not free is unacceptable

  25. Re:Tesla not involved [Re:Not from the car?] on Tesla Model S Caught Fire While Parked and Unplugged · · Score: 1

    the combined weight of all the electronics and wires in most modern cars is roughly 3/5 of the car's weight.