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  1. Re:A new programming language on Apple WWDC 2014: Tim Cook Unveils Yosemite · · Score: 4, Informative
  2. Re:Satellites aren't evil, sure. on Google To Spend $1 Billion On Fleet of Satellites · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't worry. Sharks can't survive in space.

  3. Samsung To Sell Tizen-Based Model Z on A Different Kind of Linux Smartphone: Samsung To Sell Tizen-Based Model Z · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, it's going to cost over 9000$!!!

  4. Re:MIT killed Aaron! on MIT Researcher Works Toward Robots That Assemble Themselves In an Oven · · Score: 2

    Troll or not, it helps when you put a link about the subject in your post.

  5. Re:WHAT ABOUT THE MAC MINI?! on Apple's 2014 WWDC Keynote Will Be Streamed Live; Hopes For a Microconsole? · · Score: 1

    I'd be happy with a "Mac Pro mini" that has a quad-core i5 and an nVidia GTX 750 TI 2GB.

  6. Re:Could confirm? on Apple's 2014 WWDC Keynote Will Be Streamed Live; Hopes For a Microconsole? · · Score: 1

    The PSP did not bring console-grade games into handheld first. You couldn't use the PS2 discs with it, you needed the same software written on a different media!

    The honour of being the first to bring console-grade games into handheld goes to the NEC TurboExpress, which used the regular TurboGrafx-16's HuCard games directly.

  7. Re:WHAT ABOUT THE MAC MINI?! on Apple's 2014 WWDC Keynote Will Be Streamed Live; Hopes For a Microconsole? · · Score: 2

    I don't want to get a Windows PC. I really don't. BUT YOU LEAVE ME NO CHOICE!

    Hackintosh.

  8. Re:Apple TV? on Apple's 2014 WWDC Keynote Will Be Streamed Live; Hopes For a Microconsole? · · Score: 1

    But since it's the WWDC keynote, wouldn't it make sense to say something about a future game-able AppleTV box, so that games are ready when it launches? Maybe limited availability for registered devs?

  9. Re:Apple TV? on Apple's 2014 WWDC Keynote Will Be Streamed Live; Hopes For a Microconsole? · · Score: 1

    The 3rd generation Apple TV has a more powerful chip than the 2nd generation model but the price didn't change. Since Apple uses the same Ax ARM CPU in almost all their iOS units, it's cheaper to just buy more of the same chip than to order half as much of two different chips.

    I'm expecting the next AppleTV box to use the same A8 CPU as the current top-of-the-line iPhone/iPad. This could explain the delay in releasing the new box.

  10. Re:My two reasons. on Apple's 2014 WWDC Keynote Will Be Streamed Live; Hopes For a Microconsole? · · Score: 0

    Learn foreign languages for free: https://www.duolingo.com/

  11. Re:Wonder why so relatively early in the year... on Apple's 2014 WWDC Keynote Will Be Streamed Live; Hopes For a Microconsole? · · Score: 1

    That's a good line, mind if I use it the next time someone asks for a Blu-Ray drive in Macs?

  12. Re:What is the point of this story? on Apple's 2014 WWDC Keynote Will Be Streamed Live; Hopes For a Microconsole? · · Score: 1

    - The Canadians are sorry about something someone else has done;

  13. Re:just another confirmation on Apple's 2014 WWDC Keynote Will Be Streamed Live; Hopes For a Microconsole? · · Score: 1

    Doing the same thing with what we call "TV" is hard as hell, because you have a labyrinth of contracts and obligations between multiple levels of writers, producers, distributors, giant media corporations and all of these are different per country.

    In short, it's not a technological barrier that Apple can easily solve, because it's a bureaucratic problem.

  14. Grab is reporting? WTF is Grab? on Apple's 2014 WWDC Keynote Will Be Streamed Live; Hopes For a Microconsole? · · Score: 1

    I sure as hell didn't need them to go to Apple.com to see the banner at the bottom of the home page, which leads to this page which clearly tells us about the live streaming tomorrow.

  15. Re:Can melt snow... on Solar Roadways Project Beats $1M Goal, Should Enter Production · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but you're talking about summer snow falls here. What about winter?

  16. Re:Thermodynamically Impossible on Solar Roadways Project Beats $1M Goal, Should Enter Production · · Score: 1

    Even if we're talking about using solar power from tiles in Texas to melt the snow covering tiles in Vermont, we're talking about moving gigawatts+ of power here. I don't think these tiles could replace the huge power transmission lines.

  17. Re:So... on Solar Roadways Project Beats $1M Goal, Should Enter Production · · Score: 1

    If you could get that sort of money you could pay Magrathea to build you a whole new planet, and bribe the Vogons not to blow it up.

    Yeah, but you know how Vogons are. Who the hell would want to go through that kilometre-high pile of paperwork?

  18. Re:left out the most important steps on How LEDs Are Made · · Score: 1

    What's the best brand/model of LED bulbs to replace fluorescent ones? (classical 40 watts replacement)

  19. Re:What a dumb waste of energy... on As Crypto Mining Grows, Data Centers Begin Accepting Bitcoin · · Score: 2

    Don't forget the energy and costs of armoured trucks, printing money, ressources required, etc.

  20. Re:Why would they accepts fantasy money? on As Crypto Mining Grows, Data Centers Begin Accepting Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    If he really mined Bitcoins at the start, then he potentially has hundreds if not thousands of them.

  21. Re:Why would they accepts fantasy money? on As Crypto Mining Grows, Data Centers Begin Accepting Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    Right now, if someone was offering me either Bitcoins or U.S. dollars, I'd take Bitcoins without hesitation.

  22. A new coin, again? on As Crypto Mining Grows, Data Centers Begin Accepting Bitcoin · · Score: 3, Funny

    Citing strong demand from cryptocurrency miners, data center and colocation providers are beginning to accept Bitcojn as payment for large chunks of data center space.

    Damn, and I was just getting used to Bitcoin.

  23. Lawyer point of view on Security Researchers Threatened With US Cybercrime Laws · · Score: 2

    I suppose lawyers don't have locks on their homes because there's laws about illegal entry.

  24. Re:Thanks... on UK Ballistics Scientists: 3D-Printed Guns Are 'of No Use To Anyone' · · Score: 1

    Just make a fake "Liberator" gun that doesn't really do anything. Except that its trigger has been modified and has a small hole in it with a mechanism that pushes a sharp needle into the finger when you press it.

  25. Re:Or maybe, you know... on The Light Might Make You Heavy · · Score: 1

    Alright, alright!