Slashdot Mirror


User: Dunbal

Dunbal's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
12,109
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 12,109

  1. The modern gaming era is almost 50 years old.

    Like me! Gamer since 1976...

  2. Re:Notepad Next on Windows 10 Calculator Will Soon Be Able To Graph Math Equations (zdnet.com) · · Score: 0

    If you can't write your own better version of Notepad in 30 mins you don't belong on this site.

  3. Re:Heh... on Windows 10 Calculator Will Soon Be Able To Graph Math Equations (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    My Dad's cellphone already had a calculator in the early 90s.

    And now you have an entire generation that can't multiply 8 x 6 in their head.

  4. Re: A corporation cutting corners... on Crashed Boeing Planes Lacked Safety Features That Company Sold Only As Extras (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    >Plenty of aircraft fly around with no AOA indication other than a stick shaker or other type of stall warning. I think you misunderstand exactly what the problem is. This isn't a stick shaker which is just a warning. It's the plane going into a dive all by itself trying to correct for a problem that's not there. But if only you had purchased the additional option, you'd have been able to easily correct the problem caused by a software glitch.

  5. Re: A corporation cutting corners... on Crashed Boeing Planes Lacked Safety Features That Company Sold Only As Extras (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    More like selling a car without brakes.

  6. Imagine a RAID array of... on Microsoft Boots Up the First 'DNA Drive' For Storing Data (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    So, how many base pairs per second are we talking here?

  7. Re:This could make possible a new type of virus on Microsoft Boots Up the First 'DNA Drive' For Storing Data (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Wrong. There are 2 groups of viruses. Retroviruses which use RNA, and plain old viruses which use DNA.

  8. Re:I'm surprised they aren't on the cloud yet on 750,000 Medtronic Defibrillators Vulnerable To Hacking (startribune.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I have a defibrillator from Boston Scientific. The wireless has to be turned on by placing a magnet against my skin above the defibrillator. Then it will talk to the technician's computer. Once the magnet is removed, the wireless is off again. It would be pretty dumb to have a device default to open at all times.

  9. Re:Most already know about streaming TV... on Apple's Plan For Its New TV Service: Sell Other People's TV Services (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    The next step of course will be to block Netflix/Amazon Prime/Hulu apps forcing you to pay Apple and go through them. Anti-trust much?

  10. Re:Washed Through By The Mainstream on After 40 Years 'Dungeons & Dragons' is Suddenly Popular (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    There are more Chinese than Americans and Canadians and Mexicans and Europeans and Latin Americans.... combined. You could probably thrown in Australia and New Zealand too. There are a LOT of Chinese. Soon there will be even more Indians.

  11. Re:Washed Through By The Mainstream on After 40 Years 'Dungeons & Dragons' is Suddenly Popular (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    AC is the kind of DM who cherishes the thought of a TPK within the first 10 minutes.

  12. Re:The sun is the center of all planetary orbits on Mercury -- Not Venus -- is the Closest Planet To Earth on Average, New Research Finds (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Average out the "wiggles" and what do you get?

  13. Re:The sun is the center of all planetary orbits on Mercury -- Not Venus -- is the Closest Planet To Earth on Average, New Research Finds (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    And on average the spiral arm next to us is closer to us than the entire rest of our spiral arm. Send grant money please.

  14. Re:The sun is the center of all planetary orbits on Mercury -- Not Venus -- is the Closest Planet To Earth on Average, New Research Finds (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Except orbits are elliptical. There's nothing in the center of the orbit, and the sun is at one of the foci...

  15. Re:"The test involved asking 32 fans and 48 non-fa on Death Metal Music Inspires Joy Not Violence, Study Finds (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You're a complete fraud if you think 80 models millions in a psychological human-reaction experimentation.

    You can model millions with 80. Of course you can't do it well, but you can do it a lot better than with 8...

  16. Re:Undo-Redo pattern on Physicists Reverse Time Using Quantum Computer (phys.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Good luck getting more grant dollars with THAT

  17. Re:More bullshit on Physicists Reverse Time Using Quantum Computer (phys.org) · · Score: 2

    Do you actually store shit in the fridge? If so, why? Does it reduce the smell or something?

    Yes and yes. I guess you're no microbiologist.

  18. The problem with AI on Facebook is Down · · Score: 4, Funny

    Unfortunately the AI software used to censor fake news from facebook has decided, again, to censor facebook. No one can seem to figure out how to prevent this, so the neural net needs to be retrained AGAIN...

  19. Re:ELIZA effect on Alphabet's AI-Powered Chrome Extension Hides Toxic Comments (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    People should be allowed to lobotomize themselves, so long as there is always an off switch somewhere for the rest of us.

  20. Re:Sorry, no on Scientists Reawaken Cells From a 28,000-Year-Old Mammoth (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It would impress me, but far less than the mouse who can give birth to a woolly mammoth!

  21. Re:Swiss cheese on Researchers Find Critical Backdoor In Swiss Online Voting System (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Except they're asking the guy who put the hole there to plug the hole. So while he plugs it, he'll just make another hole.

  22. Also known as "marketing".

  23. Re:The problem is normal and alternate control law on Boeing To Make Key Change in 737 MAX Cockpit Software (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Because the transient and eternal are the same.

  24. Re: So, maybe not the best bedside manner on A Doctor Remotely Told A Patient He Was Going To Die Using A Video-Link Robot (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's worse when it's a 30 year old mother with leukemia and she has her 5 year old daughter on her lap. True story.

  25. Weaning off Windows 7? on Microsoft To Start Selling Windows 7 Add-On Support April 1st (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    I know some companies still using XP.