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  1. There's no such thing as a "CNC driver" under DOS, the software is bit-banging the LPT port data lines in real time.

  2. Doesn't matter on Microsoft Brings Edge To Android and IOS (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Whatever browser comes out for iOS means it's rendered internally via WebKit.

  3. When it's targeted at kids, people freak out.
    When it's targeted at adults, people buy the damn things.

  4. Re:Alternative to glass on The Google Clips Camera Puts AI Behind the Lens (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh the irony as I'm typing this taking a dump. What could go wrong?

    You could be out of toilet paper.

  5. Re:Always on camera on The Google Clips Camera Puts AI Behind the Lens (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The real question is, what do Siri and Alexa look like naked?

  6. Re:Would be good if the algorithm... on The Google Clips Camera Puts AI Behind the Lens (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Dude, a Raspberry Pi is fast enough to run arcade games from the 1980's at their native frame rate. I'm pretty sure it can run your "ALPR", whatever that is.

  7. Re:the hell!? on The Google Clips Camera Puts AI Behind the Lens (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    And what the fuck is "PII", for those of us not working in such a business?

  8. Re:the hell!? on The Google Clips Camera Puts AI Behind the Lens (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    How about a full-body silver-bubblewrap suit with tinted visor? As a bonus it could have environment controls, heating in the winter and cooling in the summer. And as an added bonus, it could have front-facing camera to record your precious moments.

  9. My CNC software runs on MS-DOS you insensitive clod!

  10. Re:Why? Which features? on Mozilla To End All Firefox Support For XP, Vista In June 2018 (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    And by the same logic, I shouldn't be supporting Firefox at all vs Chrome and Safari .

  11. Re:Why? Which features? on Mozilla To End All Firefox Support For XP, Vista In June 2018 (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2
  12. From my Canadian point of view, UK is hard to understand because of the expressions, not because of the accent.

  13. Orange? WTF?

    "The Babel fish is small, yellow, leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. ... The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

  14. From what I've seen in stand-up comedy and TV shows, it could be useful for Americans wanting to take a vacation in the UK.

  15. And then they "suddenly die for no reason" when they reach 35.

  16. I've always felt like crap if I didn't sleep nine hours. At least now it's nice to have a study to confirm what I already knew.

  17. Re: No headphone jack, no replaceable battery... on Google Is Latest Company To Ditch Headphone Jack In Its Newest Smartphones (cultofmac.com) · · Score: 1

    I did live through these transitions. Yes USB support sucked on Win95 and Win98 but that was a software problem, not a connector/protocol/hardware problem. CD-ROMs didn't really replace floppy drives because multi-writable sessions support sucked almost as worst as USB support back then, not to mention the price of CD-Rs at the time. If anything, ZIP was the floppy replacement that just never caught on.

    As for Google joining Apple, it still doesn't matter. People on these threads seem to think that headphones only works on smartphones instead of the millions of other devices. So unless Sony, Pioneer, Toshiba, Hitachi and all other audio/video manufacturers start supporting the same standard, it is not happening and will stay a niche bastard aspect of smartphones.

  18. Re:So true, especially here on Unselfish People Are More Likely to Wind Up With Depression (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you really are an AC then do your job. It's still way too hot in here.

  19. Of course on Unselfish People Are More Likely to Wind Up With Depression (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you don't care, you can't get depressed. Only selfish people would need to research this because it's unknown to them. And that makes me sad.

  20. Re:Am I the only one who hates wired headphones? on Google Is Latest Company To Ditch Headphone Jack In Its Newest Smartphones (cultofmac.com) · · Score: 1

    There's a difference between being able to discern the difference between a direct CD rip and a 384kbps AAC file (which I can't even for most songs at 256kbps or even 128kbps for some) and being able to discern the difference between a 256kbps AAC file and a 256kbps AAC file which has been re-compressed a second time to 64kbps for bluetooth.

  21. Re:What is "PV"? on Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Ned? Ned Ryerson?

  22. in all fields.

  23. They're supposed to be, but the Slashdot "editors" seem to assume every reader is an expert is all fields.

  24. First came the steam age.
    Second came the coal age.
    Third came the oil age.
    Fourth came the nuclear age.
    Fifth came the solar age.
    Sixth will see the dawn of the crystal age.