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  1. Re:Well it is in one respect on Elon Musk Launches Neuralink To Connect Brains With Computers (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    What would you want him to do? Risk everything on a single project and wait decades until completion/failure until he can start working on a new project?

    Last time I checked, humans did not have lifespans of a few hundred years.

  2. Re:Musk is a great demonstration on Elon Musk Launches Neuralink To Connect Brains With Computers (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess you weren't there a few million years ago. Earth was the most inhospitable environment conceivable.

  3. NerveGear

  4. What do you mean? U+1F34B or :lemon:?

  5. Re:#5 on list of things we need more of! on Apple is Upgrading Millions of iOS Devices To a New Modern File System Today (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    #0. More emojis!

  6. Re:Don't blame a filesystem for your lack of backu on Apple is Upgrading Millions of iOS Devices To a New Modern File System Today (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    What do you mean? Onion or cake layers?

  7. My mid-2010 Mac mini has survived on borrowed time for five years. Since january 2016, however, it has been getting by using small time loans every few months.

  8. My point is - TV or monitor - that people use a set-top box, game console or tablet to watch Netflix. All of which have native applications.

    Only on computers themselves, which have been running applications since the beginning, does Netflix only run in a web browser. It makes no sense.

  9. Your tablet has a Netflix app, and so should your computer.

  10. Re:Not just Hollywood... on Enemy Number One is Netflix: The Monster That's Eating Hollywood (business-standard.com) · · Score: 1

    And no pay check for anyone comes along and makes Kodi useless.

  11. DRM or not, Netflix-in-a-browser is still a stupid idea.

    Normal people don't hook up their PC tower or laptop to their big TV.

  12. Re:Where have we heard this before on Galaxy Note 7 Is Not Dead, Samsung Says It Will Sell Refurbished Units (samsung.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends on which head you're referring to.

  13. Re:It's just resting on Galaxy Note 7 Is Not Dead, Samsung Says It Will Sell Refurbished Units (samsung.com) · · Score: 2

    Look, I took the liberty of examining that phone when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been showing anything on its display in the first place was that a print of a screen capture had been GLUED there.

  14. Where have we heard this before on Galaxy Note 7 Is Not Dead, Samsung Says It Will Sell Refurbished Units (samsung.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Galaxy Note 7: I'm not dead.
    Authorities and carriers: What?
    Samsung: Nothing. [hands the collector his money] There's your nine pence.
    Galaxy Note 7: I'm not dead!
    Authorities and carriers: 'Ere, he says he's not dead.
    Samsung: Yes he is.
    Galaxy Note 7: I'm not.
    Authorities and carriers: He isn't.
    Samsung: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.
    Galaxy Note 7: I'm getting better.
    Samsung: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment.
    Authorities and carriers: Well, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations.
    Galaxy Note 7: I don't want to go on the cart.
    Samsung:' Oh, don't be such a baby.
    Authorities and carriers: I can't take him.
    Galaxy Note 7: I feel fine.
    Samsung: Oh, do me a favor.
    Authorities and carriers: I can't.
    Samsung: Well, can you hang around for a couple of minutes? He won't be long.
    Authorities and carriers: I promised I'd be at the Robinsons'. They've lost nine today.
    Samsung: Well, when's your next round?
    Authorities and carriers: Thursday.
    Galaxy Note 7: I think I'll go for a walk.
    Samsung: You're not fooling anyone, you know. Isn't there anything you could do?
    Galaxy Note 7: I feel happy. I feel happy.
    [The collector paces for an idea, then whacks the body with his club, solving the problem]
    Samsung: Ah, thank you very much.
    Authorities and carriers: Not at all. See you on Thursday.
    Samsung: Right.

  15. Re:Competition is good on A 21st-Century Version Of OS/2 Warp May Be Released Soon (arcanoae.com) · · Score: 1

    Their font rendering is also excellent on regular displays. The problem is they switched to a new extremel thin font in the latest versions of macOS and it's barely legible on regular displays.

  16. We cannot give you an appropriate reply on Ask Slashdot: What's The Easiest Linux Distro For A Newbie? · · Score: 2

    I just need something to work with the mechanical equipment it controls. Any recommendations?

    Without more details about this "mechanical equipment" we cannot give you an appropriate reply because we have no idea if any

    Linux distro is even able to talk to and control this unknown "mechanical equipment".

    If you're talking about a regular CNC mill/router/lathe then LinuxCNC should be appropriate.

  17. Re:Machines replacing bank tellers? on US Workers Face A Higher Risk Of Being Replaced By Robots (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Those machines have been replaced by websites and debit cards readers at the stores.

  18. Re:Competition is good on A 21st-Century Version Of OS/2 Warp May Be Released Soon (arcanoae.com) · · Score: 2

    The problem with recent Mac OS releases is their seemingly anti-user direction. Style - not over function, but - against function. Thinner fonts that look like crap on regular, non-HiDPI monitors? Check. Pale pastel colours? Check. Removing any hint about widgets outlines? Check. Hiding or even removing functions because most people don't use them, even if they were available before? Check.

    Things started to fall apart when "Mr. Industrial Designer" became in charge of GUI design. Hint: industrial design does not equal user interface design.

  19. Re:So, they've reached the end of the alphabet on Ubuntu Linux 17.04 'Zesty Zapus' Final Beta Now Available For Download (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I hope it's something that doesn't sound retarded so I can finally talk to my boss about Linux.

  20. Then the author of the summary is as bad as Verizon.

  21. So the summary was written by someone using VerizonMath.

  22. http://verizonmath.blogspot.ca...

    $40 per month for one million pages?

  23. The summary says ".004 cents per page".

    Now, is this cost another case of VerizonMath? Do they mean really 0.004 cents or do they mean $0.004? If it's the former then it means 0.004 of $0.01, or $0.00004 per page, per month. That's $0.0072 per page for 15 years, not $0.72.

  24. Re:Reminds me of where I work on FedEx Will Pay You $5 To Install Flash (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Not as titaniumic as you'd think.

  25. Re:Reminds me of where I work on FedEx Will Pay You $5 To Install Flash (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I think irony is not a strong enough word for your situation. May I suggest a new stronger word, perhaps? How about titaniumy?