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  1. Yes, and even if it works, I have the feeling that each brain somehow maps the visual cortex to its body's particular retinas to unscramble reality, and I doubt you can just whack two different retinas into the optic nerve and expect 4K resolution the next day... An adult brain may take forever to do same trick again...

  2. "Music has gotten STALE over the last ten years. Not even bad, just more of the same."

    Nope. You've gotten ten years older and can detect patterns faster and are bored by them.

  3. Re:Landlords are not middle class on Airbnb Fires Back, Accuses Hotel Industry Of Punishing the Middle-Class (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    "I own a second home "

    " Your definition of upper class would include me"

    "and that's ridiculous."

    Time for a bit of introspection, I think.

  4. Re:Sounds dangerous on Boeing Expects To Save Millions In Dreamliner Costs Using 3D-Printed Titanium Parts (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Shit, better tell Boeing before the first takeoff. I bet they never thought of that. Milled parts aren't strong enough either, that's why they're casted and heat-treated in all kinds of ways... Every heard of single-crystal turbine blades?

    https://www.theengineer.co.uk/...

    So the 3D printed part is just a "blank" that gets toasted. It's probably easier to get all the holes in there that way.

  5. Re:How can it be more cost effective? on Boeing Expects To Save Millions In Dreamliner Costs Using 3D-Printed Titanium Parts (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It is in fact no such thing. Why would you say that? It's silly.

  6. Re:I approve of this. on Die-Hard Sysops Are Resurrecting BBS's From The 1980s (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a VIC-20, a C64, a 64C, a SX-64, a 128DCR, 1764, 1351, 1541, 1571, and two SFD-1001s.... Yeah, a bit of a hoarding thing going on. Don't get me started on my vintage test gear!

  7. With a 1581? Or for real old-school power, a SFD-1001.

  8. Re:Torrent Availability on NASA Launches Massive Digital Library For Space Video, Photos and Audio (space.com) · · Score: 1

    LOL neither do young people. Kid at work stared at me all smirky and asked why I cared about that, all he has to do is stream from Netflix if he wants to watch something.

    I asked him if he knows what a "file" is.

    We've come full circle. We're old, we're not cool, whatever we do is wrong.

  9. Re:But remember, basic income is an unfair handout on US Workers Face A Higher Risk Of Being Replaced By Robots (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    You're asking people for introspection, in a society where a car is a symbol, not a vehicle.

  10. Re:Illiterate cackwads on Apache Hadoop Has Failed Us, Tech Experts Say (datanami.com) · · Score: 1

    your rite, the author of this artical needs to be kicked in the testical

  11. Modern software is a joke. I'll bet that code to accept that input in the first place runs into the megabytes.

  12. 5000$ fine and 20000$ donation on Court Fines Canadian $26,500 For 'Unconscionably Stupid' Balloon-Chair Flight (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I wonder if a forced donation such as this one is still tax-deductible? Seems to me he'll get some tax break from this?

  13. What if you do have a magnifying glass?

  14. Wait, isn't Uber an anagram for on 'Uber Is Doomed', Argues Transportation Reporter (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 2

    rube? What am I missing?

  15. Paging Bart Kosko on AI Software Juggles Probabilities To Learn From Less Data (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 2

    We need some of your 1990s fuzzy logic hype over here!

  16. Programmers will quickly find a way to use, no, require, that bandwidth to be able to transfer four kilobytes of text embedded in a web page, and it will still take several seconds for the web page to render.

  17. Re:Hopefully better than their hard drives. on Western Digital Unveils First-Ever 512Gb 64-Layer 3D NAND Chip (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Showing my age: Micropolis, Rodime...

  18. Yeah, old people like you and me maybe. But there's a whole new generation or two of brand new people who don't have the amazing knowledge and wisdom we have.

    I'd trade it all to be 25 again. So would you.

  19. Re:They want to be a welfare state? on Sweden Pledges To Cut All Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 2045 (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Good. Why do we need to compete against each other when we have the technology to almost live in a utopia? Are you a misanthrope?

  20. Re:Using a computer has become a minefield. on CNET Editor Rails Against Non-Consensual Windows Updates (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Was it a VIC-20? You can find a "SD" video to VGA/HDMI converter box so you don't need that TV, but the picture you get on a CRT is special.

  21. Re:Carly Fiorina bashing on Avaya Explains Why They've Declared Bankruptcy (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Hardware in general, in the West, is career suicide, personal hara-kiri. I feel super bad for the kids that are going to university in EE here in Montreal. What are they expecting to achieve by this?

  22. Why stop there? on Ask Slashdot: Should Commercial Software Prices Be Pegged To a Country's GDP? · · Score: 2

    How about pegging it to my salary? When I'm unemployed I'll buy the biggest IC design CAD package I can!

  23. Their fault on Humans, Not Climate Change, Wiped Out Australian Megafauna (phys.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    They were probably delicious.

  24. Re:It's a way to hail a cab on Uber Hires Former Google Search Chief Amit Singhal As SVP of Engineering (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    ...but what use or value would money have in such a situation? Money is a symbol of trust; it can only work if people can trust strangers.

  25. Too bad Fred Pohl passed away on US Military Seeks Biodegradable Bullets That Sprout Plants (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    He would have had a field day writing these into some sort of dark satirical sci-fi story.