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  1. Re:Strong enough for a man, made for a woman on Men Are Sabotaging The Online Reviews Of TV Shows Aimed At Women (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    Why are you expecting us not to tell our other half ? Lets look at an example; we started watching Walking dead a while ago. I did enjoy it initially, but soon grew tired of it. She, on the other hand quite liked it. I told her, but she asked me to still watch it with her since she favors that. I kept going until the end of the fourth season, but could not stand it anymore. So I didn`t join her on the 6th. She did resent me on it even though she understand, and that I had given her about 3.5 extra seasons after mentioning I did no longer want to watch it.

  2. Re:Strong enough for a man, made for a woman on Men Are Sabotaging The Online Reviews Of TV Shows Aimed At Women (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    But then you don`t force your wife to watch those movies / shows, do you ? My wife likes all the series I watch and enjoy watching them truthfully. I don't like some of those that she likes, but she wants to watch them with me anyway. I am certainly not refusing her, but if some people are discussing the show and saying it's good, I'm certainly not preventing myself from trashing their illusions. At least I'm not reviewing shows/movies online, but I can see how that goes for many people.

  3. By default that feature requires you to keep pressing the key Gibb for the car to move, release it and it stops immediately. He had to activate the feature, change the key fob press to stop, confirm his responsability, then he could use it. If I was Tesla, I would also change the menu to confirm rather than only cancel, but it's clearly his issue..

  4. Take a look at the BF1 video, it`s definitely trailer pr0n! And to the subject question, I did like BF1 trailer and dislike CoD on youtube before this article. And I don`t often rate videos.

  5. - 640K ought to be enough for anybody!

    Also rocking 32gb, games, multiboxing, vms, compiling stuff, whatever, currently having 21GB in active use..

  6. Re:AMD just crapped themselves on NVIDIA Unveils GeForce GTX 1080, GTX 1070, Faster Than Titan X For a Lot Less (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Time is of the essence; if you want it now, if you have a very old setup, then it make sense to update. If not, it`s always worth it to keep pushing it further, until your current setup no longer does the job. If it didn`t do the job anymore, then buying what is available make sense, even if something better will come afterward. There`s always something better coming later anyway!

  7. Re:AMD just crapped themselves on NVIDIA Unveils GeForce GTX 1080, GTX 1070, Faster Than Titan X For a Lot Less (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Except that the 1080 is supposed to have a full double precision pipeline this time around, I can`t wait to see if that`s true!

  8. Re:This the stupidest things I have read today! on Intel Wants To Eliminate The Headphone Jack And Replace It With USB-C (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh indeed certainly not all 'better headphones' are built to last. I was directly referring to the HD7 since they have replacement parts that anyone can change with what looks like to be a great build quality so far. As always, YMMV!

  9. The car certainly has all that info available, and I would not be surprised at all if it was also all forwarded to Telsa. I would even think that the autopilot would be engaged more often in defavorable conditions to tesla, meaning situations were the driver is distracted or not as rested as one should be when driving.

  10. Re:All that Tesla has to say back.. on Volvo Engineer Calls Out Tesla For Dangerous 'Wannabe' Autopilot System (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 1
  11. Re:This the stupidest things I have read today! on Intel Wants To Eliminate The Headphone Jack And Replace It With USB-C (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 2

    Purchase a little bit better headphones ? I really like the sennheiser hd7 dj (managed to snag one at USD 100); they come with 2 cords and 2 sets of ear padding, and replacement are easy to buy of amazon should you need them. But then, I must be over 4K hours on my set and they are still like new. Sound great; closed back is the only drawback, I usually use open air headphones so that I can easily hear when someone talk to me .. oh well =)

  12. Re:They should just go all the way on Intel Wants To Eliminate The Headphone Jack And Replace It With USB-C (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    This change is only so that you have to buy new headphones; using that kind of cable would make it happen much more often!

    On my side, if I can't plug in my current headphones, I won't buy it. Simple as that!

  13. What you weren`t paying for ? Those that => used = vpn to access their Netflix were also subscribing using a USD card providing a US address paying the USD price and the local taxes for the state from which their VPN in-out was.

  14. Re:Price Point on Apple Launches MacBook 2016 With Intel Skylake Processor, Longer Battery Life · · Score: 1

    The fastest CPU available in those is still slower than an 6.5 years old i5-750.. I hope they will at least get the macbook pro right with a good gpu this time around :\

  15. Re:Sorry I'm AC, but this is very relevant. on Virus Hits MedStar Health Hospital Network (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Doctors time is limited; do you want them to have to walk up to every machine and look at the results ? Or move back in time and print low resolution fixed contrast scans that have to be moved by someone so the doctor can have a look ? It would be nice though if a little arduino could be put in front of those machine, receiving serial data on the USB line and sending to a network server acting as a dispatch using a network shield, with SPIEN=1. Cost, with a box, 25$

  16. Re:I'll take it over Comcast and a cap! on AT&T Wants $100 Million From California Taxpayers For Aging DSL (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed, I'm well aware of those fights, and I definitely would deserve getting bad score for this detail. As I also explained in another post on this thread, the wording of the phrase referring to Europeans and then to America as the USA was the one which tickled me. Finally, his experience is not even necessarily representative of everywhere in the USA :)

  17. Re:Ok, let's be pedantic on AT&T Wants $100 Million From California Taxpayers For Aging DSL (dslreports.com) · · Score: 0

    Well, it is true that Americans will refer to the US with America, but it is an unilateral definition of the word. In french Quebec, we will welcome our over-sea friends using the following term;

    - Bienvenue en Amérique!

    and if they speak english rather than french, the literal translation is indeed Welcome to America. Beside, I could simply refer to the following Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... where you can clearly see that America can indeed refer to the Americas. Finally, it would have been nice of you to notice that he was specifically referring to European readers, thus promoting a large scale in his wording.

    Beside, I also wanted to point out that it might be different depending on where you are in the USA.

  18. Re:I'll take it over Comcast and a cap! on AT&T Wants $100 Million From California Taxpayers For Aging DSL (dslreports.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Please kindly refrain from using the term America when refering to the United States (in this case, California?). I hated the internet services while in San Francisco myself.. I had a capped (WTF???) 24mbps (maximum speed available in the middle of SF ???) / 2 mbps (that`s last millennium!!!) from AT&T (they had signed something to be the only one providing service through the building, with fiber to the premise), for a ridiculous price, a bit more than twice what I pay for uncapped 60/30 in a remote region in Quebec, Canada, before accounting for the USD / CAD exchange rate!

    So yeah, US / California sucks for internet speed, but that`s not like this everywhere in America.

  19. Re:google's bullshit claims - metric mistake? on Google Challenge Results In Astoundingly Efficient Inverters · · Score: 1

    The only problem with this specific item, is that it's doing exactly the opposite work of what google was looking for. This is an AC -> DC converter, which have been improving a lot in the last years, and they wanted to improve the DC -> AC path.

  20. Re:Efficiency on Google Challenge Results In Astoundingly Efficient Inverters · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you had read the challenge when it was proposed (or went to read the rules), the efficiency was required to be > 95%

    . Produce a DCAC conversion efficiency of > 95%

    From https://www.littleboxchallenge...

  21. Humm, I think you haven`t closely followed battery technologies. I can easily charge my lipi batteries at 10C, and the safety limit is at 20C. With adjustment, ie starting at 20C and slowing down when it`s getting close to full, I fill them in about 4:30 - 4:40 depending on how low it started. On 2S5A batteries that mean the 1KW power supply is handling out about 900W. Sadly, my brother own this charging station, mine is limited to 300W / 20A but at least it can charge 2 2S at 20A.

  22. Re:Let them have the drones on Israel Thwarts Attempt To Smuggle Commercial Drones Into Gaza · · Score: 1

    When I was young and playing baseball I was reliably throwing the ball in the 200-250ft range.

    Different web pages show different control distances, then one I had found were in the 100-160 ft range. Amazon quotes 30m on the canadian page. Reading the comments, someone claimed to have lost control at 250 feet of vertical distance (thus limited variation in the interferences) so it`s possible it could go further than I expected based on the initial findings, still, not a long range weapon.

  23. Re:Let them have the drones on Israel Thwarts Attempt To Smuggle Commercial Drones Into Gaza · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Range of "Up to 160ft!" in the docs. I'm sure that I can throw whatever payload those drones could lift further than they can fly.

  24. Re:They can have my encryption... on N. Carolina Senator Drafting Bill To Criminalize Apple's Refusal To Aid Decryption (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    He will have left the country by then ?

  25. Re: Geeks rejoice (using your dollars) on Newegg Sues Patent Troll After Troll Dropped Its Own Lawsuit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Solution: Newegg premier!

    It cut offs the restocking fee, allow for faster/free returns and free shipping. 20 bucks for 3 months, you often save that much in shipping anyway, and it protects you for errors / issues. 50 bucks for a year if you know you'll need to order from the a few times in the year. It's worth it (and would have saved you at least 230$)!