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  1. That's one of the fears. The other is turning people away from PC gaming and back to the console.

    Yes, you get more choice, and higher quality graphics with a PC. But when the graphics cards are hard to get and being marked up $200 over MSRP, while over the Christmas shopping season PS4s were available for $200.

    And that's not taking the RAM prices into account. When I built my PC six years ago, RAM was $20 for 8GB. It's now roughly $100 for 8GB, with 16GB kits running just under $200.

    A few years ago PCs were blowing past what the PS3/Xbox360 could do. Now the graphical differences are less noticeable to the average consumer.

  2. Re:Corn Syrup and High Fructose Corn Syrup on No More Pancake Syrup? Climate Change Could Bring an End To Sugar Maples (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Don't look at the spices aisle then.

  3. Re:Corn Syrup and High Fructose Corn Syrup on No More Pancake Syrup? Climate Change Could Bring an End To Sugar Maples (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Depends on the size of the bottle and what you spend on groceries. You can get a quart or liter of real maple syrup for $15-20.

    And a little bit of it goes a long way.

  4. Re:It was me... on Researchers Find That One Person Likely Drove Bitcoin From $150 to $1,000 (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    You wouldn't happen to be selling the London Bridge, would you? If so I might be interested.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge_(Lake_Havasu_City)

  5. But Tivo auto chaptering a recording is much different from a DVD's chapters which are manually placed.

  6. DVDs recorded live TV and let you play it back?

  7. Re:Government Honeypot on Taiwanese Police Give Cyber-security Quiz Winners Infected Devices (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey now, he just grew this epic beard. Nobody should have been able to recognize him.

  8. That's why I'm surprised Google just up and fired him. They should have taken the easier route that Hooli uses and given him a new position at the top, of the building, as in the roof.

  9. 5.1 was XP, and 5.2 is 64-bit XP/Server 2003.

    Vista was 6.0, 7 - 6.1, 8 - 6.2, 8.1 - 6.3

    Then 10 was 10.0, of course, it's pretty much just 6.4 though.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_nt

  10. Re:This practice needs to be outlawed now. on Chrome Extension with 100,000 Users Caught Pushing Cryptocurrency Miner (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Make sure you use Pentium 4 CPUs for maximum heat generation.

  11. Must be a calculator thing. TI does the same thing with their's. Do they cost the same as they did in the 90s?

  12. Option 1 is overkill for a failed login attempt that could be a typo.

    A similar message should be for a password reset though. That way attempting to reset the password doesn't expose that an account exists.

  13. If it's a database lookup the search should be against the username and password together.

    The message should be incorrect password, or user doesn't exist.

    Validating that the username/email is valid but the password is incorrect is leaking the information that a certain user account exists.

  14. Re:No, it's all going to hell again on America's 'Rent Crisis' May Be Ending (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Google tiny homes and look at all the hipsters. It's a bunch of people trying to convince themselves they aren't living in a mobile home.

  15. Re:No, it's all going to hell again on America's 'Rent Crisis' May Be Ending (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    They are, but there just tiny. Almost like a mobile home one would find in a trailer park.

  16. Re:Make a NON PHABLET SLAB PHONE on Andy Rubin's Essential Phone Considered Anything But (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    You might like the Kyocera DuraForce. It's not the fastest phone, but it has Android 7.1 and the battery seems to last forever. Only downside with it, is it's about 2.5x the weight of a regular 5" phone with a cheap case.

  17. At least unlike the TV show, we were able to find out who the ghost writer is.

  18. If you only drink black tea? Sure.

    But green tea is brewed at 165-170F. And the length of time the tea is steeped also affects the strength.

  19. Re:This was already sued and lost on Disney Sues Redbox, Hoping To Block Digital Movie Sales (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 2

    How so? You walk into a Walmart and movie on Bluray that comes with a digital download for $10. You take the slip of paper with the digital code and sell it to a friend for $5. Your friend activates the digital copy and watches the movie and you watch the movie on your disk.

    Redbox goes into Walmart and buys a copy of the same movie. Why are they treated differently?

  20. Re:For really good movies.... on A Third of Americans Still Buy and Rent Videos (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    And yet a very large number of digital projectors in the big multiple screen cinemas are 2K (2048x1080).

  21. Re:What a fucking surprise on Detroit's Marginalized Communities Are Building Their Own Internet (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's true, those issues weren't just Detroit. Look at other major US cities in the same time period. This was just over three years after the civil rights bill was passed that ended segregation and the US was still figuring everything out.

    New York was horrible in the 80s and had a comeback. Detroit, on the other hand, stunned the nation. The riots lead to white flight which decimated the city. Before the riots, Detroit's downtown looked like any other city. After the decline things got worse and worse until the 80s/90s where the current stereotypes of Detroit come from.

  22. Re:I live near Detroit on Detroit's Marginalized Communities Are Building Their Own Internet (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry completely miss read that as 10Gb for some reason. Definitely not worth it for 10Mb.

    I hope your situation improves sometime.

  23. Re:What a fucking surprise on Detroit's Marginalized Communities Are Building Their Own Internet (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Detroit was in decline way before Japanese cars starting being good. A huge impact to the decline was the 1967 race riots which drove anyone who could afford it out of the city to the suburbs of Dearborn and Livonia.

    This caused a major revenue crunch as the tax base evaporated. Coleman Young then became mayor in 1974 and stayed in power for 20 years. This brought about mass corruption that is still being cleaned up 20 years later.

  24. Re:I live near Detroit on Detroit's Marginalized Communities Are Building Their Own Internet (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    How far away are your neighbors? Could you put up a tower to have mostly clear line of sight and divvy that up to 10 $70/month gigabit connections?

  25. Re:Not a very good poll on 'Black Friday Is Dying' (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    The sales themselves were around for a long time. But it wasn't until the late 90s that I heard the term used to advertise them.

    I never heard that about the police though. I always heard it was a term the retailers used internally as it was the day the majority of them turned a profit on sales for the year. Going from being in the red to being in the black.