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  1. Re:But 725$ for a Samsung is OK! on Ask Slashdot: Why Would Anyone Want To Spend $1,000 on a Smartphone? · · Score: 1

    New lenses are also incredibly complex electronics. They won't last as long as the old manual focus lenses.

  2. Re:But 725$ for a Samsung is OK! on Ask Slashdot: Why Would Anyone Want To Spend $1,000 on a Smartphone? · · Score: 1

    I can mount a 1950s Carl Zeiss lens I have on my 2016 Cannon DSLR with a $30 adapter--and I get an auto focus beep on an (obviously) manual focus lens. The old Canon lenses can also be mounted, but they require a teleconverter. Also, they aren't very good by modern standards.

  3. Re: Simple solution on Hollywood's International War on Kodi Plugins And Video-Streaming Boxes (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    They used to make money off record sales too. The music is now smaller and there simply are fewer new national bands.

  4. Re:Shitty Consultants on Is Online Advertising Worthless? (zerohedge.com) · · Score: 1

    Agreed. For the local company, the layout on a phone makes it look like the phone number for the competitor is the phone number for the company you googled.

  5. Re:Shitty Consultants on Is Online Advertising Worthless? (zerohedge.com) · · Score: 1

    This could be rational. It prevents others from buying the words at the smallest cost and getting above you for your own name. That happened to a local company that I tried to use and they appeared to be oblivious to how they were getting so screwed.

  6. Re: Shitty Consultants on Is Online Advertising Worthless? (zerohedge.com) · · Score: 1

    It's actually much harder than that. Demand is constantly moving around for reasons you have no appreciation for. It could be that a huge buy that changes nothing was actually the buy that saved the company.

  7. Re: Shitty Consultants on Is Online Advertising Worthless? (zerohedge.com) · · Score: 1

    Academics in math, say that a counter proof relies on a "pathological" case to marginalize their argument. The Cauchy distribution to counter prove the law of large numbers is an example.

    Here you pull the same dirty trick.

    Just because your clients let you pull this dumb shit doesn't mean it's good.

  8. Re:Will the masses burn out from this churn? on Leaks Reveal New Features In Apple's Next iPhone · · Score: 1

    enough to justify the cost of a new machine? I can put an SSD in my 10 year old laptop. Beyond that, battery times have improved and I'm not sure I see much else. I don't do much graphics intensive and there I'm fine so long as the graphics card isn't eating my memory.

  9. Re:Will the masses burn out from this churn? on Leaks Reveal New Features In Apple's Next iPhone · · Score: 1

    It does. Look at desktop and laptops. People still want the latest one, but they haven't changed anything but the display connector and video board for about 10 years.

  10. Re:It's easy to predict the next iPhone's features on Leaks Reveal New Features In Apple's Next iPhone · · Score: 1

    There is also removing the POS android OS. On my Nexus shit crashes all the time and when I click on the google app mic icon the Google app opens and then instantly closes. I have to wait for this to happen and then click it a second time to get the app to work--great UI, Google!

    Now, vote me down, I'm going against the slashdot norms.

  11. Re:Two other words on Ask Slashdot: What's a Practical Response To the Equifax Breach? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wait, there has to be a PIN recovery system. And guess who would now have all the data needed to reset the PIN.

  12. right, because admissions is tied to having enough money to come. Rich people are more likely to get in and getting in if you're not rich requires an exceptional application.

  13. George W. Bush is an excellent example. I've heard him accused of many things, being smart is not one of them.

  14. Re:Wonder how bad receivers are... on A Year After Mirai: DVR Torture Chamber Test Shows Two Minutes Between Exploits (sans.edu) · · Score: 1

    Oh, and a NAS

  15. Re:Wonder how bad receivers are... on A Year After Mirai: DVR Torture Chamber Test Shows Two Minutes Between Exploits (sans.edu) · · Score: 1

    I might have thought the same thing, but i also have phones and printers connected to my router. I also wanted some lights but held off.

  16. Re:Wonder how bad receivers are... on A Year After Mirai: DVR Torture Chamber Test Shows Two Minutes Between Exploits (sans.edu) · · Score: 1

    (1) Why connect a receiver at all. It if doesn't work out of the box it's already failed.

    I'm just going to guess here, but I believe there are these things called audio files that you can download and listen to.

  17. Re:I'm pretty sure nuclear beats them all on The Health Benefits of Wind and Solar Exceed the Cost of All Subsidies (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Nuclear plants are incredibly expensive. But I'd say it's my preferred method of generation--if we reprocess (reuse) the fuel.

  18. It's mostly infants.

  19. Re:What about the emissions needed for constructio on The Health Benefits of Wind and Solar Exceed the Cost of All Subsidies (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know if you have seen one, but windmills take up about as much land as a cell tower. It's just the footprint.

  20. Re: ambitious math... on The Health Benefits of Wind and Solar Exceed the Cost of All Subsidies (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    In other news, people live more than one year and have intrinsic value.

  21. Re:ambitious math... on The Health Benefits of Wind and Solar Exceed the Cost of All Subsidies (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Economist here, people are generally considered to have an intrinsic value. It's how we decide if we should put up a barrier on the edge of a road or not.

  22. Re:Oh enough of this shit on Unpatchable 'Flaw' Affects Most of Today's Modern Cars (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Okay I make the airbag fail too buy yanking it out of the dash board, who cares.

    The person whose airbag you just yanked out of their dashboard?

  23. Re:Hisotry repeating? on Bitcoin Just Surged Past $4,000. TechCrunch Explains Why (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    So, the last bubble was houses, not stocks.

  24. Re:Wall Street's obsession on Bitcoin Just Surged Past $4,000. TechCrunch Explains Why (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    you do realize VP at a Wall Street firm is everyone above entry level, right? I mean that literally.

  25. Re:Recipe... on A New Amiga Will Go On Sale In Late 2017 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wait, Will Smith used to write emulators?