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  1. Re:Games on Why Aren't People Abandoning Windows For Linux? (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1

    This is the ONLY reason I haven't stopped using Windows entirely. I even set up a dual boot to an extra NVMe drive to test steam's proton stuff. It's still too "third party" to really work well enough. And if I play a game not on Steam? Nope. Hell, I play a game that's on Steam but I bought it before it was on Steam so the version I need to install doesn't work.

    Once developers have native Linux games then I'll switch. First things first, let's kill DirectX!

  2. Re:OLO Kickstarter on New 3D Printing Technique Is 100 Times Faster Than Standard 3D Printers (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    FYI, they renamed to ONO as the OLO name was already taken IIRC.

    For more info, as Of Jan 13th they were getting ready to ship out a chunk of devices. They use your smartphone as the light source with a reservoir of light-sensitive resin for printing.

  3. There's already been a Kickstarter for such a device: https://www.kickstarter.com/pr.... I backed it and its been a few years but they seem like they're close to shipping the majority of devices.

  4. Re:It's not for the users benefit on Google's New SMS and Call Permission Policy is Crippling Apps Used by Millions (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, just allow me to disable access and just show the app an empty call or sms history when it is requested. The app should be able to function without these things even if the app thinks it "needs" them. For things I trust to actually need them I won't disable access. For apps like a rewards app from a restaurant that thinks it needs my GPS location and call history, it can go pound salt (currently I don't install those but would be nice to have the ability to disable access on a per-app basis).

  5. Re:More accurately - A **few** FB employees outrag on Facebook Employees Outraged Over Exec's Appearance at Kavanaugh Hearing (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1
  6. Re:More accurately - A **few** FB employees outrag on Facebook Employees Outraged Over Exec's Appearance at Kavanaugh Hearing (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Regardless of whether its true or not, the way he has been acting during the hearings, presenting himself in the public eye, and what he has said should immediately exclude him from any judiciary position from now on. He has proven that he cannot at all be impartial and that he has a bias against anyone center or left of center. He has lied under oath and is not fit to be a judge of a small town in Nowheresville, USA let alone a sitting judge on the Supreme Court.

  7. Re:"...the president continues to act in a manner on White House Says Anonymous 'Coward' Behind New York Times Op-Ed Should Resign (freerepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't believe that the people deserve to know what this anonymous staffer is doing? Regardless of his intentions or the rightness or wrongness of what he's doing you think the NY Times should hide this news? Shouldn't this be something that is debated and known about? How is this a "new low" for the NY Times? They're posting this story without any other editorial additions. You can decide if you think that what this staffer is doing is good or bad; isn't that the job of GOOD journalists? Their job is to present information for you to be informed. They're literally informing everyone about this open letter basically. I don't see how what the NY Times did is a bad thing unless you have a hatred for anything that doesn't spoon-feed you the rhetoric you'd like to hear.

  8. Just put them in sealed containers? If it's a known problem that affects a dozen ships a year (very expensive ships with lots of cargo) then wouldn't containers for the cargo be pretty straightforward? I know it adds weight but wouldn't that be preferable to losing ships every year? (And my confusion was more with the summary as it should have had the basic info... thanks slashdot)

  9. This makes it sink? on Mystery of the Cargo Ships That Sink When Their Cargo Suddenly Liquefies (theconversation.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why does the ship sink, though? Is the material stable in its granular form but without the water binding it is it corrosive or something? TFS wasn't very helpful in explaining why this effect is dangerous or what is being done about it at all. It, however, explained the effect itself fairly well.

  10. Re:Compatibility? Blame Microsoft on Valve Seems To Be Working On Tools To Get Windows Games Running On Linux (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Open Sourcing DirectX would be a step in the right direction. Having native linux/mac binaries would be very helpful instead of having to do wine shenanigans to convert the API calls into OpenGL instead.

  11. Compatibility? Blame Microsoft on Valve Seems To Be Working On Tools To Get Windows Games Running On Linux (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Compatibility Mode? It's called OpenGL or Vulkan. Tell Microsoft to ditch DirectX; it's unnecessary and makes crap like this necessary. If people don't like the features of OpenGL or Vulkan you can always hop on the advisory board and get things changed.

  12. Re:EPA killed a very needed bypass road now there on EPA Staff Objected To Agency's New Rules on Asbestos Use, Internal Emails Show (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe not destroying our environment is more important than your commute. If you don't like how long your drive is, move somewhere else.

  13. Paths, Filesystems, and Shells on Microsoft Is Making the Windows Command Line a Lot Better (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Can we also get them to remove backslashes from paths, the /r from a newline, and add support for other filesystems and shells? That'd be swell.

  14. 6400 Mbps != 51.2 GB/s on Samsung Unveils World's First 10nm-class 8 Gb LPDDR5 DRAM (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Am I missing something or are the transfer amounts being interpolated over a number of 8gb chips on a single DRAM module? It says 6400 Mbps transfer which is 51.2 GB/s which doesn't seem like the same thing at all.

    51.2GB = 419430.4 Mb = 65.536 times the stated transfer speed of 6400 mbps. It seems odd that the transfer speed is exactly a power of two...

  15. Re:Not sure I understand... on Oracle Plans To Switch Businesses to Subscriptions for Java SE (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    And if customers are more likely to use Oracle's JRE I sure as hell don't want to just test against OpenJDK. How do they enforce this anyway unless it only applies to special support and extra utility applications? Unless I bundle the JRE with my app how would they ever know?

  16. Not sure I understand... on Oracle Plans To Switch Businesses to Subscriptions for Java SE (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    So, you can't download JavaSE for development if you're a business without paying a subscription fee OR you can't get special support and extra development applications without paying for the subscription fee?

    If you're a business that just wants to develop vanilla Java SE applications (not run on a server or anything) does this affect that? The wording SOUNDS like it's for support and Premiere/Advanced downloads but it's not wholly clear...

  17. Re:Not all true on Shots Fired Again Between CPU Vendors AMD and Intel (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The 8086K one being a 40th anniversary one, yeah. If I had won I'd have kept it in the box and never used it. I already have an AMD system but if I wanted a new threadripper I'd just go buy it. Holding the 8086K as a collector's item seem more interesting. Though, the lighthearted jabs are entertaining from both sides!

  18. Re:Metal? or Vulkan? on Apple Deprecates OpenGL and OpenCL in macOS 10.14 Mojave · · Score: 1

    So instead of helping to develop Vulkan they go off and make their own thing which will basically make games less likely to support Mac? It's just as bad as Microsoft pushing DirectX as only Windows.

  19. Metal? or Vulkan? on Apple Deprecates OpenGL and OpenCL in macOS 10.14 Mojave · · Score: -1

    So by Metal they really mean Vulkan? No? Well then, fuck you, Apple.

  20. June 19th to August 16th is less than two months; why does TFS say three? (yeah, I didn't RTFA)

  21. Re:Sometimes this only makes sense on Facebook is Being Sued Over Housing Discrimination (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's one thing to flatly deny someone based on these criteria but not showing people ads can't be illegal, right?

  22. They are American companies; why would they choose London over Washington D.C.? In theory, I'm assuming DC has more leverage anyway since anything London can do can probably ignored?

  23. Yeah, this is the answer. They showed off hybrid systems so they'll do SOME things using ray tracing where most of the heavy lifting is still going to be rasterized for the foreseeable future.

  24. Re:Chromecast? on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any USB-C Wireless Video Solutions? · · Score: 1

    Oh that's nice; I'll have to look into that, too.

  25. Re:Chromecast? on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any USB-C Wireless Video Solutions? · · Score: 1

    Nah, most android apps (I'm assuming android because of his desire to use USB-C but I might be mistaken) support sending video to a chromecast but as another said I think you can cast your entire screen, too.