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  1. Re:Who cares? on 'OLED TVs Will Finally Take Off in 2017' (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    I mean this literally... other than CAR salespeople, who cares? Every decade or two, when it's time to get a new CAR, I go to the CAR store, and I buy something that they have in stock, within my budget. I couldn't care if it was SUV, SEDAN, or EIGHTEEN-WHEELER powered. A CAR is a CAR is a CAR.

    I mean this literally... other than CAR salespeople, who cares? Every decade or two, when it's time to get a new CAR, I go to the CAR store, and I buy something that they have in stock, within my budget. I couldn't care if it was GASOLINE, DIESEL, or HYBRID powered. A CAR is a CAR is a CAR.

    Yup, you summed it up perfectly, you just used deliberately broken analogy. People shopping for a TV care about price and size. Refresh rate, internal upscalers, and other features are not interesting to 90%+ of the population. Resolution and a few other features are "known" by the ignorant shopping public, so they'll be heavily advertised in some areas. But in most cases, a person will walk out of a store with the cheapest TV of the size they selected.

    His point isn't that *YOU* shouldn't care, but that he, like most people, doesn't care. If someone can get a Plasma TV to out perform an OLED TV, why should he care about they type of display? The result should matter, not the details.

    This is true of everything. Even those into something will get to some level of detail where it won't matter anymore. "Oh, I can't buy that car, the bore of the engine should be larger than the stroke, that's how all F1 cars are, so it's obviously superior, and any car that is undersquare is inferior." Instead, "That car makes 900 hp and gets 100 MPG? What do I care whether it's 4 2-cyl 2-stroke engines, one on each wheel, or a V12 Diesel hybrid?" is more likely the response.

    How it gets the results is less relevant than the results, as observed by a non-expert consumer.

  2. Re:Who cares? on 'OLED TVs Will Finally Take Off in 2017' (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    And flash is bad for storage, as it fails after 100 writes.

    You need to update your bias. The technology has improved long past your prejudice. OLED no longer has any lag disadvantage, though there is a shortage of low-lag OLED, as they prices haven't dropped enough for that application. But a 55" OLED TV has lag average for 55" LED TVs.

  3. Re:Who cares? on 'OLED TVs Will Finally Take Off in 2017' (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    3D is great, I have it on my 6 year old TV I essentially got for free, as it was the last of the active-glasses line from LG, and nobody wanted active glasses. The glasses were discontinued and not in stock, and not included with the TV, so it was a really cheap 2D TV which I upgraded to 3D when I found someone selling the discontinued glasses cheap.

    3D is going to come back, hard, when they figure it out without glasses, though that may not be until they get holographic displays.

    Curved screens are not bad, but way over-priced for what you get.

  4. Re:Read the article on Atlassian Acquires Trello For $425M (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Everywhere I've worked that claimed "agile" just used "quick waterfall/iterative". Agile is not much different than a weekly waterfall, done iteratively. Everything must be done iteratively. You can read a book "agile" by reading the contents, then reading the chapter appropriate to what you need to know that day, but you can't read every other word and have the result be coherent. But the reading of the chapter is iterative. Or, if that's too large of a chunk, then read the sentence iteratively.

    Those using "agile" as better than "iterative" understand neither. Agile is an "improvement" of iterative to reduce the iteration time. Almost all tools designed for either work with the other. So someone that "can't do agile" can't do iterative.

    And many who try agile are doing so because they can't do iterative either, so they are failing in new ways.

  5. Re:Read the article on Atlassian Acquires Trello For $425M (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    That's like the "Top 10 habits of successful people" books. That successful people all develop similar habits doesn't mean that if you adopt those same habits that it'll have any effect on your success. Forcing non-agile people to follow an agile method will not improve results, even if agile is used by the most successful teams.

  6. Re:Race to the bottom on Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump will call Putin's bluff. It will turn out Putin wasn't bluffing, and a kiddie porn video starring Trump will be released. Trump will not step down as Nixon did, but will pull a Reagan and defend his actions to the end.

  7. MRAs assert that, but that's not the truth. Women should "get" 50% of what was earned in the marriage, same as the man. Yes, the MRAs can find odd exceptions, but that doesn't prove a trend.

    The kids go with the wife because the husband doesn't want them (in most cases). Yes, that gets inappropriately extrapolated to the few men that try to fight for the kids, but for every man that fights for the kids for a better life for them, there are the men that fight for the kids because they don't want them, but want to make sure he doesn't have to pay to support them.

  8. Re:Article disagreement on A Typo Led To Podesta's Email Hack, Says Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Outlook not so good.

    Yes, we know all the jokes. They aren't the only options. But they are some of the most popular ones.

  9. Re:Article disagreement on A Typo Led To Podesta's Email Hack, Says Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    What does that matter? The email is either Gmail, or hosted Exchange. One you contract for the email as a service, the other you contract for the server (infrastructure) as a service. In both cases, someone else can read your emails without you knowing. On-prem Exchange to Office 365 hosted email is an easy transition, and Office 365 has all sorts of security endorsements.

    How is Gmail worse than Office 365 email?

  10. Burger King on Robots Are Already Replacing Fast-Food Workers (recode.net) · · Score: 2

    BK's "flame broiled" tag was a marketing coverup for a major robotic replacement of human labor. Dismiss the burger flippers, and replace them with a conveyor belt. And call it "flame broiled" and claim it as a "taste innovation". There have been thousands of automation tools that have been implemented over the years. It's not a new thing, and it's not a new trend.

  11. Re:Not good on Apple Says Air Exposure Is Causing iPhone 6s Battery Problems (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A car engine piston, left unprotected on a shelf will rust and age, and would fail sooner when finally installed. Properly stored and installed in an engine and used regularly, it will last for decades. Being in the final installation position matters a great deal and premature failure from improper storage in no way implies abnormal delicacy in the constituent parts.

  12. Never. But in sealed boxes, with environmental protections (like as in ESD bags with desiccant). Why do you make false dichotomies?

  13. Re:Not good on Apple Says Air Exposure Is Causing iPhone 6s Battery Problems (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The phone "in the air" isn't the problem. The unassembled phone parts "exposed" prior to installation aged them before they were used. Poor QC and supply chain, not an inherent design flaw. They should be able to identify all affected phones by serial, as well as an iOS update that tests for the failures/signs known to the aged battery parts.

  14. Re:Dangerous on BMW Traps A Car Thief By Remotely Locking His Doors (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. AA191 was the one I was thinking of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is another dual-engine failure that had mechanical failure ruled out, before they settled on mechanical failure as the cause. Again, because "that shouldn't happen", as it was a fundamental design issue. Also, a fundamental design issue was found in that the fuel tanks were physically connected to the landing gear, so that a hard landing could cause a fire. Simple "obvious" engineering errors make it into airplanes all the time.

    Nothing that indicates that locking the doors and sending emergency services to a car is somehow inherently unsafe.

  15. Re:Spinning even now on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The woman who made the allegations against Donald Trump has now withdrawn them.

    And his wife who claimed he hit her withdrew her claims as well.

    In both cases, the change of story came with a confidentially agreement and payout from Trump who said he only settles when guilty.

  16. Other than Trumps statements that he has a plan?

  17. Re:I wonder if Trump's gonna repeal it on It Will Soon Be Illegal To Punish US Customers Who Criticize Businesses Online (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1
    So you are not disputing the fact that the truth is not an absolute defense in the US? And your cite is to a recently changed law, and, of course, being common law, the law is unrelated to the application of the law, and I don't pretend to be able to keep up with case law in all locations which use common law.

    Scotland has a separate legal system to England and Wales. Not knowing that is pretty much proof that you aren't exactly an expert in the subject.

    I did know that. I didn't make a big deal of it because it was irrelevant to the point at hand.

    Why do people keep repeating this?

    Because it's been repeated many times, and there have been some cases covered internationally where the application of law made it look like the truth wasn't a defense. http://boingboing.net/2011/03/... Sites covering the recent law change you linked to indicate the previous law wasn't as absolute as to regards to the truth.

    When the law was "bad" for hundreds of years, a law change a few years ago won't modify everyone's perceptions overnight. Why are you so aggressive and angry about it?

  18. Re:Spinning even now on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The global alt-right used it as an anti-government tactic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Many conseravtive nutjobs saw the lack of scrutiny in many knighted child abusers as a government-protection of pedophiles. "proof" of this global conspiracy included pizzagate. I don't have any cites, as it was conspiracy theories in 2012 when the case against Jimmy started to break, and pizzagate was added to the "list" when the wikileaks released the pizza emails and the conspiracy theory started.

    But then, I'm outside the US, so the media coverage is much different. It was initially used to prove the UK government was corrupt (not sure how cheese pizza in the US is proof of Crown abuses), and was eventually covered as a proof that the anti-crown groups were simply insane.

    US media never carried the international aspect, and never covered the "large" number of knighted persons being investigated for child abuses. Seems the US is more interested in covering the supposed abuses by Hillary and Donald, both of which now tied to child abuse/CP, though only Donald with any evidence at all.

    The pizzagate was an expansion on the previous links through Weiner and Epstein. Covered in some circles more soon and assertively than others.

  19. Re:"self investigate" == alt.right on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Fraudian slip?

  20. Re:Dangerous on BMW Traps A Car Thief By Remotely Locking His Doors (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Which of those stole the car? The car thieves are all adults, and with a response from the police shorter than the times on your link.

    So I fail to see how that's relevant to the question.

  21. Re:Dangerous on BMW Traps A Car Thief By Remotely Locking His Doors (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If you stop stealing cars, you have no risk of being killed by being locked inside a car.

    That, and the risk of being killed by being locked inside a car rounds to zero. For one, the cops are immediately called to the location, so with everything going well, you'll have someone to help you out of the car in a few minutes.

  22. Re:"self investigate" == alt.right on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Don't forget he was threatening people and firing inside, in the general direction of people, though without intent to kill. He was apparently mad and confused he didn't find the den of abused children promised.

  23. Re:"self investigate" == alt.right on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Wrong indicates something done in error. Fake news implies a deliberate action to invent the false news. One is an unintnetional error. The other is a deliberate fraud.

  24. Re:"self investigate" == mental illness on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A white person does it and it's a mental illness, and we should feel sorrow and empathy. A black person does it and he's a thug who needs to be made an example of.

  25. Re:But bringing an assault rifle??? on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    He's lucky some stressed out cops didn't just gun him down.

    He's white.