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  1. Re:So, did Star Trek have a planned story arc? on 5-Year Mission Continues After 45-Year Hiatus · · Score: 1

    Wrong stereotype, actors work as waiters.

  2. Re:Toms = Intel PR on The Chip That Changed the World: AMD's 64-bit FX-51, Ten Years Later · · Score: 1

    I don't remember this, and can't find it noted. Can you link to where you saw that? I've been using tom's hardware for years.

  3. No co-op on Valve Announces Family Sharing On Steam, Can Include Friends · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Still no ability to play multiplayer with somebody without them buying the game, the one spot where I feel consoles definitely have the advantage over PC games.

  4. Re:What Goes Up on Chris Kraft Talks About The Decline of NASA · · Score: 1

    ....better doggone well stay up!

  5. Re:Scalar context on Interviews: Q&A With Guido van Rossum · · Score: 1

    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in <module>
        range(['a', 'b', 'c'])
    TypeError: range() integer end argument expected, got list.

  6. Re:Survey says... on Studying the Slow Decay of a Laptop Battery For an Entire Year · · Score: 1

    I don't charge my batteries (there are 2 in this machine) above 80% unless I know I'm going to be on battery for quite a while. It seems like a good compromise between the optimal 40-60% and having enough charge to last for my commute.

  7. Re:Neuromancer on Could Humanity Really Build 'Elysium'? · · Score: 1

    Man what're you going to do in 30 years? Every story you'll read or watch is going to be something you've already seen, and you're not going to have enough time to tell everybody that it's been done before!

  8. Re:You would think. . . on First Ever Public Tasting of Lab-Grown Cultured Beef Burger · · Score: 1

    I would witch that.

  9. 8-core owner on Qualcomm Says Eight-Core Processors Are Dumb · · Score: 1

    As an owner of an 8-core CPU, he's right.... for now. There's a pitiful number of uses for me to have anything more than 4 cores (some games I've seen dip into a 5th core for asset loading, and that's it). Hopefully when the PS4/XB1 come out developers will start writing games to use more than 3 cores for game logic. Unless browsers start loading pages outside of a single thread, I'm unlikely to need anything beyond a 2-core system for non-gaming.

  10. Re:wrong on TV Programmers Seek the Elusive Dog Market · · Score: 1

    The flicker issue is dependent on how often the screen refreshes, not how often the image changes.

  11. versions on Google Chrome 28 Is Out: Rich Notifications For Apps, Extensions · · Score: 1

    Are we making fun of Chrome for having so many releases, or is that still just Firefox? I haven't kept up with it.

  12. Nobody seems to get this on BitCoin Mining, Other Virtual Activity Taxable Under US Law · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's taxes on transactions involving dollars only. If you buy WoW gold by selling in-game items, there's no expectation of taxation. If you buy WoW gold with dollars, there's a legit reason to tax that transaction.

  13. Re:spoilers... on Matt Smith Leaves "Doctor Who" · · Score: 1

    I'm a few thousand miles west of the UK. I've already learned that I have to avoid any forum where people talk about Doctor Who because they do things like this all the time.

  14. spoilers... on Matt Smith Leaves "Doctor Who" · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the spoiler, slashdot.

  15. Re:Yes! They've become pointless on Are Lenovo's ThinkPads Getting Worse? · · Score: 1

    I went from a T410s to a T430s and the keyboard is killing me. They removed the F key spacing and the 3x2 layout, and now there's a printscreen key instead of a right-click key. It seems they saw the iMac keyboard and just pasted it onto their laptop. The rest of the hardware is still good but I can't use the keyboard for coding without getting frustrated.

  16. Re:Overhyped on Google Publishes Zopfli, an Open-Source Compression Library · · Score: 1

    You're right, but I'm assuming that it can't, since in my experience pngout usually beats others by more than just 3%.

  17. Re:Overhyped on Google Publishes Zopfli, an Open-Source Compression Library · · Score: 1

    Likely I'll stick to using pngout for that.

  18. Serious question on Our Weather Satellites Are Dying · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why are we building meteorological satellites when we have the Weather Channel?

  19. Re:I couldn't help but notice that I was right... on Watson Wins Jeopardy Contest · · Score: 1

    Indeed, you could see on all the short clues, Watson would still be thinking (you could see his confidence bars moving after someone else had rung in), simply because he hadn't had time to sift through all the data it needed. Any clue taking more than 5 or so seconds to read, Watson would have determined all that it would at the moment it was able to buzz in. So you can see that the ability to break down the answer and find what bits are important is very impressive, then the time spent searching is pretty well constant. So in all the other uses IBM people have been talking about (i.e. medical diagnoses), Watson would do fine since a 5-6 second wait time just doesn't really matter.

  20. Re:The start and end of PC gaming as we know it on Gamer Plays Doom For the First Time · · Score: 1

    So you never played Tribes, eh?

  21. Re:Game makes me want to throw up on Valve Announces Portal 2 · · Score: 1

    I had this problem at one point during HL2, where you're taking the hovercraft along the water/waste/whatever. I had to put it down for a week, finish that section, and then it was fine. When I replayed HL2 a year or so later, I felt a bit sick at that same part, but I got through it faster so there was no stop. No idea why that part exactly.

  22. Re:Ni! on Monty Python 40 Years Old Today! · · Score: 1

    Me too. I guess I missed a joke in there at some point.

  23. Re:There is another undocumented area on Videogame Places You're Not Supposed To Go · · Score: 1

    Oh god, you just reminded me of the "HELP" on top of a mountain around Stonetalon. Me and this mage spent hours trying to get up there, and he succeeded eventually, and I just gave up. That was a fairly ridiculous climb, similar to trying to walljump up BRM to the BWL area.

    Blah blah blah real life, last time I went exploring in real life I went over this closed off overpass. Found an umbrella. And then I found about 4 homeless guys just past it. I mean, I guess it was interesting, but.......

  24. WoW Exploration on Videogame Places You're Not Supposed To Go · · Score: 4, Interesting

    For anyone who's been doing exploration in World of Warcraft for a long time, the name Dopefish has additional meaning. Wall walking to places was amazing, and 1.9 was a sad sad day, except wall jumping took it's place! Hyjal, above/under Orgrimmar, on top of zeppelins, epic levitate jump from Hyjal to Orgrimmar, above and 2nd floor of Undercity, under Stormwind and behind the gated instance portal, Ironforge airport, Wetlands farm, Elwyn house/retreat/pond, the Dragon-Dwarf fight on the flight to Searing Gorge, Troll village, half-existing Gadgetzan from ZF, outter edges of the BE starting zones, middle part of Eastern Kingdoms, smiley face under Karazhan, and the Crypts next to it, outside the Karazhan instance, most especially the large area where you fight Prince, underneath all of Outlands (except for Netherstorm, damn bridge) especially behind Black Temple, outside the playing parts of CoT: Hyjal, inside CoT pre-BC, top of CoT, on the hourglass (old and new), behind AQ (which allowed zoning in before the Wall opened), North Plaguelands, behind the Greymane Wall. So much amazing exploration over such a long time.

    Only 2 things I've never done that I really want to is get to Old Ironforge on my guy, and outside of Deadmines.

  25. Python is done on Microsoft To Banish Memcpy() · · Score: 3, Funny

    Figures, Microsoft had to go kill of python and do it all in the name of security. No more accessing MEMory in C structures from our .PY files, damn it this really pisses me off.