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  1. Re: Astronomy, and general poor night-time resu on Laser Eye Surgery, Revisited 10 Years Later · · Score: 1

    I'm still supposed to get dilated yearly so they can check inside, a detached retina is apparently a very real possibility since my eye is so "long". They dilate me because otherwise it's like trying to look into a room thru a peephole - their words not mine.

    I'm no eyexpert..
    Get dilated, what does that mean? Do they alter the way your eye dilates, like changing its settings?

  2. I already stopped buying BF3 and BF4 on The Simultaneous Rise and Decline of Battlefield · · Score: 1

    For me, BF2 already was on the edge of decency.

    I already stopped buying BF3 and BF4, this is why:
    - I dont want DLC forced on me. I want to buy it once for 40 bucks and play it forever.
    - I dont want to earn better weapons. I want to play it at once, not being able to blame losing on that opponents superior riffle.
    - I dont want to have to buy a new computer. I want to play it for 40 bucks.
    - I dont want to pay 60 bucks. I want to play it for 40 bucks.

    Sadly there are not much vehicle centered first person war games. I dont really appreciate the infantry city maps that BF centers on.

  3. Re:Why fucking bother with the goddamned autistita on Century-Old Drug Reverses Signs of Autism In Mice · · Score: 1

    I agree why bother.
    Autists dont need to be corrected .. they'll outsmart, outperform and outbreed the non-autists anyway. Nature will run its course, natural selection ftw!
    Unless these non-autists get themselves corrected by medicine ofcourse..

  4. Re: nissan or mazda? on BMW, Mazda Keen To Meet With Tesla About Charging Technology · · Score: 1

    Mazda also stated the mission to first invest in improving the Gasoline engine, as there is much to be gained in effeciency and performance.
    The SkyActive engines sport a higher compression than Formula 1 cars ever had (!) which is insane.

    I agree with that Mazda mission, but do hope they go all-in for an Electric+Hydrogen engine rather soon than later. To bad this article only mentions Nissan, not Mazda. :(

  5. Re:Maybe now, but on The Disappearing Universe · · Score: 2

    > Unreachable with current technology perhaps, but who knows about the future?

    Unreachable with current physics known to man kind. Not just current technology.

  6. Re:Burner phone with local SIM, and forget 4G on Ask Slashdot: Do 4G World Phones Exist? · · Score: 1

    Also, you dont want her local peers/colleages/friends have to call an overseas number just to call her regarding dinner.. just go for the local SIM in a burner phone.

  7. Burner phone with local SIM, and forget 4G on Ask Slashdot: Do 4G World Phones Exist? · · Score: 1

    Dont bother with 4G, and you'll find plenty of multiband phones.

    First off, consider buying a burner phone and sell it afterwards. Put a local SIM card in the device, so it can call local numbers cheaper. Lots of advantages here.

    Second, if you do insist on one phone to rull them all, please do forget about 4G. Even with 4G coverage you wont exceed 3G speeds without looking for a very specific (unrealistic) scenario. Unless she wants to broadcast live video from her phone in HD, ofcourse.

  8. NASA May Put Greenhouse on Mars in 2021 on ISS Studies Show Bacteria From Earth Could Colonize Mars · · Score: 1

    In other news:

    NASA May Put Greenhouse on Mars in 2021
    http://www.space.com/25767-nas...

  9. Re: Article summary doesn't match article content on ISS Studies Show Bacteria From Earth Could Colonize Mars · · Score: 1

    > You're missing the whole point of /. which is discussion. Just like a call in talk radio show, the source material doesn't need to be entirely accurate, objective, timely, thorough or any other standards you'd expect of real news. It's just entertainment.

    A sad truth.

  10. Re:how long? on ISS Studies Show Bacteria From Earth Could Colonize Mars · · Score: 2

    The greenhouses have waste products, like smoke. Where should these end up?
    The sky would not stay clear enough to keep using greenhouses. The planet must have a way to stabilize itself as a huge waste-recycling plant / ecosystem.

  11. Re:Also business and gov't accounts on Google Halts Gmail Scanning for Education Apps Users · · Score: 1

    Indeed, so it seems. Media says so, but i did not see this news outed officially by Google yet.

    I read this at http://tweakers.net/nieuws/957...
    which cited http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/...
    but that lacks source, i for one did not find the original Google statement regarding business anywhere.

    If true, i guess the gmail PGP they considered made it impossible to scan the emails anyway, so they might as well make a big deal out of it. First education ofcourse, it'll simplify that lawsuit and all. http://www.edweek.org/ew/artic...

  12. comprehensible opportunities == limit options on The Ways Programming Is Hard · · Score: 1

    Git is remarkable in that way in fitting into current practices of using hierarchical files changed by desktop tools. Still, it misses a lot as far as references to data items that can be exchanged globally (needing longer hashes), or dealing with large binary files (constantly rechecking stuff, but with workarounds), or dealing with rapid collaboration by several people such as to create shared drawings. But it is still awesome as far as it goes.

    To that i say "To facilitate comprehensible opportunities, you have to limit options.".
    This goes for game level design, the Apple ecosystem, jigsaw puzzles for toddlers, and the kind of focus that i only see in broke entrepreneurs that reboot their career.

  13. Citation needed. on The Ways Programming Is Hard · · Score: 1

    The main story is an interesting opinion piece.
    But further down he represents facts that i dont believe. Citation needed.

    Tell me more about the "two lines of code that parse two lines of embedded comments in the code to read the Mayan numbers representing the individual ASCII characters that make up the magazine title, rendered in 90-degree rotated ASCII art." program. I cant find it on the internet.

  14. Suspense of disbelief on Why Should Game Stories Make Sense? · · Score: 2

    Theres arcade games like hoops around a cone, but for games that require me to invest more than the few minutes of screentime i give them, i need something to help me keep the suspension of belief. This is where a story that keeps me interested is required.

    But there are exceptions. The story may be cheesy, like C&C:Red Alert 2 where its just mechanism to explain the next mission. So either the story is informative, or the story is required to keep me interested.

  15. Re:Old phone cords? on New Shape Born From Rubber Bands · · Score: 0

    Same for curled garden hoses. This is no new shape, ROFLOL.

  16. Units converted in celcius and metric on Experts Say Hitching a Ride In an Airliner's Wheel Well Is Not a Good Idea · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those outside of Lybia, USA, and Burma:

    "at 6 km the temperature experienced by a stowaway would be -25C, at 9,1 km it would be -45 in the wheel well — and at 12,2 km, the mercury plunges to a deadly -65C (PDF). "

    20,000 feet = 6km
    40,000 feet = 12,2km
    -13F = -25C
    -85F = -65C

  17. Re:Chromium issuetracker / bugtracker link on Google Chrome Flaw Sets Your PC's Mic Live · · Score: 1

    Sorry for the bad link, i meant
    https://code.google.com/p/chro...

  18. Chromium issuetracker / bugtracker link on Google Chrome Flaw Sets Your PC's Mic Live · · Score: 1

    I think this is the link of the bugreport in question:
    https://code.google.com/p/chro...

    Seems legit. f#$!.. Google don't be evil. This attributes to being evil, regardless whether it happened knowingly.

  19. Re:Ukrainian hackers? on Russian GLONASS Down For 12 Hours · · Score: 1

    From Stargate SG1:
    "Plausible deniability. In the event of a future breach of security, we'll be able to point to this television program. That is, if it stays on the air." - Hammond

    Well they sure solved that last part... fast turnaround times. I wonder who had the idea first.. (i hope the engineers that developed it)

  20. Re:Do not overreacht please on Google Blurring Distinction Between Ads and Organic Search Results · · Score: 1

    772876 < 956533, so you tell me.. :)

  21. Do not overreacht please on Google Blurring Distinction Between Ads and Organic Search Results · · Score: 0

    I see weirder A/B tests flash by on a monthly basis at the least. They never get rolled out as seen in these experiments.

  22. Re: I, for one, do welcome that test on New Blood Test Offers Early Warning for Alzheimer's Onset · · Score: 1

    / puts off aluminium hat
    / stares at ceiling
    / puts on aluminium hat

  23. Re:Upgrade is reinstall on Microsoft's Attempt To Convert Users From Windows XP Backfires · · Score: 1

    OSX 10.2 (2002) had applications better sandboxed than Windows XP (2001).
    Windows by its nature doesnt have sandboxes, and is part of why it grew so fast. The newer Windows RT OS did implement application sandboxes i believe, tied right into the distibution/installation method like on iOS and Android

    Its a shame the current (which was not even using RT .. all the more puzzling) users/customers did not want to know any of it due to the new Startscreen. I rather like the RT idea. Not going to use it myself, but its perfect for those of us not brainwashed with the traditional GUI "workflow", in which case its suddenly very intuitive.

  24. Re:Upgrade is reinstall on Microsoft's Attempt To Convert Users From Windows XP Backfires · · Score: 1

    In a good design, the OS is in its own directory with its settings, and each app is in its own directory with its settings.

    Like .. Linux?

    On Linux, i have yet to find any desktop application (thats not part of a distro) that installs in the ever-the-same, proper directory since its v1.0 release. At least most of the time it is /opt/* or /usr/bin/* or /bin/* .. its time Linux got some proper application-sandboxing too. I should not need to be root to install software, there should be a userspace level that can manages sandsboxes only. The Synaptec Package Manager (same for apt-get) software installer was way ahead of its time compared to other OS, but why is it overtaken?

    Insights on this are welcome .. but keep the blind MS/*ux hate-love to yourself.

  25. Upgrade is reinstall on Microsoft's Attempt To Convert Users From Windows XP Backfires · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This article is bogus and even /. MS bashing unworthy. A proper upgrade is a OS reinstall, not a wizard that performs some half-ass "lets copy files and hope it works". Windows XP was never intended to boast a upgrade system like this. Applications can do anything on the whole computer and there is nothing to properly wall these in, except for using a sandboxed OS like Android or iOS. But these are, ofcourse, not as productive.

    Quit the whining, just buy the new hardware and accept that the world doesnt stop spinning because you got stuck in 1994.