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  1. Re:3d audio is old hat on 3D Headphone Startup 'Ossic' Closes Abruptly, Leaving Crowdfunders Hanging (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    If your computer can render for VR, it can _certainly_ handle the audiopipe.

  2. Re:I kill a moose a year to feed my family. on Human Race Just 0.01% of All Life But Has Destroyed 83% of Wild Mammals, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Tip 4: Always take an overweight, slow running, friend into bear country with you.

  3. Keeping their best sensors and lowest defect sensors for their own cameras.

    Sony's best phone, with a _much_ better sensor then is in the iPhones...https://www.sonymobile.com/us/products/phones/xperia-xz2/

  4. Where is the iPhone with 1000fps?

    Just reacting, like a middle schooler.

  5. Re:Braking distance suggests QA problem at Tesla on Tesla Model 3 Falls Short of Consumer Reports Recommendation (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    One example proves nothing.

    You cherry picked the year and model, right after rollover protection added weight to all cars.

  6. Re:Really? on Tesla Model 3 Falls Short of Consumer Reports Recommendation (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They should, but apparently haven't. A Tesla S has brakes the same size as a Camaro. A car that weighs 1000 lbs less.

  7. Fuck this summary/ad on The Toughest (And Weakest) Phones Currently On the Market (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The ten toughest non-ruggedized phones.

    You'd think that would have made the summary.

    No I didn't RTFA....nobody saw me, can't prove anything.

  8. Re:Won't matter on Tesla Model 3 Falls Short of Consumer Reports Recommendation (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't know much about Tesla (the man) do you?

  9. Re:Really? on Tesla Model 3 Falls Short of Consumer Reports Recommendation (cnbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Exactly, Tesla is trying to optimize for two things (energy recovery and stopping). Most other car companies are only optimizing one (stopping).

    I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to figure out who will do a better job of 'stopping'.

  10. Re:Braking distance suggests QA problem at Tesla on Tesla Model 3 Falls Short of Consumer Reports Recommendation (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    What? At the performance end, cars ARE stopping a _little_ shorter. Brembo 6 pistons, factory big brakes etc. but 99% tires being better.

    Average cars are still average cars. 1 piston calipers, average low cost discs etc. Very little new under the sun. Even active, individual wheel ABS was available 15 years ago. It still isn't on econo cars. The cheap end of ABS is still very cheap. 10 or 15 years ago ABS was already required and standard.

    There is a little improvement in tires. But 15 year old cars are rarely on 15 year old tires. If they are, they are rolling hazards.

  11. Trintrons main advantage was brightness. As the other early masking technologies blocked a significant part of the screen area.

    Flat glass was a separate development process.

  12. You just haven't had them cooked right.

    Smoked spicy baby octopus taste almost baconey if done right.

    The other two are excellent when cooked with bacon. Venison and green beans both need fat.

  13. Re:humans have 2 legs. dogs have 5 million follicl on Human Race Just 0.01% of All Life But Has Destroyed 83% of Wild Mammals, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    GTF OUT! We don't like FA readers around here.

  14. Re:Trinitron tubes and Walkman were great on Sony Is Done Working For Peanuts in the Hardware Business, New CEO To Detail Shift Away From Gadgets (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Sony used to OWN the high end of the video camera market.

    Some would say they still own the 'professional' video camera market. But that's nonsense, they have a good sized niche.

  15. How many years did they have between Mini-disc and CD-R?

    They couldn't have helped themselves, they would have 'taxed' the media, plus it was more complicated than a bare disc. Eventually the price of media would have ended the competition. Long before DVD-R.

  16. Their second tier sensor...to get Sony's best sensor in a cell phone you have to buy a Sony phone.

    Sony is up to their old tricks. Bet all the lowest defect count sensors are also in Sony phones, even on the second tier.

  17. Sony always made crap as well as quality. But even the crap was built to last, with exceptions of course.

  18. IIRC it was shadow mask technology that, more or less, made Trinitron obsolete. After that the brightness differences were negligible.

    Which was the last 20 years of tube.

  19. A 90's CD changer that's still in alignment? I call bullshit, unless your Dad has figured out how to realign it himself.

  20. Re:I kill a moose a year to feed my family. on Human Race Just 0.01% of All Life But Has Destroyed 83% of Wild Mammals, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    If you don't clean the guts out of a kill, pretty much immediately, much of the meat will be ruined and go to waste. Dropped in the woods the guts are scavenger food, not wasted.

    You don't hunt, do you?

  21. Re:far side != dark side on China Launches Satellite To Explore Dark Side of Moon (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    /. editors have been the top trolls here since...forever. I think there is some bizarre initiation, that alters their brain, like Toxoplasmosis, but much worse.

  22. Re:Believe it when I see it on IBM Warns Quantum Computing Will Break Encryption (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If the NSA had one, they'd be sure to show it to random ACs first.

  23. The body temperature of a living cow is 101.5 F. That's the ideal temperature for the center of a steak IMHO.

    Just sear it as you say, and get a thick enough steak so the center isn't overcooked (read cooked at all).

    Skip the oven, skip the boiled meat.

  24. Re:Live by the executive order. on Utilities, Tesla Appeal Federal Rollback of Auto Emissions Standards (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    'Followed through' by raising the CAFE standards via executive order.

  25. Re:Bread? on California Bypasses Science To Label Coffee a Carcinogen (undark.org) · · Score: 1

    Toasters will burn the warning onto the bread.