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  1. Re:The network says no on Gate One Will Support X11: Fast Enough To Run VLC In Your Browser · · Score: 2

    h.264 1080p with a quality factor of 20 or 18? I'd be quite impressed if that were true.

    Perhaps at a lower framerate, but I don't know if the encoder needs a certain amount of video to process (eg it may need a few frames ahead)

  2. Re:lifespan? on Amazon Offers Cut of Ebook Sales To Book Stores Selling Kindle · · Score: 1

    If you're careful you can open the unit to replace the battery, they have a connector on them. You have to get your hands on a replacement, though - it's not exactly a AAA battery. When my first (I'm still on the second) kindle "died" (i had an oopsie) I salvaged to 4-way stick switch, battery, and SIM - each easily replaceable if you have the part handy.

  3. Re:The network says no on Gate One Will Support X11: Fast Enough To Run VLC In Your Browser · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because it took 2 hours to encode that 1080p video, and that's an awful lot of latency.

  4. Re:Unsurprisingly, Germans already have the answer on The Feathered Threat To US Air Superiority · · Score: 1

    How is that the answer?

  5. Re:Drones. Done. on The Feathered Threat To US Air Superiority · · Score: 1

    Which planes might those be?

  6. Re:..and mouse scroll. on Microsoft Admits Windows 8.1 Update May Bork Your Mouse, Promises a Fix · · Score: 1

    There's a big difference: Microsoft provides what Windows 8(.1) comes with and that only - any and all of the linux distributions I often work with supply Gnome, KDE, and more - they are not third-party interface overhauls you run off and download but tested components of a distribution.

  7. Re:..and mouse scroll. on Microsoft Admits Windows 8.1 Update May Bork Your Mouse, Promises a Fix · · Score: 2

    Actually, the main impetus for the switch came when my user profiles under Windows got corrupted and there was no way to recreate them without reinstalling it.

    The end result is good (you ditching Windows) but this is incorrect. Safe mode, delete the profile directory in C:\Users, then reboot and log in. The user profile will rebuild. Of course, all your shit is gone unless you backed it up first, but even then you still have to put things back and fix your settings again.

  8. Re:..and mouse scroll. on Microsoft Admits Windows 8.1 Update May Bork Your Mouse, Promises a Fix · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sure, Windows 8 is fine... after you replace the UI shell.

    Please tell me why that makes Windows 8 OK? That you have a third-party workaround does not mean the original problem isn't still there.

  9. Re:But I don't want it. on Google Attacks Microsoft Again: Android 4.4 Ships With Quickoffice · · Score: 1

    Because you can't.

  10. Re:But I don't want it. on Google Attacks Microsoft Again: Android 4.4 Ships With Quickoffice · · Score: 1

    Maybe not on a phone, but a tablet in landscape mode with a USB or Bluetooth keyboard? Why not?

  11. Re:quickoffice is free and available to any Androi on Google Attacks Microsoft Again: Android 4.4 Ships With Quickoffice · · Score: 2

    I don't have a single device that has anything other than a nightly build of Cyanogenmod. I don't have unpopular devices, either.

  12. Re:When will he be arrested? on Atlanta Man Shatters Coast-to-Coast Driving Record, Averaging 98MPH · · Score: 1

    Do you have a reading comprehension problem? I think you do.

  13. Re:Great... on Gunman Opens Fire At LAX · · Score: 2

    No, you just have to hit the right things to get an immediate kill with it. Whether you die before the barrel cools, or you bleed out over the course of several minutes - dead is dead.

  14. Re:Tory from Mythbusters was there on Gunman Opens Fire At LAX · · Score: 1

    Why would that have anything to do with their next season?

  15. Re:What kind of gun? on Gunman Opens Fire At LAX · · Score: 1

    Large cartridges don't get an even burn from rimfire primers - so in general, you won't see rimfire on anything above a certain point.

  16. Re:Those poor people on Gunman Opens Fire At LAX · · Score: 2

    You could, yes. But that's never what you see happening, incidentally.

  17. Re:Gunman on Gunman Opens Fire At LAX · · Score: 1

    Not anymore, now you're a just a proud one instead.

  18. Re:Great... on Gunman Opens Fire At LAX · · Score: 0

    It's a little sad that you'd not find beauty in 9/10 people.

  19. Re:Great... on Gunman Opens Fire At LAX · · Score: 1

    Had it been practical (eg not playing salmon up a waterfall for a permit) for people to carry weapons, that might have made a difference.

  20. Re:Great... on Gunman Opens Fire At LAX · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Did you know a .22 short fired from a revolver can penetrate 12-inches of wetpack with roughly a 1-inch wound channel?

    Sure, .22 is a tiny caliber - but that doesn't mean it's not dangerous.

  21. Re:Great... on Gunman Opens Fire At LAX · · Score: 1

    Killing someone while consumed with rage or hatred is not "in cold-blood."

  22. Re:When will he be arrested? on Atlanta Man Shatters Coast-to-Coast Driving Record, Averaging 98MPH · · Score: 1

    That's why you do more than glance before you make such a maneuver.

  23. Re:Lets not forget on GPUs Keep Getting Faster, But Your Eyes Can't Tell · · Score: 1

    It's not even that level of change! Just cram more SSAO samples in and watch performance plummet.

  24. Re:Impaired Driving Abilities? on Drive With Google Glass: Get a Ticket · · Score: 1

    I learned to drive on the highways in/around Los Angeles, CA and I just finished a 3 year period in Atlanta, GA. Different, but just as horrible.

  25. Re: Best of both worlds on FAA To Allow Use of Most Electronic Devices Throughout Flights · · Score: 1

    Hmm. Maybe my transceiver is just nice, but i have no reception issues when I'm 5kHz up or down - I obviously don't know how I sound, but I've had conversations before. I guess they just assumed I had a weak signal.