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  1. Re:Razer Forge TV on The State of Linux Gaming In the SteamOS Era · · Score: 1

    All digital video formats we use are compressed and lossy.

  2. Re:Razer Forge TV on The State of Linux Gaming In the SteamOS Era · · Score: 1

    No, because it hasn't been released yet. See my other post for why input lag isn't a big deal.

  3. Re:Razer Forge TV on The State of Linux Gaming In the SteamOS Era · · Score: 1

    Latency and bandwidth on a local network should be irrelevant. Sure if stuck using wifi in an apartment you might have issues but in that case invest in a long video cable.

    Most controller based games are pretty forgiving for input latency, and I'm certainly not going to sit on a couch with a keyboard and mouse seutp.

  4. Razer Forge TV on The State of Linux Gaming In the SteamOS Era · · Score: 0

    For me local game streaming effectively kills the notion of the SteamBox. Why have multiple powerful expensive PCs when you can have one and a $99 low power ARM box attached to your TV.

  5. Magic on Gadgets That Spy On Us: Way More Than TVs · · Score: 1

    Is apparently how the average person and media assumed these devices worked.

  6. So presumably..... on Elementary OS: Why We Make You Type "$0" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    these guys think they should type $0 everytime they checkout source code from the upstream projects where the vast majority of the work actually occurs?

  7. Re:No F-Keys on Building the Developer's Dream Keyboard · · Score: 2

    Probably an Apple user. Its also missing the developer critical keys Page Up, Page Down, Home, End, Delete, Insert.

    I'm stuck back on a Thinkpad x220 because as far as I can tell OEMs have abandoned developers with keyboards missing keys.

  8. Leap Years... on Microsoft Trademarks "Windows 365" · · Score: 1

    So no Windows and no Office on February 29th? :)

  9. Next RadioShack on Staples To Buy Office Depot For $6.3 Billion · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Is anyone else surprised Staples isn't bankrupt? No one ever goes there and the only time I hear about Staples is when a deal site mentions yet another category is on clearance.

  10. Re:Blackberry can switch on Blackberry CEO: Net Neutrality Means Mandating Cross-Platform Apps · · Score: 1

    About 5-years ago I was telling my friends that Blackberry needed to port their stack to Android and be the "enterprise" version. Instead "tablets are cool"!

  11. Low Value SItes Compromised? on The Most Popular Passwords Are Still "123456" and "password" · · Score: 2

    The article mentions this is based on sites compromised, I wonder if this list isn't to some extent self-selecting towards bad passwords. Lower value sites are more likely to be compromised than high value sites like Amazon or Google, and on low value sites people are much more likely to use garbage. Personally I use a pw database but still use junk passwords on sites when its irrelevant if the account were to be compromised.

  12. Walking Paper? on Regular Exercise Not Enough To Make Up For Sitting All Day · · Score: 2

    Wasn't there a paper recently about how walking for 30-minutes countered about 4-hours of sitting?

  13. Pyramid Schemes on Bitcoin Volatility Puts Miners Under Pressure · · Score: 1

    All collapse eventually.

  14. Workstation Laptops on Ask Slashdot: High-Performance Laptop That Doesn't Overheat? · · Score: 1

    Lots of manufacturers have professional grade workstation laptops, why aren't you buying those? (Or as others suggested desktop PCs)

  15. Re:How about unburdening Cable services on Unbundling Cable TV: Be Careful What You Wish For · · Score: 1

    I've advocated to people for quite a while that they'd be better off buying a season on DVD once a month rather than cable subscriptions. Seasons are typically 20-50$, if you trickle it out over a month you're saving money, plus a year or two later you still own the content and can watch it for free if you feel like it.

  16. Re:Why not Intel? on AMD, Nvidia Reportedly Tripped Up On Process Shrinks · · Score: 1

    Given Intel offers SKUs with higher performance graphics parts (iris) they are effectively competing with the lower end of the discrete GPU market, and probably over time hope to keep raising the bar.

  17. Re:Nothing New for Sony... on Sony Thinks You'll Pay $1200 For a Digital Walkman · · Score: 1

    I still use my ~25-year old Sony Dream Machine alarm clock every day!

  18. Library Alternative on How Amazon's Ebook Subscriptions Are Changing the Writing Industry · · Score: 1

    I suspect unlimited will function like a current libraries, much like Netflix is an alternative to blockbuster not the theatre or purchases. Similarly Unlimited probably won't have the latest and greatest, rather slightly older books and series before a new one is released. (Series often sell for $1.99 or even free to promote the newer books)

  19. Re:Leave the employers alone on Displaced IT Workers Being Silenced · · Score: 3, Interesting

    From some of the stories we've had in Canada, its probably less tech companies and more banks etc. replacing their IT groups with a third-party contractor that only hires imported workers.

  20. Bogus on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Electronics-Induced Inattentiveness? · · Score: 1

    Sorry but your reasoning is bullshit. Before the internet people blamed cable tv, before cable it was music or tv or radio, the reality is that you're choosing not to read.

  21. Re:Joyent unfit to lead them? on Node.js Forked By Top Contributors · · Score: 1

    I'd say there is logic in not bothering to make the change, it takes effort and brings no value. My experience has been that gendered pronouns are often used in documentation, though usually they use a mix of the two genders.

    That said there isn't logic in attempting to revert the commit when another committer merged it (unless the rule was that documentation would use a gendered pronoun). Though I also don't think the tone and content of Joyents post is appropriate either.

  22. Re:Neat, thanks on DOOM 3DO Source Released On Github · · Score: 1

    I question whether the author has any right to release it at all. Sounds like it was done as a work for hire thus she doesn't doesn't own the copyright.

  23. Re:Already have this in my Firefox on Firefox Will Soon Offer One-Click Buttons For Your Search Engines · · Score: 1

    I believe the point is that the drop down menu includes all the search providers. Personally I would like this, seems like I always have Wikipedia selected when I want Google and Google selected when I want Wikipedia.

  24. Re:Takes Two To Network on Revisiting Open Source Social Networking Alternatives · · Score: 1

    This doesn't work. The issue isn't a node connecting to the network and having access to all data, the issue is that any user's home node explicitly has access to anything the user has been granted permission to.

  25. Re:Takes Two To Network on Revisiting Open Source Social Networking Alternatives · · Score: 1

    I fail to see how that matters. The user you're sharing with is authenticating with their home server, thus their home server can readily impersonate them.