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  1. Re:C= 1541 5,25 floppy ...concert on Musical Organ Created From 49 Floppy Disk Drives · · Score: 1

    Did it play Beethoven's "Für Elise"?
    The one I had did, if I recall it correctly.

  2. Re:so why 1408x792, technically? on Another Upscaled Console Game: Battlefield Hardline · · Score: 2

    Marketing; so nobody can say it's just "720p".

  3. Titan is a most beautiful moon on Methane-Based Life Possible On Titan · · Score: 2

    Titan is gorgeous.

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...
    http://www.astrobio.net/wp-con...
    True color: https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

    It's also the setting of the first chapter in the brilliant hard sci-fi novel Fiasco by Stanislaw Lem.
    I can't wait for new probes to report from there.

  4. Soon to be extinct... on Ask Slashdot: Sounds We Don't Hear Any More? · · Score: 1

    The 50/60 Hz hum of fluorescent lamps, as the starters are gradually replaced with high frequency transistor ballasts.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    In a few decades: combustion engines?

  5. Re:The Machine That Changed The World on Donald Knuth Worried About the "Dumbing Down" of Computer Science History · · Score: 1

    P.S. if the BitTorrent tracker doesn't work, edit the Torrent and use udp://open.demonii.com:1337

  6. The Machine That Changed The World on Donald Knuth Worried About the "Dumbing Down" of Computer Science History · · Score: 1

    There's a gem of a documentary about the history of computing before the web.

    The Machine That Changed the World is the longest, most comprehensive documentary about the history of computing ever produced.
    It's a whirlwind tour of computing before the Web, with brilliant archival footage and interviews with key players — several of whom passed away since the filming.

    Episode 1 featured Interviews with, including but not limited to:
    Paul Ceruzzi (computer historian), Doron Swade (London Science Museum), Konrad Zuse (inventor of the first functional computer and high-level programming language, died in 1995), Kay Mauchly Antonelli (human computer in WWII and ENIAC programmer, died in 2006), Herman Goldstine (ENIAC developer, died in 2004), J. Presper Eckert (co-inventor of ENIAC, died in 1995), Maurice Wilkes (inventor of EDSAC), Donald Michie (Codebreaker at Bletchley Park)

    http://waxy.org/2008/06/the_ma...
    Torrent (H.264): http://waxy.org/bt/seed/The%20...

  7. Re:Permadeath? on NetHack: Still One of the Greatest Games Ever Written · · Score: 2

    No, you need to learn to take notes on your failures, focus more and try again.

  8. Re:Wind chill on a space suit? on There's No Wind Chill On Mars · · Score: 5, Informative

    Unfortunately the atmospheric pressure on Mars (0.6 kPa) is far below the Armstrong Limit (6.3 kPa) at which your blood boils at body temperature.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  9. Re:Oh yay! Politically correct gaming!!!! on Getting Misogyny, Racism and Homophobia Out of Gaming · · Score: 1

    I can't wait!!! They sound soooo much fun!!!!

    You should try Desert Bus.
    http://www.polygon.com/2013/7/...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  10. Re:Only a Matter of Time Now on Crytek Ports CRYENGINE To Linux Support Ahead of Steam Machines Launch · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A stable driver ABI would lead to more proprietary drivers and nobody wants that.
    Proprietary drivers are usually only supported for a few years before the vendor drops them to increase the sales of new hardware.
    In the meantime, almost all libre drivers in Linux enjoy support for decades, on a large number of system architectures.

  11. Re:Bizarre Personal Cult on LLVM & GCC Compiler Developers To Begin Collaborating · · Score: 4, Interesting

    RMS has been one of the most important men of the last 50 years or so.
    His contribution to society is immense.
    We need more like him to fight for our freedom.

    Just imagine a world with only proprietary software.
    Locked into golden prisons.
    No thanks.

  12. Re:So do WiFi cards on Intel Puts a PC Into an SD Card-Sized Casing · · Score: 1

    What's the inherent advantage of x86 over ARM?

  13. Re:Visitors not welcome on US Customs Destroys Virtuoso's Flutes Because They Were "Agricultural Items" · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Awesome! on Big Buck Bunny In 4K, 60 Fps and 3D-stereo · · Score: 2

    "Movies are best watched on cell phones."
    - David Lynch

  15. Re:7 year old laptop with Linux is valuble? on Free Software Foundation Endorses a "Truly Free" Laptop · · Score: 2

    Why do people still think that taking an antique computer and adding Linux is such an amazing thing?

    This is a 7 year old laptop - and while someone may have replaced all the batteries with new ones, dismantled it and cleaned the internals with an air duster, and cleaned up the case it's still a diverted piece of e-waste.

    Charging people $320 for something that probably cost them less than $50 to acquire is gouging - especially when people have problems with them.

    I assume your time is worth nothing and the new batteries are free.

  16. Re:No idea what that means on Simulations Back Up Theory That Universe Is a Hologram · · Score: 1

    Of course!
    Like putting too much air in a balloon!

  17. Criminal investigation against the lawyer on Thousands of Germans Threatened With €250 Fines For Streaming Porn · · Score: 3, Informative

    It seems that the law firm got the IP addresses by running ads on RedTube
    There's an ongoing investigation and criminal complaint against the responsible lawyer Daniel Sebastian.

  18. Re:amd crippled R9 double presicion just like nvid on AMD's Radeon R9 290X Review · · Score: 1

    You can turn recent Nvidia Geforce cards into Quadros by removing and adding 1 or 2 resistors.
    The resistors simply encode the PCI device ID.
    http://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/hacking-nvidia-cards-into-their-professional-counterparts/

  19. Re:Can anyone name a Chinese brand? on China's State Press Calls For 'Building a De-Americanized World' · · Score: 1

    Never heard of yeeloong.

    On Slashdot?
    Yeeloong made the only laptops with 100% free software for a long time.
    Stallman uses a Yeeloong Lemote netbook.

  20. Re:Can anyone name a Chinese brand? on China's State Press Calls For 'Building a De-Americanized World' · · Score: 1

    Lenovo
    Yeeloong

  21. Re:DNA Copyright? on Dentist Wants To Clone John Lennon Using DNA Extracted From Lennon's Tooth · · Score: 2

    Why?

  22. Not a huge problem on Debian Says Remove Unofficial Debian-Multimedia.org Repository From Your Sources · · Score: 1

    It's not a significant problem because the repository is signed with OpenPGP.
    aptitude displays a big red warning if there are unknown signatures in in your repository.

  23. Re:well.... on Linus Torvalds Promises Profanity Over Linux 3.10-rc5 · · Score: 1

    actually have commercial driver support

    You mean proprietary drivers that only work on one or two architectures and seize to be supported when new hardware generations need to be sold.

  24. 1 file & multiple Internet connections on Ask Slashdot: Do You Move Legal Data With Torrents? · · Score: 1

    BitTorrent is great for transferring large files with multiple slow Internet connections.
    Seed with each connection, leech with the destination machine.

  25. Re:Uptime fetish on Solaris Machine Shut Down After 3737 Days of Uptime · · Score: 1

    Impressive if you can do that on the kernel and still be confident of stability.

    You can actually do that with Oracle Ksplice for Linux.