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  1. Re:If I were Google, this is where I'd put emphasi on Every Upcoming Chromebook Will Run Android Apps (laptopmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope, Google's offering is not appealing as you never know when they'll stop supporting it. I'd prefer open source office software suites to anything Google might put out.

  2. Re:Skype replacement not needed because ... on Free Software Foundation Shakes Up Its List of Priority Projects (networkworld.com) · · Score: 0

    You're still going to need a MITM unless everyone figures out how to do proper port forwarding or exposing the port from behind the ISP's modem's router/firewall.

    Apparently, Linux people still fail at understanding some of these basic networking concepts. Not surprised.

  3. He's simply giving the Gov't the same run-around that the Gov't gives any of its other court-facing custo^W^W^Wcitizens.

  4. Re:Fucking useless on Chrome is Getting the Ability To Play FLAC (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Up until Windows Vista, MIDI was handled by the hardware or the Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth or whatever flavor of softsynth you had (like Timidity,) the browser just used whatever you had selected as your MIDI device. That option has been removed, now, so in Windows, you're stuck with whatever shitty GS they have unless you use another media player that can allow soft-loading of soundfonts (yay, AIMP2!)

    Example of what MIDI can really do - https://soundcloud.com/technic...

  5. Re:My art is shit on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    ". The wire and magents make no difference to the saturation of the core at all."

    Without the wire and magnets, you have no core period. It's all in the construction. Use a shitty weak magnet and thin conductors, you overload it easily. Use a strong magnet with thick conductors, you can't reach the saturation point as easily.

    Pickup design 101. I've gone through several HUNDRED variations of magnet and conductor, from nail+bottlecap+bell wire+fridge magnets to United Nuclear magnets and 12-gauge wiring.

    Pickups are not transformers, despite sharing several characteristics. Break out your o-scope and start building them.

  6. If you knew shit about Boeing, you'd know they had R&D facilities where they developed alloys and then had other industry partners manufacture them en-masse.

    Boeing was heavily involved in titanium alloys and aluminum-lithium alloy development in the 70s and 80s.

    Which is a perfect explanation about why pure titanium, cerium, and more was found on the tie.

  7. All three kids upstairs (my neighbor's kids) all under the age of 12 have a cell phone. Those handy-dandy family plans, yanno. At least they've gotten over PokemonGo after all the crashing it did.

  8. Re:Fucking useless on Chrome is Getting the Ability To Play FLAC (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    You people think MIDI is outdated yet it's still the base controller for most music you're hearing today. How cute. Have you even heard the samples modern MIDI instruments have?

  9. Re:Fucking useless on Chrome is Getting the Ability To Play FLAC (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a web-plugin soundfont bank for my in-development game that makes MIDI sound utterly realistic. As long as you aren't looking for lyrics, there's no point in using OGG/FLAC/MP3, PERIOD, and it cuts way down on game size.

  10. Discord sucks because no video chat. I like seeing the faces of my pals as I come in and fuck up their frag count on my other monitor.

  11. How else can you expect to push tougher cybersecurity laws if you can't get compromised at the highest levels?

  12. Re:My art is shit on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Good thing my pickups are custom built with powerful magnets and thick conductor wire so you can't ever reach the saturation point. Very crisp SLAP when I literally pound my thumb into the E string.

    Also, my amp is not acting as a compressor as it's just feeding the raw line signal (speaker is not connected so we're never hitting even 1/5 power draw at any time) to the mixer board. It's purely a signal processor/EQ at its current setup points.

  13. Re:Wrong on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 0

    >not judging age by UID

    Yep, you're probably too stupid to do some critical thinking!

  14. Re:Wrong on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    A five-pass erase is as simple as throwing the thing under a super-powerful magnet for five passes. I've got a 3" x 6" x 2" neodymium magnet that can pulls the pans out of my cupboard from three feet away. Tapes, credit cards with magnetic stripes, anything magnetic gets near it, it's getting wiped thoroughly with just the first pass, but I do it five times over since it's easy enough to push a button to reverse the conveyor belt.

  15. You need a smartphone for voice chat?

    Really? I can think of two things wrong with this idea. A. people will already use voice chat apps on their phone, and not the one Nintendo (might) provide. B. This sounds like a violation of anti-tying provisions in the Magnusson-Moss warranty act.

  16. Biggest annoyance is when Skype decides to suddenly remove focus from the game window, fucking everything up.

    My system runs games just fine and dandy, thank you. Fix your other broken shit that interferes with my gaming.

  17. Fucking useless on Chrome is Getting the Ability To Play FLAC (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Chrome can't even get repeating MIDI/MP3/OGG to work properly. Now we're just getting more bloat added without Google fixing prior problems.

    Good thing I uninstalled Chrome long ago and haven't looked back.

  18. And this was a program championed by a supposedly smart security researcher - Moxie.

    Good thing I don't trust people who say "You should trust this encryption!" because they've all been proven wrong historically.

  19. Pay to play online when your prior consoles were FREE (and even then, MP was risky at best) and then in your lineup are several games that were notoriously bad MP-wise/connection-wise on the prior generations? (DBZ as an example.)

    Nope! Lost sale.

  20. Re:Loses credibility on Consumer Reports Now Recommends MacBook Pros (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    "But if you're going to recommend a product based on a might-be-working-when-released beta, you lose some credibility to me."

    If you're going to send me a beta product to test and it fails, you're going to get panned. Don't want that to happen? Give me a finished product that had some A-Z quality control to test.

  21. Re: Slashdot "experts" who were wrong. on Consumer Reports Now Recommends MacBook Pros (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't like Apple, but review conditions normally mean "DEFAULT CONFIGURATION" Not "Let's turn some shit off that most users have no fucking clue about" so I'm going to say they weren't cheating, here.

  22. Re:My art is shit on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    First protip: Ditch your compressor and learn how to record from source at maximum possible volume.

    I play bass on the internet, people go "Holy shit that's loud and clear, what's your compressor?" and I just point to a plain shitty Kustom amp and mixer board. The bass guitar doesn't even have working potentiometers, it's raw pickup to jack. Amp is set to middle position everything volume and EQ. Volume is adjusted on mixer to just barely hit the yellow line on my meter on mixer when I slam on the strings, then kicked back a notch. This allows for huge dynamic range in my playing (assuming my gear isn't making tons of noise.) My volume level for recording on Windows is at like 5 on the line-in, and the mixer is using the tape output to feed to signal to the computer for recording so it's just a line-level signal with no volume control (as opposed to if my outputs were going through the Main or Control Room outputs.)

    Kill the compressor, regain your dynamic range and tonal qualities.

  23. Re:Wrong on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    " Cassettes are not less expensive than pressing out a stack of CD's"

    I can find plenty of cassette tapes for a nickel each at garage sales and re-use those after a thorough five-pass erase.

  24. Re: It IS hipsterism (if that's a word) on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Those rarely worked properly and loved to fuck up the tape loading/eject mechanism.

  25. Re:In this economy? on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    "There is no rational reason to use them"

    Uhh, tape doesn't skip when you hit a bump, unlike most optical disc players (even with buffering.)