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  1. If you dont know what you want on Ask Slashdot: What Equipment and Furniture For an Electronics Hardware Lab? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    then you dont need it.

  2. Re:Books worth more than games on Humble eBook Bundle Lets You Pay What You Want For eBooks · · Score: 2

    there's likely a $.01 out there

    isn't $.01 more like -$5 when you accept credit cards?

  3. Re:Books worth more than games on Humble eBook Bundle Lets You Pay What You Want For eBooks · · Score: 1

    Average is statistically meaningless. What is the median? SD? skew?

  4. Re:even their best promo art shows it doesn't work on Microsoft's Hand-Gesture Sensor Bracelet · · Score: 1

    And it doesn't have to, either. It's actually probably better that it doesn't: you want the matches to be close enough to the correct gesture, rather than the exact gesture itself, as exact matching would create endless frustration for the user

    Yes, I just love when UI interpolates and guesses what I want instead of letting me point where I really want to.

  5. Does NOT create 3D-models, hard coded. on Microsoft's Hand-Gesture Sensor Bracelet · · Score: 0

    This thing is HARD CODED. Just look at pictures at
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19884218
    every gesture is "recognized", but 3D model doesnt fit real hand.
    Finger movements are not recreated, there is no 3D model recreation. This is M$ so Im guessing learned NN recognizing few patterns and pretending to be magic.
      Just like Kinect games that promise movement tracking, but end up recognizing 2 hard coded gestures (or dont use cameras at all and you feel scammed for buying $200 Mass Effect microphone).

  6. Re:More comfortable than gloves... on Microsoft's Hand-Gesture Sensor Bracelet · · Score: 1

    it cant get smaller because it needs to see the hand = needs to stick out of your wrist

  7. Re:I still think this guy should countersue . . . on Supreme Court To Decide If Monsanto GMO Patents Are Valid · · Score: 2

    After all, the manufacture, distribution and use of Monsanto's GM product is presumably regulated by some governmental agency? I tend to think that FDA is involved, at least?

    I seem to remember FDA was directly prohibited from doing any research on gen. modified crops immediately after one of ex monsanto execs was granted government position.

  8. Re:How to characterize performance on Parallella: an Open Multi-Core CPU Architecture · · Score: 1

    a LOT considering its 90 (was 100 few days ago) Gflops single precision. This is 1/10 of Radeon 7750

  9. Re:Green Arrays 144 computers on a chip @ 20 USD on Parallella: an Open Multi-Core CPU Architecture · · Score: 1

    If you like Forth i suppose.

  10. Re:update on Mozilla To Bug Firefox Users With Old Adobe Reader, Flash, Silverlight · · Score: 1

    Yes that is the point I'm making

    Somehow I read first message as "30% of internet bandwidth in North America was being used by Silverlight. Netflix still uses Silverlight ergo Netflix = 30%". My bad.

  11. Re:update on Mozilla To Bug Firefox Users With Old Adobe Reader, Flash, Silverlight · · Score: 2

    It doesn't mean they are using computers with silverlight installed.
    Roku, game consoles, google players, a lot of TVs and DVD/blueray players, tablets, and phones play netflix.

    This doesnt make any sense. They cant count Roku as silverlight traffic because Roku and other embedded platforms DO NOT use silverlight.

  12. Re:Don't let it fool you on Most SSDs Now Under a Dollar Per Gigabyte · · Score: 1

    My one month figure is from experience (ocz, not intel). They die within a month, die as in poof no harddrive in bios.

  13. Re:Don't let it fool you on Most SSDs Now Under a Dollar Per Gigabyte · · Score: 2

    Reduced cycle endurance means your drive will wear out faster, but it will still take years to wear them out (if ever), and when they do, they don't lose data, they just stop being able to write. If you're having your SSDs just up and die on you out of the blue, that has nothing to do with the trend towards decreasing write endurance.

    1 try using Bcache and you will be swapping SSD drives every month
    2 when SSD runs out of write cycles it usually dies, there is no graceful degradation

  14. Re:Don't let it fool you on Most SSDs Now Under a Dollar Per Gigabyte · · Score: 1

    literally correct, practically it doesn't matter. we are talking many, many decades of use. 80+ years instead of 100+ years. And that assume completely filling the drive almost every 10 days, then erasing it.

    Assumption Min 3000 complete write/erase cycles and intelligent software. Not really that big of an assumption any more.

    try below 1000 cycles with single MLC cells holding TENS of electrons

  15. Re:Free market! on The Coming Internet Video Crash · · Score: 1

    If you're in the WISP biz, can you tell me how to search for a WISP?

    run a wifi scan with your phone

  16. Re:Link is broke on Open Source Raspberry Pi WebIDE Alpha Released · · Score: 1

    Use your mouse to highlight correct web address, press right mouse button and select "google it". Thats what my mum does.

  17. Re:what about nuclear fusion? on Astronomers Search For Dyson Spheres of Alien Civilizations · · Score: 1

    Magog World Ship from Andromeda
    http://andromeda.wikia.com/wiki/Magog_World_Ship

  18. Senior tech analyst? on Television Network Embeds Android Device In Magazine Ads · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I like how g4tv's "Senior tech analyst" cant tell lcd display from camera module.
    The battery is refueling? WHAT? Watching that video is painful.

  19. Re:Samsung should be innovating not suing! on Galaxy Tab Sales Ban Lifted, Samsung Sues Apple Over iPhone 5 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Jobs never had documents like that stating he wanted to copy Braun.

  20. Re:How do you feel about Apple? on Ask Steve Wozniak Anything · · Score: 0

    I wish that instead of all these lawsuits Apple was sitting down and cross-licensing

    cross-licensing what? round corners? Do you really think those are valid patents? Do you feel patenting idea instead of implementation is ok?

  21. Re:Fighting Piracy is Good for Open Source on Illegal Downloading Now a Crime In Japan With Increased Penalties · · Score: 1

    >people have to listen to our

    No, no law will make me listen to your shitfest.

  22. Re:We Need a New Patent System Based On Freedom on Another Call For Abolishing Patents, This One From the St. Louis Fed · · Score: 2

    Even the Bible says

    My religious text says pasta should be free to everyone. Lets legislate that!

  23. Re:It does not have to be far on Ask Slashdot: Hacking Urban Noise? · · Score: 2, Funny

    We're in London, after all.

    Yes, capital of a country which, except for miles and pints, went metric around 1970.

    Dont know about that, they still count money in pounds.

  24. Re:I've got a vague idea of what Steam is - on Valve Blog Announces Dates For Steam Linux External Beta · · Score: 1

    Its iTunes for borrowing software. You pay them believing you are buying something, but deep down in the eula lies a nice "licensed to use" line.

  25. Re:Apple's A6 on Intel Debuts Clover Trail For Tablets, Launches New Atom Inside · · Score: 1

    Apple's A6 goes up to 3.
    (GPU cores)

    and $13 Rockchip has Quad Mali400