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Submission + - A New Monitor for Retro Gaming and Computing (kickstarter.com)

Submitted by Jace of Fuse!
Jace of Fuse! writes: A Kickstarter for a retro focused modular display has only a few days left. This monitor fills a unique role. Instead of being thin like most IPS displays, it has a housing with bays in the back which can be used to tailor the monitor toward specific uses. In a time when old CRTs are getting scarce and lots of game consoles and computers either won't connect to modern displays or look horrible when they do, this display fills a very specific niche that seems to be ignored by the industry now days.

Comment Re:I never liked this game... (Score 2) 12

The PS3/4 games aren't particularly challenging either -- the difficulty, if any, mostly stems from wrestling with the floaty controls. They don't have infinite lives, but you get a set number of lives per checkpoint, and there are enough checkpoints that you'll rarely, if ever, fail a level. There's also multi-player sections of levels, and special challenge levels.

Also, there's the level building features of the games that many people probably spend the majority of their time. Oh, and user-created levels can be more challenging, of course.

I like the games for their whimsy, the art style, and their heart-warming presentation.

Comment Re:Does indeed happen. (Score 1) 634

Has anyone ever had an experience where they were positive they had a good chance at the job, but nothing came of it?.

It does happen from time to time. I had an on-site interview that went well. My last interview was with the CEO and founder of the medium-sized company, and he said, "If you've made it this far, you basically have the job." One week later I got rejected via email from a woman in HR I had never met or talked to. Sadly, I'll never know the full story.
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Journal Journal: I'm old

Journal by dsyu

Why is it that as I get older, I am more easily trolled? I would expect it to be the other way around.

Submission + - New Mineral Reserves In Afghanistan (nytimes.com) 1

Submitted by shriphani
shriphani writes: From the article: "The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials."
This of course comes with its problems. Afghanistan, with its highly illiterate and impoverished population, might be a victim of a resource curse, where wealth in natural resources leads to bad socio-economic situations like ethnic violence, authoritarian regimes and so on. It will of course be highly interesting to see how the US government now views the Afghan war. On one hand, it is imperative that the Taliban doesn't regain control and on the other, it is hard to justify being responsible for the development of a state that has $ 1 Tr. in mineral reserves.
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Can Transistors Be Made To Work When They're Off? 89

Posted by timothy from the off-on-what's-the-difference dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Engineers at the Belgian research institute IMEC are looking at the use of silicon transistors in the sub-threshold region of their operation as a way of pursuing ultra-low power goals. A chip the engineers are designing for biomedical applications could have blocks designed to operate at 0.2 or 0.3 volts, researchers said, according to EE Times. The threshold voltage is the point at which the transistor nominally switches off. Operating a transistor when it is 'off' would make use of the leakage conduction that is normally seen as wasted energy, according to the article."

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