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Comment Re:Adblock (Score 4, Informative) 353

Adblock, Flashblock, uBlock, Ghostery all pick up slightly different items to block which combined do a pretty good job of breaking things like Facebook (whitelisted) and news sites with embedded non-youtube videos. I just don't watch embedded videos anymore, the article is typically better anyways.
 
Now that Youtube is HTML5 by default for 99.99% of their videos you can safely enable flashblock for 100% of all sites, the only one I have whitelisted anymore is Pandora because they're stuck in 2007.

Comment Re:"risks serious damage to the system" (Score 1) 138

It isn't about "a chip". It's about a system that is designed for a specific thermal and electrical load. nvidia probably got flak from notebook makers who were facing dissatisfied customers.

You only have to look at a lot of the nonsense comments throughout, such as yours -- people just contriving how "easy" everything is, and how simple it is. Yeah, and I'll bet all of you design notebooks. No? Then shut up.

Comment Re:No (Score 1) 291

Some of those sound familiar, I'm just recalling what's useful to me now, I took that class about 15 years ago so it's pretty fuzzy without prompting. We did advanced data structures, pseudo code and learned assembly and to some extent converting that into binary. I don't think we ever played around with databases though, we had to pay the student price of $50 for a Borland C compiler. We did write a couple of pieces of data entry software that saved off to csv and spent some time building a GUI with the Carnegie Mellon graphics library from the time.

Comment Re:No (Score 1) 291

I'm really glad I took a year and a half of programming in high school. From what I've been told by my buddies who went in to full time programming, our program was particularly good and two full years in high school was equivalent to the first three years of college level programming. Which, it turns out, is about 95% of what's required for typical business programming.
 
Anyways, what I meant to say, was that we spent about 3 weeks on boolean logic. As in, really drilled it in to us Karate Kid style. Then worked on for, if then else and do while loops for about six months. The boolean logic's really helped me with electronics and sorting through complex life issues (not everything is black and white but a lot of it can be broken down as such for analysis) and the deep knowledge of loops helps me identify and troubleshoot problems and offer up solutions to the programmer which if we have the source code, gets us a turnaround in under an hour usually. That kind of logical thought process puts me head and shoulders above my peers in troubleshooting and I end up getting called in to solve "the tough ones".
 
I don't want to be a computer scientist for my whole life, but programming let me look at events in history as a teenager, cause and effect, in a whole new light that the traditional "hypothesis and experiment" scientific method wasn't as easily applicable.

Comment Re:ummm... (Score 1) 81

We didn't have video bloggers with millions of elementary, middle school and high school fans in the mid-90's. How adults in their 30's use youtube (tutorials, entertainment) is completely different than how the 9-21 year old group uses youtube. It's pretty much black and white. Things like yogscast (only example I can think of) bring in millions and millions of dollars each year for a staff of just a few. Rooster Teeth could not have existed in the mid-90s. Most people didn't have the bandwidth and/or patience to use video on the web back then. Now children spend more time on youtube than TV (or that tipping point is coming soon)

Comment Re:Parts (Score 1) 190

It's a lot more effort to fence six sets of bicycle parts from one bicycle on craigslist than fence a whole bicycle, not even counting disassembly time. Plus you have to store them until they're sold, etc. And the market for bicycle parts is very different (more picky) than the whole-bike market who just wants something they can use out of the box. People buying parts often times are part of a very small market and recognize the same sellers pretty quickly.

Comment Re:Doubtful (Score 1) 378

You can't eat 2000 calories a day and sustain 3000 calories worth of warm-blooded flesh, either the study is in error or the laws of thermodynamics needs to be re-examined. Unless the bacteria use some sort of endothermic process and the room she was kept in stayed above 98.6F in which case I want to read the article.

Comment Re:Doubtful (Score 1, Flamebait) 378

You still need to consume > 2200-2700 calories a day for an average size human to gain weight beyond 200 lbs or so (realistically you'll top out at about 180lbs even if you sleep all day but let's use round numbers). If you're 250 lbs or 300 lbs you have to consume way more than 3000 calories a day to simply maintain that bulk of flesh. Fat people are still fat because they eat more than they ought to, this article, if 100% true, doesn't change that fact

Comment Re: Literally? (Score 2) 645

For a lot of people who don't follow the news closely, ISIS just sounds like the latest boogyman out of the middle east.
 
On the other hand, torching off a live human being for PR reasons, video taping it, then distributing it to brag about it to the entire world is a whole new circle of hell even Dante hadn't accounted for before. People can generally stick their head in the sand about any topic, but particularly gruesome, minutes long snuff films broadcast on live television are pretty hard to ignore.

Comment Re:Yes meanwhile.. (Score 1) 167

5.0 is kind of crap and a big step backwards from 4.4.4, I unfortuantely upgraded my Moto G to 5.0.1 and it just kind of ground to a halt. They haven't released the 5.0 update for the Moto X 2013 yet and now I'm hoping that they'll wait until 5.2 as the new OS seems kind of half-baked compared to the ultra-polished 4.4.4.

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