This is a 'fad' that has been going strong for (at least!) two decades. If you want to limit it to the FPS-genre, the multiplayer aspect has been extremely popular ever since it was an option. If you take Quake (1996) as the start of (serious) multiplayer FPS-gaming and Wolfenstein 3D (1992) as the start of the FPS-genre, multiplayer FPS-gaming has been (again: extremely) popular for the last 19 years out of the 23 years of existence of the FPS-genre.

Such a mature thing to say.
You've really added to this discussion by generalizing and deriding everybody who plays multiplayer FPSs and the concept of multiplayer FPS in general.

Go be a complaining old asshole somewhere else.

Very weird, either my memory is failing me hard (although I can vividly remember the setting in which I typed on the keyboard), or I'm mixing up the K750 with another solar powered Logitech keyboard, or the K750 has changed over the years.

The K750 I can find on the web does seem to have the (awesome) incurve keys and the 'PerfectStroke' mechanism. The keys also seem to be of the slightly soft smooth plastic I was talking about. If that is indeed the case, then I guess we've been lauding the same sort of keyboard from the start of this thread (although the key separation and key size seem slightly different between the K750 and the K800).

I've typed on the K750 and its keys are absolutely dreadful compared to the ones on the K800, and I'm not exaggerating here.

The keys on the K750 are completely flat, save for a little bit of microrelief, and made of hard plastic. That combination makes it very easy for your fingers to slide off them and onto keys you don't want to press or just tilting them if you don't hit them in the middle. The keys of the K800 are much more forgiving: I can jab at them at a ridiculously acute angle and/or hit them on the corners and still have accurate keystrokes.

I will add a disclaimer, though: I don't bash the keys very hard as some people like to do (what are they trying to accomplish?) and I don't (often) play any high-stress games that make me apply a large amount of force to the keys. I could imagine that the K800 wouldn't survive such treatment for long (although many keyboards wouldn't, I guess).

The Logitech K800 is an absolutely awesome keyboard.
- Wireless, but charges via microUSB.
- Accepts regular rechargeable NiMH AA batteries.
- Has a proper numeric keypad
- Has just the right set of media keys
- The keys are low-profile, slightly curved inwards and slightly soft, making for very pleasant, silent, light and accurate strokes.
- Proximity activated variable intensity backlight
- Bog-standard layout (large enter key, 2x3 normally sized insert, del, etc.)

But again, mainly: the typing experience is the best I've ever experienced, including my experiences with the IBM Model M.

Mine has been going strong since 2011 and looks and feels like I just bought it, even though I use it intensively for 12h+ a workday (working from home as a programmer).

Accuracy tells us very, very little, without information on the number of false positives. In short, we need to know what the chance is that you have cancer if the dog indicates you do, which is TP / (TP + FP). It's easy to see that the number of FPs has a big influence.

Explained further here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
This is one of the best visualizations of it: http://ampp3d.mirror.co.uk/201...

See also this Wikipedia page for a good overview of different measures like accuracy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...

You should see it more in terms of power. Let me provide you with a car analogy:
1080p is like 1080hp and 200p is like 200hp.

Now do you understand why resolution is so important?! POWERRRR!
An Xbox game with 720hp is obviously inferior to a Playstation game with 900hp!

On a serious note: in an FPS, the difference between 320x200 and 1920x1080 does make for a difference in the ability to play the game (remember going back to Quake in 320x200 after having played GLQuake?). The same can be said for interface-heavy games or games where a high 'depth of field' (overview with details visible) is required, such as an RTS or (MMO)RPG. I agree that a high resolution is not necessary to make a good game, but some good games do require or benefit from a high resolution.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that learning Visual Basic and 'programming' in Excel will actually give you an edge on your business professional peers.

Last time I checked, Excel was the hammer of choice for most businesses (maybe combined with SPSS), not R (I'm not sure if any business even uses it).

Ironically, if you focus on Google Spreadsheets, learning Javascript (and the Google APIs) is what is required if you want to do more advanced stuff.

It's a shame that GP got modded up instead of you.

If Slashdot is to remain interesting, it needs to lay off retarded 'news' like this and keep providing proper news. I saw the headline and the phrase that came to mind was: "Jesus Christ, what the fuck, Slashdot. You're not even trying anymore."

The sad part is as you described: The same arguments. Every year. I know we all like redundancy, but I'm pretty sure the DST-discussion doesn't need annual copies.

There is a 'yo mamma' joke in here somewhere.

Exactly, 'a split second' is actually a well defined thing called 'reaction time', which ranges in the tens to hundreds of milliseconds and is provably related to the distance between brain and the origin of the signal in the body.

'Quantum [whatever]' really brings out the Dunning-Kruger in the comment section.

I've always wondered to what extent it is possible to just get used to the disconnect between your senses (which is something that will never really go away with just optical VR). I'm pretty sure that people who are at sea often don't get seasick (anymore).

Given the plasticity of the brain, it seems that it should be possible to train it to accept the disconnect in general, although you could ask yourself whether you want to go through a month or more of daily sickly training sessions, just to be able to use a(n admittedly pretty cool) piece of technology.

Any no-longer-motion-sick-VR-users in the house?

Apparently it is sort of both.

There is a difference between relative and absolute humidity. The former is related to the the dew point.

If I understand it correctly, higher temperature (faster movement) of the water molecules raises the amount of molecules (in a volume of air) that need to be present to form water droplets. The amount of molecules in a certain volume of air is the absolute humidity, which can be very high in (Finnish) saunas. Due to the high temperature, however, no water droplets are formed in the air or on objects that are as hot as the air. This means that the relative humidity can be low at the same time. That also means that sweat can still evaporate relatively easily, which in turn allows the body to prevent overheating for a longer time.

Considering how messed up the judicial branch of the USA is, it is hardly surprising. I was not aware of how retarded it has gotten, until I saw this segment on the most recent Last Week Tonight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I mean: State Supreme Court Justices with their own fucking (insane) TV ads?? Shaking down lawyers and potential criminals for campaign contributions??
It's a fucking joke. And one that would be funny if it wasn't also reality.

Thank you.

A small part of me died when I saw the headline. Slashdot is definitely (d)evolving into a mindless click-chasing news aggregator like all the others are.

Worst about this is that the (classic) misunderstanding is actually explained in TFA:
  "Correlation does not prove a cause-and-effect relationship, so this kind of research is not considered as strong as experiments in which participants are assigned at random to treatments or placebos and then compared. But people cannot ethically be instructed to smoke for a study, so a lot of the data on smoking’s effects on people comes from observational studies."

I thought the same (they'll cost you at least thousands of dollars), but it's the title that is at fault here: 'HD/UHD/4K'.

Although I have no idea why anyone would want to buy a new HD projector nowadays. I've always felt that the resolution of projectors was terrible and that they would benefit most from a push for higher resolutions.