Yup, my ATI Rage was 4 upgraded to 8 :)

My mother was 30 when she had me (I'm not the eldest) and her mother was 28 (when she had my mother). Now her mother was 19 (when she had my grandmother, married at 18), but an average of over 25 years old for birth and my great-grandmother was alive when I was 19 (briefly, she passed that year). My eldest is 11 and my grandmother is still alive (I was 28 when she was born, increasing the average to almost 29).

TL;DR Lots of people know their great-grand parents without pre-teen pregnancies.

Oh, and yeah, my grandparents / great grandparents (only one of mine passed before I knew them) would never drop by unannounced. Heh, my father's father wouldn't even let the phone ring more than 3 times, thinking if you couldn't answer it that fast you were busy & he didn't want to intrude.

Duhno about buk above, but I got my Prime account free (just for 1 year & I prolly won't pay for it when it runs out, but I have it & didn't pay for it).

I'm impressed, 64MB RAM is pretty good for an early Pentium. You should be able to use the mouse and play MP3s, but make sure the screensaver is disabled (I remember when I finally retired my 486 DX 100 (99mhz), was because it took a Pentium to play MP3s). Good times.

Meh, it isn't science until you are tinkering with the DNA of the butterflies

Well, they are all bad except my congressman. He's the only one fighting for us.


For those with faulty sarcasm detection, this is an incredibly common notion that I do not share but helps explain why we're in this mess.

This changed my life (only slight exaggeration). Roughly 150DPI, it is amazing for Photoshop & Fallout NV never looked better (yeah, there's better games visually, but I'm a FO junkie - FO4 later this year, woot!). I don't even use anti-aliasing in games anymore (in part because when you quadruple the pixels, 16x AA takes a LOT of GPU), it's dense enough I don't feel like I need it.

No worries, it's been known to happen to me too :)

It actually gets worse: You and I can have a gun on the school grounds in our cars, but my daughters' teachers (along with the rest of TX [at least public, not I believe Charter it's up to the administration] teachers) cannot. So, if they are working late (not likely in elementary, but more common in HS), they have to just hope for the best. It's a really horribly written law.

Here's a handy link so you can check again :)

I have a Texas CHL; if I am called in to pick up my daughter at school (sick, whatever), I can have my gun in my car, but I must lock it in the car.

My solution is to not drive in my bedroom.

House notices

Accidental hack, but in probably early to mid 90's, I took an old analogue VCR (it had push buttons, but if you pulled the plate off the front, there were dials to fine tune), connected it to at least 100" of speakerwire that I ran from my bedroom to the (adjacent) garage & around (the inside of) the garage ... after fiddling with the dials for a while (I was a bored teenager), I found I could occasionally pick up cellphone calls (a rare thing in my town at the time). I thought it was cordless phones at first, but on one call people were discussing how to get somewhere and eventually they faded out of my range. Someone that knows old cellphone tech can probably narrow when down further.

My GTX680 pushes my 4k just fine* in games.

*Obviously for varying degrees of 'just fine' - I set my AA really low (like 2x) or sometimes even off because doubling/quadrupling (depending on how you're counting) the resolution (over my 1080p) I find it still looks way better than 1080p + 8-16x AA. My 4k is also 24" (price came down since I bought it, dang it!) so that helps, I'm sure. Oh, and yes, it is gorgeous for Photoshop :)

Roger that, I do that sometimes myself. I hate all forms of censorship (save self-censorship, I can choose what I want to see :)) & when Dice pretends they don't do it and then we find blatant examples where they do ... it's sad.

I'll get modded down, I'm sure, but I think it needed to be said.

^ This. Unfortunately, Slashdot editors have unlimited mod points, so I expect your post and this one to get modded into oblivion. My karma can take it, but I think it's a shame that what would have been 'the big story' today was suppressed by Dice. If Soylent, et al weren't so lame, I'd have jumped ship, but /. is still one of the best sources for discussion.

Say what you (not you specifically) will about /. going downhill, there's still much good signal in the noise - just hard when the corporate overlords expect you to not look behind the curtain.