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Comment Re:started in the 1960s (Score 1) 179

Water has a Median Lethal Dose of 90g/kg. Two gallons is 9000g, therefore lethal for a body weighting 100kg. And it's not about whether you take salt tablets or not, it's about intracranial pressure, which is physics. You can't cheat out of that. ...Well who knows, maybe your brain is smaller and you don't feel the symptoms :)

Comment Re:started in the 1960s (Score 2) 179

I call this bullshit. If you drink two gallons of water, chances are that your electrolytes go awry. You might even die. Second, no mtter how much water you hold, you can only pee so much. Also, hint: average urine density (should be between 1010 and 1025). Lower than 1010, you're a suspect because it means you drink too much water for some reason, so a blood test is requested.

Comment ownCloud (Score 1) 272

It's like Dropbox, but everything resides on the server of your choice. Ridiculously easy to set up, literally copy a directory into the web root, set permissions, and done.

Has MOST features Dropbox does, sharing files, access from anywhere...photo gallery, you can open files in the browser with native internal apps..

It gives you the drag-and-drop simplicity of Dropbox with its syncing with nearly the same simplicity to set up.

Comment Re:How To Make PC Gaming Better (Score 1) 337

Egg or Hen?
The problems exist because of Linux developers' attitude in the past. Linux started as "8y 1337 4 1337" and continued on that path until fairly recently; started to become more and more user-friendly - and I welcome this trend! However, this advancement is being slowed down by both community and developers' attitude towards newcomers or public's requirements.

Comment I disagree (Score 1) 436

I keep hearing this. 3D is dead. No one watches it. Etc. Etc.

Except I love it. I feel that it's a sharper image for me. In fact I just bought an LG passive 3D TV.

I've for some friends who don't like the effect. But I have many who do.

In fact, I pretty much feel its blithering critics who keep making these comments and articles. But these were the same folks downing Netflix since 2000.

I think it'll grow...

Comment Re:6 months? (Score 1) 311

You're really pushing assumptions to absurdity.
The article you mention places a huge emphasis on TVs. Incidentally, I don't own a TV.

I use this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.idle.babytoy on my smartphone because my boy (now 1 year old) is very interested in my phone when I'm talking or checking my e-mail. I only pull out the phone 3-4 times a day, and this app lets him mash the screen with very slim chances of accidentally exiting the app. Touching the Home button does nothing and he gets bored pretty fast. When he was smaller, he would play on this for 10-15 minutes, now he throws the phone away after maybe 2 minutes. The app is now there just because he needs to hold that thing that daddy uses, and this app helps me keep my phone stuff away from being accidentally messed up.

My child develops normally, he has an equal interest in cats, dogs, toys, people, other kids, mashing laptop and desktop keyboards (doesn't matter if the screen is on). He learned how to turn lights on and off, how to push/pull doors, he likes throwing balls more than anything though. 10 minutes per day of mashing a phone screen doesn't do any harm.

Comment Re:Dvorak bad (Score 1) 307

The GGGP tried to excuse the ...GGGGGP? Anyway, was trying to excuse his typo(s) by referring to Dutch as the guy's native language. Now I know how to differentiate a typo from a possible lack of English knowledge (I ignored "sais" and "incompatability" as having incomplete knowledge as root cause). But "simular" is very, very likely a typo, both on Dvorak and QWERTY keyboards.

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