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Comment Re:Tiniest violin (Score 1) 292

And how would I know if I was having this kind of issue? Would it show up in dmesg? What kind of 'stability issues' are we talking about here? Random kernel panics? I've had 6 or so Sandforce SSDs (all either OCZ or Mushkin) and have never had any issues.

Comment Meanwhile... (Score 1) 526

Intel is planning to put out a 48-core mobile CPU in less than a decade ( http://www.extremetech.com/computing/139267-intels-48-core-supercomputing-smartphone-cpu-is-less-than-a-decade-away ), with the main benefit being improved energy efficiency. That being said, it may be a smart short-term business move for Qualcom to not pursue 8 core chips in the meantime, and calling everyone else stupid is a convenient way to justify that to stockholders. Myself, I would love to have excessively powerful mobile devices that far exceed the needs of the average consumer. I currently lug around a gargantuan Lenovo w530 which, for the majority of its use, is docked and closed. If I could just dock a phone with workstation-grade hardware in it, that would be much more convenient for me.

Comment everyone 's a critic (Score 1) 211

The multiplayer and graphics combined are good enough to make me feel like my purchase was warranted, and ill probably purchase dlc in the future too. With all the crappy console ports out there that don't even come close to tapping modern hardware, i'd say this purchase is a no brainer for anyone with a machine that can handle it.

Comment Re:Nouveau? (Score 1) 946

Don't get me wrong, I use the binary blob on my desktop and am very satisfied with it. But on a laptop with Optimus, I wouldn't even bother trying to use VDPAU and stuff like that under Linux. You'd think if they had an opportunity to just pass the problem off to the Nouveau devs and wash their hands of it they would be all over it. As it stands, I would never purchase a laptop with an Optimus setup in it, despite the continual improvement in bumblebee that I keep hearing about.

Comment Nouveau? (Score 2) 946

What I'm wondering is, since he came out and said the little bit about using DMA-BUF with the proprietary code, and NVIDIA is starting to share specs with the nouveau devs, do you think NVIDIA might be able to help make nouveau work a bit better with optimus?
Medicine

Submission + - Autism gene found by UCSD researchers (nctimes.com)

DevotedSkeptic writes: "A genetic cause for a rare form of epilepsy-associated autism has been identified by UC San Diego and Yale scientists.

Moreover, symptoms of the newly discovered form have been reversed in mouse models by altering diet. This gives rise to the possibility that similar treatment might help people, the researchers said. The study was published online Thursday in the journal Science.

Researchers led by Gaia Novarino and Joseph G. Gleeson of UCSD studied two families, one of Egyptian descent and another of Turkish origin. They examined the genome of patients and healthy relatives for exons, gene sequences that code for proteins. The researchers found that patients shared an exon mutation on a gene called BCKDK. The mutant gene is recessive, meaning that it must be inherited from both mother and father to manifest."

Submission + - Man blames octopus for murder in South Korea | Mysterious All (mysteriousall.com)

sagarctgboy writes: "A man accused of killing his girlfriend is claiming that an octopus did it, in a bizarre murder trial

The unnamed defendant is facing the death penalty if he is found guilty of murdering his 22-year-old girlfriend, also unnamed.

In his defense the man is claiming that his girlfriend choked to death on Sannakji, a type of edible octopus that is consumed while it is still moving."

Submission + - Law Allowing Indefinite Military Detention of Citizens Ruled Unconstitutional (villagevoice.com)

cathector writes: The offending section of the NDAA, signed by Obama on New Year's Eve last year, grants the government the power to put citizens in military detention indefinitely and without the usual recourse to civil courts. ...
Judge Katherine Forrest, a recent Obama appointee to the federal bench, ... granted a preliminary injunction of the offending sections of the law.

Graphics

Submission + - NVIDIA Launches Lower Cost Kepler, GeForce GTX 660 Round-Up: MSI, ZOTAC, GB (hothardware.com)

MojoKid writes: "Today NVIDIA is announcing two more GeForce GTX 600 series graphics cards, but unlike their more expensive counterparts, the new GeForce GTX 660 and GeForce GTX 650 are based on two slightly different GPUs, the GK106 and GK107, respectively. The GK106 and GK107 are both based on Kepler, but they are scaled down in comparison to the more powerful GK104. They offer the same feature set but have fewer cores, texture units, and ROPs. NVIDIA's reference specifications call for a base GPU clock of 980MHz for the GeForce GTX 660, with a boost clock of 1033MHz and memory clock of 1502MHz (6008Mhz effective). The good news is these cards will retail somewhere in the neighborhood of $230 MSRP or so but with enough performance to play virtually any current DX11 title at 1080p resolution with high image quality"

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