Comment Don't do it bro. (Score 1, Offtopic) 342
My biggest concern is that if I supply them with my PI, I might not receive the obligatory junk touching.
Comment Re:One of Ti emulators? (Score 1) 254
I use tiemu as well with a ti-89 titanium ROM dump. The skins and keyboard mappings could be better (never figured out how to edit that stuff) but it beats carrying around a separate device when you can just run it on the same desktop/laptop you're taking your online math tests with.
Comment Re:Guild Wars 2 (Score 1) 951
They already have a Mac client for GW2, how hard could it be to port it?
Comment Guild Wars 2 (Score 5, Interesting) 951
I would love to be able to play GW2 on Linux, since it constitutes 99+% of the gaming that I do these days. Mass Effect 3 would be cool too, but I don't really play it much anymore. I'm looking forward to playing native versions of Portal and Left 4 Dead on Linux soon.
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?
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."
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."
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 + - Dreamhost Triple-Matching Customer Donations to FSF (dreamhost.com)
__aajgon4133 writes: If anyone is a Dreamhost customer and has been considering donating to the Free Software Foundation, now is the time. Donations made via the Dreamhost web panel will be quadrupled by matching funds from Dreamhost.
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.
Judge Katherine Forrest, a recent Obama appointee to the federal bench,
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"
Submission + - WD Builds Light, High Capacity, Helium-filled HDDs (computerworld.com)
Lucas123 writes: Western Digital subsidiary HGST today announced that after 10 years of development it is preparing to release 3.5-in data center-class HDDs that are hermetically sealed with helium inside. The helium reduces drag and wind turbulence created by the spinning platters, all but eliminating track misregistration that has become a major issue to increasing drive density in recent years. Because of that, HGST will be able to add two more platters along with increasing the tracks per inch, which results in a 40% capacity increase. The drives will also use 23% less power because of the reduction of friction on the spindle. HGST said the new seven-platter helium drives will weigh 29% less per terabyte of capacity that today's five-platter drives. In other words, a seven-platter helium disk will weigh 690 grams, the same as today's five-platter drives.
Comment I'm still waiting... (Score 1) 327
...to read patch notes for GNOME 3 that read "You can now auto hide the top bar without installing a third party extension."
Comment Game is broken with or without DRM (Score 1) 464
Did anyone else here play a legit boxed copy of Ghost Recon: Future Soldier on PC shortly after it came out? It wasn't even really playable for people that weren't pirating it until a patch that came out a week or two ago.
Comment Re:is any of this needed? (Score 1) 182
I have to agree. This seems kinda pointless, just connect to your TTYs with tmux or screen, problem solved. Why are we worried about improving something that is deliberately a fall back to a simpler system?
