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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:One of Ti emulators? (Score 1) 254

by mynis01 (#42300311) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Replacing a TI-84 With Software On a Linux Box?
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:Nouveau? (Score 1) 946

by mynis01 (#41624145) Attached to: Alan Cox to NVIDIA: You Can't Use DMA-BUF
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.
Medicine

+ - Autism gene found by UCSD researchers->

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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."
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+ - Man blames octopus for murder in South Korea | Mysterious All->

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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."
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+ - Law Allowing Indefinite Military Detention of Citizens Ruled Unconstitutional->

Submitted by cathector
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."
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Graphics

+ - NVIDIA Launches Lower Cost Kepler, GeForce GTX 660 Round-Up: MSI, ZOTAC, GB->

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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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Data Storage

+ - WD Builds Light, High Capacity, Helium-filled HDDs ->

Submitted by Lucas123
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."
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