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Comment Re:All jokes aside (Score 1) 46

In my high-school photography class the kids had a variety of cameras, bought new or used. A couple of the students had Argus C3 cameras, bought used at a camera store (remember those?). One of the photo assignments was to take a deliberate double-exposure and, for that, everyone was borrowing the Argus cameras because they were the easiest to shoot a double-exposure with and have perfect registration.

Comment We went through this with cable TV (Score 2) 72

Years ago some regulation or other required cable TV companies to show locally produced content. And that's how we ended up with the obscure upper TV channels airing blue haired old ladies baking cookies, video of the recent archery club competition, and - my favorite - the program put on by the local Commodore Amiga club.

Comment We've already been through this (Score 4, Informative) 193

Read the book, "The Poison Squad", by Deborah Blum. It tells of the thirty year battle against food adulteration & misleading labeling fought by Dr. Harvey Wiley at the end of the nineteenth century. Bottles of whiskey on store shelves which contained no whiskey at all, milk laced with formaldehyde, even some packages of spices like black pepper had ground, toasted coconut shells added.

Anyway, proper, truthful food labeling is a fight that goes back further than most folks realize.

Comment Re:Minimum specs on Steam are clear, and pretty lo (Score 1) 65

The "minimum" spec is specified to run the game at 1080p low at 30 fps with upscaling.

The "recommended" spec is specified to run the game at 1400p medium at 60 fps with upscaling.

30 FPS isn't playable. It hasn't been for a decade. And at 1080p? What a clusterfuck.

Comment African rail history (Score 2) 80

For those with an interest the book, "The Lunatic Express", by Charles Miller tells the saga of the construction of the Mombasa-Nairobi-Lake Victoria railway. If you saw the movie, "The Ghost and the Darkness", that bridge they were building was one small piece of the Mombasa... railway. An interesting book of engineering, rail history, and British imperialism.

If you search for the book don't confuse it with another book of the same title by Carl Hoffman (which is also an excellent book, btw).

Comment Re:What if? (Score 1) 48

Well, there was United Linux, a project with the goal of becoming the standard Linux distro. That was way back just after the turn of the century. That project fractured & died pretty quickly. I always liked their logo, though.

Your question is a good one, and valid. Red Hat have had the chance to become the "Standard Linux" (see the history of Scientific Linux & Centos for examples) more than once but, judging by their behavior, that's not what they want to be.

Comment Re:unsportsmanlike buttock comfort (Score 2) 121

The SailGP sailboat racing teams run identical boats. The F50s are even all made in the same shop. That sets them apart from other racing games. In addition, all of the telemetry (and there's a lot) of each boat is available to all teams.

The goal is to distill everything as much as possible so that only the skill of the sailors makes the difference.

If you saw the movie, "Tenet", the sailing scene took place onboard an F50. With only a three person crew but, hey, it's a movie...

Anyway... enough about sailboat racing - and now back to our regularly scheduled programming...

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