Comment Re:Local error checking? (Score 1) 167
Indeed. How the hell is this innovative?
Comment Re:Essentially a dupe from 3 months ago (Score 5, Informative) 136
The missing wires weren't the really bad part - the result of that would've "merely" been that it wouldn't work as a USB3 SuperSpeed cable and only connect in USB2 High Speed mode.
What really set that one apart was that it had VCC and GND swapped on one end.
Microsoft Is Paying Brazilian Users In Skype Credit To Switch to Bing 90
New submitter perplexing.reader (2241844) writes "Microsoft is paying Brazilian users US$2 in Skype vouchers to set Bing as their default search engine and MSN as their default home page. Translated from the site: 'Make MSN your homepage and Bing your default search engine and earn up to 60 minutes of calls to mobiles and landlines in Skype.' ... The Rules: 'After receiving the voucher, this should be used until July 31, 2014. Once on Skype, the credits do not expire. The minutes are based on a rate of $ 0.023 per minute, but the number of minutes may vary depending on the destination of the call and the number of calls you make. The current value of the voucher is $2.00. [One claimed], the voucher will appear in your Skype account." (For those outside Brazil, the page brings up a message that translates to "Sorry, this promotion is not
available for your country.")
Comment Re:Crypto (Score 1) 146
Nowadays? No.
A few years ago? Yes.
Before everyone jumped on the bandwagon, 5970s had similar price/performance to 5850s while being superior in pretty much every other way.
4 cards == 8 GPUs off a $45 board with x1 to x16 riser cables.
Fans that could actually run 24/7 for years without dying.
Lower power usage.
Comment Re:Yet another reason... (Score 1) 273
Yeah, nobody got rich off Bitcoin by not dismissing it out of hand when it first hit
...
Oh, wait.
Comment Betteridge's Law of Headlines (Score 2) 394
No.
Comment Re:Kind of an empty gesture (Score 1) 250
Yeah, that's what also kinda confuses me.
I've had a anthracite/dark grey/light black/whatever you want to call it meter with a yellow rubber holster in the 80s.
And it sure wasn't a Fluke.
Comment Re:As we've always said (Score 1) 378
Errr, where in Europe?
Certainly not Germany, so far it was one of the warmest winters on record.
Comment Re:Classic Desktop (Score 1) 503
TFA doesn't say... my guess: "something that has roughly the same interface metaphors as win9x".
Comment Re:What would be sweet... (Score 1) 222
Isn't that basically what the TRESOR proof-of-concept did?
Comment Re:Too big (Score 1) 520
No it doesn't.
Comment Re:Good. Attics & closets waste $30 bulbs. Dim (Score 1) 767
Your math is off by 2 orders of magnitude.
Comment Re:Freakin' Riders. (Score 1) 767
Incandescents are perfectly linear
Nope, they're quite nonlinear PTC thermistors.
since its a purely resistive load.
Wrong again, see above.
Electronics 101.
Yeah, right.
For added fun (and what the parent alluded to), look up temperature vs. radiated spectrum for a (approximately) black body radiator.
Comment Re:Freakin' Riders. (Score 1) 767
Similar anecdotal experience here. 4 of the 5 Osram 23W CFLs I got back in 1993 are still "working" (in quotes as they take ages to start up and are likely well below 80% nominal light output by now).
Seems "value engineering" killed longevity somewhere around the mid-late 90s.
Comment Re:Halogens die in dimmers w/o vaporization (Score 1) 767
Who is using dimmers in their attics and closets? And... why?
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