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[00:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Businesses Serving More Than Just Their Shareholders - 854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:52] <exec> 08└─Well, I suspected that Soylentnews stopped posting controversial stories on Friday and Saturday evenings, American time, because they didn't want them shitposted to death by drunken Americans. But speaking of businesses serving their shareholders, PG&E (which sounds suspiciously a lot like AT&T) are...
[00:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Businesses Serving More Than Just Their Shareholders - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:53] <exec> 08└─First, it was the mostly private power struggle between the deep state and the patriots. Now, it is the public struggle between the Chinese and the Jews fighting over dominance and control over their American Golem's flow of information. Our beloved monsters. Enjoy yourselves!
[00:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03radu [1919] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Businesses Serving More Than Just Their Shareholders - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:55] <exec> 08└─I believe you!
[00:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Azure Might be Woefully Inefficient and Unprofitable - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:11] <exec> 08└─Microsoft has always waited for other people to create stuff, then take it away from them. Microsoft doesn't have a history of creating stuff, or of innovating. Microsoft didn't even create Windows. They bought it off of some guy, then hammered and bludgeoned Windows into the shape they wanted. Or,...
[00:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Azure Might be Woefully Inefficient and Unprofitable - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:12] <exec> 08└─Your signature, "We need to eat the babies! - some liberal at an AOC townhall meeting," seems like a modest proposal to me.
[00:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Joins Twitch, Amazon's Game-Streaming Service - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:41] <exec> 08└─Purdue Pharma is coming out with a new Troll Suppressant formula. First, you trick the troll into bending over, then you ram it up his arse. It's a time delay formula, which dissolves as the troll types.
[00:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Donald Trump Joins Twitch, Amazon's Game-Streaming Service - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:42] <exec> 08└─There is one ground rule by which all ground warriors must abide: Don't mention Taiwan or Hong Kong, and include the 9-dashed line in all world maps. And if players dare violate those rules, ban them from speaking and posting...but don't cut off their payment accounts just yet: They may like those g...
[00:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Power Blackout News - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:15] <exec> 08└─California's not notorious for power outages — that's why so few people were prepared to lose theirs.
[00:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Power Blackout News - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:16] <exec> 08└─Even though someone invented the term "Diablo Winds" back in the 1990s, AFAIK virtually nobody used the term until the mass media pushed it during the 2017 wildfires to the point that social media users (particularly people who didn't grow up here) picked up on it. I suspect most older adults still...
[00:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dyson Abandons Electric Car Project, Will Continue to Pursue New Battery Technology - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:34] <exec> 08└─They should make a sex bot instead.
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[01:13:10] <exec> 08└─This takes the out completely. It is time for microsoft to go away and never come back.
[01:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Power Blackout News - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:15] <exec> 08└─You do not see any socialism in California?
[01:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dyson Abandons Electric Car Project, Will Continue to Pursue New Battery Technology - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:34] <exec> 08└─Dyson should make a street cleaner truck, the ones with big vacuums and little rotating brooms on the sides. At least it's connected to their core product line then. They could make the truck container translucent so you can see all the shit spinning around inside. My kids would _love_ that.
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[02:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Played Modern Games on a CRT Monitor - and the Results are Phenomenal - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:03] <exec> 08└─I don't really miss CRT. They got real hot, the last one I owned was probably 40-45kg in weight, they were getting hard to fit on the desk (now I can just push the desk up against the wall while previously in the CRT-era the gap between desk and wall just grew whenever you got a new monitor). Now I...
[02:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Played Modern Games on a CRT Monitor - and the Results are Phenomenal - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:05] <exec> 08└─CRTs do not operate from a fixed pixel grid in the way an LCD does ...
[02:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Played Modern Games on a CRT Monitor - and the Results are Phenomenal - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:07] <exec> 08└─Is someone even manufacturing crt-monitors today?
[02:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Played Modern Games on a CRT Monitor - and the Results are Phenomenal - 968 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:09] <exec> 08└─I think the successor technology will be short throw laser projectors. https://www.projectorcentral.com [projectorcentral.com] http://www.lgnewsroom.com [lgnews...
[02:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Played Modern Games on a CRT Monitor - and the Results are Phenomenal - 2941 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:11] <exec> 08└─I used CRTs as long as it was reasonably practical, but newer GPUs generally don't have VGA support any more (even over the DVI port) so you would have to build an adapter circuit (which wouldn't be that hard, but a lot harder than just connecting a plug). My 2012 Radeon 7950 had VGA, my 2017 RX580...
[02:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Played Modern Games on a CRT Monitor - and the Results are Phenomenal - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:14] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8BVTHxc4LM [youtube.com] Video in TFA used the Sony FW900 from 2003.
[02:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Played Modern Games on a CRT Monitor - and the Results are Phenomenal - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:16] <exec> 08└─Was this site invaded by Slashdot? Why am I reading this garbage?
[02:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Businesses Serving More Than Just Their Shareholders - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:41] <exec> 08└─If a parasite is too effective in maximizing its survival and draining its host, the hosts will die without reproducing, eventually leaving the parasite without new hosts. Likewise with farmers - you can't plant the same crop over and over and not expect your land to be ruined. You have to take care...
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[02:13:43] <exec> 08└─e.g. Nelson Rockefeller, Lowell Weiker et al
[02:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Businesses Serving More Than Just Their Shareholders - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:45] <exec> 08└─So, you want businesses to completely toss away all of the American values that our country was founded on? You want them to pay taxes without having political representation? Businesses are very often landowners. When issues like bonds come up, those affect property taxes. You think businesses shou...
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[03:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Played Modern Games on a CRT Monitor - and the Results are Phenomenal - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:52] <exec> 08└─yes, but that is not what i wanted to know. is there some company out there still making them to fill some niche market, which probably isnt gaming related.
[03:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Played Modern Games on a CRT Monitor - and the Results are Phenomenal - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:54] <exec> 08└─They shoot X-rays at you.
[03:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06We Played Modern Games on a CRT Monitor - and the Results are Phenomenal - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:56] <exec> 08└─https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathode-ray_tube#21st_century_usage [wikipedia.org] https://www.neowin.net [neowin.net] https://www.thomaselectronics.com [thomaselectronics.com] If CRT desktop monitors aren't dead, they're close to it. But...
[03:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Played Modern Games on a CRT Monitor - and the Results are Phenomenal - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:58] <exec> 08└─No, LSD has HIGHER resolution.
[03:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Played Modern Games on a CRT Monitor - and the Results are Phenomenal - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:00] <exec> 08└─Anyone who doesn’t orange man bad is a troll!
[03:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Played Modern Games on a CRT Monitor - and the Results are Phenomenal - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:02] <exec> 08└─Does anybody here identify as alt-right or do you get to determine that?
[03:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Businesses Serving More Than Just Their Shareholders - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:34] <exec> 08└─tomorrow the sun will come up again, and I’m pretty sure that whatever happens we won’t have found Freedom, and there won’t be a whole lot of Justice, and I’m damn sure we won’t have found Truth. But it’s just possible that I might get a hard-boiled egg.
[03:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Azure Might be Woefully Inefficient and Unprofitable - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:56] <exec> 08└─They didn't buy Windows off some guy. Story is much more interesting than that. IBM was the Microsoft at this time and apparently was struggling with an OS for its hardware. Bill Gates had a meeting with them in which he got IBM to *lease* his OS. He left that meeting with a promise to deliver and w...
[03:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Joins Twitch, Amazon's Game-Streaming Service - 1606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:27] <exec> 08└─The Democratic party is mostly corrupt and is in need of massive reforms. The Republican party is simply a lost cause. Flip that around and that is how Republicans feel about Democrats. Yesterday he had a rally. The democrats threw crap and beat people up. Have they ever really changed? All they do...
[03:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Joins Twitch, Amazon's Game-Streaming Service - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:29] <exec> 08└─That German guy was also on Twitch. Your followers will approve, Mr. President.
[03:16:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Historic' Winter Storm Could Bring up to 2 Feet of Snow to Central and Western USA - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:32] <exec> 08└─You don't have nor will you every have the resources to completely model the atmosphere/ocean.
[03:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Historic' Winter Storm Could Bring up to 2 Feet of Snow to Central and Western USA - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:34] <exec> 08└─My take is albedo change from less snow cover.
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[04:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Played Modern Games on a CRT Monitor - and the Results are Phenomenal - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:26] <exec> 08└─Plus the 150W+ they would use. You can get the same effect with higher res and a 'CRT' filter on most things. Aliasing and ghosting is what they are seeing. It does look good. But not very 'sharp' (contrast, color accuracy). Also many LCD panels have fairly poor color gamut at about 6 bits per chann...
[04:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Joins Twitch, Amazon's Game-Streaming Service - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:58] <exec> 08└─He was great, but he did trigger a bunch of whining fucking haters, who vented their irrational hatred of President Trump on him.
[04:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Power Blackout News - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:43] <exec> 08└─Any company that does this. https://www.kqed.org [kqed.org] Does not give a fuck about anyone.
[04:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dyson Abandons Electric Car Project, Will Continue to Pursue New Battery Technology - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:03] <exec> 08└─That in turn is turbo charging the ancillary technologies of battery design and recharging infrastructure & standards.
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[05:13:01] <exec> 08└─Weird you think that VGA is not doable on modern cards without significant effort. DisplayPort to VGA adapters are readily available and cheap.
[05:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Played Modern Games on a CRT Monitor - and the Results are Phenomenal - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:03] <exec> 08└─If it was an intelligent story about technology, then I might agree with you.
[05:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Joins Twitch, Amazon's Game-Streaming Service - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:40] <exec> 08└─You want to argue the finer points of Nazi ideology? A bald-headed German native wanted to mass-murder a bunch of Jews. There's no need for subtlety.
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[06:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06We Played Modern Games on a CRT Monitor - and the Results are Phenomenal - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:51] <exec> 08└─Oh good grief, mathematical Platonism? I thought that died out after people finished the 100-level philosophy courses and put the bong down...
[06:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03hwertz [8141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Played Modern Games on a CRT Monitor - and the Results are Phenomenal - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:52] <exec> 08└─Honestly your CRTs must have been real cheap specimens; mine all had convergence adjustments on them; usually I never had to adjust it, and in the few I did adjusting it kept them nice and sharp. That said.. my last two CRTs went within the last year or two. One I kept using daily until it got too d...
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[07:12:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA and SpaceX Hope for Manned Mission to ISS in Early 2020 - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:13] <exec> 08└─Looks like this meeting only happened because of Bridenstine's little tweet statement at the time of the Starship presentation. From comments: - Both acknowledged that [Commercial Crew] was underfunded for a while, but Musk added that some "other" programs was over-funded.
[07:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineers Solve 50-year-old Puzzle in Signal Processing - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:22] <exec> 08└─Sounds like we could get new compression algorithms out of it.
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[08:12:30] <exec> 08└─Well I've just tried to brush up on CZT and realised how much of this stuff I've forgotten :-( However, my thoughts are that the CZT hasn't been much use other than academic curiosity _because_ there was no inverse. If the inverse has anywhere near same computational cost (not same as complexity, al...
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[09:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Unlike Blizzard, Epic Games Says It Won’t Ban Players for Political Speech - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:16] <exec> 08└─Chinese giant Tencent owns just 5% of Blizzard, but 40% of Epic. Epic already allows developers to disable review functionality for their games in the Epic Store. Maybe they will be smarter about the censorship by keeping the Western and Chinese gamers very separate. As a consolation prize for the W...
[09:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineers Solve 50-year-old Puzzle in Signal Processing - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:37] <exec> 08└─But FFT-based methods also work on irregular grids... https://journals.aps.org [aps.org] https://scholars.huji.ac.il [huji.ac.il]
[09:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Played Modern Games on a CRT Monitor - and the Results are Phenomenal - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:28] <exec> 08└─Except for the size and heat issue, takes care of all the nits picked on CRTs. 3 tube CRT, no shadow mask since each tube is a solid expanse of phosphor with it's own lens. X-ray a non issue unless you're staring right at the tub. Mid 90s vintage high end projectors (NEC of course) can do 1080P at 7...
[09:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Businesses Serving More Than Just Their Shareholders - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:04] <exec> 08└─How about paying your workers a good salary and not grinding them into the ground? Benefits for employees, you were saying.
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[10:12:21] <exec> 08└─Still not sure why foreign companies are allowed to do this. We have a huge chunk of our milk production owned by some French company, the prices are just nuts and people wonder WTF is happening. People from outside the country are buying up land all over the place. This won't be our country soon.
[10:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Played Modern Games on a CRT Monitor - and the Results are Phenomenal - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:36] <exec> 08└─I remember getting headaches because the text on my screen would wiggle. I eventually figured out that this happened when the laundry equipment was running. ... I gladly spent $2500, ...
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[10:13:37] <exec> 08└─"Jeez" "jeez" "jeez" "I'm a faggot white boy" "I oppose men marrying female children" "Jeez" "Jeez" "jeez" "#canclestallman" "Jeez"
[10:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Played Modern Games on a CRT Monitor - and the Results are Phenomenal - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:40] <exec> 08└─Those claiming to notice 60 were few and far between (and with maybe half of them only imagining it).
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[10:13:42] <exec> 08└─https://www.blurbusters.com/ [blurbusters.com] Bullshit.
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[11:13:54] <exec> 08└─A lot depends on the CRT quality, which in turn depended on the price you were willing to pay. I used top-of-the-line Viewsonics for many years. No vibration, incredibly sharp, I could run at 2048x1536 resolution - which was almost unheard of in the day. Today's LCD panels? A fraction of the price,...
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[12:13:48] <exec> 08└─You are sure these are not just FUD pieces designed to sell LCD monitors?
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[14:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brain Protein Promotes Maintenance of Chronic Pain - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:18] <exec> 08└─Hopefully these guys are on to something, because neuropathy sucks! After five years in an opiod stupor, I weaned off of them (six years ago) and with self-hypnosis, fasting and meditation learned to not notice it much. Even so, it is exhausting and seriously restricts activity and quality of life....
[14:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unlike Blizzard, Epic Games Says It Won’t Ban Players for Political Speech - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:32] <exec> 08└─Still not sure why foreign companies are allowed to do this.
[14:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unlike Blizzard, Epic Games Says It Won’t Ban Players for Political Speech - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:34] <exec> 08└─for some future winner to go nuts and start to quote from Mein Kampf The Orange One's Twitter feed and then end the whole thing a proclamation of white power!
[14:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06We Played Modern Games on a CRT Monitor - and the Results are Phenomenal - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:05] <exec> 08└─You can prove the existence of the x-rays by using math, which is not a neutral subject.
[14:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Played Modern Games on a CRT Monitor - and the Results are Phenomenal - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:06] <exec> 08└─Just market them as “videophile equipment” and I'm sure you'll find a market. It's a tube, after all!
[14:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06We Played Modern Games on a CRT Monitor - and the Results are Phenomenal - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:08] <exec> 08└─When I was in San Jose, such a difference would have been noticeable as well. Never ran AC or heat for most of the year and the CRT really was the biggest energy consumer in the apartment
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[15:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Played Modern Games on a CRT Monitor - and the Results are Phenomenal - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:54] <exec> 08└─I still toy with the idea of picking up an IBM T221 LCD. So much vertical real estate.
[15:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Joins Twitch, Amazon's Game-Streaming Service - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:38] <exec> 08└─He is busy circling the white house waghons to prevent the Indian from getting in.
[15:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Power Blackout News - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:26] <exec> 08└─Days of outages are very different from minutes or hours of outages. For example, it's possible to run of fuel either because you have budgeted for it and/or because you just don't have the storage for it and your provider is too busy to get to you before you run out. There's also an increased chanc...
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[16:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unlike Blizzard, Epic Games Says It Won’t Ban Players for Political Speech - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:57] <exec> 08└─Are we witnessing self-realization unfolding?
[16:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA and SpaceX Hope for Manned Mission to ISS in Early 2020 - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:07] <exec> 08└─You'll have to overcome, from Congress on down, the attitude "We already have one space telescope, why do we need ten more?"
[16:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Played Modern Games on a CRT Monitor - and the Results are Phenomenal - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:39] <exec> 08└─I threw away all my CRTs years ago, along with my vinyl records. Technology progresses.
[16:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Played Modern Games on a CRT Monitor - and the Results are Phenomenal - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:40] <exec> 08└─What little xrays come from a CRT usually come out of the back. All that leaded glass (remember how heavy they are) protects you while viewing from the front. The later ones even more so, as to make a flat CRT the glass has to be even thicker.
[16:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Power Blackout News - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:15] <exec> 08└─One can always choose neither!
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[17:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062-D-Based Single Photon Emitters Integrated With Cmos-Compatible Silicon Nitride Waveguides - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:32] <exec> 08└─Can anyone explain this? > … single photon extraction into the guided mode can reach unity.
[17:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Played Modern Games on a CRT Monitor - and the Results are Phenomenal - 1685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:48] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing what few are still produced are for things like the top picture in the last link - highly specialized things like the avionics display in an aircraft. Given the high cost and expense of certifying something like an avionics package along with requirements from things like the military/g...
[17:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Played Modern Games on a CRT Monitor - and the Results are Phenomenal - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:50] <exec> 08└─Really crappy LCDs run the backlight at 100% brightness all the time, and the "brightness" control just adjusts how much light the LCD panel lets through. You are best to avoid these screens, though I can't recall a modern screen employing this trick - it was mostly some crappy CCFL screens from the...
[17:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Donald Trump Joins Twitch, Amazon's Game-Streaming Service - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:38] <exec> 08└─A 2 year old thinks a joke is funny every time. Farting on the subway is always funny.
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[18:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Blockchain-Based Music Streaming Service Audius is a Copyright Nightmare - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:43] <exec> 08└─Once you go flac you never go back.
[18:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Blockchain-Based Music Streaming Service Audius is a Copyright Nightmare - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:44] <exec> 08└─It's not just buzz. Just recently the guy running https://torrent-paradise.ml [torrent-paradise.ml] forgot to renew [github.com] their domain subscription or something but since the whole thing was on IPFS, it's still reachable via cloudflare's direct copy [cloudflare-ipfs.com] and those of us that...
[18:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brain Protein Promotes Maintenance of Chronic Pain - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:02] <exec> 08└─oops... read opiod -> opioid Damn! now the fingers are failing.
[18:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Played Modern Games on a CRT Monitor - and the Results are Phenomenal - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:14] <exec> 08└─Don't forget your vacuum tube sound-card*, or those explosions just won't have the right spectralocious frequencyations. Plus an opto-mechanical mouse, of course - the fluff on the ball adds to the dynamicisity and interactologistics of the gameplay. Didn't some 1980s computer magazine try distribut...
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[19:14:51] <exec> 08└─I used to watch my power bill quite closely. Yes a 5-10 dollar average drop was noticeable. All you have to do is keep an eye on it drop it in excel and graph it. I had ~20 dollar drop once from getting a new computer. All of that old stuff was neat at the time. But at this point why would I use old...
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[20:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Intelligence Follows British Lead in Warning of Serious VPN Vulnerabilities - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:09] <exec> 08└─Is that still a thing?
[20:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Intelligence Follows British Lead in Warning of Serious VPN Vulnerabilities - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:10] <exec> 08└─Sign says that on the door..
[20:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Blockchain-Based Music Streaming Service Audius is a Copyright Nightmare - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:29] <exec> 08└─Site gets a court order to either take down the infringing content or the host will be ordered to close the entire site Yeah, the problem is still the centralized nature of the business and the internet, makes the takedowns and lawsuits just too easy.
[20:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Power Blackout News - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:42] <exec> 08└─They were told they couldn't raise prices by the government. It is straight socialist price controls leading to shortages. It's hilarious how blind people are to the most obvious thing in the world. This is always the end result. 100% of the time. Price controls -> shortages. Remember that.
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[23:16:44] <exec> 08└─The U.S. invested 51 Billion dollars into the GM bailout. They sold all their stock on Dec. 9, 2013, for 39 Billion dollars, leaving a shortfall of 12 Billion dollars. And no, that money will never be repaid.
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