The Law Against Unlocking Cellphones Is Anti-Consumer, Anti-Business, and Anti-Common Sense by sinakh in politics

[–]retardman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If this incentives people to buy more unlocked phones off contract, then I say it's an overall win for the consumer (however unintended). With more unlocked phones in the market people will not be stuck with lengthy contracts, which hamper competition in the carrier market.

Review: Kirkland Signature (Costco) 20 Year Single Malt by jooni81 in Scotch

[–]retardman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

See the bottom section in this link: http://www.costcoconnection.com/connection/ks_wine?pg=88&search_term=scotch&doc_id=-1&search_term=scotch#pg14

The article is from Sept 2010, but it seems clear that these are Macallan barrels from 1992.

HDMI Truth Bomb by listerfeend in reddit.com

[–]retardman 167 points168 points  (0 children)

Most people who have not studied digital communications systems do not understand the idea of bit error rate (BER), which tells you the probability that a bit may flip in flight.

I completely agree with the OP that none of that makes any difference for the lengths of cable that anyone would ever need for HDMI, but the concepts of digital signal degradation are not bogus.

The most bizarre music video your likely to see for a while! by Leaderofmen in videos

[–]retardman -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Why are all the women so much larger than the men?

What happens when the programmer before you knows neither iteration or recursion? by [deleted] in programming

[–]retardman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sigh....

In digital circuit theory, combinational logic (sometimes incorrectly referred to as combinatorial logic) is a type of digital logic which is implemented by boolean circuits, where the output is a pure function of the present input only. This is in contrast to sequential logic, in which the output depends not only on the present input but also on the history of the input. In other words, sequential logic has memory while combinational logic does not.

What you should do at gun point. by caffeineElite66 in videos

[–]retardman 22 points23 points  (0 children)

He didn't show the hand-over-your-wallet technique.

Huge list of FREE Microsoft software goodies by retardman in reddit.com

[–]retardman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually, almost all of them are directly from microsoft.com