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  1. Re:Just go to all 64-bit on Google Will Retire Chrome Support For XP, Vista, OS X 10.6-8 In April 2016 (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    Since XP was the last win32 based OS

    lolwut? Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10 all have 32-bit versions.

  2. Re:Vista users need to switch to IE for final year on Google Will Retire Chrome Support For XP, Vista, OS X 10.6-8 In April 2016 (blogspot.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It means that you can't expect support for forever if you're using one of the minority Windows versions. Just upgrade already.

  3. Why? XP has around 8 times as many users as Vista.

  4. Re:Use open source alternatives on Google Will Retire Chrome Support For XP, Vista, OS X 10.6-8 In April 2016 (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    Firefox, probably.

  5. Re:Vista users need to switch to IE for final year on Google Will Retire Chrome Support For XP, Vista, OS X 10.6-8 In April 2016 (blogspot.com) · · Score: 0

    Vista users should just upgrade already. Vista's market share is barely over 1.5%.

  6. Re:instead of union how about being value for mone on Fury and Fear In Ohio As IT Jobs Go To India (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Non-farm business sector real compensation per hour [stlouisfed.org] is up 2.7% since 2014, after a long plateau due to the recession and formerly high unemployment rate, which is now down to 5%.

    Oh wow, 2.7%. That's an amazing pay raise especially when you factor in inflation. Oh and according to your Atlantic link's study, by comparison CEO pay is up anywhere from nearly 13% to over 37%. So sorry if I don't furiously masturbate of a pittance of a 2.7% wage increase.

    CEO pay is down over 30% [theatlantic.com] (as a ratio with average worker pay) since 2000 though.

    And yet it is still up to 273 times the average workers salary per that article. And even being off by 30%, their pay is still at near record highs historically. On the other hand, inflation adjusted wages for everyone else is still stagnant. Am I supposed to shed crocodile tears at the misfortune of CEOs that they are only making slightly less than obscene wages?

  7. Re:instead of union how about being value for mone on Fury and Fear In Ohio As IT Jobs Go To India (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Fine, as long as all C-level pay is drastically cut as well. Unless you truly think most CEOs are dozens to thousands of times more productive than a lowly employee to be getting their hugely inflated salaries.

    Sorry, but it's not being greedy to actually want non-stagnant wages when CEOs are making record salaries.

  8. Re:Job creators at work on Fury and Fear In Ohio As IT Jobs Go To India (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The only trickle down we'll ever see is the urine falling on our heads.

  9. Re:A professional IT organization? on Fury and Fear In Ohio As IT Jobs Go To India (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Except there is next-to-no automation in the outsourced manufacturing. Why automate when depressed, third-world wages are cheaper?

  10. Re:that's like 40 ebooks to break even on Scan a Book In Five Minutes With a $199 Scanner? (teleread.com) · · Score: 1

    Because $400 is signifcantly less than the thousands of dollars required to replace any significant sized collection of books?

  11. Re:reading on Scan a Book In Five Minutes With a $199 Scanner? (teleread.com) · · Score: 1

    And yet e-book readers are an extremely common app used on phones and tablets. That a vocal group may not like e-readers does not necessarily translate into it being an opinion of "most people".

  12. Re:Finally a foot pedal for hands free application on Scan a Book In Five Minutes With a $199 Scanner? (teleread.com) · · Score: 1

    Paper degradation is an extremely common problem with document archiving.

  13. Re: Near monopoly?! on Report: Google Wants To Design Its Own Smartphone Chips (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Even when OMAP was still a thing it was only ever used by a dozen or so phones. And those were phones from 2010-2012.

  14. Re:Google could buy Qualcomm... on Report: Google Wants To Design Its Own Smartphone Chips (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Way to dodge the question. You didn't actual list a single smartphone model or provide sales figures to prove your "vast numbers" of sales claim. Yes, you can buy some niche junker phone with such a SoC but the only Android phones topping sales charts in the US pretty much exclusively use Qualcomm.

  15. Re:Google could buy Qualcomm... on Report: Google Wants To Design Its Own Smartphone Chips (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you being intentionally dense the quote you pulled explicitly says "sold-in-the-US smartphone". Please point to these "vast numbers" of US sold smartphones with MediaTek and Allwinner SoCs.

  16. Re:If you think I'll allow a Google chip in my pho on Report: Google Wants To Design Its Own Smartphone Chips (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't want your CPU directly serving you ads?

  17. Re:Profit? on Y Combinator, the X Factor of Tech (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    The success is that they've duped people into believing that their worthy eleventy billion dollars.

  18. Re:What's up with the ' on Slashdot Asks: Notes For Next Hallowe'en? · · Score: 2

    timothy is merely trolling. He's being a spelling hipster. He does this every year.

  19. Re:How about this... on Ask Slashdot: Securing a Journalist's Laptop Against a Police Search? · · Score: 0

    If I'm not a common criminal why should I put up with being treated like one? Not all of us love choking down authoritarian cock like yourself.

  20. Re:Do what? on Ask Slashdot: Innovative Operating Systems/Distros In 2015? · · Score: 1

    You have chosen to interpret the question in a way that favors your mockery of the OP.

    No, I simply read plain English.

  21. Re:Is this a joke? on Ask Slashdot: Innovative Operating Systems/Distros In 2015? · · Score: 1

    Except the submission only said "not found in commercial operating systems". Nowhere in the sentence does it say either "desktop" or "consumer".

  22. Re:Is this a joke? on Ask Slashdot: Innovative Operating Systems/Distros In 2015? · · Score: 2

    Yes, it did. It's always funny when nerds think that was some sort of invention of the movie when it was a real thing.

  23. Re:Do what? on Ask Slashdot: Innovative Operating Systems/Distros In 2015? · · Score: 1

    Hint: "commercial CONSUMER operating systems"

    Which is not what the submission says. You added that qualification.

  24. Re:Do what? on Ask Slashdot: Innovative Operating Systems/Distros In 2015? · · Score: 1

    Except they said "innovative features not found in commercial operating systems". But this is false since commercial Unixes DID have those features. And they were ported over to Linux after the fact.

  25. Re:Do what? on Ask Slashdot: Innovative Operating Systems/Distros In 2015? · · Score: 1

    Absolutely true. Now name a desktop OS that had those features at the time.

    Which is shifting the goalposts. The submission specifically said:

    but also for innovative features not found in commercial operating systems