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  1. Re:Less GPU more cores. on Intel Core I7-5775C Desktop Broadwell With Iris Pro 6200 Graphics Tested · · Score: 1

    No. If that's what you're after, you'll need to skip Broadwell and wait for Skylake.

  2. Re:Why Interstitials Suck on Google Studies How Bad Interstitials Are On Mobile · · Score: 1

    That's why I always just open links in new tabs, and if I get an interstitial, I just close the tab.

  3. Re:Pure undulterated bullshit on Gmail Messages Can Now Self-Destruct · · Score: 1

    I agree, but that doesn't change the fact that your initial response of "Ridiculous" to the claim that "playing content requires the ability to duplicate that content" was misguided.

  4. Re:Pure undulterated bullshit on Gmail Messages Can Now Self-Destruct · · Score: 1

    Or you could run the software in a VM and have the host OS capture the screenshot, if they manage to implement invasive DRM.

  5. Re:Pure undulterated bullshit on Gmail Messages Can Now Self-Destruct · · Score: 1

    Because those are technologies aimed to protect the path of those necessary digital copies. The photons from the screen still need to travel through the air though, and there's nothing stopping you pointing a camera at it.

  6. Re:Error in the summary on Microsoft Edge Performance Evaluated · · Score: 2

    It may benchmark well, but it just feels so damn slow. The UI is often unresponsive when I try to scroll after initially loading a page, and any time something uses flash (usually ads), the UI hangs long enough that I get a brief "not responding" notification.

  7. Re:There's that confusion again: on New Molecular Transistor Can Control Single Electrons · · Score: 2

    Except the electron actually can tunnel to the other side even when the transistor is turned off. Arguing whether you can or can't observe it passing through the blockade is moot, when all you care about is failing to stop the electron from passing through.

  8. Re:Windows 10 has Secret Screen Recording Tool on Windows 10 Will Have Screen Recording Tool · · Score: 1

    They are still compulsory, eventually. You only get to delay the upgrade.

  9. Re:Still too much on A Welcome Shift: Spam Now Constitutes Less Than Half of All Email · · Score: 1

    Google even tried a free email replacement called Wave. That didn't catch on either.

  10. Re:It is not entirely McAfee's fault on Intel's Software Chief Out; Botched McAfee Deal To Blame? · · Score: 2

    Look at Intel, for crying out loud. Has there been anything really interesting / exciting coming out from Intel for the past decades??

    The Core micro-architecture was within the last decade and that was very interesting and exciting. Sandy Bridge was also a pretty good milestone.

  11. Judge Hellerstein on Judge Calls Malibu Media "Troll", Denies Subpoena · · Score: 3, Informative

    Judge Hellerstein is on a roll.

  12. Re:I bet they're not. on Aussie ISP Bakes In Geo-dodging For Netflix, Hulu · · Score: 2

    The timing is awful, this was essentially just banned in New Zealand.

  13. Re:Assumptions are the mother of all ... on People Are Obtaining Windows 7 Licenses For the Free Windows 10 Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Lack of mainstream support pretty much just means that new features won't be backported. Most businesses operate on a 3 year cycle, as long as they start migrating to a newer OS for new machines by 2017 then there shouldn't be a problem.

  14. Re: 200 cycles? on Samsung Nanotech Breakthrough Nearly Doubles Li-Ion Battery Capacity · · Score: 1

    Which doesn't help me if the phone doesn't last 2 years.

  15. Re:Now answer these questions on Samsung Nanotech Breakthrough Nearly Doubles Li-Ion Battery Capacity · · Score: 2

    What's the power density? (Amount of energy delivered over time)

    That's not power density. That's just power. Power density is how much power (energy delivered over time) it can deliver per unit volume of battery. That's really only of concern for high power applications such as an electric race car. For most usages, energy density is far more valuable.

  16. Re:200 cycles? on Samsung Nanotech Breakthrough Nearly Doubles Li-Ion Battery Capacity · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure why you view changing a battery once or twice a year as such a big deal.

    It's because it generally means replacing your whole phone these days.

  17. Re:But Google Code? on Google Tests Code Repository Service · · Score: 1

    The difference between project hosting and a "service to host and edit source code repositories" is a few wiki pages for a description and documentation.

    You're forgetting about an issue tracker.

  18. Re:shooting themselves in foot on AMD Announces Fiji-based Radeon R9 Fury X, 'Project Quantum', Radeon 300 Series · · Score: 1

    They're not really implying that, you're inferring that. You're not entirely wrong, though.

  19. Re:shooting themselves in foot on AMD Announces Fiji-based Radeon R9 Fury X, 'Project Quantum', Radeon 300 Series · · Score: 1

    Surely it's pretty obvious that they're implying the mid range cards can't do 4k in a usable fashion. If you want 4k, you want the 4k offerings.

  20. Re:The article is useless without benchmarks on AMD Announces Fiji-based Radeon R9 Fury X, 'Project Quantum', Radeon 300 Series · · Score: 2

    The water cooled Fury X and the Nano both look to put less strain on the PCIe slot than the previous generation cards.

  21. Re:Someone has to say it... on Cuba's Answer To the Internet Fits In Your Pocket and Moves By Bus · · Score: 1

    They already have a levy on media such as CDs and DVDs as they are assumed to be used for copyright infringement.

  22. Re:Dependencies on Ask Slashdot: Feature Requests For Epoch Init System 1.3.0? · · Score: 1

    So your service will randomly fail to start, depending upon whether the local system's "init" just happened to start the services yours depends upon before your's?

    That... doesn't seem like a good idea to me. While I'd certainly ensure my scripts handle the non-startup of dependencies gracefully, I'd definitely want a sane init system to actually know what to start up, and in what order.

    Uh, no, the whole point is that the service checks for the dependency, and if it's met, then all good, and if it's not met, it requests the dependency to be started.

  23. Re:No media center? Windows 10 is DEAD to me... on Features That Windows 10 Will Deprecate · · Score: 1

    That has absolutely nothing to do with whether a given major OS version had a dedicated SKU for WMC.

  24. Re:No media center? Windows 10 is DEAD to me... on Features That Windows 10 Will Deprecate · · Score: 1

    Windows 8 had a special WMC SKU too.

  25. Re:No media center? Windows 10 is DEAD to me... on Features That Windows 10 Will Deprecate · · Score: 2

    Microsoft needs to pay royalties on the codecs included in WMC for every copy they ship. Very few users actually use it, so Microsoft was spending a ton of cash on codecs they don't need. That's why WMC was removed from Windows 8 by default, requiring an upgrade code (for tracking the codec royalties). Perhaps the demand for the Windows 8 upgrade code was too low to make it worth their effort, so they dropped it completely.