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  1. I can keep parts on hand to maintain high uptime so long as I don't go with apple. With apple if something goes then its going to be several days at least. The stark difference here is telling of the real apple experience, the so named genius bar.

  2. Just think how your smile will return when you submit that requisition for a 6 core, 32 GB MBP next time around...

    ..and just think how good the requisition will look with a big red 'DENIED' stamped on it.

  3. Re:10-13% more RAM? on Chrome is Using 10-13% More RAM to Fight Spectre (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do you want a fast infection and spying vector?

  4. Re:Streisand effect on Facebook Chooses To Demote Fake News Instead of Remove It (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    They always agree in more war.

  5. Re:This summary is a mess on ARM's Own Employees Complain About Anti-RISCV Website (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    yes, even for machine code

    stop being retarded

  6. Americans have been told how great broadband is everywhere else. Guess not so much.

  7. Re:I wonder why anyone cares at all on ARM's Own Employees Complain About Anti-RISCV Website (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    But that's not what RISC-V is about. It's a clean-slate architecture.

    It should be noted that RISC-V also has a complicated decoder. "Compressed instructions" is just a soft way of saying it.

    The downfall of RISC was in part because is lacked a complicated enough decoder to allow a dense enough code stream to enable the instruction fetcher to pipeline multiple operations per cycle. The old limited pentium U and V pipes were enough to blow DEC's Alpha out of the water, let alone where x86/x64 is today retiring 4 or more operations per cycle on well optimized code.

    The RISC idea is an extreme end of the spectrum. x86/x64 is not the other extreme. In this case optimality isnt found at the extremes.

  8. Re:This summary is a mess on ARM's Own Employees Complain About Anti-RISCV Website (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    People that comment every line are retarded.

  9. ARM's problem is that a good chunk of the big ticket ARM "established market" is mainly based on P-code/JIT technologies that are not specific to the ARM architecture. Changing the underlying architecture is mostly trivial. x86/x64 android runs the same stuff ARM android does, and so too will RISC-V.

    Without it being king of low power, why choose ARM?

  10. Re:Potential Debcale on UK Wants An Electric-Vehicle Charger In Every New Home (thedrive.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure electricians dont charge by the minute.

  11. Re:Yes on Is C++ a 'Really Terrible Language'? (gamesindustry.biz) · · Score: 1

    No idea why other people think otherwise. Template specialization, template meta programming: all not possible with generics.

    Lots of things also werent possible without using goto.

    Your argument is "the language doesnt need a for loop construct because it has if's and goto's. if's and goto's rule!"

  12. The person you are replying to doesnt understand that if people stopped streaming gameplay voluntarily, that these companies would make streaming gameplay a division of the company. Lucky for them they can simply sponsor people that are already doing it.

  13. Re:She's a walking victim on Game Company Fires Two Employees Who Complained About 'Mansplaining' on Twitter (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    To start with, by outright firing her, they've given her more of the attention she wants.

    If the business should care one way or the other if she gets attention, the business would be pro-attention. Its free advertising.

    In other words, it is not the businesses responsibility to do society a favor.

  14. Re:It's nothing as dramatic as a disaster event on Are the Wealthy Plotting To Leave Us Behind? (medium.com) · · Score: 0

    No, there is no such "right", because those things have to be provided by others.

    All the Democrats have to do is go back to their openly slaver ways rather than continuing to hide in the damn slaver closet they constructed in the 60's.

  15. Re:No, wealthy, please, stay and care for us! on Are the Wealthy Plotting To Leave Us Behind? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    You seem to imply, no such network would've been created, had government not done it first...

    Hell, the internet isnt even the first such network. Almost everyone around here is a one network noob.

  16. Re: You are holding it wrong on Is C++ a 'Really Terrible Language'? (gamesindustry.biz) · · Score: 1

    The magic of the implementation is that the conditional on T_bRounded does not result in an actual jump instruction. Instead, the function is instantiated twice, once with the return in the if clause, and once with the return in the else clause.

    You are relying on specific implementation details that are beyond the c++ standard with your argument.

  17. Re:Yes on Is C++ a 'Really Terrible Language'? (gamesindustry.biz) · · Score: 0

    Why are templates designed in a way that makes you put the entire implementation in the header file?

    Doesnt matter its all just a clunky way to implement generics. The other uses for templates are like goto and should be considered mostly harmful.

  18. Re:Happened to me as well. on Twitter Suspended 70 Million Accounts In Past Two Months, Says Report (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    One thing is for sure, when 9.9 million accounts get suspended per month, the innocent will have no avenue of recourse because nobody is going to field millions of support requests on the matter. Someone famous may be an exception that proves the rule.

  19. No, he still gets to enjoy the contractual 2 gigs from those services.

  20. Re:Misguided Like A Japanese Rocket Launch on Is Google's Promotion of HTTPS Misguided? (this.how) · · Score: 1

    Not only is he clueless, he is under the delusion that he is some sort of fucking digital soldier. While there may exist people I might consider a "digital soldier", it sure as fuck isnt slashdot user postbigbang ( 761081 ) that is gullible as fuck anointing certificate authorities the gatekeepers of information, and google the gatekeeper of allowed certificate authorities.

  21. I was thinking the same thing...

    The blatant charge-for-parking is probably not optimal though. Just being able to set up shop next to a thriving business with a lot of traffic is easy mode.

  22. You can't throw money at every problem and expect an outcome.

    If not money, what do you intend to solve problems with.... hope?

  23. Re:You can't control, what others remember on California Lawmakers Pass Bill To Give Consumers Broad Privacy Rights (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    But as part of a civil contract, I think you will find that the best you can do if a contract is breached is to be awarded the monetary value of the breached parts. Whats the monetary value of silence, again?

  24. Re:FortNite is crapping gold bricks... on Fortnite is Generating More Revenue Than Any Other Free Game Ever (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    People that spend $4000 on a gaming machine are too impatient to wait six years for anything. You've got it very wrong somehow.

  25. Re:All Hail Shareware! on Fortnite is Generating More Revenue Than Any Other Free Game Ever (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    One cannot purchase a better experience/advantage, it's a level playing field.

    This idea that cosmetics necessarily dont offer an advantage, it doesnt seem justified to me. Military's around the world have invested big in real life cosmetics for soldiers, an array of different camouflages for different conditions.

    I know in Mech Warrior Online, they even charge a premium for the paints that match predominant map textures such as white (a lot of snow maps.)