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  1. Re:Nothing Inherently Wrong? on Microsoft Confirms It Is Dropping Windows 8.1 Support · · Score: 1

    Your software wasn't updates to win 8. How is the MS's fault?

    Maybe you should check with the software makers of software you make before upgrading the OS?
    "Talking about start up time, my main machine went from 50 seconds to 1 minute 20 seconds to start up."
    People keep saying that, but no one can actually prove it and I have used it on 100's of machines and seen an decrease.

  2. Re:Upgrade, don't update. on Microsoft Confirms It Is Dropping Windows 8.1 Support · · Score: 1

    I hepl run a server test group with 100 PC. Win 7 and win 8 machines. Performance wise win 8 is clearly better, stability wise we have only seen issues with 7.

    " it likes to do things such as take multiple *minutes* before task manager appears on a core i5 machine with 8GB of RAM and 50% CPU utilization or less."
    something is wrong with your machine. OR I build machines that are magic and just work faster then yours with the same basic specs.

    " Linux is not an option for people who need to use real software."
    yeah, all those server running linux aren't running real software.

    You are clearly a whiner and hater and probably just making stuff up to make your self feel important.

  3. Re:It's spelled out isn't it? 24 months support. on Microsoft Confirms It Is Dropping Windows 8.1 Support · · Score: 1

    Just interface wise, everything under the hood is better.
    I know someone that was t the meeting to decide whether or not to only allow metro. There were over 100 people in it. It was, apparently, a prime example of how a room full of smart people can talk themselves into a bad decision.

    That said, I have found metro to be far easier and faster to use then the win 7 interface. A lot faster.
    The people that seem to have the hardest time our people that can't break there think out of the antiquated directory/file way of thinking.
    Obviously small data size, and an anecdote. So take it for what it's worth(nothing:)

  4. Re:Jeez on Microsoft Confirms It Is Dropping Windows 8.1 Support · · Score: 1

    What mouse?

  5. Re:Criticizing behavior takes time on Microsoft Confirms It Is Dropping Windows 8.1 Support · · Score: 1

    Video games are trivial to get published.

  6. Re:Nope, not okay for either on Microsoft Confirms It Is Dropping Windows 8.1 Support · · Score: 1

    Then why can I easily load windows on a Mac running OSX?

  7. Re:Nope, not okay for either on Microsoft Confirms It Is Dropping Windows 8.1 Support · · Score: 1

    There are millions of OS. To engineer and test them properly probably wouldn't move the price much at all

    Also, designing to it matures instead of ages save money over the long run.

  8. Re:The Best Way To View The Blood Moon on The Best Way To Watch the "Blood Moon" Tonight · · Score: 3, Funny

    How about you go outside, look around, and see if anyone is selling a sarcasm detector?

  9. Re:Good for him on Carpenter Who Cut Off His Fingers Makes "Robohand" With 3-D Printer · · Score: 2

    Sounds like an excuse to me.
    You don't need approval to build prototypes.
    If you can should you can make a reliable, well functioning, person hearing aid cheaper, you can get investors.

  10. Re:nuclear power means unintended geoengineering on Climate Scientist: Climate Engineering Might Be the Answer To Warming · · Score: 4, Informative
  11. Re:Climate engineering? on Climate Scientist: Climate Engineering Might Be the Answer To Warming · · Score: 2

    the upper atmosphere is not getting warmer. Only the lower atmosphere is warming. In fact, the upper atmosphere is cooling.

    Clouds generally appear below 18 kilometers.
    .

  12. Re:No shit Sherlock on Climate Scientist: Climate Engineering Might Be the Answer To Warming · · Score: 0

    My apologies, I was doing video stuff over the weekend.

  13. Re:I told you so on Climate Scientist: Climate Engineering Might Be the Answer To Warming · · Score: 1

    I would prefer we built giant 'shields' be tween us and the sun so that we can move them if need be.
    I don't want to spray anything into the atmosphere.

    Really, if we could figure out how plants work so efficiently on a the molecular level to get CO2 and convert it to sugar, O, and H we could solve this issue..

    But, yeah 4 Gen nuclear plants need to be built, and ran by the government, not private industry.
      Remove the profit and bonus motivation, and people won't try to find ways to skirt, or delay on maintenance so they get a bigger bonus.
    Charge cost plus 1 cent a KWh.

    I would built the first ones near coal plants.
    I would also take a 20x20 mile square of real estate in Arizona or New Mexico, and create a multi technology solar power plant and power a nearby city. Use it as RnD so private companies can replicate it.

  14. Re:Maybe if Clinton... on Climate Scientist: Climate Engineering Might Be the Answer To Warming · · Score: 0

    Yes, a politician coming forward and explaining we are having a climate problem is alarmist.
    All people like you did is make it a nearly untenable topic for politicians becasue ass wipe like you come out and tlak about non sequitors and use it to rub you partisan dick all over the place.

    If anything, his alarm was loud enough.

  15. Re:the 70's called on Climate Scientist: Climate Engineering Might Be the Answer To Warming · · Score: 1

    No one called for that, and when ever someone brings up global cooling, it's guaranteed they don't know what global climate change is.
    Hint: There is more particulate matter in the air; which reflects some sunlight. There is also CO2(and other) green house gasses that traps the energy.
    The energy trapped is greater the the energy lost from sun lighting reflection

    Also, we are in an ice age.

  16. Re:Brilliant! on Climate Scientist: Climate Engineering Might Be the Answer To Warming · · Score: 2, Insightful

    yes.
    One was random ignorant circumstance, the other a planned way to go forward and start correcting it.

  17. Re:No shit Sherlock on Climate Scientist: Climate Engineering Might Be the Answer To Warming · · Score: 1

    millions of years, pressure, and plate tectonics.
    .

  18. Re:wrong, and here is why on Can the ObamaCare Enrollment Numbers Be Believed? · · Score: 1

    Someone is upset that fact show him to be wrong.
    What northers state had slavery after 1812?(CW was in 1865)

    "The war wasn't the grand moral gesture ignorant shitheads like you love to wank over. "
    The only thing I wank over is facts. The fact is, the South went to war becasue they wanted to enslave human beings.
    They ALSO wanted to force other state to do what they said, AND tried to get federal legislation to make it so northern states couldn't have there own laws about what makes a person free.

    You were clearly brainwashed as a child. I suppose you cal slaves 'servants' and 'guest' as well.

      ignorant shitheads
    ignorant? I just listed a bunch of facts about the war. Facts that show clearly it was about slavery. So, no, you are ignorant.

    I can be a shit head, but usually only to people like you that deserve exactly zero respect.

    " The Northern majority didn't remotely care enough about slavery to fight a war."
    so the fact that every document from both sides says otherwise doesn't matter?

  19. Re:No shit Sherlock on Climate Scientist: Climate Engineering Might Be the Answer To Warming · · Score: 0

    trees, and [plants' are carbon neutral, not a carbon sync.
    So you would need a way to lock up the wood after the tree is cut down.

    Remember , half the CO2 the inhale, they exhale at night, and the rest returns to the environment via rotting.

  20. Re:What if we overcorrect? on Climate Scientist: Climate Engineering Might Be the Answer To Warming · · Score: 1

    Nothing should be implemented that can be quickly stopped.

  21. Re:Hand-y way to fix the problem on Carpenter Who Cut Off His Fingers Makes "Robohand" With 3-D Printer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Handyman give medical prosthesis companies the finger.

  22. Re:Medical Device Certification? on Carpenter Who Cut Off His Fingers Makes "Robohand" With 3-D Printer · · Score: 1

    If it is a medical device, then yes it need approval. That said, if he just released the plans, no one is going to stop you. Insurance may try to use it as an excuse to wiggle out of anything else.

  23. Re:Good for him on Carpenter Who Cut Off His Fingers Makes "Robohand" With 3-D Printer · · Score: 1

    Hearing aid are really hard to do correctly, and you can't have accurate, and a generic line at the same time.

    That said, what is preventing you form trying to make a cheaper and better one?

  24. Re:Here's how stupid she is on Jenny McCarthy: "I Am Not Anti-Vaccine'" · · Score: 1

    correlation is not causation.

    "...made me exceptional at IT.":
    Autism in now way effects ones ability in a field.
    I mean, it's a nice delusion, but research in no way bears that out.

  25. Re:Improve the delivery/preservative method and it on Jenny McCarthy: "I Am Not Anti-Vaccine'" · · Score: 1

    "Can't we just agree that the preservative and delivery method needs to be improved? "
    based on..what? other then the generic anything can be improved.

    " If the vaccine is delivered to the body without the need for heavy metals then this sorry argument could be put to bed."
    You really ave no clue what you are talking about. You might want to read some actual facts on the issue and point as specific instances. Until then STFU you are only adding to the stupidity.
    Oh, and if you just want to slap your meaty fingers on the keyboard in hopes of typing out 'Mercury', then you had better talk about what kind of mercury, and have done some reading (wikipedia) on that type of mercury.