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  1. Re:A New Challenger Approaches on PC Market Sees Its First Growth Quarter in Six Years (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    No, that's just you making an unfounded assertion not backed up by either report.

  2. Re:iPad before Linux. on Adobe To Launch Photoshop for iPad in Strategy Shift (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    But seriously, Photoshop is expensive software.

    It's $10 a month. For any professional that's not even an hour's worth of pay.

  3. Re:Working? on PC Market Sees Its First Growth Quarter in Six Years (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    No:

    “PC shipment growth in the second quarter of 2018 was driven by demand in the business market, which was offset by declining shipments in the consumer segment,” Gartner principal analyst Mikako Kitagawa said in a statement.

  4. Re:A New Challenger Approaches on PC Market Sees Its First Growth Quarter in Six Years (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    No. The reports state that the sales increase was due to business refreshes.

  5. Re:whatever happened to peak oil on Ireland Becomes World's First Country To Divest From Fossil Fuels (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Peak oil was never about immediately running out of oil. It was a theory that oil production would hit a maximum point and then decline from there. Also, Hubbert’s prediction never stated that supply would run out in 20 years. His theory was production quantity would steadily decline over a couple hundred years.

  6. Re:"If catastrophic climate change..." on Ireland Becomes World's First Country To Divest From Fossil Fuels (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    What new data has come in to point to a conclusion that we have NOT passed the point of no return?

    None. What was quoted is a statement from someone who is not a scientist.

  7. Re:Why does Ireland have a "National Investment Fu on Ireland Becomes World's First Country To Divest From Fossil Fuels (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wouldn't seem to me to be a proper function of government.

    Cool story, bro? Why is the government of Ireland supposed to care what you think?

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

    Ok. Since this is a tech site and according to your logic that means one should know everything about anything then please do the followinf:

    Write a fast SATD function in assembly using the Risc-V vector extensions and make sure to thoroughly document and explain each line with comments to how each line relates to the SATD formula.

    If you can't do this then kindly GTFO if you can't do something so basic.

  9. Re:$10? For $5 I can tell about updateing there sy on Access To Major Airport's Security System Offered on Dark Web for $10 (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    For 5 dollars can we buy you spelling and grammar lessons?

  10. Re:hows does one get credit with pay-pal? on PayPal Told Customer Her Death Breached Its Rules (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Paypal Credit has been around for years. Used to be called Blll Me Later. Welcome to 2008.

  11. "Error" my ass... on PayPal Told Customer Her Death Breached Its Rules (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, there's a much more plausible fourth explanation: Paypal is run by dicks.

  12. Re:but apple will not add code to help the FBI! on Apple's China-Friendly Censorship Caused An iPhone-Crashing Bug (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Word salad ahoy!

  13. Re:Scam vs. Life Expectancy. on Half of ICOs Die Within Four Months After Token Sales Finalized (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't feel crypto currency fills a need for secure anonymous transactions?

    No. Especially when cryptocurrency users can be deanonymized.

    I would question why any government is still printing cash then.

    Cash is only "anonymous" if you ignore the fact that you are being monitored on video at most businesses when you use it. Also, governments have never printed cash because they wanted to provide anonymity b

  14. Re:Google is turning into yet another big corporat on Sergey Brin Says Google 'Failed To Be on the Bleeding Edge' of Blockchain (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    No, because Google has been acquiring companies for products since 2001. Their claim is this is something new when it is not.

  15. But the Android trademark is not free to use. To be able to call what you ship "Android" you have to agree to additional terms beyond the Apache license.

  16. and Google is suddenly a monopoly?

    At 75% market share vs Apple at around 24%? Yes, much more of a monopoly.

  17. If that were solely the reason then why wouldn't they have gone after Apple instead? Apple's cash reserves are something like $270 billion vs Alphabet at something like $70 billion.

  18. Re:Google is turning into yet another big corporat on Sergey Brin Says Google 'Failed To Be on the Bleeding Edge' of Blockchain (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    What is supposed to be new about Google acquiring companies for products/services?

    https://en.wikipedia.org./wiki...

  19. Re:Phone sales plummeting, not Vives on HTC Had Its Biggest Drop In Sales In More Than Two Years (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    And also before you try to go "but the HTC Vive used to be more expensive!!" that may have been true, but the consumer price at launch was $799 which is still not 3 times to price of even the most discounted price of the PS4VR.

  20. Re:Phone sales plummeting, not Vives on HTC Had Its Biggest Drop In Sales In More Than Two Years (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    And just so you know where I got my figures:

    PS4VR Bundle
    HTC Vive Bundle

  21. Re:Phone sales plummeting, not Vives on HTC Had Its Biggest Drop In Sales In More Than Two Years (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Sony's product is a third of the price

    PS4VR bundle has a list price of $370. The HTC Vive VR bundle goes for a list price of $499. You seem to use a different set of math than the rest of the world since $370 is not 1/3rd the price of $499. Even at the discounted $300 that you can buy the PS4VR system for at places like Walmart, the PS4VR bundle is still 60% the price of a Vive not the 1/3rd you claim. To find these prices only took me 2 minutes to find and had you done so you wouldn't look like such an idiot.

  22. How so? Security costs money and/or time. Hence why people even today neglect good opsec.

  23. Re:Phone sales plummeting, not Vives on HTC Had Its Biggest Drop In Sales In More Than Two Years (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Sony's PS4 VR outsells the Vive by more than a 3 to 1 margin and even then that's only with Sony selling around 2 million units so far this year and barely over a million last year.

  24. You must work at Google or MS.

    How so? Microsoft uses Git extensively. A while back they even migrated the entire Windows source repository to Git.

  25. 1) Huge repos are many times a symptom. The Linux source code is only a few tens of MiB and it's a kernel with a ton of drivers.

    This is total bullshit. The latest Linux source code snapshot tarball from kernel.org of 4.18-rc3 is 159 MB. Decompressed it clocks it at nearly 800 MB.