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  1. Re: Faster using less power! on NVIDIA Launches Maxwell-Based GeForce GTX 980 and GeForce GTX 970 GPUs · · Score: 1

    Considering that most of the released custom cooled 970s have a 8 pin and a 6 pin, it's far more likely that dual six pin is barely enough for stock card rather than a massive overkill.

  2. Re:Only 4 displays, sticking to AMD. on NVIDIA Launches Maxwell-Based GeForce GTX 980 and GeForce GTX 970 GPUs · · Score: 0

    Then you don't want a super expensive gaming card, but two cheapo nvidia cards in SLI.

  3. Re:Veracrypt on TrueCrypt Gets a New Life, New Name · · Score: 1

    How is it a violation of TrueCrypt's license when TrueCrypt's license specifically ALLOWS for this?

    For the idiots who can't even read the story: TrueCrypt's license allows for taking all the code and reusing it, with only requirement being using a different name.

  4. Re:Stick with Win7 on What To Expect With Windows 9 · · Score: 1

    "Okay"

    PC sales crash again.

    P.S. 7 is supported until 2020.

  5. Re:Windows 7 sp2 on What To Expect With Windows 9 · · Score: 1

    Is that the new shill angle? Because I suggest you folks rethink your strategy if it is, since it looks even less like 7 with that ridiculous flat look.

  6. Re:Stick with Win7 on What To Expect With Windows 9 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Microsoft tried it already with 8. REALLY really tried it with 8, removing 7 from everywhere it only could.

    It was a disaster. PC sales crashed. As we discovered, forcing 8 on people did result in marginal increase of sales of 8, and a massive reduction of sales in PCs.

    Finally someone important at microsoft realised that in winning the battle of 8's adoption over 7, they were losing the war of keeping PCs being the primary customer computing platform, and 7 was quickly pushed back into OEM chain. I think that this particular lesson was painful enough for microsoft not to even think of trying it again for at least a few years.

  7. Re:The Year of Windows on the Desktop on What To Expect With Windows 9 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yet another year of windows 7 on the desktop to be precise.

  8. Re:Uber Fresh? on Uber CEO: We'll Run Your Errands · · Score: 1

    I'm Finnish. Both us and Swedes have alcohol monopoly, and had it for a very long time. It works wonders and is a part of preventive measures against alcohol abuse in countries where winter darkness is massive.

    The sheer ignorance of suggesting that this would make alcoholics drive is quite astounding. Neither Systembolaget nor Alko serve drunk customers and both countries have top notch public transit. Ignorance at its finest.

    Here, have a look: https://www.systembolaget.se/E...

  9. Re:Uber Fresh? on Uber CEO: We'll Run Your Errands · · Score: 1

    Actually it discourages them, because neither Systembolaget nor Alko, the monopoly relatailers in Sweden and Finland respectively, do not sell to inebriated people.

    If you're drunk, you're not getting any more alcohol. So no reason to drive there in the first place. Not to even mention that both countries have excellent public transport and taxi systems, and a lot of campaigns to discourage drunk driving.

    In case you need evidence, here's Systembolaget's English page on the topic:
    https://www.systembolaget.se/E...

  10. Re:Uber Fresh? on Uber CEO: We'll Run Your Errands · · Score: 0

    You find preventing alcohol addiction, managing already existing alcohol addiction and massive amount of victims that alcohol addicts cause to their circle of family and friends as "not useful purpose" while "getting booze delivered to me instead of going to the shop to fetch it" is "useful purpose"?

    You are truly a one warped individual and need help.

  11. Re:Uber Fresh? on Uber CEO: We'll Run Your Errands · · Score: 1

    At which point, attempting to resale alcohol through this delivery system would be a criminal offence. One of the main reasons for government monopolies on alcohol in states where such monopoly exists is reduction of consumption.

  12. Re:Uber Fresh? on Uber CEO: We'll Run Your Errands · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Customer trusting the cashier?

    It's about pharmacy owner. They have massive amounts of security to prevent this very scenario.

  13. Re: Ads on Microsoft To Buy Minecraft Maker Mojang For $2.5 Billion · · Score: 3, Informative

    Lego was a toy set that any toy maker could throw together in six months.

    Yet it was lego that was massive among young boys back in the day, just like minecraft is massive among that very same audience today.

  14. Re:Ads on Microsoft To Buy Minecraft Maker Mojang For $2.5 Billion · · Score: 1

    Let me help you. Minecraft is where Lego was a couple of decades ago. Not something adults play with much, but something that is absolutely HUGE with young boys.

    They're not buying this for "ads". They are buying this to get access to massive amount of young boys who are going to grow up, and who can typically influence their parents to buy them the game and subscription to a paid server.

  15. Re:Of course we can on If We Can't Kill Cancer, Can We Control It? · · Score: 1

    All accidents are "medical" in nature in that they cause damage to the body that is medically treatable to an extent, just like any other illness. Therefore, if we could "eliminate all medical causes of death", we would be immortal.

    How our minds would survive such an ordeal is a whole different story.

  16. Re:Is Sapphire Glass Supposed to be Shatter Resist on Sapphire Glass Didn't Pass iPhone Drop Test According to Reports · · Score: 1

    Remains of a hard, sharp material like glass in a spacecraft would be life threatening. No gravity means they would hover around until someone drew them into their lungs, where they may cause all sorts of damage.

  17. Re:Reminds me of cars until the 1950s on Sapphire Glass Didn't Pass iPhone Drop Test According to Reports · · Score: 1

    You misunderstand. They're build harder and harder to survive scratches. Not drops.

    We already know that making glass harder generally also makes it more brittle, so folks behind Gorilla Glass have started introducing less brittleness to the glass in version 3 already.

  18. Re:Is Sapphire Glass Supposed to be Shatter Resist on Sapphire Glass Didn't Pass iPhone Drop Test According to Reports · · Score: 1

    It's the exact opposite. "Shattering" is a catastrophic structural failure, where object could no longer bend sufficiently and didn't have enough strength to withstand the force applied to it.

    As a result, typically being "hard" results in being "fragile", whereas being "soft" results in being "hard to shatter". Hardened plastic used on older phones for example would scratch up easily but was very difficult to shatter, whereas modern gorilla glass is very hard to scratch, but shatters easily.

    Sapphire, being even harder is even more fragile and shatters even more easily. Considering how many shattered phones there are that I've seen, I would suggest that we hit a point where phones should prioritise "shatter resistance" over "scratch resistance".

  19. Re:Not just Reno on If Tesla Can Run Its Gigafactory On 100% Renewables, Why Can't Others? · · Score: 1

    Except that we went over this already, you ignored a massive amount of facts and sources I listed and continued to hammer in your imaginary claims as facts.

    Judging by replies, I'm not the only one who noticed you do this either.

  20. Re:Not just Reno on If Tesla Can Run Its Gigafactory On 100% Renewables, Why Can't Others? · · Score: 1

    That would be you. I'm "immune to indoctrination based on ideology that is based on fantasies".

  21. Re:I prefer Warframe on Early Reviews of Destiny: Unfulfilled Potential · · Score: 1

    They had to cut down on graphics on PS4 and XBONE. And obviously remove hardware physx. PS4 is about as good as PC on medium settings.

    You video shows early gameplay with no fancy elemental effects or visually impressive skills in play and the in-game trailer. A pretty bad comparison even if you choose to ignore the whole "youtube video compression makes comparing graphical fidelity impossible".

  22. Re:Why not a comparison to Defiance? on Early Reviews of Destiny: Unfulfilled Potential · · Score: 1

    If you're into PvE, Warframe is your game. The only PvP content in the game (conclave) is utterly barren because all skills and weapons are balanced for PvE. As a result you have things like full invulnerability to all damage for a long time on Valkyr frame, invisibility on Loki and weapons that basically one shot other players when they crit.

    Since abilities and weapons, when maxed out, are designed for clearing entire rooms worth of enemies that have health pool that in end game is hundreds of times more than that of even tankiest warframes (think WoW raiding), PvP is inherently broken.

  23. Re:Helium? on WD Announces 8TB, 10TB Helium Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    I do trust SMART for old age/wear and tear problems. I also have 2x100GB seagate 7200.7s from 2000 that are still running, as well as several 1GB 7200.12s.

    They're been through a lot more than funny looks, like having my entire PC tower fall on its side accidentally while they were working and other similar things. They still work fine.

    SMART is generally designed to track certain kinds of issues. Quick breakdown of controller logic isn't one of them, and state of bearings on the write head isn't one either. But wear and tear aspects of it, like temperature increase from helium escaping the drive? Absolutely.

  24. Re:Ask the US Postal Service on US Patent Office Seeking Consultant That Can Stamp Out Fraud By Patent Examiners · · Score: 1

    Actually no sane bank trusts tellers. That's why you have multiple ways of recording everything teller does.

    Same thing with cashiers in retail and countless others.

    You concept of "must trust everyone on the team" is frankly ridiculous. Opportunity makes a thief.

  25. Re:How does MS get away with it in the US? on Windows Tax Shot Down In Italy · · Score: 1

    Last time about two weeks ago on this machine as I upgraded to SSD, straight from OEM DVD.