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  1. Re:You Mean...? on Features That Windows 10 Will Deprecate · · Score: 1

    You reflash the rom. You can screw it up and nuke it though, but there's plenty of guides out there.

  2. Re:My wish list: on Fallout 4 Announced · · Score: 1

    And vice versa, no dumbing things down because PC gamers are a bunch of filthy casual dudebro shooter and MOBA players.

    See what I did there?

    Right. Can you name the last time a game was dumbed down on a PC because the PC, and it was dumbed down because of shitty input design due to a controller, lack of draw distance because the PC can't draw it at that distance, cut 1k-3k textures down to 256 in size because the PC can't draw textures that large? How about cutting down AI pathing and fighting abilities because there isn't enough processing power in the PC. Load zones between areas including internal to external cells because of PC's? Well I can give you that one, it's been nearly 15 years.

    Though to be more accurate just because a dev might "think" something won't work on a console, doesn't mean that it actually won't work. PC devs are notoriously lazy and incompetent by console-dev standards and prone to underestimate console audiences.

    And that's where you're wrong. It's not that they "think" it won't work on a console, it simply won't work on a console in many cases. That was the problem with Witcher 3, the current gen in no way could keep up with PC's from 2-3 years ago, and it suffered because of it. And it's been true ever since the games were made for both sides, unless of course you're saying that a console built based on hardware from 2011-2013 and can be beaten by a PC built this year for under what both consoles cost is the problem.

  3. Re:Fabricating an assualt rifle in California... on Making an AR-15 In the Wired San Francisco Office · · Score: 2

    Assault weapon means 'pee yourself scary' to those that coined the term.

    Sounds like they'd run from a .22 long barrel then. I grew up in Canada, and learned to shoot with a pellet rifle and .38 special as a kid almost 30 years ago. Now of course we've got all those laws about how 'guns r scarrrrryyyyyy' and all that. Never mind we can still get some pretty good guns up here, they just take forever.

    If it's one thing I miss about living in the US, it's being able to head to a range just to shoot whenever you want. Up here, finding a open gun club is a pain in the ass where I live. I have to travel about 2.5 hours these days to go shooting.

  4. Re:It's great and all... on Fabs Now Manufacturing Carbon Nanotube Memory, Which Could Replace NAND and DRAM · · Score: 1

    HBM isn't nonvolatile....

    Neither is DRAM.

  5. It's great and all... on Fabs Now Manufacturing Carbon Nanotube Memory, Which Could Replace NAND and DRAM · · Score: 1

    I think AMD is going to beat them to the punch with HBM and module stacking and is coming out on their next gen videocards, especially since DDR5 is just starting to roll out to the PC market for generic modules. It'll be a hard slog for them to push it in anywhere unless it's price competitive, or it's in highly specialized devices at least in the short term. I'd say 10 years before it rolls out to the general public, for public use. And they'll probably be bought up by someone else in the short term.

  6. Re:No thanks. on The Artificial Pancreas For Diabetics Is Nearly Here · · Score: 1

    You can have insulin shock with a normally functioning pancreas, it can happen from a variety of things, including working out and sudden shocks to your system from stress, traumatic events, and so on. Saying it can never happen is assine.

  7. Re:No thanks. on The Artificial Pancreas For Diabetics Is Nearly Here · · Score: 1

    So is the pancreas, it's a reactive system to external demands as well. So I guess it needs a sugar pump...no wait...it either dampens or allows glucose production by the liver as needed. Seriously, do you know how this stuff works? I suppose that could be a problem of course if you don't have a liver...but then again, if you don't have a liver you're going to have more serious problems anyway.

  8. Re: In other words on Netflix Is Experimenting With Advertising · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's the slippery slope that led to Cable TV.

    Really? Somehow it seems that it was the cable co's saying one thing, and doing something completely opposite. That's not a slippery slope, it's outright lying.

  9. Re: In other words on Netflix Is Experimenting With Advertising · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'd be up for it if they cut the price by 50% for those that are willing to see them, otherwise they can take their ads and shove them up their ass.

  10. How to negotiate for a better salary.

    Got a better one, know how labor laws protects you.

  11. Re:No thanks. on The Artificial Pancreas For Diabetics Is Nearly Here · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My sister would disagree with your assessment, and she's been a diabetic since she was 4 years old(31 years of shots now). If my great aunt was still alive, she'd be jumping for it too since she'd been a diabetic for ~70 odd years. There are plenty of methods to avoid hypoglycemia from working out, this in itself is a huge step in the current pump a needle in you every 2/4/6/8 hours that exists now.

    The biggest problem is with kids and getting them to do monitoring, tests, etc., since many of them don't understand not doing something like that will kill you. It's a concept that a 4 year old can't get, no matter how simple you explain it to them.

  12. Re:This isn't surprising on NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 980 Ti Costs $350 Less Than TITAN X, Performs Similarly · · Score: 0

    ATI/AMD has had shit drivers since the 90s. This whole "Nvidia is stabbing us in the back!" doesn't carry water since they've *never* had reliable products.

    Kinda funny, since I switched from nvidia to amd a year and change back, finding the exact opposite. Compared to nvidia where we've had drivers that nuked fan profiles and burned out cards, caused TDR problems where they blamed users--and later it was found out to be all nvidias fault because they dumped the voltage down on the cards so low that it caused instability, or the repeated whql drivers that cause hardlocks across 400/500/600 series cards.

    Pretty sure the amd didn't nuke my card with shitty drivers, pretty much sums it up. The last 5 years nvidias drivers have been right down shit, and that's their own fault because as soon as they launch a new card they move their star driver team to only optimize for that card and then use the B team to continue support.

  13. Re:There's no confirmation of the release date. on Windows 10 RTM In 6 Weeks · · Score: 1

    I just got a reservation notice for Win10 from Win8 itself. So it must be pretty close.

  14. Re:There's no confirmation of the release date. on Windows 10 RTM In 6 Weeks · · Score: 2

    True on that. They just released 10130, but considering they're entering the tuning, tweaking, stabilizing phase, it's probably close to the final build. I'd say august-september, but july isn't unreasonable.

  15. Re:Private Profiles on Orange County Public Schools To Monitor Students On Social Media · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Not really a troll... on Professional Internet Troll Sues Her Former Employer · · Score: 1

    Are you trolling?

    I see you're new here, and have no idea exactly how fall /. has fallen in the last 15 years.

  17. Re:it gets worse on Hacked Emails Reveal Russian Plans To Obtain Sensitive Western Tech · · Score: 2

    Never. Now bow down before your DICE overlords peon.

  18. Re:Great marketing on Volvo Self-Parking Car Hits People Because Owner Didn't Pay For Extra Feature · · Score: 1

    The story is a pile of BS. Since the vehicle was under control of a person, the person detection would have been disabled anyway. Sensationalist BS needs to go away.

  19. Because I understand the servers, programmers and ops staff require money and believe that seeing a few ads is fair exchange for the content I see. To me, giving advertisers enough information so I see fewer tampon ads (I am a single male) I see as a plus. Sorry but I am not part of the tinfoil hat brigade.

    So you're handing your personal information out cheaply because you have no value in your own self worth as an individual? Not sure if that's exactly the smartest thing to do.

    I love that assumption. I was on the internet when Gopher was new.

    Then you're still new to the internet. That would be '91.

  20. Perhaps they want to keep their business site for business and not act as a new site for a volcano? The volcano is probably not going to be erupting for long so tour packages are probably not an option.

    Right, so instead of using the even to draw people to their site, which in turn could generate revenue in terms of more sales for their tour business they didn't. That's some sound business planning.

    You sure hate Facebook. What did it ever do to you?

    The question you should be asking is, why do you like facebook? And why do you whore your personal information out so cheaply. Some of us have been on the internet for a long time.

  21. If you killed yourself, you'd be a happier, more well-adjusted person. Try it! PLEASE!

    Oh look, the a-typical response from someone who I'm sure has various emotional problems and wishes for someone to commit suicide. Perhaps you should get some psychiatric help for your mental illness.

  22. Someone with a Facebook page?

    Well, people used to joke that cancer was killing the internet, now it appears that people are promoting it. It's okay for some I guess, there's always the possibility of mutant powers from it.

    Where do you think they should have been posted?

    Oh I don't know, how about the tour operators website?

  23. I've got a better idea, don't use facebook links. What kind of mind-wave uses facebook for crap like that? Oh I know, the same kind that liked "aol keywords."

  24. Re:Uber not worth $41 billion ... on Tech Bubble? What Tech Bubble? · · Score: 2

    There is no way Uber is worth $41 billion.

    That's a ridiculous number trumped up by idiots in the stock market who have overvalued a tech company.

    Of course it isn't. Shit like the article in question is to dupe people with money to spare while the people who are knowledgeable are already pulling their money out. There was exactly the same type of shit-tier articles going on pre-dotcom crash. All you need to do is look at the investors, and you see many shifting their assets to things that aren't nearly as volatile.

  25. Re:Republican Hypocrits on TPP Fast Track Passes Key Vote In the Senate, Moves On To the House · · Score: 1

    This tactic is now common up here in Canada as well, under Herr Harper's regime.

    Yeah of course you forget that under the Liberal party is was the method of the day. Not saying it's right, but pretending that it's 'common up here because of Harper' is just assine and shows a fundamental lack of understanding of exactly what political parties started it. Never forget that it was Trudeau's Liberals that collapsed the Parliament by waiting for everyone to go home for the weekend, then voting no confidence on a budget.