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  1. Re:Sensible skepticism? on Forbes Revisits the Surface Pro 3, Which May Face LG Competition · · Score: 1

    Ordinarily, your comment would be uninformed bullshit. Every software has bugs.

    In this case, though, by coincidence, it did have some serious problems with Wi-Fi drivers. However, that seems to be a growing trend everywhere.

    I blame Wi-Fi adapter vendors and their shitty drivers.

  2. Re:sigh... on Forbes Revisits the Surface Pro 3, Which May Face LG Competition · · Score: 2

    Which is a real pity. I never had trouble with Wacom on my Surface Pro-esque Samsung tablet, but N-Trig's been a nightmare on the Surface Pro 3.

    When it works, it's great, better than Wacom. But it stops responding way too often and the AAAA battery lasts, at most, two months.

  3. Re:Never happen on The EU Has a Plan To Break Up Google · · Score: 1

    Oh please, wise Ralph [Wiggum], do share your definition of "monopoly" that deviates so much from the 90%-96% Google has in Europe.

  4. Re:Monitor Tiling! on Eizo Debuts Monitor With 1:1 Aspect Ratio · · Score: 0

    It's not 4:3, it's 1:1 (though the pixels seem a bit on the rectangular side, judging by the picture).

  5. Re:EU is getting Lame on The EU Has a Plan To Break Up Google · · Score: 1

    With that amount of bullshit flying out of your figurative mouth, you could fertilize a whole field.

  6. Re:Never happen on The EU Has a Plan To Break Up Google · · Score: 1

    Monster market share == Monopoly

  7. Re:Guffaw! So much overhaul it's FOUR better! on Windows Kernel Version Bumped To 10.0 · · Score: 2

    Open any of Windows' core applications (except IE) and navigate to the about page.

    Bam, Kernel version plastered right under the marketing name:

    Windows 7 Ultimate
    Version 6.1.whatever

  8. Re:Yet Another Fake Picture on Alleged Satellite Photo Says Ukraine Shootdown of MH17 · · Score: 2

    Laughable doesn't begin to describe it.

    The damned airplane is as large as a small town in that image.

  9. Re:The measurements in question: on Data Center Study Reveals Top 5 SMART Stats That Correlate To Drive Failures · · Score: 1

    If it comes to you having to clone the drive, it's too late. That's going to bite you in the ass sooner or later.

  10. Re:The measurements in question: on Data Center Study Reveals Top 5 SMART Stats That Correlate To Drive Failures · · Score: 1

    They needed a study to arrive at that conclusion?

    Reallocated, uncorrectable and pending sectors are all obvious indicators of closing drive failure.

    Command Timeouts, depending on definition, could be timeouts after failing a read, so nothing unusual there.

  11. Outsourcing on Germans Can Get Free Heating From the Cloud · · Score: 4, Funny

    After outsourcing their heating, they can double down and outsource their IT to the cloud, which will run on their on-premises servers.

    All of the costs, none of the advantages, but an MBA feels real smart, which really brings a smile to everyone's faces.

  12. Re:Could have been worse on CNN Anchors Caught On Camera Using Microsoft Surface As an iPad Stand · · Score: 1

    All Surfaces have USB type A ports. None have ever worked as anything other than a USB Host.

    Just because other tablets are shitty devices incapable of operating like regular computers doesn't mean Surfaces are. Non-Pros are limited by Windows RT's limited driver support, but Pros are just like any computer.

  13. Re:Could have been worse on CNN Anchors Caught On Camera Using Microsoft Surface As an iPad Stand · · Score: 1

    That's a stupid question.

    Yes, it will recognize any USB device for which Windows has drivers.

    And yes, it does have a USB 3.0 type A port.

  14. Re:Could have been worse on CNN Anchors Caught On Camera Using Microsoft Surface As an iPad Stand · · Score: 1

    Oh yes, more people use iPads than Windows...

    What fantasy world do you live in?

  15. Re:Could have been worse on CNN Anchors Caught On Camera Using Microsoft Surface As an iPad Stand · · Score: 1

    So, add a keyboard and mouse, for a much improved workflow and reduced RSI risk.

  16. Re:Oh good on Discovery Claims It Will Show a Man Being "Eaten Alive" By an Anaconda · · Score: 3, Informative

    He can literally watch it turn into figurative shit.

  17. Re:Could have been worse on CNN Anchors Caught On Camera Using Microsoft Surface As an iPad Stand · · Score: 3, Insightful

    iOS does not have a wider variety of applications than Windows.

    The vast majority of Win32 applications that runs on the Surface Pro is much larger than iOS's app store selection.

  18. Re: Time To Change That Windows Icon on Windows 8 and 8.1 Pass 15% Market Share, Windows XP Drops Below 20% Mark · · Score: 2

    "Windows asks me on first boot whether or not to send my searches to Microsoft so that Bing is integrated in the OS" doesn't have the same ring as "OMG! M$ IS CAPTURING EVERYTHING I SEARCH UNLESS I BLOCK IT AT MY FIREWALL!"

  19. Re:Anti-Nuclear group looking for scare material? on France Investigating Mysterious Drone Activity Over 7 Nuclear Power Plant Sites · · Score: 1

    The blind hate for anything with "nuclear" in the name overcomes everything else, including the justified hate for coal.

  20. Re:Anti-Nuclear group looking for scare material? on France Investigating Mysterious Drone Activity Over 7 Nuclear Power Plant Sites · · Score: 1

    Doesn't fit the neo-hippie agenda.

  21. Re:Unless the plant is surrounded in a glass dome. on France Investigating Mysterious Drone Activity Over 7 Nuclear Power Plant Sites · · Score: 1

    And if it hadn't been for the fucking massive earthquake and tsunami, generators would have arrived on site after a relatively short while and the situation calmly controlled.

  22. Re:clinical trials. on Leaked Documents Reveal Behind-the-Scenes Ebola Vaccine Issues · · Score: 1

    It's easier to digest than potentially wasting money and resources (that could be used for alternative vaccines) and giving people false hope with something that ends up the same as a placebo.

  23. Re:Oh, come on, who are we kidding? on 6,000 Year Old Temple Unearthed In Ukraine · · Score: 1

    "- Look my Liege!
      - Kiev!
      - Kiev!
      - Kiev!
      - It's only a model..."

     

  24. Re:And this is why Linux will never win the deskto on Debian's Systemd Adoption Inspires Threat of Fork · · Score: 5, Funny

    I disagree. Having Linus yelling expletives at your average PC user would go along way towards educating them or scaring them away from computers.
    The end result is the same in either case.

  25. Re:Closer to market on Fusion and Fission/LFTR: Let's Do Both, Smartly · · Score: 1

    You have to be kidding.

    The process goes like this:

    NIMBYer complains and gets others to complain along.
    Politician goes along in populist idea, arranges for additional costs.
    Result is fed back into NIMBYers, who feel vindicated and grow louder.