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  1. Re:Intel is fucked on all levels server / desktop on AMD Unveils Ryzen Threadripper 1950X 16-Core and 1920X 12-Core Specs and Pricing (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    The i3 7350K CPU can be overclocked to at least 5Ghz, giving fantastic single-threaded performance, comparable to an overclocked i7. Many tasks still care about single-threaded performance more than multiple cores.

  2. Re:Odd that Alienware is putting them in gaming ri on AMD Unveils Ryzen Threadripper 1950X 16-Core and 1920X 12-Core Specs and Pricing (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    If you stream high quality video encoded with software rather than the dedicated hardware, you need all the cores you can get. Encoding video in software still gives a much higher image quality than the hardware accelerated encoding.

    Someone made a performance testing video showing Ryzen greatly outperforming an i7 when simultaneously encoding video and playing the game.

  3. So do I have this right? on Hulu Joins Netflix and Amazon In Promoting Royalty-free Video Codec AV1 (fiercecable.com) · · Score: 1

    So do I have this right? Basically AV1 is VP10, but with two pieces taken from Daala (new symbol coding inspired by Daala, and the directional deringer)?

    I'm not sure what other pieces ended up in AV1. There must have been something from Thor in there.

  4. Does it affect Android too?

  5. Re:When it's not an open platform, it'll probably on Intel Quietly Discontinues Galileo, Joule, and Edison Development Boards (intel.com) · · Score: 1

    RISC-V needs to branch a lot more than instruction sets with conditional instructions, and that would mess with pipelines and such.

  6. NTVDM and 16-bit on Why Does Microsoft Still Offer a 32-bit OS? (backblaze.com) · · Score: 1

    The 32-bit version of Windows supports 16-bit DOS programs via NTVDM and Windows 3.1 programs via WOW, while the 64-bit version does not.

  7. And they won't be able to do anything beyond showing photos of your cat with that horrible touchscreen.

  8. It seems like a GPU without any video outputs would still be useful when paired with something like NVidia's Optimus technology. Since all the consumer Intel CPUs have GPUs on them anyway, it means that you could pipe the video data back to have the Intel GPU display it. The same thing that they're already doing for laptops, but for desktops this time.
    Exactly how much money is saved by omitting the video output ports?

  9. NT Pipe Support? on Wormable Code-Execution Bug Lurked In Samba For 7 Years (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What exactly is NT Pipe Support supposed to even do? Why would you need it on a file server?

  10. Re:It's not Millennials on 'U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Also, today's new college students are generally not millennials, since that is defined as being born between 1980 and 1996.
    It's exactly like people complaining about the MTV generation with their short attention spans.

  11. The domain is already registered. If your computers have no Internet connection, the hosts file might help there.

  12. Re:This would be great for SSDs on Developer Shares A Recoverable Container Format That's File System Agnostic (github.com) · · Score: 1

    Usually when an SSD fails, you get some stupid small device. Intel SSDs give you a 8MB hard drive named "BAD CONTEXT" which can't be read from or written to, and JMicron drives give you a 4GB drive named "JM-Loader 001".
    When this happens, you don't get to see your actual disk sectors at all. Without access to the actual contents of your drive, having a container format that lets you recover data won't help.

  13. Re:What do we use to scan for it? on NSA's DoublePulsar Kernel Exploit a 'Bloodbath' (threatpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Having mingw, msys, and cygwin installed, I actually get results for the uname command.

  14. Locking it out killed Windows RT. on Windows 10 Mobile Needs To Be Put Out of Its Misery (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Windows RT was killed off the moment Microsoft decided it would run store apps only.
    It could have run native desktop applications built for ARM or .NET applications, but Microsoft just said no.
    Even today, nobody gives a crap about the Microsoft store, and nobody is buying apps on it.

  15. The only ones in there I saw were Rush Hour and Red Dragon, and I liked them.

  16. Getting the Blue Signed UAC prompt on Windows 10 UAC Bypass Uses Backup and Restore Utility (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    If you want a Blue UAC prompt that indicates the program being run is signed by Microsoft and everything, you can write a program that invokes privileged parts of Windows.

    For example, you can call the DISM package manager of Windows to install or remove components of Windows. And when you call it, you get the Blue "Everything is okay, it's all signed by Microsoft" UAC prompt as opposed to the Yellow "This isn't signed" UAC prompt. But using DISM irresponsibly can break a Windows installation.

  17. Re:reading back numbers is dumb on Researcher Breaks ReCAPTCHA Using Google's Speech Recognition API (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    What does the fox say?

  18. "Just catching on" in Mainstream Operating Systems in 2004?
    How about Windows NT 3.1 (1993) and Linux (1991), those had distinct separate spaces using protected mode features.

  19. Locked Bootloader on Do Android Users Still Use Custom Roms? (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 1

    Got a Samsung Galaxy S4, with a locked bootloader. So this means once I have root, I never update again.
    Custom ROMS are way out of the question.

  20. Re:Surprising. on Hackers Unlock NES Classic, Upload New Games Via USB Cable (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't need 10NES chips, that was already cloned with the CIClone, which was based on the Tengen lockout chip interestingly enough.

  21. They killed it off early by tying the content to exclusives when you bought a particular manufacturer's TV. One brand got Avatar 3D, another brand got Shrek series 3D, etc. You don't do that kind of thing to attract adoption in the early stages. Also see: Google Plus (invite only!).
    Also, if you got Shutter Glasses 3D, it sucked. It was expensive, and even regular glasses could even cause ghosting when combined with shutter glasses.

  22. Re:Bitcoin is hilarious... on Bitcoin Is Crashing (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2

    Bitcoin isn't anonymous, everyone can see the full transaction history for your ID number. They just can't go from ID number to Name. But if you do anything like even post a bitcoin link on a web page, then you've provided enough information to find out your transaction history.

  23. Supposedly, Pokemon Go doesn't let you play if you have a rooted phone. Would the same thing apply to this game too?

  24. Re:what about h.265? on Netflix Keeping Bandwidth Usage Low By Encoding Its Video With VP9 and H.264/AVC Codecs (slashgear.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nobody wants to pay the licensing fees for it, so it's dead in the water.

  25. Re:With Canonicals help on Microsoft Exec Urges Linux Developers To Try Windows 10 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Wat? They could have used any distro for this, didn't have to be Ubuntu. Once you have Kernel land all nice and emulated, you can take any linux Userland and run it on there.