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  1. Moores law is done? on Sales Of PCs, Laptops, Tablets Continue to Fall, Hit Lowest Point Since 2011 (canalys.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I haven't upgraded in 5 years because for building the same price computer I can only get a CPU twice as fast and a graphics card 3 times as fast as 5 years ago. It is a far cry from doubling every single year. It just isn't worth it to upgrade quickly anymore.

  2. First, the title is all wrong. He doesn't bully anyone, he says he would bully someone if blah blah. Second, this is framed as someone powerful against someone weak for no reason. Obviously everyone is inclined to side with the 'weak,' but really one person wants the laws to be followed and another is breaking the laws. Is anyone arguing the laws are wrong? Not really, they are just saying this guy is an asshole for wanting them to be enforced and using aggressive language while saying so. So what.

  3. BGR on iPhone 7s May Sport Curved Glass and AMOLED Display (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    BGR is ALWAYS filled with sensationalist Apple click bait. I don't know anything about appleinsider.com though and the reported analyst. Are they trustworthy?

  4. Re:Teach Problem Solving on Jason Bradbury Believes Coding Lessons In Schools Are a Waste of Time (trustedreviews.com) · · Score: 1

    You are dead on. I've been studying the basics lately in a few languages, but when it comes to compiling and functional programming I don't have a clue.

  5. Re:Teach Problem Solving on Jason Bradbury Believes Coding Lessons In Schools Are a Waste of Time (trustedreviews.com) · · Score: 1

    It comes down to a matter of the quality of the teacher at that point. Personally I would have enjoyed coding but I had horrible teachers who basically tested on things like HTML syntax. Least to say it wasn't enjoyable so I ended up going a different route, but wishing I had stayed on a computer science path.

  6. It's not cheaper for long on AMOLED Displays Are Now Cheaper To Produce Than LCD (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 1

    Once the LCD Cabal takes notice, they will jointly decide to lower their agreed prices. ;)

  7. Those jobs will be highly skilled... until they aren't. Take a plumber or TV repairman. Those jobs were high skill at one point and now they aren't exactly paid to be kings.

  8. Don't get me wrong, I like the screen quality and battery life though. Those are it's two best qualities.

  9. I bought a basic 2015 Macbook pro because people claim it is easy to use. Well its not, constantly struggling with drivers for printers, settings that won't stick unless you set them in the right order or set them multiple times, features that just break with updates without massive troubleshooting. Seriously disappointed. Speaking GPU wise, it turns into an oven if you use Chrome to open some tabs with videos instead of using Safari. It plays HOTS but again heats up and fans go nuts.

  10. No one in there right mind would get a dell 5K monitor for $1580. the 4K monitor from Dell is only $570. That's still crazy, I've seen deals for 4K TVs you could use as a monitor in the $200-$400 range.

  11. Times change on Pirated App Store Client For iOS Found On Apple's App Store (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The biggest reason macs had "no viruses" were that they also had no users so it wasn't worth it for a hacker. Now that Apple products are mainstream, all that changed.

  12. Re:100 gbps isn't that fast on Scientists In Japan Build 100Gbps Wireless Network Using Terahertz Transmitter · · Score: 1

    hmm sounds like the new "Lifi" that needs direct light contact

  13. Re:100 gbps isn't that fast on Scientists In Japan Build 100Gbps Wireless Network Using Terahertz Transmitter · · Score: 1

    Sprint

  14. 100 gbps isn't that fast on Scientists In Japan Build 100Gbps Wireless Network Using Terahertz Transmitter · · Score: 1

    4G has offered these speeds for years between cell towers. For individual towers, it gets split among all users and phones, which also don't use enough power to upload at the same speed and range as the tower. But a THz transmitter sounds interesting. Anyone know if the propagation would be better/worse? I would imagine worse?

  15. I don't get it on Avast SafeZone Browser Lets Attackers Access Your Filesystem (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't this mean any app you have installed on your computer would let you do this?

  16. Probably your drivers on Ask Slashdot: Fixing UVC Camera Issues Under Windows? · · Score: 0

    If you didn't explicitly install USB 2.0 and 3.0 drivers from the CD that came with your motherboard, then windows 7 will recognize it is USB 2.0 and 3.0 but won't actually allow you to run it.

  17. Re:Chauvinism is alive and well in 2016 on The Empathy Gap and Why Women Are Treated So Badly In Open Source Projects (perens.com) · · Score: 1

    What your saying is true, but it goes both ways so why point it out on only one side? Some men treat other men badly. Some women treat men badly and favor women for roles. It's nuts to think that life is very much harder for a women. I personally see a lot more men that favor women for roles than I see men favoring men.

  18. Re:Waaah, I'm offended on The Empathy Gap and Why Women Are Treated So Badly In Open Source Projects (perens.com) · · Score: 1

    Totally. These women complaining must never have pretended to be a man online because if they did they would know the world is just as cruel to everyone. It's called reality not sexism.

  19. Have you met women online? on The Empathy Gap and Why Women Are Treated So Badly In Open Source Projects (perens.com) · · Score: 1

    Every time I see a story about how women are treated badly online, I just imagine the millions of things I've been called as if being man or woman makes a difference. Plus women are just as brutal to everyone as men are. Anonymity makes everyone 10 times more douchey and woman are even bigger douchebags in real life especially to other women, because they are allowed to get away with it.

  20. Re:String Theory is Science on Why String Theory Is Not Science (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    The difference is the Higgs Boson fit within existing physics. It was always testable but prohibitively expensive to built, and took more than a university or even a single country was willing to spend to test.

  21. Re:I thought this was obvious! on Why String Theory Is Not Science (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    These theories are just speculation, not even speculative math, but the entire process/science/physics/reality it is trying to explain is speculation. It's saying, if it did exist, it could exists with this math behind it. So yea, there is a billion ideas explaining it and there will never, ever, be a forefront string theory that any scientist agrees is the closest one to the truth.

  22. Somehow someone would complain that an online system is racist against blacks because its harder for them to get a computer. First places require identification to vote? Now they require internet access? Madness.

  23. I thought this was obvious! on Why String Theory Is Not Science (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    String theory and multiverse theories are far from science. The comparison to religion is a good one. "You can't prove god doesn't exist." They are at best guesses of how multiple universes and dimensions could work, if they ever did exist. As far as I am concerned there is more concrete evidence of ghosts than string theory. Adding a little math into something made up doesn't make it real.

  24. It is believable! on North Carolina Town That Defeated Solar Plan Talks Back (newsobserver.com) · · Score: 0

    North Carolina is in the South where people disregard science for religion constantly. This story is more than believable because in those same areas they still think cell towers cause cancer.

  25. How do these people become leaders? on Carly Fiorina Says Government Needs a Way To "Work Around" Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Would they want us to just ban private conversations altogether?