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  1. This sounds like a great competitor to nVidia's Maxwell architecture, but is there an estimate about when AMD is going to release low-end/low-cost Fury-based cards to compete with the GTX 750, which AFAIK is the best power/watt card at the moment. I haven't followed GPU news for over a year though, so maybe there's already something better in the 100-150$ range?

  2. Re:Flashback time on Ask Toolbar Now Considered Malware By Microsoft · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is 2015. You don't need toolbars to do all that. Simply use Chrome and stay logged into your GMail, Hotmail, Facebook and Twitter accounts.

  3. Re:Unpossible on OpenBazaar, Born of an Effort To Build the Next Silk Road, Raises $1 Million · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Except it will stop working when the people end-to-end never convert the cryptocurrencies into regular fiat currency.

  4. Re:Straight to jail... on OpenBazaar, Born of an Effort To Build the Next Silk Road, Raises $1 Million · · Score: 1

    Fed1: We keep killing the Dread Pirate Roberts but he keeps coming back!
    Fed2 (from Mississippi): It's Jesus!

  5. Re:Icehouse Earth on Why Our Brains Can't Process the Gravest Threats To Humanity · · Score: 1

    That's part of step 2.

  6. Re:the world was supposed to end years ago on Why Our Brains Can't Process the Gravest Threats To Humanity · · Score: 1

    Those people are idiots. A great leader with glowing yellow hair told me that the Universe was, in fact, over 9000 years old.

  7. Re:Not shared by everyone on Why Our Brains Can't Process the Gravest Threats To Humanity · · Score: 1

    The climate does seem to be getting warmer.... Everything else is half-baked.

    So you think the planet needs to get warmer?

  8. Re:the world was supposed to end years ago on Why Our Brains Can't Process the Gravest Threats To Humanity · · Score: 2

    Drink all the coolaid passed your way.

    Make sure you really do. It's got electrolytes!

  9. Re:Icehouse Earth on Why Our Brains Can't Process the Gravest Threats To Humanity · · Score: 2

    1. Wake up
    2. Turn off brain
    3. Eat
    4. Work
    5. Eat
    6. Work
    7. Eat
    8. Sleep

  10. Re:Parliament will discuss this? on German Parliament May Need To Replace All Hardware and Software To Stop Malware · · Score: 1

    They'll probably outlaw trojans infecting government PCs, solving the issue once and for all.

    Yeah, but...

    ONCE AND FOR ALL!

  11. Joseph Heller on Why Our Brains Can't Process the Gravest Threats To Humanity · · Score: 2

    “The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.”

    “Insanity is contagious.”

    “[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.”

    “mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.”

    “Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”

  12. Re:Slow news day on Xilinx and AMD: an Inevitable Match? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe systemd could buy AMD?

  13. Re:And what if he's right? on Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Criticizes Role of Women In Labs · · Score: 1

    There, no more love in the lab. Just harmless masturbation. Problem solved.

    Until they contaminate the samples in the test tubes.

  14. Re:Brace yourselves Canada on US Tech Giants Ask Obama Not To Compromise Encryption · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Not an Apple first on Reactions To Apple's Plans To Open Source Swift · · Score: 1

    Thank you, that's the first time I hear about that.

  16. Obligatory on SpaceX Wants Permission To Test Satellite Internet · · Score: 1
  17. Re:4000 on SpaceX Wants Permission To Test Satellite Internet · · Score: 1

    I'm really hoping that they'll launch another 5001 satellites after the first 4000, because Internet.

  18. Re:Use in other than the "Walled Garden"...Yes on Reactions To Apple's Plans To Open Source Swift · · Score: 1

    There's already Microsoft SilverLight, so why the hell did RemObjects pick "Silver" for the name of their product?

  19. Re:Not an Apple first on Reactions To Apple's Plans To Open Source Swift · · Score: 1

    "We're going to the standards bodies, starting tomorrow, and we're going to make FaceTime an open industry standard." - Steve Jobs, WWDC 2010

    But it never happened.

  20. Re:What? on Reactions To Apple's Plans To Open Source Swift · · Score: 1

    I guess when I code something in C for an Atmel microcontroller I'm just glueing a bunch of nothingness together. But it still works! It's magic!

  21. FaceTime on Reactions To Apple's Plans To Open Source Swift · · Score: 3, Informative

    "We're going to the standards bodies, starting tomorrow, and we're going to make FaceTime an open industry standard." - Steve Jobs, WWDC 2010

    But Apple never followed-up on that.

  22. Re:I'm one of those people on Stress Is Driving Developers From the Video Game Industry · · Score: 1

    I'm still waiting for http://www.asteroidbase.com/da...

    I'd also like to get my hands on the full music track used in their trailer. :p

  23. Re: "Crunch Time" == Bad Project Management on Stress Is Driving Developers From the Video Game Industry · · Score: 1

    And if you don't like it, there are thousands of people overseas who will be glad to work under those conditions. And for a third the pay.

    Ah, so that's where term "third-world" comes from. Thanks!

  24. Re:Interesting person on A Technical Look Inside TempleOS · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's right, you sentient non-translucent person!

  25. Re:i'm glad i stuck with on Ask Slashdot: Should We Expect Attacks When Windows 2003 Support Ends? · · Score: 2

    I got a Windows 98SE system that still works fine. I just don't let it go outside.