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  1. Right up until Dozer (that was 2011, 2012) AMD enjoyed from the early 2000s a moderate to significant advantage in the server market, especially for core count and mixed virtualization. After Dozer... well, the entire company went south.

  2. Re: How about you support HR 4269, ban massacre to on Anonymous Posts Pornography To Hijacked ISIS Twitter Accounts (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    And what good did that do in Paris?

  3. From what I've heard, your typical ISIS member is so deeper in porn than the Marina Trench (or whatever it is. Think it's Marina.) So they might enjoy it.

  4. The Entire Post Explained: on Ask Slashdot: Why Do Most Tablet Specs Suck? · · Score: 1

    16GB RAM- Not many people use it on desktops, let alone mobile devices. I would like to see 8GB ones though. 1TB Disk- Flash is just too expensive now. A 1TB M.2 drive, what you probably would be looking at, is $500 or so when I last looked. 20hr battery life- Batteries are heavy. And big. And you'd have to lower other specs.

  5. Re: people want cheap on Ask Slashdot: Why Do Most Tablet Specs Suck? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the $200 iPhone scam sucks. We need the FCC to ban lock in contracts from cell providers.

  6. Even more intriguingly it doesn't list "crimes" as a search term even for people who are only famous for their crimes. There's probably a script somewhere that blocks autocompletion on *crimes.

  7. We golden rule it. As you become more rude to Alexa, it goes from "say please" to talking-while-eating, talking loudly, complaining and eventually saying "that's a %-#()@%+!;"+7 question!" And such.

  8. And I thought on Google's AI 'TensorFlow' Software Is Coming To iOS (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    That iPhones were immune from the Robot Apocalypse because it wasn't on the App Store. I was wrong.

  9. Actually, it looks like Pascal is less efficient than Maxwell, or if it is it's negated by the fact that the improvement seems to be mostly from clockspeed increases.

  10. I suspect, it being the EU, that it just means that buying a gas powered car only requires a brief trip into Sweden. Or Finland.

  11. Considering that AMD has demoed 40W chips more powerful than the GTX 950, and is going to price them presumably better, I'd wait for AMD.

  12. So that's how they're doing it on Report: Average American Will Use 22GB of Mobile Data Per Month In 2021 (mashable.com) · · Score: 2

    Extreme overcharge fees. No wonder the provider lock in scam is so profitable! Google,please design Android to be impossible to vendor lock. It's in your interest you know.

  13. And we thought it would never happen.... on Mary Meeker's 2016 Internet Trends Report: Messaging Apps Could Rival Home Screen (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Computer? Computer? A keyboard. How quaint. -Scotty, Star Trek IV

  14. I wonder on Google's 'Project Magenta' Art Machine Composes Its First Song (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If we could use deep learning to let computers learn styles and patterns, eventually incorporating them into new music. It could usher in a new era where every film is composed by John Williams, or Mahler's tenth is finished, or there's a new Bach and Beethoven being made every day. Of course, on the arguably darker side, pop music could become entirely computer designed, although considering the quality it would actually sound better if done by computer.

  15. Considering on US Court Says No Warrant Needed For Cellphone Location Data (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The use of burner phones this is nigh pointless.

  16. No new Intel chipset today. A ten-core CPU, though. Actually we've been moving towards smaller, single "chipsets".

  17. Re: Facebook is the borg... on Instagram Announces New Business Tools: Contact Option, Deeper Analytics (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Nah, Facebook is more like the Dominion. Cisco, now, they're the Borg. They even specialize in guess what- networking equipment.

  18. Re: Canada? Energy superpower status on Canada's Energy Superpower Status Threatened As World Shifts Off Fossil Fuel (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Higher oil prices would have led to greater investment in "renewables", shortening everything.

  19. Funny, I thought on Doubts Raised About Cellphone Cancer Study (vox.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That 1, it was the male rats affected, and two, those rats actually lived longer. So we should see headlines like this: Constant Cell Phone Use Lengthens Lifespan (in men)

  20. The Rocky Mountain West on Is Denver The Next High-Tech Center? (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    Is becoming California 2.0- especially Colorado.

  21. Yup. Its Tall Poppy Syndrome. They try to bring the small ones up while mowing down the brighter students.

  22. How about on Is Denver The Next High-Tech Center? (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    North Dakota? They have lots of space, cheap housing now that the oil workers have moved out, and it's cold enough that cooling your data center involves opening windows. For that matter, why stop there? Canada is probably pretty good.

  23. Really.... on Apple CEO Tim Cook: I'd Require All Children To Start Coding In 4th Grade (thehill.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If I could get all kids to actually, well, read in the fourth grade under our current system I'd be happy. Let's get the essentials fixed before we start adding extravagances.

  24. Re: If the nsa is smart... on The NSA's Delightfully D&D-inspired Guide To the Internet (muckrock.com) · · Score: 1

    PS, I don't work for the NSA. I do live in an area where a lot of NSA employees are.

  25. Re: If the nsa is smart... on The NSA's Delightfully D&D-inspired Guide To the Internet (muckrock.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup. The ones you don't see often are even more so, from what I have heard.