User: execthts

Re:Desktop CPU Lanes

On: Could AMD's Upcoming EPYC 'Rome' Server Processors Feature Up To 162 PCIe Lanes? (tomshardware.com)

What if I have a boyfriend?

Rising prices

On: EU Charges Valve and 5 Game Publishers With Unfair 'Geo-Blocking' (venturebeat.com)

Let's hope that they won't raise the poorest regions' prices up to the level of the richest regions' levels.

Irresponsibility as usual

On: Wells Fargo Sued By 63-Year-Old Pastor They Wrongfully Accused of Forging Checks (nj.com)

It's the 'Guilty until proven innocent' game again.

Re:Dumbed down Mac OS apps?

On: Apple To Target Combining iPhone, iPad and Mac Apps by 2021: Report (bloomberg.com)

Microsoft tried this like twice (if not thrice) since Windows 8. As to the subject: "Desktop class applications and networking. Not the crippled stuff that you find on most phones."

Re:Adobe?

On: Adobe is Considering Whether it Wants To Design Its Own Chips (axios.com)

They want to use flash chips obviously.

Still cashing in

On: Battlefield 5's Poor Sales Numbers Have Become a Disaster For Electronic Arts (seekingalpha.com)

EA is not going down any soon, right? They have too many cashcows to fail

Re:How to write performance-first code!

On: Google To Pay JavaScript Frameworks To Implement Performance-First Code (zdnet.com)

May I introduce you to LuaJIT? http://luajit.org/

Re:How to write performance-first code!

On: Google To Pay JavaScript Frameworks To Implement Performance-First Code (zdnet.com)

Too bad that browsers didn't caught some better scripting language like Lua or something else early on, now we're stuck with javascript for basically forever.

Idiots

On: Sony Tries Using Blockchain Tech For Next-Gen DRM (engadget.com)

Didn't they all learn - - from the BMG-Rootkit scandal - about piracy being a service problem - about tamper-protections only hurting paying customers before?

Re:Relevance in the market?

On: Winamp Media Player To Return as a Platform-Agnostic Audio Mobile App Next Year; Desktop Application Receives an Update (techcrunch.com)

I do.

Re:What's the future?

On: Intel 'Petitioned Microsoft Heavily' Not To Choose ARM For Surface Go, Report Says (theverge.com)

GNU\NT

Re:Steal?

On: Hackers Crashed a Bank's Computers While Attempting a SWIFT Hack (bleepingcomputer.com)

Or if the management above IT is an idiot.

Re:Ogg

On: Faster Audio Decoding and Encoding Coming To Ogg and FLAC (phoronix.com)

Basically all Android devices. Built-in ringtones and notification sounds are all in .ogg.

Not really

On: Ask Slashdot: Should Coding Exams Be Given on Paper?

>The point of the paper exams was to check if I understood the *concepts*. Yeah, except when the sadistic professor doesn't actually test you for the concepts and fails you for minor errors that you would call a typo on a computer screen. This was my experience.

Re:light

On: A New Era For Linux's Low-level Graphics (collabora.com)

Try xfce.

Hardcoded passwords

On: Hardcoded Password Found in Cisco Software (bleepingcomputer.com)

So in 2018 we're still seeing hardcoded passwords in enterprise products?

Re:bug said

On: Microsoft's Meltdown and Spectre Patch Is Bricking Some AMD PCs (betanews.com)

I've experienced 0x000000C4.

Re:Or

On: Chrome OS Will Finally Run Android Apps in the Background (engadget.com)

Poweramp. INCLUDING the direct volume control feature.

Re:The year of Windows?

On: More Unix Tools Coming To Windows 10 (neowin.net)

2018 will be the year of the Linux on Windows desktop