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  1. Re:Unified Experience Across Devices on Microsoft Announces Windows 10 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not just driver compatibility.

    Windows 7 fixed a bunch of Vista compatibility issues with programs built for XP simply by having the version be set to 6.1.

    Turns out that companies doing braindead Windows version detection of

    if (majorVersion >= 5 && minorVersion >= 1)

    had it fail spectacularly for version 6.0.

  2. Re:What do they mean YouTube Freed? on Google Quietly Nixes Mandatory G+ Integration With Gmail · · Score: 1

    I had to search every area of my Google+ profile's accounts section until I finally ran across the button to do so. I don't think their help pages even tell you the correct location for it, and now that my profile is deleted, I can't go back and tell where it was (it just prompts me to create a Google+ Profile when I do).

  3. Re:What do they mean YouTube Freed? on Google Quietly Nixes Mandatory G+ Integration With Gmail · · Score: 2

    I don't know about if you've never had a Google+ profile, but I deleted mine earlier today and can still comment on my own videos... haven't tried replying to someone else, though.

  4. Re:Counter-Strike Global Offensive Premieres On Li on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Premieres On Linux, 2 Years After Windows · · Score: 1

    Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Premieres On Linux, 2 Years After Windows

    You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

    ...and you should check a dictionary instead of an encyclopedia.

  5. Re:Beta on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Premieres On Linux, 2 Years After Windows · · Score: 3, Informative

    Bugs can be reported here.

    You'd better hope that Valve pays more attention to it than the Source-1-Games bug tracker, which is basically ignored at this point.

  6. Lately I've been addicted to Team Fortress 2.

    Runs *flawlessly* native under Linux. Fastest load times compared to windows.

    Such a blast.

    Conga Fortress 2 for the win!

    Anyway, back on topic... I do wonder if Valve will rename half the server .so files like they did for HL2:DM, DoD:S, CS:S, TF2, and L4D2. It tends to break server addons when they do that, and the only reason to do it because they link the server binaries against older GLIBC versions.

  7. Re:Powershell on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Strangest Features of Various Programming Languages? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    - sizeof(string) (I may have got the name of the function wrong) returns the length of a single byte rather than the length of the entire string. Who the hell thought that would be a good idea?

    Hey, just because you don't know the language doesn't mean it's necessarily wrong. Documentation for sizeof would have told you that it's for telling you the size in bytes of datatypes on a particular system. It's often paired with malloc to allocate memory for something.

    The C specification is remarkably lax on the size of its numeric datatypes, too. To the point where eventually a bunch of bit-specific sizes were introduced because the basic versions weren't. example: uint32 is a 32-bit unsigned integer, where as uint is an unsigned integer that's 16-bits or larger depending on the platform.

    For that matter, even pointer size changes depending on systems. For instance, it's 4 bytes for 32-bit Intel systems and 8 bytes for 64-bit Intel systems.

  8. IV is obvisouly trying to improve its reputation

    Well, yeah... it's really obvisou they're trying to get people to stop dwelling on their patnte lawstuis.

    Dhu!

  9. Re:TI calculators are not outdated, just overprice on How the Outdated TI-84 Plus Still Holds a Monopoly On Classrooms · · Score: 1

    Right, but didn't the 86 have more features than the 84?

    If it did, I couldn't say... I never compared them and the last time I actually used an 85/86 was in the mid-90s.

  10. Re:One bad apple spoils the barrel on Combating Recent, Ugly Incidents of Misogyny In Gamer Culture · · Score: 1

    Only if you count games like Candy Crush and Farmville. Let's face it, gaming consoles and expensive video cards are being sold to teenage boys, you know, the ones that actually buy big game titles. If women are such a big market, they'd be pandered to. Or maybe women can make their own games. They should. Obviously these misogynist devs hate money. It's right there for the taking.

    I accidentally read that as "buy big game titties" and then realized... that's true, too.

    Wait, did I just argue one of Anita Sarkeesian's points for her?

    Anyway, one of the things about games: You don't necessarily know who makes the games. For all I know, Alison McWarlover is heading up Call of Duty: Yet Another One... much like Kim Swift was the Project Lead on Portal.

    That second one was name dropped to prove a point. Most people probably didn't know know Portal was lead by a woman because it wasn't relevant to the game's success.

  11. The base model on How the Outdated TI-84 Plus Still Holds a Monopoly On Classrooms · · Score: 2

    Ten years later, the base model still has 480 kilobytes of ROM and 24 kilobytes of RAM, its black-and-white screen remains 96x64 pixels, and the MSRP is still $150

    I really hate it when people pass off misinformation.

    As tempting as it is to call the black and white version the base model, it doesn't appear to be manufactured any longer.

    Which means that the current base model is the version that has with 3.5 megabytes ROM and 21 kilobytes RAM, with a color screen that is 320x240 screen. The calculator also has a rechargeable battery (type unknown) and an MSRP of $140.

    You can find this information (except the MSRP) on this chart.

    Incidentally, Amazon US currently sells the color LCD model (black) for $104. Other colors seems to cost more.

  12. Re:TI calculators are not outdated, just overprice on How the Outdated TI-84 Plus Still Holds a Monopoly On Classrooms · · Score: 2

    As strange as it sounds, the TI-84 is a newer model than the TI-86.

    Basically, the lines went like this:

    TI-82 -> TI-83 -> TI-84 Plus -> TI-84 Plus Color

    TI-85 -> TI-86

    Since it's not obvious on that list, the 82 and 85 came out around the same time, as did the 83 and 86.

    Incidentally, it's important to note that the stats listed in the summary are for the black and white version and not the newer color version and yet it's the color version's MSRP they're listing.

  13. Re:To remove this... on Akamai Warns: Linux Systems Infiltrated and Controlled In a DDoS Botnet · · Score: 1

    Last time I tried that it gave me some error. Something about needing --no-preserve-root

  14. To remove this... on Akamai Warns: Linux Systems Infiltrated and Controlled In a DDoS Botnet · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, to remove this do I just have to do this?
    sudo rm -r /sbin/iptables

  15. Re:Fk proprietary consoles. on Hackers Claim PlayStation Network Take-Down · · Score: 1

    Well, given that both iD and Valve games use client-server models with low numbers of players, is there really any point to trying to DDoS a server?

  16. Re:Nobody else seems to want it on Linus Torvalds: 'I Still Want the Desktop' · · Score: 2

    I think it's funny that you'd say this.

    DOS had drivers in the form of Terminate and Stay Resident (TSR) programs.

    For instance, you had Microsoft's mouse.sys or mouse.com for standard serial port (and later PS/2) mice.

    CD drives required config.sys to load a vendor-specific CD-ROM driver followed by autoexec.bat executing mscdex.exe.

    From memory, sound cards notably didn't have drivers built-in, or rather the only startup programs they had just set the ports and interrupts the cards used. (i.e. sb16set)

  17. Re:Not ready for v6 yet on The IPv4 Internet Hiccups · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If it weren't for the stupidity of OS and IP stack authors, we'd be able to use the 240.0.0.0 - 255.255.255.254 addresses.

    However, most of them refuse to route to those addresses because they're "Reserved for Future use."

    Apparently no one stopped to think that blocking routing to those addresses would stop them from being used in the future because people insist on using older technology.

  18. Re:Steve Jobs set the standard... on Silicon Valley Doesn't Have an Attitude Problem, OK? · · Score: 3, Interesting
  19. Re:Steve Jobs set the standard... on Silicon Valley Doesn't Have an Attitude Problem, OK? · · Score: 1

    Was this before he was kicked out of Apple for running it into the ground, or after he spent years in the wilderness learning how to actually manage a company?

    Before.

    This is likely from folklore.org which has all sorts of early Apple history.

  20. Re:Microsoft has a new CEO? on Satya Nadella At Six Months: Grading Microsoft's New CEO · · Score: 2

    Because at the end of the day it is "business as usual" -- no one really gives a fuck about Microsoft's new CEO.

    Microsoft still doesn't a fucking clue about UI, it still shits on PC gamers with its crappy GWFL (Games For Windows Live), the Xbone has the stupidest marketing name ever, XP is still holding on because business can't be bought off with the latest untested shiny, DX12 will be only available on Windows 9 as MS tries to force gamers to upgrade, etc.

    Weren't all those things done during the "lengthy and ultimately unpopular reign" of Steve Ballmer?

  21. Re:Arrest the Credit Card Issuers? on A 24-Year-Old Scammed Apple 42 Times In 16 Different States · · Score: 2, Informative

    It sounds like the real scammers are the credit card issues that have a system in place to override that has ZERO security in place.

    The security is supposed to be that the retailer is supposed to call the bank themselves to verify it. Which they didn't do.

  22. Re:But scarcity! on Verizon's Accidental Mea Culpa · · Score: 1

    There are literally hundreds of credit card companies in the United States.

    MasterCard, Visa, American Express, Discover....those are the only major ones, so I'm not sure where you got "hundreds" from.

  23. Re: But scarcity! on Verizon's Accidental Mea Culpa · · Score: 2

    I'm just assuming you're saying that and not judging from personal experience, because last I checked, the State of Michigan monitors road quality state-wide and funds repairs accordingly.

  24. Re:From what I've read: on Nearly 25 Years Ago, IBM Helped Save Macintosh · · Score: 1

    The early 2000s (and 1999) also saw fierce competition between AMD and Intel. This happened after AMD stole the performance crown from Intel with the release of the original Athlon, which likely pushed Intel to actually make some improvements.

    This eventually lead to the Pentium M (and later Core) microarchitecture which Intel has been building upon for the last decade or so.

  25. Re:Normal humans exlcuded from practicing law/medi on Normal Humans Effectively Excluded From Developing Software · · Score: 1

    The real injustice is that I'll never be able to fill that spot on my bucket list under "Perform open heart surgery in front of a judge while vigorously arguing a case on behalf of the guy who is having his heart operated on."

    No, but you could probably work that into an app!