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  1. Quantity of errata was the key point here.

  2. Re:Surprised they lasted this long considering... on Dropbox Cuts Several Employee Perks as Silicon Valley Startups Brace For Cold (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Microsoft gave their users a lot of advanced notice

    You know, I checked my Dropbox because I vaguely recall a promotion that granted me space (but not unlimited and I can't find any reference to this unlimited option anywhere, just the limited one). I still have it. I've never had my space removed by Dropbox, but I have by Microsoft. I genuinely wonder if you didn't read the in-app message properly or if you confused Google Photo's in-app message for Dropbox.

    "Camera Uploads Bonuses for using Camera Uploads 2012/3/8 3 GB"

  3. Re:Surprised they lasted this long considering... on Dropbox Cuts Several Employee Perks as Silicon Valley Startups Brace For Cold (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    You going to give up one drive since they stopped their unlimited everything storage too?

  4. And that is supposed to be some sort of showstopper?

    It has been for me where security issues are concerned.

  5. First I've heard of it

    Not my problem.

    If anyone is going to complain it's the ones filling thousands of sockets at a time, but for some reason they are not complaining.

    In my experience, it's going to be people that are security oriented, particularly those that specialize in security at low-levels. Fortunately, errata issues are commonly solved by microcode updates instead of hardware replacements.

    I think it's time for some sort of citation

    Sure, you can find out about AMD's errata here.

  6. I never specified "Windows". A competent administrator doesn't specialize in just one thing.

  7. Re:But where can I buy^Wrent my software? on Microsoft No Longer Allows Admins To Block Windows Store Access In Windows 10 Pro (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Linux has no Linux Store.

    Just open the "Ubuntu Software Centre" on Ubuntu, you're welcome.

  8. Re: But where can I buy^Wrent my software? on Microsoft No Longer Allows Admins To Block Windows Store Access In Windows 10 Pro (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    More than a few of us have been dragged through dependency hell, where you try to install a new DVD burning program and several hours later are still downloading components of a gnome desktop environment you didn't want and won't use.

    15 years ago, I just did "urpmi k3b", "apt-get install k3b" (or brasero) and that was that... No dependency hell, no problems, it just worked.

    So what you're saying is... Our base comparison for Windows should be something older than 15 years, like Windows ME.

  9. Re:Opinions on upgrade...potentially off topic. on Microsoft No Longer Allows Admins To Block Windows Store Access In Windows 10 Pro (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyone on here have any advice for me? Is it worth the upgrade? I'm really comfortable using Win 7 and I basically hate change.

    Windows 7 stopped having mainstream support last year in January, it is now irrelevant. If you want to play new games like the new Minecraft, Killer Instinct, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Gears of War, Fable Legends and Gigantic then upgrade to Windows 10. If you want to keep playing old titles, then there is no need to upgrade.

    Does it add anything over 7

    Performance.

    if I do upgrade is it possible to make it look similar to windows 7

    It is possible, good luck figuring it out.

  10. A competent administrator would be weary of the high errata on AMD processors.

  11. Re:It would be somewhat dumb to pay on The Pirate Bay Gets a 'Massive' $9 in Donations Per Day (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Bitcoin is, as you point out, fully backtraceable.

    I know who it's coming from, because I back traced it!

  12. How would you even know if you've got an adblocker? Which apparently everyone has.

  13. Re:Growing bookstores ? on Neil Gaiman Celebrates Independent Bookstore Day (indiebookstoreday.com) · · Score: 1

    Why so tense, AC?

  14. Re:Growing bookstores ? on Neil Gaiman Celebrates Independent Bookstore Day (indiebookstoreday.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow, you must get out a lot more than any human could, to see the whole world all the time, and have time to write down the address of every new business and every closed business!

    Whatever man, you read too much into these things.

  15. Re:Growing bookstores ? on Neil Gaiman Celebrates Independent Bookstore Day (indiebookstoreday.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Maybe I just get out more than you do.

  16. Growing bookstores ? on Neil Gaiman Celebrates Independent Bookstore Day (indiebookstoreday.com) · · Score: 1

    There's actually more independent bookstores this year than there were last year, according to the site, which argues that "In a world of tweets and algorithms and pageless digital downloads, bookstores are not a dying anachronism. They are living, breathing organisms that continue to grow and expand."

    If they are really growing and expanding, you wouldn't really need to tell people about it.

  17. Re:Updates are just as bad on Microsoft's Windows 10 Upgrade Screen Interrupts Meteorologist's Live Forecast (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Patches are rolled out two weeks after Patch Tuesday and being tested with existing applications. Standard corporate practice. Or should be.

    Patch Tuesday is not a thing any more...

  18. Re:First they mocked us... on Steam Computer Gaming Network Now Accepting Bitcoin (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Please, you're still being mocked.

  19. Re:It will have VR headset. on Nintendo's Mysterious 'NX' Gaming Platform To Be Launched In March 2017 (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I grew up in the 80's where VRML

    Isn't VRML a late 90s technology?

  20. You're really missing out. Too bad.

  21. Re:So fork it on Wikipedia Is Basically a Corporate Bureaucracy, Says Study (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought OpenOffice.org is still more popular?

  22. I apologize.

  23. The guy asked the question how I was confident in responding to that, I gave him my understanding of the words. Which really should have been sufficient to understand.

    But, since you can't even understand that, I give up.

  24. identity: the fact of being who or what a person or thing is.
    crisis: a time of intense difficulty or danger.

  25. I never once brought up psychology, sorry.