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  1. Re:People still buy Intel? Google AMD Zen on Intel's 10nm 'Cannon Lake' Processors Won't Arrive Until Late 2019 (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 0

    Thanks for the history lesson, it really helps frame why things are as they are.

  2. Re:Jobs will be destroyed faster than created on 'Tech Companies Should Stop Pretending AI Won't Destroy Jobs' (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 0

    I liked your story, It gave me a new prospective on a strictly vocational carrier path and how people are disposable in todays society.

  3. Re:Thank you slashdot on This Is the Week Wall Street Went Nuts Over Cryptocurrencies (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    Finally reading a comment I agree with, very rare here on Slashdot.

  4. Re:Thank you slashdot on This Is the Week Wall Street Went Nuts Over Cryptocurrencies (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    Why? Is it because the truth hurts?

  5. Re: Microsoft, please port Edge to Linux and macOS on Microsoft Explains Why Edge Has So Few Extensions (betanews.com) · · Score: 0

    Look up Windows 10 Media Center on the MDL fourms, there is a hacked version WMC that works in Windows 10. Been using for almost a year and it's great.

  6. I hear all this talk about alternative like electric, which require vast amounts of lithium for the batteries which fail after about 5 years. I haven't found one post about Hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe and which ICE engines can burn and old ones can too with modifications. I think this is best option because and ICE engine dozen require any exotic or rare earth metals like Fuel Cell needing platinum and or iridium or electric cars needing lithium do.

  7. Re:Great guy on Linus Explains What Surprises Him After 25 Years Of Linux (linux.com) · · Score: 0

    > illegal and unethical business techniques made it the most popular OS around I call that smart > I was forced to use it at work. The horror, I am sure a war crime was committed. > Amiga danced circles around them. Looks like the marked decided which was the better platform. > The IBM PC was heavily targeted towards business users. As all computers should be, and also beige - I miss beige computers.

  8. Re:Great guy on Linus Explains What Surprises Him After 25 Years Of Linux (linux.com) · · Score: 0

    What pain did Microsoft inflict on you? Did Microsoft put sugar in your gas tank? Did they leave air out your tires? Did Bill Gates break in your house and steal your teddy bear? You sound like those idiots who blame America for there problems, when in fact that is not true at all. Heck if it wasn't for Microsoft, there wouldn't be PC gaming or cheap computers that are powerful. The Market itself would still be fractured and filled with competing incompatible formats. So in the Microsoft is net good, and bill gates is probably a great guy.

  9. Re: Per Capita Numbers? on Americans Have Fewer TVs On Average Than They Did In 2009 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    You can fix that with a simple antenna depending on where you live.

  10. Re:OTA programming + a la carte "premium" content on Sling TV Accidentally Reveals Its Set-Top Box For Cord Cutters (engadget.com) · · Score: 0

    Your welcome for the links, Iagree with you on the protected content part, I don't think SiliconDust will deliver, for a number of reasons mainly thatcable labs certification is unnecessarily draconian and only companies like Microsoft have theware with all toget there software certified. Also I think that there really is no completive reason to have devices that can compete with the cable companies cable box racket. I really wish the TV networks would go all IP, it would makethings allot easier.

  11. Re:OTA programming + a la carte "premium" content on Sling TV Accidentally Reveals Its Set-Top Box For Cord Cutters (engadget.com) · · Score: 0

    You can run Windows Media Center on Windows 10. Some great guys have made a patched version which works well. Windows 10 gives you Netflix and Amazon on the same box. https://forums.mydigitallife.i... also there is this https://www.tablotv.com/tablo-...

  12. Re:OTA programming + a la carte "premium" content on Sling TV Accidentally Reveals Its Set-Top Box For Cord Cutters (engadget.com) · · Score: 0

    Where do you live abouts that you don't get any OTA signal? I know most of broadcast tv suck, but I like watching the news, late night, and old tv shows on all the new niche tv channels. I personally live near Monterey Park hills where getting reception is hampered even though I am near the near the TV broadcast antennas on Mount Wilson. I had to resort to buying a big ass Winegard outdoor TV antenna and put it on 25 ft. mast to get reception on all the available channels. Also the ATSC signal sucks too, there is no grade b signal choice like in other systems.

  13. Re:Peoples Republic of Commiefornia on California To Adopt First US Energy-Saving Rules For Computers (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    I am all for helping to keep the environment clean, but not the cost of screwing over poor people which emission testing really dose. I live in Southern California at least the state has some help for the poor for emission related car repairs.

  14. Re: I'm just gonna throw this out here on How San Francisco Hazed a Tech Bro (backchannel.com) · · Score: 0

    This is what needs to be done, we as a society must take care of those who cannot take care of themselves.

  15. Re:23% of the company on Volkswagen Could Face $18 Billion Fine Over Emission-Cheating Software · · Score: 0

    I think we found the Krout boys, get him!!!!

  16. Re:Stream 11 on Ask Slashdot: Cheapest Functional Computer For Students? · · Score: 0

    And there is nothing wrong with pen, paper and proper penmanship. I would tell the teacher to suck an egg, like I did when asked to type up my physics outlines in high school. Typing up a paper here or there is fine, I could handle that workload on my mom's old SMC typewriter, but mandating them to have expensive computer equipment or use the usually screwed up or occupied public alternatives is not right. If this asshole of teacher has to supplement his curriculum with outside materials that are only available online, he needs to either par them down so they can be presented in class or get a better text book. Fucking lazy ass loser kicking the bucket down the road, and usually its the poorest kids who have it hardest or with dad who lived through the depression. BTW I graduated High School in 2002

  17. Re:AT&T.... on NTT, Japan's Largest Fixed Telecom Provider, Begins Phasing Out ADSL · · Score: 0

    I have that same DSL plan here LA, in EAST LA with AT&T, but I only play $19.99 a month. The only other competition is Time Warner which is way to expensive. Plus I like not having to share my line with everyone else when they get home and fire up Netflix.

  18. Re:Frozen on Lifting the Veil On Pluto's Atmosphere · · Score: 0

    Simply, Please go fuck yourself. Pluto is the first planet discovered by an American and so therefore shall always be a planet!

  19. Re:Tolls? on Oregon Testing Pay-Per-Mile Driving Fee To Replace Gas Tax · · Score: 0

    How about first they return the money the gov borrowed from the road funds, before they even think about raising taxes. There is plenty of money, they just keep wasting it.

  20. Re: Tolls? on Oregon Testing Pay-Per-Mile Driving Fee To Replace Gas Tax · · Score: 0

    Screw that, $300.00 is outrageous, I am in CA and only pay 80.00 and I think that is too much. The government should not keep figuring out ways to keep taxing people every time we figure out a way to lessen the tax burden. They get enough money as it is, if it were spent property they wouldn't need to keep figuring out ways of screwing people. Fuck Tolls, fuck Per mile taxes and any other wet dream these assholes can think of.

  21. Re: Didn't read article, did read summary. on Spock and the Legacy of Star Trek · · Score: 0

    I agree with just about every point you made. With TOS and TNG I always felt I learned something, that felling is solely missing in the new ST movies, and wtf some twentysomething captian?

  22. Re: Live on Spock and the Legacy of Star Trek · · Score: 0

    I agree with just about every point you made. With TOS and TNG I always felt I learned something, that felling is solely missing in the new ST movies, andwftf some twentysomething captian?

  23. Re:Crusty Hardware on User Plea Means EISA Support Not Removed From Linux · · Score: 0

    That is not completely right, look up support pack either for the audigy or live sound cards. I have a SB Live 5.1 and a Microsoft Sidewinder Force FeedBack Pro joystick. They both work great in Windows 7.

  24. Re:Do the math on New EU Rules Will Limit Vacuum Cleaners To 1600W · · Score: 0

    I sold Neptune's, they were a piece of crap, the dammed computer boards kept going out, as my dad told me computers and appliances don't mix.

  25. Re:Waaah. on New EU Rules Will Limit Vacuum Cleaners To 1600W · · Score: 0

    We use stove-top kettles in the US because for most of country, we use natural gas for heating and cooking. We keep using top-loading washers because they have the capacity and longevity we want, unlike europe we don't automatically throw out something just because some hippy tells us too.