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  1. Re:Can they match Intel's open source graphics dri on AMD Unveils Ryzen Mobile Processors Combining Zen Cores and Vega Graphics (hothardware.com) · · Score: 0

    Sorry pal, you're the obscure minority. Making drivers open source means more overhead and gives away possible trade secrets or crappy code that is bad for PR.

    As much as I'd love to game on linux instead with open sores drivers, AMD is here to sell graphics cards, chips and CPUs and the faster they can push drivers out the better.

  2. Oh, like games used to be like?

  3. Re:It's those damned midwest liberals on The Fastest-Growing Tech State Is... Minnesota · · Score: 1

    Minnesotan here, who now lives in Wisconsin and works in tech.

    The temp variations are the following: -40'F to 110'F, while rare to see either more than once a year, if that, it does feel worse because it also gets stupidly windy and dry (making it feel colder) and humid and stagnant, making it feel like hell would be cooler.

  4. Re:MS Paint on Windows 10 RTM In 6 Weeks · · Score: 1

    Dude, I think we should get married. Your thoughts on here are part of what I came here to say. Its not just the icons, its the whole OS that is like this. They used to give a shit about the experience, now they dont.

  5. HURKA DURKA COMPUTERS HURRR!

  6. Re:The bad thing about used equipment on Used IT Equipment Can Be Worth a Fortune (Video) · · Score: 1

    I think you can get both lightly used almost anywhere. Microcenter around here has PATA drives of all sizes and AT power supplies can be had online.

  7. Junk? on Used IT Equipment Can Be Worth a Fortune (Video) · · Score: 2

    I checked prices of stuff I've been trying to buy, and its way, way off. Like 10x off. C2950's used go for like $18-150 and they say it starts at the high point. Ok, sure. Maybe its all new stuff, but I cant tell, so what good is this?

  8. Re:Cellular is the business model on Time Warner Deal Is How Comcast Will Fight Cord Cutters · · Score: 1

    Actually, you're a dumbass and there are things that will overload it.
    Yes it can handle multiple people, but if they all are whoring bandwidth too much for the backhaul or the node, it will crawl down to nothing.

    This recently happened to my node on Charter where my 100Mbps cable crawled at 0.25Mbps down. At least I didnt pay for internet for three months...

  9. Re:Trolling on Your 60-Hour Work Week Is Not a Badge of Honor · · Score: 1

    Maybe if you werent using the beta, it would cut time.

  10. What about the slashNOT beta? on Ask Slashdot: Why Are We Still Writing Text-Based Code? · · Score: 0

    Its so rad and DIGG like, but who cares? Not the community! FUCKERS

  11. Re:Why not use a raid card with Cache Protection? on Power-Loss-Protected SSDs Tested: Only Intel S3500 Passes · · Score: 1

    That begs that you have enterprise level everything else, including dual psu's and or a UPS.

  12. Re:SSD drives are fast, but they suck for reliabil on Power-Loss-Protected SSDs Tested: Only Intel S3500 Passes · · Score: 1

    Dont buy shit software from EA then, because really we know they are the biggest retailer using DRM still.

    To be fair, even if you dont agree and continue to buy software that is copy protected, that is the issue, not the SSD.

    Backup everything fools.

  13. Re:Power-loss protected? No Samsung? on Power-Loss-Protected SSDs Tested: Only Intel S3500 Passes · · Score: 1

    +1 one more. We have deployed like 300 of the 800 series.

    I've personally used two ocz which were shit until I firmware flashed them and did a full format, then were ok. One was so bad it felt like i was running windows on a USB 2.0 flash drive (yes, I have done this -- both were windows 8 which runs pretty fast on usb, this case it did not)

    I have two Samsungs, a Crucial, two intels, and a Hyper-X.

    This test is biased and skewed to make a point.

    Also we use these 98% in laptops which dont lose power abruptly.
    For a desktop, you can get a raptor enterprise drive for give or take the same price thats twice the size so why bother?

  14. Re:Beos was a media OS, went out with a sputter. on Thought Experiment: The Ultimate Creative Content OS · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Mod parent up. I came here to say this. BE is still used today to mix audio since its a real-time OS and very capable of doing things other OSes of the its day just plain were not up to.

    The interface is ultra minimalistic and it follows a lot of what an awesome OS should be.

  15. Re:Microsoft needs to be loved again on Steve Ballmer's Big-Time Error: Not Resigning Years Ago · · Score: 1

    Working, legit office for Linux as binaries.
    Working, legit office for android and iOS
    Paid-for RDP app for Android and iOS

    Fix the suck that is SharePoint

    Put the innovators back on top and cut the drunk managers out of the company. Shed the dead drunk weight.

  16. Re:Also, not breaking up the company on Steve Ballmer's Big-Time Error: Not Resigning Years Ago · · Score: 1

    I wish they'd share more, each app has its seemingly own interface. IE would have been market domination extreme if they had the Visual Studio pinning and tabs (and it had IE in those tabs, and i used it as a browser to prove my point) basically it was like Firefox or chrome is today before its time. Windows doesn't look like office doesn't look like Visual Studio doesn't look like SQL doesn't look like Exchange meaning no team is on the same page with the GUI which is total failsauce

  17. Re:$20B the value of Steve Ballmer leaving on Steve Ballmer's Big-Time Error: Not Resigning Years Ago · · Score: 1

    Actually their Android Hisense Wal-Mart only tablets are cheaper and comparable to the best of breed that Google can bring to the market, and they sell both profiting off of themselves and others. Win for them!

  18. Re:Vista on Steve Ballmer's Big-Time Error: Not Resigning Years Ago · · Score: 1

    Actually Microsoft purchased the people who did any of the development awesomeness like Word or Excel.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word

    Lets not forget Hyper-V and other fun things.

    I am not sure but the only thing Microsoft really came up with was Windows 95's GUI, which they didnt license or buy, but stole. Some netcode was even from BSD.

  19. Re:Vista on Steve Ballmer's Big-Time Error: Not Resigning Years Ago · · Score: 1

    AC you remind of a a fellow I knew who, as I last heard, was working on the Video stuff at Crapple and didnt like music...Adger is that you?

  20. Dissapointing on Open Source Mapping Software Shows Every Traffic Death On Earth · · Score: 1

    I was hoping to see something like the new BI Maps junk from Excel 2013 so I could see where to not drive in my city. TLDR give me what I want.

  21. Re:You be amazed on Three Banks Lose Millions After Wire Transfer Switches Hacked · · Score: 1

    Few lines of code to have them lost into your bank account here, a few there. Testing is free!

  22. AMD Whitebox on Ask Slashdot: Best/Newest Hardware Without "Trusted Computing"? · · Score: 1

    Most AMD boxes so far dont have TPM, but thats changing. I think the enterprise ones have a module slot. AMD has licensed tech from ARM to put an armcore in the package for TPM.

  23. Re:Of course! And you never need more than 640K RA on Hybrid Hard Drives Just Need 8GB of NAND · · Score: 1

    I have one of their SSDs when I was buying multiple brands for testing in multiple machines from AMD to VIA to Intel. Before flashing it was awful and had issues, but is rock solid since!

  24. Re: Of course! And you never need more than 640K R on Hybrid Hard Drives Just Need 8GB of NAND · · Score: 1

    This, we've got about 200 of the stupid things between the various Samsungs - dell models, 830's and 840s now from work to home machines. Only had one totally kick the bucket and we tossed it back and sent it in for scrap

  25. I'd back something worth backing on Using Kickstarter Data To Predict Ubuntu Edge's Success · · Score: 1

    This project isn't it. I'd put money in it if they were to unify their efforts to make linux suck less and stop changing for the sake of change. Instead of blowing time making a phone they could have succeeded at making their desktop product rock solid and keep it that way. (Ubuntu has this thing about changing everything in every version far too much.)

    If you don't agree with me, consider that Windows has at the core barely changed. Apps from 15 years ago still work for the most part, without much fuss. Documentation is basically the same, perhaps a few target directories have changed. This helps documentation people write in their struggles stay relevant. Linux on the other hand, appears to have no solid consistency between subversions sometimes, making documentation written a year ago for 10.0 not work with 10.1 or 10.2 so doing anything rapidly isn't as easy any longer. Why does this matter, you should know what you're doing! Well mom and pop shops, and one man IT shops don't have that kind of time to re-learn everything all the time.