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  1. Re:Huh? on Tesla On Track To Turn a Profit This Year (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The big difference is that much of the "loss" for this quarter is due to the fact that they stockpiled a bunch of cars. They wanted to make sure they didn't hit the 200,000 EV milestone in Q2 so their customers could enjoy the tax rebate for a little bit longer.

  2. Nope, AMD *was* f'd on China Begins Production Of x86 Processors Based On AMD's IP (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    AMD was f'd, so they mortgaged the future with this deal. They got $250M from this deal, which let them ship Ryzen in a timely manner. They may regret it later, but without the cash infusion they wouldn't have had a future to regret.

  3. The incumbents are building in China too on China's Ambitions To Power the World's Electric Cars Took a Huge Leap Forward This Week (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Pretty much every incumbent car manufacturer plans on building their car plants in China. BMW is more prominently in the news for that but others are too. They'd be silly not to. That's where the incentives and the batteries are. And increasingly, that's where the knowledge is.

  4. Re:Idiots - Nvidia don't ignore the problem, solve on Nvidia Suspends Self-Driving Car Tests in Wake of Uber Crash (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Numerous people have gone to the crash site and reconstructed it. There was plenty of light for a human to have seen the victim and to have stopped in time.

  5. Re:For desktop, OK, but for server this is bad on Ubuntu To Stop Offering 32-Bit ISO Images, Joining Many Other Linux Distros (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Ubuntu will continue to provide 32 bit Cloud and Container images.

    https://lists.ubuntu.com/archi...

  6. If Trump was really asking Congress to enact DACA, he would have written his order so that DACA would stop processing new applications in 6 months rather than stop processing new applications immediately.

  7. Re: No way on Would You Buy the iPhone 8 If It Cost $1,200? (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    I easily get $10,000 of utility out of my phone. If I had to pay $10K, I would.

    But luckily for me a $400 phone has 99% of the (theoretical) utility of a $10,000 phone. I don't get $9600 more utility out of a $10,000 phone than I do out of a $400 phone.

  8. Close election: everybody's theory is right on Hillary Clinton Rips 'Bankrupt' DNC Data Operation (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    The election was extremely close, so every little thing that flipped a few voters was one of the straws that broke the camel's back. Comey, the Russians, her slogan, the DNC apparatus, et cetera, et cetera. No single straw broke the camel's back, they were all required.

    Heck she could have had a bad hair day that flipped a few voters and that straw could have been enough.

  9. "The goal is not, nor will it ever be, 0 accidents."

    Perhaps, but the goal definitely should be 0 fatalities. http://www.visionzeroinitiativ...

  10. Re:There is an option at OVH on Canonical Sues Cloud Provider Over 'Unofficial' Ubuntu Images (ostatic.com) · · Score: 2

    You can choose the OVH or distribution *kernel* when installing, but the OS itself will have been modified, regardless. And that's only for some machines, their Xeon D machines have the distribution kernel option disabled, for example.

  11. Will make very little difference on Slashdot Asks: Will Farming Be Fully Automated in the Future? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Dryland farming on flat land in Saskatchewan, Canada already is down to about 1 human per 5000 acres (20 square kilometres) due to the use of very large equipment that can till, seed and harvest hundreds of acres per day. Since you're always going to have to have a human in the loop somewhere just to give commands and monitor the robots that ratio probably isn't going to change much whether the equipment is automated or just very large.

  12. If there's a reasonable possibility of kids jumping in front of your car and you can't avoid the kids when they do, then you were driving too fast, period.

    That means you shouldn't be driving any faster than 20 mph beside parked cars or on any road that has kid-hiding obstacles within 3 feet of your lane.

    Self-driving cars will limit themselves to 20 mph in such a situation for that reason, and that's going to piss a lot of people off.

  13. W3C is irrelevant on W3C Set To Publish HTML 5.1, Work Already Started On HTML 5.2 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    You do realize that the W3C is irrelevant, right? The standard that the browsers actually use is developed by the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WhatWG).

  14. POWER9 must be far away on IBM Launches New Linux, Power8, OpenPower Systems (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    They pre-announced POWER9 a couple of weeks ago. So new POWER8 announcements are kind of a let down. Obviously POWER9 must be a ways away, then. You've got to move fast to have any chance of competing with Intel.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  15. Re:Microarchitectural details? on Intel Unveils Full Details of Kaby Lake 7th Gen Core Series Processors (hothardware.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    According to Anandtech, there are no core architectural improvements, the IPC is the same as Skylake. Clocks per watt is substantially improved, though.

  16. Re:Welcome to 2014 on AMD Unveils Radeon Pro WX and Pro SSG Professional Graphics Cards (hothardware.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What's more shocking is that it's only slower on DX11 games. DX12 games with async compute and Vulkan games are faster on the cheaper AMD card. And I don't know about you, but when I buy a video card, I care more about next year's games than last year's games.

  17. Re:The elephant i on NVIDIA Launches GeForce GTX 1060 To Take On AMD's Radeon RX 480 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2

    The 1060 is faster the 480 in old games. However newer games will use technologies like asynchronous DX12 and Vulkan. Ashes of the Singularity and Hitman are good examples of the former, and the Vulkan build of Doom is a good example of the latter.

    The 480 is faster than the 1060 in those 3 games. Doom/Vulkan is a *lot* faster on the 480.

  18. Re:Sharing is a business now? on 'Tor and Bitcoin Hinder Anti-Piracy Efforts' (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    If you read the Napster business plan from 2001, it seems very similar to that of Spotify: $10 for unlimited music streams. If they would have jumped on board everybody would be using it and the studios would be making money hand over fist.

    Instead most people listen to their music on Youtube or ad-supported Spotify, which pays a pittance compared to the paid Spotify.

  19. Re:"Artistic similarity"? on Activision Abuses DMCA To Take Knock Indie Game Entirely Off Steam · · Score: 4, Informative

    The top rail and sight assembly are identical, too identical to be a coincidence.

    But that's because they both copied from the M14.

  20. Phoning the police? on Vacationing Security Researcher Exposes Austrian ATM Skimmer (carbonblack.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So instead of phoning the police, he destroys possible evidence, such as fingerprints. Bravo.

  21. Re:No surprise on Prisons Moving To All-Video Visitation (mic.com) · · Score: 1

    On average, American's commit three felonies a day. You're probably one of them, even if you don't smoke pot or live with someone who does.

    https://www.amazon.ca/Three-Fe...

  22. Re:Crappy Music on Music Streaming Service Exclusives Make Pirating Tempting Again (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "I do not care, I only listen to the good stuff which is usually at least ten years old but more often older."

    You're falling prey to Sturgeon's law: "90% of everything is crap". It's just that with the old stuff, the crap has been rightfully forgotten. There's lots of good new music, you just need to find a good way to filter out the crap.

  23. Re:Specific and Custom Linux on Reports: NVIDIA Launching a Distro of Its Own (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    What's your definition of better? The AMD open source drivers are much more stable than the nVidia closed source drivers. They're slower and have fewer features, but they're more stable, in my experience.

  24. Re:Looks pretty, but... on Samsung Unveils Galaxy S7, Galaxy S7 Edge and Gear 360 VR Camera (hothardware.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Choose 2:

    - waterproof
    - replaceable battery
    - not crazy thick

  25. This change makes me feel a lot better about my Scribd subscription, it gives me confidence that the service is sustainable. It's still a good deal, I'm definitely part of the 97% that read fewer than 3 books per month. Buying 2-3 books a month would definitely cost me a lot more than $90/year.

    I felt the same way after my ISP switched from unlimited to 400GB per month. I'm no longer paying for those leechers that use several TB per month.