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  1. Why use XP? on Meet the Diehards Who Refuse To Move On From Windows XP · · Score: 2

    "What's so great about an operating system that was invented before the age of Dropbox and Facebook, an OS that's almost as old as the original Google search engine?"

    It does everything newer operating systems do, with a smaller footprint, and without so much goddamned annoying DRM.

    Only exception? No support for anything higher than DX9. Which isn't important for anything but gamers.

    Of course, the same could be said about Windows 2000.

  2. Re:here's how stupid this is on AMD Unveils the Liquid-Cooled, Dual-GPU Radeon R9 295X2 At $1,500 · · Score: 1

    >You circulate the water between the heat-producing surface and a heat-dissipating radiator.

    Which means you still need air contact and air flow to cool off the radiator.

    So you just waste more power on an already inefficient cooling process.

    Might as well be a fool and use a Peltier inside the computer at that pint.

  3. Re:here's how stupid this is on AMD Unveils the Liquid-Cooled, Dual-GPU Radeon R9 295X2 At $1,500 · · Score: 0

    Only to still replace it with air cooling further down the line. What a waste.

    I design cooling systems for high-heat semiconductors. Guess what? Liquid cooling SUCKS as you're still limited by how fast you can transfer the heat to the air ultimately.

    Direct metal cooling, or phase change. Liquid/water cooling sucks.

  4. Re:here's how stupid this is on AMD Unveils the Liquid-Cooled, Dual-GPU Radeon R9 295X2 At $1,500 · · Score: 1

    Guess where that heat ultimately dissipates any ways?

    THE AIR.

    It's like you failed thermodynamics in high school.

  5. Re:And nothing of value was lost on GameSpy Multiplayer Shutting Down, Affecting Hundreds of Games · · Score: 1

    You aren't very bright either, failing to see that I'm not letting his stupid jeer get in the way of facts.

  6. Permablock Camfrog on Microsoft's Security Products Will Block Adware By Default Starting On July 1 · · Score: 1

    Their ads try to install things on your system without your knowledge.

  7. Found by a 5-year old on Five-Year-Old Uncovers Xbox One Login Flaw · · Score: 2

    That right there should be a serious warning to anyone using or considering Microsoft products.

  8. Re:Reverse the hack on TCP/IP Might Have Been Secure From the Start If Not For the NSA · · Score: 1

    I've got my own implementation that is OSI compatible. But given I answered more than half of the RFCs and had over 30% of those comments implemented, I'm still a father.

    Oh, you wanted a name? No, sir. Do that work for yourself.

  9. Re:Reverse the hack on TCP/IP Might Have Been Secure From the Start If Not For the NSA · · Score: 0

    " Do you even understand how the OSI model works?"

    Given Layer 6 is almost entirely written by me, yea, I know far more than you do.

    Come back when you've got a fucking clue.

  10. Re:And nothing of value was lost on GameSpy Multiplayer Shutting Down, Affecting Hundreds of Games · · Score: 1

    Uh, yea, been at it since 1992, when Cable modem first came out for Memphis.

  11. Re:Prior Art on Details You're Not Supposed To See From Boston U's Patent Settlements · · Score: 1

    "Instead of relying on Wikipedia, why don't you try reading the actual patents (which you obviously have not done)?"

    I have. You're relying upon wikipedia instead of real life sources.

    But that is your problem, while I've made devices utilizing said patents and they can't do shit about it due to doctrine of first sale.

  12. Reverse the hack on TCP/IP Might Have Been Secure From the Start If Not For the NSA · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Either beat these fools down or be a fucking slave.

    Your choice. You set the tone for the future.

  13. Re:Prior Art on Details You're Not Supposed To See From Boston U's Patent Settlements · · Score: 1

    I do LED work for a living. I know Mr. Nakamura at Nichia.

    And the wikipedia entry is well-sourced, with not much of anything referencing BU.

    Perhaps you could bother reading the evidence, which you obviously have not.

  14. Re:RTA: geologists wanted to find the rock on Skydiver's Helmet Cam Captures a Falling Meteor · · Score: 1

    They have two camera recordings. Triangulation shouldn't be too difficult with two semi-clear views from very different angles.

  15. Re:And nothing of value was lost on GameSpy Multiplayer Shutting Down, Affecting Hundreds of Games · · Score: 1

    "Yea, everything was so much better back before GameSpy was around and we used to use.... nothing."

    HEAT.NET

    TEN.COM

    GameSpy wasn't the only thing around back then. I'm going to guess you never actually played games very seriously.

  16. Re:Prior Art on Details You're Not Supposed To See From Boston U's Patent Settlements · · Score: 1

    Too bad the method of making them was the same back then, GaN epitaxy.

  17. Re:Prior Art on Details You're Not Supposed To See From Boston U's Patent Settlements · · Score: 1

    Too bad prior art goes back even further than that.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

  18. Prior Art on Details You're Not Supposed To See From Boston U's Patent Settlements · · Score: 2

    Nichia had blue Gallium-Nitride LED tech in 1994, and is in fact credited with its invention.

  19. Re:Top Gear was worse. on 60 Minutes Dubbed Engines Noise Over Tesla Model S · · Score: 1

    I haven't seen 10,000MPG and I've been watching SAE supermileage competitions for quite some time. Highest I saw was in the range of 3,000+ MPG.

  20. Re:Hurray! on Latest Humble Bundle Supports Open Source GameDev Tools · · Score: 1

    NEO Scavenger is actually pretty decent.

  21. Kickstarters got played on Facebook Buying Oculus VR For $2 Billion · · Score: 1

    To steal a comment from another site I frequent:

    "Everybody that gave hundreds or thousands of dollars because they believed in the Oculus Kickstarter? Yeah, they "invested" in the company, but had no equity. They basically funded a Facebook acquisition."

    Even if you got your rift now, you just got played, and hard.

  22. Re:Why? on Intel Announced 8-Core CPUs And Iris Pro Graphics for Desktop Chips · · Score: 2

    "You are full of outdated rubbish."

    Please, GMABooster is already preparing to unlock the underclocked Iris GPU.

    Because this is what Intel does. Use it at max power, show performance, then underclock the shit out of it and ship it off.

    The 950 would have been competitive if it had shipped at its stock 400 MHz (minus not having hardware T&L) instead of the fucked 166MHz the drivers forced at low level.

  23. You've ALWAYS had to have a subject for any reply.

  24. Re:Ridiculous. on Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences · · Score: 1

    "Suppose there was some physics experiment that stood a decent chance of generating a black hole that could destroy the planet and all future generations."

    And this is why she has a PhD in Philosophy, not physics.

  25. Re:Surprised? on Overuse of Bioengineered Corn Gives Rise To Resistant Pests · · Score: 1

    "These forests deliver way, way more food per acre than any conventional farming method, by a huge margin."

    Not even close to vertical farming. I can cram 8-20x more crop per acre than some forest setup.

    Your forest setup, at best, maybe does 3x.