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  1. Re:Slow day in tech, then? on Why Do Airlines Overbook? (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And the law actually requires a minimum of $1,350 refund for the seat if forced off. The guy was still in the right to refuse to give up his seat at any price lower than that, and the Chicago police helped United Airlines violate Federal Law.

  2. Re:I wish I was rich... on Scientists Identify Parts of Brain Involved In Dreaming (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Oglaf is like, pure fuckery, literal and figuratively.

  3. I know Mark is here reading... on Canonical Founder Criticizes Free Software Developers Who 'Hate On Whatever's Mainstream' (google.com) · · Score: 0

    Mark, we're not hating on what's mainstream. We're hating on your ass forcing the lack of choice upon us, when Linux is about choice. Systemd is shit. Mir is shit. Unity is shit. You took a decent user-friendly Linux OS and loaded it down with BLOAT. Your OS is no more useful than it was back in the 8. versions, yet it is easily eight times larger.

    You've gone entirely Microsoft. Bloat, useless code, and a bunch of internal politics via assholes like Poettering simply made me go the fuck away from Ubuntu years ago.

    But I bet you're too fucking egotistical to come right up to me and admit that I'm right, aren't you Mark Cowardworth?

  4. Re:Nerdy Rock Books on Slashdot Asks: What Books Are You Reading This Month? · · Score: 1

    Why, yes, yes I am!

    http://i.imgur.com/r2FaqsH.jpg
    http://i.imgur.com/O7Nv6MG.jpg
    http://i.imgur.com/qaGFvL2.jpg

    And a lot more - those are just the most recent playthings.

  5. Re: Develop a MOBILE GPU, yes? on Apple To Develop Its Own GPU, UK Chip Designer Imagination Reveals In 'Bombshell' PR (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    "A Cray can outperform any Dell, too; but what's the point?"

    Actually, if you bothered to look, no, it cannot. You are obviously living in old times, here. There's a reason Cray moved to x86 (and a good reason why they're losing right now.)

    "Again, what's your point? You're comparing a LAPTOP to some sort of monstrosity that dims the lights when you power it on! FFS!!!"

    You mactards think your shit is better than EVERYTHING, especially since you claim shit like fastest SSD on the market which is bullshit when we've got built-in PCI-E x16 SSDs that blow the shit out of your CRAPPLE hardware any day. Try again child.

    "Now I KNOW you're lying! What "SoC" would you be talking about in a MacBook Pro?"

    You obviously don't understand that almost everything nowdays is SoC, minus top-end CPU hardware (which Apple is not.) Why do you think there's such a thing as integrated graphics, you fucking tool?

    "And why would YOU be working on a has-to-be-under-warranty 2016 MBP?"

    Because people that know me understand that I know semiconductors better than almost every Apple engineer. That's why *I* am fixing the product that CRAPPLE "Engineers" 'make.'

    "And I may not have an Apple Repair Cert.; but I have certainly done my time on electronic repair benches, before I got a better job."

    If you found a better job outside of electronics, you were obviously shit at the first job inside of electronics.

    "Who cares what the weight is from. It's still a LUGGABLE."

    Funny you'd say that given that CRAPPLE products are EXACTLY THAT - mostly battery in weight/mass.

    You fucking shill, come back when you actually WORKED for Apple (via Flextronics.)

  6. Re:Moore's, Ohm's, and other empirical laws on Why Intel Insists Rumors Of The Demise Of Moore's Law Are Greatly Exaggerated (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    3D Does absolutely nothing, actually. See, Moore's Law was explicitly implied as to be in the 2D planar space, so you can fuck right off with this bullshit metric of '3D' right now, you ill-educated shit.

  7. Re: When will they learn? on Uber Contract 'Gibberish', Says MP Investigating Gig Economy (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean the resident tax-record proven right person, you fucking nitwit?

    Come back when you have an actual case, you street-corner nitwit.

  8. Re:You don't know what a fact is on Google Tackles Fake News With Global Fact-Checking Rollout (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    No, you obviously suffer the lack of reading comprehension, as well as historical comprehension.

    Come back when you can prove you actually took and passed middle school civics, child.

  9. Sure, you can go for women's pay, but you cant go for age discrimination since we're not over the age of 40, despite supposed equal protection under the law.

    Fucking hypocrites.

  10. Re:There must be a mistake ... on Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination By US Labor Department (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, not only am I paying you a visit, I'm going to broadcast it live, asshole.

    What the fuck are you going to do, boy? Not a goddamned thing, because the second you do, you'll be forced to divulge EVERYTHING to defend yourself, you law-breaking age-discriminating piece of shit.

  11. Re:There must be a mistake ... on Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination By US Labor Department (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    "I see, you think it is 'evil' what Google is doing."

    Says the asshole busted for totally saying they practice age discrimination.

    BTW, I live just a couple of blocks from your busted ass. Should I pay you a visit, asshole?

  12. Re:That's all well and good on Italy Bans Uber (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 0

    You mean Bitcoin, the currency developed to break the fucking law?

    Sure, you go right on ahead and promote that piece of shit currency meant for criminal activity, you fucking criminal.

  13. Re:You don't know what a fact is on Google Tackles Fake News With Global Fact-Checking Rollout (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    " The majority voted for Clinton"

    Not according to the Electoral College, despite numbers.

    Perhaps you should get rid of that bullshit, since obviously the popular side lost (Guess what happened when Hitler, the popular choice, got power?)

  14. Nerdy Rock Books on Slashdot Asks: What Books Are You Reading This Month? · · Score: 2

    "Opal: Advanced Cutting and Setting" by Paul B. Downing
    "Gem Identification Made Easy" by Antoinette Matlins and A.C. Bonanno
    "Creative Gold- and Silversmithing" by Sharr Choate and Bonnie Cecil De May

    And a bunch of loose gemstone faceting diagrams (several of which have failed to render properly in GemCAD so I'm quite sure their angles and indexes are off) including the famous Lone Star Cut.

    Refractive Index is a fun thing to play with if you know what you're doing.

  15. Re: When will they learn? on Uber Contract 'Gibberish', Says MP Investigating Gig Economy (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I haven't seen him since we last fucked him without lube for his admitting to age discrimination. Has he shown up since then?

  16. Re:Wow, sounds awesome on Nvidia Titan Xp Introduced as 'the World's Most Powerful Graphics Card' (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 1

    "Intel graphics increasingly are meant to run games : foremost, if some people upgrade to a 4790K or 6600K it might have the best graphics hardware they ever had, because it beats e.g. geforce 7600GT (~2006) or Radeon 5450 (~2009) and others."

    I haven't seen an onboard Intel GPU yet that can top a 7950GT. When the intel can run Street Fighter X Tekken at 40+ FPS like the 7950GT can, then we can talk. Until then, it's not even close to being decent enough for gaming.

  17. Re: Develop a MOBILE GPU, yes? on Apple To Develop Its Own GPU, UK Chip Designer Imagination Reveals In 'Bombshell' PR (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    "1. Fastest SSD. Not my benchmark [9to5mac.com]; but, BTW, where's yours?"

    http://i.imgur.com/wZ0cjjt.png - you dare compare a laptop to anything I have and it will stomp the shit out of your CRAPPLE any day.

    And there's still room for expansion in that configuration, too.

    "80 Gbps of raw I/O"

    Dude, I have THAT MANY LANES OF PCI-E 3.0 per motherboard (of which there are 4 in that config.)

    "Sorry, the new MBP DOESN'T even GET to the thermal limits. According to multiple reviews [notebookcheck.net], Both the CPU and GPU run flat-out 100% duty cycle 24/7. They really did fix it. Try again, Slashtard."

    As I look at three brand-fucking new ones, dead from overheating/deballing of the SoC, which I'm being paid to repair. Try again, oh ye who has no Apple repair certification.

    Most of that weight is battery, and modern GPUs barely use all that much power, so much that nVidia dropped any distinction between desktop and mobile - all nvidia mobile GPUs are desktop-GPUs now, since you've had your head in the sand for about five months or so.

  18. Re:Moore's, Ohm's, and other empirical laws on Why Intel Insists Rumors Of The Demise Of Moore's Law Are Greatly Exaggerated (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Moore's Law utterly ignores the fact that even two or three nanometer transistors are practically impossible given bond length combined with atomic diameter for a three-atom transistor made from today's materials, or basically any feasible combination on the periodic table, unless we figure out some way of making transistors out of quarks. It is essentially marketing and typical soft science prediction (much like economics.) And, Moore's Law was never stated as performance doubling, but transistor/component count in the same IC package size. "Performance doubling" was later tacked on by another intel idiot, and we see how that metric has simply stagnated over five years or more.

  19. Re: Develop a MOBILE GPU, yes? on Apple To Develop Its Own GPU, UK Chip Designer Imagination Reveals In 'Bombshell' PR (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    1. Fastest SSD on market - not even close. I've got PCI-E SSDs a year old that are faster than anything in any Apple hardware, period.

    2. The most I/O bandwidth on market - not in their gimped as fuck GPUs

    3. Thermal design - yea, doesn't go anywhere. I've got a stress-test program that ignores all the safety stuff and does a real stress test, no matter the machine. Every Apple product burns up.

    4. Uhh, my Sager notebook has dual GPUs. I can drive EIGHT 4K displays without issue, at the same cost as your shitty craptop.

    Mediocre, beyond belief.

  20. Re:Also, screw the Dex - Dual BT Audio? on 'Samsung Dex' Is a Galaxy S8 Dock That Turns Your Phone Into a Desktop (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Just use an FM transmitter. I have FM receivers in all of my rooms. Hey, look, there's one device transmitting to my entire house without needing to pair, and with much higher bandwidth. It's also a very cheap to implement solution, and does pretty much jack shit to your battery life to boot (since it will have its own or external power supply.)

  21. Re:Performance on Android on 'Samsung Dex' Is a Galaxy S8 Dock That Turns Your Phone Into a Desktop (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    To me, multitasking is being able to see every one of my running applications at once. ALL of them. On my computer, I can have my tuner, recording program, mixing program, all of my IM clients, and even a game going at once, and see them all and have them all operate, not 'suspend when not being currently interacted with.'

  22. Re:Might double, but CAS latencies jump with it on Next-Generation DDR5 RAM Will Double the Speed of DDR4 In 2018 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't gain when you've got the RAM slots way away from the processor, though, like in quite a few of the larger ATX motherboards.

    Really, the only true gain to be seen is having the RAM built onto the die itself.

  23. Might double, but CAS latencies jump with it on Next-Generation DDR5 RAM Will Double the Speed of DDR4 In 2018 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Thus the actual increase in performance is very, very, very little.

  24. Also, screw the Dex - Dual BT Audio? on 'Samsung Dex' Is a Galaxy S8 Dock That Turns Your Phone Into a Desktop (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Why stream to two devices? Solutions already exist for pretty much any and all use-case scenarios as-is, and BT is simply utter shit for audio in the first place. I went so far as to root my Droid phone and remove all BT capability (the battery life is fucking wonderful, now,) because it's simply useless garbage.

  25. Performance on Android on 'Samsung Dex' Is a Galaxy S8 Dock That Turns Your Phone Into a Desktop (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Given Android has zero fucking multitasking capability, it's simply not ready for the desktop, period.

    Come back to me when you can get your web browser to not need to reload a fucking image already stored in RAM, you incompetent 'Droid programmers.