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  1. Re:You know on Kickass Torrents' KAT.ph Domain Seized By Philippine Authorities · · Score: 2

    True, and that's why services like Steam make profit so well: they are just convenient enough compared to the piracy route.

  2. Re:You know on Kickass Torrents' KAT.ph Domain Seized By Philippine Authorities · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You wont be able to find any illegal content hosted by the site no matter how long and hard you look, what you will find however are .torrent files and magnet links. Big difference but not one I'd expect you to be willing to accept.

    There's no practical difference. You clicky the linky at KickAssTorrents website, warez flows to your computer. My point being, the torrent files and magnet links are the only way to access the illegal content behind them after all. They are essentially a complete description, a virtualization of the files. It's silly to say that a torrent site "does not host the files" because they still make the sharing possible in first place.

  3. Re:Wait, DNF came out? on Apogee Suing Gearbox Over Unpaid Royalties For Duke Nukem Forever · · Score: 2

    Croteam's Serious Sam on the other hand is still doing surprisingly well. SS4 is in the works, comes with a Linux version.

  4. Re: Just don't ignore any warnings? on Debian Says Remove Unofficial Debian-Multimedia.org Repository From Your Sources · · Score: 1

    If someone is ignoring warnings about missing public keys, they probably also have bigger problems.

    Alcoholism, depression...

  5. Re:Moved to deb-multimedia.org on Debian Says Remove Unofficial Debian-Multimedia.org Repository From Your Sources · · Score: 1

    He didn't miss the point. He just commented one aspect of it, which is that the original is now at deb-multimedia.org. Which is correct.

  6. He seems to host some kind of motorcycle website there.

  7. Re:Cycling on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With New Free Time? · · Score: 1

    Cycling has the problem that it only makes your legs stronger, leaving the top of your body crappy. Not that it wouldn't be a great activity, otherwise!

  8. Re:MUSIC on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With New Free Time? · · Score: 1

    Apparently the mods are on crack again.

  9. Re:Too Much Free Time? You Entitled Twat! on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With New Free Time? · · Score: 1

    Heh, that was a full-bodied rant with mustard, ketchup and various spices. Nice!

    There's a subreddit for the OP's problem. ;)

  10. Re:And beyond SSD, the future is PCIe Flash on SSDs: The New King of the Data Center? · · Score: 1

    I don't know really. The SATA 3 spec was released in July 2008, which was about the year when only the very first consumer SSDs started to appear. Maybe the spec was mostly designed for fast HDDs and they couldn't fully predict the need for the speed. And it was a natural thing to just double the data rate.

  11. Re:Virtualisation on SSDs: The New King of the Data Center? · · Score: 1

    Good point.

  12. Re:And beyond SSD, the future is PCIe Flash on SSDs: The New King of the Data Center? · · Score: 1

    SATA 3.0 is only 600 MB/s.

  13. Re:Awesome on AMD Making a 5 GHz 8-Core Processor At 220 Watts · · Score: 1

    You have a point there, although even that is possible to whip together with a chip that is not a CPU.

  14. Re:Know what else is 10,000x faster than flash? on Computer Memory Can Be Read With a Flash of Light · · Score: 2, Funny

    You are messing the discussion with facts. Someone call the guards!

  15. Re:Will it be a repeat? on Will PCIe Flash Become Common In Laptops, Desktops? · · Score: 1

    USB also uses the CPU for the heavy lifting, so it is cheaper to implement.

    The statement that USB uses CPU for the heavy lifting is thrown around a lot, but is it still true?

  16. Re:2013 AMD has a message for 2005 AMD on AMD Making a 5 GHz 8-Core Processor At 220 Watts · · Score: 1

    The problem is they are so many ways to judge performance.
    GHZ are good for comparing like processors.
    MIPS are good for similar instruction sets.
    FLOPS are good for similar code (That uses floating points)

    Of those, I think GHz is used way too often, while it actually has lost much of its meaning these days. For example we've had 2GHz desktop CPUs for a decade now, but the performance difference between them can be worlds apart.

  17. Re:It adds up on Microsoft Boasts of Tiny Energy Saving With IE · · Score: 1

    How much money do you actually save buying a PC without a Windows license vs with a Windows license?

    As a Joe Sixpack, you save about €40.

    Not to mention when a company calls up Dell and asks for 10,000 computers they get a pretty nice discount.

    Yup.

  18. Re:It adds up on Microsoft Boasts of Tiny Energy Saving With IE · · Score: 1

    Frankly I wouldn't find it surprising at all if most fortune 500 companies had 10,000 Windows licenses.

  19. Re:Awesome on AMD Making a 5 GHz 8-Core Processor At 220 Watts · · Score: 1

    I doubt that. The temperature measurement mechanics and the on/off pulsing for running the coolant does not need even a simple microcontroller. It's probably driven by completely analog electronics. Unless we are talking about some unordinary deluxe freezer.

  20. Re:I wonder on First Look At Ubuntu Touch, the Smartphone OS · · Score: 1

    At least the Amazon backdoor will come as a standard feature.

  21. Hah, awesome!

    Airbrushing the thing to look like a large can of Coca-Cola would also be an interesting mod.

  22. Re:Keynote video on Apple Shows Off New iOS 7, Mac OS X At WWDC · · Score: 1

    D'oh! That's one facepalm for me then.

  23. Keynote video on Apple Shows Off New iOS 7, Mac OS X At WWDC · · Score: 0
  24. Re:first on Linus Torvalds Promises Profanity Over Linux 3.10-rc5 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    A Windows 7/8 desktop is faster and consumes less resources than a Linux desktop (for fair comparison, we should look at modern full-feature DEs such as KDE, GNOME or Unity).

  25. Re:Windows problems on What Keeps You On (or Off) Windows in 2013? · · Score: 1

    To be honest I don't know why the Windows 7 GUI receives so much hate [...] The interface might take up some computer resources you could use otherwise

    Actually the GUI (Aero and whatnot) doesn't even steal much resources at all. It's perfectly fine even on an Atom netbook.