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  1. Re:Linux vs Android on Microsoft Launches Outlook For Android and iOS · · Score: 1

    Who is saying that including "GNU" makes a Linux installation "real"? There are many kinds of software stacks built upon Linux. Besides, a typical PC Linux distro is comprised of many, many other pieces than just the kernel and GNU software.

  2. Re:Linux vs Android on Microsoft Launches Outlook For Android and iOS · · Score: 1

    You are now talking about the userspace and not the kernel (Linux). Even desktop Linux distros are not fully userspace-compatible with each other.

  3. Re:Since when is AMT controversial? on FSF-Endorsed Libreboot X200 Laptop Comes With Intel's AMT Removed · · Score: 1

    We wouldn't have the screaming-fast modern computers with zigabytes of jibberies and Gordon Freeman if it wasn't for copyrights and patents creating business interest to put astronomical amounts of money and engineering into specialized proprietary research.

  4. Re: why google keeps microsoft away on Microsoft To Invest In Rogue Android Startup Cyanogen · · Score: 2

    Awesome. Can you please fix the biggest annoyance of android: if I place a call and immediately lock the screen the screen gets unlocked automatically when the call gets connected. That means if I put it in my pocket after I initiate the call it may hangup or go mute it whatever.

    That's the main reason I went back to iPhone. Thanks!

    Well, did you contact Google about this issue? They are a company that sometimes even responds to feedback.

  5. Re:MSFT ON BSD! on Microsoft Launches Outlook For Android and iOS · · Score: 1

    I knew some pedant would come to write the "Android is not Linux" comment.

  6. Re:I really wish they would change the name on LibreOffice Gets a Streamlined Makeover With 4.4 Release · · Score: 1

    :D

  7. Re:I wish they'd fix the missing functionality on LibreOffice Gets a Streamlined Makeover With 4.4 Release · · Score: 1

    Guys, please write bug reports about such limitations, it might just be the next step to fix.

    Agree.

    Here's the link to their official bug tracker: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/. Seems to be a quite active place, so one might even have some level of success in getting their issue fixed.

    Open source usually comes with the luxury of open bug trackers -- use them!

  8. Re:scary on LibreOffice Gets a Streamlined Makeover With 4.4 Release · · Score: 2

    Streamlined and Most Beautiful ever. I am too scared to look :O

    I was thinking the same. :D That description usually means that everything is now sized 150% and comes with an ugly, simplified, flat look. Which isn't too far from the truth here, actually.

  9. Re:dis guy on D-Link Routers Vulnerable To DNS Hijacking · · Score: 1

    Ah, now I hear that he actually published the vulnerability without informing the manufacturer(s) first. Thus, let me cancel that comment.

  10. Re:dis guy on D-Link Routers Vulnerable To DNS Hijacking · · Score: 1

    Heh. I know, the name might sound dorky to some, but I'm actually glad that some guys named a group "Ethical Hacker research team". There's so many "security researchers" which in practice just provide direct ammunition for the black hats.

  11. :D

  12. Re:Slave Labour is certainly profitable on Apple Posts $18B Quarterly Profit, the Highest By Any Company, Ever · · Score: 1

    Also, please tell me the name of your MADE IN THE USA cellphone and computer.

    So if no one else is producing cellphone or computer in USA, then Apple cannot be expected to? They made the biggest profit, they might as well be the trendsetter of moving manufacturing back to America.

  13. Re:Butt FUCKING UGLY on Latest Windows 10 Preview Build Brings Slew of Enhancements · · Score: 1

    Aero is more than just translucency. In the Aero theme there's rounded corners, a small touch of color here and there, some pixel art, gradients, and white background for Start Menu.

  14. Re:God, what drivel ... on Latest Windows 10 Preview Build Brings Slew of Enhancements · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You can disable her.

    But why get an OS of which you have to disable half of the features? I don't want Modern UI, I don't want to send information to Microsoft to help to improve my computing experience, I don't want a Windows Live Account, I don't want SkyDrive, I don't want Cortana.

    Me no want anything! Waaah!

  15. Good job! on Apple Posts $18B Quarterly Profit, the Highest By Any Company, Ever · · Score: 4, Funny

    Those are amazing numbers. It shows that by making bug-free products, offering long term support, providing great value, acting fully ethically, and listening to your customers, can make you a fair amount of money. Their secret sauce? Bringing the real engineers to the spotlight.

  16. Re:still awful on Latest Windows 10 Preview Build Brings Slew of Enhancements · · Score: 1

    It's still a EUFI-using

    Even Linux Mint performs an UEFI installation (with an amateurish boot entry called "ubuntu" in lowercase letters).

  17. Re:has not answered the important question on NVIDIA GTX 970 Specifications Corrected, Memory Pools Explained · · Score: 1

    True.

  18. Re:WTF, Slashdot on Young Cubans Set Up Mini-Internet · · Score: 1

    :D

  19. Re:So where's my refund? on NVIDIA GTX 970 Specifications Corrected, Memory Pools Explained · · Score: 1

    The practical effect is still similar to the last 0.5GB running at 1150/7 MHz.

  20. Re:Just bought two of these cards on NVIDIA GTX 970 Specifications Corrected, Memory Pools Explained · · Score: 1

    Because the GPU still has to rasterize all the pixels.

  21. Re:1/7th the speed? on NVIDIA GTX 970 Specifications Corrected, Memory Pools Explained · · Score: 1

    The factor is 1/7.

    Use this formula: 1/7 * speed

  22. Re:has not answered the important question on NVIDIA GTX 970 Specifications Corrected, Memory Pools Explained · · Score: 1

    He probably means the NVIDIA Responds To GTX 970 Memory Bug discussion, although that is indeed a bit older than from yesterday.

  23. Re:has not answered the important question on NVIDIA GTX 970 Specifications Corrected, Memory Pools Explained · · Score: 1

    With "crash out" he possibly didn't mean the whole card crashing, but the memory performance "crashing to lower numbers".

  24. Re:Three-month-old Continuum screenshot on Windows 10: Charms Bar Removed, No Start Screen For Desktops · · Score: 1

    Actually Continuum is a feature that switches between windowed desktop and fullscreen mobile modes when you dock or undock your device.

    See this demo video.

  25. Re:DirectX is obsolete on DirectX 12 Lies Dormant Within Microsoft's Recent Windows 10 Update · · Score: 1

    Now you expanded the discussion to the GPU driver running on the CPU. The original claim was that "shaders are programs that run on your GPU at kernel level with full DMA access to your computer". But other than that, sure, I agree with you: the OpenGL stack and the GPU driver are a potential minefield.