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  1. Re:Linux. on Windows 10 Will Cut Off Devices With Older CPUs (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually there's basically no good Linux support for the GPU in these either. It was basically a poor choice by Intel. Apparently you can run Android 4.x on the platform sometimes depending on the specific bios. These were basically all small cheap tablets in the 7-10" range.

  2. Re:What support does a CPU need? on Windows 10 Will Cut Off Devices With Older CPUs (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    These CPUs all have the SAME video card using PowerVR tech. There's a couple of variations that WERE used in some weird systems that allowed a video card. Those specific CPU models are not actually blocked.

  3. Re:Soon you will all suffer! on Firefox Goes PulseAudio Only, Leaves ALSA Users With No Sound (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    In this case, when you're using a sound "system" that's on top of ALSA, you don't have the issues because mixing and a lot of other elements are taken care of in PA before they are sent on to ALSA. ALSA is both a whole software layer and a bunch of drivers with a single API.

  4. Re:HP printers on HP Top Level Executive On Life After the Split (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The standard Brother that's commonly recommended today comes with a "normal" capacity cartridge and it definitely printed about 1000 pages before it was used up. We bought an XL, which lasted about 2k and we're now on our second XL. I am not having a single issue, this printer replaced my LaserWriter 8500 that I had since 2000.

  5. Re:Corrected Title on IMDb Is Shutting Down Its Long-Running, Popular Message Boards After 16 Years (polygon.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    My understanding from some programmers I know at Amazon is that they started to have some massive brigading actions by some alt-right communities who would put 100s of negative entries against books and movies that they disagreed with, and that massive (manual) effort is what started the discussion on that.

  6. Even funnier to me is that after /r/tumblrinaction came into being on reddit, people started making fake trolling accounts to troll the anti-sjw people.

  7. They began to lock that down this last year,

  8. You would have to do this BEFORE you got sued for this not to be "actually illegal" and honestly then you'd just go back and amend the claim to sue the assets as well.

  9. Re:And the shift to Databases away from Oracle on Oracle Effectively Doubles Licence Fees To Run Its Stuff in AWS (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Depending on the size of the database and the actual crunching involved, you can quickly get to impossible on SQL Server since databases are still not distributed. There are also lots of exotic features on Oracle that require third party tools or extensive development to be done in SQL Server. Also jokes aside, it's very possible to have a SQL Server implementation that's still more $$$ than Oracle or DB2. It's also just much much more fragile than Oracle or DB2.

  10. Re:What hardware is used for workstations at apple on Author of Swift Language Chris Lattner is Leaving Apple; We're Interviewing Him (Ask a Question!) (swift.org) · · Score: 1

    Having been on campus many times and knowing a bunch of hardware people, it's my understanding outside of specific testing, the hardware team, a few special installs, and some servers, nobody has anything other than regular machines. The special installs are no different than the kind of special installs that integrated have already done - like making an iMac 27 into a flush-mounted wall device with a touch screen.

  11. There's already a bunch of people looking at swift for server side, virtually 100% of those are only looking at Linux as their platform.

  12. Re: Applying tort to patents on Family Sues Apple For Not Making Thing It Patented (nymag.com) · · Score: 2

    They will file to dismiss and it will likely be dismissed. It will cost Apple 1 hour of time for one of their lawyers and maybe 1 hour of time for one of their paralegals that screens all the cases. They'll also have to hire someone to file the dismissal, but there's some services you can hire that you just pay on a monthly basis that removes the actual expense of the filing and all that jazz from Apple's direct checkbook. Given that both the their lawyer and their paralegal will be under salary for Apple, they will likely pay nothing to handle the case. If they get a shitty judge then it might be less fun for them $$$-wise, but seeing past Apple actions, they will not offer any settlement at all.

  13. Re: employee improvement plan on Amazon Worker Jumps Off Company Building After Email Note (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not saying that there aren't some large companies that somehow do that, but the various large companies I've worked at EIPs are not used to fire someone, nor used to avoid unemployment costs, actually every single place I've been was the same, first follow the state laws for severance, second, offer them additional severance to agree not to claim unemployment, third if they don't take that, fine they file, we don't fight the unemployment. Bigger companies are MUCH more worried about being sued, because the cost of an employment law lawsuit is high, like 50% of a person's income easily. In fact when people DO lawyer up because they're a minority, we generally would settle starting at 3 mos income. Big companies do not actually care about paying unemployment UNLESS they are firing lots of people, then they worry about it.

  14. Re: And yet on Ecuador Acknowledges Limiting Julian Assange's Web Access (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Preventing the distribution of information that Hillary Clinton made speeches where she said in private the same things as she said in public? Or you mean the fact that the data surely came from Russian State Paid Actors who handed the data to WikiLeaks? I'm guessing that Ecuador is finally realizing they didn't get some great bastion of freedom in Assange, just a pompous asshole who's more trouble than he's worth. I suspect his welcome is about to be over.

  15. Bail is definitely able to be set in the U.K.

  16. There's actually 4 different automatic updates settings. One of the options is install OS X/MacOS updates. Uncheck that and you ONLY don't get OS updates (aka point releases and major versions.) That is separate from system file and security updates.

  17. Re:How is this similar to Windows 10? on Apple To Make macOS Sierra Available As Automatic Download Beginning Today (loopinsight.com) · · Score: 1

    There's also different levels of automatic updates oh yeah and automatic updates are NOT enabled by default.

  18. Sort of stupid actually on 4K UHD TVs Are Being Adopted Faster Than HDTVs (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The 4k TVs basically directly replaced the HDTVs, as in they just replaced the same model that was $899 last year with a new $899 model that is now 4k. Instant 4k Adoption. You're also probably getting some generational effects where people with older 480p and 720p flat screens suddenly need new TVs because they hit that magic it's 10 years OLD effect.

  19. Re:Because it's unnecessarily complex on Digital Wallets Have Yet To Catch On, JPMorgan Executive Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    A) Cash is clearly on its way out if you hadn't noticed. B) Sadly the strips do go bad and there's no more imprints for Visa and Mastercard. By the end of the next year they will use "on network" validation only. C) No doubt, though iOS hasn't really had any of the security holes like you are talking about so far. D) They are FULLY working on getting rid of those as well. It will definitely suck for the poor though when they simply don't offer a physical DL anymore.

  20. If you had say 50% of all air travel headed towards liquidation, the US Government would have been stepping in, when AMR was almost failed and United WAS failed, there were TONS of other flights by other people and there was little doubt that Southwest or the like would have just stepped in and taken over. If Boeing were going into liquidation tomorrow, again the Gov't would have no choice but to step in.

  21. Why? Let's spell it out ... F R E E D O M

  22. Re:A Raid? Really? on Spanish Authorities Raid Google Offices Over Tax (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Politics works a bit difference in Spain and France and they LOVE to "raid" businesses, especially foreign businesses. Currently the EU has set a bunch of rules in place that make all of what these companies do VERY legal and some government officials hate it (these officials would rather Spain be Spain, and not just a "part of the EU."

  23. Re:16:9 & Windows on ASUS' ZenBook 3 Is Thinner, Lighter and Faster Than the MacBook (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    2304x1440 is the native resolution of the direct competitor MB 12". If the screen and build quality are anything like the previous Asus Zenbook, then all you have to do is play with it for a few minutes, then play with an MB12 and you'll likely not bother with the Zenbook. These laptops are either toys for people who the price is meaningless or they are people who travel a lot (like every week or 2x a week travellers) who actually DO value the lightness of them.

  24. Re:God damn it, just PICK A FUCKING LANGUAGE ALREA on Google May Adopt Apple's Swift Programming Language For Android, Says Report (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually ... this is exactly how you use compiled. You compile C to an intermediate language (possible just a special type of ASM, but an intermediate language all the same.) You compile Java to Java Bytecode. So yes you can in fact compile C to Javascript. In the very long term, we could build a better safer intermediate language and compile everything to that.

  25. Re:Sorry Assholes on SourceForge Eliminates DevShare Program (sourceforge.net) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Sometimes it's hard for people to trust /. users with 7 digit UIDs ...