This is one of those things that changed in my mind when I got an EV myself... I was worried that I'd be spending a lot of time waiting for charging. In reality, though, that's not true at all... every day I leave the house with a full 'tank' (charge), which means I have about 320 (Tesla Model 3 LR) miles of driving that I could do before I need to charge again. How many times do you really drive more than 300 miles in a day? And, by the way, when I charge at home at night, that 300+ miles of range (if I used it all) represents about $7 in electricity costs (and I don't even have solar...), vs the >$60 it would have cost me to fill the old BMW 328 for a similar range... (And to be honest, we also have a 'normal' ICE car that we could use for long trips... but it mostly sits in the garage, because the EV is WAY more fun to drive... it probably has had less than 100 miles on it since we got the EV...)

The same ICE-based thinking was in my mind about other things as well... the brakes, for instance. EVs are heavier, so I had heard that the brake service on an EV would be more often, and more expensive. But... it turns out that EVs do so much regenerative braking that I almost never use the brakes. 'One-pedal driving' significantly decreases the brake wear.

Yup... when I got my Model 3 recently, Tesla gave me a very good trade-in value on my BMW. They then re-sell the call on in the wholesale used car market, just like most 'normal' dealerships do...

I used to post and interact here a lot, but this place has gone the way of reddit and r/theDonald... sad to see a once-relevant tech site get so taken over by politics and shit-posters. Between this and the "5G IS BEING SOCIALIZED OMG FEAR THE CHINESE" article above... wow. Just, wow.

Too old a joke? Anyone? Anyone? This thing on?

We can move the telephone sanitizers and marketing people off the planet first, of course.

The rest of us will be right behind.

Is admitting you have a problem. While I assume they've known this internally for a while, it's nice to see the public acknowledgement.

MSFT is doing some... surprisingly... competent things with Surface and other PCs, it will be interesting to see if the magical "new devices category" is something that they can take the Surface competence into.

(Did I just use "Microsoft" and "Competence" in the same sentence? And not preceded with "in-"? Shiver....)

To my friends and colleagues being affected, best of luck, folks. Hope you have a soft landing someplace.

(No, don't work for MSFT. I do work with a lot of the folks there.)

> as all other USB 2.0 devices enumerate properly as such on the exact same system under XP and 7

and billions and billions of other USB devices work without problems on other systems, so the obvious conclusion is...

> I suspect this is Microsoft's issue

Yep. Probably. Couldn't be the device's fault.

OK, since you're asking Slashdot... how about posting the USB Device descriptors, along with the USB port debug information from windbg (!usb2tree)?

If you live in the same world as Andrew Auernheimer (for slightly different but very related case), then yes, the jury does seem to think that accessing unsecured data that someone else doesn't want you to counts as 'cracking' and can lead to jail time.

Here's letting you know...

They don't list AMD cores in the first link that I happened to choose on Google, but here (http://kyokojap.myweb.hinet.net/gpu_gflops/):

    Previous gen consoles:
      PS3: 228.8 GFlops
      XBox360: 240 GFlops

    Current Intel integrated GFX: (Broadwell-U GT3): "Up to 844.8" GFlops
    Assuming this AMD part is faster than the Intel graphics, and we're at 3X your required performance level, at least. Even if you assume worst case, thermal limited, etc., current integrated graphics is at least as good as last gen consoles.

    And the Adreno 430 in the Snapdragon 810 is listed at 324~388, which means you can just use your cell phone.

http://xkcd.com/1523/

The more I think about this, the more I like it.

I have one of these that I use as my media server... headless Plex back end, general home storage and home automation web server, etc. Runs CentOS 6 beautifully (Gigabit wired connection, so don't care about lack of wireless drivers). Using a 256GB M.2 SSD as the local storage, with a few multi-TB USB3 drives for the media storage.

The nice things is that the CPU is that it's beefy enough to do transcode of several shows at the same time as my wife, myself, and kids all watch different shows on Rokus, iPads, and other computers via Plex. At the same time it can pull OTA recorded shows from my Tablo, do a transcode, put them in the media storage, and serve them back out without a hiccup. Try that with an Atom or an ARM.

Try desert. I hear yellowcake works pretty well to justify wars.

Rather than that one, long, randomly generated password that then gets used on every site (or few passwords over many sites), I use a standard password, and modify it for each site. For instance, my slashdot pass might be horsebattery!SLASHDOT!staple, while my bank might be horsebattery!CHASE!staple. Easy to remember, and stealing the password from one site won't help on another.

(Yes, a person looking at the data might be able to figure it out, but I figure that unless I'm personally being targeted that would be very very unlikely. And, in reality, I have both different logins and base passwords that I use on high vs low security sites, so stealing my slahsdot user/pass would not work on my bank, or credit cards, or at work.)