"I found the real answer—the normally 2.5GHz chip is underclocked to an anemic 1.5GHz."

"I reached out to AMD to inquire whether this was a standard, supported configuration for the CPU—my AMD rep declined to comment initially and suggested reaching out to Walmart PR instead."

I feel bad for Ars' rep giving them the runaround like this, but I'd give it even odds they thought the answer was obvious enough and expected Walmart to break the news: As other sites that list Evoo EV-C-116-5-* with specs indicate, such as Walmart's own page for an item shipped and sold by VIPOUTLET, the processor is actually an A4-9120e which is a version with 1.5GHz base clock and maximum turbo 2.2GHz.

Also the A4-9120 (with no suffix letter) processor only turbos to 2.5GHz, its base clock is 2.2GHz.

I wonder how many PDF 0-days there are atm.

"Contact Software, Inc.
12345 Main Street â Suite 100
Phone 123.456.7890 â Fax 123.456.7890"

No city or state provided.

Seems legit.

isn't that you picked the wrong one-size-fits-all solution...

How does the current support level of the XP-based POSReady version (the Windows version for bespoke embedded device use), which is still receiving patches until 2019, compare with the support level of Windows 8.1?

Look, I'm all for sticking it to clueless politicians, and the original column doesn't commit to any policy of substance, but nevertheless I think the "companion news article" is interpreting it... very creatively.

The original column:
https://www.pressreader.com/au... (pressreader is paywalled but allows a certain number of free uses per time period)

I'm annoyed with the current climate of politicians just ignoring the facts and choosing to believe whatever they want, and I'm annoyed by the proliferation of clickbaity sponsored link sidebars in the genre of the fake-espn-fake-death-announcement stuff, but I'm also annoyed by how the news business doesn't seem to be able to hire writers who understand technology and can help the audience understand, rather than just making hay by subtly misleading people about it (often just due to not understanding it themselves).

This reminds me of Kiva's system from years ago, but it seems a pretty silly imitation if it can't pick up / drop containers on its own. Nothing to see here.

I realized recently this situation is happening with laptops: reasonable quality quad core 1920x1080 systems from 4 generations ago are showing up for under $500 US, and at that price Big Box is still wants to sell you a 1366x768 dual core system (in light of how stagnant it's been it almost seems like an accomplishment that they've even gotten past wanting to only put 4GB of RAM in them).

(and said lady's law firm starts looking for their next class action target)

At the very least, whatever sketchy consultant or low rent big box store nerd herd operation sold this lady a new computer instead of a replacement hard drive would be wise to get their legal contingency fund sorted out before it becomes established in a court of law that that was a mistake...

"or so grossly misinformed(aka living in a bubble) that you deserve to be lied to"
welp, I guess kudos for honesty; most people would veil their contempt enough to give us a reason to keep on reading.

Maybe I've been living under a rock... when did iOS YouTube introduce support for annotations?

IMO, most countries have hours of work laws that mean an employer isn't in a position to ask employees to work 24x7 in the first place.

My cynical guess is that this company's corporate HR is on a mission to avoid situations that would make group health insurance premiums go up; when they figure out that this new employee could be one of those, although a court would probably say they've already technically hired him, they figure they shouldroll the dice and attempt to put the pin back in. Many people would say "no harm, no foul" and go get a job somewhere else.

Just for illustration purposes, could you give me an example of an anti-job policy of, say, the BC Liberals?