Err no. RTFA again. Trolled Dude talks to the parents and tells them what's going on, then arranges a meeting with Troll Mama, Troll Papa and Troll. After a polite chat he breaks out the file full of stuff and starts going through it.

THEN Troll boy cries.

Yes it has got quad in most markets, the US is the exception. The benchmarks I've seen didn't put the iPhone ahead either.

I don't think I ever understood the point in the first place.

A polite request to please not track you, made to an industry that exists solely to make money out of tracking people?

Yeah, that was going to work...

No.

Those are exactly the problems PA is supposed to fix. It does not.

They are problems it has caused on my systems over the last 2ish years. As I said, I don't necessarily blame PA, it may well be other software that is buggy and causes the issues BUT all problems go away as soon as I go back to ALSA. Sorry if that offends you, it's just the way it is for me.

I know it's no longer fashionable to bitch about pulseaudio, but...

Any time anything goes wrong wit linux audio, it seems to be because pulse has been brought in by some package dependency, and it's screwed something up. Flash can't play sound at the same time as another program? Pulse. Sound dies after a while for no reason? Pulse.

Now, I'm sure that in many cases the problem is other programs and their sound support being buggy or just rong, but in pretty much all cases I've encountered, ditching pulse and dropping back to ALSA gives me a more functional system.

They try to fix things using the best techniques we have, based on the best evidence we have. If that ain't good enough for you then please, please come up with something better. The whole world will thank you.

Alt med ain't it though. It's a mixture of ignorance and charltanry.

It's a tech site.

It's not a tech story.

This is happening more and more.

I don't come here for generic news, there are literally hundreds of places that do it better. I come here for tech news, I will not any longer. Enjoy your third rate news site.

We all know that self-described UI designers are never wrong when it comes to making things intuitive and easy to use.

*cough* *gnome* *cough*

So it's just going to become a generic news site then? There are plenty of those already. The decline in quality in this place has been sad enough, but turning it into just another news/comment site... Just another nail in the coffin of a once brilliant tech site.

Was wondering the same.

There is no tech/geek angle here. It may be an important news story, but between this and the diamond thing the other day, I'm left wonderng WTF?

With you right up until 'allopathic'. The use of that word outs you as an 'alternative' medicine nutjob.

If the pain model used in medicine is immature and inadequate, it still represents the best we have. I very much hope that if it is immature and inadequate that some serious research is going into that area.

Because any of the alt-med crap may as well have been pulled out of my butthole. I'd rather have immature than a blend of fantasy and charlatanry.

There is just no way I'm spending to months salary on shiny rocks for a girl. Unless it's twice this month's, which would still be $0 (taking a little career break :)

I mean, that's ludicrous. That's a serious proportion of a car, or mortgage paid down, or hell, an amazing holiday.

I was talking about the desktop, it's a massive upgrade there as well. If you've not tried it you missing out. OS boot times and app start times are massively improved over any hard disk I've ever seen.

Some performance increase?

Have you ever used one? Best upgrade (in terms of noticeable speed/responsiveness) increase since doubling the RAM on that old pentium box in 1996....

Republicans? Small government?

Jesus christ man, what planet (or moon) are you living on where that's even remotely true? The repubs power grab and over-spend every bit as much as the other clowns.