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Comment Re:A number of countries?? Say it ain't so! (Score 1) 73

US citizens haven't been control of our government since around the 80s. For the most part we are ignored and stifled unless enough of us get together and coordinate which happens once in a blue moon. Don't believe that 1 incident per 1-5 years is equivalent to "citizens control the gov't", because it's corporations that do.

Comment Re:50MB = 750$ (Score 1) 321

It is to be outlawed, as long as you live in the EU. In the US, no such luck. Instead, you have a "stupid tax", for people too fucking stupid to install a foreign sim card in their AT&T sim card friendly phones.

This isn't that complicated and AT&T is shit, but it's not that hard (and a whole lot cheaper and more convenient) to get a sim in a foreign country and basically treat it the same as your home wireless service - just with substantially better reception.

Having to "turn on" data temporarily in a foreign country is the first sign of a mistake.

Comment Re:Offer a ROI? (Score 1) 61

I disagree 100%. The quality of the video that comes from this camera looks more like 4 1080p cameras at best and 4 480p cameras in reality.

I think the idea of a 4k panoramic camera is good, but I haven't seen a single video from their kickstarter that wasn't absolutely grainy as shit and significantly worse than the average smartphone.

Comment not quite (Score 1) 222

Considering that XP is pirated in China to a significant percentage less than 99%, you're missing that if everybody is using Linux nobody is going to be buying MS anything at all. Effectively total market lockout. Which can affect the NSA as well.

Truthfully, this probably won't affect anything.

Comment Re:Nvidia blows too with drivers (Score 2) 158

This is correct. We had more competition in terms of choosing graphics cards in the past, it didn't mean they were actually competitors or even tried to not do a completely shit job that didnt' help anyone in the long term.

Intel doesn't give a shit even today as far as graphics - good luck getting any launch game to run on any integrated graphics platform on a screen above 1024x768, where even a $50 card from literally anyone else will do better than the extra $50 intel is charging people to have an IGP. Hell, even AMD's hybrid solutions do better for gaming by an order of magnitude. What intel is open sourcing is not a solid 3d background, but a pile of unused 2d renders and basically nothing. It would not be unlike taking mono on linux and saying that Microsoft "gave up the crown jewels for linux" when it's explicitly untrue.

Meanwhile, AMD is budget constrained and not the best, Nvidia is proprietary as fuck (and tries to encourage everyone else to be, look at PhysX's bullshit proprietary nature), and Intel is shit. People don't build gaming rigs with an intel IGP in mind. Our options are just as relatively poor as they were back in the day, just newer hardware/better software.

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