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Comment Re:Confused. (Score 1) 59

tbh, it looked like a negative review to me. A reviewer can't actually say too many negative things and get away with it, but the sarcasm was deep here. Basically:

Same tired plot.

Trite, ridiculous characters.

Boring tutorial.

Long, boring, open spaces.

Scenarios that don't make sense (hiding in a barrel, picking apples).

It seems that you stopped reading just before the part that says:

And then there's the new Breath of the Wild (BotW), a Zelda game that throws off this established rhythm so quickly, and with such force, that it practically feels like a whole new genre. In doing so, Breath of the Wild offers a compelling take on a stagnating series, bringing a sense of wonder and excitement back to Zelda that hasn't been felt this strongly since the original NES game.

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Comment Re:weird article (Score 1) 55

" brand new" Mac Pro is 1169 days old,

No they are not. The design is old. The hardware is new.

Uh? We could talk about the other things you wrote, and I would even agree with some of them, but you are wrong on this one. This is the very same Mac Pro that has been introduced on December 19, 2013 and is still sold at the same price for the same components: Ivy Bridge E Xeon processors, Dual AMD FirePro GPUs, etc. Note that even the full roundoup from my first link reads:

Chips appropriate for an upgraded Mac Pro have been available since 2014, so it is unclear what Apple is waiting on before introducing a new Mac Pro machine.

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Comment Re:weird article (Score 1) 55

Again, this shouldn't NEED to be said, but you really seem to miss it: more and more people are born each year. This is an observable, provable fact. That means that even if the market share for mac users stayed exactly the same or even decreased, you're still getting more mac users every year. Duh, much?

Oh, boy. You sure can spin it with the best of them! Are you working for Apple by chance? If you don't, you should.

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Comment Re:weird article (Score 3, Informative) 55

Sales and marketshare have nothing to do with users [...] And the user base for Macs is increasing steadily.

Fair enough, but then according to your reasoning the user base for PCs is also increasing? Fine, but we warned: don't let Phil Schiller hear you talking about keeping "Macs for 5 years and longer" or he will poke fun at you mercilessly. Yes, even when a " brand new" Mac Pro is 1169 days old, a Mac mini is 868 days old, an iMac 506 days old, etc. Talk about double standards!

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Comment Re:weird article (Score 3, Informative) 55

More and more consumers? am I missing something? I thought OSX marketshare had nearly halved in the last year or so, after reaching almost 10% it has been in gradual decline ever since.

Yes, this has been discussed has been discussed here not too long ago. For the record, TFA read "Mac sales dropped roughly 10% and personal computers overall dropped 5.7% for the year", so this must be some definition of "more and more" I wasn't previously aware of.

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Comment Re:Marketers are idiots (Score 1) 47

Because TFS was written by a marketer, there's no hint of what this magical technology might be good for. Except for the fact that it's Windows 10, which was also written by marketers.

Apparently switching SIMs (typically while traveling abroad) is so much trouble that "they", out of their boundless kindness no doubt, have a "solution" for you: reprogram it remotely so you could switch mobile carriers just by going to the settings page on your smartphone. Me? I'd rather trust my fat fingers than some company or some service that might work as advertised or not, thank you very much.

Incidentally, Apple has been talking about this for a while -- another reason to steer clear of it.

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Comment Re:Is this the internet? (Score 1) 53

It is bad to be the loser in this case. Blackberry still has a little bit of product line left, Nokia doesnt even have one left to speak of.

It's about mobile network products, not phones and Nokia is still doing fairly well there, or there would be little reason to sue -- you don't sue someone with no money to pay up, do you?

Even the summary says "The mobile network products and services are provided to companies including T-Mobile and AT&T for their LTE networks", so you're way off-topic here.

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Comment Re:Unions (Score 1) 594

They chose to build their factory in Fremont apparently because those are the people they really wish to hire, so it's time to pay them for their apparent specialness.

No, the only reason the factory is in Fremont is because it used to be the New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI), which closed in 2010 just to reopen a few months later as a 100% Tesla Motors-owned production facility (link to Wikipedia entry is in the summary). Besides, I guess Tesla got the plant for cheap, therefore Musk really has not reason to blame the UAW for "killing" NUMMI -- quite the opposite, in fact!

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Comment Re:Go! Government! Go! (Score 5, Insightful) 267

Just what we need - more government telling us what to do with our own damn homes.

Reason 124,151,813,523 Trump won.

What part of "The Macon St. property was discovered to have inadequate fire alarms, sprinklers, illegal subdivisions" you didn't get? Or maybe you missed the "Hank Freid was once crowned one of NYC's "Worst Landlords" by a watchdog group in 2005" part?

Newsflash: it might be your own damn home, but it's likely close to someone else' and, surprise surprise, you can't do as you please with it.

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Comment Re:Good though difficult (Score 1) 74

Steam is working around issues where they sell games for next to nothing in dirt poor countries because some money is better than no money. Their troubles are reseller sites buying thousands of copies in Russia or whatever and reselling them to the west. Still half price for the westerner, shady middle man gets 14$ total profit and steam gets a buck instead of 60.

I guess that's "free market" for you -- and them. Except for the fact that the first to praise it are the very first to work against it when it hurts their bottom line. Talk about double standards...

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Comment Re:Is it really that bad? (Score 1) 498

I can't imagine that Windows FORCES you to stop your work right there and then, with no way to delay it. Is that really so?

Not really. Contrary to what most people are saying:

1) On Windows 10 HOME your patches are indeed downloaded in the background (unless you're on a metered connection -- or pretending to be on one) but the PC never gets rebooted automatically and you get a notification instead. You could even set up so called Working Hours to make sure that the reboot won't happen -- even if you're not actively using the computer at the time.

2) On Windows 10 Pro you can do even better and use the Policy Editor to get back the old behaviour (i.e., be notified about updates being available, download them if you wish, and so on).

In other words: the situation might not be optimal because downloads in the background might use your bandwidth and the Windows Module Installer Worker take some extra cycles off the CPU, but the article is utter rubbish.

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Comment Re:Yes, and maybe (Score 1) 225

So you don't like kittens??

You cruel heartless bastard! We have a term for you all. You are called Ed users.

But... but... "Ed is the standard text editor:" when I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a “viitor”. Not a “emacsitor”. Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!

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Comment Re:Exactly! (Score 4, Informative) 285

It was a "free upgrade" to a paid service. Such a deal!

What part of

"The Windows Upgrade to Subscription tool, found in the latest Windows Insider builds, helps to manage certain volume licensing upgrades from Windows 10 Pro Anniversary Update to Windows 10 Enterprise. This binary file is not associated with the free consumer upgrade offering nor is it applicable to consumer Windows editions."

Did you miss?

I know, picking on Microsoft is still popular, even rightly so at times, and they might as well be lying or maybe tell the truth now and make a 360 later on, but still...

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