Comment Re:Should X be paid for by taxes? (Score 1) 861
Trash collection may be mundane, but if it's not paid through taxation, you'll get all kinds of negative consequences of schemes to dispose of trash without paying the user fees.
Comment Re:Hey, Google... (Score 2) 140
The deal would have never gone through.
Completing a business deal of that magnitude requires going over the books with a fine-toothed comb on the part of the company doing the buying. Groupon's books would not have passed the litmus test, as you're seeing now that they've managed to go public.
Comment Re:Telecommuting sucks the infinite Wang (Score 2) 275
Why the hell haven't you moved closer if the job is so stable?
Comment Re:Price War? (Score 1) 230
How about the screen and keyboard? Does your Toshiba have an unibody aluminum design?
I always thought Apple stuff was overpriced too, but there's a lot more to it than the CPU speed and how much memory is in a laptop. This coming from a guy who has never owned an Apple product.
Comment Re:Take your time, let software catch up. (Score 1) 149
Did everything work as expected once you set it back to stock speeds in the BIOS?
Comment Re:No wonder they are switching to clouds (Score 1) 403
Is a "pentabyte" 5 petabytes?
Nope, 5 bytes.
Let me tell you, finding a pentadecimal calculator was a real pain in the ass
Nope, 5 bytes.
Let me tell you, finding a pentadecimal calculator was a real pain in the ass
Comment Re:Amazing (Score 1) 136
This has turned out to be rarely true in practice. Only about 3 models each of MSI and Asus 800-series motherboards can run a Bulldozer CPU with a BIOS update and NO Gigabyte 800-series boards will except for the very last hardware revisions of about 8 of their models.
The motherboard OEMs did a much better job of supporting new CPUs on their existing boards for the previous AM2 - AM2+ - AM3 transitions.
Submission + - AMD to lay off 10% of global workforce (amd.com)
Rudeboy777 writes: See press release (deep apologies in advance for subjecting readers to a stinking quagmire of corporate buzzwords)
Comment Re:Not a troll but.... (Score 1) 708
Comment Re:Fire the board (Score 1) 239
I find Steve to be a much more common alleged name.
Comment Re:Rings a bell (Score 1) 271
The outstanding "integrated" graphics performance of the laptop and desktop Llano APUs (ugh, marketing) greatly expands the number of niches where AMD is the better choice. That now includes nearly home user on the planet.
I wouldn't worry much about AMD even if this Bulldozer launch is underwhelming.
Comment Re:If you can't be bothered to RTF... (Score 1) 389
In other words, it's probably not the BIOS that will ship with the final product, and they can remove the ability to toggle that setting at any time in the future.
Comment Re:Well I want Jodie Foster swallowing my 'hood (Score 1) 389
Ask and ye shall receive! Diablo 3 doesn't require Steam!
Comment Re:Slow Internet is not the problem (Score 2) 240
Every problem you name has a technical workaround that your average Slashdotter could name off the top of their head.
Don't buy what Google is selling if you don't want it.
Comment Re:duh, hollywood finds something else (Score 1) 339
The existing ones in the genre are pretty poorly written and conceived reducing the characters to one dimensional figures robbing them of their humanity.
And this is different from megahit superhero movies, how?
The Ten Commandments and Ben Hur did alright back in the day, I think it could be a next-big-thing somewhere down the road.
And this is different from megahit superhero movies, how?
The Ten Commandments and Ben Hur did alright back in the day, I think it could be a next-big-thing somewhere down the road.
