"(since games haven't been CPU bound in years)"

You obviously haven't played any system stressing games... Most games are not multiuthreaded, so do not benefit from AMD's main competitive edge. Not to mention AMD chips run hotter and use more power than a comparable intel. Never a good sign of good design .

Then you imply that intel rigged ALL the benchmarks they are in because there is a conspiracy and the US DOJ should get involved....

Like this right, this is rigged by intel?
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/hi...
(The first AMD cpu ranks in at 59th... with double the cores of the nearest i7)

The pendulum switches back and forth all the time, no point in being a fanboy for either franchise. Intel has been dominating since core 2 duo / core 2 quad and they continue to do so. I had dual opterons before that. Brand loyal is stupid, benchmarks cant all lie.

8.1 is not nerely as stable as windows 7. Do you have any microsoft surface devices? I too have had update related problems, as well as directaccess vpn foobaring itself, graphics bugs, network funnyness such as drives dropping randomly offline and just general instability requiring reboots. We have about 20 machines with win8 compared to 100s with win7 and the win8 machines definitely have more issues, sorry to say.

Its always good to be extremely apprehensive about windows releases. If you remember all the way back to win95, it was garbage till SR2. Then theres windows ME, vista, windows CE (nightmares, cold sweats....). I wouldnt touch ten for at least the first year. Suckers can do what they want. I can ALWAYS upgrade later! no harm to me!

are you saying XP is better in the enterprise? You are high or in some dinosaur industry. If you haven't moved all your PC's off XP yet you are doomed!

The problems you complain about can be solved by group policy. How many regular users have to swtich Domains they log into... come on.

Who BROWSES a windows network? Not any sort of enterprise. Why would someone do that? The admin sets the drives,. printers, etc you need based on your location and function.

XP is garbage. Its like saying you want to use win98 in these days. If you have modern touch screen devices, you almost have to use windows 8. I find win8 less stable than windows 7 but windows 7 is surely just as stable as windows 2000.

2008-2012 server for WDS imaging is indespensible. Support for solid state drives, native 64 bit being normal. That anyone could prefer XP over windows 7 in this day either needs to retire right now, or at least will be covered over by the blowing sand soon enough!

Do you think he also did all the HVAC control work? crawling through the 19 schools ceilings, installing sensors, calibrating equipment?

Or do you think they asked the only kid who knew anything about these new fangled computers to read the manual and "programme" the system.

There are a million assumptions that people are making in the comments. I can control my buildings HVAC and security from my desk. Does that mean it was free to get it to that point? Everyone is focusing on the kid who works with the system. BFD, any facilities maintenance worker can programme an BACnet type system to the degree they wish to learn about it!

Fool me once, shame on, shame on you. Fool me ... you can't get fooled again!

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

yup, and in the 90s the message was "live in harmony future children". Nowadays i'm sure it would translate to "buy the new iphone 8"

Yes and companies never would lie, change their minds, or decide that maybe they shouldn't be giving away their main cash cow for free. Take a look at god damn apple to see where microsoft wants to be in 5 years.

Its pretty fucking simple. They don't sell hardware, they dont sell services. How the fuck are they going to make money giving away their shit for free? Its a bait and switch, its a crack dealer and comments like this AC are naive crack whores. Shits gonna change, and everyone else is doing it.

"They've explicitly stated this."

Obama explicitly stated that he would reign in the NSA. Lying is fucking commonplace when your society has a collective memory only 140 characters deep.

That GWX is so shady, I will now never upgrade to windows 10, whereas i had no opinion on it before. Can you imagine that they thought they could get away with abusing the trust of windows update like this? Well it just got windows update turned off on all my machines.microsoft. theres no way in hell im trusting that anymore. Fucking advertising bullshit. we aren't god damn mac users who are used to having things thrust down our throats like this. I wait at least a year before upgrading to ANY os... when SP2 is released is a good rule of thumb with MS.

If they are such dicks to use windows update this way, can you imagine what kind of shit they would pull with 10? not to mention how much of a bait and switch offering a free update like this is. The wording is so fucking scammy i felt like i had been violated. They snuck in the back door!!!
Fuck you and your unremovable tray icons!!! deny security on GWX folder, suck it SYSTEM, suck it trustedinstaller!!!! they even hid a bunch of scheduled tasks just like a god damn spyware would do!!!

You may be right, but i would rather have proper surround sound and turn down the volume occasionally than to use such a crash prone player as VLC. MPC is rock solid, vlc, not so much... If it bothers you that much, go download a YIFY release. He loves fucking with proper surround sound for people who have crappy speakers.

Besides, don't most people just use XBMC/kodi or plex or other media centres these days? Easier to use with a remote thats for sure.

Bitter chocolate = bad.

IPA = india pale ale = had to be transported from india with extra hops acting as a preservative. Hence the name of the beer.

So they really have nothing to do with eachother.

Drink a pale ale then, not an IPA. That should have less hops for you. Some people like wheat or god forbit cream ales, so its really a personal preference like anything
There is always some sort of lager available from any craft brewery i've ever been to and pretty much no beer drinker will refuse a lager.

Bitter chocolate on the otherhand I am sure people eat because they think there are health benefits. Same with carob which is equally disgusting.

Never heard of him before I read this article.

If you had any shred of respect for obama still left, this article will destroy it

http://www.newyorker.com/magaz...

He is the only one fighting for the rights of americans to not be spied upon. Its a shame that 2 years after this article was written, people are caring less and less about these issues. For a while there in 2013, it looked like people really did care.

What do i win?

"Microsoft says that the defendant(s) have activated hundreds of copies of Windows 7 using product keys that have been âoestolenâ from the companyâ(TM)s supply chain or have never been issued with a valid license"

It means whomever is there has a legit key generator for windows. Or a computer store who buys stolen keys to keep costs down.

Regardless, I am sure google knows exactly who they are. You aren't really anonymous on the internet. All it would take would be a few curious admins at google or facebook to check their logs for the ip.Hell i bet reddit or someone has already figured out who it is.

What kind of rational human being does this?

A good parable, very short, for why we should not condemn the youth. Moral: We were the youth.

http://www.newyorker.com/magaz...

If I didn't smarten up when I was a dumb teen I would be in jail too. I think the same is true for lots of fully functioning, well adjusted people that you know and deal with everyday.

"I could blame adolescence, or point to the arm of science that claims that a young manâ(TM)s brain is dominated by impulse and adrenaline rather than by reason or conscience. Also, most of the bad things I did started with a drink. But allow me to simplify: I was a boy and I was having fun."

Dude your an idiot. A pocket knife is not a firearm. Most kids get pocket knives these days, boys, around 8-10. Its really not that different.

I would not let my children handle mercury, or lead, or really any heavy metals. This is because I am not a negligent parent, and have taught them that things can be toxic, carcinogenic etc because hopefully you can teach them some basic science and aren't just focusing on arming them for the apocalypse that probably isn't coming.

"it's no wonder I'm half an imbecile."