Google Maps still cannot locate my house, where every other map service has no problem. And this house has been in this neighborhood since 1978, so it's not like they haven't had a chance to figure it out, or that it's way out in the middle of nowhere.

It is Microsoft, so what works well in this version will stop working well in the next.

I'm still running 8.3.2 because all 9.x versions have had a nasty kernel panic bug in the 3Ware 9660 drivers that apparently I'm the only one experiencing. So I'll stick with it until I need to rebuild and import the ZFS pool. The hardware is a bit old anyway (and was super cheap when obtained off eBay), so it's probably almost time.

Yes, the same bug exists in FreeBSD - I tried that too.

Yeah, what a shithead for donating some of his resources to charity.

He gives more money than you'll see in your life in one day, and you're shitting on him because he didn't give more? Ingrate.

Someone want to tell me how this doesn't run foul of HIPAA?

I don't remember signing a release form...

I've not heard it used for a production release, but in QA-speak, a "code drop" is whenever a new build comes into the lab for it's shakedown from development.

I think I may have heard it used in this way in the hip hop circles, and it should remain there.

The FireGL brand took a HUGE step back when it was purchased by AMD / ATI. I remember when they were the best OpenGL performers you could buy...

And isn't the GPU doing WAY more work than it needs to, if it first renders everything at 4k and then scales it to some crap $120 1600x900 display?

No thanks, I'll take the framerate increase of rendering in the resolution I'm actually displaying.

I always see it the other way 'round - "Look how rubbish our drivers were!"

Of course, anyone but the absolute most stalwart AMD fan already knew their drivers were rubbish, so I guess this is an improvement.

We also had a government that *wanted* to go from first orbit to the moon in a decade. Not the case today.

Today we have a government that just wants NASA to not screw up.

They're all Constitutional rights. See: the Ninth Amendment.

Yeah, who cares that it is completely new hardware. We already did this under vaguely similar circumstances on Apollo 7, so clearly Orion doesn't require testing in high orbit to make sure that it was safe to stuff 4 people inside, and return without them being baked to a crisp from a radiation shield not being adequate, or the heat shield failing and causing the whole thing to turn into a rapidly expanding fireball.

Because it worked on a spacecraft that we're not operating anymore, therefore we never need to do it again!

They are making sure that their spacecraft actually works before putting people in it. Not that hard to suss out.

People said that about Apple in 1998. Don't be one of those people.

You do realize there are hundreds of thousands of Linux-based "thin clients" sold every year into enterprise markets, which are effectively the "network computer" right?