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Comment My solution is better. (Score 1) 70

Root and install a blocking hosts file.

  Bethesda proved that ad's on free games is only for complete crap games. Fallout shelter has ZERO ad's ZERO nags, and they are making money hand over fist with it.

So if your app has ad's, it's a strong sign that it's a complete crap app.

Luckily 99% of all free apps are trash, so I dont use them, the ones that are worth buying, I buy.

Comment Yes. (Score -1, Redundant) 517

Most of the updates with windows actually slows it down quite a bit. Windows 7 at release is fast on a core 2 duo. Today it needs a quad i7 at 3.6ghz or faster and a SSD drive to be as fast as the initial release.

Windows XP was the same, clean release install was fast as hell install SP3 and it becomes dog slow.

Comment The most telling part.... (Score 1) 31

"Because customers would be switching map cassettes as they drove, we knew cassettes would wind up sitting on top of the dash, baking in the summer sun."

Sadly most engineers today are far too stupid to think of such things. Having a care at all towards longevity and reliability is a thing of the distant past.

Comment So dont rent. (Score 1) 940

Buy a used RV and live in the back corner of your work parking lot. If you are lucky enough to buy a big white fiberglass one with vynal graphics, peel them all off and put an AT&T logo on it or VERIZON and a couple of yellow lights. nobody will even question it being there.

A contractor at work does this, we have had him back 3 times and I have been the only person to notice. he has a motorcycle to get around town. when fall comes he looks for contract work down south. It's actually genius.

Comment Honest Employers.... (Score 2) 381

Give you 1 hour of comp time for every hour of overtime you work. I am salaried and when I work over, I take each over hour as time off.

Honest employers do this, Dishonest ones just tell you the "sucks to be you" line.

Comment Re:IE? (Score 1) 49

I keep hearing this claim, and I see no evidence for it. Shit, I worked for redmond for years, and IE was *never* faster outside of a lab than Firefox, much less Chrome. I didn't particularly care for the immense amount of telemetry that Chrome shipped back to the goog, but it started fast and stayed that way. A fresh copy of IE/WIn8 on the other hand, was zippy for the first few days of use -- almost as fast as firefox on 32 or 64 -- but quickly bogged down with local cache writes and content inspection, tons of default temetry, and helper libraries that could not be unloaded without heading into the registry with an army of villagers weilding pitchforks and torches. Besides, it's UGLY. Why bother with it?

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