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Comment Re:Ok but (Score 1) 44

If Netflix shouldn't buy them then neither should Paramount

Yes and no. There's a very VERY big difference between Netflix (the world's largest streaming service with over 1/4 of the market share in the USA, and significantly more globally) buying Warner Brothers and Paramount, a company that can't even crack double digit market share in its home country.

Yeah mergers of large companies are rarely good, but don't pretend these two options are equal.

Comment Re:To All the AI Haters Out There (Score 1) 37

the shortage is manufactured

Hardly. There's no memory manufacturers in any way restricting production to "manufacture this shortage". They may be price fixing (they have a history of that) but right now they are producing memory at full tilt.

And if you ask why they didn't invest years ago, can you please tell me tonight's winning lotto numbers since you are so good at predicting the future?

Comment Re:did anyone answer that question? (Score 1) 59

Because TPM takes the users computer and makes it Microsoft's. It is a builtin, pre-installed rootkit. It was never about making the computer safer for the user, but safer for Microsoft.

It has a side benefit of showing the world who the ignorant people are, like you. TPM 2.0 doesn't restrict anything. It's nothing more than a secure storage area.

Comment Re:did anyone answer that question? (Score 1) 59

Why didn't Microsoft push for this instead of TPM 2?

That's like saying why doesn't the government focus on creating regulations for meat rather than funding a cure to ear infections. The two have nothing at all in common with each other. Not in use, practice, or application.

Add to that, ECC has downsides. It's more expensive and it's slower. It has its place, but that place just simply isn't on most desktops. If you're running a computer crunching critical financial transactions, yeah ECC is a good idea. If you spend your time teabagging other players in CoD then the impact of a RAM error will very likely go completely unnoticed. What will be noticed is that ECC tops out at 7200MHz at a significantly higher CAS latency than the comparable non-ECC memory which is 8800MHz at a lower price.

On the flip side TPM 2.0 provides some meaningful security benefits. You may not care, but many people do, especially laptop users with full disk encryption.

Comment Re:yay (Score 1) 41

If you build machines that relentlessly reward our dumbest, angriest impulses, you’re going to get more of them. That’s not a mirror; that’s a factory.

No, by your own logic the machine only works if dumbness exists. Someone not susceptible to ragebait isn't ragebaited or magically starts raging. This isn't training, it's abusing an underlying characteristics.

Rage bait is absolutely a geological survey (I like that analogy). The human impulses are very much there. The only thing this is doing now is algorithmically digging in the right place to bring those up impulses up.

Comment Re:BSoD was an indicator (Score 1) 59

None of that makes any sense unless you have a drive that is woefully unreliable and starts corrupting shit in flight.

There's no "interfering". You either write to the windows directory or you don't. You either write to the swap file or you don't (actually no you just don't full stop, software has no basis for nor ability to interfere with the swapfile without operating under elevated privileges). It doesn't matter where windows files are, they are always in the same place: %windir%, and software doesn't magically just stop screwing with Windows because it's running on a different drive, nor does software not running under elevated privileges have any ability to access critical files.

UPS is good if you live with unstable power, power spikes can definitely lead to BSODs, but your talk of partitions doesn't make even one iota of a bit of sense.

Comment Re:BSoD was an indicator (Score 1) 59

BSoD was telling you what was going on, but they made it difficult to understand what to do.

The BSoD only ever gave you enough information to tell you what driver crashed. Or a simple error code. It still does. That hasn't changed.

Error logs and crash reports could tell you a lot if you knew how to get to them. But since MS didnt make it easy or help the end user, it turned into its an MS problem and MS sucks.

Be careful what you wish for. Error logs and the tools are great and all, but if a user is unable to go read on the MSDN Docs how to debug something they will not have a hope in hell of understanding the debug output either. Kernel panics are no better in this regard either. The average user (heck the average poweruser) has no hope in hell of understanding what went wrong.

I think the problem is legacy, back when windows didn't have meaningful isolation between the kernel and drivers in userland it was trivial to bring down the system (hell Bill Gates did it live in front of a TV audience by plugging in a printer). That can most definitely be blamed on the OS, but that hasn't been the case now for 2 decades+.

Comment Re:Meanwhile (Score 1) 91

People really think that there will be enough able to travel in enough places more safely, which isn't even proven. They haven't even diven in winter yet on a clear day, never mind a blizzard. With snow clearing equipment. This is the environment where 2/3 more accidents happen. Driving in clear dry conditions doesn't improve much safety overall because that's not where the most accidents happen

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