Comment Re:Just an observation here: (Score 1) 432
The highest elevation in Florida is Britton Hill at 105 meters/345 feet above sea level. If you consider that a mountain then you're the dumbass.
Comment Re:Depends on how old you are (Score 1) 231
The best music is always what was released in the year you were 15.
The year I was 15
Comment Re:Intel losing to ARM, not just on mobile (Score 1) 117
Yeah. Benchmarks are interesting and even useful, but they're so extremely context-sensitive that it's hard to compare across non-similar implementations of anything.
Comment Re:Samsung celebrated with fireworks (Score 1) 117
Pedantic note: Matchbox is also owned by Mattel (along with Hot Wheels).
Hah, forgot that! It actually makes it even funnier ("brought to you by Mattel, the world's largest women's clothing and automobile manufacturer"). Also, just to make it clear, GGP is wrong, it really does count. It's not just about individual chips in head-to-head competition.
Comment Re:Samsung celebrated with fireworks (Score 1) 117
It doesn't count. When Samsung can produce chips that are as powerful and do as much as Intel's chips, then they will have taken the lead, not before then.
It's like saying Matchbox is the number one producer of cars in the world, even though they only make toy cars.
Similar to Mattel at one time (maybe stll, too lazy to check) being the world's largest manufacturer of women's clothing - for Barbie!
Comment Re: ..and the march of SocJus continues (Score 1) 419
Gaah! Slipped up on the quotation! Add my voice to those asking for ability to edit posts.
Comment Re: ..and the march of SocJus continues (Score 1) 419
I say we ship men off to mars. Woman don't like us, well let's see them get by without us.
Mars? Are you kidding? They'll just milk us for our sperm and make us write jokes.
Submission + - SPAM: Alzheimer's gene already shrinking brain by age of three
schwit1 writes: The Alzheimer’s gene, which dramatically raises the risk of developing dementia, is already affecting carriers by the age of three, shrinking their brains and lowering cognition, a new study suggests.
Children who carry the APOEe4 gene mutation , which raises the chance of dementia by 15 fold, were found to do less well in memory, attention and function tests.
Areas of the brain affected by Alzheimer’s disease, such as the hippocampus and parietal gyri, were also found to be up to 22 per cent smaller in volume.
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Children who carry the APOEe4 gene mutation , which raises the chance of dementia by 15 fold, were found to do less well in memory, attention and function tests.
Areas of the brain affected by Alzheimer’s disease, such as the hippocampus and parietal gyri, were also found to be up to 22 per cent smaller in volume.
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Submission + - Visual Studio 2015 c++ compiler secretly inserts telemetry code into binaries (infoq.com) 4
edxwelch writes: Reddit user "sammiesdog" discovered recently that the Visual Studio 2015 c++ compiler was inserting calls to a Microsoft telemetery function into binaries.
"I compiled a simple program with only main(). When looking at the compiled binary in Ida, I see a calls for telemetry_main_invoke_trigger and telemetry_main_return_trigger. I can not find documentation for these calls, either on the web or in the options page."
Only after the discovery did Steve Carroll, the dev manager for Visual C++, admit to the feature and posted a work around. The "feature" is to be removed in Update 3 of the product.
"I compiled a simple program with only main(). When looking at the compiled binary in Ida, I see a calls for telemetry_main_invoke_trigger and telemetry_main_return_trigger. I can not find documentation for these calls, either on the web or in the options page."
Only after the discovery did Steve Carroll, the dev manager for Visual C++, admit to the feature and posted a work around. The "feature" is to be removed in Update 3 of the product.
Comment Re:Yeah, for exactly one search (Score 1) 328
It is an evil practice born of corporate interests, just because it could be evilier does not mean we should turn a blind eye to it.
Evil? Really? I can see sneaky, sleazy, underhanded, or even manipulative, but evil? Evil is murdering people because you don't like the color of their skin. Evil is shooting young girls in the face just because they want an education. Evil cutting people's heads off. Evil is putting corporate profits before the health and safety of customers or workers. No one is going to die or become ill because they don't notice the check box. I agree that opt-out instead of opt-in benefits Yahoo at the expense of the user, but if we keep using 'evil' to describe any behavior we find disgusting, the word loses its power and becomes meaningless when real evil comes along.
Comment Re:anything has to be better than beyond earth (Score 1) 227
Especially with the better mods fans have made. I'm currently addicted to the Caveman2Cosmos mod. You start out in 50,000 BC not even knowing language yet. It's under continuous development and improvement, so I'm practicing up on my coding and modding skills in hope of being able to contribute.
Comment Re:How bad is the Microsoft API? (Score 1) 349
There is: GetVersion()
No one was forced to deal with a string. TFA is talking about third-party developers who may have use the marketing name instead of the recommended API call to check versions.
No one was forced to deal with a string. TFA is talking about third-party developers who may have use the marketing name instead of the recommended API call to check versions.
Comment Re:Better Idea (Score 1) 400
That's why businesses pay for a support-level agreement. When a problem comes up, it doesn't default to the standard EULA-with-disclaimers. Instead, the terms of the contract apply.
Comment Re:Somebody needs to remind him (Score 1) 302
I've seen it. Not a lot, but occasionally. Someone saying (seriously, not sarcastically) they don't want a large share of computer users to use Linux. Some say they really like being in a semi-exclusive little community. Others fear the whole Linux experience will get dumbed down to fit lowest common denominator of user, missing the point that FOSS let's anyone who really wants to make the software as simple-to-use or complicated as they want.
Comment Re:I call Godwin (Score 2) 162
You shouldn't sign YOUR posts when posting AC, either.
