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Comment Re:Stupid socialists (Score 1) 181

The problem is the decently paying white collar jobs are all 40 hours a week. There's few jobs out there that'll offer you 20 hours at a straight half of the pay. Sure, you can get some part time job, but you'll be earning something like a quarter of the pay, and likely with a significant cut in benefits too.

Comment Re:Plenty of options to keep running SUPPORTED Win (Score 1) 220

The future of Edgium on some of these versions of Windows could be interesting. Microsoft is still patching IE11, which they have to do as long as they are still offering ESU support for Server 2012. Microsoft is able to do this since it's their browser. But with Edge depending on Google's whims, things may not be so easy for them. I suppose the most likely solution would be for Microsoft will be to fork the last supported version from Google and backport any critical security patches.

Comment Re:Margin of error [Re:Nate trying to call pollin. (Score 2) 91

Nate Silver ran simulations based upon the poll data and the model he had, and in (roughly) 70% of the simulations Clinton won, and (roughly) 30% of simulations Trump won. So that's ultimately where the number came from - it wasn't just something he picked arbitrarily so he could have prediction.

Comment Re:Last Intel Purchase Was Core i7-920. (Score 1) 85

Sandy Bridge had crazy overclocking headroom. At that time, Intel really didn't have any strong competition pushing them, and those chips were clocked very conservatively if you ran them at spec. You might be thinking Ivy Bridge where they changed the way they attached the heatspreader which reduced the overclocking headroom. Nevertheless, even those chips still overclock well, just not as good as Sandy Bridge.

The problem Intel has now is they have strong competition form AMD, and they're pumping insane amounts of power into their high end chips to squeeze out that last little bit of performance and that's coming back to bite them.

Comment Re:Features (Score 4, Informative) 100

The Windows 10 start menu isn't as good as the Vista/7 one. It's less customizable, stuff just gets dumped into one big list that's sorted (kind of) alphabetical. You can pin stuff as favorites, but it's horribly space inefficient. Most of those shortcuts are tiles, with few of them benefiting from actually being tiles. And your choice is either only a small number of pinned items, or making it huge to the point it is practically the start screen we got with Windows 8. Oh, and the search feature is nearly useless, though I suppose that's more of an implementation problem than a design problem.

I suppose in its defense, the right click menu with the start button is a nice addition. And I guess the shutdown functionality is better than the stupidity that was in Vista/7.

Of course, you've also got the non-Windows options. The XFCE "whisker menu", which actually has a lot in common with the Windows Vista/7 start menu, is also pretty good.

Comment Re:Everything? (Score 2) 289

Those numbers don't tell the whole story. The AI miles are all easy driving because that's all AI can handle reliably - things like driving on a clearly marked road in good, clear weather. The human driving miles contain a lot of miles in more challenging driving situations which AI isn't even capable of driving - so it's no surprise really that the human driving pool has worse numbers.

Comment Re:Doesn't matter (Score 1) 33

The issues I've had with AMD systems generally are chipset/motherboard issues. But you can't have one without the other, so you're kind of stuck. If I could drop an AMD CPU onto an Intel motherboard like we could way back in the day, it would be a slam dunk - the better AMD CPU combined with the stability of Intel's platform. But since I can't do that, I guess it's buy Intel and just put up with their space heater CPUs.

Comment Re:lowest price (Score 1) 200

Another issue is that people don't trust the airlines to not screw them over. Sure, you could pay more in hopes of better service. You might get that, or you might just end up with the exact same shitty experience but soaked for more money.

At least when you pay bottom tier prices for bottom tier service, you got exactly what you paid for.

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