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Comment Next week, adding grocery app for lutefisk! NO. (Score 1) 62

NO. If I wanted glitzy-ass social networking, I'd go for some. And here I recently got plenty riled up with these people enough for...

1) Tying Skype updates to Windows Store (comes with free complaints over decided inability to use far earlier versions... you know, without bloat, but that's a given)
2) Taking away themes (no option to white and blue Skype was a pain when by necessity working in a dark room in the middle of the night with a dark theme), followed by...
3) Giving me the option of trying a newfangled Skype on the PC (which actually did have a nice dark theme option included)... whilst making it impossible to turn off graphic emoticons, since I'm getting old and prefer my smiley faces to look like someone's fallen onto their side after drinking too much. :| This reminds me too much of the days when I started noticing a worrying trend with MSN Messenger way back when, hit Trillian for my multi-platform needs and never thought too much of it, until I spied my brothers using it some years later. Graphic/animated emoticons had not only growing in number, but in size too.
4) I forget, tacos for everyone.
5) Bloat. (Hey, I remembered.)

Sadly, I suppose I can only blame myself for jinxing it upon trying the new Skype on the PC, thinking that at least they couldn't possibly frak up Skype on Android. More. But then I keep forgetting that MS seems to be a late middle-aged man trying to wear baggy jeans like they just became fashionable and never understanding why people laugh and cry.

Classic Games (Games)

New Release Of StarCraft In 4K Ultra High Definition Announced (theverge.com) 161

The classic 90s-era videogames StarCraft and StarCraft: Brood War will be re-released this summer -- remastered in 4K Ultra High Definition. An anonymous reader quotes The Verge: It will also include a number of updates, such as remastered sound, new additional illustrations for the campaign missions, new matchmaking capabilities, the ability to connect to Blizzard App, the ability to save to the cloud, and more... Blizzard also announced that it was issuing a new update to StarCraft: Brood War this week, which will include some bug fixes and anti-cheat measures, but will also make StarCraft Anthology (which includes StarCraft and Brood War) available to download for free.
Kotaku reports that the news was announced at this weekend's I <3 StarCraft event in South Korea, "a mini-tournament between some of the game's best players being held to honor the game's legacy."

Comment Re:Pointless (Score 1) 400

Screen size has nothing to do with how much Video RAM you want. You're storing textures in that memory. The more memory you've got the more textures you can store and the higher resolution they can be. Being able to max out the texture detail in a game makes a huge difference in appearance.

To clarify: I was referring to those TFT screens that tend to have a max 1280x[whatnot] resolution in any case, not necessarily larger screens. If I don't have need for resolutions higher than that, then I would wager I do not really need a whole lotta video RAM. A smaller amount of GDDR5 makes far more sense in that situation than an overabundance of GDDR3.

Also, you'd be surprised what a difference just a graphics card upgrade can make in frame rates. Maximum PC ran an article a while back where they upgraded some old machines... if I remember correctly one of them got something like a 70% FPS improvement from a new card.

I wouldn't be too surprised! Still, even today it sometimes (strangely enough!) comes down to the CPU or RAM being the limiting factor, but it isn't necessarily the hardware's fault...

The Courts

Submission + - ISP sued by Irish RIAA (www.rte.ie)

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "An ISP in Ireland has been sued by the Big Four record labels because its subscribers have engaged in p2p file sharing of the record companies' song files. The record companies claim the ISP should be buying the software being peddled by the RIAA's expert witness, which supposedly would filter out copyright infringement. Not everyone agrees."

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