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Comment Re:Linus is right, but this is really not news (Score 1) 82

by TheRealMindChild (#65840157) Attached to: Linus Torvalds Defends Windows' Blue Screen of Death

NT also virtualized the DOS environment (ntvdm) where 9x didn't and that is a very important distinction. In th 9x days, games and even drivers were executed in the DOS environment. As soon as you would open command.com, it was a ticking timebomb for when a blue screen would happen. If you could avoid DOS and 16bit memory shimmed binaries, 9x wasn't nearly as fragile as everyone generally dealt with

Submission + - The world's tallest chip defies the limits of computing: goodbye to Moore's Law? (elpais.com) 1

Submitted by dbialac
dbialac writes: Building chips up instead of smaller may be a solution to the problems encountered with modern semiconductors.

Xiaohang Li, a researcher at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia, and his team have designed a chip with 41 vertical layers of semiconductors and insulating materials, approximately ten times higher than any previously manufactured chip. The work, recently published in the journal Nature Electronics, not only represents a technical milestone but also opens the door to a new generation of flexible, efficient, and sustainable electronic devices. “Having six or more layers of transistors stacked vertically allows us to increase circuit density without making the devices smaller laterally,” Li explains. “With six layers, we can integrate 600% more logic functions in the same area than with a single layer, achieving higher performance and lower power consumption.”

Comment Re:Significant UI refinements? (Score 1) 43

by TheRealMindChild (#65603306) Attached to: Microsoft Readies Big Feature Updates For Next Month and Beyond

Windows has a weird situation where having more memory can lead to using less of it. If you try to run Windows 10 x64 with 4GB of memory it will run pretty good, but its memory usage is almost maxed out the whole time. It's probably swapping crap in and out constantly, but you don't notice because we all should have an SSD of some sort as the boot drive... this isn't the stone age. But if you have 8GB+, it will end up using most of it for the first 10 or so seconds of booting up, but then drop to ~2.5GB afterward

Comment Re:GOIN UP / TO THE SPIRIT THE SKY (Score 2) 66

by TheRealMindChild (#65585090) Attached to: Spirit Airlines Warns It May Not Survive Another Year

These assholes charge $80-100 for a single checked bag. Their seats are honestly some of the worst I ever sat on IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCE, distanced so close to the seats surrounding yours that you will have aches and pains for the rest of the day that you flew with them. They are the bottom of the barrel shit hole airline, and people only need to fly with them once to realize they never want to do it again.

They are killing themselves

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