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Comment Re:If anything will do it (Score -1) 55

I wish I could switch, but my AMD display drivers on Linux cause my display to crash constantly so I have to reboot.

I also need to run the system in "Best Performance" mode (in Win 10), disabling some under the hood performance optimizations that cause the same crash. But I don't know how to. Fucking frustrating.

Comment Re:Will believe it when it happens (Score -1) 166

Metro was awesome on phones, especially when you set it to translucent, it looked simply incredible. But it was absolutely out of place on the desktop.

Apps were definitely the OS' downfall. That was mainly because Google and Apple used their duopoly to keep important apps like Gmail and GMaps off the platform. They also made sure customers did not see any Windows Phones by forcing cretail outlets to hide them on a small shelf in the back. Both of these actions ensured it couldn't get traction.

But both could have been overcome if Microsoft had spent a little money on it. Satya formerly ran the Azure division and had no interest in the platform at all. It was the usual bureaucratic neglect and myopia of a technology run by MBAs since its founding. And MBAs like other MBAs and protect their turf.

Comment Re:Will believe it when it happens (Score -1) 166

They put MBAs in charge who are programmed to listen to the marketing droids, who are mindless idiots.

To be fair, Microsoft has always been run by MBAs and marketing drones, really bad ones straight out of the 90s.

Satya Nadella seems to have zero vision other than "grow the cloud business." He's the idiot who discontinued Windows Phone (which was insanely awesome) on a whim just before going on stage at BUILD.

Comment Re:About damn time (Score -1) 65

Our president has sold over 2,000 pardons for literally billions of dollars and he has a 40% approval rating

Citation needed. And from a legitimate source, which I'm sure you don't have.

As for 40% approval, that's false. The pollster who was most accurate in the last election has him at 44%, higher than Obama on the same day in his second term. No one has him at 40%. If fact, he's been about a point higher than Obama in the RCP Average for nearly every day of this second term.

Comment Re:This is concerning (Score -1) 147

From what I read, the cooling can be done with enough radiators.

The real problem is getting data to space and then back, given the bandwidth and clouds. The AI problems they're solving would need to be long running to be economical, not some chatbot.

I suspect this is actually economical for some purposes, given the amount of private money a people are putting into it.

Comment Re:good luck with that (Score -1) 74

At companies? I worked on the project to write the missing scheduling software for the Veterans Association about 12 years ago, the absence of which led to thousands of veterans not getting the surgeries they needed.

They hired me and two other developers, total, laid off the other two guys in a month, then me after two months.

That's the total budget government bureaucrats had allocated for development, out of $300 allocated. It took another 4 years and a few more rounds of funding by Congress before any actual company saw enough funds to do anything useful.

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