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Comment Full Circle (Score 1) 140

"We are freshening up the Start menu with a more streamlined design that puts the icons back to the way they were before windows 8 in the apps list..."

fixed that for you.

I'm glad you found something productive to do with all that dev time. I mean, why bother fixing 10 your old bugs with GPP when you can screw around with Alt-Tab? I love workarounds like deploying shortcuts to shortcuts!

Comment Generallly No. (Score 1) 92

I would say for the most part no. For me 90% of the value of the conference is the networking with fellow nerds and vendors, making new connections to people with something to offer or with people that have the same software/hardware/whatever that I want/have or skills I am looking to acquire. Sure some of the speakers can be fun and informative, but I gain more valuable information from 15min bitching and conversing with salesmen and colleagues by the bar then I get from 3-4 hours of sessions. You just don't get that in a virtual conference.

Comment fine. as long as I can uninstall it. (Score 1) 269

Mozilla can go ahead a develop a couple of EXTENSIONS and make a few $ if someone finds them useful, even distribute them with a new install if you want, as long as I can UNINSTALL them and they stay UNINSTALLED after updates. Keep that crap out of the core.While your at it remove pocket and make it a EXTENSION as well, so I can uninstall it instead of having to dig through about:config to turn it off (but not really off as parts of it are still littered around the GUI and settings). Extra "premium" stuff like VPN's, pocket, etc. that doesn't have to do with rendering and displaying a web page has no business in the core. If you can't build it as a plugin perhaps you should dedicate more resources into bringing the webextensions back up to the level they need to be, that's something that would benefit everyone.

Comment What hasn't changed in 35 years (Score 1) 250

* They are still at least 2x the price of non-macintosh computers with similar hardware
* They still come with under-powered CPU's compared to their competition
* They still come with a minimal amount of RAM
* They are still not designed to be "up-gradable" (often RAM and CPUs are soldered in place, etc.)

Comment Punished.....as they should be. (Score 5, Insightful) 501

Love how they try to pin their failure on social media. Point in fact: Your movies sucked. Just because we can now tell people quickley and en mass how badly they sucked does not chamge the fact. Why should hollywood be rewarded by paying customers for producing trash?

Comment Re:"Sunway RaiseOS 2.0.5" (Score 5, Informative) 247

I was curious what OS it runs. TOP500 says "Sunway RaiseOS 2.0.5". Googling "Sunway" is just giving me some Malaysian resort town, and "RaiseOS" yields nothing at all. Does anyone know anything about this OS? Is it Linux?

from TFA: "TaihuLight, which is installed at China's National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, uses ShenWei CPUs developed by Jiangnan Computing Research Lab in Wuxi. The operating system is a Linux-based Chinese system called Sunway Raise. "

Comment Re:Simple (Score 1) 228

it's not that simple

if he doesn't follow the laws turkey bans facebook. a facebook clone in turkey pops up instead. now all those connections to the outside world are greatly diminished. turkey becomes a social silo that stagnates

Zuckerburg does not give rats ass about the social health or free speech influences of the people of turkey. What he does care about is generating ad revenue from them, which is difficult to do if your site is banned.

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