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  1. HarryNyquist
    It's not, but companies don't hire smart BAs or managers anymore. They hire people who have a business degree, but have zero actual experience handling money or IT staff. They won't hire a new dev or use new tech because of the number on the purchase/hire, but fail to take into account the lost business from using something so obsolete, or the downtime for repairs when the thing inevitably breaks.
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    I envisioned this a while ago when they first debuted the "new and improved" Synapse that you couldn't use offline for some reason. I love my corsair stuff to death.
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    If they think they ARM chip is infringing their patent, shouldn't they go after the chip builder instead of the products using the chip? I would assume that LG and LeVizio didn't know this chip might infringe a patent.
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    The question I have about this, and all of these better fuels, is how they compare to the gold standard. If you have this biofuel blend making 50-70% less carbon, but you have to use 50-70% more fuel, it all evens out and we get less performance for more money and longer flights. Sorta like the "low flush toilets," where you have to flush the damn thing 6 times, using MORE water than the older toilets that could flush with one pull. Obviously, I hope that's not the case, and that these DO turn out to be better than the gold standard.
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    ...but why?
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    You did try the password for your live account, right?
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    I used Google Domains for mine. Was pretty fast & easy. $12/yr for most domains.
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    Oh good, another way to kill off carrier-unlocked phones. Hard pass on that one. I don't want to be stuck with buying a new device every time I switch carriers.
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    30FPS is playable whether you want to admit it or not. I feel like I'm constantly in the minority when I say I'd rather have a stable 30FPS than an unstable 45-67FPS. The drops in framerate are far more noticeable than the less-smooth motion.
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    I disagree. Code generation can only go so far. Even natural language interpretation of business requirements won't get the program 100% correct. Eventually? Sure, but I don't see programming going to the bots anytime soon. Especially not where legacy spaghetti code is concerned. That being said, having a computer do programming successfully would be cool as hell.
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    I'm betting it will. That will get around the department pretty fast, and when he goes asking for references for other jobs he'd better have some damn good ones outside that department. This isn't going to go well for him at all.
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    Honestly? I prefer Lightning over USB-C due to the structure of the connector itself. Lightning is a solid male connector joining with a solid female connector, without the need for another hole in the middle of the male connector like USB-C has. Inb4 jokes about male and female "connectors"
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    I'd bet a lot of their money comes from their Server CALs and Volume Licensing to businesses, universities, etc. I know for a fact that a lot of those places do not have other options for certain softwares besides Win32 and manual install. Hell, Visual Studio doesn't operate through UWP, and people use that on a daily basis. Locking this option, or even making it opt-out, would be utter suicide. They may be dumb with some of their choices in W10, but I really don't think they're willing to sacrifice billions in revenue from CALs and Enterprise Volume Licensing.
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    Part of me hopes that Ryzen is a good chip so the competition will increase and be better all around. Part of me hopes it crashes and burns like No Man's Sky.
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    I'll take the risk. I don't have time to sift through my logins to figure out which are affected & change them. And I definitely don't have time to change every password.
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    I'm pretty certain it moves those to C:\Windows.Old, but I always keep all that on a different hard drive than the OS. I can't say for sure.
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    This would be incredibly silly for windows, considering each key is licensed to one computer (kindasorta). With Office, you're allowed to have 2 active installs, and warn you since they assume you'll be using it on multiple computers. If you have a valid key that has NOT already been activated on a different computer, it'll work. If it's already been activated elsewhere, it'll fail to activate and that's that.
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    If you're using steam, move your games to a new steam library folder on a different drive. Then, after you've reinstalled, you can pick that same steam library folder and all your games will be there. Most other applications, though, you're screwed. There are usually registry entries that would be too time-consuming to fix, not to mention programs laced with DRM and such that will no longer function (it's a "new computer" you've installed it on). It's best to just use Ninite and grab most of the programs you need, followed by reinstalling others as you discover you need them. EDIT: yes, this means other games outside of steam too. If you have a bandwidth cap then you'll just have to download only the ones you REALLY want to play.
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    It's probably not 100% compatible with the emulator. Not much you can do.
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    So much this. Also consider that Verizon is using CDMA, which is older than GSM. That's going to factor into costs of maintenance. EDIT: Doubly consider that the US has a /lot/ of mountainous regions when compared to the UK and generally mainland Europe. GSM sucks cock in the mountains. CDMA doesn't.
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    Whelp, guess I gotta buy a new phone so I can switch back to Verizon. Good job, Big Red, you won me back.
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    I'm only buying this (after launch, at that) if the virtual console has GBA games like the Wii U. It's a no sale otherwise.
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    No thanks. I don't need Zuck knowing everything I'm thinking.
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    True, But still. Pro lets them do everything they want to do, and that's not exactly secret knowledge. The complaining at this point is just getting old.
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    Then every feature update will be bundled with security updates to make them mandatory anyway. I find it interesting, also, that the people who complain the most bought a W10 Home license from wherever, instead of buying a W10 pro license that would enable them to group-policy-edit updates into not even downloading without permission. I haven't bothered to update until they get that multimonitor crap corrected. The more I see these complaints from enthusiasts the more I wonder why you'd be willing to spend $2k+ on a computer and cripple it by either using the wrong operating system, or by not using the provided configuration tools to make it work exactly as you'd like it to. The automatic update options are still available on W10 Pro unlike those few others that got nixed to Enterprise.
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