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Well, or new builds for folks who don't want 10. Personally I view Windows 7 keys as precious but I still have dozens of Windows 8 license keys that are just going to be wasted.

Oh and also, there are two stingers. The first is after the graphical portion of the credits, the second after the complete credits roll. My second viewing was at a $5 matinee filled with older couples. They didn't find the movie as funny as the opening night crowd, but there was also a lot more...

There was a new Marvel movie. That means, as usual, that I went to the first public showing. This is the thirteenth Marvel movie. And we all have favorites, but there's at least some consensus on top-tier outings. The Avengers and Captain America: The Winter Soldier are usually right at the top...

As a mild clarification: “The Republican establishment is prepared to vote for Hillary Clinton if it means holding onto their fiefdoms.” -- Rush Limbaugh, April 18, 2016. Rush is of course the very definition of "the Republican Establishment"; in this case he might as well be using the royal...

Several SF members have agreed to throw some cash toward a High School graduation gift for sed. If you want to kick in a little, PM me by Saturday. Depending on where we land on a final amount, I'm hoping we can hook sed up with some kind of decent portable computer-thing.

I suspect that the ongoing argument that you're not voting for President, but rather which side gets to choose judicial nominees, will continue to carry a lot of weight in spite of general antipathy toward the presumptive nominees. It's also fairly amusing that at least one of the Koch...

I find Howell's comments very interesting because the Democratic party has always been built on a coalition of interests (labor/urban/progressive/minority/non-Christian) that works together about as well as herding cats, while Republicans for the last ~25 years have largely worked in lock-step...

Hillary went from a 98% chance of winning to a 97% chance. At least there's a message to her campaign that she might be too far to the right of her presumptive supporters.

That definitely sounds like too damned much work. I was hoping you had hit on something that might work universally for new recordings and formats but it doesn't sound like that's the case.

Hey did you ever make any progress with this?

I think we'll probably set up something communal. I've run these things before for SF members. I ran it by a couple folks and I'm sure we're going to be OK for... something, at least. Anyone else who wants to kick in a bit, PM me and I'll put it in the bucket. What's your laptop situation right...

I am mildly surprised that his campaign is still technically viable at this point in the season, but I'll get to vote for Bernie in Indiana's primary tomorrow. It's very rare for a primary vote to matter in my state, but I'll be happy to cast my ballot in this case.

Not ALL Atoms, just the ones meant for mobile devices. I'm somewhat shocked by that, since it's seemed to me for some time that the primary thrust of its consumer CPU development has been to become competitive in that space.

Hey, so where do we send graduation presents?

I suspect that ever-increasing video processing standards will also drive growth for both processing and storage on the consumer side. Samsung isn't going to get to 8k displays and call it a day when there's a solid market for convincing people they need a new $2500 TV every five years.

I think a big question is who can manage the next couple semiconductor die shrinks and who can afford to build the fabs for turning out chips on that new technology. Samsung is one of the tiny number of companies competing in that space at the moment, but who is doing what in terms of R&D to...

I had an opportunity to shake hands with Hillary Clinton back in 2008. She had a campaign stop at the USWA Union hall that's across the street from my place, a place where I occasionally work. She seemed like a human being made of plastic, someone devoid of sincerity. I've met other celebrities...

C2E2 was like that as well. The first two years were 1/3 the size of the current con I think. I suppose I shouldn't complain, since we have Gen Con, but as I understand things, it has outgrown its space and is kind of a hassle to attend now too.

I can't believe there isn't a PAX show in the midwest.

I played both it and Last Night on Earth on the same weekend. I liked Zombicide better, but they're both fun games.

I don't know if anyone else cares, but there's approximately a zillion tabletop strategy games in today's Amazon Gold Box deals, including Sentinels of the Multiverse, Zombicide and Dixit, all games I really love.

I rather thought a solemn moment at 11AM followed by many shrimps on the barbie (or the mid-autumn equivalent) would be in order.

Andy Grove is gone, so there's no danger of the company ever being run by engineers again.

Happy ANZAC day to the antipodeans among us.

How big of a library? Is the collection already cataloged? Why not use the LCC instead of Dewey? Do you want or need to automate tracking (e.g. barcoding) at all? I ask because most people would probably just make a spreadsheet if their collection is small enough and anything more than that is...

Maybe it'll dump a bunch of the money it has saved into acquisitions. IMO, Intel is already at a point where it's at least competitive with high end ARM for mobile and if it ever gets a Skylake or Cannonlake Atom with Iris Pro into shipping mobile devices, I'd even say it's ahead of the game...

Well that will never happen. Those sales guys make Intel the money! ;)

I've had three 128GB Lexar USB3 flash drives die in the last two weeks. Normally, they're not worth the time it takes to send them back but that's so offensively crummy that I think I'm going to do it on general principle.

This is probably news. What's going on in the world of semiconductors that Intel no longer feels like it needs 10% of the people who work there?

Video capture was never 100% hassle free for me, no matter how hard I tried. I could get 98% perfect, but that last 2% just would not happen, which is why I gave up on vidcap. Now you're dealing with protected content streams and hardware that only has a barebone software suite and doesn't...

They're ALL integrated with SmartThings. The problem is that none of the Voice Assistants are willing to acknowledge that people use services from outside their own walled garden. Google's can't even access a lot of other Google services.

One nice thing about the basic Rii is that, while it loses connection easily, it also reconnects instantly.

You Adobe-loving Photoshop Slores should like that Google has made Nik's filters available free of charge.

No doubt you can do a lot of automation with If This Then That recipes, but these things are still limited in a lot of cases because the companies that provide them want to wring every tiny bit of data out of you they possibly can and the devices they're most designed to work with are limited by...

I can see why Amazon does it. It's a big enough trial getting some people to go to a web page or type in login info that they should definitely know. I have people tell me pretty regularly that they don't have any need for logins and passwords in the same breath that they say they do online...

I started looking at it primarily because one of my customers keeps asking me questions about the Amazon Echo. The fact that none of these things are completely aware of files or work-related tasks speaks to the direction technology companies want to take things.

The closest you can get right now is that the assistants can open the apps for you on the device where they're running. Although now that I say that, I haven't tried it with Alexa.

I've been messing around between Alexa, Google Now and Cortana lately. Shocking me all to hell, Cortana seems to be the most generally useful of the bunch as a voice assistant, but that may be because it's actually aware of files on my PCs, not just a small number of branded applications. I...

The best answer I can give is, it depends. Kodi supports themes and isn't constantly fucking with its Android interface (how many times do I have to switch from "Discover" view to "Browse?" On every device? Every time I upgrade? Gee thanks, guys), so you have a lot more control over...

My phone sits on a charger at night. It wasn't doing it prior to the most recent point upgrade. It also retained all my settings through a major version change (from L to M), but not whatever the hell just go rolled out. I don't see any settings other than the one for leaving 802.11 on while...

My phone got a minor Android version update over the weekend that re-set almost all my personal settings. It also reinstalled system apps I had removed, re-set my dialler preference, removed most of my custom sounds and deleted the two daily alarms I have set. It also lost its bluetooth...

I bought a "massager" for a friend a few years ago. Years. I *still* get recommendations for them almost every time I hit the site. And that's why I have a blank user profile for any time I need to put my PC on a projector now.

It's complicated, but the rules boil down to the absolute canon being the films, then the in-canon TV shows (Clone Wars and Rebels), then the comic books and the newer series of novels. The movies have precedence over everything, so if there's a contradiction, the movies win. Any secondary...

In the mid to late 2000s, Dell was shipping a lot of systems that used an alternate arrangement of components. This arrangement, called BTX, was never widely adopted except by Dell and HP. Your Precision T3400 uses a BTX motherboard and a modern, standard ATX or MicroATX board can't be secured...

I have a USB to micro adapter.

When I plug my headphones in to it, the charging light comes on.

My Shield tablet can also kinda-sorta stream PC games, but the only game I own that it supports is Fallout 3. I tested it, and the game actually does display on the PC's primary local monitor while sound is redirected to the tablet. It ran acceptably to a non-local network, but I think it's...

I have an extra phone battery in my laptop bag, another in my car and a third in my jacket pocket. It's unusual for me to use even 50% of a charge during a typical work day, but if I need an extra, I *really* need an extra. The LG charging cradles double as external batteries as well, which...

It probably shouldn't surprise you that own both of the printed collections. I've met the writer and artist. You get extra naughty doodles if you get an autographed book. Webcomics and podcasts are basically the things I support financially since I stopped buying movies on disc and comic books.