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Depends on what you are doing. Is single-threaded? Multi-threaded? Needs ECC, Memory bound? Computer bound? etc.

For gaming? Nope. An i7-7700K is still faster then the iCore 9. LOL.

For rendering? Yep 2:07 vs 7:19

However, it is important to point out:

* Intel CPU's are the fastest CPU's around but you literally PAY through the nose 2x- 5x for a measly ~10% increase in performance.
* AMD's Ryzen and Threadripper CPUs have WAY better bang/buck. i.e. In Blender 2.78c AMD's Theadripper 1950X ($999) is faster then the Xeon E5 2699 v4 ($4,115). LOL.

Conclusion:

Is the i9-7960X worth a whopping $700 more then Threadripper 1950X?

For many people, the answer is no. That is money that could be spent into a better GPU or more RAM/SSD.

What CPU is "best" depends on your workload.

Trippy man https://youtu.be/8fvTxv46ano

what does the tow hitch attachment look like

If the person who uses the Tesla 3 to tow is on Slashdot, could you please message me? I need to know what the fuck you're thinking.

NOTE: Never mind, I found the guy. He's exactly what I expected, and he's even wearing a fedora.

https://youtu.be/fQFQMaMsXS0

So one of the problems that any car attempting to integrate technology could face is a poor user interface. There's a video on an older Maserati on Youtube where the reviewer comments about flaws in the interface, including issues where some features require use of both the physical button and the on-screen controls, and in a nutshell, too much time has to be taken off paying attention to the road in order to operate these features.

Personally I think that touchscreens are a horrible way to control a car. There's no tactile feedback on a touchscreen. One cannot tell for certain without taking one's eyes from the road what one is doing with the interface. Its bad enough for optional things like the radio and cell phone interaction, but it's a real problem for things that are mandatory when driving. The article summary's comment on the windshield wipers is a case in point, if most of the time I just need a light intermittent wiper setting I probably will leave my wipers set that way. If I drive into a thunderstorm on the highwayay I might immediately need fast-speed wipers. It's bad enough to not have an immediate way to turn up the speed without thinking, but if I have to hunt through menus to find the setting then that could be disastrous.

"at most 4 hours to create"

Here's a couple of my videos -- both around 80 minutes -- that took about 50 hours each to make:

COASALT 6: 222 Answers

Toxic: How Science Measures Harm

Boggles my mind why anyone would pull an arbitrary fixed number out of their hat...

"at most 4 hours to create"

Here's a couple of my videos -- both around 80 minutes -- that took about 50 hours each to make:

COASALT 6: 222 Answers

Toxic: How Science Measures Harm

Boggles my mind why anyone would pull an arbitrary fixed number out of their hat...

Damore actually comes across as a super reasonable guy who just wanted to help. Typical white male nerd. The diversity training he was forced to attend asked for ideas about why Google wasn't diverse enough, so Damore came up with some ideas like they asked. BOOM fired. Dude's not alt-right, but keep calling anyone you dislike a Nazi. He was a victim of a "hundred flowers campaign" style trick to get dissidents to expose themselves. Mao did the same thing to get hidden dissidents in the open and then nailed them to the wall just like Google did Damore.

Damore actually comes across as a super reasonable guy who just wanted to help. Typical white male nerd. The diversity training he was forced to attend asked for ideas about why Google wasn't diverse enough, so Damore came up with some ideas like they asked. BOOM fired. Dude's not alt-right, but keep calling anyone you dislike a Nazi.

Mildly or otherwise.

It is most probably reacting to generally emotionally charged scenes.
From a comedy where all goes well in the end to the scene in an action movie where the hero is triumphant.
With a tendency towards crying at happy moments.

My guess... based on personal experience, and not even related to airplanes...
It's something related to low blood pressure and how that relates to oxygenation of the brain... and empathy.
Cause basically... people who cry at those emotional scenes are empathizing with the characters on the screen and compensating for their often exaggerated levels of distress (i.e. acted out in a over the top way) - by having an emotional reaction of their own.

I have a naturally low blood pressure. Also, my mom will get all teary-eyed when watching a movie.
I once cried watching this scene. At the time I thought that it was just the movie being so bad and that it was that "quality" which made me cry.

It's actually all that over the top melodrama, while sitting down, blood pressure dropping...
Brain then has to deal with images signaling the need for some great emotional relief, and the lack of oxygen making it emotional and basic instead of slow, calculated and rational.
Add to that the genetic component of predisposition for empathy... and you can have yourself a cry at the end of The Matrix, when Neo kungfus Agent Smith and then dives into him, exploding him from the inside and bending the Matrix to his will.
All in the privacy of your own home.

https://youtu.be/ZBma82g3Uag

Apple has become exactly what Jobs originally did not like.

Funny how that claim is always made by people who neither understood Steve Jobs nor Apple's products when he was still alive.

Well, Google is in for some mass firings soon. There's going to be a huge culture clash between Google's far left SJW culture and Taiwan's meh don't care culture. If you think James Damore was bad (and he wasn't, the man was super reasonable, he was trying to help when Google's diversity classes told him they couldn't figure out why the company wasn't more diverse) then all these new Taiwanese employees are going to be a nightmare. You think these Taiwanese are going to go to the gay pride parade? People have been fired from Google for declining to attend. I bet Google learned from the Googlegate fiasco, and instead of highly public firings, will do quiet ones instead. Still, they're going to lose capable people due to the fact that the SJW culture sounds insane to people raised outside the bubble.

https://youtu.be/ZBma82g3Uag

Apple has become exactly what Jobs originally did not like.

Modern UI / UX design is a clusterfuck of bad design.

Everything that was learnt for the past 40 years has been thrown out the window. These morons are so focused on Form over Function that you get stupid shit like this:

* How dare we "clutter up" the UI and show the user a scroll bar so they can gauge spatial proximity. Now we have "endless" scrolling with no scroll bar -- so you have no fucking clue how far along the content you are. Want to QUICKLY scroll to a specific spot? LOL. Waste even more time trying to remember where it was. At least with scroll bars the slider position was a VISUAL MNEMONIC to help you remember roughly where it was.

* We get idiotic error messages that don't:

i) explain WHAT caused the problem in the first place,
ii) nor HOW to resolve it.

I just ran into one this week. I purchased an album off iTunes and only half the album was downloaded. Clicking on a song that was in grey pops up a dialog Item not available. No Shit, Sherlock. HOW do I _fix_ the problem ?! Really, there was no room to say "iTunes > Purchased Music" ???

* Worse, everything is "flat" so you have NO visual cue to tell what can be interacted with and what is purely informational. You are kept playing a stupid guessing game of "Can I press this?" In the past we had 3D shading for objects that you could interact with and flat shading for informational. From the _context_ you could figure out the UI. Now a days? HAHA.

* Gaudy colors are now "in vogue" because they have been smoking Hollywoods Orange and Teal crack pipe.

The only progress is that:

* "Search" has now been added to "Options" because who needs manuals, right?

* At least they are _finally_ starting to get a clue with 120 FPS. Consoles are still stuck on a shitty 30 fps.

Modern UI / UX people are morons. I fight with these people weekly where their latest design is always half-baked. Hell, just getting them to understand "mach banding" and the simple concept of adding noise to reduce it is an uphill struggle.

--
"Those who forgot the past are condemned to repeat it."

Love watching vacuum tanks implode:)

https://youtu.be/AL4k9BGv_Gg

IT is closer to the clothing fashion industry than real topics.

Relevant

Well. I suspect it'll looks something like this: https://youtu.be/0N17tEW_WEU?t...

You ever see what an induced leak or structural weakness does to a vacuum chamber?

https://youtu.be/T9bpUfWy8Wg

or as mythbusters would say https://youtu.be/Nl8xTqTUGCY?t...

I'm not kidding.

Watch all of the tests and "achievements." Making it to 70 MPH [sic] in a mile long tube by a bunch of (essentially) college students pulling a trolley on a wire in a vacuum. The "huge" achievement of getting vacuum in that tube.

We can't even keep pressurized OIL pipelines from leaking. How the hell do you VACUUM pressurize (way harder because air has no viscosity compared to thick oil) MILES of much larger radius pipeline and ensure enough for humans? It's insane in the face of it. Imagine a terrorist (or even a drunk driver) hitting it. Now realize that "hitting it" means protecting MILES upon MILES of area. It's hard enough to protect a single building from a terror attack (involving 300+ feet of distance and concrete from the road as bombs lose energy at the cube of distance.).

And it doesn't even have to be a terror attack. It can be a single, accidental drunk driver. It could be a TREE from say... this thing called a HURRICANE or other storm knocking it over. How often do we have power and internet outages from downed lines? The shear area we have to protect is physically unimaginable without a diagram.

We can't even keep our car tires from rupturing. And we're supposed to put _human beings_ inside 100+ mile long tires and hope they never pop?

(Not to try and turn this political but) Liberals understand the shear difficulty of keeping thick, slow moving, oil over a pipeline. Yet somehow are completely okay with super-high-speed machines, in a pure vacuum (ala no viscosity to save you), full of REAL HUMAN LIVES at stake.

Here's a video of a relatively SMALL container experiencing implosion collapse.

https://youtu.be/0N17tEW_WEU?t...

Now turn fill that with people and make it miles long. Even if they survive... how are you going to get them out? With jaws of life? And then what? The hyperloop is disabled until they replace the entire affected section, plus testing, plus a complete lack of public trust from then on.

When you were born on third base and think you hit a home run.

https://youtu.be/Kn283OjPb1g

https://youtu.be/oSyivQLQfQw?t...

Apple should be the last platform a tech user should use. It seems the only reason people use it is because people hate Microsoft.

Ok, sold. How do we infect the hot chicks of the planet?

So now, you finally understand how the internet can both at the same time be
- only for porn
- only for kitten

You're witnessing our Machiavellian ploy unfold.

I'd need to see your sources on Middle Age and Stone Age homicide rates.

https://youtu.be/ramBFRt1Uzk

There are other (original) sources of course, but this one is pretty comprehensible.

And if you are one of those who also has aero disabled and has the classic look here is what the kids think of it today :-)

There were no warnings in the two minutes leading up to the crash. Even if there had been, their driver attentiveness detection system is flawed - just having your hand on the wheel doesn't mean you are paying attention. You can easily have one hand on the wheel and the other on your phone, or sleep in that position.

Look at this guy: https://youtu.be/sXls4cdEv7c

or, in your case, playing pinball: A video to help you.

I keep the dark chocolate covered prunes, cigarettes, and 15 year-old scotch on the other side of the house, so I have to get up once every half-hour.

By the way, if you've never tried dark chocolate covered prunes, you don't know what you're missing.

https://youtu.be/vuo8kD5zF5I

Well they've only released the manual. You have to download the software itself elsewhere, eg. as shown here.

As someone who moved to California just a week ago, I think it's pretty cool that we have pot delivery at all. I just found out that my local dispensary will bring the herb right to your door. I haven't got my medical card yet, because I'm shy about going to a doctor and trying to say I've got some medical condition that requires pot (since I don't, really), and I'm not sure I want to smoke any at all, because it makes me kind of goofy and lazy, but it's still cool. This is a pretty wonderful place. That's how California rolls.

https://youtu.be/R_q6aRwoV3M

There are still new ones that have compelling hardware, notably the Alcatel Idol 4 Pro that was recently reviewed on The Phones Show as having the best front facing speakers of any phone. I'd be tempted if I could replace Windows with Android.
https://youtu.be/crB9JNFghuk

Yeah man. Python is real gangsta

It's one badass language for hipsters

Existenz already inspired me to take advantage of the port on my lower back ðYoe

https://youtu.be/W1fkINKMwHA

any local gas station attendent can do it!

hehe

Maybe he could explain what he means by "before the first El Nino?" When was that exactly?

Regarding the impact of El Nino on Hurricanes, Dr Trenberth of NCAR responded to a question about why 2015 - the most active year globally for hurricanes, but mostly in the Pacific and related in no small part to a very active El Nino. What does it say that we are getting this kind of storm in a non El Nino year?

He responded "The action in an El Nino year is in the Pacific... during El Nino years the Atlantic activity, the Atlantic hurricanes tend to be surpressed. And in fact that's one of the things which perhaps leads to more activity this year because there's some pent up action. There's a bit more ocean heat in the Atlantic.that hasn't been taken out in the previous years because all of the action was in the Pacific. So this is one of the components of natural variability that comes into play and helps to cause some of the variability from one year to the next.

The very active El Nino years, the second most active year was probably 1997 which was again a very active El Nino year. All of the action was in the Pacific and it was a very quiet year in the Atlantic.

I can just imagine that next month Chris Beard will walk into his office, close the door, remove the mask, and Emperor Palpatine will growl ... and your journey to the Dark Side will be complete.

Toby Hemenway - How Permaculture Can Save Humanity and the Earth, but Not Civilization https://youtu.be/8nLKHYHmPbo

https://youtu.be/75ciLcHS6EQ

Here's a segment from a TV show back in the 50s where he touches a little bit (in passing) on that, at least at that time:

https://youtu.be/3cspYZyGp1A?t...

Uhh.. A man's got to know his limitations.

https://youtu.be/ptfmAY6M6aA

Nuff said

Movie P.S. Anyone able to recommend a bank that offers an app with Post quantum cryptography?

The S is for Sucks.

Fellow aristocrats deny Trump

I think nothing says that more than the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner speech. https://youtu.be/FZ5Dl-qddYo?t...

If we wanted, we could invade Africa, one country at a time, kill all the warlords, take away all the guns and provide all the necessary items.

Obligatory Monty Python It actually illustrates the point pretty well -- the benefits are beside the point to many.

What's the concern? Please state it clearly.

The whole situation is a grey area; if it doesn't involve conflicts of interest currently, it easily can, and also causes difficulties regarding equality of education.

Let's assume this teacher is absolutely the best possible scenario: she personally looks through products to see if they are a good fit for the classroom and selects the products that best fit the curriculum. She teaches in terms of principle rather than product ("this is an IDE" vs. "This is Visual Studio"), takes nothing for herself and solely accepts materials for the students / classroom, has the blessing of her superintendent, and sends a letter home to the parents disclosing all of this to the parents whenever such a product enters the classroom. Excellent. Few people would have a problem with this, myself included. Materials need to come from somewhere, and the less parents are nickel-and-dimed for things, the better. Teachers have one less thing to worry about, parents have a starting point to teach their children about advertising, lessons are complemented by things that would need to be purchased anyway, and a company somewhere gets good PR for helping students. Everybody wins.

The problem is that, while those specific circumstances would be perfectly fine, the concern is the precedent being set whereby teachers receive materials, teach how to use the product rather than the principles behind it, take money under the table for doing so, and don't disclose any of it. We see this already in schools; students frequently learn Microsoft Word rather than word processing, or Gmail, not e-mail. Math classes require TI-8x calculators; the textbooks aren't written for Casio. When the line between "sanctuary of learning" and "yet another venue of advertising" become blurred, we find ourselves on a road where this is the logical conclusion.

Advertising to children is a topic unto itself because advertising to children ultimately is a means of spending their parents' money, not their own. Additionally, while high schoolers have at least some notion of how advertising works in aggregate, younger children (especially under the age of 8) have trouble separating "advertisements" from "content"; they will literally sing commercial jingles with all the passion of their favorite song without grasping the difference. This is why cereal ads have the "part of a complete breakfast" product shot thrown in, even though no child in the history of humanity has sat down to eat cereal, toast, eggs, fruit, and a huge glass of milk. It's also why websites and mobile apps have the "ask a parent" disclaimer added, and shows targeted to minors cannot have product placement. It's a topic of intense and continual scrutiny as the ease with which one can manipulate a child is a near perfect match for the desires of advertisers. The fact that the companies providing materials in TFS are targeting "influential" and "well-liked" teachers speaks fairly clearly regarding their intentions.

If the classroom is allowed to become another venue for advertising to children, we find ourselves opening up a huge can of worms. For starters, we would then have some classrooms stocked with materials bearing advertisements. Since the point of the advertising is for the companies to make money, they're not going to target low-income or poorly funded schools (paradoxically, the ones who would most benefit from those materials), they're going to provide those materials to the most influential teachers in districts who have the most money to spend on the products, thus furthering the divide between elite schools and poorly funded ones. Over time, it's entirely possible that products (and by extension their companies) start influencing curricula. It's bad enough that Pearson has as much influence in education as they do, but at the very least their business is education. To open

And here I thought you were a primate.

FUCK PALM. If you watch the intro video for the Palm Pre, it is FUCKING DISGUSTING. Yeah, they came up with a couple new things in webOS, but 99% of it was a total rip-off of iOS. The first thing Palm demoed was scrolling a contacts list -- with inertia, and with rubber-banding at the end. https://youtu.be/Dw3cHOEnwTw?t...

That was in January 2009. "Tabs" in Safari in iOS ("iPhone OS" at the time) were treated like cards from Day 1. Literally, Day 1. Here's the feature being shown in the iPhone intro video from January 2007.
https://youtu.be/P-a_R6ewrmM?t...

So wow, Palm managed to introduce card-based app switching a mere TWO YEARS after Apple introduced card-based tab switching. What a staggering innovation. Quite a team of inventors they had over there.

FUCK PALM. If you watch the intro video for the Palm Pre, it is FUCKING DISGUSTING. Yeah, they came up with a couple new things in webOS, but 99% of it was a total rip-off of iOS. The first thing Palm demoed was scrolling a contacts list -- with inertia, and with rubber-banding at the end. https://youtu.be/Dw3cHOEnwTw?t...

That was in January 2009. "Tabs" in Safari in iOS ("iPhone OS" at the time) were treated like cards from Day 1. Literally, Day 1. Here's the feature being shown in the iPhone intro video from January 2007.
https://youtu.be/P-a_R6ewrmM?t...

So wow, Palm managed to introduce card-based app switching a mere TWO YEARS after Apple introduced card-based tab switching. What a staggering innovation. Quite a team of inventors they had over there.

So I'm not the guy who signed up cdreimer, but in any case I'm confusing you with someone else?

Oh yeah, I was thinking of your honest twin. You are a dishonest rectal fissure.