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For you TV-14 viewers out there: "I've had it with these MONKEY FIGHTING snakes on this MONDAY TO FRIDAY plane".

The original use of the word comes from one of the developper speaking about cool tricks that you could do by abusing DMA to blast data to the VDP.

(Among other doing high color tricks mentioned in the Eurogamer articles, explored but eventually unused by some developers back in the day, and found on some modern-day demos).

Then marketing department found the term cool and ran with it, basically using it to say "our device has more raw power than the competitor's" and plastering it all over any communication channel.

The original use of the word comes from one of the developper speaking about cool tricks that you could do by abusing DMA to blast data to the VDP.

(Among other doing high color tricks mentioned in the Eurogamer articles, explored but eventually unused by some developers back in the day, and found on some modern-day demos).

Then marketing department found the term cool and ran with it, basically using it to say "our device has more raw power than the competitor's" and plastering it all over any communication channel.

The original use of the word comes from one of the developper speaking about cool tricks that you could do by abusing DMA to blast data to the VDP.

(Among other doing high color tricks mentioned in the Eurogamer articles, explored but eventually unused by some developers back in the day, and found on some modern-day demos).

Then marketing department found the term cool and ran with it, basically using it to say "our device has more raw power than the competitor's" and plastering it all over any communication channel.

https://youtu.be/DZCBRHOg3PQ Tim Pool destroyed Twitter's credibility. Twitter seems to have doubled down instead of reforming. It was brilliant watching someone with journalistic ethics who did his homework do his thing.

Speculation: He were probably more worried about being convicted of rape. His narcissistic tendencies combined with PR makes being a "martyr" for many years better than spending a year or so in prison if convicted, add the ridiculous crap about Swedish collaboration with USA plus torture plus death penalty etc. which are obvious bullshit feeding his ego.

Speculation: you're a huge fan of Bari Weiss. You know, the NYT reporter who called Tulsi Gabbard an 'Assad toady' without being able to define or even spell the word.

Because the Swedes handing people over to the Americans to be tortured? Yeah, that actually happened. Sweden going to great lengths to get someone extradited to Sweden where they are promptly interrogated (for weeks in solitary confinement with no outside contact or even a lawyer) for an alleged crime in another country. Another country they were deported to, which mean that was the plan the entire time - that also happened. The UK police spending millions of pounds on a mere bail jumping case while pressuring Sweden not to drop charges against Assange - yes, that also happened.

Finally, Assange has long offered to return to Sweden voluntarily if the country promised they wouldn't hand Assange over to the United States. A promise that could easily be made, given the fact that Sweden is a signatory to the UN Convention Against Torture, which forbids extraditing prisoners to regimes that practice torture. Regimes like the United States.

So, in summary, Assange was just proven to be right all this time, and his haters should eat shit for throwing journalists under the bus to support criminal leaders and politicians.

This new Chernobyl series says it all.

https://youtu.be/s9APLXM9Ei8

“Every atom of uranium is like a bullet penetrating everything in path — metal, concrete, flesh. Chernobyl holds over 3 trillion of these bullets. Some of them will not stop firing for 50,000 years.”

"You are dealing with something that has never occurred on this planet."

Falcon 9's are transported horizontally by truck. https://youtu.be/oUDes_wpGvg?t...
When it is on the landing barge they have a robot lock onto the bottom of it, but it sounds like the robot couldn't get a proper grip and it tipped over. SpaceX can reliably get payloads into orbit, but the landing and turnaround operations are still having teething problems. In fairness, nobody else has ever even attempted what they are doing, so mixed results is actually pretty good.

Mentioned by some of the commenters, looks safer to me.
https://youtu.be/61Kb53DCeEc?t...

Thanks for modding this way down so I couldn't see the responses in time to reply while the post is hot.

Everyone pull your heads out and watch this before saying anything more in public:
https://youtu.be/_xSRS5YpiQM

https://youtu.be/tu-sLX0FbF0 Maybe some there are partial truths hidden among the fearful fantasy. Maybe still something to consider. Like the possibility of a slight temporary weakening of the fields and how they may impact our systems.

Let's hope the replacement will not skip in the middle of the tracks anymore, a major bug Apple is unwilling to address in iTunes for years (and removes apple discussion board forum posts if someone brings it up)!

Real danger, as always, is global cooling.

> C++'s days are numbered.
> [Go (programming language)]
> "The designers were primarily motivated by their shared dislike of C++."

To misquote Henry Spencer:

Those who don't understand C++ are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.

To understand why C++ is the way it is, and why it is popular:

https://youtu.be/ltCgzYcpFUI

v2.0 won't start if your credit score is too low

You're not that far off

I'll just leave this here, because this would be exactly what will happen QI S16E10

So how is holism going to save us ?

The same way holism has been allowing humans to develop more interconnected social structures and technologies for many thousands of years:

First, we don't defecate in our drinking water, it spreads disease.

Second, we don't procreate with our children or siblings, it causes significant genetic problems that last for generations. Fear not, Rednecks, an occasional kissing cousin might be fine.

Third, and please try to keep up here, we don't allow psychopathic individuals or organizations to make or enforce policies.

And sometimes that new shape identifies as a 60 foot tall futa dragon.

Oh no!

Ze just boned Tokyo!

Oh no Fu-Zilla!

Sorry, couldn't resist.

https://youtu.be/RTzb-sduiWc

I'd do "why you don't want Twitter to be a public utility".

Actually this video about PewDiePie and terrorism would make a good Ted talk: https://youtu.be/pnmRYRRDbuw

Ironically, I worked for EA before the whole EA spouse thing blew up. It was a real eye opener to how corrupt & immature the industry was.

There ARE still indies who care about making fun games and respecting the players. While they may be the minority they DO exist.

/noclip has an excellent documentary about Astroneer.

Censorship and integrity in regard to TED owners who chose to ban the talk which is mentioned in this /. submission.

Except it wasn't banned, this is the same link as in the article which tells the full story. https://www.snopes.com/fact-ch...

Snopes is a well known American troll farm spreading fake news.

Censorship and integrity in regard to TED owners who chose to ban the talk which is mentioned in this /. submission.

Except it wasn't banned, this is the same link as in the article which tells the full story. https://www.snopes.com/fact-ch...

Censorship and integrity in regard to TED owners who chose to ban the talk which is mentioned in this /. submission.

What's that -- don't follow your passion? Mike Rowe

"Find something you are good at and seek a job in whatever industry needs that skillset and will allow you to develop it further. " A friend of mine decades ago said: "Find a niche and exploit it."

You'll have to get up and do the same thing pretty much each day whether you want to or feel like it or not, so you might as well try to find something that you enjoy. You might like the money but if you hate the job you'll be miserable; don't pick the job just because of the money.

If you want to see how insane things are in the UK, here's an interview with South Yorkshire's Police & Crime Commissioner. South Yorkshire Police are encouraging people to report "non-crime hate incidents," which is basically people being offended on Twitter. Say something out of line here and you'll have the police all over you. It should be noted that South Yorkshire is where Rotherham is where the Muslim rape gangs were operating, but the police are far more concerned with protecting the feelings of those rapists than investigating actual crimes.

The interview is 15 minutes long, but if you listen to a few minutes at this point you'll get the idea:

https://youtu.be/wZXGI7R1-gA?t=329

Some stock exchanges uses miles and miles of coiled up fibre to slow down trading for people located physically near by, to put everyone on a level playing field.

https://youtu.be/d8BcCLLX4N4

Exclusive interview with Intel engineer about the new Core X series

Satisfied? https://youtu.be/ZRasTCSevtQ A sick ideology indeed.

Like this, but made by people who spend a lot of money on electronics and gym memberships so the audience don’t realise they’re listening to annoying rhythmic noises. https://youtu.be/nbOPUzT51kI

I liked last year's April Fool's Day when creimer bought Slashdot for three pennies. Long live Goat C!

Everything I have seen, suggests that "management" and "board" are words for rather simple robots without any human-like characteristics. Might as well be Daleks. Very very booring Daleks!

Oh, and ... just for fun, ... go try and contact a human being at Google. ... ;)

The bigger question is, why didn't YOU link to it?

(URL tag. Learn it. Use it.)

https://youtu.be/MSJaSS_Zj0Y

Kill the unicorn / just to have its horn. / Soon he's just a fantasy.

Slay the unicorns!

https://youtu.be/A9KjjvZE0Lo

Creimer uses the donut-shaped magnets to stick his "Ripley in Spacesuit" and other dolls to the filing cabinet.

I'll bet Google knows even a bit more about what EVERYONE wants to do online.

Big booty Puerto Rican goddess

https://youtu.be/1EMqd5Nznv0?t...

but also (supposedly) found tons of evidence of Russians interacting with the Trump campaign and trying to influence the direction.

If by "tons", your device autocorrected from "none", then yes. The so-called evidence that has been "presented" is so bad it's dispositive. Like less than $5000 in Google ads definitively changing the the result of a $9 billion election. Or pointing to a Twitter troll farm that posted pro-Trump tweets - along with anti-Trump tweets, puppy tweets, tweets selling Obama fan merchandise, or even tweets posted after the election. A Trump tower meeting where even die hard Russiagaters admit Trump Junior walked away from empty-handed.

So really, that means the entire thing was justified, no?

It means the whole thing was a McCarthyite witch hunt. That's what it means. And stupid for two reasons:

1) All this time and political capital could have been focused on Trump violating the Emoluments Clause, which he has brazenly violated.

2) This has greatly helped Trump's re-election chances for 2020. Because people don't like it when other people are attacked for bullshit reasons, and because of the Boy who Cried Wolf. Future accusations against Trump, even if totally legit, will gain less traction because Russiagate was nothing more than a lie to excuse Hillary Clinton being an atrocious candidate.

To claim that the Russians weren't trying to change the outcome of that election is pure willful ignorance. Nothing credible has come close to casting any doubt on that conclusion.

Your projection is noted. Russia is the same country it was in 2012, when the establishment mocked Mitt Romney for saying Russia was a threat to the United States. The same 2012 where Putin stated a preference for the candidate not looking to escalate tensions with his country, but before a large number of Americans allowed them to be propagandized by the same people that lied you into Iraq.

I'm curious why you're so invested in seeing them exonerated?

It's called having a bullshit detector. Check your local Home Depot to see if they have one for sale?

but also (supposedly) found tons of evidence of Russians interacting with the Trump campaign and trying to influence the direction.

If by "tons", your device autocorrected from "none", then yes. The so-called evidence that has been "presented" is so bad it's dispositive. Like less than $5000 in Google ads definitively changing the the result of a $9 billion election. Or pointing to a Twitter troll farm that posted pro-Trump tweets - along with anti-Trump tweets, puppy tweets, tweets selling Obama fan merchandise, or even tweets posted after the election. A Trump tower meeting where even die hard Russiagaters admit Trump Junior walked away from empty-handed.

So really, that means the entire thing was justified, no?

It means the whole thing was a McCarthyite witch hunt. That's what it means. And stupid for two reasons:

1) All this time and political capital could have been focused on Trump violating the Emoluments Clause, which he has brazenly violated.

2) This has greatly helped Trump's re-election chances for 2020. Because people don't like it when other people are attacked for bullshit reasons, and because of the Boy who Cried Wolf. Future accusations against Trump, even if totally legit, will gain less traction because Russiagate was nothing more than a lie to excuse Hillary Clinton being an atrocious candidate.

To claim that the Russians weren't trying to change the outcome of that election is pure willful ignorance. Nothing credible has come close to casting any doubt on that conclusion.

Your projection is noted. Russia is the same country it was in 2012, when the establishment mocked Mitt Romney for saying Russia was a threat to the United States. The same 2012 where Putin stated a preference for the candidate not looking to escalate tensions with his country, but before a large number of Americans allowed them to be propagandized by the same people that lied you into Iraq.

I'm curious why you're so invested in seeing them exonerated?

It's called having a bullshit detector. Check your local Home Depot to see if they have one for sale?

https://youtu.be/gOBFxKqU88I

Well, at least you stopped pretending that Russia did nothing.

Russia did shit, diphsit. Both parties are virulently anti-Russian and have been for over a century. Accusing Russia of trying to favor one over the other is like accusing a gay person of trying to pick a side in an election between a homophobic Catholic and an equally homophobic Mormon. Russia is the same damn country it was in 2012, when the establishment ridiculed Mitt Romney for saying Russia was a threat to the United States.

Makes you sound likes like a Putin cock sucker and more like a Trump fan. I'm fine with that.

Speaking of homophobes, no one talks more about sucking another man's cock than homophobic bigots such as yourself. Why is that?

Problem is who are we going to buy hardware from now?

All US hardware is banned because of the NSA. All Chinese hardware is banned because all Chinese companies are fronts for the government. All British hardware is banned because of GCHQ, and most European hardware is dubious because we know GCHQ is actively and sometimes successfully attacking it.

Japanese hardware maybe? But some of that had to be banned too, e.g. Sony with its rootkits.

So let's say we buy an NEC PC, with Hitachi hard drive... But the CPU is still a US design, doubtless backdoored and sending all your data directly to the NSA's servers. And what OS are you going to run on it? Linux? Linus lives in the US now, and has publicly admitted that he is working for the CIA.

What about alternative computing platforms? The the abacus was invented in China and doubtless they weakened the crypto functions. Could go back to counting on our fingers but we all know that biometric security is a joke.

Maybe it's time to buy a bag of sand and build our own computers from scratch.

The Sabre Song as sung by Andy & Erin from The Office. In honor of a great way to spell a name.

My one and only experience with an MRI left me feeling shell-shocked for a few hours. That's probably not the best way to describe it, but I went in feeling fine and left feeling completely out of it. I probably shouldn't have been allowed to drive home.

I wasn't offered headphones. They told me it would be loud "just like a rock concert". That's got to be the absolute worst show I ever attended. It was as if AC/DC, Motley Crue, GWAR and the Ramones all got up on stage at the same time and tried to play louder than everyone else, but also forgot their own music at the same time.

The Ramones finished first of course. GWAR and Motley Crue actually sounded better having forgotten their own songs. AC/DC was indistinguishable from their normal selves.

And at some point, Cheech Marin joined them on stage just to say "I only know three chords,Ha ha ha ha ha!"

Translation from SJW into English: I've seen a hit-piece video by another SJW, that's exactly what the SJW accused him of.

Joe Rogan - Jordan Peterson Clarifies His Incels Comment

Here's hoping that one day you learn to tell the difference between opinions and facts. Until you do, this crappy SJW religion that you're following will keep making a sucker out of you.

The Democratic Primary isn't an election of the United States of America. You may not like how or who the party chose to run, but tough shit. Nothing illegal, nothing "stolen".

Fraud is illegal. DNC charter mandates neutrality in races, and solicited donations from voters under such rules. Money laundering is also illegal, and the Clinton campaign also engaged in a massive scheme to skirt contribution limits by having donors give the max to different state party organizations, money that was sent straight back to the Clinton campaign for use in the primary and general elections.

Tell Mike Flynn

The Mike Flynn that talked to the Russians to 1) get their support on a UN vote on Apartheid Israel 2) to not retaliate for new American sanctions levied on Russia in response to America overthrowing Ukraine's government.

However don't let these trolls fool you into becoming an apologist for the Kremlin and getting the feeling that the Kremlin is actually a better friend to you than the political opposition in your own country. Just because there was no collusion it does not mean that the Kremlin didn't do anything in their power to muddy up things. It just means that we shouldn't blame Trump or the GOP for what happened.

Since the end of the cold war, Russia has been an infinitely better friend to humanity than either the Republican or Democratic parties. This isn't debatable, it's simple empirical fact. As to the "Russia must have done something because reasons" trope, all the Russiagate BS sounds like that scene from Austin Powers where Dr. Evil suggest blackmailing the world for one miiiiiiilion dollars. According to this theory, in 2015 Putin decided to influence the American election by.....spending less than $5,000 on Google ads, and employing a Twitter troll farm that posted both pro and anti-Trump memes, Obama merchandise, and puppies.

Ah, I found the movie sequence: https://youtu.be/qmTWhvWgST0?t...

It's at https://youtu.be/j6hz47pYtSw

As you can easily see, those are the elite IT specialists Ms. Merkel so eagerly invited to come to Germany.

hbomberguy did a video specifically about PewDiePie: https://youtu.be/GjNILjFters

Shaun is also very good, producing a lot of debunking videos.

Just waiting for the wave of videos about Lauren Southern to hit now, given that the Christchurch terrorist cited her "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory prominently in his manifesto, even using it as the title.

They are not much better these days. Just listen to this bullshit: https://youtu.be/ovKw6YjqSfM

I would have no qualms with drinking some roundup, but there's no way in hell I would drink a glass of liquid offered to me by some random guy who has made it pretty clear that he hates me. I know that you're a little nutty, but even you must understand this.