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ok cant eddit my last post and it screwed it up... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... this is pro gamers vs vets on call of duty. they also did this vets vs gamers gun range https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... vets vs pro gamers call of duty

Is X-Plane 11 with native VR support the best Virtual Reality Flight Simulator of 2017? Today I'm trying out the advanced X-Plane 11 VR Flight Sim on HTC Vive, flying a realistic Cessna 172 Skyhawk airplane in central Chicago. Is this the best VR Flight Simulator? Let's find out!

The morons had been crashing the Teslas.

The new Aluminium-Graphene batteries (G-Kings) are superior to the Li-ion batteries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Yeah, the Master System had 3D Outrun among others, same with the NES which had 3D World Runner for example.

You're right, the Virtual Boy was stereoscopic 3D with no head tracking.

In the 90s Atari was demonstrating a head tracking stereoscopic headset for the Atari Jaguar at various video store chains but it never made it to market. Disney was also demonstrating goggles at Disney World with SGI and had some Aladdin magic carpet demo in the 90s as well: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...

Five years ago, socialists worldwide were singing the praises of Venezuela and its socialist economy. For example, here's Jeremy Corbyn, the UK opposition leader, talking about how awesome socialist Venezuela is, how it promotes Social Justice, etc., etc. After the spectacular implosion of Venezuela's economy, I think it's appropriate for the capitalists to rub the socialists' nose in their failure, just a bit.

Nor is this a new thing. Before Venezuela, it was Zimbabwe that had socialised the economy, redistributed the land, and brought Power to the People (TM). And then reality ensued. Wait and watch, the next time a country launches an innovative program of economic reform, and socialists worldwide sing its praises. Then wait a few more years.

More like switch it off. Nintendo is known for removing hidden code like this when it's found and not in use. See also Flog.

Honestly it would be funny if someone managed to actually port some VR apps to the Switch, before Nintendo made VR officially supported.

Extra points if they get Dolphin Emu's VR port to run on it.

Yeah, except this isn't like the Empire Strikes Back "altering the deal" scene you so fondly remember. It's more like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Looks like Moviepass is addressing this directly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

We are headed back to the scientific dark ages...

But we can bomb the shit out of your country, alright!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Now, when it comes to doctors, is someone really going to to defend one of the highest paid professions in the country from high education costs?

There's no denying that specialist MDs are paid highly. They're always in very high demand.

The problem, as the article points out, is that students who want to get into the medical field and can't exactly afford that, end up with massive student loan debt. They'll feel like they must specialize because general practitioners don't earn much compared to the specializations. And then we find ourselves asking: what does "Consult your GP" mean if there are no GPs?

This is an attempt to break that cycle. Maybe other universities (and private donors) will look into this if it turns out to yield more GPs and/or MDs as a whole. Maybe it will get people to question the way tuition is set. I'd say I hope the tuition bubble finally bursts, but that would paint me as too much of an idealist.

I'm from Canada. (Yeah, I know, "too much of an idealist" followed immediately by "Canada"... hold your laughter!) The federal government and a few provinces have a loans and bursaries program to help students with financial difficulties. Tuition is not that high for residents (table for the 2017-2018 school year via Statistics Canada). Yet we, too, have a shortage of family doctors, which are GPs. It's possible that there's another cause for these shortages, but I wouldn't know what that is.

Is there too much to learn if you're a GP that you don't have to concern yourself with if you specialize? MDs are essentially learning on the job 24/7 as they have to keep up with discoveries in their field; since a GP's field is the whole thing, there would be that much more to learn, a lot more stress... for less pay.

Is there internal pressure in the health care system to specialize, once an MD finds an affinity for a part of the body and becomes "that GP who secretly knows a lot about $foo"?

Is it just more prestigious?

I couldn't give a shit less if doctors were debt bonded slaves chained to the ER wheelchair handrails and beaten by the nursing staff twice a day to remember what criminal failures they are, but hey that's just me. When antibiotics quit working (and we are well on our way) because doctors won't say no to mommy who wants to leave with an amoxicillin prescription for junior's hand cramps, about the only thing they can help you with is to set a broken bone. Everything else they do will either [...], addict you to opioids or benzos and/or completely bankrupt you. I'm not going to their filthy MRSA-filled office or hospital unless I get shot or break a bone (maybe).

Those are all symptoms of a bigger systemic problem.

Debt-bonded slaves are the symptom of a problem with setting tuition. Antibiotics no longer working is, as you correctly point out, the symptom of antibiotic abuse/overuse. (As a side note, bacteriophages [a 7:08 minute video on Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell] are the next attempt at dealing with bacterial infections.) Opioids, like morphine and hydromorphone (Dilaudid), and benzos (I presume things like benzocaine), are indeed addictive painkillers if not properly tapered off; this is known, and nurses are usually told how to manage them. Bacteria-filled hospitals are the symptom of... well, people in hospitals having bacterial infections. This can be managed, too, usually by ventilation, humidity control and regular cleaning. But there may be a perverse incentive here, at least in the US: why would a hospital spend so much on all that, when it can get more money from patients who get infected by the hospital's bacteria?

As for "everything else they do will either kill you, maim you, give

For the more lazy users there's also a youtube video they can listen to. Doesn't contain 100% the same info, but should cover the essentials.

Your support means a lot to me.

I hope they are not a lost cause, otherwise we are going to end up with another pizzagate.

Yes, how absurd that leaked emails that contain coded references that are pedo related could have resulted in people questioning the activities of influential political insiders. Because child abuse by those in a position of power and authority that results in a coverup is practically unheard of.

Meanwhile in the UK, those that were child abuse conspiracy theorists are now whistleblowers. Isn't it amazing what happens when evidence becomes undeniable?

I guess that's why we really need to ban 'fake news'.

It's sort of late to reply to this (and I'm not the GP) but here you goes, Hillary DID laugh at killing of people, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmIRYvJQeHM

You can argue about the semantics but she did laugh about killing someone.

Take a look at the Lively kernel

It may not be the actual future of web apps, but something like it (maybe built on top of WebAssembly) will be.

I was referring to a different configuration from the above poster which does not share the same significant performance limitations. GPU passthrough in a type 1 hypervisor can approach native performance within a couple of percentage points, which in most cases is an unnoticeable difference: https://www.youtube.com/result... I see no reason ReactOS couldn't eventually be used as the guest OS to achieve similar graphical performance, but again I am not a fan of this. I would rather play native Linux games.

They're your plastic pal who's fun to be with!

True, but I recall other issues: its hardware compatibility was rather limited, and its marketing absolutely sucked.

I mean, holy shit. IBM was always so bad at reaching home users. For example, watch these ads touting the same feature, multitasking: OS/2 and Win95. What do you get from them? From the visuals, the music, the voiceover -- what do they make you feel? To me, the former makes it seem bureaucratic, unexciting, work stuff. But the latter makes it seem exciting, whimsical, empowering, fun! Whoever produced that ad nailed it.

True, but I recall other issues: its hardware compatibility was rather limited, and its marketing absolutely sucked.

I mean, holy shit. IBM was always so bad at reaching home users. For example, watch these ads touting the same feature, multitasking: OS/2 and Win95. What do you get from them? From the visuals, the music, the voiceover -- what do they make you feel? To me, the former makes it seem bureaucratic, unexciting, work stuff. But the latter makes it seem exciting, whimsical, empowering, fun! Whoever produced that ad nailed it.

You sound like a fag and your shits all retarded

Take it easy, Elon.

I don't think that's Elon. Sound's more like Dr. Lexus to me.

Sorry, but most cuban health care facilities don't even have working toilets. Patients are instructed to bring their own supplies from home.

They have a little bit of decent health care, but it's reserved for Communist Party elites and foreign visitors who can pay. Everyone else in the country gets lousy health care where after waiting forever to see someone, they have to hope they washed their hands by bringing in their own soap and water and didn't go near the atrocious conditions of the rooms.

See also:
http://blog.acton.org/archives...
https://www.therealcuba.com/?p...
https://www.nationalreview.com...
https://www.washingtonexaminer...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
and many, many others with photos and videos documenting the real care there.

Innovative indeed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

If they start a shooting war with Pakistan it will likely be over the ridiculous, over the top antics at their border crossing

You forgot Democratic Socialism which fixes all those past mistakes.

At this point I'd like to call for volunteers ... Anyone, it doesn't matter.

Ah Jeez - you you you just Cronenberged Los Angeles.
Or was it already like that?

To quote Wile E. Coyote...

ouch.

There is a better way. First of all, most stickers are too thin, so you still get a certain amount of light data which can give you proximity information and at times the ability to reconstruct the image from the data available even if it's not perfectly clear depending on the circumstances. A friend of mine gave me a plastic camera lid sticker and it was akin to putting a blue nylon across the camera, it simply made everything blue.

It's easier to secure the sensors directly than to try to deal with vulnerabilities and weaknesses in the system whether it's a phone or a laptop. Most of the time you don't need a powered microphone or a camera in standby on you, but you have one, because of your phone, tablet or laptop.

What you need to do is actually take out the little camera module entirely, or if you have the time, remove the camera module, solder a switch (they're usually listed as micro slide switches) on the side of the camera. This is a way better idea since it also looks visually pleasing, I really don't know why microphones, radio, speakers, and cameras don't come with physical off switches out of the factory. Thankfully it's fairly easy to make your own, even if you're not an electrical engineer. ( Here's one fellow on YouTube showing how to solder https://www.youtube.com/watch?... )

If you don't want to deal with soldering, most of those modules are removable, just put a piece of plastic strip under it and click it back on. Remove the strip when you need to use it.

Here, watch this: 10 EPIC games with VULKAN support (PC 2018). There is a good reason why it is easier to name the game engines that do not support Vulkan than those that do. What reason? Better performance. Those engines that currently do not support Vulkan, do support DX12 or Metal, basically the same thing. So 100% of major engines are already moved to Vulkan or similar. For most of those, their Vulkan render path gives the best performance.

Now, somebody desperate to justify their pet theory that Vulkan is not the way forward for 3D rendering might point to some cases where Vulkan (or DX12) actually slows the game down. This is because the initial implementation of Vulkan is sometimes just a translation layer for OpenGL, which is single-threaded, so the translation is single-threaded too. On top of that you have the translation overhead. Result: no improvement, or actually a regression. However, that was then, this is now. (...we continue to see much lower CPU utilization when using Vulkan rather than OpenGL.)

Vulkan improves performance in several ways: 1) distributes rendering across multiple cores 2) lifts state out of the inner render loops 3) shortens the path for submitting render data 4) supports fine grained control over caching of render assets. (Not an exhaustive list.) None of this is a secret; all of it is known to anybody who could call themselves a game developer. You are very obviously not one of those. But do us all a favor and please stop shitting on the internet with your ignorance. If you are confused then do a little research.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Smarter Every Day covered spaghetti snapping into 3 pieces. Had to go all the way up to 250,000 fps to see what was happening.

Talking to her through her undergrad, PhD, and Postdoc, I identified what I believe are three separate problems in science that each exacerbate the others and collectively are having a devastating effect on the field:

1. Publish or perish.

2. Nobody reports negative results

3. Most scientists who are below the level of Principle Investigator for a lab are being assigned their projects.

So it used to be, back when my parents got their doctorates, that a new scientist joined a lab, proposed their own research, conducted the research, wrote a thesis, and then defended it before committee. If the committee was decent, it didn't matter if the results were positive or negative. They grilled the candidate on how they generated their hypothesis, why the implications would be important whether positive or negative, how they set up the experiments and conducted them, how they analyzed and presented the results - basically, the candidate had to prove they knew everything it takes to operate effectively as a scientist.

Maybe if the research was exceptional, the thesis advisor would also be recommended that it be submitted to a journal, but most of the theses just went to the institution's library. The point was to prove the candidate understood and could perform science as an academic exercise, not to contribute usefully to the field. Today that is completely different. Most PhD candidates are assigned a project by the PI of the lab they join. So right off the bat, you aren't differentiating people by the quality of their ideas, which is probably the most important trait for a scientist. Instead, the quality of the idea assigned to them is likely to have a huge impact on how their career goes. It's like randomly handing out career potential without regard for ability. And there is no point in a committee grilling them about the formation of the hypothesis or what positive or negative results would contribute to understanding, because they never came up with the hypothesis in the first place.

Hence got your bad project."

Then they have to have one or more papers accepted by peer reviewed journals to get their PhD. The papers are their thesis, and as long as they were accepted for publication, defending them is perfunctory now. Their acceptance is the only real test to get the PhD.

Which means nobody is trying to make sure the candidate actually understands and can perform science; supposedly the papers evidence that, but we all know that isn't really true now; the peer reviewers do not attempt to replicate the study or dig in deep enough to see if any of it is actually high quality work.

Not being able to publish negative results means that if you are assigned a project that ends up indistinguishable from the null hypothesis, you can waste years of your life based on a luck-of-the-draw assignment, with no regard to your ability. Or... you can fudge the data.

"Fudging the data" here doesn't even necessarily imply anything overtly malicious. Talking to people in the lab who'd discuss how experiment after experiment had failed to show the desired effect, and what experiment they were planning next to try to demonstrate it, my standard comment was "we need to pass a 95% confidence test, so we'd better plan about 20 experiments to prove it."

A possible 4th thing to list here is that the system now takes so long to get through, from undergrad to PhD to a Post Doc or two or three, that by the time anybody gets to be a PI and actually start pursuing their own research ideas, they're past the age past scientists were when they achieved approximately every major breakthrough in the history of science.

Well, you're in good company. Dr. Michio Kaku thinks a Space Force is a good idea as well.

Already been said much better than we ever could.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I don't think you realized that I just trash talked that notion of "joining the rest of the industrialized world". America Lead the world in the industrial revolution even though it started in England. The desire to "be like the rest of world" is the problem here. Our government was setup by the founding fathers to explicitly be unlike the rest of the world for a reason and folks like you not only do not understand that or why and instead keep picking on the minority as you usually do. Loot at the economic deficit those industrialized worlds have now. How do you expect anyone with any real knowledge and information to take your argument seriously? To be a leader means leading, not joining the rest of the world, but that appears to be lost on you.

Talk about being amazed... maybe you should check the mirror some time. You are wearing the rose tinted glasses, and tell me exactly what lessons these countries learned? Case to put anything other than nebulous prattle in words? Afraid they will be debunked? All you have are rose colored ideas that do not bear out in reality, just like every other socialism communist state like Old Russia, Venezuela, Argentina, and lets not forget Greece... the list is quite long!

This video below is making direct fun of folks like YOU!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Tell me jythie, who is going to bail you out when this fails after you have "joined the rest of the broke as world with broke economies!"

Wait .....What? Dumbass me read cows rather than crows.

Christ, I'm fucking worthless some days.

It seems like half of slashdot read it as cows, which is proof (if it were needed) that there aren't many country-dwellers here. The idea that you could train a cow to do anything other than eat grass and shit is laughable.

Au contraire! Anyhow, for the Lulz, here is a cow that a young lady rides like a horse - jumping even! https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Meet Lilac, another cow. More riding and jumping. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Being from the country, I know that some of the stereotypes of animals are just that. Cows and pigs are often incredibly affectionate, and while the poor white chickens are cursed by their breeding, most chickens are magnificent and handsome critters. I've never ridden a cow, but the second woman on Lilac does a right good job.

Wait .....What? Dumbass me read cows rather than crows.

Christ, I'm fucking worthless some days.

It seems like half of slashdot read it as cows, which is proof (if it were needed) that there aren't many country-dwellers here. The idea that you could train a cow to do anything other than eat grass and shit is laughable.

Au contraire! Anyhow, for the Lulz, here is a cow that a young lady rides like a horse - jumping even! https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Meet Lilac, another cow. More riding and jumping. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Being from the country, I know that some of the stereotypes of animals are just that. Cows and pigs are often incredibly affectionate, and while the poor white chickens are cursed by their breeding, most chickens are magnificent and handsome critters. I've never ridden a cow, but the second woman on Lilac does a right good job.

Bottom's up I guess, but not for me. "I'm not stupid" as Patrick Moore says when offered a glass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

How an intern hacked the powergrid (SHA2017)

Posting AC for very obvious reasons; I wanted to chime in that I have become far more racist against groups of people since the rise of the SJW in 2012/2013 and the subsequent cascade of hatred against the white male becoming a mostly accepted social norm. The notion that "you cannot be racist against white people" or "you cannot be sexist against men" or "black people cannot be racist" is no different than "the negro is unable to control his rage" or "women are mentally unstable and must be treated specially" except despite the non-PC nature there is some grain of biological truth to the previous two statements; read about MAOA aka "the warrior gene" and women's emotional stability under pressure. Seeing white nationalists banned from host after host for "hate speech" (many white nationalists don't even have a "hateful" message in the first place, certainly less so than what the likes of Bonita Tindle get away with) and the the batshit reaction to "it's ok to be white" have made it seem that some political positions in favor of white people is necessary and morally valuable.

As far as I am concerned, if black nationalist and supremacist groups are fine and dandy, white nationalist and supremacist groups should be as well. That's called "equality." But of course, in the new SocJus era, non-whites and non-males are more equal than whites and males. Much progressive, very Jim Crow, wow.

As much as it was "worth it" to "thoroughly investigate" the possibility that Obama's parents planted a fake birth announcement in a newspaper because they knew he could be president some 45 years in advance.

While I would like to see more evidence of Russia's involvement, I believe that some data needs to be classified.

Why. Why would "FSB agent Romanov hacked voting machines in Michigan and Pennsylvania" or whatever need to remain classified. Not only is the USG applying sanctions to Russia based on a conspiracy theory, it has a Navy fleet deployed to the Black Sea, is arming literal neo-Nazis in Ukraine after overthrowing its government, and has artillery in range of Russia's second largest city. Why would you be OK with (mostly) unelected officials dragging you towards planetary annihilation without showing cause?

Also, unlike the Iraq war, we are making a minimal commitment based on this intelligence.

Yes, the Iraq war. Which blew the "just trust us" line all to hell, but you're willing to believe unsupported claims from the very same liars who got you into Iraq?

The fact that major Republicans have seen the classified evidence and are not fighting the investigation does give strong support.

Not when the subject is "never Trump Republicans", its not. The establishment of the Republican Party has no love for Trump as he's not one of them. If Jeb Bush had won the nomination and then the presidency, these same Republicans wouldn't GAF about the Chinese couple who gave his campaign $1.3 million, because the Bush's are the epitome of the GOP establishment.

Yes, many people are hopeful that this is a way to get rid of Trump, but I do think many/most Democrats don't see impeachment as the solution.

Then they'd be focused on beating Trump at the ballot box with something other than "we're not Trump", which they ran on two years ago to great results. But that's their only game plan, along with McCarthyite CT and talking impeachment, which would lead directly to President Pence, who would be far more of a danger to their base's interests than Trump ever was.

There is nothing that is remotely conservative or "right" about these nitwits. Being conservative in the USA means believe in individual liberty, natural law, and limited government. Socialism/"National Socialism"/Facism/Communism or any other form of totalitarianism couldn't be any less compatible with that idea, and is fundamentally incompatible with the constitution.

And that's why race matters. The only race that semi-reliably votes for libertarian ideals are whites. Every other race leans heavily to socialism or their own identity politics. Why is it that you think the socialists/communists are intent on "diversifying" every traditionally white, Western country?

They seem easy to open.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You can even buy a dedicated opener.
https://www.nathosp.com/produc...

Mo money, Mo money, Mo money

So you don't actually have an example. All you have is a livestream shut down that may or may not have mentioned Alex Jones, but nobody banned, and nothing to suggest it was for merely talking about Alex Jones.

Show us a message from Google that H3 received a "community strike" for "talking about Alex Jones" and we might continue to have a discussion here, even though that by itself would be a long way removed from the ban you were talking about.

In the mean time, this link would show no results if you were telling the truth.

No, they make $10,000 on each Model 3 they sell, and they will make around $6,000 on each $35,000 Model 3 they sell, according to analysis by Munro and Associates. You know, the guys that all the Tesla shorters were applauding for saying mean things about Tesla?...They achieved this through leveraging cachet.

Sorry Mr poo, exactly when did Kia automobile of the 1990s(fast forward to 6:55) struck you as "cachet"?

The only thing Tesla shills are leveraging is bullshit.

Your man crush Sandy Munro had also said the Chevy Bolt(1:03:25) at half the price of a Model 3, had a superior designed body than the "too heavy...cost too much" Model 3.

Munro Associate analysis is only useful for the parts pertaining to the mechanical aspects.
Electronic, finance/economics he's fish out of water.
For example(3:30), why is Munro comparing the cost of a Model 3 rear view mirror (which is just a dumb mirror), to the cost of the mirror of a Chevy Bolt (which has a built in rear camera display)?
Complete idiotic apples and oranges comparison.

BTW, which youtube video did you dig out the $10,000/$6,000 profit numbers from?
Link your source poo.

No, they make $10,000 on each Model 3 they sell, and they will make around $6,000 on each $35,000 Model 3 they sell, according to analysis by Munro and Associates. You know, the guys that all the Tesla shorters were applauding for saying mean things about Tesla?...They achieved this through leveraging cachet.

Sorry Mr poo, exactly when did Kia automobile of the 1990s(fast forward to 6:55) struck you as "cachet"?

The only thing Tesla shills are leveraging is bullshit.

Your man crush Sandy Munro had also said the Chevy Bolt(1:03:25) at half the price of a Model 3, had a superior designed body than the "too heavy...cost too much" Model 3.

Munro Associate analysis is only useful for the parts pertaining to the mechanical aspects.
Electronic, finance/economics he's fish out of water.
For example(3:30), why is Munro comparing the cost of a Model 3 rear view mirror (which is just a dumb mirror), to the cost of the mirror of a Chevy Bolt (which has a built in rear camera display)?
Complete idiotic apples and oranges comparison.

BTW, which youtube video did you dig out the $10,000/$6,000 profit numbers from?
Link your source poo.