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  1. Re:D E S P E R A T I O N on Intel Core i9-9990XE: Up To 5.0 GHz, Auction Only (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    I am sitting next to a 5.0 GHZ VR Flight Sim rig with a 1080 ti, it needs all the single-thread perf i can muster. DCS World absolutely gets CPU bound. A Ryzen chip would be a downgrade for this dedicated setup.

  2. Re:D E S P E R A T I O N on Intel Core i9-9990XE: Up To 5.0 GHz, Auction Only (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    "The only people I know buying Intel at this point for gaming desktops are either fanboys or clueless."

    Or they do things that require the fastest single thread perf you can get like VR and Flight sim, or VR+FlightSim.

  3. Re:$1500 dupe on Motorola's RAZR Is Returning As a $1,500 Folding Smartphone (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Motorola is making those phones today. Stop looking at flagships.

  4. Re: Law needs some privacy protections ... on California Lawmaker Wants to Ban Paper Receipts, Require Digital Ones (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure what you are getting at...I was describing something that exists and is widely enjoyed, to the point its starting to become an expected feature.

  5. The unfortunate part of communicating via text/forums is that everything seems like you are forcing a dichotomy unless you couch it very carefully. Yes, you are absolutely right, choice is good. There is a better way to have this conversation, i'll try to be more articulate in the future.

  6. For me personally it adds to an already unacceptable signal-to-noise ratio in real-time communications. Email is asynchronous and always pull to me. If you want to reach me in real time, use a synchronous comm channel.

  7. Re:Totally rigged tan, believe me!...and good on There's No Such Thing as a Safe Tan (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    Ross from Friends?

  8. Email should be pull not push.

  9. Re:As long as the government pays... on California Lawmaker Wants to Ban Paper Receipts, Require Digital Ones (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, very much so. A retail sale is a contract. Once you pay and receive a receipt, you are the owner of the property, full stop. Unless Best Buy is accusing you of a crime, they have no right to search your bags or look at your receipt. I want to caution you that too many people take this information to be an excuse to be an edgelord, please dont do that. When they ask me for a receipt i calmly but firmly walk by them. I dont yell or make a scene, i jsut go about my business and ignore anyone trying to examine my fully paid for and owned property.

    TL:DR - If you know you havent stolen anything, why would you stop and give them an opportunity to make an accusation?

  10. Re:As long as the government pays... on California Lawmaker Wants to Ban Paper Receipts, Require Digital Ones (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Only membership clubs can 'require' it, and even then all they can do is revoke your membership. Regular retail stores have no power to force you to show your receipt after you have paid.

  11. Re: Law needs some privacy protections ... on California Lawmaker Wants to Ban Paper Receipts, Require Digital Ones (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Typically motorola phones have motion gestures to enable some functions. If you twist your wrist twice quickly on a moto phone, it will turn on the camera. Another one is you can do a small chop motion twice to turn on the torch/flashlight. Its a really nice feature.

  12. Re:Law needs some privacy protections ... on California Lawmaker Wants to Ban Paper Receipts, Require Digital Ones (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope. Requiring to loop in a third party for all my transactions is utter madness.

  13. There are two things at play here. Assistants and voice command. Voice command is straight forward. You issue a command, the computer executes it. Assistants want to pretend to be human to do the same thing. Its super weird. I would like to see a LOT more voice command and no assistants.

  14. Re:It's about *permanency*, not publicness. on Google Wins Dismissal of Suit Over Facial Recognition Software (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Right to be forgotten is a joke. If i see you get arrested, no just law can prevent me from telling others that fact.

  15. Re: Not for me thanks on Hot Tub Hack Reveals Washed-up Security Protection (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    All Jacuzzis are hot tubs, not all hot tubs are Jacuzzis.

  16. $0.33 per can isnt bad at retail. Sure he could have gotten a better deal at that volume, but he would gave had to broker it.

  17. VR is special, people are just lazy.

  18. Re:not quite space on Virgin Galactic Successfully Reaches Space (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Its a pointless distinction. Orbital or sub-orbital are the only relevant terms. Sub-orbital point-to-point transport is super-interesting. Shooting tourists on a ballistic flight to some arbitrary zenith between the ground and 'space' is not.

  19. I should have looked at the username before responding...you are an insufferable fool.

  20. Re: It makes sense if you know math on Your Apple Products Are Getting More Expensive. Here's How They Get Away With It. (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Step forward to WHAT???? My iphone SE (64gb, used $160) runs the same ios as iphone x. There is nothing the iphonex does that warrants that kind of price. You are deluding yourself.

  21. Re:So Honesty is Dystopian? on An Eye-Scanning Lie Detector Is Forging a Dystopian Future (wired.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, the dystopian part of it is pretending you can detect lies by monitoring the body.

  22. It already is a thing. Stardew Valley just announced that they will be starting their own launcher and leaving steam, and that is a 'small' developer. Its apparent the costs of running a storefront have dropped to the point where any dev with decent sales can pop one up. Elite Dangerous has been doing it for a while, and we saw Bethesda put Fallout 76 only on its store.

  23. Its not Apple's phone, its the fucking user's. Why are you fucking defending a walled garden?

  24. The parable of *RoboCop* exposes this well. Rococop had 4 directives.

    "Serve the public trust"
    "Protect the innocent"
    "Uphold the law"
    "Any attempt to arrest a senior OCP employee results in shutdown"

  25. >The Falcon Heavy doesn't even match the 50 year old Saturn 5.

    You mean the Saturn V? You are comparing a rocket that we cant even build anymore, to a rocket that lands on its tail (25+ landings so far)after successfully delivering its payload..

    SLS cost $23 Billion to develop and will not fly for years. Falcon Heavy cost $500 million to develop and is taking orders..

    SLS costs between $1.5 and $2.5 Billion *per launch*, FH is offering $90 million flights.

    SLS is outright fraud on the taxpayers, and should be stopped immediately.