It's "champing at the bit". You're the one who doesn't know shit.
How many Slashdot articles have we had in the last year where the peer review process is exposed as a complete farce, even for the "reputable" journals? (Hint: A lot.)
But 9-14C is way outside of the consensus view. They need to have strong evidence of this fantastic claim.
They would need strong evidence of such a fantastic claim regardless of whether it was inside the "consensus view".
Science doesn't happen by consensus. It happens by rigorous proof and verifiable, repeatable testing of a (hopefully null) hypothesis. Climate "science" is a joke, and it has been for decades. Not a single accurate model. Not a single null hypothesis actually tested. No rigor in measurement or data collection. Instead we're looking at a short time period with inconsistent measurements (and still throwing out or "adjusting" data to fit the predetermined conclusions) and engaging in statistical wankery to predict doom and gloom. Unless, of course, we spend lots of money to support the policies and programs of the people funding the research.
Go ahead and mod me troll/flamebait and call me a "denier". The Earth's climate is changing, and the greenhouse gas effect is real. However, it's been hotter before, and hotter eras supported more biomass and biodiversity. The planet isn't going to die from a few extra Kelvin or from a bit more CO2, and none of the proposed policies of filching tax dollars will secure your standard of living or save some species that can't adapt. I'm also against polluting in general, as I live here and enjoy clean air and water. But it doesn't take a genius (or maybe it does, in today's society) to realize that all the climate change doom and gloom is political bullshit and not science.
The 7700k isn't the performance king. Some "Extreme" series (6870x or whatever) is. The 7700k is the popular gaming CPU.
Most Ryzen chips can't sustain 5.1 GHz on air. The highspeed memory situation is getting better, but it's still a crapshoot in many cases.
Another issue is that as you crank up the memory speed, increasing the speed of the "infinity fabric" connecting the CCX units, you have more power draw and more heat to deal with, which can actually hurt performance in certain workloads.
For anything heavily threaded or specifically coded with Ryzen in mind, Ryzen curb stomps Intel's shit. There are still scheduler issues to contend with as well on the Windows side (Windows 10 can't really properly distinguish between cores, virtual cores from SMT, and cores on separate CCX units which would require talking across the infinity fabric).
We're already seeing benchmarks and utilities and a few games get updates for Ryzen which lead to 10-20% increases in performance. Another big issue for games is the Nvidia driver. It recently came out that running "CPU" style gaming benchmarks on an Nvidia GPU fucks Ryzen over. Running with an AMD GPU (no Nvidia drivers) AMD gets a huge performance boost. I wonder if anyone will try to replicate this with older Nvidia drivers to try to pinpoint a time when this started happening.
Sure, you gotta bootstrap your user base with fake stuff to make it look popular. But, is it standard practice to lie to investors too?
Yes. Welcome to capitalism.
If Snap really believed the claims were bullshit they'd come out with the numbers publicly. Every investor they courted would have extra faith in Snap. Investors that were skeptical of the numbers will look at Snap again. Investors who thought the numbers were true but weren't worth an investment would still think that.
There's no "allegedly" about it. It's standard practice for every single social/dating service to have fake accounts, bots, and otherwise bullshit numbers.
1. The big screen. There's something to be said about watching visual storytelling on a three-story screen, particularly when the film really takes advantage of the format.
The size of the screen is about the field of view and resolvable resolution. Most people can buy easily a setup that rivals any comfortable seat in a non-IMAX theater.
2. People everywhere. A group of people laughing together simultaneously triggers a feeling that you should laugh, too; during a suspenseful moment, you can feel dozens of strangers suck in their breath together.
How is this a good thing?
3. Focus. Even people who try their hardest to give a movie their undivided attention on a living-room screen have fallen victim to temptations like "Well, I'm just sitting here, I might as well pay the electric bill."
These sorts of people have the same problem when they go to a theater. They whip out their phones and are part of the problem with #2.
4. Relentlessness. Part of the advantage of that kind of focus is that movies that are tense, scary, or deeply emotional can cast much more of a spell over you when you don't have the option to pause or turn away from the worst, then rewind later to catch it safely out of context.
WTF is this shit? People who get scared of movies are children and retards. Further, even children and retards can close their eyes and cover their ears. At home or in the theater.
5. A massive speaker system.
How is this a plus? Many theaters have shit cranked too high. Again, people can do this pretty affordably at home, even splurging for gimmick shit like Dolby Atmos. (No, you don't need to spend thousands on a receiver and speakers to get good quality sound that is more than capable of filling up your living room.)
6. Previews.
Ads? We have those on BluRays. Even if you like them, any Hollywood-sponsored movies-in-the-home option will have ads around the content.
7. Disruption. A problem with watching movies at home is that it makes the film-watching experience blur into the same experience as surfing cable channels, running a Netflix comedy show in the background while you do dishes, or half-assedly watching an Adventure Time marathon while stoned.
You're just repeating #3, which was bullshit on its own. Further, when was the last time an Adventure Time marathon was screened in theaters?
8. Alone time. Going to the movies with friends or your significant other can be a cherished pastime, especially when you're surrounded by an excited audience.
Wait, now you want alone time? Doesn't that go against #2? And ignoring that contradiction, how does being alone in a crowd rival being alone on a couch where you can get naked and have sex if you desire?
9. 32 ounces of cola in the dark.
I don't need that much cola, but at home I can have far more than 32 ounces, for far less money. And when I need a refill I can pause the movie! As for the dark, my lights have an off switch.
10. Bragging rights.
Who brags about paying way too much to see some shit? I do get the appeal of seeing something you're excited about as soon as it's available, but increasingly all the cons of the experience (the cost and the crowd and the content itself) are winning the war against that appeal. This is why ticket sales are plummeting and why Hollywood keeps teasing the idea of new releases in the home.
No, you're looking for the count of transistors. The transistors are placed in an area. The transistors in a new process take up space space roughly equivalent to [(new feature size)/(old feature size)]^2 * (old space).
Even if you assume the marketing number (10nm vs 14nm vs 16nm vs whatever) are both accurate and representative (they're not, they refer to the minimum feature size), you're still missing the real issue. Intel's main motivation for moving to 10nm isn't to give you more transistors or save you power, it's to shit out more parts per wafer and reduce production costs. This means a smaller die. Even if you have perfect areal density scaling, you won't keep Moore's law alive unless the die size allows for it.
Why Intel Insists Rumors Of The Demise Of Moore's Law Are Greatly Exaggerated Because Intel wants you to buy their CPUs which haven't seen worthwhile improvements in over 5 years.
Unless you need bleeding edge performance, just pay half the money and get a Ryzen CPU.
Wrong. I've used plenty of them, including the latest "magic" shit. Trackpads are trash devices for input. No, gestures don't make them good. Simulating a click with "haptic feedback" doesn't make them good. Being accurate, sensing pressure, etc. doesn't make them good. They're still fundamentally ass to use.
What would make them good? A larger area, more reliance on the wrist for lateral motion and less on fingers, physical buttons, and ergonomic shape that conforms to that fits and supports the hand while in use, etc. No, tilting a flat plane doesn't help. At that point, just the device is sensing the surface instead of the surface sensing a human, and call it a mouse.
The last great innovation in computer interfaces? The scroll wheel. Touchscreens came well before that (the good and accurate kind - resistive).
I don't know that it doesn't work, but if people were buying external PCIe devices they'd get it working.
Even if the native lanes coming off the CPU were unable to support it until Intel/AMD got around to it in a generation or two of there being demand for it, it would be trivial make a PCIe device that was nothing more than a hotplug enabler with a bracket for ports for the external cables. And of course it could be implemented via a muxer that many mobos already have or via the chipset (which usually provides some PCIe lanes of its own).
Thunderbolt never made sense. External PCIe makes some sense. Thunderbolt itself is a mishmash of standards and ports and protocols running on top of PCIe with all of the security issues that comes along with attaching shit to your PCIe bus. So why not skip the expensive controllers, proprietary implementations, ridiculous cables, and just use external PCIe?
I agree with this sentiment. Touchpads are the ultimate in dumbing down a HID to make it 'friendly' but ultimately less efficient. I refuse to use a consumer notebook these days, so I stick with my T-series ThinkPads with TrackPoint. I understand why some people like touchpads, but I find them irritating, slow, awkward, and inaccurate. Also, nothing like moving a mouse without taking your hands off the home keys.
You must have only used non-Apple trackpads, then.
ALL trackpads are ass. Only the worst of the Apple fanboys claim Apple trackpads are good. They're not. It's simply an inferior tool.
"Will take more time than this year"? Seriously, half a decade to come up with a new desktop computer? If you're not going to design something that's user-upgradeable, then you need to take more responsibility for refreshing the hardware at decent intervals.
No, not half a decade to come up with a new desktop.
3 years to realize they need to come up with a new computer. 6 months to scramble and replace the actual engineers that retired, were pushed out because of age, or were locked in the mobile dungeon. 6 months for them to get up to speed on the latest standards and features everyone else is selling. 6 months for contracting with Intel, AMD/Nvidia, Foxconn, and whoever else for memory and flash (can they afford to ignore Samsung here?) and an updated display (again, with the recent LG fiasco, can they afford to ignore Samsung?) to be sold on the side. 6 months to actually make some, shit out a firmware and iOS X or whatever, fuck up a key productivity app or two in some fundamental way, and hold a conference about how great it is, complete with a blowout diagram.
Meanwhile, I'll be able to buy more computers with newer hardware and more expandability for less money.
But hey, I'm sure it'll be the first with Thunderbolt 4.
Simpsons did it. 21 years ago. You have to be told you're cool. But if you have to ask, you're not cool.
Homer: So, I realized that being with my family is more important than being cool. Bart: Dad, what you just said was powerfully uncool. Homer: You know what the song says: "It's hip to be square". Lisa: That song is so lame. Homer: So lame that it's... cool? Bart+Lisa: No. Marge: Am I cool, kids? Bart+Lisa: No. Marge: Good. I'm glad. And that's what makes me cool, not caring, right? Bart+Lisa: No. Marge: Well, how the hell do you be cool? I feel like we've tried everything here. Homer: Wait, Marge. Maybe if you're truly cool, you don't need to be told you're cool. Bart: Well, sure you do. Lisa: How else would you know?
Old - Extend services to cover 2 million more potential customers, 1 million of which must already be served by some other company. New - Extend services to cover 2 million more potential customers.
Less competition, but more people who had no access will be getting access. Isn't that why you loved the "Affordable" Care Act?
Good luck either way. Anything that functions as a currency is a currency in the eyes of the IRS (when they want it to be). Only one entity has the ability to issue currency in this country. Getting in the way of the Government and its almighty dollar is the worst crime possible in this country.
The worst Amazon could do is implement a lock in for anyone stupid to buy tons of Amazon dollars, like arcade tokens or Itchy & Scratchy dollars. If Amazon wanted to actually profit off of their transactions in anyway, such as paying people in Amazon dollars instead of USD when they sell on Amazon, the IRS will demand such transactions to be taxed as if they were in USD (at whatever ratio of Amazon dollars to USD the IRS wants).
Even then, several states have laws stating that gift cards / space dollars / bogus bux / etc. account balances have to be redeemable for actual USD.
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It's much easier to avoid Google than it is to avoid Windows, especially at work.
Many issues are pretty binary. Data harvesting is wrong. It provides nothing to the user and there is no reason a user would want to enable it.
Tell me more about Social Society, please.
CO2 is a weak greenhouse gas and the rise in CO2 cannot account for the rise in temperature, even when you rejigger the timelines however you want.
MightyMartian wrong again!
It's "champing at the bit". You're the one who doesn't know shit.
How many Slashdot articles have we had in the last year where the peer review process is exposed as a complete farce, even for the "reputable" journals? (Hint: A lot.)
From their perspective there's still a rising and setting motion, there's just no crossing of the horizon.
You lose. Pedant Lord Kano wins. Flawless Victory!
YOLO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
But 9-14C is way outside of the consensus view. They need to have strong evidence of this fantastic claim.
They would need strong evidence of such a fantastic claim regardless of whether it was inside the "consensus view".
Science doesn't happen by consensus. It happens by rigorous proof and verifiable, repeatable testing of a (hopefully null) hypothesis.
Climate "science" is a joke, and it has been for decades. Not a single accurate model. Not a single null hypothesis actually tested. No rigor in measurement or data collection. Instead we're looking at a short time period with inconsistent measurements (and still throwing out or "adjusting" data to fit the predetermined conclusions) and engaging in statistical wankery to predict doom and gloom. Unless, of course, we spend lots of money to support the policies and programs of the people funding the research.
Go ahead and mod me troll/flamebait and call me a "denier". The Earth's climate is changing, and the greenhouse gas effect is real. However, it's been hotter before, and hotter eras supported more biomass and biodiversity. The planet isn't going to die from a few extra Kelvin or from a bit more CO2, and none of the proposed policies of filching tax dollars will secure your standard of living or save some species that can't adapt. I'm also against polluting in general, as I live here and enjoy clean air and water. But it doesn't take a genius (or maybe it does, in today's society) to realize that all the climate change doom and gloom is political bullshit and not science.
The 7700k isn't the performance king. Some "Extreme" series (6870x or whatever) is. The 7700k is the popular gaming CPU.
Most Ryzen chips can't sustain 5.1 GHz on air. The highspeed memory situation is getting better, but it's still a crapshoot in many cases.
Another issue is that as you crank up the memory speed, increasing the speed of the "infinity fabric" connecting the CCX units, you have more power draw and more heat to deal with, which can actually hurt performance in certain workloads.
For anything heavily threaded or specifically coded with Ryzen in mind, Ryzen curb stomps Intel's shit. There are still scheduler issues to contend with as well on the Windows side (Windows 10 can't really properly distinguish between cores, virtual cores from SMT, and cores on separate CCX units which would require talking across the infinity fabric).
We're already seeing benchmarks and utilities and a few games get updates for Ryzen which lead to 10-20% increases in performance. Another big issue for games is the Nvidia driver. It recently came out that running "CPU" style gaming benchmarks on an Nvidia GPU fucks Ryzen over. Running with an AMD GPU (no Nvidia drivers) AMD gets a huge performance boost. I wonder if anyone will try to replicate this with older Nvidia drivers to try to pinpoint a time when this started happening.
Sure, you gotta bootstrap your user base with fake stuff to make it look popular. But, is it standard practice to lie to investors too?
Yes. Welcome to capitalism.
If Snap really believed the claims were bullshit they'd come out with the numbers publicly. Every investor they courted would have extra faith in Snap. Investors that were skeptical of the numbers will look at Snap again. Investors who thought the numbers were true but weren't worth an investment would still think that.
There's no "allegedly" about it. It's standard practice for every single social/dating service to have fake accounts, bots, and otherwise bullshit numbers.
1. The big screen. There's something to be said about watching visual storytelling on a three-story screen, particularly when the film really takes advantage of the format.
The size of the screen is about the field of view and resolvable resolution. Most people can buy easily a setup that rivals any comfortable seat in a non-IMAX theater.
2. People everywhere. A group of people laughing together simultaneously triggers a feeling that you should laugh, too; during a suspenseful moment, you can feel dozens of strangers suck in their breath together.
How is this a good thing?
3. Focus. Even people who try their hardest to give a movie their undivided attention on a living-room screen have fallen victim to temptations like "Well, I'm just sitting here, I might as well pay the electric bill."
These sorts of people have the same problem when they go to a theater. They whip out their phones and are part of the problem with #2.
4. Relentlessness. Part of the advantage of that kind of focus is that movies that are tense, scary, or deeply emotional can cast much more of a spell over you when you don't have the option to pause or turn away from the worst, then rewind later to catch it safely out of context.
WTF is this shit? People who get scared of movies are children and retards. Further, even children and retards can close their eyes and cover their ears. At home or in the theater.
5. A massive speaker system.
How is this a plus? Many theaters have shit cranked too high. Again, people can do this pretty affordably at home, even splurging for gimmick shit like Dolby Atmos. (No, you don't need to spend thousands on a receiver and speakers to get good quality sound that is more than capable of filling up your living room.)
6. Previews.
Ads? We have those on BluRays. Even if you like them, any Hollywood-sponsored movies-in-the-home option will have ads around the content.
7. Disruption. A problem with watching movies at home is that it makes the film-watching experience blur into the same experience as surfing cable channels, running a Netflix comedy show in the background while you do dishes, or half-assedly watching an Adventure Time marathon while stoned.
You're just repeating #3, which was bullshit on its own. Further, when was the last time an Adventure Time marathon was screened in theaters?
8. Alone time. Going to the movies with friends or your significant other can be a cherished pastime, especially when you're surrounded by an excited audience.
Wait, now you want alone time? Doesn't that go against #2? And ignoring that contradiction, how does being alone in a crowd rival being alone on a couch where you can get naked and have sex if you desire?
9. 32 ounces of cola in the dark.
I don't need that much cola, but at home I can have far more than 32 ounces, for far less money. And when I need a refill I can pause the movie! As for the dark, my lights have an off switch.
10. Bragging rights.
Who brags about paying way too much to see some shit? I do get the appeal of seeing something you're excited about as soon as it's available, but increasingly all the cons of the experience (the cost and the crowd and the content itself) are winning the war against that appeal. This is why ticket sales are plummeting and why Hollywood keeps teasing the idea of new releases in the home.
No, you're looking for the count of transistors.
The transistors are placed in an area.
The transistors in a new process take up space space roughly equivalent to [(new feature size)/(old feature size)]^2 * (old space).
Even if you assume the marketing number (10nm vs 14nm vs 16nm vs whatever) are both accurate and representative (they're not, they refer to the minimum feature size), you're still missing the real issue. Intel's main motivation for moving to 10nm isn't to give you more transistors or save you power, it's to shit out more parts per wafer and reduce production costs. This means a smaller die. Even if you have perfect areal density scaling, you won't keep Moore's law alive unless the die size allows for it.
Why Intel Insists Rumors Of The Demise Of Moore's Law Are Greatly Exaggerated
Because Intel wants you to buy their CPUs which haven't seen worthwhile improvements in over 5 years.
Unless you need bleeding edge performance, just pay half the money and get a Ryzen CPU.
Wrong. I've used plenty of them, including the latest "magic" shit. Trackpads are trash devices for input. No, gestures don't make them good. Simulating a click with "haptic feedback" doesn't make them good. Being accurate, sensing pressure, etc. doesn't make them good. They're still fundamentally ass to use.
What would make them good? A larger area, more reliance on the wrist for lateral motion and less on fingers, physical buttons, and ergonomic shape that conforms to that fits and supports the hand while in use, etc. No, tilting a flat plane doesn't help. At that point, just the device is sensing the surface instead of the surface sensing a human, and call it a mouse.
The last great innovation in computer interfaces? The scroll wheel. Touchscreens came well before that (the good and accurate kind - resistive).
I don't know that it doesn't work, but if people were buying external PCIe devices they'd get it working.
Even if the native lanes coming off the CPU were unable to support it until Intel/AMD got around to it in a generation or two of there being demand for it, it would be trivial make a PCIe device that was nothing more than a hotplug enabler with a bracket for ports for the external cables. And of course it could be implemented via a muxer that many mobos already have or via the chipset (which usually provides some PCIe lanes of its own).
What about PC laptops with docking stations that are essentially an x16 PCIe 3.0 fanout?
Thunderbolt never made sense. External PCIe makes some sense. Thunderbolt itself is a mishmash of standards and ports and protocols running on top of PCIe with all of the security issues that comes along with attaching shit to your PCIe bus. So why not skip the expensive controllers, proprietary implementations, ridiculous cables, and just use external PCIe?
I agree with this sentiment. Touchpads are the ultimate in dumbing down a HID to make it 'friendly' but ultimately less efficient. I refuse to use a consumer notebook these days, so I stick with my T-series ThinkPads with TrackPoint. I understand why some people like touchpads, but I find them irritating, slow, awkward, and inaccurate. Also, nothing like moving a mouse without taking your hands off the home keys.
You must have only used non-Apple trackpads, then.
ALL trackpads are ass. Only the worst of the Apple fanboys claim Apple trackpads are good. They're not. It's simply an inferior tool.
"Will take more time than this year"? Seriously, half a decade to come up with a new desktop computer? If you're not going to design something that's user-upgradeable, then you need to take more responsibility for refreshing the hardware at decent intervals.
No, not half a decade to come up with a new desktop.
3 years to realize they need to come up with a new computer.
6 months to scramble and replace the actual engineers that retired, were pushed out because of age, or were locked in the mobile dungeon.
6 months for them to get up to speed on the latest standards and features everyone else is selling.
6 months for contracting with Intel, AMD/Nvidia, Foxconn, and whoever else for memory and flash (can they afford to ignore Samsung here?) and an updated display (again, with the recent LG fiasco, can they afford to ignore Samsung?) to be sold on the side.
6 months to actually make some, shit out a firmware and iOS X or whatever, fuck up a key productivity app or two in some fundamental way, and hold a conference about how great it is, complete with a blowout diagram.
Meanwhile, I'll be able to buy more computers with newer hardware and more expandability for less money.
But hey, I'm sure it'll be the first with Thunderbolt 4.
I don't say evasion. I say avoision.
Simpsons did it. 21 years ago. You have to be told you're cool. But if you have to ask, you're not cool.
Homer: So, I realized that being with my family is more important than being cool.
Bart: Dad, what you just said was powerfully uncool.
Homer: You know what the song says: "It's hip to be square".
Lisa: That song is so lame.
Homer: So lame that it's... cool?
Bart+Lisa: No.
Marge: Am I cool, kids?
Bart+Lisa: No.
Marge: Good. I'm glad. And that's what makes me cool, not caring, right?
Bart+Lisa: No.
Marge: Well, how the hell do you be cool? I feel like we've tried everything here.
Homer: Wait, Marge. Maybe if you're truly cool, you don't need to be told you're cool.
Bart: Well, sure you do.
Lisa: How else would you know?
I wouldn't exactly call the economy and policies a handout for the generation that sent their men to die in WWII.
From TFS, I gleaned the following:
Old - Extend services to cover 2 million more potential customers, 1 million of which must already be served by some other company.
New - Extend services to cover 2 million more potential customers.
Less competition, but more people who had no access will be getting access. Isn't that why you loved the "Affordable" Care Act?
Good luck either way. Anything that functions as a currency is a currency in the eyes of the IRS (when they want it to be). Only one entity has the ability to issue currency in this country. Getting in the way of the Government and its almighty dollar is the worst crime possible in this country.
The worst Amazon could do is implement a lock in for anyone stupid to buy tons of Amazon dollars, like arcade tokens or Itchy & Scratchy dollars. If Amazon wanted to actually profit off of their transactions in anyway, such as paying people in Amazon dollars instead of USD when they sell on Amazon, the IRS will demand such transactions to be taxed as if they were in USD (at whatever ratio of Amazon dollars to USD the IRS wants).
Even then, several states have laws stating that gift cards / space dollars / bogus bux / etc. account balances have to be redeemable for actual USD.
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