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  1. Re:40 years of crap on Shots Fired Again Between CPU Vendors AMD and Intel (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Tell me what, specifically, about AMD64 is holding back hardware?

    Keep in mind all modern AMD64 hardware actually implements the ISA in microcode.

  2. Re: Quit using Uber months ago on Google Maps Removes Uber Integration (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Homer Simpsons says that public transportation is for "suckers", as well as "jerks and lesbians".

  3. Re:Another PATENTLY RETARDED and SUPERFLUOUS promi on President Trump Directs Pentagon To Create New 'Space Force' Military Branch (defensenews.com) · · Score: 2

    Keep up. Alex Jones (I bet you don't even know his former persona, whose death was faked) is a tool of the deep state.
    True Patriots trust Q, Sessions, Kansas, POTUS, and The Plan.

  4. A ballistic would probably be a WMD. The whole point of putting them up there is to take advantage of the little 2 above the v.

  5. WRONG!

    States Parties to the Treaty undertake not to place in orbit around the Earth any objects carrying nuclear weapons or any other kinds of weapons of mass destruction, install such weapons on celestial bodies, or station such weapons in outer space in any other manner.

    The Moon and other celestial bodies shall be used by all States Parties to the Treaty exclusively for peaceful purposes. The establishment of military bases, installations and fortifications, the testing of any type of weapons and the conduct of military maneuvers on celestial bodies shall be forbidden. The use of military personnel for scientific research or for any other peaceful purposes shall not be prohibited. The use of any equipment or facility necessary for peaceful exploration of the Moon and other celestial bodies shall also not be prohibited.

    No nukes/WMDs anywhere in space. No military bases or testing on celestial bodies.

    However, you can have weapons that aren't nukes/WMDs in space. You can have military personnel aiding or participating in scientific research, or doing anything else peaceful.

    You have your energy research lab on the moon, guarded by military people.
    You have your Ion Canon in LEO, run by the military.
    The work the energy research lab does just so happens to overlap with the way the Ion Canon directs a energy beam to a precise spot on Earth, destroying a specific target without nuclear fallout and without mass destruction.

    Alternatively, just stick with the ION canon in LEO.

  6. Re:Another PATENTLY RETARDED and SUPERFLUOUS promi on President Trump Directs Pentagon To Create New 'Space Force' Military Branch (defensenews.com) · · Score: 1

    Does everyone go to the Navy when they need a boat?

    When they need a big boy boat, yes, they do.

  7. Re:Another PATENTLY RETARDED and SUPERFLUOUS promi on President Trump Directs Pentagon To Create New 'Space Force' Military Branch (defensenews.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's really about wresting control of those satellites from the deep state and shadow government goons that are in place at the various spying agencies, as well as their pawns in the airforce. (Those military aircraft crashes a couple of months ago were no accident. The other branches of the military are loyal to their CIC, thankfully.)

    I want to know who tried to take out POTUS with that unannounced missile launch no one wants to report on.

  8. This is cover/testing for the massive internet censorship and blackouts that are coming within the next week or two.

  9. Re:just wait for the bill medical procedures only on Man Reports PillCam Stuck In His Gut For Over 12 Weeks · · Score: 1

    I take it you've never worked with a general contractor, IBM, or Oracle.

  10. Re:Why is this surprising? on Honeybees Seem To Understand the Notion of Zero, Study Finds (sci-news.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you determine what those places are and what they mean, exactly? With the "none" concept and digit? Or the 0 concept and digit?

  11. Since the games can still be bought on Steam they still have to support them.

    Nope! Steam doesn't support shit, and neither do a lot of the publishers that are the ones selling you things on Steam.
    At least Steam now offers you a refund within 2 hours.

  12. Re:For what use? on Laptops With 128GB of RAM Are Here (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The optimum solution is to detail only meaningful details. Not everything is meaningful. Much of it is noise. When humans deal with things, they filter out the vast majority of details as noise unless they matter.

  13. Re:Optimizing The Wrong Thing on Laptops With 128GB of RAM Are Here (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Uh, RAM is very expensive right now, and there are hard caps to the amount of RAM given platforms support.

    Yes, it is cheaper than in the past, but the growth of the workload has outpaced the price increase (and outright availability) of the hardware it runs out.
    All without meaningful improvement into getting shit done or doing it better!

    Sure, you can model and render the bumps on chicken skin for some background prop in a 3D scene. Or you can use a decent texture.

  14. Re:For what use? on Laptops With 128GB of RAM Are Here (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't have a Facebook account. I do know what I'm talking about.

    Just because you CAN shit up the machine with a heavier workload doesn't mean you should or that you'll actually benefit from it.

    For all the advancements in computing and computer modeling, buildings haven't gotten any more exact in actual construction and weather forecasts haven't gotten any more accurate. People still end up with ridiculous variances that result in the city flagging them for an exterior wall being to close to the curb. People still get rain on their wedding day.

    Learn to prune useless detail. Learn to abstract. As Tim Gunn would say, "Edit, people, edit!".

    You may as well go measure the coastline down to the millimeter.

  15. Re:What else would one do? on The End of Video Coding? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends on what you're watching.

    If I need a technical walk through for a repair or procedure, speeding up the all the crap at the start is great, and I can drop it to normal or pause when i get to the part that's relevant to me. Sometimes you don't want to outright skip around for fear of missing some key note or prereq. Likewise, if I'm watching some news article or interview, I don't care about the presentation. I just want the info.

    For a recent example, I watched most of the E3 presentations after the fact (because I have a day job). I watched most of them at 1.5x, and liberally skipped past FIFA, Madden, and other trash. If a trailer for a game that interested me showed up (or for a new reveal) I'd drop it down to normal speed.

    If I'm watching Netflix or something else sometimes I speed it up, sometimes I don't. I watched Netflix's Lost In Space sped up, for example, because after a couple of episodes I just wanted to get through it. If it's content I care about I watch it normally. Most content isn't something I care too much about, and is often something playing on the side while I do other shit.

  16. Who the heck is still running XP... for gaming?

    People with old games that don't work on a newer OS?

  17. Re:For what use? on Laptops With 128GB of RAM Are Here (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Sounds to me like the CAD and modeling people need to optimize their shit.

  18. Re:What else would one do? on The End of Video Coding? (medium.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    it's means it is.

    It's been nice proving you wrong.

  19. Re:What else would one do? on The End of Video Coding? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Time to download, I got plenty of. (No, wait: it's the computer who has plenty of that; I don't spend even a second on this.) Time to watch? That is the bottleneck.

    We can tweet more than 140 characters but I still don't have a 30 hour day?! Fuck you, engineers!!

    For Netflix on my PC, I typically watch things at 1.2x to 1.4x speed.
    For YouTube, I do 1.25x or 1.5x. Also be sure to use the J and L shortcuts in YouTube for easy skipping!

    You get used to the faster speed quite quickly, and it has very little impact on the overall presentation / impact. Watching stuff at 1x now feels so fucking slow that I can't stand it.

  20. Re:Why is this surprising? on Honeybees Seem To Understand the Notion of Zero, Study Finds (sci-news.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope. 10 is not 1 and none. Further, every base (except base 1) is base 10.

  21. Re:Sherlock on Microsoft's Next-Gen Xbox Will Arrive in 2020: Report (thurrott.com) · · Score: 1

    Xbox
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    Xero / Xtreme

  22. Re:Sherlock on Microsoft's Next-Gen Xbox Will Arrive in 2020: Report (thurrott.com) · · Score: 1

    The only point I disagree on is the Windows 10 / Xbox cross-play and licensing. I love the idea of buying a game and getting the option to play it on my console or my PC and have the same online experience and I suspect this will only continue as the Xbox turns into more and more of a PC-based hardware solution. I prefer playing on the computer but many of my favorite games started off as Xbox only or I have to play on the Xbox if I want to play with my friends. As soon as that barrier is made completely transparent and I can just enjoy the game regardless of which Microsoft product I'm playing it on, the better.

    I think you misunderstood me. I love that part too. It means I'll be able to play Killer Instinct, for example, and whatever other games I want.

    But for MS it just means I won't be buying an Xbox. Because I don't have to. Publishers look at console sales numbers. And because I won't "jump in" to Xbox, I will buy fewer Xbox games, and be less likely to pay for Game Pass or Xbox Live. (If I buy a console for $400 or so, buying games to go with it is a more casual affair than buying games for PC. For my PC purchases, I have to specifically want that game. For my console purchases, I can simply be bored with my current games and notice my console collecting dust. There's a $$$ paperweight sitting there, reminding me that I'm not utilizing it.)

    In the long run maybe MS wants an Xbox "brand" that's not just a box but also a spec for Windows 10 PCs. Then games will just be sold as requiring an Xbox device of a given year or an Xbox device with a given performance rating or better. This will keep a huge population of users tied into Windows, either on a traditional PC (which MS fears will disappear) or on the dedicated console Xbox. But for them to get there, they need to show me that it's worthwhile to buy the dedicated/branded box, show publishers that the market for Xbox-tied games on PC is worthwhile, or some blend of the two. And they have to do it better than Steam did with the abortion that was Steam Machines. And they have to compete against Steam, UPlay, Origin, etc.

    Ultimately, this feature could end up exposing Xbox players to the open PC market, and exposing publishers (on Steam, or with their own stores) to Xbox players and their money.

  23. Sherlock on Microsoft's Next-Gen Xbox Will Arrive in 2020: Report (thurrott.com) · · Score: 1

    No fucking shit.

    MS's E3 conference came and went, and they had a one line mentioned they're working on future Xbox hardware, they didn't reveal anything at all.

    MS probably could launch a new Xbox in 2019 running on AMD's latest shit fabbed at 7nm. That would be Navi and Zen 2.

    But my bet is they're going to force Sony to make the first move so they can one up them. The One X is a better hardware proposition than the PS4 Pro (fuck you, Sony, for not including UHD BR playback), but on games it seems like a loser. MS is busy buying up exclusive rights to titles and buying up smaller studios (they announced the purchase of four and the creation of a fifth) in order to get people into their platform, but they keep making these games available on Windows 10.

    MS is likely going to press hard for the Windows 10 integration and push for the Xbox Game Pass subscription (is this a subscription cost on TOP of the Live! subscription cost??). One of their best selling points - buying a game and getting it on Xbox and Windows 10 is one of their weaknesses, unfortunately. Of the handful of games on Xbox One, I'd much rather play them on PC (even if it means having a separate drive with Win 10 installed on it just to play games).

    Sony didn't say SQUAT about a PS5 this year, so it's a bit of a standoff at this point.

  24. Re:Why is this surprising? on Honeybees Seem To Understand the Notion of Zero, Study Finds (sci-news.com) · · Score: 1

    Holy shit you're dumb.

    Zero is significant and conceptually different from none because it allows you to extend a numbering system beyond unary counting or some fucked up multiplicative system like the Romans had.

  25. Re: This is an option, I guess on Experimental Spit Test Could Identify Men Most At Risk of Prostate Cancer (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    No no no. Most men get an enlarged prostate. Not prostate cancer. If we diagnose prostate cancer as cancer we have to deal with the patient wanting to get it treated. Since they're typically old and on medicare, they're not profitable.

    Just let it slowly grow and hope they die of something else or have enough money to be profitable patients once they realize it's killing them and they need to get it treated. Then we can call it cancer.