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  1. Re: Corporate shlll on HardOCP Is Getting 'Mothballed' As Kyle Bennett Accepts Job At Intel (hardocp.com) · · Score: 1
    Marketing - 'lying" by any other name - is evil although a lot of [mostly harmless] and otherwise well-intentioned idiots tend to engage in it.

    Fixed that for you.

  2. Re: The More you add the more it fails on Volvo To Add In-Car Sensors To Prevent Drunk Driving (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    and the worse the reputation of the vehicle

    The Swedes are too smart to have unloaded Volvo any earlier than necessary; rest assured every last bit of value was extracted while the company still had a reputation - their quality deteriorated tremendously when they switched to FWD and they've been going downhill ever since; now the only way they can get any attention is by making ridiculous announcements.

  3. Re: Science Disagrees... on Jury Finds Bayer's Roundup Weedkiller Caused Man's Cancer (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Too bad they didn't use science to reach the proper verdict.

    They used logic - an even bigger threat to your bosses than "science."

  4. Re: So what? on Google Bans VPN Ads in China (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's it.

    No, it isn't it; that's never been an excuse. Fuck Google and fuck you.

  5. Re: So, pilot error? on Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You're suggesting that he disabled the horizontal stabilizers??

  6. Re: MightyMartian knows jack about desalination on Britain Could Run Short of Water by 2050, Official Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Elon's got more brains in his foreskin than you'll ever have.

  7. Re: So, pilot error? on Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They didn't tell pilots about this system, what it does, what happens if it fails and how to disable it. It simply wasn't in the pilot's manual, didn't make it into the training process.

    How did the dead-head Lion Air pilot know how to save the plane??

  8. Re: Collection of errors on Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Moral of the story: there's a reason there were no planes in Idiocracy.

  9. Re: Holy cow! on Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Someone really missed an opportunity to save a lot of lives.

    Another way is to say that someone seized the opportunity to lose a lot of them.

  10. Re: "even threatened to cut off intelligence shari on Trump Blockade of Huawei Fizzles In European 5G Rollout (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That power matters for nought in international trade and diplomacy

    To be fair, you're actually kind of amusing.

  11. Shape recognition has been around for 40 years now.

    Your numerous detractors may disagree... but there have been times that I've actually seen you write something intelligent.

    This was not one of those times.

  12. Re: Is there a non-cynical explanation on California Reintroduces 'Right To Repair' Bill After Previous Effort Failed (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Manufacturers would provide this if enough people would pay for it

    Asshole... not only were we paying for iit, we still are.

  13. Come on, man; Crytek isn't going to piss away their credibility for nothing.

  14. Re: Trump fizzles generally... on Trump Blockade of Huawei Fizzles In European 5G Rollout (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Chinese tech companies receiveorders; U.S. tech companies receive National Security Letters.

  15. Re: it is hugely different on Why Google Stadia Will Be a Major Problem For Many American Players · · Score: 1

    Secondly, all the TV/movie streaming providers compress the video quite a lot more than a game can

    I don't think you quite understand streaming gaming.

    Don't worry; it sucks more once you do.

  16. Re: 2080, why bother? on NVIDIA's Ray Tracing Tech Will Soon Run On Older GTX Cards (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I just bothered to inform myself a wee bit and I got the impression that this uses a set-top box of some sort...at which point I lost interest... but truth be told, I was never that interested to begin with; the "cloud" is the proverbial fucking cliff and I prefer to go against the lemming flow. ;)

  17. Re: 2080, why bother? on NVIDIA's Ray Tracing Tech Will Soon Run On Older GTX Cards (engadget.com) · · Score: 1
    That's server-side. If this is even remotely a serious move on Google's part, they won't close their doors to 3/4 of gamers.

    Mind you, "serious" and "streaming gaming" don't belong in the same sentence. The morons'll figure that out in a few years, after ithe bubble runs its course - the whole insidious phenomenon ia obviously still in its infancy...

  18. Re: Dietary Studies are NOT Advice!!! on Three or More Eggs a Week Increase Your Risk of Heart Disease and Early Death, Study Says (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    that managed to evolve to be able to survive on mostly grain

    Given that that was less than fiftty thousand years ago, it might explain why we haven't exactly evolved anything resembling a "grain-optimized" digestive system.

    The advantages of grain have been logistical (storage, sileage), not nutritional.

  19. Re: Recycling is a dead end on As Costs Skyrocket, More US Cities Stop Recycling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Less purchasing of processed foods and more cooking at home would cut down on the volume of low-value waste.

  20. Re: I remember them doing this with phsyx on NVIDIA's Ray Tracing Tech Will Soon Run On Older GTX Cards (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't be daft, you can't enable ray tracing through a driver update.

    I'm pretty sure you can; these are programmable GPU's. You just shouldn't expect to enable efficient ray-tracing.

  21. Re: I remember them doing this with phsyx on NVIDIA's Ray Tracing Tech Will Soon Run On Older GTX Cards (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    QII RTX almost sounds like a good reason to hop onboard this premature train... ray-traced UT99 would be more my speed, though.

  22. Re: I remember them doing this with phsyx on NVIDIA's Ray Tracing Tech Will Soon Run On Older GTX Cards (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Some games can focus more on graphics detail, vs high frame rates

    You mean like watching a movie?

  23. Re: 5400RPM HDD in base systems WTF?? on Apple Finally Updates the iMac With Significantly More Powerful CPU and GPU Options (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I make jokes about angry, orange clowns who wear mullets and I make jokes about bug-eyed dipshits who can't count.

  24. Re: 5400RPM HDD in base systems WTF?? on Apple Finally Updates the iMac With Significantly More Powerful CPU and GPU Options (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Elizabeth Warren that was pushing the idea to break up Amazon, Google and Apple....

    And even a phony liar is sometimes right.

    Replace "Apple" in that list (they're notthat bad) with Facebook and Twitter and I'd be down with that shit.

  25. Re: 5400RPM HDD in base systems WTF?? on Apple Finally Updates the iMac With Significantly More Powerful CPU and GPU Options (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing whatsoever other than fantastic comedic potential.;)