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  1. Re:Take the PCIe logo off the box on AMD Details Driver Fix For Radeon RX 480's Controversial, Spec-Exceeding Power Draw (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    750Ti did that.
    295x2 did that and more than that.

    Scale of the problem is overrated.

  2. Spot on.

    On the other hand, I'd be glad to buy it from Windows Store, if they would allow to get normal games, and not do one major f*ck up with "only on win 10" and "only this kind of apps".

    I don't like Valve's dominant market position (70%+ of the market?) at all. 30% off every sale doesn't seem adequate either.

  3. As of 2016 you can buy a car from pretty much any manufacturer without cruise control.
    Oh, or even air conditioning, if you so wish.

  4. Yep. And those warnings do not even come from an autopilot.

  5. Re:Rather have a Subaru on DVD Player Found In Tesla Autopilot Crash, Says Florida Officials (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Human eyes don't have that limitation - we can see bright and dark areas simultaneously and make out details in both.

    Hell, no, eyes sure have that limitation.
    Eyes have pupil for a reason.

    But human range is much wider than what we have in typical electronics at the moment.

  6. Re:Rather have a Subaru on DVD Player Found In Tesla Autopilot Crash, Says Florida Officials (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm shocked that camera was the only thing auto-pilot was using.
    Would have expected some sort of radar tech to support it.

  7. Re:Good for them on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    It's not even about that Norway is filled with oil and gas and what not (e.g. hydroreources that allow them to generate 140% of their need from renewables at the moment) and Switzerland has insane banking sector.

    It's about the role UK had in EU.

    From now on there will be no serious player within EU who would try to stop further federalization.
    Influence of UK over EU and the whole world will fade.
    Even more so, if Northern Ireland/Scotland will leave.

  8. Re: Good for them on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "Restructured for a longer payoff" is exactly where they pay less interest rates.
    Which contradicts your previous statements.

  9. What has Apple to do with it on 'Headphone Jacks Are the New Floppy Drives' (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    Why on earth would we still be using VGA "if not Apple"?
    What do DVI-D (Intel/AMD and co decided to let analog DVI go), HDMI or display port have to do with Apple?

    Thunderbolt is pretty much the only thin you could associate with them, if not, cough, Intel who has actually developed it.

  10. No, it's not like that on 'Headphone Jacks Are the New Floppy Drives' (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    It is: if people care ENOUGH, they'll buy something else.

    That is how it works.
    I don't like Blizzard's DRM practices, and that's enough a reason not to buy D3, but not enough, to skip SC2, as an example.

  11. Charging battery to later charge car's battery on Elon Musk's Tesla Plans To Acquire Elon Musk's SolarCity For $2.7B In Stock (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't that scream "inefficient"?

    PS
    Oh, Li-Ion charge efficiency is close to 100%, never mind... ^^
    http://liionbms.com/pdf/Elithi...

  12. Maybe you should RTFA? on MSI and ASUS Accused of Sending Reviewers Overpowered Graphics Cards (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's not "sites like reddit" claiming it.
    It started with techpowerup article, mentioning exactly what was wrong: cards running at higher frequencies than normal retail versions: Here is it:

    MSI and ASUS have been sending us review samples for their graphics cards with higher clock speeds out of the box, than what consumers get out of the box. The cards TechPowerUp has been receiving run at a higher software-defined clock speed profile than what consumers get out of the box. Consumers have access to the higher clock speed profile, too, but only if they install a custom app by the companies, and enable that profile. This, we feel, is not 100% representative of retail cards, and is questionable tactics by the two companies. This BIOS tweaking could also open the door to more elaborate changes like a quieter fan profile or different power management.

    http://www.techpowerup.com/for...

  13. Home taping didn't kill them yet? on 180 Artists, Labels Including Taylor Swift Take On YouTube, Join Copyright Plea (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I mean, poor industry:
    http://turntabling.net/wp-cont...

  14. Re:Another one bites the dust on Microsoft Is Buying LinkedIn For $26.2 Billion (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    DirectX.
    XBox.
    Microsoft Office.

    I mean, I don't like monopolists either, but let's be real.

  15. A warning from 1S owner, for those after HR on Xiaomi's Mi Band 2 Fitness Tracker Featuring OLED Display Launched at $23 (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If you are looking for this device to measure heart rate, you'd likely be disappointed.
    It can't measure your HR while you are exercising.
    What it can (at least in case of 1S) is measure it once, when you apply pressure as instructed... and even then I was getting rather wildly fluctuating results.

  16. Re:UNICODE?? on Rovio's Desperate Push For 'Angry Birds' Movie (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Meh, Georgian is filtered out (missing in fonts?)...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  17. Re:a loveletter to US Capitalism. on Rovio's Desperate Push For 'Angry Birds' Movie (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Hm, I was pretty sure it's 50% flat (off tickets sold).

  18. Microsoft doesn't make much money on OS? Eh? on Linux Advocate Suggests Using More Closed-Source Software (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 2
  19. Sorry, but that sounds dubious at best, care to on Men Are Sabotaging The Online Reviews Of TV Shows Aimed At Women (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    Care to post a link?
    Because what I read and experienced (having both a son and a daughter) contradicts what you state.

    My son inherited most of the toys (including gazillion of cars) from elder sister.
    Compared to her he is:
    1) obsessed with the cars and planes (we bought our daughter all kinds of them, because, fuck 'girl/boy' toys model)
    2) tends to speak less and has inferior language ability in general
    3) shows next to no interest in listening to stories, unless there is a car or a plane involved, his sister would eagerly listen and then repeat the story ("read" the book)
    4) is much much less cautious than sister

    DNA is what really makes us different, why should we behave the same?
    1. Women have greater constitutional vitality, perhaps because of their unique chromosomal pattern, and normally outlive men by 3-4 years (U.S.). This is also reflected even in the womb. More than 140 male babies are conceived for every 100 females; by the time birth occurs, the ratio is 105 to 100, with the rest of the males dying in spontaneous abortions.
    2. Men have a higher incidence of death from almost EVERY disease except three: benign tumors, disorders related to female reproduction, and breast cancer.
    3. Men have a higher rate of basal metabolism than women.
    4. In skeletal structure, women tend to have a shorter head, broader face, less protruding chin, shorter legs, and longer trunk, and a more rounded pelvis.
    5. Women have a larger stomach, kidneys, liver, and appendix, and smaller lungs than men.
    6. Women have three very important physiological functions totally absent in men--menstruation, pregnancy, and lactation, and each SIGNIFICANTLY influences behavior and feelings. Female hormonal patterns are more complex and varied.
    7. The glands work differently: e.g. a women's thyroids are larger and more active, enlarging during menstruation and pregnancy, making them more prone to goiter, providing resistance to cold, and is associated with the smooth skin, relatively hairless body, and the thin layer of subcutaneous fat that are important elements in the concept of personal beauty. Women are also generally more responsive emotionally, laughing and crying more readily (think how many women complain men are less emotional).
    8. Women's blood contains more water (thus 20 percent fewer red cells). Since red cells supply oxygen to the body, they tire more easily and are more prone to faint. Their constitutional viability is therefore strictly a long-term matter. During ware-time conditions, when the working day in British factories was increased from ten to twelve hours, accidents among women increased 150 percent; the rate of accidents among men did not increase significantly.
    9. Men are 50 percent stronger than women in brute strength.
    10. Women's hearts beat more rapidly than those of men (80 vs. 72 beats per minute). Their blood pressure (averaging 10 points lower than men) varies more from minute to minute, but they have much less tendency to high blood pressure until after menopause.
    11. Female lung capacity is about 30% less than in males.
    12. Women can withstand high temperatures better than men because their metabolism slows down less.
    13. Men and women differ in every cell because of differing chromosomal patterns, the implications of which range from obvious to extremely subtle. In one classic example, when researchers visited high school and college campuses to study behavior of the sexes, they observed that males and females even carried books differently - men tended to carry them at their sides with their arms over the top. Women and girls, by contrast, usually cradled their books at their chests.
    14. Men have roughly 10% bigger brain, but some parts of responsible to certain activities are smaller than women's.

  20. Troll, seriously?

  21. What's wrong with term "Social Justice Warrior"?

  22. Re:Strong enough for a man, made for a woman on Men Are Sabotaging The Online Reviews Of TV Shows Aimed At Women (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 2

    I think the point was that if someone is watching a show she/he doesn't like, he/she is most likely a men.

  23. Re:The real reason? on Neuroscience Explains Why Dieters Rarely Lose Weight (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Not sure if it helps you, dude, but those things can change and I'm pretty sure it's not genetics alone.

    I used to have no problem with weight and it felt natural, I simply didn't want to eat that much, I wasn't too thin either, just normal.
    (oh, and most "grandma"s around me were worried I eat so little, not that it was little)

    Then, for about 3 month or so, I ate more than I wanted (for whatever the reason was). Then things went... wrong, I got to 109kg (normall weight for me is about 85, I think).

    I went on quite harsh diet (about 1000 calories deficit for 4 weeks) and got to about 95kg, it bounced back but not to the old levels, to about 102.
    Then I lost 5 kg doing physical work (bough a house).

    I'm now quite stable in 95-97 range for two years (actually plan to go down to 90 during 2 month =))

  24. Well,look at it max power as a limiting factor.
    So, you can clock chip to consume less (and be slower).
    Or up clocks and consume more (by the way, both 10xx cards consume more than predecessor) but bring more performance.

    PS
    970 launched at 329$
    1070 is launching at 379$
    There we go again.

  25. Player Piano (novel) Kurt Vonnegut, 1952 on With AI Getting Better at Cognitive Abilities, Humans Will Have Even Fewer Jobs (koreaherald.com) · · Score: 1