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  1. Re:albeit costing three times as much on Intel Releases Broadwell Desktop CPUs: Core i7-5775C and i5-5675C · · Score: 1

    FX-9590 is the fastest AMD CPU you can buy and it is on par with i7 4770k. (as usual, behind in single threaded test, ahead in multi-threaded tests)
    http://cpuboss.com/cpu/AMD-FX-...
    It IS faster than i5, if you are after multi-threaded load.
    On top of it, it has margin corresponding to "my fastest processor".
    It has no GPU.

    Your choice of CPUs to compare reviewed i5 to is questionable, to say the least.
    A10 APUs that were reviewed by Anandtech, cost half/third of Intel's, yet are within 20% performance wise.

  2. Re:I'm sure /. will ridicule it, but... on Australia's Prime Minister Doesn't Get Why Kids Should Learn To Code · · Score: 3, Interesting

    While computers are fundamental, programming them is not.

  3. Re:And? on Study: Science Still Seen As a Male Profession · · Score: 1

    Except that's not just a belief, but results of the studies.
    The fact that grown ups are different is clear (although studied as well), but there was a theory about all that being a result of society influence, so scientiest went far into early stages.

    Couple of month old babies were examined: girls tended to choose humans, boys tended to choose "things".

    Then there was a doubt, that, oh well, maybe those babies were already "spoiled" by the society, so someone went as far as to check one-two day old kids.

    Boys were interested in things, girls in human faces. (I didn't know kids could see at that age).

    Another studies: increased levels of testesteron have a very clear impact on kids development:
    1) it will take longer to learn to speak
    2) it will have greater interest for "things" mechanisms etc.

    There are numerous studies showing that:
    1) girls/women do better on average
    2) boys/men are overly represented in both top and bottom parts

    Which suddenly explains why Nobel laureats are mostly men, and, cough, CEOs too.

  4. Re:There is something to it, people are missing on Greece Is Running Out of Money, Cannot Make June IMF Repayment · · Score: 1

    Interest rates also reflect... opportunities.
    In fact, German banks feared not that money would not be returned.
    In fact, they were giving money to an already bancrupt state, knowing, that Merkel and Co will not let much harm happen to them.

  5. Re:Germany should pay war reparations for WWII on Greece Is Running Out of Money, Cannot Make June IMF Repayment · · Score: 1

    Georgia (Republic of) did came of better, thanks to IMF.
    After war with Russia in 2008 and subsequent econimical crisis all over the world, Georgia got money to compensate for harsh decline in foreign direct investment and quickly recovered.

  6. There is something to it, people are missing on Greece Is Running Out of Money, Cannot Make June IMF Repayment · · Score: 2, Informative

    I dislike current populist Greek government (and live in Germany), but there is some injustice in what was done to Greece in my opinion.
    Greece f*cked up big time by spending more than earning, there is no question about that.
    The problem is, what happened afterwards.
    And that was new loans AT INSANE RATES.
    Last time I've checked check dept per citizen numbers, Greek was roughly on the level of Germany.
    But interest rates they are paying (and that mostly to German banks), oh my goodness:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...

    So there IS a combination of incompetent reckless government and unfair interest rates. (yeah, if you don't want the money, don't take it, yadayada, I know)
    Also see (Charges of hypcrisy (Germany))

  7. Re:Germany should pay war reparations for WWII on Greece Is Running Out of Money, Cannot Make June IMF Repayment · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Germany stll pays Israel.
    Germany "kinda" paid USSR that took most factories it came by.
    Germany actually also paid Greece a while ago, although the scale of the payment was nowhere near what current government wants (and even (nominally) much less than they took from Greek bank)

    In 1942, the Greek Central Bank was forced by the occupying Nazi regime to loan 476 million Reichsmarks at 0% interest to Nazi Germany. In 1960, Greece accepted 115 million Marks as compensation for Nazi crimes. Nevertheless, past Greek governments have insisted that this was only a down-payment, not complete reparations.[citation needed] In 1990, immediately prior to German reunification, West Germany and East Germany signed the Two Plus Four Agreement with the former Allied countries of the United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia. Since that time, Germany has insisted that all matters concerning World War II, including further reparations to Greece, are closed because Germany officially surrendered to the Allies and to no other parties, including Greece. On Sunday, February 8, 2015, the Greek Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras appeared in front of the Greek parliament and officially demanded that Germany pay further reparations to Greece.[1] On April 6, 2015, Greece demanded Germany pay it the equivalent of $303 billion in reparations for the war. Germany replied that the reparations issue was resolved in 1990.[2]

    German reparations for World War II/

  8. Re:And? on Study: Science Still Seen As a Male Profession · · Score: 1

    I missed how you jumped from parents influencing kids choices, to 50/50 parity being the natural thing, if not discriminated.

    There are contrary examples of separated twins in different families which you would not like.

  9. Re:And? on Study: Science Still Seen As a Male Profession · · Score: 2

    You forgot to elaborate how on earth was this about "access to professions regardless of gender".
    The idea that gender disparity can only be caused by some sort of discrimination is based pretty much on religious views and have nothing to do with science.

    Men and women are different and TEND TO choose different professions. .

  10. Re:but I thought 90fps was the thing on Epic's VR Demo Scene For the GTX 980 Now Runs On Morpheus PS4 Headset At 60 FPS · · Score: 1

    I've actually used demo version of the Oculus Rift.
    Also, many of colleagues did.
    The things will cause sickness to many, no matter the FPS.

    Sony's devs also mentioned it, by the way.
    One thing is getting rid of sickness caused by rendering glitches, you could fix that.
    But there is inherent sickness caused by your eyes seeing what your vestibular system does not experience.

  11. Diminishing returns etc etc on Epic's VR Demo Scene For the GTX 980 Now Runs On Morpheus PS4 Headset At 60 FPS · · Score: 1

    Bottom line:

    1) an obvious example of diminishing returns on modern GPUs, also, go check Dark Sorcerer demo on PS4 (PS4 GPU is roughly between AMD 7850 and AMD 7870)

    2) somebody managed to bake yet another article about AMD product, without mentioning AMD

  12. Re:Corollary: It's difficult to be "clever" in Jav on The Reason For Java's Staying Power: It's Easy To Read · · Score: 1

    Now you can basically officially do your own pre-compilation (check -processor option on javac) if you so wish.

    Tons of XML weren't really caused by Java's problems (do you actually remember what was put in them??), more of a fashion thing, now mostly replaced with annotations / cleverly chosen defaults.

    Most stuff you were doing with monstrous (my personal opinion) frameworks like Spring are part of the standard Java for quite a while (since 2009).

  13. Nice. Do they buy more now? on Canadian Piracy Rates Plummet As Industry Points To New Copyright Notice System · · Score: 1

    Did that have positive impact on sales of the corresponding content?
    Because if not...

  14. I call BS on The Programming Talent Myth · · Score: 1

    Over nearly 2 decades I work in IT, in most teams I worked with SOME of the guys could do more than 3-5 others together.
    Also it had little to do with experience, some guys were just damn good, right out of the university.

    I've also seen plenty of very experienced, yet very poor coders.

    So no, not just skills you can just learn.

  15. Re:inventor? on New Test Supports NASA's Controversial EM Drive · · Score: 1

    Parent post deserves more than 1 point.

  16. AI has great chances on In New AI Benchmark, Computer Takes On Four Top Professional Poker Players · · Score: 1

    Poker games take time (hours), people grow tired, computers don't.
    People struggle at memorizing chances, taking shortcuts, computers have exact picture talking into account every single bit.

    All one needs is behavior that is random enough, for human players not to guess if computer is bluffing.

    Then, of course, there is luck factor, so results will fluctuate quite a bit.

  17. Re:I thought we were trying to end sexism? on LAUSD OKs Girls-Only STEM School, Plans Boys-Only English Language Arts School · · Score: 1

    BS.
    There is a huge difference between men and women in general.
    The article you've linked merely covers intelligence (which is only PART of what people are).
    And even there you have missed an elephant in the room:

    "...The differences in average IQ between men and women are small in magnitude and inconsistent in direction, although the variability of male scores has been found to be greater than that of females, resulting in more males than females in the top and bottom of the IQ distribution..."

    and I don't quite get why did you even link that:

    "...There are however differences in the capacity of males and females in performing certain tasks, such as rotation of object in space, often categorized as spatial ability. Other traditionally male advantages, such as in the field of mathematics, are not so clear-cut..."

    Yay, we are not different... Somehow...

  18. Re:AMD has played losing strategy for too long on AMD Withdraws From High-Density Server Business · · Score: 1

    Are you kiddinig me?
    Intel was overselling AMD with slower, pricier, power hungry chips 4 to 1.
    Compaq refused to take AMDs chips FOR FREE.

    R&D, my ass...

  19. Re:there's a strange bias on slashdot on Microsoft's Role As Accuser In the Antitrust Suit Against Google · · Score: 1

    I missed how does M$ "being even more evil" somehow justify Google's evilness?

  20. Re:Rather bizarre statement... on EU's Unitary Software Patent Challenged At the Belgian Constitutional Court · · Score: 1

    Mr Jobs threatened Palm with "patent litigation" if they would not submit to non-poaching agreement. Hello.

  21. Re:what will be more interesting on Jeremy Clarkson Dismissed From Top Gear · · Score: 1

    Uh, no, McDonald's had NOT "served coffee at a temperature above their own published standards".
    It was within their (and national coffee association's),standards and in fact McDonalds continues to serve coffee at 80–90 C (176–194 F).
    Coffee served to Liebeck was within 80–190 F (82–88 C).

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

  22. How is that "Free" if youtube pays for it? on Universal Reportedly Wants Spotify To Scale Back Its Free Streaming · · Score: 1

    Youtube (ok, Google) pays Universal for each view...
    If you wonder, how much it is: GEMA (German MAFIAA) demanded 2 digit cent per view (!!!) which pissed off youtube to a point they said, nope, we better not play anything covered by GEMA in Germany at all.

  23. Re:Define "Threatened" and "Unwelcome" on A Software Project Full of "Male Anatomy" Jokes Causes Controversy · · Score: 1

    What kind of "media"?
    They are not exposed to TV.
    They don't read newspapers.
    Boy isn't in kindergarten yet, neither was his sister at his age.
    On the street ads, most of the time they see nude females on bikes driving through the river and a big bottle beside them. (never figured how they were related, maybe if you drink much of that, you'll start to see nude women driving through a river)

    When we (parents) are watching Hollywood movies with massive battle screens, my wife is in "OMG what on earth are they doing it" mode. "Why are those guys on the ladder climbing, it's guaranteed death...". I never wondered about that. It should be, probably because someone at the kindergarten showed me pics of men slaughtering each other, explaining, that's the way to go. I don't recall that, but there must be something like that, cause even though volumes of hormones in our bodies are so different,we should still think the same, right?

  24. Re:Define "Threatened" and "Unwelcome" on A Software Project Full of "Male Anatomy" Jokes Causes Controversy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Look. Regarding that "forcefully discouraged" thing I keep hearing.
    I have two kids, a girl and a boy.
    The boy is younger.
    Most toys he got earlier were his sister's.
    And, mind you, I bought a lot of "boy" toys for my daughter (actually the first toys she got were "boy" toys, because "why on earth would we force "girly" stuff on hear" I said, but she got full range of em).
    So lot's of cars and other machinery.
    She played with cars now and then.

    But my boy is simply obsessed with them. He has piles of toys to choose from, all kinds of them, but "Car" was one of the first words he learned.

    I'm pretty sure out there somewhere someone is explaining that women are underrepresented in auto sports, cause, you know, "they are forcefully discouraged".

    Here is, what I want to tell you: just STFU, ok? Cause MEN AND WOMEN ARE simply DIFFERENT!!. Nobody bans any sex from anything, but some disparity in some areas is more than natural.

  25. Most "scaler" chip manufacturers on First AMD FreeSync Capable Gaming Displays and Drivers Launched, Tested · · Score: 1

    Most "scaler" chip manufacturers support AMD's FreeSync already. So gg nVidia...