PC I linked to Price $698, XBone $550. Where is your 2.5 coming from?
As for graphical horespower. It kicks the crap out of the consoles. It has a faster processor, a better GPU and the same amount of RAM compared to the xbox one.
And as for your FPS & resolution specs. I don't understand. PCs don't have an upper bound for resolution that you are locked at. If your monitor can support 4k then it will output 4k. It might struggle to get decent framerates though, but that will depend on what game you are playing. That machine would play games at 60fps at 1080 without breaking a sweat though. Is that what you want?
I'm assuming you are on slashdot via a PC so I don't really understand why you are talking about resolution support on a PC. You know that you can change the resolution on your machine right?
PCs are not a straight console replacement. They are a mutli-use machine that can do a consoles job as well. So given that why would advertised specs for a PC be limited to what a console is limited to?
Not 2.5x the cost of a console. This is an Australian site so Australian dollars. Xbone is $550ish and PS4 is $500ish depending on the version. This is purchasing it from the same store. So you are looking at around AU$100. Which puts is at about US$75
And as for it playing everything, it would play everything that is available on consoles and play it at a quality that either matches or exceeds the console. But that is where PC gaming differs from consoles. There are some games that you will never ever get on a console because their resource demands are too high, or there are versions of the game you will never see on console for the same reason. Obvious comparisons are in things like Crysis, where the top end of quality of PC far exceeds that of the consoles. Another is star citizen, it is unlikely to ever see a console release because the game is too resource hungry.
So in answer to your statement, a PC of that level will be able to play all games that are console level. It can probably play all the PC games available today, but in 5 years it is likely that there will be a number of PC games that have moved beyond it. When it comes to game catalogues though, one thing to keep in mind is that PCs are by default backwards compatible, so when you do upgrade / replace your PC with next gen stuff you won't lose easy access to your game library.
What evidence it can play? You can just read the specs to see that it can. I thought a slashdot audience would have the background knowledge to know that.
And while it is more expensive than a console it is only a little. That site is Australian dollars and XBONEs are $549 to $599 and PS4s are $450 to $590 depending on the version. So we are talking $100 to $150.
Basically you wanted a link to a prebuilt computer, under a $1000 (and I assumed US$) that could play games and was prebuilt. Well here you go and it's from the largest big box retailed in Aus so its not like it is an obscure online only place that no one will have ever heard of.
They are. Have a look at the Borisoglebsk 2. Not only will it severely degrade your communication, it will pinpoint where your drone command structure is.
There is nothing in the article that even points us in the direction of a bus other than "Something not really like a bus". In fact there is nothing in this article that points us at anything
I agree. But then I have always seen fighter craft in a similar light to aircraft carriers. In and off themselves they are not particularly potent. But they allow you to project force an incredible distance. The aircraft carrier needs its group to keep it alive, the F-35 uses stealth, speed and an onboard human to keep it alive. People seem to look at the F-35 like it was a gun or a missile rather than seeing it as a way to get a gun or missile on target.
If you have a desirable skillset, and/or a reserve of cash then absolutely. If however you are unskilled / low skilled and have no savings how would you make the move without taking a huge gamble?
By small I meant compared to the weapons load out of a b-52. In an ideal world you would be able to put the load out of a b52 in position over the enemy fast and stealthy. Of course the stratofortress is anything but fast or stealthy. So you need to make compromises on carrying capacity to get it into position. Hence the f-35.
The other counter argument is if you have someone with nothing, they have nothing to lose. So stabbing you for the contents of your wallet becomes a valid choice. You may hate the idea of it, but how much has crime through desperation, cost the productive part of society? You might call it stand over money or a protection racket, but which ends up with a better society and quality of life overall? Paying a basic income that reduces desperation or pay the costs of that desperation directly.
With a guaranteed basic income you don't end up trapped by your job. If you are in SanFran and just managing to make ends meet you don't have the ability to up and move because that costs money and it will cause you to lose your only income. BI would allow you to relocate away to a cheap area, whether that area had employment or not.
Drones are perfect for asymmetric warfare. The US pounding ISIS is the perfect example of this. The drones have a clear flight path, limited interference and nothing that is going to shoot them down.
Now lets start are conflict with a first world military power, but assume it doesn't go nuclear. ASATS take out your communication birds, high powered jammers lower your radios range by at least a magnitude, advanced AA systems come on line & missile strikes start hitting your home base drone control systems. Right now how well do you think your drones are performing.
A manned aircraft allows you to bring weapons to bare with an advanced intelligence system (the pilot) having full autonomy of when to fire and when not to.
You need to change your thinking about aircraft. Aircraft are weapons platforms, they bring weapons into effective range of a target. At one end of the spectrum the b52 brings a load of weapons to the table, but its radar signature and flight characteristics means its a sitting duck. The f-35 is meant to be able to get close to the target under fire, drop a small but significant load of weapons and get out.
Having travelled extensively around the world my experience is that countries that are 1st world but more socialist than the US have better infrastructure. Particularly when it comes to the maintenance of their roads.
I drove from LA to Miami back in 2008 and the difference in the standard of repair of major arterial roads between states was huge. You would go from ultra-smooth machined concrete to sections where the slabs had rotated under the traffic giving you mini jumps every couple of meters.
Forgive me for being dense but how would a camera help? Some of the maths lectures I have done have had the solution for the same problem spread over 9 hours of lectures. You wouldn't know when to take a photo, let alone be able to understand it afterwards.
My note taking tends to be in meetings, while on the phone or at coffee shops. So my solution is to use OneNote. I write the notes with a stylus on my tablet and they then autosync with my laptop. I then attach them to the relevant record in my CRM.
Good luck managing to type complex equations as fast as you can write them.
If you are talking about transcribing something, then yes typing is faster. But if your note taking requires you to jump around the page, annotate diagrams, sections of text or anything else then writing wins.
Having things electronic makes things easy to file and refer to, but that is why I use a tablet and stylus.
I doubt it. Part of the reason that govt bureaucracies are so inefficient is that every dollar needs to be accounted for and justified in triplicate. Also positive incentivising is not the norm for govt either. They tend to go the big stick and companies call it "cost of compliance" a lot of which is pointless paper trailing.
I actually really hope you are wrong. No question that the US has the capability of targetting Kim in his toilet, but if they ever did manage to land a single nuke on US soil I really really really hope the response is not 20+ massive bombs heading the other way.
Kill him, and his regime. But please don't spread nuclear fallout over a highly populated region which includes countries that have true ICBM nuclear capabilities. What would China do if its sensors picked up incoming nuclear missiles that could easily be diverted to their territory? That would make the cuban missile crisis look like a happy dinner party.
I would have thought that it would have to be remitted to a government department complete with a report detailing why it was seized, who the people involved in transaction were etc etc. Otherwise you have a massive incentive to a company to make up reasons to seize money and you are not providing any evidence to the security forces that would want to track money to terrorist organisations.
If the money is sent to OFAC or similar it should be possible to have that money returned to you on completion of 200 forms and waiting 11.5 months.
The technical component of it was amazing. But that said so was the technical component of Final Fantasy. Amazing technical skills though don't make a great movie.
That said Avatar was a decent movie, better than average but nothing that was particularly memorable. My memories of it were "there are a lot of flying scenes"
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PC I linked to Price $698, XBone $550. Where is your 2.5 coming from?
As for graphical horespower. It kicks the crap out of the consoles. It has a faster processor, a better GPU and the same amount of RAM compared to the xbox one.
And as for your FPS & resolution specs. I don't understand. PCs don't have an upper bound for resolution that you are locked at. If your monitor can support 4k then it will output 4k. It might struggle to get decent framerates though, but that will depend on what game you are playing. That machine would play games at 60fps at 1080 without breaking a sweat though. Is that what you want?
I'm assuming you are on slashdot via a PC so I don't really understand why you are talking about resolution support on a PC. You know that you can change the resolution on your machine right?
PCs are not a straight console replacement. They are a mutli-use machine that can do a consoles job as well. So given that why would advertised specs for a PC be limited to what a console is limited to?
Not 2.5x the cost of a console. This is an Australian site so Australian dollars. Xbone is $550ish and PS4 is $500ish depending on the version. This is purchasing it from the same store. So you are looking at around AU$100. Which puts is at about US$75
And as for it playing everything, it would play everything that is available on consoles and play it at a quality that either matches or exceeds the console. But that is where PC gaming differs from consoles. There are some games that you will never ever get on a console because their resource demands are too high, or there are versions of the game you will never see on console for the same reason. Obvious comparisons are in things like Crysis, where the top end of quality of PC far exceeds that of the consoles. Another is star citizen, it is unlikely to ever see a console release because the game is too resource hungry.
So in answer to your statement, a PC of that level will be able to play all games that are console level. It can probably play all the PC games available today, but in 5 years it is likely that there will be a number of PC games that have moved beyond it. When it comes to game catalogues though, one thing to keep in mind is that PCs are by default backwards compatible, so when you do upgrade / replace your PC with next gen stuff you won't lose easy access to your game library.
What evidence it can play? You can just read the specs to see that it can. I thought a slashdot audience would have the background knowledge to know that.
And while it is more expensive than a console it is only a little. That site is Australian dollars and XBONEs are $549 to $599 and PS4s are $450 to $590 depending on the version. So we are talking $100 to $150.
Basically you wanted a link to a prebuilt computer, under a $1000 (and I assumed US$) that could play games and was prebuilt. Well here you go and it's from the largest big box retailed in Aus so its not like it is an obscure online only place that no one will have ever heard of.
Here is something actually useful. http://ramap.jmc.or.jp/map/eng...
It is a map of the area surrounding fukushima with radiation measurements in microsieverts
They are. Have a look at the Borisoglebsk 2. Not only will it severely degrade your communication, it will pinpoint where your drone command structure is.
https://www.jbhifi.com.au/comp...
Never going to set the world on fire. But this would play almost everything. JB-Hifi is a massive big box retailer in Australia.
https://www.jbhifi.com.au/comp...
There is absolutely no reason a console couldn't act as a host as well as a client. This is what all us old people used to do anyway.
There is nothing in the article that even points us in the direction of a bus other than "Something not really like a bus". In fact there is nothing in this article that points us at anything
I agree. But then I have always seen fighter craft in a similar light to aircraft carriers. In and off themselves they are not particularly potent. But they allow you to project force an incredible distance. The aircraft carrier needs its group to keep it alive, the F-35 uses stealth, speed and an onboard human to keep it alive. People seem to look at the F-35 like it was a gun or a missile rather than seeing it as a way to get a gun or missile on target.
If you have a desirable skillset, and/or a reserve of cash then absolutely. If however you are unskilled / low skilled and have no savings how would you make the move without taking a huge gamble?
By small I meant compared to the weapons load out of a b-52. In an ideal world you would be able to put the load out of a b52 in position over the enemy fast and stealthy. Of course the stratofortress is anything but fast or stealthy. So you need to make compromises on carrying capacity to get it into position. Hence the f-35.
It has a longer range than the f-16 and a higher speed. The f-16 out ranges it when it has drop tanks.
The other counter argument is if you have someone with nothing, they have nothing to lose. So stabbing you for the contents of your wallet becomes a valid choice. You may hate the idea of it, but how much has crime through desperation, cost the productive part of society? You might call it stand over money or a protection racket, but which ends up with a better society and quality of life overall? Paying a basic income that reduces desperation or pay the costs of that desperation directly.
With a guaranteed basic income you don't end up trapped by your job. If you are in SanFran and just managing to make ends meet you don't have the ability to up and move because that costs money and it will cause you to lose your only income. BI would allow you to relocate away to a cheap area, whether that area had employment or not.
Drones are perfect for asymmetric warfare. The US pounding ISIS is the perfect example of this. The drones have a clear flight path, limited interference and nothing that is going to shoot them down.
Now lets start are conflict with a first world military power, but assume it doesn't go nuclear. ASATS take out your communication birds, high powered jammers lower your radios range by at least a magnitude, advanced AA systems come on line & missile strikes start hitting your home base drone control systems. Right now how well do you think your drones are performing.
A manned aircraft allows you to bring weapons to bare with an advanced intelligence system (the pilot) having full autonomy of when to fire and when not to.
You need to change your thinking about aircraft. Aircraft are weapons platforms, they bring weapons into effective range of a target. At one end of the spectrum the b52 brings a load of weapons to the table, but its radar signature and flight characteristics means its a sitting duck. The f-35 is meant to be able to get close to the target under fire, drop a small but significant load of weapons and get out.
Having travelled extensively around the world my experience is that countries that are 1st world but more socialist than the US have better infrastructure. Particularly when it comes to the maintenance of their roads.
I drove from LA to Miami back in 2008 and the difference in the standard of repair of major arterial roads between states was huge. You would go from ultra-smooth machined concrete to sections where the slabs had rotated under the traffic giving you mini jumps every couple of meters.
The security updates will have come via google play services updates. You only get system updates when they are at a lower level.
Forgive me for being dense but how would a camera help? Some of the maths lectures I have done have had the solution for the same problem spread over 9 hours of lectures. You wouldn't know when to take a photo, let alone be able to understand it afterwards.
My note taking tends to be in meetings, while on the phone or at coffee shops. So my solution is to use OneNote. I write the notes with a stylus on my tablet and they then autosync with my laptop. I then attach them to the relevant record in my CRM.
Good luck managing to type complex equations as fast as you can write them.
If you are talking about transcribing something, then yes typing is faster. But if your note taking requires you to jump around the page, annotate diagrams, sections of text or anything else then writing wins.
Having things electronic makes things easy to file and refer to, but that is why I use a tablet and stylus.
I doubt it. Part of the reason that govt bureaucracies are so inefficient is that every dollar needs to be accounted for and justified in triplicate. Also positive incentivising is not the norm for govt either. They tend to go the big stick and companies call it "cost of compliance" a lot of which is pointless paper trailing.
I actually really hope you are wrong. No question that the US has the capability of targetting Kim in his toilet, but if they ever did manage to land a single nuke on US soil I really really really hope the response is not 20+ massive bombs heading the other way.
Kill him, and his regime. But please don't spread nuclear fallout over a highly populated region which includes countries that have true ICBM nuclear capabilities. What would China do if its sensors picked up incoming nuclear missiles that could easily be diverted to their territory? That would make the cuban missile crisis look like a happy dinner party.
Surely the money can't remain with Venmo?
I would have thought that it would have to be remitted to a government department complete with a report detailing why it was seized, who the people involved in transaction were etc etc. Otherwise you have a massive incentive to a company to make up reasons to seize money and you are not providing any evidence to the security forces that would want to track money to terrorist organisations.
If the money is sent to OFAC or similar it should be possible to have that money returned to you on completion of 200 forms and waiting 11.5 months.
The technical component of it was amazing. But that said so was the technical component of Final Fantasy. Amazing technical skills though don't make a great movie.
That said Avatar was a decent movie, better than average but nothing that was particularly memorable. My memories of it were "there are a lot of flying scenes"