We have the best technology. Not really the best anything else. T99s are better than Abrahms - we'll see if the M3 gives us the edge again. Our infantry rifles, while decent, are still 50 years old. We've attempted to replace them several times and have turned down superior weapons like the M416. Our active military is still smaller than North Korea and China.
Countries hardly do as we please. All we do is piss everyone off and shit down their throats and then the government, for the benefit of the sheep, spins it to say things like "They attacked us because they hate our freedom." No, they attacked us because we deserve it and we started it.
My roommate who is an army veteran, former Signal, always insists military technology is decades ahead of civillians. Bullshit. While it's more advanced - in a lab somewhere, a DARPA facility - it's not really in use and it's not that advanced. Our military is technologically superior but it's also held together with duct tape made by the lowest bidder. I wouldn't expect it to fare any better in a real war than it did in WW2.
As far as the country being fucked and impending collapse, that already happened. It's just a matter of time at this point before citizens are rounded up into internment camps and the military roams the streets.
Don't participate in arguments you're unqualified for. Communist? No. All his viewpoints? Wrong. They aren't even his viewpoints, Romney and Obama and even Clinton and Bush were and are all pawns controlled by globalists. Yea, not actual communism, no one understand what the actual concept of communism is of course.
That doesn't excuse that he has done more damage than 16 years of Bush/Clinton combined (not that Clinton did too much, he actually had a budget surplus).
It has only hurt if that's what you mean, but PC Graphics and abilities are still miles beyond console.
All the current video game generation has done is stint and screw over the growth of PC hardware and practically destroyed the entire PC gaming market by only offering terrible, terrible second-hand ports of console games to PC, instead of the game being developed separately like used to be the case. Because of it you get utter crap in the way of customization in most PC ports - you get to "choose" high. There are very few PC intended or PC exclusive games that have driven PC hardware development - maybe Total War, that's about it. Nothing else is actually a PC exclusive - by nothing I mean so few games that who can even name them.
Are you joking? Do you know how badly ray tracing would godlag the computer and murder your performance? Modern GPUs are not made to handle actual graphical rendering technology like ray-tracing - anyone who regularly uses Maya/3DSMax/Lux/Firefly/3Delight/Carrara is painfully aware of this when it takes 1.5 hours to render 1 frame of 2 raytrace bounces.
Video games will literally never use ray-tracing, not without severe limitations - which negates the point of using it.
No game uses raytracing. I'm not sure what you're basing this on, honestly.
And no, no console gives remotely close graphics to a computer.
I think you're missing a massive flaw in your argument - the reason any PC Game does look similar in graphical quality to its console counterpart is entirely irrelevant to the power/ability of the computer. It looks that way because all games are developed for console, and then ported (horribly) to PC. There aren't customized ports like there were in the 90s when an entirely different studio handled porting the game to PC. Games are either made for PC - Age of Empires, Total War, Black and White - or they are made for console; every other game.
Those recommended specs are false adverting. Basically theyre saying anyone with a 3 year old computer can run it, but you know thats not the case - youll be lucky to get 30 fps with those specs. Probably closer to 5.
^ This. Insurance agents, healthcare people, I think I've never worked with more than 4 people at a given place who know how to do what they got paid obscene money to do.
No offense but yea, that's supposed to be what it means. It is what it means, for me. Except I already had more aptitude and skill and knowledge before my two colleges than most people do after 10 years in the field. So it's just reinforcement.
It also gives you a life debt and a waste of time when you're being treated like shit by the guy ordering his latte, whose job you could do 100x better. I'm sure the kids working at Starbucks would completely agree with you that it's neat they paid 60000 dollars for a degree so they could make less than 19k a year.
HR people need to be banned from the hiring process, when it comes to real jobs. They know nothing about the position, or what to expect, and they have a cheat sheet. It's ridiculous.
Not really. Even a thousands dollar laptop is still a laptop, and still garbage. You must not be familiar with hardware if you think a laptop is anywhere as stable when it comes to heat management or airflow as a desktop.
That's completely retarded. So what you're saying is we're going to replace laptops, the superior device, with a crappy device, used to to do the EXACT same things the EXACT same way using slightly different connectors? Oh wait nevermind, tablets can't do the same things.
Desktops will never be replaced. Laptops are simply not reliable and not repairable or modifiable by most people, even computer technicians who know how to replace laptop components would not willingly do so on their own.
This absolute draconian 1984 x10 to the infinite bullshit needs to stop. Are you SERIOUS?
I underatand what Mandak is saying and the simple fact is that the majority of society is not going to try to turn a profit through dishonestly re-selling their foreign acquisitions to get a larger margin, just like mandak never thought of it.
Real legitimate human beings do not do that and, even though it seems like 99% of us are garbage, they really aren't. Laws and court rulings that punish the majority because of the shittiness of the minority need to stop right now. This affects everyone - reselling games to a GameStop or a Spin-it-Again or a whateverthehellotherof90000differenstores is one huge issue in the entertainment industry right now, for example. By this ruling it would be illegal for many legitimate businesses who purchase products from Japan and South Korea and Taiwan to resell them, such as PVC figure kits from e-bay sellers or import toys/figures/dvds/blurays/videogames/food/candy/comics/manga/shirts/shit at anime or horror or scifi or even porn conventions, or gun shows, or many other things.
This hypothetically would put an end to all third-party vending, and not to be the conspiracy guy here - including the fact that this is a huge attempted strike at the sale of firearms in America, just to name one of many things.
This wasn't an anonymous reader, its from Kotaku. And it's a wildly inaccurate statement made by someone who doesn't even understand what he said or how he literally violated his own logic when saying it didn't apply.
The difference being at this point there is no reason to charge for voice if a person has an unlimited data plan. If all they have is voice, charge them for voice. It's an incentive to buy a data plan and end up paying more, considering a data plan including voice is normally 100 dollars a month or more.
The majority of voters are retarded. ignorant, illiterate self-absorbed jackasses who vote party lines, have no actual identity with their political party that extends beyond taxes and welfare handouts, because they inherited their political identity and perception of government from their parents. They don't research, they don't comprehend, they don't understand the constitution and law and the theories behind them, and the history behind them.
People did not vote for Proposition Fuck You and Your Neighbors, to increase surveillance, to increase domestic usage of drones and wiretaps and electronic computer taps.
They voted for asshats in Congress who don't even have the time or will to READ the legislation they are voting on - who then vote for things they did not read based on the summary paragraph which doesn't actually cover the concept or language of the bill.
The political system in this country is not what you think it is, it does not function the way it was meant to. Anyone who can't see that hasn't paid a lick of attention to any news source whatsoever for 100 years. The congress is RIGHT THERE on Cspan, every day. They have phones and emails for you to contact them and interview them. You can find thousands of videos all over youtube.
We didn't vote for the p.a.t.r.i.o.t act or the ndaa, the eea, pipa, sopa, acta, or anything else.
Let's face it != "Things are the way they are and we should accept them."
No. Not because it's a strict constructionist point of view, not just that. The constitution says this shit isn't ok. Did they foresee predator drones? No they did not. They foresaw that government, like it has always done in the past because government is people and people are flawed, will try to do things it shouldn't be doing - based on governmental theory and based on the philosophys floating around since the Enlightenment and Renaissance.
This is the type of BS books were written about - 1984, Anthem, etc. etc. The kind of BS movies like Equilibrium show.
There shouldn't be any discussion about this without a disclaimer beforehand that everyone is fully aware this is unacceptable.
And yea, there's a lot we can do about it. We can do what Jefferson all but told us to do, rise up and slay them. From time to time the tree of liberty must be refreshed with the blood of patriots and tyrants. He wrote extensively about revolution as a tool.
You know what they could do, they could shut the hell up and donate some money to cancer research - if they actually cared about innovation or their former ceo.
The author seems to have ignored how much of the iPhone is copied from other sources. Sony devices, older windows mobile devices, you name it. There's nothing surprising about the fact that Apple shamelessly does its own copying.
No one cares what device anyone is using. I care what predatory asshat of a company they support - especially when it comes to Apple because apple fans are the worst people in the entire consumer market. They buy pure crap, pretend its extraordinary, then furiously defend their company as if they know Apple or care or have any input to the company. They buy an ipod or iphone each year, when there is absolutely no improvement or new feature included in any iteration of these toys. I used to do it. I usued to buy an ipod almost once or twice a year. I know better now, and I would never be caught dead buying an apple computer. I lost friends when Steve Jobs died because I didn't pay him the respect he didn't deserve - this is what these people are like.
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We have the best technology. Not really the best anything else. T99s are better than Abrahms - we'll see if the M3 gives us the edge again. Our infantry rifles, while decent, are still 50 years old. We've attempted to replace them several times and have turned down superior weapons like the M416. Our active military is still smaller than North Korea and China. Countries hardly do as we please. All we do is piss everyone off and shit down their throats and then the government, for the benefit of the sheep, spins it to say things like "They attacked us because they hate our freedom." No, they attacked us because we deserve it and we started it. My roommate who is an army veteran, former Signal, always insists military technology is decades ahead of civillians. Bullshit. While it's more advanced - in a lab somewhere, a DARPA facility - it's not really in use and it's not that advanced. Our military is technologically superior but it's also held together with duct tape made by the lowest bidder. I wouldn't expect it to fare any better in a real war than it did in WW2. As far as the country being fucked and impending collapse, that already happened. It's just a matter of time at this point before citizens are rounded up into internment camps and the military roams the streets.
Don't participate in arguments you're unqualified for. Communist? No. All his viewpoints? Wrong. They aren't even his viewpoints, Romney and Obama and even Clinton and Bush were and are all pawns controlled by globalists. Yea, not actual communism, no one understand what the actual concept of communism is of course. That doesn't excuse that he has done more damage than 16 years of Bush/Clinton combined (not that Clinton did too much, he actually had a budget surplus).
It has only hurt if that's what you mean, but PC Graphics and abilities are still miles beyond console. All the current video game generation has done is stint and screw over the growth of PC hardware and practically destroyed the entire PC gaming market by only offering terrible, terrible second-hand ports of console games to PC, instead of the game being developed separately like used to be the case. Because of it you get utter crap in the way of customization in most PC ports - you get to "choose" high. There are very few PC intended or PC exclusive games that have driven PC hardware development - maybe Total War, that's about it. Nothing else is actually a PC exclusive - by nothing I mean so few games that who can even name them.
Are you joking? Do you know how badly ray tracing would godlag the computer and murder your performance? Modern GPUs are not made to handle actual graphical rendering technology like ray-tracing - anyone who regularly uses Maya/3DSMax/Lux/Firefly/3Delight/Carrara is painfully aware of this when it takes 1.5 hours to render 1 frame of 2 raytrace bounces. Video games will literally never use ray-tracing, not without severe limitations - which negates the point of using it. No game uses raytracing. I'm not sure what you're basing this on, honestly. And no, no console gives remotely close graphics to a computer. I think you're missing a massive flaw in your argument - the reason any PC Game does look similar in graphical quality to its console counterpart is entirely irrelevant to the power/ability of the computer. It looks that way because all games are developed for console, and then ported (horribly) to PC. There aren't customized ports like there were in the 90s when an entirely different studio handled porting the game to PC. Games are either made for PC - Age of Empires, Total War, Black and White - or they are made for console; every other game.
Those recommended specs are false adverting. Basically theyre saying anyone with a 3 year old computer can run it, but you know thats not the case - youll be lucky to get 30 fps with those specs. Probably closer to 5.
^ This. Insurance agents, healthcare people, I think I've never worked with more than 4 people at a given place who know how to do what they got paid obscene money to do.
No offense but yea, that's supposed to be what it means. It is what it means, for me. Except I already had more aptitude and skill and knowledge before my two colleges than most people do after 10 years in the field. So it's just reinforcement.
It also gives you a life debt and a waste of time when you're being treated like shit by the guy ordering his latte, whose job you could do 100x better. I'm sure the kids working at Starbucks would completely agree with you that it's neat they paid 60000 dollars for a degree so they could make less than 19k a year.
HR people need to be banned from the hiring process, when it comes to real jobs. They know nothing about the position, or what to expect, and they have a cheat sheet. It's ridiculous.
False.
I think I should move to England where there is apparently still sanity left in the world.
Also, look anachronism up. Improper usage. It makes perfect sense for a 5 year old laptop to not run modern software.
Not really. Even a thousands dollar laptop is still a laptop, and still garbage. You must not be familiar with hardware if you think a laptop is anywhere as stable when it comes to heat management or airflow as a desktop.
Here's to the neurohelmet.
That's completely retarded. So what you're saying is we're going to replace laptops, the superior device, with a crappy device, used to to do the EXACT same things the EXACT same way using slightly different connectors? Oh wait nevermind, tablets can't do the same things. Desktops will never be replaced. Laptops are simply not reliable and not repairable or modifiable by most people, even computer technicians who know how to replace laptop components would not willingly do so on their own.
This absolute draconian 1984 x10 to the infinite bullshit needs to stop. Are you SERIOUS? I underatand what Mandak is saying and the simple fact is that the majority of society is not going to try to turn a profit through dishonestly re-selling their foreign acquisitions to get a larger margin, just like mandak never thought of it. Real legitimate human beings do not do that and, even though it seems like 99% of us are garbage, they really aren't. Laws and court rulings that punish the majority because of the shittiness of the minority need to stop right now. This affects everyone - reselling games to a GameStop or a Spin-it-Again or a whateverthehellotherof90000differenstores is one huge issue in the entertainment industry right now, for example. By this ruling it would be illegal for many legitimate businesses who purchase products from Japan and South Korea and Taiwan to resell them, such as PVC figure kits from e-bay sellers or import toys/figures/dvds/blurays/videogames/food/candy/comics/manga/shirts/shit at anime or horror or scifi or even porn conventions, or gun shows, or many other things. This hypothetically would put an end to all third-party vending, and not to be the conspiracy guy here - including the fact that this is a huge attempted strike at the sale of firearms in America, just to name one of many things.
This wasn't an anonymous reader, its from Kotaku. And it's a wildly inaccurate statement made by someone who doesn't even understand what he said or how he literally violated his own logic when saying it didn't apply.
The difference being at this point there is no reason to charge for voice if a person has an unlimited data plan. If all they have is voice, charge them for voice. It's an incentive to buy a data plan and end up paying more, considering a data plan including voice is normally 100 dollars a month or more.
Well said but I fear, as you probably do, not enough people are waking up fast enough. It may be too late very soon.
The majority of voters are retarded. ignorant, illiterate self-absorbed jackasses who vote party lines, have no actual identity with their political party that extends beyond taxes and welfare handouts, because they inherited their political identity and perception of government from their parents. They don't research, they don't comprehend, they don't understand the constitution and law and the theories behind them, and the history behind them. People did not vote for Proposition Fuck You and Your Neighbors, to increase surveillance, to increase domestic usage of drones and wiretaps and electronic computer taps. They voted for asshats in Congress who don't even have the time or will to READ the legislation they are voting on - who then vote for things they did not read based on the summary paragraph which doesn't actually cover the concept or language of the bill. The political system in this country is not what you think it is, it does not function the way it was meant to. Anyone who can't see that hasn't paid a lick of attention to any news source whatsoever for 100 years. The congress is RIGHT THERE on Cspan, every day. They have phones and emails for you to contact them and interview them. You can find thousands of videos all over youtube. We didn't vote for the p.a.t.r.i.o.t act or the ndaa, the eea, pipa, sopa, acta, or anything else.
Let's face it != "Things are the way they are and we should accept them." No. Not because it's a strict constructionist point of view, not just that. The constitution says this shit isn't ok. Did they foresee predator drones? No they did not. They foresaw that government, like it has always done in the past because government is people and people are flawed, will try to do things it shouldn't be doing - based on governmental theory and based on the philosophys floating around since the Enlightenment and Renaissance. This is the type of BS books were written about - 1984, Anthem, etc. etc. The kind of BS movies like Equilibrium show. There shouldn't be any discussion about this without a disclaimer beforehand that everyone is fully aware this is unacceptable. And yea, there's a lot we can do about it. We can do what Jefferson all but told us to do, rise up and slay them. From time to time the tree of liberty must be refreshed with the blood of patriots and tyrants. He wrote extensively about revolution as a tool.
You know what they could do, they could shut the hell up and donate some money to cancer research - if they actually cared about innovation or their former ceo.
More like 100,000,000,000.
The author seems to have ignored how much of the iPhone is copied from other sources. Sony devices, older windows mobile devices, you name it. There's nothing surprising about the fact that Apple shamelessly does its own copying.
No one cares what device anyone is using. I care what predatory asshat of a company they support - especially when it comes to Apple because apple fans are the worst people in the entire consumer market. They buy pure crap, pretend its extraordinary, then furiously defend their company as if they know Apple or care or have any input to the company. They buy an ipod or iphone each year, when there is absolutely no improvement or new feature included in any iteration of these toys. I used to do it. I usued to buy an ipod almost once or twice a year. I know better now, and I would never be caught dead buying an apple computer. I lost friends when Steve Jobs died because I didn't pay him the respect he didn't deserve - this is what these people are like.