My PC is fairly modest, GTX 760, E5-1620 V2, 16GB ram. Using a RAID 5 array of decent magnetic storage (easily capable of 200 MB/sec) allowed Minecraft to run at about 20 fps with a chunk update radius of 32. Switching the system drive to a Crucial MX200 consistently reaches the vsync limit of 60 fps with the same chunk update setting.
Perhaps you should look into a more contemporary SSD... low end consumer ones are easily reaching 500MB/s. Furthermore, the IOPS specification is really much more important.
and if you put minecraft on a vastly overpowered desktop with 64gig. it performs just as well as it did on the laptop.
Talking about performance without benchmarks is like racing cars by looking at the spec sheets. The bottleneck in Minecraft is chunk updates, and they are inherently random disk IO bound. Spend that $2500 on a good SSD, and the game will run perfectly.
Java is supposed to be sandboxed and have controls on what access to your system is allowed. The problem is that there are continually new exploits breaing around those controls.
This is only true of Java applets, and nobody is really arguing with you that they are a bad idea.
Java--the language and runtime virtual machine--run executable code on your computer with the permissions of the user that starts the application, just like a plain binary app. Supposing that you did not trust Minecraft, the JVM is not there to protect you from it.
To this day I always ask for ECC whenever I buy a new PC - but the only machines I have ever found that had it were Dell workstations.
Always ECC user here as well. With Intel, only Xeon systems come with ECC support in the chipset. You are actually looking for any workstation level computer with a Xeon chip, although Dell is the only outfit with an even semi reasonable price.
Well, that wouldn't apply, because it wasn't a "disagreeing viewpoint" it was racist FUD.
Yeah, I agree with you. The point is much better served by saying that, instead of making the almost certainly untrue claim that the first poster was paid by someone to argue with idiots on Slashdot.... Furthermore, instead of mentioning the racist FUD, he mostly was just griping about the cited cost of cab fare.
What is the thinking error where you ignore the message of the post and focus on semantics to change the subject?
My post pointed out an actual logical fallacy in your argument, without insulting you in any way. You reply with, "thinking error", which implies some actual defect in my thinking process instead of argument. While it was a strong suspicion before, at this point the evidence is great that you are an asshole.
Why the hell would anyone want to pay $30 to travel a mile or two in third-world conditions?
Hyperbolic much? No cab company charges $30 for a 1-2 mile trip. That's less than $10 (including a tip) in every cab in every city I've been in.
I suspect you are an Uber driver or astroturfer since your whole post is fucking ridiculously dramatic.
What is the logical fallacy where you claim all disagreeing viewpoints are sponsored called?
I can't tell if you're joking, or you're as stupid as any random right-wing loon, like the folks that drove all the smart people out of the Republican party.
All insults aside, whoever pays for your healthcare commands your destiny. Currently my health insurance seems better than say, the VA hospital.
I made up my mind based on the facts that have been presented. I am open to having my opinion changed once presented with further compelling facts. Unfortunately, absent a trial, that's not likely to happen.
At this point, if you want to cite, "fact", that is contrary to evidence that was presented to the grand jury, it is incumbent on you to provide some justification for why the grand jury evidence is incorrect. Otherwise, you really only reveal your prejudice (as you have in this thread) and appear as a troll.
This is not what four autopsies performed by four totally different agencies shows. It is so blatantly false, that I wonder if you are a troll, just ignorant, or maybe a little of both.
By 7 October 2011 the power generated by Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 had dropped to 267.9 W and 269.2 W respectively, about 57% of the power at launch. The level of power output was better than pre-launch predictions based on a conservative thermocouple degradation model. As the electrical power decreases, spacecraft loads must be turned off, eliminating some capabilities.
Realize that these probes are operating decades after the completion of their planned missions, long after solar power would have failed completely.
so after a 10 year idle while travelling to the comet it would have lost a significant amount of fuel
It was just a stupid thing to say in the first place. Try, "it would have lost a small, predictable, amount of fuel (Pu-238 has a half-life of 87 years), that can be easily compensated for".
And the fuel depletes even when you're not using it, so after a 10 year idle while travelling to the comet it would have lost a significant amount of fuel, RTGs aren't always superior in every situation.
That is why the Voyager probes are not working 37 years later...
As will the people who it risks landing on if it doesn't escape orbit for some reason.
Plutonium 238 is really not that dangerous. It is an alpha emitter, and carried in a water insoluble form. Furthermore, an aborted launch would end up exploded on the launch pad, or in the ocean.
The Xbox 360 is just a Netflix machine to me, that happens to also have stripped down versions of Minecraft & Fallout 3 built in. Since consoles are all garbage compared to computers, it seems contentious to compare them based on hardware quality. All that really matters in the console world is what you are allowed to run on them.
I have read some more of your comments, and I think perhaps your problem is inflation. Call everyone a liar, and pretty soon it means nothing even to call a genuine liar, a liar. In a way, you try to spray the word everywhere with innuendo and implication, hoping that it will stick on the people who actually are. Instead you appear as a boy who cries wolf, not quite a liar, but not a purveyor of truth either.
Try thinking of more intelligent insults for people, and I think your persuasion will be more effective.
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My PC is fairly modest, GTX 760, E5-1620 V2, 16GB ram. Using a RAID 5 array of decent magnetic storage (easily capable of 200 MB/sec) allowed Minecraft to run at about 20 fps with a chunk update radius of 32. Switching the system drive to a Crucial MX200 consistently reaches the vsync limit of 60 fps with the same chunk update setting.
Perhaps you should look into a more contemporary SSD... low end consumer ones are easily reaching 500MB/s. Furthermore, the IOPS specification is really much more important.
and if you put minecraft on a vastly overpowered desktop with 64gig. it performs just as well as it did on the laptop.
Talking about performance without benchmarks is like racing cars by looking at the spec sheets. The bottleneck in Minecraft is chunk updates, and they are inherently random disk IO bound. Spend that $2500 on a good SSD, and the game will run perfectly.
Java is supposed to be sandboxed and have controls on what access to your system is allowed. The problem is that there are continually new exploits breaing around those controls.
This is only true of Java applets, and nobody is really arguing with you that they are a bad idea.
Java--the language and runtime virtual machine--run executable code on your computer with the permissions of the user that starts the application, just like a plain binary app. Supposing that you did not trust Minecraft, the JVM is not there to protect you from it.
Does this guy's summary seem like an editorial post?
Russian media is reporting the plane was downed by a US Navy missile: http://www.pravda.ru/news/poli...
If this is true, this is an unconscionable provocation.
Seems legit...
To this day I always ask for ECC whenever I buy a new PC - but the only machines I have ever found that had it were Dell workstations.
Always ECC user here as well. With Intel, only Xeon systems come with ECC support in the chipset. You are actually looking for any workstation level computer with a Xeon chip, although Dell is the only outfit with an even semi reasonable price.
Keep reading to see what Bennett has to say.
"Oh god damnit!"
Well, that wouldn't apply, because it wasn't a "disagreeing viewpoint" it was racist FUD.
Yeah, I agree with you. The point is much better served by saying that, instead of making the almost certainly untrue claim that the first poster was paid by someone to argue with idiots on Slashdot.... Furthermore, instead of mentioning the racist FUD, he mostly was just griping about the cited cost of cab fare.
What is the thinking error where you ignore the message of the post and focus on semantics to change the subject?
My post pointed out an actual logical fallacy in your argument, without insulting you in any way. You reply with, "thinking error", which implies some actual defect in my thinking process instead of argument. While it was a strong suspicion before, at this point the evidence is great that you are an asshole.
But that would be communism and everyone would have to start talking in Russian, drink cheap vodka and wear ugly winter hats with earmuffs.
Drink cheep vodka that costs more than our expensive vodka.
The summary says they are owned by people who lease them out for profit.
Hyperbolic much? No cab company charges $30 for a 1-2 mile trip. That's less than $10 (including a tip) in every cab in every city I've been in. I suspect you are an Uber driver or astroturfer since your whole post is fucking ridiculously dramatic.
What is the logical fallacy where you claim all disagreeing viewpoints are sponsored called?
I can't tell if you're joking, or you're as stupid as any random right-wing loon, like the folks that drove all the smart people out of the Republican party.
All insults aside, whoever pays for your healthcare commands your destiny. Currently my health insurance seems better than say, the VA hospital.
I made up my mind based on the facts that have been presented. I am open to having my opinion changed once presented with further compelling facts. Unfortunately, absent a trial, that's not likely to happen.
At this point, if you want to cite, "fact", that is contrary to evidence that was presented to the grand jury, it is incumbent on you to provide some justification for why the grand jury evidence is incorrect. Otherwise, you really only reveal your prejudice (as you have in this thread) and appear as a troll.
12 shots, 12 hits to the torso.
A thoroughy justifiable shoot.
Not.
This is not what four autopsies performed by four totally different agencies shows. It is so blatantly false, that I wonder if you are a troll, just ignorant, or maybe a little of both.
It's ok to be a murdering thug if you wear a badge, right?
Disgusting.
Fuck the judicial system when it does not reflect my personal prejudices, amirite?
By 7 October 2011 the power generated by Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 had dropped to 267.9 W and 269.2 W respectively, about 57% of the power at launch. The level of power output was better than pre-launch predictions based on a conservative thermocouple degradation model. As the electrical power decreases, spacecraft loads must be turned off, eliminating some capabilities.
Realize that these probes are operating decades after the completion of their planned missions, long after solar power would have failed completely.
so after a 10 year idle while travelling to the comet it would have lost a significant amount of fuel
It was just a stupid thing to say in the first place. Try, "it would have lost a small, predictable, amount of fuel (Pu-238 has a half-life of 87 years), that can be easily compensated for".
I think Buzzfeed is the gold standard for retarded internet content.
And the fuel depletes even when you're not using it, so after a 10 year idle while travelling to the comet it would have lost a significant amount of fuel, RTGs aren't always superior in every situation.
That is why the Voyager probes are not working 37 years later...
It's the potential for an aborted launch turning the Plutonium into what is effectively a dirty bomb that is the problem.
If only terrorists were stupid enough to use plutonium 238 in their dirty bombs...
As will the people who it risks landing on if it doesn't escape orbit for some reason.
Plutonium 238 is really not that dangerous. It is an alpha emitter, and carried in a water insoluble form. Furthermore, an aborted launch would end up exploded on the launch pad, or in the ocean.
The Xbox 360 is just a Netflix machine to me, that happens to also have stripped down versions of Minecraft & Fallout 3 built in. Since consoles are all garbage compared to computers, it seems contentious to compare them based on hardware quality. All that really matters in the console world is what you are allowed to run on them.
people say that every 5 years. remember when they took linux away from the PS3? or the rootkit fiasco? Yet people keep buying them
I have not bought any Sony hardware since the rootkit fiasco.
I have read some more of your comments, and I think perhaps your problem is inflation. Call everyone a liar, and pretty soon it means nothing even to call a genuine liar, a liar. In a way, you try to spray the word everywhere with innuendo and implication, hoping that it will stick on the people who actually are. Instead you appear as a boy who cries wolf, not quite a liar, but not a purveyor of truth either.
Try thinking of more intelligent insults for people, and I think your persuasion will be more effective.