A nuclear plant... ocean-adjacent... on a tightly-pact island. WHAT COULD GO WRONG?!
"Scientists suggest Fukushima was actually the best location of the listed alternatives, the alternative being located under a 10,000 baby day-care center for cancer survivors."
How'd it work out for him? I don't know, why don't you ask your black coworkers that wouldn't be there if not for his protests embodying the civil rights movement?
Yeah, he got assassinated. All victories are meaningless unless you personally get to gain from them! If only we could go back in time and tell him how "enlightened" you are, and how stupid he was.
6,000 birds a year at the Mojave Desert solar farm. You know... in the desert... where there are much less birds because.... it's a desert.
I'm all for solar and wind. But let's stop pretending they don't have any drawbacks at all. Like the shear amount of rare earth minerals that have to be farmed by workers making $1.00/wk and dying from lung cancer.
This is the perfect quote:
>The truth is, all energy sources impact the natural environment in some way, and life is full of necessary trade-offs
1 - Home theaters cost less and less every day. 4K resolutions dwarf many local theaters, and you can bring any food you want, with any friends you want.
2 - Film vs digital has nothing to do with home vs theater.
3 - Netflix and YouTube allows independent content you'd never see in a theater. Google 4K drone, or 4K outdoors (you can even get 6 and 8K already IIRC on YouTube.) At an age when Hollywood produces the same shit every year, theaters are already a boring medium.
4 - DVD, BluRay, and Netflix prove that people don't care about the "benefits" touted in this article. People's recreational spending habits don't lie. People just want to relax with their familes and friends... not have to stand in line to watch, and stand in line to piss, and pay $8 for a fuckin soda.
I literally don't care about your ads. I'll mute them the second they come on. And if I remember an ad, I go out of my way to NOT purchase their product.
"Hmm, I heard big mac today. I'm craving a big mac. Guess I'm not going."
Yeah. It's coming from the company that owns the Atari NAME, that's it. We might as well be discussing something a guy drew on a bar napkin.
There's literally no hardware information or plans. It sounds like they dumped this zero effort render to gauge people's interest, or hell, to simply generate some free PR to remind people they still exist. (With no intention of making the product.)
They modded you flamebait. But... is anyone who works to maintain MS products really upset by your comment? I do, and MS has been going downhill for the last decade.
It's a complete shit ecosystem. Microsoft is no longer a cohesive company. Every product doesn't work with every other product. Dynamics CRM doesn't easily integrate data with Dynamics NAV and will fail on anything except the simplest/emptiest starter companies. Windows 10 has high DPI support... too bad 99% of Microsoft apps don't actually support it. SQL browser ~2015 "works" until you open up a certain dialog and it turns into a super-shrunk, damaged, form element that's completely unusable. Edge browser came out... oh sorry, Edge isn't actually supported in Dynamics CRM.... Because "Fuck you. That's why." So half of Microsoft tells my clients "Upgrade to Edge, IE is old news!" and the other half say, "Sorry, Edge isn't supported." Which causes tons of friction between IT and management who get new and pretty brochures telling them to upgrade, and then they find out they can't use Magical Widget X because of a MICROSOFT product.
Windows 10 is a bloated pile of shit. Go ahead, try and install it on a 5400 RPM laptop if you dare (with 6 GB of RAM and >2.5 GHZ processor) and it'll run like a pile of cow dung. It will literally spend HOURS doing nothing but running telemetry, superfetch, "application compatibility", and windows defender. Go to Task Manager, and watch your disk usage be 100% for hours. And disk queue length (the time it takes for a new disk request to be fetched because of the current backlog)? I've seen it hit over 26 SECONDS and I've even got screenshots to prove it. 26 seconds before you loading a file in NOTEPAD can even get a chance to load. The laptop is literally unusable without me manually disabling these services through group policy and registry hacks.
Except wait, every new Creators Update makes it harder to "fix" Windows 10. On a laptop that came out in 2013!
Meanwhile, my 2 GB RAM Celeron Chromebook running Linux is happily clinking away. It loads in less than 10 seconds. I can use zram to compress my tiny RAM into something usuable.
Meanwhile, we ported a client's FULL suite of Sage CRM data over to Dynamics CRM. Literally everything. Even e-mails were correctly saved from outlook and merged with corrected links, to Dynamics CRM. Except Dynamics CRM is such a piece of shit, they literally have bugs in their DATA IMPORT form that refuse to actually apply things like timestamps and creation date fields. There are NO docs that officially say it's broken. And the only fix involves hours of finding the problem, finding an obscure blogger who made a solution... except his solution is also malformed and you have to fix it. And oh yeah, all CRM changes have to go through their GIGANTIC CRM SDK that rivals DirectX in size.
Another two wonderful features of MS?
1) They've completely outsourced all of their support to India. Enjoy strange timezones, hard to understand accents, and a complete lack of actual experience to solve your problems. If you can't Google it, they don't know the answer. I've been on TWO separate support tickets with "Microsoft" the last two weeks and spent a literal three hour meeting--half of which was trying to get a bloody screeshare app to work for them.
2) Windows Updates that brick our machines. (OP post? What?) We're stuck with IE12 because of CRM's only support for IE. And so we have to modify the IE personal security settings slightly from default to keep things running smoothly. OH WAIT. Windows Updates we just found out have been WIPING OUR SECURITY SETTINGS. Because yeah, that's a reasonable idea. Wipe a business's custom security settings every two weeks when we apply Windows Updates.
My job should be developing solutions for my clients. Clients don't enjoy being billed for fixing Microsoft's broken shit. So thanks, MS, for making my life infinitely harder than it needs to be because your company is falling apart from the ins
Why do you post? Like... is anyone even going to read your dribble? Did you actually think people would react and care? Or did you actually think your post would contribute to the information for readers and help them make a choice in their lives? Did you think people would come to your house and high five you for your bravery?
The fact you posted anon, is pretty clear you knew you'd be received poorly. But even then, nobody is surprised or really cares that you talk out your butt. So... was our lack of care a success... or a failure?
Why post that comment at all? Do you post everything that pops into your head? Are you angry or depressed at your life right now? Life gets better. Hang in there.
I feel so bad... so terrible... for a magazine that outed gay men, and leaked people's private sexual activities.
When "Gawker"--a universally hated organization among journalists and human beings--are "The good guys", it's pretty easy to call bullshit on the entire thesis of the documentary. What's next? Saying pedophiles are just misunderstood?
It's really not as slow as you think. There are tons of things we use every day (syscalls like "get time") without realizing they're orders-of-a-magnitude slower.
Also, in D, for example, it's a simple compiler option to turn array bounds checking off, and IIRC, it's only turned on during debug mode. So you can, with a single switch, benchmark whether your code is any bit noticeably slower or faster. (Plus D directly supports unit tests and benchmarking in the language.)
And that's a hell-of-a-lot easier than having to ASSERT every single array access MANUALLY. I'm a fan of "default on: MANUAL off" error checking. It's way too easy to forget to add your custom error checking, as opposed to intentionally telling the compiler "don't check this one spot." Any checking that requires the user to remember to add that checking is adding another dimension of possible failure modes.
The only sad part is, if everyone here used all the energy they have to hate on SystemD, to actually fix those bugs, we wouldn't be having these discussions about how buggy it is.
> We're not even fully loading down 2-8 core machines now. Gaming performance has and still is a single core endeavor, and even now, most of my stuff has trouble pegging any cores to 100% for any length of time.
1 - I load up my 8 core machine every day.
2 - Gaming is not single threaded unless you're an idiot or living in 1993. At the very least, physics can run separate from display, and every modern game on the planet runs at least 1 frame lag for that same reason.
3 - Vulkan is designed from the ground up to utilize ALL cpu cores as well as multiple GPUs.
Just because YOU can't use your computer while playing Farmville, doesn't mean everyone else on the planet is incapable of doing so. I literally just finished playing a game that uses 100% GPU, 6 cores, and the other 2 I used for encoding the video recording. But nah, fuck it. 640k is enough for everyone, amirite?
At this point, you'd have to be a complete moron to be leading a car company and be against rolling out electric engines.
They're just ENGINES. Just ONE component of the entire car. That'd be like advocating to ban automatic transmissions because you make 5-speeds. The consumers are moving toward electric. Consumers are moving toward reduced pollution.
1 - Vulkan API supports ALL CORE utilization. That's the whole point of Vulkan.
2 - Hosting a VM (for all your work stuff, for example) means I can dedicate 4-6 cores and have both my systems completely independent for all practical purposes. My work SQL instance won't freeze my gaming. Working from home, that's a huge benefit for me to not need to buy two machines or to switch back-and-forth. With RAM being super cheap (32 GB for $100!) I can dedicate half to the machine as well and still have a whopping 16 GB for myself.
3 - Video encoding for streaming. (Although try 4K video encoding without NVENC / GPU and enjoy your 2 FPS.) Other things. It's ALWAYS better to have "too many" cores than "too few." I can spin up KDENLIVE (a great FOSS non-linear video editor!) to render a video, while I'm still playing a game and recording it, or watching 4K videos.
It's really nice to be able to have your computer respond as fast as, your ability to think and queue up operations. (SSDs are a night-and-day difference. I would never go without one.) And at least 8 cores really helps that become a reality.
Intel is not stupid. People get paid 200K a year to ensure they don't waste billions a year.
Intel competes AS MUCH AS the competition requires them to. They're sitting on plenty of new technology (like live-reconfigurable FPGA embedded processors they had for YEARS with the Altera acquisition).
But they're not gonna just GIVE US that technology. We have to pay for it. So while there was no AMD competition, they were fine giving us a "trickle down" / as-little-as-possible actual innovation for years. And then (I said this would happen years ago) the second Ryzen comes out, strangely, almost magically... the price of all the AMD competitive Intel processors dropped price... hundreds of dollars over night.
Intel is like Comcast, but they actually make products. They've got tons of genius engineers but marketing decides how much technology actually gets released. There's no point in dumping out all your cards at once, just because you have them. Then they'd have to struggle more to innovate when the competition catches up. It's much smarter (albeit selfish as hell) to only release enough upgrades and cost cuts, as the market requires, to keep your market lead.
When AMD released the most shocking part of Ryzen--was not the new cores, which Intel is not worried about at all as they have plenty of new unreleased core tricks--the big GASP was the almost double (or more) amount of CORES packaged and given at consumer-level and entry-business level prices. Now Intel had to go "oh shit, we have to actually REACT now." AMD did something they hadn't even thought of. So they churned up their engineers for 6 months, and dumped a bunch of extra cores in, and presto, they're already competitive again.
AMD has a GREAT role as the only viable desktop/server competitor. Every time they compete, Intel HAS to mark down their prices. Which benefits both AMD and Intel customers. But the only time AMD has ever caught Intel with their pants down, was when they took advantage of Intel's TWO major failures (Itanium and the P4 Netburst) to create the first user-grade 64-bit instruction set and beat Intel to market--swelling AMD's market capture big time. Ever since then, however, with many AMD hiccups and let downs, they've experienced a slow death and barely-any-competition which has left consumers with complete crap for the money they pay compared to what they bought 4 years earlier. Now with Ryzen, AMD is somewhat competitive again, and we're all benefiting again.
Yeah, I also hate people who don't believe the exact things I do. They always challenge my worldview by bringing their "alternative facts" into the discussion. I'm smart. If I was wrong, I'd already know it.
That's actually pretty stupid. ATM's are in well lit areas with public often nearby. You think a crack head is gonna walk from the site of ambush all the way to an ATM?
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A nuclear plant... ocean-adjacent... on a tightly-pact island. WHAT COULD GO WRONG?!
"Scientists suggest Fukushima was actually the best location of the listed alternatives, the alternative being located under a 10,000 baby day-care center for cancer survivors."
Holy shit you guys have tunnel vision.
How'd it work out for him? I don't know, why don't you ask your black coworkers that wouldn't be there if not for his protests embodying the civil rights movement?
Yeah, he got assassinated. All victories are meaningless unless you personally get to gain from them! If only we could go back in time and tell him how "enlightened" you are, and how stupid he was.
I agree 100%. No human rights abuses were ever ignored under the Obama administration.
None.
Not one.
Because he wasn't Trump.
You guys realize that wind and solar farms literally kill thousands of birds every year, right?
http://www.latimes.com/local/c...
6,000 birds a year at the Mojave Desert solar farm. You know... in the desert... where there are much less birds because.... it's a desert.
I'm all for solar and wind. But let's stop pretending they don't have any drawbacks at all. Like the shear amount of rare earth minerals that have to be farmed by workers making $1.00/wk and dying from lung cancer.
This is the perfect quote:
>The truth is, all energy sources impact the natural environment in some way, and life is full of necessary trade-offs
http://instituteforenergyresea...
Environmentalism doesn't need to be tribalism. The best solutions can still have flaws and be the best option available.
Isn't that what a self-signed certificate is for?
Yeah, but then we wouldn't be having a clickbait discussion.
Octave replaces Matlab, and scilab/xcos is a simulink replacement.
http://www.scilab.org/scilab/g...
1 - Home theaters cost less and less every day. 4K resolutions dwarf many local theaters, and you can bring any food you want, with any friends you want.
2 - Film vs digital has nothing to do with home vs theater.
3 - Netflix and YouTube allows independent content you'd never see in a theater. Google 4K drone, or 4K outdoors (you can even get 6 and 8K already IIRC on YouTube.) At an age when Hollywood produces the same shit every year, theaters are already a boring medium.
4 - DVD, BluRay, and Netflix prove that people don't care about the "benefits" touted in this article. People's recreational spending habits don't lie. People just want to relax with their familes and friends... not have to stand in line to watch, and stand in line to piss, and pay $8 for a fuckin soda.
I literally don't care about your ads. I'll mute them the second they come on. And if I remember an ad, I go out of my way to NOT purchase their product.
"Hmm, I heard big mac today. I'm craving a big mac. Guess I'm not going."
You... you realize this is an intentional short lived release... right?
And... that upgrading Linux is as simple as running a simple command line and it doesn't break compatibility with everything...
VLC has been half broken on Windows for a decade. And I say this as someone who uses it every day.
I use both MPC-HC and VLC. They both excel at different areas.
Yeah. It's coming from the company that owns the Atari NAME, that's it. We might as well be discussing something a guy drew on a bar napkin.
There's literally no hardware information or plans. It sounds like they dumped this zero effort render to gauge people's interest, or hell, to simply generate some free PR to remind people they still exist. (With no intention of making the product.)
They modded you flamebait. But... is anyone who works to maintain MS products really upset by your comment? I do, and MS has been going downhill for the last decade.
It's a complete shit ecosystem. Microsoft is no longer a cohesive company. Every product doesn't work with every other product. Dynamics CRM doesn't easily integrate data with Dynamics NAV and will fail on anything except the simplest/emptiest starter companies. Windows 10 has high DPI support... too bad 99% of Microsoft apps don't actually support it. SQL browser ~2015 "works" until you open up a certain dialog and it turns into a super-shrunk, damaged, form element that's completely unusable. Edge browser came out... oh sorry, Edge isn't actually supported in Dynamics CRM. ... Because "Fuck you. That's why." So half of Microsoft tells my clients "Upgrade to Edge, IE is old news!" and the other half say, "Sorry, Edge isn't supported." Which causes tons of friction between IT and management who get new and pretty brochures telling them to upgrade, and then they find out they can't use Magical Widget X because of a MICROSOFT product.
Windows 10 is a bloated pile of shit. Go ahead, try and install it on a 5400 RPM laptop if you dare (with 6 GB of RAM and >2.5 GHZ processor) and it'll run like a pile of cow dung. It will literally spend HOURS doing nothing but running telemetry, superfetch, "application compatibility", and windows defender. Go to Task Manager, and watch your disk usage be 100% for hours. And disk queue length (the time it takes for a new disk request to be fetched because of the current backlog)? I've seen it hit over 26 SECONDS and I've even got screenshots to prove it. 26 seconds before you loading a file in NOTEPAD can even get a chance to load. The laptop is literally unusable without me manually disabling these services through group policy and registry hacks.
Except wait, every new Creators Update makes it harder to "fix" Windows 10. On a laptop that came out in 2013!
Meanwhile, my 2 GB RAM Celeron Chromebook running Linux is happily clinking away. It loads in less than 10 seconds. I can use zram to compress my tiny RAM into something usuable.
Meanwhile, we ported a client's FULL suite of Sage CRM data over to Dynamics CRM. Literally everything. Even e-mails were correctly saved from outlook and merged with corrected links, to Dynamics CRM. Except Dynamics CRM is such a piece of shit, they literally have bugs in their DATA IMPORT form that refuse to actually apply things like timestamps and creation date fields. There are NO docs that officially say it's broken. And the only fix involves hours of finding the problem, finding an obscure blogger who made a solution... except his solution is also malformed and you have to fix it. And oh yeah, all CRM changes have to go through their GIGANTIC CRM SDK that rivals DirectX in size.
Another two wonderful features of MS?
1) They've completely outsourced all of their support to India. Enjoy strange timezones, hard to understand accents, and a complete lack of actual experience to solve your problems. If you can't Google it, they don't know the answer. I've been on TWO separate support tickets with "Microsoft" the last two weeks and spent a literal three hour meeting--half of which was trying to get a bloody screeshare app to work for them.
2) Windows Updates that brick our machines. (OP post? What?) We're stuck with IE12 because of CRM's only support for IE. And so we have to modify the IE personal security settings slightly from default to keep things running smoothly. OH WAIT. Windows Updates we just found out have been WIPING OUR SECURITY SETTINGS. Because yeah, that's a reasonable idea. Wipe a business's custom security settings every two weeks when we apply Windows Updates.
My job should be developing solutions for my clients. Clients don't enjoy being billed for fixing Microsoft's broken shit. So thanks, MS, for making my life infinitely harder than it needs to be because your company is falling apart from the ins
Why do you post? Like... is anyone even going to read your dribble? Did you actually think people would react and care? Or did you actually think your post would contribute to the information for readers and help them make a choice in their lives? Did you think people would come to your house and high five you for your bravery?
The fact you posted anon, is pretty clear you knew you'd be received poorly. But even then, nobody is surprised or really cares that you talk out your butt. So... was our lack of care a success... or a failure?
Why post that comment at all? Do you post everything that pops into your head? Are you angry or depressed at your life right now? Life gets better. Hang in there.
I feel so bad... so terrible... for a magazine that outed gay men, and leaked people's private sexual activities.
When "Gawker"--a universally hated organization among journalists and human beings--are "The good guys", it's pretty easy to call bullshit on the entire thesis of the documentary. What's next? Saying pedophiles are just misunderstood?
http://gawker.com/5941037/born...
Oh.... shit.
You are what you eat?
It's really not as slow as you think. There are tons of things we use every day (syscalls like "get time") without realizing they're orders-of-a-magnitude slower.
Also, in D, for example, it's a simple compiler option to turn array bounds checking off, and IIRC, it's only turned on during debug mode. So you can, with a single switch, benchmark whether your code is any bit noticeably slower or faster. (Plus D directly supports unit tests and benchmarking in the language.)
And that's a hell-of-a-lot easier than having to ASSERT every single array access MANUALLY. I'm a fan of "default on: MANUAL off" error checking. It's way too easy to forget to add your custom error checking, as opposed to intentionally telling the compiler "don't check this one spot." Any checking that requires the user to remember to add that checking is adding another dimension of possible failure modes.
The only sad part is, if everyone here used all the energy they have to hate on SystemD, to actually fix those bugs, we wouldn't be having these discussions about how buggy it is.
I know clients still running Windows 2003 for their websites and e-mail.
> We're not even fully loading down 2-8 core machines now. Gaming performance has and still is a single core endeavor, and even now, most of my stuff has trouble pegging any cores to 100% for any length of time.
1 - I load up my 8 core machine every day.
2 - Gaming is not single threaded unless you're an idiot or living in 1993. At the very least, physics can run separate from display, and every modern game on the planet runs at least 1 frame lag for that same reason.
3 - Vulkan is designed from the ground up to utilize ALL cpu cores as well as multiple GPUs.
Just because YOU can't use your computer while playing Farmville, doesn't mean everyone else on the planet is incapable of doing so. I literally just finished playing a game that uses 100% GPU, 6 cores, and the other 2 I used for encoding the video recording. But nah, fuck it. 640k is enough for everyone, amirite?
At this point, you'd have to be a complete moron to be leading a car company and be against rolling out electric engines.
They're just ENGINES. Just ONE component of the entire car. That'd be like advocating to ban automatic transmissions because you make 5-speeds. The consumers are moving toward electric. Consumers are moving toward reduced pollution.
Make a product your consumer wants.
Rocket science!
I agree. I use every one of my 8 cores on my AMD.
1 - Vulkan API supports ALL CORE utilization. That's the whole point of Vulkan.
2 - Hosting a VM (for all your work stuff, for example) means I can dedicate 4-6 cores and have both my systems completely independent for all practical purposes. My work SQL instance won't freeze my gaming. Working from home, that's a huge benefit for me to not need to buy two machines or to switch back-and-forth. With RAM being super cheap (32 GB for $100!) I can dedicate half to the machine as well and still have a whopping 16 GB for myself.
3 - Video encoding for streaming. (Although try 4K video encoding without NVENC / GPU and enjoy your 2 FPS.) Other things. It's ALWAYS better to have "too many" cores than "too few." I can spin up KDENLIVE (a great FOSS non-linear video editor!) to render a video, while I'm still playing a game and recording it, or watching 4K videos.
It's really nice to be able to have your computer respond as fast as, your ability to think and queue up operations. (SSDs are a night-and-day difference. I would never go without one.) And at least 8 cores really helps that become a reality.
Intel is not stupid. People get paid 200K a year to ensure they don't waste billions a year.
Intel competes AS MUCH AS the competition requires them to. They're sitting on plenty of new technology (like live-reconfigurable FPGA embedded processors they had for YEARS with the Altera acquisition).
But they're not gonna just GIVE US that technology. We have to pay for it. So while there was no AMD competition, they were fine giving us a "trickle down" / as-little-as-possible actual innovation for years. And then (I said this would happen years ago) the second Ryzen comes out, strangely, almost magically... the price of all the AMD competitive Intel processors dropped price... hundreds of dollars over night.
Intel is like Comcast, but they actually make products. They've got tons of genius engineers but marketing decides how much technology actually gets released. There's no point in dumping out all your cards at once, just because you have them. Then they'd have to struggle more to innovate when the competition catches up. It's much smarter (albeit selfish as hell) to only release enough upgrades and cost cuts, as the market requires, to keep your market lead.
When AMD released the most shocking part of Ryzen--was not the new cores, which Intel is not worried about at all as they have plenty of new unreleased core tricks--the big GASP was the almost double (or more) amount of CORES packaged and given at consumer-level and entry-business level prices. Now Intel had to go "oh shit, we have to actually REACT now." AMD did something they hadn't even thought of. So they churned up their engineers for 6 months, and dumped a bunch of extra cores in, and presto, they're already competitive again.
AMD has a GREAT role as the only viable desktop/server competitor. Every time they compete, Intel HAS to mark down their prices. Which benefits both AMD and Intel customers. But the only time AMD has ever caught Intel with their pants down, was when they took advantage of Intel's TWO major failures (Itanium and the P4 Netburst) to create the first user-grade 64-bit instruction set and beat Intel to market--swelling AMD's market capture big time. Ever since then, however, with many AMD hiccups and let downs, they've experienced a slow death and barely-any-competition which has left consumers with complete crap for the money they pay compared to what they bought 4 years earlier. Now with Ryzen, AMD is somewhat competitive again, and we're all benefiting again.
It's good to be a customer.
Yeah, I also hate people who don't believe the exact things I do. They always challenge my worldview by bringing their "alternative facts" into the discussion. I'm smart. If I was wrong, I'd already know it.
That's actually pretty stupid. ATM's are in well lit areas with public often nearby. You think a crack head is gonna walk from the site of ambush all the way to an ATM?