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  1. Re: Any twit could do it on Elon Musk Asks Twitter For Help In Finding Cause of SpaceX Explosion (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    AIpocalypse, is that the prophetic rise of the Alpacas?

  2. Re: Still higher than a Soyuz launch on SpaceX Finds a Customer For Its First Reused Rocket (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    GTO is a highly elliptical orbit that has an apogee of about 40,000 km, perigee of 300 km. The rocket sends the payload into GTO. The thrusters on the payload after separation will circularize the orbit into geostationary.

  3. Re: Lots of cores doesn't mean shit on Princeton Researchers Announce Open Source 25-Core Processor (pcworld.com) · · Score: 3

    Nvidia has a wonderful 3840 core processor with a wonderful scheduler and interconnect. Two can be bridged for 7680 cores. Hmmm... Your argument of 8000 cores being a pipe dream is complete rubbish.

  4. Re: This is the same guy on Steve Wozniak Says Apple Must Fix iPhone 7 Bluetooth Or Revive Its Headphone Jack (afr.com) · · Score: 1

    Hell, I can easily hear the difference between MP3, AAC, and lossless with just Apple earbuds. Try encoding the Blue Man Group "Audio" album. The cymbals are harsh/distorted even when encoded at high bit rates. Has been my codec test ever since. Only lossless has correctly reproduced the cymbals (of course). MP3 will have you ripping the earbuds out of your head as quickly as humanly possible.

  5. Re:Might be illegal on Bar In UK Uses Faraday Cage To Block Mobile Phone Signals (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    The bar owner is not obligated to use building materials that are transparent to radio waves.

  6. Re:Good thing you have a choice on Bar In UK Uses Faraday Cage To Block Mobile Phone Signals (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It would be legal in the U.S.

    This is passive. The bar owner is not flooding the airwaves with noise without a license. The bar owner is not obligated to use building materials that are transparent to radio waves.

  7. It's little brother the GTX 1080 can run Crysis 3 at highest settings quite well. http://www.anandtech.com/show/... 3840x2160: 35.6 fps 2560x1440: 71.5 fps Both with FXAA enabled.

  8. Re: Who gives a fuck? on NVIDIA Drops Surprise Unveiling of Pascal-Based GeForce GTX Titan X (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    If he already has 2560 cores with a GTX 1080, he'd be better off buying another GTX 1080 and link them for 5120 cores. The Titan X has 3584 cores at a slower clock, for the price of two.

  9. Re: Who gives a fuck? on NVIDIA Drops Surprise Unveiling of Pascal-Based GeForce GTX Titan X (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Only the GP100 board has a 1:2 ratio of FP64 cores, and 2:1 of FP16 cores (albeit in a vector of 2, since it's processed by an FP32 core). The GP102, GP104, and GP106 have a 1:32 ratio of FP64 cores, and 1:128 of FP16x2 cores; which honestly is just to be compatible, not powerful. If you really want FP16, wait for GP100 in a Tesla card, or promote to FP32. The GP102 however does support INT8 at 4 times the speed of FP32; so 44 TOPS. Probably also vectorized like FP16, but done by the cuda cores.

  10. Re:drone ship landings require a lot less fuel? on SpaceX Successfully Lands Falcon 9 Rocket On Solid Ground For the Second Time (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Landing on the drone ship downrange, nearly inline with the ballistic trajectory of the first stage, only requires two burns. a re-entry burn and a landing burn. There isn't enough propellant when downrange that far (for Geostationary Transfer Orbit missions) to do a third boost-back burn to get back to the Florida coast. By not performing a boost-back burn, they use less propellant.

    The rocket also don't have enough propellant (or throttle range) to hover for corrections, so accuracy does not come from expending more fuel. I mentioned "nearly inline" earlier. If the engines fail to ignite for the re-entry burn, the rocket will ballistically fall short into the ocean for safety. If the engines ignite, then the rocket is steered onto the drone ship by the grid fins and engine gimbaling.

    Missions to Low Earth Orbit do not require as much propellant, so there's enough remaining after the primary mission to perform a boost-back burn to the Florida coast. GTO missions fire the first stage for 160 seconds, while the CRS-9 mission only fired the first stage for 140 seconds. that's 20 seconds of extra propellant for 9 engines, or 60 seconds of propellant for 3 engines.

  11. Re:Space Adapters on SpaceX Successfully Lands Falcon 9 Rocket On Solid Ground For the Second Time (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    One of the interesting things in this trip are a couple of Space adapters

    There is only a single IDA in the CRS-9 dragon trunk this trip.

    IDA-3 (to replace the lost IDA-1 from CRS-7) is targeted to launch on CRS-12 in May 2017.

  12. Just that much lag is enough to induce motion sickness; which is why 90fps is preferable. The latency, measured from head movement to photons, needs to be under 20ms to keep one for vomitting.

  13. Re:That far? on NASA's Juno Spacecraft Sends First Images From Jupiter (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 2

    Sorry, cannot resist. If one can spell apoapsis and periapsis correctly, surely one can spell "brake" and "braking" correctly. "Break" means to split into smaller pieces; while "brake" means to reduce velocity relative to another body.

  14. Re: It's actually not very good competition on NVIDIA Announces GeForce GTX 1060, Fierce Competition For the Radeon RX 480 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    To be fair, you cut my quote in half. It's 20% more performant for 20% more cost, at fewer watts. Seems like a win to me. I have a 30" 2560x1600 monitor, so I need to push twice the pixels. I'm looking at a GTX 1080.

  15. Re:Robots Revolt! on Second Tesla Autopilot Crash Under Review By US Regulators (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Not always true. In Massachusetts, I've totaled a vehicle before. The insurance company paid the total, and I kept the car. I could have fixed it myself if I wanted to, but I did not have to surrender the car to them in order to be paid.

    Think this through logically. Let's say my car is worth $5000 in the eyes of the insurance company. If the repair shop says that it will cost $4999 dollars to repair, then the insurance company writes a check for $4999 and I repair my car. If the repair shop says it will cost $5001 dollars to repair, the insurance company doesn't magically purchase my damaged car for only $2 more, they write a check for the maximum of $5000 and I find a dollar to make up the difference. The car is still repaired and I get to keep it.

  16. Re:It's actually not very good competition on NVIDIA Announces GeForce GTX 1060, Fierce Competition For the Radeon RX 480 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile the 1060 doesn't support SLI, costs 20% more, and offers maybe 15% better performance. I don't see that as a credible competitor. I can buy one RX480 now (or perhaps in a few more days when the release of the 1060 knocks the price down slightly) and then pick up another one later if I want to do 4k or I find that I just need more grunt to run some game. I can't do that with the 1060.

    Two cards in SLI do not provide 100% more performance than one card; on average maybe 80% more, depending on game and resolution. A GTX 1060 has half the cores of a GTX 1080, at a little less than half the price. I see that you want the option to upgrade, but if you eventually want 2x1060 in SLI just buy a 1080 for the same number of cores. It's 20% more expensive ($600 vs $250 x2) but 20% more performant than the same number of cores in SLI would be.

  17. Re:Which is recommended for Linux gaming? on NVIDIA Announces GeForce GTX 1060, Fierce Competition For the Radeon RX 480 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    LOL Complications?
    Valve: OpenGL is faster than DirectX — even on Windows (20% faster)
    Bringing Unreal Engine 4 to OpenGL
    The only reason developers should consider DirectX at this point is if they need to run on an XBONE.

  18. Re:Yawn on iPhone 7 To Start at 32GB Storage, Says WSJ (time.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem with removable SD cards is the performance.

    Samsung's latest EVO Plus 256 GB microSDXC card is capable of 95 MB/s read and 90 MB/s write (Class 10 U3 rating). Compare that to their PM971-NVMe which can store up to 512 GB of data and offers up to 1500 MB/s read and 900 MB/s write. 10-15 times faster. Only catch is it must be soldered on; due to the high pin count BGA.

  19. Re:What else could she do? on North Korea Restarts Plutonium Production For Nuclear Bombs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The US can pretty much only bribe them or bomb them.

    If they want plutonium so badly, maybe we should provide them some! Even test it out for them right in the capitol. Kaboom!

  20. GP is referring to lossless video to the monitor. No encoding (which adds artifacts). Sure, it can be compressed a little bit without loss, but that's not what he's looking for. The CPU is better spent adding special effects during content production; not encoding/decoding in real time.

  21. As long as it comes with a GTX 1080 I'd be OK with it. Apple has typically put notebook GPUs in their iMacs, but there won't be a notebook version of the GTX 1080. Though, to get their proprietary TCON to work with 8 display port lanes, they've been in bed with RADEON for the 5K Retina iMac. Hopefully it's not needed anymore now that DP 1.4 is out and supported by NVIDIA.

  22. Citations required. Who exactly is suing Facebook for breach of contract for their paid content being censored? I'm pretty sure that if I paid money, I'd verify the content was up there for all to see.

  23. Who paid Facebook to promote other trending stories above the aforementioned conservative topics? No one. The Google issue is not comparable to this because Google received money to reorder the search; yet still marketed their own products above those who paid. Facebook was not trending about Facebook until this made news; which would be the correct result of an algorithm. Facebook is free to use. If one doesn't like the trends, then one can use other social media outlets, there are many.

  24. The lack of a conservative article being posted on a particular website is NOT the same as inciting panic in a crowded room.

  25. Facebook is not a monopoly on Internal Docs Show Human Intervention at Almost Every Stage Of Facebook's News Operation (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Facebook can place on their website whatever the hell they like. They are not a monopoly subject to government oversight. Facebook will not be testifying before a committee on this manner.