I spend a few months sniping ebay to get that 580 for $100 though. You'll usually pay $120-$140. But a GTX 1060 6GB will set you back $160-$180 (was trying to snipe one of those too, still am albeit at $100:) ).
The RX 570 is _nuts_ though. It out does the 1060 3gb for $50 bucks less. Heck, I've seen the 8gb version go for $140 on sale. Even with the power consumption (figure 40-60 watts more) it's a no brainer unless you've got a cheap OEM computer (in which case yeah, you're stuck with nvidia because your PCI-E slot & power supply won't deliver enough juice).
I'm genuinely pleasantly surprised that AMD got their shit together. It also took a lot for me to "take the plunge" and try AMD after several bad experiences going back to 2004 (plus all the bad press on their drivers from 2004-2009 or so).
Something I have noticed, my RX580 is underclocked (1200, XFX apparently ships their GPUs underclocked and then has instructions on overclocking them). I haven't bothered pushing it to it's full allowed clock of 1300 (it's one of the early, low end models) because it's not worth the trouble. My bench marks are right in line with what I see online. e.g. a Passmark score of 8400 or so, etc.
It makes me wonder if nVidia games benchmarks more than I realized.
mostly that they're pushing them too hard to hit competitive numbers. You end up with a card that's unstable out of the box. You can tweak voltages and such until the card is stable, and you'll get the performance that was promised on the tin, but it just feels like if I'm blowing $700 on a GPU I shouldn't have to.
As for the RX580 being top selling, I'm pretty sure that's due to miners. Miners made AMD cards rare as hens teeth right when they fixed their stability issues, killing their market share in PC gaming.
with two free games and RX 580s are readily available for $120 on ebay (just got one for $100) they're probably feeling a bit of pressure on the low end.
Also to my shock and awe AMD works now. Longtime PC gamers will remember a period of almost 5 years when their GPU drivers were a disaster. I've been gaming on it for 2 weeks now with zero crashes (knock on wood). The only downside is power consumption, it pulls about 80 watts more than a GTX 1060. But at $100 it's hard to complain.
And I mean that. Your thoughts are too well organized for the talking points you're putting forth. You're writing from a script someone gave you on Millennials.
Is/. worth it to whoever pays you? Is the pay itself worth it? Maybe you'll be dead before the problems your causing come to roost, but your children won't be.
And "Millennialism" isn't a thing because being a Millennial isn't an ethos or belief system, it's a generation. You're misusing the "-ism" prefix. Generations develop certain behaviors in response to their environment. That's very different than what you're implying by using the phrase "Millennialism", which is that the behavior is a deliberate adherence to an ideal; like Catholicism or Capitalism or Socialism.
Thing is I'm not sure you're aware of what you're implying. There's a lot of general hate for Millennials going around (as there always is for the current up and coming generation. Seriously, Socrates did this crap) and I think you're honestly just picking up on it. I'm not calling you out or anything, but I think your general understanding of the world would improve if you'd reflect on where your opinions of the current generation came from and why you have them.
with the crypto currency GPU shortage over that helps to. You can get an RX 570 for $130 bucks now and it'll run most games at 1080p/60. I've seen decent gaming CPUs for $200 with a board and ram is down to about $80-$100 bucks for what you need to game. Basically you could build a rig from scratch for $700-$800, which is kind of the sweet spot in my experience.
Seriously, what the *bleep* does this kind of corporate malfeasance have to do with Millennials? You do know this kind of crap existed before Millennials, right?
they heat their homes 3 weeks out of the year. I don't think you've ever lived in the American Southwest.
And RTFS, all they have to do it have no carbon emissions. There are Zero emission gas plants. That's half the reason coal is dead. Gas is cheaper and cleaner. Clean coal doesn't work because coal is dirty as F.
because the GOP has been cutting every chance they get since the 90s. They didn't do the cuts all at once, you know. It would be too obvious if tuition went from $1700/yr (what it was when I went) to $16,000/yr (what I just paid for my kid, well what I _borrowed_ to pay for her since I never did recover from the 2008 crash).
MIT is elite and does just fine for itself thank you. Yeah, Harvard/Yale are full of putzes, but they do some good work here and there.
Like I said elsewhere, tax the rich and fund the schools. Then I couldn't care less if they form phony elite schools. I care about my kid's education, not what some rich prick gets. And I don't care about "fair" as long as me and mine are taken care of (and being a lefty "me and mine" means the working class)
the big fear is that these online communities become basically useless because of abusive troll posts.
A toxic comment isn't too hard to identify, especially for somebody as sophisticated as google. Using racial slurs is a dead giveaway. Also excessive cursing (excessive being relative to the length of the post), common insult words like "idiot" and "stupid", etc. As for how to calculate the thresholds, you have users mod comments then you run the modded comments through one of the many common text algorithms.
Yes, this means that some stuff gets blocked until it's re-written, but if anything that'll probably improve the discourse. If you write a 5 paragraph essay on why something is good or bad and call out one person for being an idiot that can probably slide. If you spend the entire 5 paragraph essay calling everybody involved morons you should probably re-read what you wrote and ask yourself if everybody involved really is actually stupid.
As the saying goes, if you run into an asshole in the morning you just ran into one asshole. If you run into assholes all day every day then you're probably an asshole.
/. does something like this (albeit less sophisticated) with the old "Natalie Portman / Hot Grits / Greased up Yoda Doll" spam posters. If you're one of the older/.ers you probably remember a time when the GNAA (don't google it at work) made the site basically unusable. You're not just dealing with bad actors, you're dealing with bad actors with scripts written by asshats with programming skills.
At some point you have to have automated comments. There's some stuff even/. won't let you post (real posters like you and me occasionally run into the filters by mistake).
A mod system is all well and good, but if you've got 300 troll comments on a thread with 600 posts more than half your mod points go to fighting the trolls. That means real, substantive comments get lost. Don't think that reality hasn't been lost on the trolls, especially the professional ones.
You don't have to get your message out, you just have to down out the other sides message. That's what happens when the other side doesn't play by the rules.
Now that said there are still outlets for even the worst trolls (Gab, 8chan, etc). If you want to keep tabs on them over there and engage them you can. I've actually considered it but, well, I'll be blunt, I'm scared of them. That community has a history of Doxxing and Violence. And stuff like Swatting is all too easy.
There's "oh noes my safe space!" and there's the GNAA and it's Russian equivalent.
I use spam filters to kill junk comments all the time. Why wouldn't I?
Not saying it can't be tricky to get out of a bubble. I'm following Bernie Sander's campaign pretty closely and barely noticed Kamala Harris; though to be fair that's mostly because she's quietly raising funds from mega donors at the moment...
and I wish this pernicious lie would just go away already. Here is a well researched article showing that fancy dorms and loans are not the cause of sky rocketing out of pocket tuition.
My kid is in college right now. She barely made it into her 300 level courses. There were 400+ qualified applicants (GPA 3.8 or higher) and 200 slots. They did interviews, weighted extra curricular activities, sports and also how likely the kid was to finish the program (yes, available support factored into that, e.g. if your parents could afford to pay your way you're more likely to get a spot).
If it was just a matter of soaking up money they'd do what any business does when there's more demand than supply: Raise the price until supply == demand. They did not do that, because they are teachers, and they want to teach.
This is Facebook making a Payment Network. I use Paypal because it works seamlessly with ebay. I use credit cards for cashback rewards and protection from unauthorized charges.
What's in it for me, the consumer? Why should I jump ship to a company I already don't like/trust and which has little or no regulations to protect me when I've got Paypal regulated under banking law (mostly, I don't use it for anything but ebay because of that) and my CC regulated up the wazoo?
the only thing propping up our economy right now is a phony "gig" workforce who's effectively mortgaging the resources (cars mostly) they obtained when they had better jobs. Those cars are starting to break down. Meanwhile the gig economy is paying less and less in preparation for IPOs. The whole thing is going to come crashing down soon unless we take positive action, like the "Green" New Deal (which is just a federal jobs program, hence the "New Deal" in the name).
Once again, here's a much better explanation of the problem then I could ever give. Watch the whole thing or it won't make sense. It's worth it.
have you been keeping up with trends in automation? We better think of something to do with all these superfluous people or you're gonna have riots. A gated community won't be enough, you'll need to be wealthy enough to afford private security. Or willing to submit to a military Junta. Are you either of those things? If not college for all is a damn fine idea.
As for paying for it, our problem isn't money, it's distribution. Here's a much more humorous explanation of the problem.
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580s have sold like hot cakes, but it's only the last 3-4 months they've been available to gamers.
See here.
:) ).
I spend a few months sniping ebay to get that 580 for $100 though. You'll usually pay $120-$140. But a GTX 1060 6GB will set you back $160-$180 (was trying to snipe one of those too, still am albeit at $100
The RX 570 is _nuts_ though. It out does the 1060 3gb for $50 bucks less. Heck, I've seen the 8gb version go for $140 on sale. Even with the power consumption (figure 40-60 watts more) it's a no brainer unless you've got a cheap OEM computer (in which case yeah, you're stuck with nvidia because your PCI-E slot & power supply won't deliver enough juice).
I'm genuinely pleasantly surprised that AMD got their shit together. It also took a lot for me to "take the plunge" and try AMD after several bad experiences going back to 2004 (plus all the bad press on their drivers from 2004-2009 or so).
Something I have noticed, my RX580 is underclocked (1200, XFX apparently ships their GPUs underclocked and then has instructions on overclocking them). I haven't bothered pushing it to it's full allowed clock of 1300 (it's one of the early, low end models) because it's not worth the trouble. My bench marks are right in line with what I see online. e.g. a Passmark score of 8400 or so, etc.
It makes me wonder if nVidia games benchmarks more than I realized.
mostly that they're pushing them too hard to hit competitive numbers. You end up with a card that's unstable out of the box. You can tweak voltages and such until the card is stable, and you'll get the performance that was promised on the tin, but it just feels like if I'm blowing $700 on a GPU I shouldn't have to.
As for the RX580 being top selling, I'm pretty sure that's due to miners. Miners made AMD cards rare as hens teeth right when they fixed their stability issues, killing their market share in PC gaming.
with two free games and RX 580s are readily available for $120 on ebay (just got one for $100) they're probably feeling a bit of pressure on the low end.
Also to my shock and awe AMD works now. Longtime PC gamers will remember a period of almost 5 years when their GPU drivers were a disaster. I've been gaming on it for 2 weeks now with zero crashes (knock on wood). The only downside is power consumption, it pulls about 80 watts more than a GTX 1060. But at $100 it's hard to complain.
And I mean that. Your thoughts are too well organized for the talking points you're putting forth. You're writing from a script someone gave you on Millennials.
/. worth it to whoever pays you? Is the pay itself worth it? Maybe you'll be dead before the problems your causing come to roost, but your children won't be.
Is
Just barely, but he's sure as heck no Millennial.
And "Millennialism" isn't a thing because being a Millennial isn't an ethos or belief system, it's a generation. You're misusing the "-ism" prefix. Generations develop certain behaviors in response to their environment. That's very different than what you're implying by using the phrase "Millennialism", which is that the behavior is a deliberate adherence to an ideal; like Catholicism or Capitalism or Socialism.
Thing is I'm not sure you're aware of what you're implying. There's a lot of general hate for Millennials going around (as there always is for the current up and coming generation. Seriously, Socrates did this crap) and I think you're honestly just picking up on it. I'm not calling you out or anything, but I think your general understanding of the world would improve if you'd reflect on where your opinions of the current generation came from and why you have them.
with the crypto currency GPU shortage over that helps to. You can get an RX 570 for $130 bucks now and it'll run most games at 1080p/60. I've seen decent gaming CPUs for $200 with a board and ram is down to about $80-$100 bucks for what you need to game. Basically you could build a rig from scratch for $700-$800, which is kind of the sweet spot in my experience.
Seriously, what the *bleep* does this kind of corporate malfeasance have to do with Millennials? You do know this kind of crap existed before Millennials, right?
they heat their homes 3 weeks out of the year. I don't think you've ever lived in the American Southwest.
And RTFS, all they have to do it have no carbon emissions. There are Zero emission gas plants. That's half the reason coal is dead. Gas is cheaper and cleaner. Clean coal doesn't work because coal is dirty as F.
because the GOP has been cutting every chance they get since the 90s. They didn't do the cuts all at once, you know. It would be too obvious if tuition went from $1700/yr (what it was when I went) to $16,000/yr (what I just paid for my kid, well what I _borrowed_ to pay for her since I never did recover from the 2008 crash).
see here for more.
when Bernie Sanders gets elected. Don't forget to vote in your primary.
MIT is elite and does just fine for itself thank you. Yeah, Harvard/Yale are full of putzes, but they do some good work here and there.
Like I said elsewhere, tax the rich and fund the schools. Then I couldn't care less if they form phony elite schools. I care about my kid's education, not what some rich prick gets. And I don't care about "fair" as long as me and mine are taken care of (and being a lefty "me and mine" means the working class)
it doesn't work like that. Instead, tax them and use the tax dollars to build a society worth living in.
Don't focus on hurting them, focus on uplifting yourself.
why not just properly fund our schools with the tax dollars from those ultra wealthy citizens?
I'm kind of sick and tired of having to go begging to the rich every time we want nice things for the public at large.
the big fear is that these online communities become basically useless because of abusive troll posts.
A toxic comment isn't too hard to identify, especially for somebody as sophisticated as google. Using racial slurs is a dead giveaway. Also excessive cursing (excessive being relative to the length of the post), common insult words like "idiot" and "stupid", etc. As for how to calculate the thresholds, you have users mod comments then you run the modded comments through one of the many common text algorithms.
Yes, this means that some stuff gets blocked until it's re-written, but if anything that'll probably improve the discourse. If you write a 5 paragraph essay on why something is good or bad and call out one person for being an idiot that can probably slide. If you spend the entire 5 paragraph essay calling everybody involved morons you should probably re-read what you wrote and ask yourself if everybody involved really is actually stupid.
As the saying goes, if you run into an asshole in the morning you just ran into one asshole. If you run into assholes all day every day then you're probably an asshole.
He's right you know.
I'm color blind, thx.
/. does something like this (albeit less sophisticated) with the old "Natalie Portman / Hot Grits / Greased up Yoda Doll" spam posters. If you're one of the older /.ers you probably remember a time when the GNAA (don't google it at work) made the site basically unusable. You're not just dealing with bad actors, you're dealing with bad actors with scripts written by asshats with programming skills.
/. won't let you post (real posters like you and me occasionally run into the filters by mistake).
At some point you have to have automated comments. There's some stuff even
A mod system is all well and good, but if you've got 300 troll comments on a thread with 600 posts more than half your mod points go to fighting the trolls. That means real, substantive comments get lost. Don't think that reality hasn't been lost on the trolls, especially the professional ones.
You don't have to get your message out, you just have to down out the other sides message. That's what happens when the other side doesn't play by the rules.
Now that said there are still outlets for even the worst trolls (Gab, 8chan, etc). If you want to keep tabs on them over there and engage them you can. I've actually considered it but, well, I'll be blunt, I'm scared of them. That community has a history of Doxxing and Violence. And stuff like Swatting is all too easy.
There's "oh noes my safe space!" and there's the GNAA and it's Russian equivalent.
I use spam filters to kill junk comments all the time. Why wouldn't I?
Not saying it can't be tricky to get out of a bubble. I'm following Bernie Sander's campaign pretty closely and barely noticed Kamala Harris; though to be fair that's mostly because she's quietly raising funds from mega donors at the moment...
and I wish this pernicious lie would just go away already. Here is a well researched article showing that fancy dorms and loans are not the cause of sky rocketing out of pocket tuition.
My kid is in college right now. She barely made it into her 300 level courses. There were 400+ qualified applicants (GPA 3.8 or higher) and 200 slots. They did interviews, weighted extra curricular activities, sports and also how likely the kid was to finish the program (yes, available support factored into that, e.g. if your parents could afford to pay your way you're more likely to get a spot).
If it was just a matter of soaking up money they'd do what any business does when there's more demand than supply: Raise the price until supply == demand. They did not do that, because they are teachers, and they want to teach.
This is Facebook making a Payment Network. I use Paypal because it works seamlessly with ebay. I use credit cards for cashback rewards and protection from unauthorized charges.
What's in it for me, the consumer? Why should I jump ship to a company I already don't like/trust and which has little or no regulations to protect me when I've got Paypal regulated under banking law (mostly, I don't use it for anything but ebay because of that) and my CC regulated up the wazoo?
the only thing propping up our economy right now is a phony "gig" workforce who's effectively mortgaging the resources (cars mostly) they obtained when they had better jobs. Those cars are starting to break down. Meanwhile the gig economy is paying less and less in preparation for IPOs. The whole thing is going to come crashing down soon unless we take positive action, like the "Green" New Deal (which is just a federal jobs program, hence the "New Deal" in the name).
Once again, here's a much better explanation of the problem then I could ever give. Watch the whole thing or it won't make sense. It's worth it.
have you been keeping up with trends in automation? We better think of something to do with all these superfluous people or you're gonna have riots. A gated community won't be enough, you'll need to be wealthy enough to afford private security. Or willing to submit to a military Junta. Are you either of those things? If not college for all is a damn fine idea.
As for paying for it, our problem isn't money, it's distribution. Here's a much more humorous explanation of the problem.