The end result is the same, whether the drivers are built for the game or vice versa, I can buy half the card if it is nvidia. Results are what I am after, not specs.
it takes double the power for a Raedon to match the performance of a Geforce in games that I care about (like fallout 4). with game ready drivers coming out weekly for Geforce, there really isn't any competition.
Sorry I did not mean to imply that H1B holders were worse, just that they can be (and are) treated worse, because it is objectively harder to quit from a job if you are on an H1B guest worker
Someone's immigration work status is not a measure of how good or bad they are at their job, but it is a reliable measure for how difficult it is to quit, i.e. how bad someone can be treated (including pay) before they leave.
A green card worker or a citizen worker can walk away from a crappy job MUCH easier than an H1B worker. Making them more competitive with each other (which is a good thing if you are a good engineer, and a bad thing if you are a bad engineer.)
People with green cards compete with American engineers on their level. People with H1Bs tend to undercut salary and/or bullshit tolerance level requirements of American citizens, by A LOT. H1Bs are A LOT worse for good engineers than green cards are. As far as citizens go: Good and bad engineers should be scared of H1Bs, but only bad engineers should be scared of green cards.
It is important to distinguish between human and machine interaction. I think we are quickly approaching being a society where the only way you will be able to tell if someone is addressing you is if you are using honorifics and civil platitudes; otherwise you will assume people are addressing one device or another.
In cultures throughout history people have used familiar pronouns vs formal pronouns to distinguish between intimate conversation and public conversation.
We will see if this ends up being the paradigm for machine vs human interactions, but I have a strong suspicion that we are verging on a new social norm, where you can assume "rude sounding" people are talking to their computer/'phone and "cordial" sounding people are talking to you.
one factory with 60,000 workers... assuming humane shift times(hah), you could run 3 shifts, so... 20,000 people per shift. That is a HUGE freaking factory... like a basketball stadium full of workers, every shift, in one factory.
"They just have an extraordinarily bad battery."
Also, very interesting and insightful perspective...but does it also account for more efficient processes that are constantly being developed or aimed for?
well the same could be said for batteries themselves.
If Hydrogen is currently a much worse battery than say Ni-MH, and we have much better batteries than NiMH, then why would we put some sort of faith in Hydrogen extraction not only getting better, but getting better at a faster rate than battery technology that has consistently out-paced Hydrogen, by a lot.
don't forget ecological disasters in ALL cities, created by unchecked, unregulated manufacturing pollution. You can't see the sky, but you can touch it.
Headphones work great, are an incredible consumer value and are universally compatible. How can we bust all that up, charge more, then sell it as a consumer win? "Skip buttons!" "DRM 'protecting' music quality" "Buzz words?" "Embedded ads in text scrolling display in-line with headphone cables!"
I used to build/maintain software that predicted Flooding risk for potential home loans as part of the pre-funding process.
Long story short, one of the vendors of data we used did a stupid trick like this. If they couldn't find the address, it returned a "zip centroid" (middle of the zip code), And if the entire zipcode had no flooding risk, it would go ahead and "clear" the property. The problem was when it got worse than a Zip code match, it would think it got a zip centroid match in the middle of Kansas (probably this lady's farm actually!)... clearing the property of flood risk.
It was the vendor's mistake and they would have been liable, but it was BS and easy to detect once I ran some statistical analysis on it.
It really screwed with people's lives though... they get a home loan knowing they won't need to pay 2-4 grand a year in flood insurance, then once we audited the vendor data, or their home finally showed up on a map, they would be required to get insurance.
It is mostly something that people say to fool themselves into thinking it can happen to them. Ever notice these famous "college drop-outs" had the luxury of dropping out of prestigious and expensive universities? Someone drops out of Reed, Harvard, or Yale has a better chance of making it than someone who graduates from a state university.
If you are already on third base, you don't have to hit the ball in order to score.
It doesn't take 7 billion people to feed, clothe, entertain, and educate 7 billion people. So, now what?
Death penalty for those that can't contribute? Pointless wars as boredom/under-utilization mitigation? Boldly go where no man has gone before? Meaningless limitations on how you can grow food("organic", "non-gmo," etc)
We have to stop thinking like a "work or starve" society, because we haven't been one for a very long time.
if I were apple, I would push a patch to change apple's keys. And write the code in such a way that when another seizure is imminent, they can change them again. Make them work for it. Only un-updated devices will be unlocked with their universal key, and change it every time the government forces you into a corner. That way they will stop asking for them because this isn't about a phone, this is about all phones, once it won't work for all iPhones, they will stop.
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It is an iOS problem, and the summary mentions SD card? would be pretty nice if I could put an SD card into my wife's iPhone.
The end result is the same, whether the drivers are built for the game or vice versa, I can buy half the card if it is nvidia. Results are what I am after, not specs.
it takes double the power for a Raedon to match the performance of a Geforce in games that I care about (like fallout 4).
with game ready drivers coming out weekly for Geforce, there really isn't any competition.
Sorry I did not mean to imply that H1B holders were worse, just that they can be (and are) treated worse, because it is objectively harder to quit from a job if you are on an H1B guest worker
Someone's immigration work status is not a measure of how good or bad they are at their job, but it is a reliable measure for how difficult it is to quit, i.e. how bad someone can be treated (including pay) before they leave.
A green card worker or a citizen worker can walk away from a crappy job MUCH easier than an H1B worker. Making them more competitive with each other (which is a good thing if you are a good engineer, and a bad thing if you are a bad engineer.)
People with green cards compete with American engineers on their level. People with H1Bs tend to undercut salary and/or bullshit tolerance level requirements of American citizens, by A LOT. H1Bs are A LOT worse for good engineers than green cards are. As far as citizens go: Good and bad engineers should be scared of H1Bs, but only bad engineers should be scared of green cards.
It is important to distinguish between human and machine interaction. I think we are quickly approaching being a society where the only way you will be able to tell if someone is addressing you is if you are using honorifics and civil platitudes; otherwise you will assume people are addressing one device or another.
In cultures throughout history people have used familiar pronouns vs formal pronouns to distinguish between intimate conversation and public conversation.
We will see if this ends up being the paradigm for machine vs human interactions, but I have a strong suspicion that we are verging on a new social norm, where you can assume "rude sounding" people are talking to their computer/'phone and "cordial" sounding people are talking to you.
I swear to you we have gone full circle, wasn't Xbox supposed to be exactly this...
I present to you, the DirectX Box! All the power of a gaming PC, but in a console. We will call it "Xbox for short"~
one factory with 60,000 workers... assuming humane shift times(hah), you could run 3 shifts, so... 20,000 people per shift. That is a HUGE freaking factory... like a basketball stadium full of workers, every shift, in one factory.
we have 4 ipads, 2 TVs, 5 PCs, pretty much streaming all day. We hit our cap in 2 weeks, then fired AT&T for Time Warner.
Congrats to AT&T, you are finally a worse option than TWC. no small feat.
"They just have an extraordinarily bad battery." Also, very interesting and insightful perspective...but does it also account for more efficient processes that are constantly being developed or aimed for?
well the same could be said for batteries themselves.
If Hydrogen is currently a much worse battery than say Ni-MH, and we have much better batteries than NiMH, then why would we put some sort of faith in Hydrogen extraction not only getting better, but getting better at a faster rate than battery technology that has consistently out-paced Hydrogen, by a lot.
don't forget ecological disasters in ALL cities, created by unchecked, unregulated manufacturing pollution. You can't see the sky, but you can touch it.
I suggest we then start suing car manufacturers for not having 80 MPH limiters in place on all new North American sold vehicles.
One of the roads I regularly drive on in Texas has an 85mph speed limit, you insensitive clod.
A steel frame the size of a mountain would probably cost 1,000x more than a mountain of dirt and rocks.
What you are talking about is building a Burj Khalifa times 100. No small feat.
that was before we had liberal arts colleges, so it doesn't count.
This hill will be built by civil engineers, not climatologists.
The hill will be built by civil engineers while climatologists sit at their desks with their feet up.
another settlement needs your help!
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Headphones work great, are an incredible consumer value and are universally compatible. How can we bust all that up, charge more, then sell it as a consumer win? "Skip buttons!" "DRM 'protecting' music quality" "Buzz words?" "Embedded ads in text scrolling display in-line with headphone cables!"
This ideas is as bad as the 3.5mm jack is good.
live TV has a monopoly on Sports. From what I can tell that is the only reason people still subscribe to abusive cable companies.
I used to build/maintain software that predicted Flooding risk for potential home loans as part of the pre-funding process.
Long story short, one of the vendors of data we used did a stupid trick like this. If they couldn't find the address, it returned a "zip centroid" (middle of the zip code), And if the entire zipcode had no flooding risk, it would go ahead and "clear" the property. The problem was when it got worse than a Zip code match, it would think it got a zip centroid match in the middle of Kansas (probably this lady's farm actually!)... clearing the property of flood risk.
It was the vendor's mistake and they would have been liable, but it was BS and easy to detect once I ran some statistical analysis on it.
It really screwed with people's lives though... they get a home loan knowing they won't need to pay 2-4 grand a year in flood insurance, then once we audited the vendor data, or their home finally showed up on a map, they would be required to get insurance.
It is mostly something that people say to fool themselves into thinking it can happen to them. Ever notice these famous "college drop-outs" had the luxury of dropping out of prestigious and expensive universities? Someone drops out of Reed, Harvard, or Yale has a better chance of making it than someone who graduates from a state university.
If you are already on third base, you don't have to hit the ball in order to score.
It doesn't take 7 billion people to feed, clothe, entertain, and educate 7 billion people. So, now what?
Death penalty for those that can't contribute? Pointless wars as boredom/under-utilization mitigation? Boldly go where no man has gone before? Meaningless limitations on how you can grow food("organic", "non-gmo," etc)
We have to stop thinking like a "work or starve" society, because we haven't been one for a very long time.
I would love to buy fiber, but like 95% of the country, NOPE. Yay another add-on feature I can't buy.
if I were apple, I would push a patch to change apple's keys. And write the code in such a way that when another seizure is imminent, they can change them again. Make them work for it. Only un-updated devices will be unlocked with their universal key, and change it every time the government forces you into a corner. That way they will stop asking for them because this isn't about a phone, this is about all phones, once it won't work for all iPhones, they will stop.
$196,000 x 4, because there are 4 quarters in a dollar