On the war crimes comment, I'm sure the person was referring to the time Trump said that killing the terrorists themselves wasn't enough. He would instruct the military to kill the families of terrorists too.
Again, the bottleneck is not likely the CPU in this scenario. Memory bandwidth and latency are key factors in seeing the CPU fully utilized. What's a the typical memory latency these days on x86? 12 cycles? Games must make tradeoffs in how many tasks can be run in parallel vs how efficiently they access ram pages. Cache misses kill performance on pipelined CPUs. Work is organized to minimize cache misses. This requires that some tasks are run in serial, essentially creating an upper limit on how parallel the games code can be run.
An overbroad and irrelevant statement. First, "most coders" don't need to understand running decision trees in parallel in order to implement such a thing. Just like every coder doesn't need to understand the intricacies of the x86 CPU or have a PhD in mathematics. For these specialized aspects of a games architecture you hire specialists.
Second, most home PCs are running quad to octa core CPUs. It doesn't take a genius to eek out all the performance you can per clock. This is a well understood problem and there is no shortage of solutions.
Developers are still constrained by the hardware, plain and simple.
I am very liberal, and very much a Democrat. Yet, I completely agree. It makes no sense to tax a corporation. Tax personal income. Tax sales of goods and services. Allow a business to invest all its money in itself and it's employees.
You are missing the point. The point is that they pay almost no taxes now. Even if Trump, by some miracle, managed to score a net-zero tax bill for Apple, that pretty much puts them exactly where they already are.
Now all Trump would have to do is convince workers that it's in their benefit to work for the same wages, benefits and under the same conditions as the Chinese workers. And don't forget, all the components that are built and raw materials which are processed in China now need to be transferred to the USA or also manufactured here. Which again means the manufacturers of those components need to move to USA and operate at margins that their foreign counterparts do.
And even after all of this, their products at best stay the same price, at worse still become more expensive. Only now there are fewer people who can afford them since they're working for much less.
Well, there is one other way... Trump can just subsidize Apple. Pay them to stay here.
Yawn.
This is the same argument climate deniers use. "It was cold today in my neighborhood so how could there possibly be global warming?"
Just because you don't have a crime problem where you live, that absolutely does not mean that there are no crime issues anywhere.
And you just pointed out that you are NOT even paying taxes to staff a large police force. So what are you complaining about??? Isn't that the ideal situation? Paying only for what you use?
That is unless you want your services for free, which would put you into the same basket of Republicans/libertarians who want something for nothing.
My wife is a Mac user and last year we bought her a new prior-year model from the store. She both insists on using a Mac and insists on having an internal DVD drive. The only offering that met her requirements was the prior model.
I disagree. It is my government which has conflated two somewhat disparate ideas into one. When a person goes to a chapel and swears before God that he will love, honor, etc., that is a religious ceremony. When you get a marriage license, combine your assets, joint-file taxes and all that other business, that is the contractual marriage. Government has decided that legal marriage is necessarily constrained by The tenets of a certain subset of Christian versions of holy matrimony.
Government should get completely out of the "marriage" business and offer only civil unions regardless of the sex of the two entering into the agreement.
First... Im not super-confident that many Republican legislatures WOULD certainly outlaw "unnatural" sex. However...
Republicans definitely overwhelmingly want to outlaw gay marriage, which is the height of regulating people's private and religious lives. This to me is not any more or less odious than regulating my bedroom.
Hmm. If you could be honest with yourself for a minute you'd accept the truth that everyone in America wants it for free. The only difference is that democrats want a safety net that they can't afford, whereas Republicans simply want their roads, their military, and their Medicare and want to live tax-free, apparently paying for the programs with manna from the sky.
I didn't accuse the poster of any ad hominems. I did throw a couple out there. I guess I was just put off by someone seemingly lumping me in with this terrorist and monster simply because I tend to identify with democrats.
Or it simply means he didn't bother to change it. I can hardly remember what I had for dinner yesterday let alone what political party I registered for ten years ago.
Regardless, his party has nothing to do with what he did.
I firmly believe that the right would allow all of their constitutionally acknowledged rights be siphoned away, as they are simply just too distracted polishing their guns to notice.
http://www.snopes.com/orlando-...
1. What has his political party got to do with anything?
2. Registering one time as a Democrat ten years ago had little to do with whatever his political views were two weeks ago. After all, Trump was a Democrat too.
In my mind, when you tossed in the weak link to Democrats you immediately lost any and all credibility. Your further comment about "bleeding hearts" pegged you down as jJust another Rush Limbaugh listening, low info voting, Guns and Ammo reading while while stroking partisan shill.
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On the war crimes comment, I'm sure the person was referring to the time Trump said that killing the terrorists themselves wasn't enough. He would instruct the military to kill the families of terrorists too.
Again, the bottleneck is not likely the CPU in this scenario. Memory bandwidth and latency are key factors in seeing the CPU fully utilized. What's a the typical memory latency these days on x86? 12 cycles? Games must make tradeoffs in how many tasks can be run in parallel vs how efficiently they access ram pages. Cache misses kill performance on pipelined CPUs. Work is organized to minimize cache misses. This requires that some tasks are run in serial, essentially creating an upper limit on how parallel the games code can be run.
An overbroad and irrelevant statement. First, "most coders" don't need to understand running decision trees in parallel in order to implement such a thing. Just like every coder doesn't need to understand the intricacies of the x86 CPU or have a PhD in mathematics. For these specialized aspects of a games architecture you hire specialists. Second, most home PCs are running quad to octa core CPUs. It doesn't take a genius to eek out all the performance you can per clock. This is a well understood problem and there is no shortage of solutions. Developers are still constrained by the hardware, plain and simple.
Way to misrepresent the argument, Mr. Strawman.
I am very liberal, and very much a Democrat. Yet, I completely agree. It makes no sense to tax a corporation. Tax personal income. Tax sales of goods and services. Allow a business to invest all its money in itself and it's employees.
You are missing the point. The point is that they pay almost no taxes now. Even if Trump, by some miracle, managed to score a net-zero tax bill for Apple, that pretty much puts them exactly where they already are. Now all Trump would have to do is convince workers that it's in their benefit to work for the same wages, benefits and under the same conditions as the Chinese workers. And don't forget, all the components that are built and raw materials which are processed in China now need to be transferred to the USA or also manufactured here. Which again means the manufacturers of those components need to move to USA and operate at margins that their foreign counterparts do. And even after all of this, their products at best stay the same price, at worse still become more expensive. Only now there are fewer people who can afford them since they're working for much less. Well, there is one other way... Trump can just subsidize Apple. Pay them to stay here.
You beat me to it!
Women do not scream rape when spoken to. Don't be ridiculous.
Donald is about to learn that running the USA is much more difficult than pretending to be a successful businessman on reality TV.
This is proof that Mark doesn't actually use Facebook. Otherwise he'd know better.
Yawn. This is the same argument climate deniers use. "It was cold today in my neighborhood so how could there possibly be global warming?" Just because you don't have a crime problem where you live, that absolutely does not mean that there are no crime issues anywhere. And you just pointed out that you are NOT even paying taxes to staff a large police force. So what are you complaining about??? Isn't that the ideal situation? Paying only for what you use? That is unless you want your services for free, which would put you into the same basket of Republicans/libertarians who want something for nothing.
My wife is a Mac user and last year we bought her a new prior-year model from the store. She both insists on using a Mac and insists on having an internal DVD drive. The only offering that met her requirements was the prior model.
I think we're afraid of the possibility of having a president who owes a favor to a country and a leader who'd prefer our country to decline.
I disagree. It is my government which has conflated two somewhat disparate ideas into one. When a person goes to a chapel and swears before God that he will love, honor, etc., that is a religious ceremony. When you get a marriage license, combine your assets, joint-file taxes and all that other business, that is the contractual marriage. Government has decided that legal marriage is necessarily constrained by The tenets of a certain subset of Christian versions of holy matrimony. Government should get completely out of the "marriage" business and offer only civil unions regardless of the sex of the two entering into the agreement.
Sorry. I actually meant to type "WOULDN'T," as in they would certainly outlaw it if they could.
First... Im not super-confident that many Republican legislatures WOULD certainly outlaw "unnatural" sex. However... Republicans definitely overwhelmingly want to outlaw gay marriage, which is the height of regulating people's private and religious lives. This to me is not any more or less odious than regulating my bedroom.
Hmm. If you could be honest with yourself for a minute you'd accept the truth that everyone in America wants it for free. The only difference is that democrats want a safety net that they can't afford, whereas Republicans simply want their roads, their military, and their Medicare and want to live tax-free, apparently paying for the programs with manna from the sky.
What? Your post is the height of racism. "Go back to collecting their government checks?"
Pretty sure Spotify's been doing this for some time now...
I didn't accuse the poster of any ad hominems. I did throw a couple out there. I guess I was just put off by someone seemingly lumping me in with this terrorist and monster simply because I tend to identify with democrats.
Or it simply means he didn't bother to change it. I can hardly remember what I had for dinner yesterday let alone what political party I registered for ten years ago. Regardless, his party has nothing to do with what he did.
I firmly believe that the right would allow all of their constitutionally acknowledged rights be siphoned away, as they are simply just too distracted polishing their guns to notice.
http://www.snopes.com/orlando-... 1. What has his political party got to do with anything? 2. Registering one time as a Democrat ten years ago had little to do with whatever his political views were two weeks ago. After all, Trump was a Democrat too. In my mind, when you tossed in the weak link to Democrats you immediately lost any and all credibility. Your further comment about "bleeding hearts" pegged you down as jJust another Rush Limbaugh listening, low info voting, Guns and Ammo reading while while stroking partisan shill.
But does it run apps? Get text messages? Spotify?
They need to put the GPS into the watch. Do that and I'll bite.