That Gamers Nexus 2017 i7-2600K benchmark has been updated for 2018: i7-2600K benchmark. i.e.
They added Threadripper 2990WX metrics both in Creator Mode and Game Mode.
Sad that modern CPUs only give single digit performance increases.:-/
Glad you mentioned Civ 6 -- a perfect example that shows some games are still dominated by single core performance. (Quad core has been a standard for *years* but some game devs are still not using it efficiently. Granted not everything is parallelizable but console game devs can't get away with this due to their poor single core performance. Well aside from Dark Souls which was addressed with the remaster.)
With such a wide difference in performance one really needs to compare what apps they are using with the hardware to make sure they are getting the expected bang/buck.
Indies, while I love them, tend to be the worst at not using multi-core -- either at all, or poorly. Hopefully with cheap(er) multi-cores this will motivate people to start using cores more efficiently.
It's good we finally have some competition again. Ryzen is keeping Intel "honest."
/sarcasm Because disliking MS's complete UI clusterfuck is the same as racism... Oh wait, false equivalency fallacy much?
Astroturfer spotted!
Maybe if MS would stop with shitty UI redesigns, such as Skype, Office, and Windows, people might stop hating MS's boneheaded decisions... nah, can't be that simple!/s
There was a reason WIMP was the standard in GUIs -- because it worked.
How's that Skype UI redesign working out for you because you don't know what the fuck you are talking about.
People get EXACTLY what they deserve. i.e. If they are dumb enough to use Facebook in the first place, then they shouldn't be surprised that someone profited off their stupidity.
The sad part is that nothing will change. People will whine about the problem but the majority will stay.
Yeah the "ribbon bar only UI" is shit. i.e. Resizing the window hides/shows buttons. At least with the main menu bar all options are always visible so can learn where menu entries are.
Office on OSX / macOS is nice in that you get BOTH a menu AND ribbon bar so YOU get to pick what works for you. It's too bad MS doesn't have a clue about good UI design.
I too noticed there is less emphasis on hotkeys / shortcuts now too. Thank God AutoHotKey exists so can automate some of this crap.
> I am able to explain an IPv4 address to a nine year old. However I don't understand Ipv6 addressing fully myself as it's just too damn complicated and cryptic with all colons and hex.
A phone number uses dashes as separators and is in base 10; IPV6 uses colons and is in base 16. Is it really THAT hard to understand??? (Also you don't write leading zeroes which is true in any base.)
e.g. * 555-1234 *::55:12:34
> adding two octals to the current IPv4 scheme.
Because if you are going to require a completely new incompatible scheme it is better to plan for the future and make sure you never run out of adddresses then to band-aid a half-baked kludge that will be obsolete sooner rather then later.
I agree with most of your points but disagree with your last point that "acceptable language" should be left "undiscussed.". The topic WILL eventually come up -- ignoring it doesn't make the problem go away!
Is it really THAT hard to have a SIMPLE CoC?
* We don't censor words, * That said, try to be communicate in a respectful fashion. * If you are offended with *words* then maybe you should find another project to work with instead of wasting people's time with "noise"
If a project is censoring words over some "perceived offense" then that is the proof that some people are more interested in bullshit bikeshedding then actually getting work done.
Can't "wait" for the inevitable day when Internet of Things devices get mass hacked. Can we start calling them: Insecure of Things or "Insecure on 'Tubes" instead ?:/
Sadly the masses don't care about their lack of privacy in the modern era. AT ALL.
Until it has a bigger, lasting effect nothing will change.
Cases in point:
* Look at all the data Facebook sold -- if people were smart they would stop freely giving their data over to companies that only care about profiting from selling it. Very few people are willing to give up their social addictions.
* Windows 10 has become spyware but do you see any mass boycott movement? Nope. Even techies have been brainwashed into making excuses for MS's lack of customer respect.
* Every week we read about some data breach -- if actually cared we would see less of them, not more.
> If they buy up another promising game and then shut it down
I assume you are talking about the intriguing Project Offset ?
I never did understand Intel's logic in that. They aren't a game dev studio nor publisher. Were they hoping to showcase Intel's CPU and/or Larrabee performance "advantage" and then when that completely FAILED (compared to regular discrete GPUs) they canceled it?
Or were they hoping to leverage buying Havok (Game Physic Engine) in 2007 when they bought Project Offset in 2008 ?
* Tech has become bery boring and/or very little innovation (i.e. not really different from last year) * Bloggers / Internet let you preview the latest tech in the comfort of your own home * Traveling has become more tedious
In the 90's we saw PCs go from 50 MHz to 550+ MHz. Today Intel offers incremental upgrades. Today's tech has become ho-hum, yawn.
Happens to all stable markets eventually. I don't see it being disrupted anytime soon.
In school kids are taught to share their toys. As adults digital sharing is illegal and (excessively) fined. And people wonder why there is cognitive dissonance.
> protagonists explore blockish worlds filled with deadly creatures and traps.
No, they ARE block rooms -- each room IS exactly 40x25 tiles (on the Apple ][ it only displays 40x24 tiles.) The tiles just happen to be a) animated, and b) mega-tiles such as ladders which are three tiles wide.
Also, here is a map of the world --- It make a pyramid shape, go figure!
Impressive that it could fit in 99 rooms in less then 32 KB !
I'm starting to come to the conclusion that maybe we should just ban all ads together.
The fact that we survived for thousands of years without them means civilization / society can certainly exist without them.
Has our species really "evolved" to the point where the modern world has become nothing more than noise / light / banner / billboard pollution and commercial propaganda???
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That Gamers Nexus 2017 i7-2600K benchmark has been updated for 2018: i7-2600K benchmark.
i.e.
They added Threadripper 2990WX metrics both in Creator Mode and Game Mode.
Sad that modern CPUs only give single digit performance increases. :-/
Glad you mentioned Civ 6 -- a perfect example that shows some games are still dominated by single core performance. (Quad core has been a standard for *years* but some game devs are still not using it efficiently. Granted not everything is parallelizable but console game devs can't get away with this due to their poor single core performance. Well aside from Dark Souls which was addressed with the remaster.)
With such a wide difference in performance one really needs to compare what apps they are using with the hardware to make sure they are getting the expected bang/buck.
Indies, while I love them, tend to be the worst at not using multi-core -- either at all, or poorly. Hopefully with cheap(er) multi-cores this will motivate people to start using cores more efficiently.
It's good we finally have some competition again. Ryzen is keeping Intel "honest."
/sarcasm Because disliking MS's complete UI clusterfuck is the same as racism ... Oh wait, false equivalency fallacy much?
Astroturfer spotted!
Maybe if MS would stop with shitty UI redesigns, such as Skype, Office, and Windows, people might stop hating MS's boneheaded decisions ... nah, can't be that simple! /s
There was a reason WIMP was the standard in GUIs -- because it worked.
How's that Skype UI redesign working out for you because you don't know what the fuck you are talking about.
Guess the mods are in denial how MS fucked up Skype, Win8, etc. but to answer your question:
Because MS doesn't know what the fuck they are doing.
e.g. They just pulled Edge after wasting years on it.
n/t
You missed the biggest source of the problem:
Everyone USING Facebook.
People get EXACTLY what they deserve. i.e. If they are dumb enough to use Facebook in the first place, then they shouldn't be surprised that someone profited off their stupidity.
The sad part is that nothing will change. People will whine about the problem but the majority will stay.
Yeah the "ribbon bar only UI" is shit. i.e. Resizing the window hides/shows buttons. At least with the main menu bar all options are always visible so can learn where menu entries are.
Office on OSX / macOS is nice in that you get BOTH a menu AND ribbon bar so YOU get to pick what works for you. It's too bad MS doesn't have a clue about good UI design.
I too noticed there is less emphasis on hotkeys / shortcuts now too. Thank God AutoHotKey exists so can automate some of this crap.
/Sarcasm Because MS didn't have *any* spyware in Windows 10 and MSVC 2015 ... Oh wait, they did AND that happened under Nadella!
> I am able to explain an IPv4 address to a nine year old. However I don't understand Ipv6 addressing fully myself as it's just too damn complicated and cryptic with all colons and hex.
A phone number uses dashes as separators and is in base 10; IPV6 uses colons and is in base 16. Is it really THAT hard to understand??? (Also you don't write leading zeroes which is true in any base.)
e.g. ::55:12:34
* 555-1234
*
> adding two octals to the current IPv4 scheme.
Because if you are going to require a completely new incompatible scheme it is better to plan for the future and make sure you never run out of adddresses then to band-aid a half-baked kludge that will be obsolete sooner rather then later.
I agree with most of your points but disagree with your last point that "acceptable language" should be left "undiscussed.". The topic WILL eventually come up -- ignoring it doesn't make the problem go away!
Is it really THAT hard to have a SIMPLE CoC?
* We don't censor words,
* That said, try to be communicate in a respectful fashion.
* If you are offended with *words* then maybe you should find another project to work with instead of wasting people's time with "noise"
If a project is censoring words over some "perceived offense" then that is the proof that some people are more interested in bullshit bikeshedding then actually getting work done.
Ah, missed that.
Can't "wait" for the inevitable day when Internet of Things devices get mass hacked. Can we start calling them: Insecure of Things or "Insecure on 'Tubes" instead ? :/
Sadly the masses don't care about their lack of privacy in the modern era. AT ALL.
Until it has a bigger, lasting effect nothing will change.
Cases in point:
* Look at all the data Facebook sold -- if people were smart they would stop freely giving their data over to companies that only care about profiting from selling it. Very few people are willing to give up their social addictions.
* Windows 10 has become spyware but do you see any mass boycott movement? Nope. Even techies have been brainwashed into making excuses for MS's lack of customer respect.
* Every week we read about some data breach -- if actually cared we would see less of them, not more.
Because Intel isn't a perceived "market leader" in the graphics space the way nVidia is.
But yes, it is rather ironic.
> If they buy up another promising game and then shut it down
I assume you are talking about the intriguing Project Offset ?
I never did understand Intel's logic in that. They aren't a game dev studio nor publisher. Were they hoping to showcase Intel's CPU and/or Larrabee performance "advantage" and then when that completely FAILED (compared to regular discrete GPUs) they canceled it?
Or were they hoping to leverage buying Havok (Game Physic Engine) in 2007 when they bought Project Offset in 2008 ?
Indeed. Every time I hear news about Intel and GPUs I think about this Santa comic
Thank-you!
Mod parent +1 informative please.
Anyone know how operating a cashless business is legal by refusing Legal Tender?
Isn't the entire point to have a common / ubiquitous currency that is available to ALL citizens?
I'm not sure how Manga worked but the West there used to be a few departments:
* Penciller
* Inker
* Letterer
* Colorist
All work and no play makes for a dull life.
So what do YOU do for fun?
People have different interests / hobbies -- is it really THAT hard to understand??
When even Weird Al parodies you then I guess you know you are popular. =P
Couple of reasons:
* Tech has become bery boring and/or very little innovation (i.e. not really different from last year)
* Bloggers / Internet let you preview the latest tech in the comfort of your own home
* Traveling has become more tedious
In the 90's we saw PCs go from 50 MHz to 550+ MHz. Today Intel offers incremental upgrades. Today's tech has become ho-hum, yawn.
Happens to all stable markets eventually. I don't see it being disrupted anytime soon.
And yet somehow the Fashion Industry survives without copyright
In school kids are taught to share their toys.
As adults digital sharing is illegal and (excessively) fined.
And people wonder why there is cognitive dissonance.
> protagonists explore blockish worlds filled with deadly creatures and traps.
No, they ARE block rooms -- each room IS exactly 40x25 tiles (on the Apple ][ it only displays 40x24 tiles.) The tiles just happen to be a) animated, and b) mega-tiles such as ladders which are three tiles wide.
Also, here is a map of the world --- It make a pyramid shape, go figure!
Impressive that it could fit in 99 rooms in less then 32 KB !
That's a brilliant and succinct summary! Mind if I borrow that explanation?
Mod parent +1 Insightful.
I'm starting to come to the conclusion that maybe we should just ban all ads together.
The fact that we survived for thousands of years without them means civilization / society can certainly exist without them.
Has our species really "evolved" to the point where the modern world has become nothing more than noise / light / banner / billboard pollution and commercial propaganda???