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  1. Re:Lies on Intel Kills a Top-of-the-Line Processor · · Score: 2

    Not at the same speeds.

    At first this made me confused.

    But yeah, Skylake is clocked higher and that's likely mostly why it beat Broadwell in benchmark tasks whereas Broadwell have more cache and and tweaks which obviously made it better for games even though lower clocked.

    The speed / MHz I wouldn't call important though because it's a simple fact that Broadwell i5 and i7 C-cpus are lower clocked and that's how it is. What matter is how they actually perform not "but if!"

    I don't agree they are poor over-clockers though. Swedish Sweclockers thought they was but they only looked at the resulting clock-speed and yeah, the 6700K can likely do 5 GHz something the 5775C likely won't. But the 6700K stock is 4 GHz whereas the 5775C is 3.3 GHz so in percent they both over-clock quite well and likely by about the same amount/percent.

    How much (as a ratio) you can over-clock should be what's important, not what frequency you end up with.

  2. Re:Lies on Intel Kills a Top-of-the-Line Processor · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Skylake outperformed in doing the same instructions over and over in benchmarks but Broadwell outperformed in games.

  3. Re:Sure, 100% preventable, on Xbox One Launch Woes Were Preventable, Next Console Likely Digital Download Only · · Score: 1

    with perfect future foreskin even I can pick a winner the day after the race.

    In technology it's pretty simple.

    Any technological conservatism is wrong. ;D

  4. Re:It's no ARMv8 on Intel Launches Onslaught of Skylake CPUs For Laptops, Hybrids and Compute Stick · · Score: 1

    Haven't Xeon CPU's had better performance per watt than ARM since like, forever?

    But.. But... the i3.. i286.. 8088 was bad!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHXx3orN35Y

    .. forget about it.

  5. Re:These companies keep giving us reasons on Underground Piracy Sites Want To Block Windows 10 Users · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the updater kinda make the claim about itself (by user-interface design) that it will provide information but it's never useful.

    It's just the same block of text over and over again making the same generic claim which tell you ~nothing.

    Could just as well had said "*gem* I want to mess with your copy of Windows, forcing you to reboot - again! [Shit! Fucking do that.] [Fuck! Don't do that shit!]"

  6. Re:These companies keep giving us reasons on Underground Piracy Sites Want To Block Windows 10 Users · · Score: 1

    Oh wait, I can't run $program on Linux. Too bad I need it for my job. Well, run it in Win7 you say? Ok. For now. Until the next version rolls around that needs some .net rubbish only available for Win10.

    Yeah, backward support for software and forward support for the OS / support for old OSes from Microsoft has been soooo bad...
    Not.

    Mean-while in OS X-land the new version of your software may actually not run on the 2 year old OS I guess..

  7. Re:These companies keep giving us reasons on Underground Piracy Sites Want To Block Windows 10 Users · · Score: 1

    You may wanna check your list of updates. Microsoft has already added a bunch of telemetry tools in the guise of "important updates".

    Fuck. Just yesterday I added even all the optional ones again as usual.

    MicrosoftÂs information about the upgrades are always useless. In their tool it just give a generic message and tell you to go check somewhere else. I don't understand why we can't get actual information about what the upgrade is about. Confusing for the idiots which is supposed to be able to handle Windows too?

  8. Re:To be fair on F-35 Might Be Outperformed By Fourth-Generation Fighters · · Score: 1

    Make sense :)

    Can't one let the signal interpolate from multiple sources so homing device think it comes from somewhere else? With good tracking of it?
    Then again maybe that's not realistic anyway :)

  9. Re:To be fair on F-35 Might Be Outperformed By Fourth-Generation Fighters · · Score: 1

    that there's a dire shortage of people qualified and willing to fly them.

    I'd fly them for USA.
    But I'm Swede.
    But still. :D

  10. Re:I dern't believe it! on F-35 Might Be Outperformed By Fourth-Generation Fighters · · Score: 2

    The F-22 wasn't "killed". They just decided not to make as many as they originally intended. That happens with every big ticket military program - they always pad the numbers so they can divide out the development costs over more units to make it look cheaper than it really is.

    WOW! Such savings! - Much cheaper!

  11. To be fair on F-35 Might Be Outperformed By Fourth-Generation Fighters · · Score: 2

    ... to be fair the US seem to have great success with their drones.

    Sure it may not be as "fair" and may also be "terrorism" to hang them above people bombing them at will. And maybe it may also not work that great against a technical advanced enemy ("Ukrainian" rebels with Russian equipment (such as Borisoglebsk 2? has managed to shut down GPS, mobile systems and communication in Ukraine: http://www.svd.se/putins-nya-s...)

    But yeah. If the current jets don't cut it will we really see new designs with humans in them? Guess higher resistance against electronic warfare would be the one reason for that to happen?

    The drones seem to work so well and one don't seem to want to have humans killed unnecessarily.

    Droideka.

    Lasers? What are efficient ways to disturb light/lasers? Most efficient mirror?

  12. Re:Couldn't they just book one? on Finnish Police: If You See Uber Car, Call 911 · · Score: 1

    as a burglary gone wrong (something which simply never happens in Finland so it's a bad story to make up)

    Maybe that's the case. I don't know.

    In Sweden I don't see why it couldn't have been and regardless it would likely be much more likely to happen here.

    It's about the same native people, cultural values among them (well, except Swede-hating racist traitorous cultural-relativistic social-fascism in Sweden) but since Sweden is so chock-full of people who don't belong here, haven't grown up here and don't always share the same values or have the same skills, capability and live similar lives it's more likely that one of them do something such.

    Just yesterday of course the biggest news in Sweden is that two asylum-seekers from Eritrea likely has killed a mother and a son at IKEA kitchen section in Vösterås. I don't know why and why it started but that's the result at least. Likely with knifes from that same section. Some kind of argument and then someone getting a knife it seem.

    It would be very unlikely for that to happen with actual Swedes.. Or fins. Or west-Europeans. Or citizens of the United States or Canada to do that. Unlikely to happen in say Japan or so too I guess.

    But.. These savages are from societies where it's still natural to slaughter other people.

    The older of the two seem to have just been here since 13th July this year.

    Good guy.

    That's much less likely to happen in Finland because they haven't drenched their country in people from the middle-east and Africa and Muslims who of course know that at times we're valid targets and decapitating us are just fine.

    And Sweden being what it is the media policy is to hide ethnicity and religion among other things when it's not deemed relevant ("is it ever?") and as such the newspapers telegram bureau TT warned those who subscribe to news from them that they would actually mention that they where from Eritrea this time because the police had mentioned it previously.
    During normal times Swedes are lied to about the result of the invasion and open borders for all sorts of shit from around the world.

  13. Re:Couldn't they just book one? on Finnish Police: If You See Uber Car, Call 911 · · Score: 1

    At least here in Sweden I don't think the police is allowed to make a crime happen.

    Likely the same in Finland.

  14. Re:Why is that illegal? on Girls Catfish ISIS On Social Media For Travel Money · · Score: 1

    $3 million is the number I've seen.

    Of course their \ equals Saudi-Arabia sell oil for more than that.

  15. Re:Catfish on Girls Catfish ISIS On Social Media For Travel Money · · Score: 1

    I know about the fishing but I didn't thought about the name in this case. I don't see how it make sense either.

    I assumed it nothing more than:
    cat - girl

    and hence catfishing being fishing by acting / being a girl.

    Which it's also described as in the article text.

  16. Re:settled cannon for about a decade now on On Linux, $550 Radeon R9 Fury Competes With $200~350 NVIDIA GPUs · · Score: 1

    my question as a linux user is this: two years ago NVidia, after Linus flipped the bird, swore theyd make up for shortcomings in their open source driver. Has this manifested? does the linux open source driver for NVidia trumph the AMD open source radeon driver yet?

    Seem like they support a later OpenGL version and more OpenGL features at least:
    http://www.phoronix.com/scan.p...
    "Nouveau's NVC0 Gallium3D driver for GeForce GTX 400 "Fermi" GPUs and newer has all of OpenGL 4.0 and is even advertising OpenGL 4.1 compliance as shown by the screenshots I took with a GeForce GTX TITAN on Mesa Git this morning. The Intel i965 DRI driver just has a few extensions to enable for OpenGL 4.0 support as does the AMD Radeon R600/RadeonSI Gallium3D drivers. The Softpipe and LLVMpipe software rasterizers are much further behind and will probably be a number of months before these drivers handle OpenGL 4.0."

    As far as performance goes the support for Maxwell (the latest GPU generation) seem to be shit, older ones seem to be doing quite well with 15-70% or so of the performance of the close drivers:
    http://www.phoronix.com/scan.p...
    http://www.phoronix.com/scan.p...
    http://www.phoronix.com/scan.p...

    For more recent AMD cards the open-source driver is even worse relative their catalyst driver than Noveau was vs Nvidias and I guess their catalyst driver isn't as good as the Nvidia one either so go figure:
    http://www.phoronix.com/scan.p...

    Xonotic 0.8 1080p High:
    GTX 680 Nvidia driver: 269 FPS
    GTX 680 Noveau: 105 FPS.
    R9 285 Catalyst: 207 FPS
    R9 285 Mesa: 44 FPS
    GTX 750Ti Nvidia driver: 201 FPS
    GTX 750Ti Noveau: 19 FPS.

    So in that one I'd say the GTX 750Ti + Noveau is doing even worse than the R9 285 + Mesa one.

    R9 285 with Catalyst seem to be doing quite well there.

    But step back one generation and the Kepler GTX 680 owns them all.

  17. Re: Would you eat it? on Olympic Organizer Wants To Feed Athletes Fukushima Produce · · Score: 1

    I've drank 1500 bq / liter water for 15? years time.

    I doubt a few greens during some days would make much of a difference.

  18. Re:Can we maybe fix the memory leaks? on Chrome 44 Launches With Tweaks To Push Messaging and Notifications · · Score: 1

    Maybe you upgraded to 64 bit?
    Use 32 bit Chrome instead?

    Then again now with the version I have (likely 43) Chrome crashes in Windows without Windows ever saying it's running out of RAM.

  19. Well if we can spend 500,000 lifetimes worth of productivity creating the biggest fuckup in the Middle East then why not?

    don't forget the 250,000 or more civilians killed, their productivity certainly took a shit

    But it did kill off terrorism!

  20. Re:already late on NASA Funded Study States People Could Be On the Moon By 2021 For $10 Billion · · Score: 1

    The EPA has less than half the budget of NASA. "Beggar thy neighbor" is a sucker's game.

    Also it's much easier to find and meet earthlings.

  21. Re:you underestimate Al Gore on NASA Funded Study States People Could Be On the Moon By 2021 For $10 Billion · · Score: 1

    Little-known fact about the T-Rex: it had a very small carbon footprint. Dudes went everywhere on foot.

    Rocket packs.

    (Also who used up all the oxygen of their time?)

  22. Re:Google is becoming irrelevant on Popular Torrent Site Disappears From Google After Penalty · · Score: 1

    Why do they suck and if they sucked shouldn't there be clear competitors which sucked less?

    How good is Yahoo? At least they too offer a massive mail. And lots of picture space too.

  23. Re:London? on Meet "London," Marshall's First Android Smartphone · · Score: 1

    To sell to the Beatles? (Or any other Music loving Brits.)

  24. Re:Basic Engineering! on The Missile Impasse In the Iran Negotiations · · Score: 1

    I have two degrees in Aerospace Engineering. I assure you it is not as easy as you try to make it.

    Why complicate things?

    1. Make cockpit.
    2. There's no "..." - Put a "European" Muslim behind the controllers and promise him 72 virgins, fame and purpose.
    3. Profit.

    The Japanese figured it out too. Us Scandinavians as-well.
    Simple.

  25. There may be a difference in how much we use our computers (Mine was the 2.13 GHz Core 2 Duo with 8600m GT one.)