3D gaming over remoteFX even pre-2012? sorry but that would suck balls comapred to a directly connected gaming monitor. Apart from anything else, what about framrates > 60hz, Gsync/Freesync and the unavoidable extra latency?
Yep us Brits can be VERY crusty:-) It comes from growing up in a society with endless amounts of particularly stupid bureaucracy and laws on the books dating back to the Medieval times. You soon learn how to actually get things done.
> Train your replacement, and we'll give you a bonus of six+ months' salary, but only if you stay until they tell you to.
My neighbor got told something like this, then when his last day came they told him that they'd changed their mind about the bonus. There was realistically nothing he could do. The legal option was at best an unlikely gamble that if not won would have left him significantly more broke/in debt.
Totally agree. Its the sheepiest-like most mindless consumer generation I for one have ever seen. They will clearly bend over for anybody and believe at face value any nonsense at all that the populist media tells them, as long as they get their iPhone (n+1) and continued Twitterbook access.
>> So once you actually show that you have some balls and stand up for yourself, it's easy to brand you as a "troublemaker" or "not a team player" or some other shit like that.
That definately happens (its happened to me) but at least you get to deal with the world on your terms not someone else's, and you also have a real choice to leave your current employment. Chances are, you probably should anyway if they are really like that.
>> Like a lot of great ideas, yours works much better when lots of people do the same thing. Yes and no. In 35 years of working as a software develioper I've seen plenty of evidence to suggest that management in many companies is a one-trick pony. They have no common sense and don't/can't change their approach, mindset or company culture even a tiny amount no matter what happens, even to save the company itself from failure/bankruptcy.
>> If you are losing your job, you at leasy want to get some money to survive.
Thats why you need to never take on debt unless absolutely necessary, then pay it off ASAP and save while you are working. My biggest life rule is to ensure I always have an emergency fund that is a minimum of 6 months (ideally a year) of pay (after tax/deductions), I maintain a minimal lifestyle (no "toys" or luxuries) until I have that in the bank, and I never touch it for ANY reason other than to absolute emergencies to keep myself alive/fed/housed/clothed. A side-effect of doing that is that you become free to live like a man, with some self-respect, not a corporate slave/sheep.
> "I am being asked to do knowledge transfer to a foreigner so they can take over my job in February of 2017,"
I have no idea why employees just sheeplike say yes to doing this shit, instead of taking all your accrued leave and looking for/starting a new job at the same time. At least dick the company around, phone in sick all the time, and do nothing for your last few months. Certainly never give the foreigner any training or actually true information.
I'm guessing thats entirely down to the ease of use though, I mean if you could use a keyboard/mouse/monitor with your phone hardware running a proper desktop (Linux or Windows), that would be all you'd need?
Assuming you're not a gamer and represent the majority who's only use for a home PC is surfing the net, reading emails and opening the odd word document, your 10 year old home PC is still more than fine (as long as you haven't let Microsoft screw you over with automated downgrades), and has probably never even hit more than about 20% CPU and memory utilization..
Really the only significant groups of people who still have a need to keep their hardware at least fairly up to date are gamers and VR users. Those doing other miscellaneous CPU/GPU intensive stuff at home ( SETI, gene folding, AI development, etc.) are probably account for a very tiny percentage of all PC users.
This won;t change a damn thing. There is already a shit ton of hardcore evidence out there about how blatantly corrupt Hillary, Bill and the Clinton Foundation is, yet It seems clear that most Hillary fans simply refuse to believe any of it no matter how undeniable it is. I would seriously bet that even if Hillary directly admitted that she was a devil worshiper who sacrifices babies and bathes in their blood every day, most Clinton fans would still find some way to ignore/rationalize it and would still vote for her.
Interesting thought that we might exist solely for some (Presumably hyper-intelligent) being's entertainment. We could be no more than a video game or a jar of sea monkeys to them.
> it makes the assumption that the designer or designers of the simulation did not account for all of the factors in the simulation before they started it running.
Exactly. I mean thats the whole point of simulation. if you already know what the simulation is going to do, there's no point in even creating/running it. Therefore we have to presume that the creator didn't already know that we would come along. To put it into perspective, If you take all of known time (i.e the uptime of the simulation) and represented that as a single day, mankind has only just appeared in the last nanosecond or so in one infinitesimally small part of it. Given that, It seems to me to be the height of arrogance/ignorance to assume that we are even a significant part of its overall reason..
> We can't understand everything about the universe because we are *part* of that system
And thats why I dont believe it would actually be possible for us to get out of it. Presuming this is a simulation, and someone claimed they found a way out, I'd immediately bet all the money I could get my hands on that upon exiting they would simply cease to exist. I'm fairly convinced that the best we could ever realistically hope for is finding some way to communicate with the outside.
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If your primary concerns are really budget and performance, you shouldn't be looking at laptops.
Totally agree, but like I said in the original post, the people doing that stuff at home on their own PCs are tiny as a percentage of all users.
3D gaming over remoteFX even pre-2012? sorry but that would suck balls comapred to a directly connected gaming monitor. Apart from anything else, what about framrates > 60hz, Gsync/Freesync and the unavoidable extra latency?
Yep us Brits can be VERY crusty :-) It comes from growing up in a society with endless amounts of particularly stupid bureaucracy and laws on the books dating back to the Medieval times. You soon learn how to actually get things done.
> Train your replacement, and we'll give you a bonus of six+ months' salary, but only if you stay until they tell you to.
My neighbor got told something like this, then when his last day came they told him that they'd changed their mind about the bonus. There was realistically nothing he could do. The legal option was at best an unlikely gamble that if not won would have left him significantly more broke/in debt.
Totally agree.
Its the sheepiest-like most mindless consumer generation I for one have ever seen. They will clearly bend over for anybody and believe at face value any nonsense at all that the populist media tells them, as long as they get their iPhone (n+1) and continued Twitterbook access.
>> So once you actually show that you have some balls and stand up for yourself, it's easy to brand you as a "troublemaker" or "not a team player" or some other shit like that.
That definately happens (its happened to me) but at least you get to deal with the world on your terms not someone else's, and you also have a real choice to leave your current employment. Chances are, you probably should anyway if they are really like that.
>> Like a lot of great ideas, yours works much better when lots of people do the same thing.
Yes and no. In 35 years of working as a software develioper I've seen plenty of evidence to suggest that management in many companies is a one-trick pony. They have no common sense and don't/can't change their approach, mindset or company culture even a tiny amount no matter what happens, even to save the company itself from failure/bankruptcy.
Posting trollshit as AC must make you feel like a really big man.
In that case why didn't they financially plan ahead for shit?
>> If you are losing your job, you at leasy want to get some money to survive.
Thats why you need to never take on debt unless absolutely necessary, then pay it off ASAP and save while you are working.
My biggest life rule is to ensure I always have an emergency fund that is a minimum of 6 months (ideally a year) of pay (after tax/deductions), I maintain a minimal lifestyle (no "toys" or luxuries) until I have that in the bank, and I never touch it for ANY reason other than to absolute emergencies to keep myself alive/fed/housed/clothed.
A side-effect of doing that is that you become free to live like a man, with some self-respect, not a corporate slave/sheep.
> "I am being asked to do knowledge transfer to a foreigner so they can take over my job in February of 2017,"
I have no idea why employees just sheeplike say yes to doing this shit, instead of taking all your accrued leave and looking for/starting a new job at the same time.
At least dick the company around, phone in sick all the time, and do nothing for your last few months. Certainly never give the foreigner any training or actually true information.
Look I hear you, (I have an 6700k, Pascal Titan X, and an HTC Vive) but you missed my point. Most people are not hardcore PC gamers.
Yeah but you're talking about games that came out in 1996, 1997, 1999, and 2006.
>> Actually probably stinks for gaming.
Well considering its not a video card (no video output hardware or connector), yeah it does.
>> I just spent $33k for a dual Xeon, 512 GB, and 4 Telsa K40
That was stupid, the P100 will be available any moment.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/...
K40 (@ $2900) .* 4 = 5.72 Tflops. $11600.
P100 (@ $5899) * 2 = 9.4 Tflops $11798
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I'm guessing thats entirely down to the ease of use though, I mean if you could use a keyboard/mouse/monitor with your phone hardware running a proper desktop (Linux or Windows), that would be all you'd need?
Gaming and VR. If you don't do those, you don't need an upgrade.
Assuming you're not a gamer and represent the majority who's only use for a home PC is surfing the net, reading emails and opening the odd word document, your 10 year old home PC is still more than fine (as long as you haven't let Microsoft screw you over with automated downgrades), and has probably never even hit more than about 20% CPU and memory utilization..
Really the only significant groups of people who still have a need to keep their hardware at least fairly up to date are gamers and VR users. Those doing other miscellaneous CPU/GPU intensive stuff at home ( SETI, gene folding, AI development, etc.) are probably account for a very tiny percentage of all PC users.
I totally agree that you can't trust what any political party or the media say, especially around election times.
That's exactly why you need to do your own research, which will quickly show that Clinton is indeed VERY corrupt.
>> You are an idiot.
At least I'm not a rude fucking asshole like you.
This won;t change a damn thing.
There is already a shit ton of hardcore evidence out there about how blatantly corrupt Hillary, Bill and the Clinton Foundation is, yet It seems clear that most Hillary fans simply refuse to believe any of it no matter how undeniable it is.
I would seriously bet that even if Hillary directly admitted that she was a devil worshiper who sacrifices babies and bathes in their blood every day, most Clinton fans would still find some way to ignore/rationalize it and would still vote for her.
Interesting thought that we might exist solely for some (Presumably hyper-intelligent) being's entertainment. We could be no more than a video game or a jar of sea monkeys to them.
Are you like 12 years old or something?
> it makes the assumption that the designer or designers of the simulation did not account for all of the factors in the simulation before they started it running.
Exactly. I mean thats the whole point of simulation. if you already know what the simulation is going to do, there's no point in even creating/running it. Therefore we have to presume that the creator didn't already know that we would come along. To put it into perspective, If you take all of known time (i.e the uptime of the simulation) and represented that as a single day, mankind has only just appeared in the last nanosecond or so in one infinitesimally small part of it. Given that, It seems to me to be the height of arrogance/ignorance to assume that we are even a significant part of its overall reason..
> We can't understand everything about the universe because we are *part* of that system
And thats why I dont believe it would actually be possible for us to get out of it.
Presuming this is a simulation, and someone claimed they found a way out, I'd immediately bet all the money I could get my hands on that upon exiting they would simply cease to exist.
I'm fairly convinced that the best we could ever realistically hope for is finding some way to communicate with the outside.
I love the way you use "standard dungeon cells" as the most naturally easy-to-visualize unit :-)