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  1. What is going to render for it?

    Current GPUs aren't up to the task in a straightforward way. Rendering 4K VR, at a high frame rate, today means thousands in GPUs.

    Unless someone can make eyeball tracking and smart rendering work.

  2. All your data? Is there a real point? If it succeeds, Tor fails.

  3. Re:What's that word on Oculus Co-founder is Leaving Facebook After Cancellation of 'Rift 2' Headset (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It means they got a good look at a 2080 GPU and cold harsh reality sank in.

    A single 2080 can't drive a 4K HDR at 90Hz, so if they built the obvious upgrade for a Rift, it was going to render at lower resolution anyhow, for _years_.

    Asking users to install two 1k$ graphics cards takes the whole deal out of mass market. Makes money only for Nvidia. Will still likely only render relatively simple scenes.

    Someone will succeed on small scale. Price will be kilobucks.

    Porn is key, as with any new media. Cheap VR is good enough for VR video.

  4. Re:CoCs are religious documents on SQLite Adopts 'Monastic' Code of Conduct (sqlite.org) · · Score: 1

    Punchline: Jesus turned slowly and in an exasperated voice said...'Mother'

  5. Re:CoCs are religious documents on SQLite Adopts 'Monastic' Code of Conduct (sqlite.org) · · Score: 1

    Decades ago, I came in on a Saturday.

    Found the office manager (too much makeup, 'Capital Christian Center' big ol church in Sacramento) getting pounded by one of the regional sales managers on the 'meating' room table.

    I guessed the 'conversion therapy' for her _flaming_ interior decorator husband wasn't going well.

    I ducked back out, thanking dog that I'd heard before I got a good look, I'd have gone blind for sure.

    If I'd had a phone with camera, I'd have been selling raises to her 'reports'.

    Since that time, no more thumper companies.

  6. Everytime power turns over in China, they also have a wave of 'anti-corruption' trials. That isn't generally a good thing.

    Hint: 'Corruption' doesn't mean what you think it means.

  7. Re:right on Linus Torvalds is Back in Charge of Linux (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Others were raped, but not in the oval office.

  8. Re:right on Linus Torvalds is Back in Charge of Linux (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    'Sorry' is just the 'like' of Canadian speech patterns. 'Eh' is the 'Um'.

  9. Re:Step 1: Remove the Code of Cancer. on Linus Torvalds is Back in Charge of Linux (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    KGB archives are open. Not only were there a lot of actual commies, a large percentage where taking cash from the USSR.

    The CP USA was funded by the USSR, that was considered 'conspiratorial', but is now proven.

    McCarthy himself was an alcoholic nutjob, commies maneuvered things so he was the poster boy for anti-communism.

  10. Re:Step 1: Remove the Code of Cancer. on Linus Torvalds is Back in Charge of Linux (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Dude, you never know.

    She might be able to solve a mini rubik's cube with her vaginal muscles.

  11. Re:Step 1: Remove the Code of Cancer. on Linus Torvalds is Back in Charge of Linux (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The basic injustice in life is woman have half the money and all the pussy.

  12. Re:Step 1: Remove the Code of Cancer. on Linus Torvalds is Back in Charge of Linux (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The _rudest_ thing he could have written was: 'i have revoked your access to the group! Go away.'

    The flame was a last warning, Linus should have just kicked the dense coder out, but he's a softy.

    I've run some projects in my day, I don't yell, I fire. If someone IS such an asshole that they MAKE me be an asshole to get their jobs done, I just get rid of them.

  13. Re:Wait..what? on Linus Torvalds is Back in Charge of Linux (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    VB needs a peek and poke statement to access kernel memory.

  14. Re:Why is voting optional? on YouTubers Will Enter Politics, And If They Do, They're Probably Going To Win (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 1

    The premise is silly. IIRC our polls open at 6am and close at 6pm. There are never lines early, rarely lines late.

    People that work 12 hour days can vote early, by mail.

  15. That's an argument against mandatory voting. Brazilian politics makes America look good.

  16. Recover those wasted memory brain cells. Just use scientific notation and forget all the names for big numbers.

    A googol is 10^100. Your rule is not universal. Damn humanity's slow garbage collector.

  17. That's why you mix pure grain alcohol with distilled or rain water. Preserves your purity of essence.

  18. Re:Waiting for Dave's rant on this on A Device That Can Pull Drinking Water From the Air Just Won the Latest XPrize (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    The word you are looking for is 'economical' not 'feasible'.

  19. Re: Waiting for Dave's rant on this on A Device That Can Pull Drinking Water From the Air Just Won the Latest XPrize (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Most of 'your' water is used on farms.

  20. Re:So it doesn't pull water from the air. on A Device That Can Pull Drinking Water From the Air Just Won the Latest XPrize (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    You burn the charcoal produced to make BBQ pork, you sell the BBQ pork and pay the power company to run a heat pump or cooling tower (using your nice acidic condensate water). Duh.

  21. Re:It's called a dehumidifier. on A Device That Can Pull Drinking Water From the Air Just Won the Latest XPrize (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hookers and Blow it is then.

  22. Re:It's called a dehumidifier. on A Device That Can Pull Drinking Water From the Air Just Won the Latest XPrize (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    You have identified 'confusion'. Soon, you might realize 'it's you'.

    Hint: Short cycle carbon...

  23. Re:It's called a dehumidifier. on A Device That Can Pull Drinking Water From the Air Just Won the Latest XPrize (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    By the same logic, building something with the wood is a _GREAT_ way to sequester some carbon until photovoltaics get _REALLY_ cheap. Build something with photovoltaics on the roof if you live somewhere sunny.

  24. Re:youtube is for the illierate on YouTubers Will Enter Politics, And If They Do, They're Probably Going To Win (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 1

    Uncle Bumblefuck is unlikely to write the great Canadian novel. But he's literate.

  25. He doesn't see leeches as 'Wolves'. In his world view the wolves are always 'evil capitalists' not bums voting themselves bread and circuses.