And they've basically picked the worst way to create new coins - by encouraging people to buy hardware to mine the coins and by wasting extreme amounts of electricity. The fact that there's been a GPU shortage for the last year speak volumes. The question is - who is buying these coins? It seems to me like it's all one massive game of speculation and very little else.
That's where we differ, unless it's a cold winter then there's no good reason to mine. It's a 100% artificial requirement, the people designing the coins could simply set the difficulty rate low and mine all of the coins on day one. Setting the difficulty rate high is an affront to ecology.
Jesus. I remember in the good old days when $200 was a good chunk for a great GPU and $350 was for the very fastest ones.
3 things happened, Crypto currency mining, memory in high demand (partly smart phones) / a memory cartel, other new use cases including but not limited to GPUs doing AI computation and being used in self-driving vehicles.
It's about time GPUs forked between gaming and general compute, general compute is becoming big enough that it should get it's own products with different GPUs. For instance gaming GPUs have 64bit compute precision which is probably a waste of silicon, they likely don't need to be accurate for games and could be faster with 32bit - I could be wrong, any experts here?
Not that I'm fussy about frame-rate myself having gamed through the nineties but the average FPS doesn't matter anywhere near as much as the 0.1 lows because those lows are what get noticed as 'stutter'. There are plenty of gaming purists who are the gaming equivalent of audiophiles. These gamer purists want 144+ fps all the time so their PC is in lockstep with their super-wide monitors and never drop a frame god forbid.
No, the markup on PC DDR is getting absurd, the reason given that it is made in the same factories as mobile phone memory and that supply and demand (of mobile phone memory) is pushing the price up.
The companies making DDR have been busted in the past for operating a cartel, it looks like they're doing it again. There are very large profit margins on DDR, $5+ profit per 8-Gigabit chip IIRC.
It's just the latest in a long line of shenanigans including,
Multiple levels of DRM and online only for single player games. Pre-order bonuses. DLCs (I'm on the fence about mission DLCs) Day-1 DLCs Cosmetic DLCs Weapon DLCs DLC to allow you to buy save slots (yes really) Gold, Platinum editions In-game 'micro-transactions' That are anything buy 'micro' Selling the cosmetic Items, Remember elder scrolls oblivion and all of the different costumes? - well that was before this 'cosmetic items' ****fest started. Cosmetic Loot boxes Pay-to-Win Loot Boxes Weapons Loot Boxes Skins Loot boxes
What kind of fool would give that up to invest in an "anonymous" currency? The mind boggles....
A greedy fool. I kind of feel sorry for these people they're all being ripped off. I don't know what it is about people that have scam screamed at them, ignore the warning and continue. Ok I do, they're fucking morons.
They could use technology far more intelligently, they could come up with far more intelligent rules. They could let customers choose more secure options but they don't, the banks are the enablers of fraud. They rely far too much on assuming that if someone supplies the right ID 1 time that the account is secure from there onwards.
UK has chip and pin, yet the shops allowed the fraudster simply to verbally give card details, they asked for no ID, no card and gave the fraudster 100s worth of goods, unbelievable.
Even when my account went 5x past my overdraft, they still allowed the odd purchases! I said to my bank, can you not allow purchases beyond my overdraft, they said I can't request that!!!!! Pure unadulterated stupidity, they deserve to be defrauded.
It seems to have escaped you that win10 has very poor uptake, it gets slated regularly. A lot if people have been very vocal about how bad it is. True half the population don't care, but that's par for the course. Half the population don't vote either.
You must really hate electric vehicle to be so negative. I think the fact that these batteries last 500,000 miles is pretty amazing. Usually lifetime warranties are not for batteries because no-one expects batteries to last a long time. Look at laptop batteries, they only used to last 2-3 years regardless of whether you even used the laptop.
"All this is saying is that a piece of technology didn't catastrophically fail." No, it's saying that the battery tech is very good and the batteries can be recharged a shit-ton of times without major degradation.
"standard practice" isn't even a term you can apply to goods.
Fuck crypto currencies, or to be more exact, fuck crypto-currencies that set the difficulty rate so that huge amounts of energy has to be wasted in order to "mine" the currency - that just isn't necessary.
They've very much done that already, the only people free of the system are those that don't have to pay taxes or use any public services including roads. And you'll probably still have to pay land taxes.
Thankfully this isn't true, I'm not American but I follow renewables and climate change news and the US is constantly shutting down coal power stations and installing mostly renewables. It really doesn't matter what people think or say in forums, it doesn't matter whether the majority of americans support renewables, it's going to happen anyway because renewables are becoming the cheapest form of energy and that trend has every reason to continue as the renewable production efficiency increases and the products become ever cheaper and more efficient. Solar will likely end up being super cheap - less than half the cost of any fossil fuel power per KwH.
Only 2 out of the last 11 games I played and liked are listed as working with Linux and there's a good chance they won't run without some faffing about. Whereas it's rare that I have problems with win games - I typically don't play new releases until I think they're bug-fixed.
User agreements, terms and conditions and even staff contracts are all utter bullshit. Contracts are supposed to be negotiated by the 2 sides, none of these are negotiated in any meaningful way, they are dictated by big companies who have the upper hand and accepted by users who really have no choice in the matter because the services offered are unique or they don't have the option financially to say no.
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I had to read that several times to fathom it's meaning, where's edit or delete post when you need it. Is there a missing?
The global warming message still not getting through it seems.
And they've basically picked the worst way to create new coins - by encouraging people to buy hardware to mine the coins and by wasting extreme amounts of electricity. The fact that there's been a GPU shortage for the last year speak volumes. The question is - who is buying these coins? It seems to me like it's all one massive game of speculation and very little else.
That's where we differ, unless it's a cold winter then there's no good reason to mine. It's a 100% artificial requirement, the people designing the coins could simply set the difficulty rate low and mine all of the coins on day one. Setting the difficulty rate high is an affront to ecology.
3 things happened, Crypto currency mining, memory in high demand (partly smart phones) / a memory cartel, other new use cases including but not limited to GPUs doing AI computation and being used in self-driving vehicles.
It's about time GPUs forked between gaming and general compute, general compute is becoming big enough that it should get it's own products with different GPUs. For instance gaming GPUs have 64bit compute precision which is probably a waste of silicon, they likely don't need to be accurate for games and could be faster with 32bit - I could be wrong, any experts here?
Not that I'm fussy about frame-rate myself having gamed through the nineties but the average FPS doesn't matter anywhere near as much as the 0.1 lows because those lows are what get noticed as 'stutter'. There are plenty of gaming purists who are the gaming equivalent of audiophiles. These gamer purists want 144+ fps all the time so their PC is in lockstep with their super-wide monitors and never drop a frame god forbid.
Not mutually exclusive, UK uses both like ministry.gov.uk
No, the markup on PC DDR is getting absurd, the reason given that it is made in the same factories as mobile phone memory and that supply and demand (of mobile phone memory) is pushing the price up.
The companies making DDR have been busted in the past for operating a cartel, it looks like they're doing it again. There are very large profit margins on DDR, $5+ profit per 8-Gigabit chip IIRC.
Good, now maybe memory prices can come down a bit.
It's just the latest in a long line of shenanigans including,
Multiple levels of DRM and online only for single player games.
Pre-order bonuses.
DLCs (I'm on the fence about mission DLCs)
Day-1 DLCs
Cosmetic DLCs
Weapon DLCs
DLC to allow you to buy save slots (yes really)
Gold, Platinum editions
In-game 'micro-transactions' That are anything buy 'micro'
Selling the cosmetic Items, Remember elder scrolls oblivion and all of the different costumes? - well that was before this 'cosmetic items' ****fest started.
Cosmetic Loot boxes
Pay-to-Win Loot Boxes
Weapons Loot Boxes
Skins Loot boxes
Gmail UI is moronic shit, stands to reason that they're not going to change it much this time.
A greedy fool. I kind of feel sorry for these people they're all being ripped off. I don't know what it is about people that have scam screamed at them, ignore the warning and continue. Ok I do, they're fucking morons.
They could use technology far more intelligently, they could come up with far more intelligent rules. They could let customers choose more secure options but they don't, the banks are the enablers of fraud. They rely far too much on assuming that if someone supplies the right ID 1 time that the account is secure from there onwards.
UK has chip and pin, yet the shops allowed the fraudster simply to verbally give card details, they asked for no ID, no card and gave the fraudster 100s worth of goods, unbelievable.
Even when my account went 5x past my overdraft, they still allowed the odd purchases! I said to my bank, can you not allow purchases beyond my overdraft, they said I can't request that!!!!! Pure unadulterated stupidity, they deserve to be defrauded.
It seems to have escaped you that win10 has very poor uptake, it gets slated regularly. A lot if people have been very vocal about how bad it is. True half the population don't care, but that's par for the course. Half the population don't vote either.
Awful behaviour, despicable, I'm not going to bookmark that site at all, not now. How do we bookmark sites again?
Dammit, slashdot totally hid the in-between post.
Someone born in 1990 is underage?!?! They have some really strict laws in your state. What is legal age, 40?
You must really hate electric vehicle to be so negative. I think the fact that these batteries last 500,000 miles is pretty amazing. Usually lifetime warranties are not for batteries because no-one expects batteries to last a long time. Look at laptop batteries, they only used to last 2-3 years regardless of whether you even used the laptop.
"All this is saying is that a piece of technology didn't catastrophically fail." No, it's saying that the battery tech is very good and the batteries can be recharged a shit-ton of times without major degradation.
"standard practice" isn't even a term you can apply to goods.
Fuck crypto currencies, or to be more exact, fuck crypto-currencies that set the difficulty rate so that huge amounts of energy has to be wasted in order to "mine" the currency - that just isn't necessary.
"try to chain him to government forever"
They've very much done that already, the only people free of the system are those that don't have to pay taxes or use any public services including roads. And you'll probably still have to pay land taxes.
Thankfully this isn't true, I'm not American but I follow renewables and climate change news and the US is constantly shutting down coal power stations and installing mostly renewables. It really doesn't matter what people think or say in forums, it doesn't matter whether the majority of americans support renewables, it's going to happen anyway because renewables are becoming the cheapest form of energy and that trend has every reason to continue as the renewable production efficiency increases and the products become ever cheaper and more efficient. Solar will likely end up being super cheap - less than half the cost of any fossil fuel power per KwH.
Only 2 out of the last 11 games I played and liked are listed as working with Linux and there's a good chance they won't run without some faffing about. Whereas it's rare that I have problems with win games - I typically don't play new releases until I think they're bug-fixed.
User agreements, terms and conditions and even staff contracts are all utter bullshit. Contracts are supposed to be negotiated by the 2 sides, none of these are negotiated in any meaningful way, they are dictated by big companies who have the upper hand and accepted by users who really have no choice in the matter because the services offered are unique or they don't have the option financially to say no.
It might not require a 'general purpose' internet connection but it obviously does require an internet connection. [Shrugs.]
Very rare, usually they only last a couple of minutes and there's less that one outage per year that I've noticed.