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  1. Re:No Mantle for Xbox/PS on AMD's Radeon R9 290X Review · · Score: 1

    I read somewhere that that's unfortunately not true; Mantle will not be available for the new Xbox or Playstation. My speculation is that Microsoft and Sony don't actually want to be THAT compatible as it would make porting too easy...

    Its the other way around. Mantle on PC is the equivalent of console APIs, with all the lovely low level access you get in consoles.
    You will be able to take console game and throw a little shim between GFX calls to make it PC Mantle game.

  2. just flag the clip as SCAM on NSA Chief Keith Alexander Takes His PRISM Pitch To YouTube · · Score: 1

    and be done with it. Its all lies anyway.

  3. Re:Malcolm Gladwell on Network Scientists Discover the 'Dark Corners' of the Internet · · Score: 1

    We're called "trendsetters", and yes, our ability to form our own unique opinion make us able to convince the whole planet of our ideas.

    No, you are called basement dwellers.
    People that sign up for FB, but never get contacted by anyone.

  4. Re:Another great patent. on New Goggles Offer Minority Report-Style Interface With Heads-Up Display · · Score: 1

    yes, and 50 other people on Occulus rift forum.

  5. Another great patent. on New Goggles Offer Minority Report-Style Interface With Heads-Up Display · · Score: 1

    They patented putting Leap motion on top of VR glasses, genius! Nobody would come up with this one.

  6. Re:Well, he's not wrong on Tesla CEO Elon Musk: Fuel Cells Are 'So Bull@%!#' · · Score: 1

    LPG is not corrosive, Hydrogen is.

  7. Re:Let's not be too angry on Debunking the Lorentz System As a Framework For Human Emotions · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Why does 25fps on a computer game seem slow? on NVIDIA's G-Sync Is VSync Designed For LCDs (not CRTs) · · Score: 1

    because games use shitty motion blur effects
    there is a difference between shitty simulation of motion blur, and a real thing recorded with a camera

  9. Re:Finally on NVIDIA's G-Sync Is VSync Designed For LCDs (not CRTs) · · Score: 1

    there is a standard - MIPI
    all MIPI displays accept partial updates, and use local framebuffer

  10. Re:But.. on NVIDIA's G-Sync Is VSync Designed For LCDs (not CRTs) · · Score: 1

    >Pixels on LCD monitors do not need to wait for above lines of pixels to be drawn, but they do.

    but they do!

  11. Re:Only moose and squirrel have them on Snowden Says He Took No Secret Files To Russia · · Score: 1

    If only there was proof

    You want evidence of absence?

  12. Re:55% on Give Your Child the Gift of an Alzheimer's Diagnosis · · Score: 2, Insightful

    My father has Parkinson's and particpated in the 23andMe study. He has one of the two markers that 23andMe knows about. I happen to have none.

    If I knew that I have a high chance of contracting Parkinson's it would change the way I live my life immediately. Instead of waiting until near retirement to travel the world, I'd live out of a suitcase and do it now.

    You are delusional, you are lying to yourself.
    You wouldnt change duck, you would find a way to rationalize just like you did now.

  13. Re:Win8 as a UI vs. an OS on Windows 8.1 Rolls Out Today · · Score: 1

    turning off the charm bars

    You can never turn them off completely, hot corners, hot edges, default key binds on Win key - you simply CANT turn this shit off. Its hardcoded.

  14. Re:Meh on Windows 8.1 Rolls Out Today · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is a METRO button, there is no start menu.

  15. Sounds like Ubuntu. on Is Choice a Problem For Android? · · Score: 1

    Apple and new Windows Metro - lets force users to use our blessed design, with no way to configure.

  16. Re:Onavo app on Facebook Buys Israeli Mobile Analytics Startup Onavo · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They ARE the bad guys.

  17. Re:"what is necessary to be done" on Hillary Clinton: "We Need To Talk Sensibly About Spying" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Mistakes were made"

    meanwhile
    Hillary Clinton ordered U.S. diplomats to spy on UN
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1333920/WikiLeaks-Hillary-Clinton-ordered-U-S-diplomats-spy-UN-leaders.html

  18. Vivante only looks good on paper on Vivante Mobile GPU Architecture Gains Traction · · Score: 5, Informative

    From one of the etna_viv open source Vivanete drivers:
    https://blog.visucore.com/2013/3/12/opencl-on-i-mx6

    afair its something like: 512 instructions per kernel, no atomics, 1K memory (!!!), 64B cache(!!!!!!!), and shitty narrow databus
    Theoretical peak 16Gflops, real world results 600Mflops :)

    Vivante is a JOKE when it comes to GPGPU. They try to paint themselves as pioneers and leaders (of of the first mobile gpus with working opencl driver), but its only a token gesture. Same goes for the graphics part of the GPU. They are pretty notorious about advertising features that DO NOT WORK or are UNIMPLEMENTED.

    Of course they arent the only ones, whole mobile GPU market is littered with CRAP
    https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2013/09/26/dolphin-emulator-and-opengl-drivers-hall-fameshame/

  19. Re:Dataland or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying... on Dataland: the Emerging Dystopia · · Score: 1

    No. Actually you are an outlier, your record sends all kinds of red flags.

  20. Re:Do the kids still chase the newest video card? on AMD's New Radeons Revisit Old Silicon, Enable Dormant Features · · Score: 3, Informative

    no, they support, not require

  21. Re:Internet costs in Australia on The Ridiculous Tech Fees You're Still Paying · · Score: 2

    Do you know anything about Australia? Do you realize that a huge part of the country is essentially desert and uninhabited. Your population density stats mean little.

    Look at a state, like Victoria, with a population density of 63/sq mile. That would put it in the middle of the US states, somewhere around Mississippi. Certainly it's no new york city, but neither is it Alaska.

    Somewhere with that sort of population should easily be able to support multiple ISPs and have faster and cheaper internet service than that mentioned by the OP. Of course OP may live in the middle of Western Australia, in which case the 1.5 Mbit for $70 is probably a bargain.

    Do you know anything about anything? Iceland has same population density, but above 90% internet penetration, not to mention average speed is twice of Australia.

    But hey, keep building failed NBN with data caps on INTERNAL TRAFFIC.

  22. Re:Do the kids still chase the newest video card? on AMD's New Radeons Revisit Old Silicon, Enable Dormant Features · · Score: 1

    The new cards need PCIe 3.0

    no

  23. Re:Next board without the ATmega32u4 ? on Linux-capable Arduino TRE Debuts At Maker Faire Rome · · Score: 1

    Setup a basic PWM output or an analog input is still too hard on Linux compared to an Arduino.

    its trivial after someone writes a kernel module to do those things

  24. Re:not actually write caching blocks copied to fla on SSHDs Debut On the Desktop With Mixed Results · · Score: 1

    its called OS cache, just allocate 4GB of ram to caching and be done with it
    good luck with power outages tho

  25. Re:oops on SSHDs Debut On the Desktop With Mixed Results · · Score: 1

    It is not a write through cache. The drive firmware copies frequently read files to flash.

    The problem with that claim is that it doesn't jive with it being OS-agnostic. To know what a file are, you have to understand the file system. I can guarantee you that this drive does not understand XFS with external journal, which is what I use.

    it doesnt care, it caches SECTORS, not files