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  1. I have an aging Sandybridge Quad. From the the benchmarks I've ready, the Ryzen will be a slight upgrade for me in gaming.

    Obviously, when I edit and compress video, as I often do when starting a youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCALWDnHfbhcpdPco0cXIeOQ/videos?sort=dd&view=0&shelf_id=0

    ...and raytrace images from Rhino 3D, compress music, it will quite an upgrade.

    I am glad AMD is competitive again because I like competition in the marketplace.

  2. The Furture of Netflix on Netflix Uses AI in Its New Codec To Compress Video Scene By Scene (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    Soon Nextflix may have only a single video in 1000 categories with compression showing a single frame as all.

  3. Re:Netflix Could Have Been Good on Netflix Uses AI in Its New Codec To Compress Video Scene By Scene (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    Sorry, trackpad got the best of me.

  4. Netflix Could Have Been Good on Netflix Uses AI in Its New Codec To Compress Video Scene By Scene (qz.com) · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Netflix is disappointment growing by the days. Soon Nextflix may have only a single video in 1000 categories with compression showing a single frame as all.

  5. Buttons Make Sense in The Real World on Moto, Huawei Are Replacing the Android Keys With a Touchpad (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Real buttons are usually faster and easier than anything virtual--especially, when you are out and about.

  6. Give AMD a Chance if they Deliver on Intel Reacts To AMD Ryzen Apparently Cutting Prices On Core i7 And i5 Processors (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    These intel price cuts wouldn't exist without AMD's presence, and if you want that to continue, and if AMD makes a good product, buy AMD.

  7. Game Over : ( on Science Fiction Actor Bill Paxton Dies At Age 61 (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    Sigh.

  8. Ketchup is Shear-Thinning on Scientists Discover a Way To Get Every Last Drop of Ketchup Out of the Bottle (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Ketchup becomes thinner when you hit the bottom bottle with the bottom of your hand. Some shampoos and detergents does this too.

  9. Re:I don't think many apps use multi core on AMD Launches Ryzen, Claims To Beat Intel's Core i7 Offering At Half the Price (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Photoshop, and Premier, Handbrake, ffmpeg, Winff--almost anything that works on the video you see on youtube were likely done with multiple cores. The marketing images of things you buy were likely raytraced on multiple cores. The things in your life were designed with multi-core computing, such as the cars you drive, and the buildings you stand in. To name a few.

  10. AMD 95 Watts VS Intel 140 Watts on AMD Launches Ryzen, Claims To Beat Intel's Core i7 Offering At Half the Price (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    If I were intel, power consumption would scare me. Intel has no competing part power-wise. It all adds up.

  11. Work on Firefox and Thunderbird Instead on Firefox Fail: Layoffs Kill Mozilla's Push Beyond the Browser (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    We want a good browser and email application.

  12. Not So Good For 3D Printing and Mission Critical on CNET Editor Rails Against Non-Consensual Windows Updates (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    There are times that users just can't have resource grabbing happen, such as 3D printing. The latency from even checking for updates, can ruin a studio recording. Windows 10 rebooting options are poorly thought out. What if you cannot have your computer reboot anytime in the near future?

  13. Ports Should Be Optiocoupled on USB-C Power Meter Helps You Spot Counterfeit Accessories Before They Fry Your Gadgets (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    They put optocouplers in most CNC controllers, and perhaps they should put them in computers as well. Perhaps something can be done about the power leads as well.

  14. Number Jumped Since November? on New Data Shows 85% of Humans Live Under a Corrupt Government (newatlas.com) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Trump is a piece of shit!
    Throwing another piece of Karma on the fire....

  15. Forgot Some... on Ask Slashdot: A Point of Contention - Modern User Interfaces · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hate:
    White text on a bight yellow background, on Galaxy Note 3 Android.
    Where the fuck have the icons gone? Windows.
    Why can't I cut an paste information from your dialog.
    Why are things still not resolution independent. Adobe, and most music production applications.
    Don't think you need files and folders? Think again, and the includes you Firefox mobile bookmarks.

    The creator of "material design" need to be shot. There's a difference between not being limited by the physical world, and needlessly disconnect us from what we have already learned.

    In the battle between KDE, Gnome, and Unity, Cinnamon won.

    Love:
    Rounded corners rule!
    Shadows show us what's on top!

    Maxims:
    Just because Apple did it, doesn't make it right. Remember, they had a bad year last year.
    People need to work, more than you need to masturbate over your own art work.
    Most serious file management takes place in two windows.
    Clean means that you are too lazy to update the functionality in your program, so you are leaving useful stuff off.
    Those who think that the command line and a GUI cannot coexist have never seen a 3D CAD or design program.

  16. Reduces By Killing Patient on Nicotine Shown To Reduce Symptoms of Schizophrenia (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    My mother's psychiatrist gave my mother a nod for smoking. I wish her psychiatrist was there to also hold her hand while she needed 6 liters of oxygen a minute. She's died at 66.

  17. Creator of C++ Worried About Efficient Code? on C++ Creator Wants To Solve 35-Year-Old Generic Programming Issues With Concepts (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    C++ is many things to many people, but efficient? I don't agree.

  18. I agree!

  19. A Bad Day for 65,844,954 Americans on Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump will be remembered, but not fondly.

  20. Republicans Have Different Weather System on Earth Hit Record Hot Year in 2016: NASA (news.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Republicans have different weather system where humans have not changed the planet in any negative way, and therefor don't have to be responsible for anything, and don't have to pass a working planet to our children.

  21. Not Even Wrong! on Will The Death of the PC Bring 'An End To Openness'? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    There are so many things wrong with the prediction that I don't know where to start.

    Power: While content creation is often processor intensive, video editing is very processor intensive. Even playing 3K much less 4K video will get my i7/nvidia "mobile workstation" warm. I make youtube videos like many people. I can edit them on my notebook, but I export the media, which holds a hyperthreaded quad core at 90-100% for hours at a time. Notebooks don't not like that. Gaming computers are powerful, but I feel that few have enough airflow for having both the GPU and CPU running at the same time. Yes, video editing programs are GPU accelerated. 4K will be a bitch. My next desktop will have 8 cores.

    While my notebook isn't bad a CAD/Design, because my desktop can run it's video card faster at all times, it's still faster. If I want to raytrace an animation I use my desktop because it can take the heat.

    As for API's and computer languages, whatever all of you decide to use--will be used. There are a lot of computer languages out there. Companies can dictate whatever they want, but they are not going to be able to hold a platform if they are aren't on the same page as the bulk of programmers. This is a small but sill a significant part of why C/C++ is still popular.

    The death of the PC is only the dream of the person who wants to sell you a service and control you information. Don't go for it.

  22. What? No Mint? on Linux.com Announces The Best Linux Distros for 2017 (linux.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Mint with Cinnamon is arguable the best Linux Desktop distro.

  23. Here in Silicon Valley, there is road noise everywhere. During the growth since the 1970s, it appears that they didn't or couldn't expand the highway system enough to suit the needs, and now the cities are riddled with expressways and 45-50 mile roads near their house.

    It isn't so in New England. You have highways and more quiet cities. There is a distinction. In Connecticut, the closest thing you have to an expressway is the Berlin Turnpike. If you live in CT, you would be amazed to learn that they put the equal to a turnpike right through everyone's neighborhood.

    It doesn't make sense: Here in Campbell, there's a highway that runs north-south, and there's also an expressway that does as well--just a few blocks away.

    The cars from the expressway are loud enough to hear with the windows closed this morning, and it's almost a full block away. The only time it's quiet is on the weekend, sometimes.

    Telecommuting would seem an answer. It would allow us to not have to build so many office buildings as well.

  24. .. "absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election".

    Fuck you, you,spoiled little lying rich sexual sexual predator.

  25. Transparency is not very useful.

    How about fixing the Bluetooth File transfer?
    How about making mounting cellphones more reliable?
    How about giving easier fixes for non 4K compliant programs?
    How about giving us more than 2 power management options at once?
    How about fixing your photo program that won't leave Irfanview's associations alone?
    How about building some audio system like core audio or Jack Audio Server, you know, to help the musicians that make your music.