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  1. Re:Make it easy for the reader on 'The Five-Paragraph Essay Must Die' (psmag.com) · · Score: 1

    The business terminology is "Executive Summary" but yes, it does go at the start of a document.

  2. Re:Er, no. on 'The Five-Paragraph Essay Must Die' (psmag.com) · · Score: 1

    "Cash me ouside how bow dah" is barely comprehensible to even American English speakers, right now

    You say that but Irvine Welsh achieved fame by phonetically capturing spoken Scottish, so why wouldn't someone do the same for heavily accented American?

    I've never even heard of Dr. Phil and don't know the meme to which you refer but it's pretty obvious that you're quoting someone saying, "Catch me outside, how about that?"

    "mov yax, beex" cannot be interpreted, it is invalid and wrong

    Maybe, but "move yaks beer" would be a fine piece of street art.

  3. Re:Er, no. on 'The Five-Paragraph Essay Must Die' (psmag.com) · · Score: 1

    The five-paragraph essay is the English language equivalent of "Hello World"

    No, it appears to be the American language equivalent.

    In English we were taught spelling, grammar and poetry. I was never taught a five paragraph essay structure, just a more freeform 'begin, middle, end' that happily extends to other forms of writing too.

  4. Networking gear is not a factor in gaming.

    Of course it fucking is, if the game involves use of a network.

    Try playing an online game with your router unplugged if you want a pretty fucking simple demonstration of its importance.

    For much online gaming latency has a massive impact on the game. Networking gear has a massive impact on latency. QED.

    Or maybe you think you can win on Fortnite using IPoAC?

    I can tell when playing games when my router is fucked. I could tell from a friend's interactions in a game when his was fucked. Networking gear quite definitely is a factor in gaming.

    This is probably for the morons that think their reflexes and visual cortex are fast enough that 120Hz displays or 1000Hz keyboards make a difference.

    Oh for fucks sake.

    Gamer A has fighter pilot reflexes and reacts to on-screen stimuli in 250ms.
    His screen refreshes at 60Hz, so he's already had to wait up to 16ms for the screen to display whatever triggered him to hit the 'fire' button.
    His mouse refreshes at 125Hz so he's had to wait another 8ms for the button press to register.

    Already he's at 274ms, adding around 10% to his reaction time.

    Gamer B has Formula 1 race driver reactions and responds to on-screen stimuli in 250ms.
    He bought a monitor that refreshes at 120Hz and a graphics card to drive it. He bought a mouse that updates at 1000Hz.

    Gamers A and B walk around a corner in a game, see each other, press 'fire' in 250ms.

    Gamer A's in-game character dies. Every fucking time.

    They do not.

    Of course they fucking do. The margins are immensely tiny but they do exist and there are a lot of people out there with the ability to exploit them.

    It's ok, you don't have to buy one. You don't have to be able to play competitively against e-sports professionals. You don't have to play games at all. Just stop being such an ignorant cunt regarding the people that do.

  5. Re:QOS only affects outgoing traffic on NVIDIA 'GeForce NOW Recommended Routers' Program Helps Gamers Choose Networking Gear (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Hmm. You having no fucking clue about what he's talking about doesn't mean he has none.

    His post was accurate and sensible, and although QoS will make the most difference when bandwidth is a bottleneck your router will indeed be handling queues constantly, even at relatively low loads.

    Such is the way of computers.

    Anyway, who the fuck needs multiple users to chew a connection? Shit, at full load I have multiple PCs, a couple of TVs, a blu-ray player, two NAS boxes, three IP cameras and various mobile devices all randomly choosing to make internet connections, plus the router itself. Why would I let any of that interfere with my latency in Rocket League?

  6. Re:Is this just another con? on NVIDIA 'GeForce NOW Recommended Routers' Program Helps Gamers Choose Networking Gear (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Is there seriously such a difference that you would need to recommend one brand over another. Wouldnt you just recommend a feature set - like QoS.

    Fuck yes, there's a massive difference. Wireless networking chipset, onboard RAM, all the other components that make modern routers miniature servers in their own right.

    Then there's the software that runs on them. A feature list doesn't factor in usability, efficiency, effectiveness or frequency of updates.

    For many people the ability to install their own software matters too.

    Home wifi routers are not just routers. Router brands are not just badges on the same underlying product. I absolutely would recommend a router brand, and recommend against another, but in preference I'd recommend a specific router model, because most of the good brands offer a range of products that meet different needs.

    Whether Nvidia's recommendations have value is a very different question..

  7. Without even checking I'd assume the ROG routers are just aesthetically embedded versions of the Asus RT line of routers that get regular firmware updates many years after release.

    My rt-ac88u offers joyful wireless bandwidth but also includes a bunch of gamer friendly software built in, such as the ability to route online gaming packets via dedicated paths to minimise hops and maximise performance.

    I don't use that, but it does show that the ROG routers wouldn't have to do anything different or special, which both makes them cheap to design/build and easy to keep maintained.

    Asus are terrible at tablets but great at routers and monitors. I'm still ambivalent on the motherboard I got from them so wont say whether they're any good at those.

  8. Re:but... are there no nerds left here? on Researchers Show Parachutes Don't Work, But There's A Catch (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Do enough people fall from a great height while wearing tight fitting clothes to justify a new clothing design and the additional cost of the material needed?

    If you're that worried about it just wear ankle length skirts, then you'll have plenty of material to spread and slow your descent.

  9. Re: Doing God's work on Researchers Show Parachutes Don't Work, But There's A Catch (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Are you sure about this? Just that I just joined a couple of hundred people in voluntarily jumping out of an aircraft and they seemed a pretty representative bunch, covering a wide range of ages, nationalities and wealth levels.

    Anecdotally but fully aligned to this beautifully written up study, wearing a parachute would have saved none of them from severe injury or death either.

  10. At risk of causing offence, it's possible to consider the KKK and the Roman Catholic church to both be fuckwits that need keeping well clear of children.

    Indeed, I'll add you to that list, given your apparent ability to interpret censure of an organisation's child abuse as support for an entirely different unrelated and irrelevant organisation.

    Yes, I'm saying that you're a fuckwit and we need to keep you away from children. You're no better than the KKK or the Catholic Church.

  11. You shitting me? I'd trust 4chan with an 8 year old far more than Roman Catholic clergy.

  12. Re:They live in RVs? Those are the lucky ones on Two Miles From Facebook's Headquarters, Working Poor Live In Trailers (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 2

    Fixed that for you.

    No. What you've done is try to impose your own view on his commentary without the sheer fucking courtesy of writing it in your own words, while expecting the reader to compare the two texts to see what you've changed.

    I didn't. Your use of that approach to critique means I discount your views as idiotic and pointless and didn't bother to try and read them.

    Well done.

  13. Re:Land devs do the prep for high dollar homes on Two Miles From Facebook's Headquarters, Working Poor Live In Trailers (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Well done, you're a fucking superstar. Anybody that didn't buy their home for a fifth of its current value is however fucked over by circumstances.

    My property taxes are based on

    ..a lie, and don't fucking pretend otherwise.

    was and is affordable to me, NOT what it would sell for today

    So you're living somewhere that by your own definition is not affordable to people like you, yet you don't understand why that's a problem.

    Here's a fucking hint: You are the problem.

  14. Re:The government used to build infrastructure on Two Miles From Facebook's Headquarters, Working Poor Live In Trailers (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    wasting land on single-family residential homes that could be used for apartments which house more people, bring in more tax revenue per acre, and require less infrastructure per person

    Shrug. I'd rather kill half the population than live in the middle of a population dense city. City Governments are saving lives.

  15. Maybe the approach to using property taxes to fund public services is thus flawed and needs to be changed.

    Fucking over young people to subsidise old people living in mansions isn't the right alternative.

  16. from 5am till around midnight or so

    Ah, ideal if you don't need to get to work before 6am, or work shifts, or you don't ever visit friends until late, or go to events, or have any form of life whatsoever.

    Why the fuck do people keep opening new businesses in the middle of fuckwit cities nobody can afford to live in?

    I don't get it.

  17. Re: Isn't this the same company on What Happens After Surprising DNA Test Results? (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 2

    Fraud. Exactly the grounds on which he should also be suing her for damages to cover for any legally mandated monetary award against him to pay for the child, plus whatever damages he feels are appropriate.

  18. These were apparently commercial programmable drones capable of operating without radio control.

    That aside, RC copters are a subset of 'drones' so stop being a cock.

  19. Re:Wrong in all respects on Apple To Build $1B Austin Campus, Add Thousands of Jobs in US Expansion (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Calling the Mac Mini a server is so laughable it discredits your entire post.

  20. Re: "doom" is probably also what sealed on Doom Turns 25: The FPS That Wowed Players, Gummed Up Servers, and Enraged Admins (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Who had LANs back then? Companies, universities.

    Guess who was banning Doom?

    It wasn't the download that really broke networks it was the sub-optimal network code in the game that flooded the network and made it unusable for anything else. That's why it got banned.

    You're calling this guy a kid but demonstrating your own senility. Try educating yourself.

  21. Most people spend nearly every penny they make and can't afford a pay cut.

    While earning the sort of money Facebook pays? Fuck them then, they should've planned better and lived within their means.

  22. Re:They know better than we do on Facebook Employees Are So Paranoid They're Using Burner Phones To Talk To Each Other (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, come on. That's just tro... oh.
    https://metro.co.uk/2018/09/21...

  23. Facebook maintain shadow profiles of people that aren't users. Those people didn't choose to use Facebook but are still fucked over by it.

    But that's fine, you go ahead and claim other people are making retarded arguments. I'll let self awareness reach you organically, I'm sure it'll get there eventually.

  24. Re:Remember: It's not just Facebook. on Facebook Employees Are So Paranoid They're Using Burner Phones To Talk To Each Other (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, torturing their children in front of them isn't happening on a large scale either.

    If you don't like what's happening to you there's always scope for violence. That might get you killed but hey, you're the one claiming something's worse than being killed.

  25. Re:A near Herzberg Event on 24 Amazon Workers Sent To Hospital After Robot Accidentally Unleashes Bear Spray · · Score: 1

    Ah, victim blaming, even though it's been shown that visibility was good and that had the human at the wheel been actually looking where they were going there was plenty of time to spot the pedestrian and avoid them.

    No wonder you posted AC, I wouldn't put my name to that idiocy either.