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Rahul Basu
Rahul Basu
9:00 PM
@Psycogeek some mod somewhere is just itching for you to cross the line...
3
 
That Brazilian Guy
That Brazilian Guy
@Psycogeek Between choosing to stay silent and say things like that, I have a hard time understanding why you chose the latter.
!!doge troll
 
ChatBot John Cavil
ChatBot John Cavil
        wow
many troll
 
DavidPostill
DavidPostill
@Psycogeek As can 2.6 billion or so other people.
 
Guitar Shoe Dave
Guitar Shoe Dave
darn
 
Psycogeek
Psycogeek
Curie "The damaging effects of ionising radiation were not known at the time of her work, which had been carried out without the safety measures later developed.[65] She had carried test tubes containing radioactive isotopes in her pocket "
"Because of their levels of radioactive contamination, her papers from the 1890s are considered too dangerous to handle.[71] Even her cookbook is highly radioactive"
 
Guitar Shoe Dave
Guitar Shoe Dave
9:03 PM
 
DavidPostill
DavidPostill
@GuitarShoeDave lol
 
Guitar Shoe Dave
Guitar Shoe Dave
lol
 
That Brazilian Guy
That Brazilian Guy
@GuitarShoeDave Well, at least he's smaert.
 
Guitar Shoe Dave
Guitar Shoe Dave
smaert!!
 
Rahul Basu
Rahul Basu
;p
 
That Brazilian Guy
That Brazilian Guy
9:05 PM
!!doge smaert, integillent, wize
 
ChatBot John Cavil
ChatBot John Cavil
   wow
               much smaert
                             so  integillent
such  wize
 
Rahul Basu
Rahul Basu
Lel
 
Guitar Shoe Dave
Guitar Shoe Dave
love it
 
DavidPostill
DavidPostill
@GuitarShoeDave Was this you?
 
Guitar Shoe Dave
Guitar Shoe Dave
@RahulBasu: Also all of those periods were done in notepad.. I started by copy pasting 10 of them.. then once I had 10.. I copy pasted 20 of them... then 40... then 80.. Then 160.. Then 320.. then 640.. and so on.. until i got a long enough string of periods to copy and paste like a hustler.
You know the sad story is that I dont know how to play the guitar
4
But still funny
=)
 
Rahul Basu
Rahul Basu
9:10 PM
XD
 
Guitar Shoe Dave
Guitar Shoe Dave
Copy pasting copy pasted copies makes generating copy pastarino'ed periods bliss.
Say that 3x fast
 
Rahul Basu
Rahul Basu
Lol
 
Ben N
Ben N
@GuitarShoeDave PowerShell: $s = New-Object System.Text.StringBuilder; $s.Append("."[0], 9001); $s.ToString()
 
Guitar Shoe Dave
Guitar Shoe Dave
That works too
Its actually faster to type that as well.
 
Ben N
Ben N
Oh, and tack on a | clip to copy it
 
That Brazilian Guy
That Brazilian Guy
9:23 PM
@DavidPostill are you still there? The link you directed me to the other day was really helpful, I'm thinking about wrting a question just for you to use it to write an answer.
 
Guitar Shoe Dave
Guitar Shoe Dave
@BenN: "."*9001 | clip
cool way of doing it
 
Ben N
Ben N
Oh wow, I never knew PowerShell could do that. Neat!
 
Guitar Shoe Dave
Guitar Shoe Dave
yeah my first thought was to try "*".Append("."[0], 9001) but that didnt work.. (obvious reasons it failed :()
Anyhow, good night guys..
 
DavidPostill
DavidPostill
@ThatBrazilianGuy Yeah, I'm still here. Don't remember any link though :/ If you remind me I'm happy to answer your question ;)
 
That Brazilian Guy
That Brazilian Guy
9:39 PM
I have to fight my laziness and actually write the question ;p
I'll let you know as soon as I get to it
 
DavidPostill
DavidPostill
@ThatBrazilianGuy Aah. That one ;) I bookmarked it in anticipation ...
 
Nick Alexeev
Nick Alexeev
0
Q: can high speed memory interfaces like GDDR5 or XDR ever become mainstream?

Yale ZhangGiven the limited memory on GPUs, I'm wondering why there are no socketed GDDR5 memory modules so that you can install more RAM. The main challenge seems to be maintaining signal integrity since GDDR5 runs 2.5x faster than the fastest DDR4 (4 GHz vs. 1.6GHz, double pumped). Unlike DDR4, it needs...

high-speed sdram ddr3
 
Simon Sheehan
Simon Sheehan
@NickAlexeev I'm kind of intrigued by this question actually.
 
Burgi
Burgi
@DavidPostill why do you think that MEGA question is off topic?
 
Simon Sheehan
Simon Sheehan
@Burgi as in MEGA upload stuff?
 
That Brazilian Guy
That Brazilian Guy
9:49 PM
@Burgi Primarily opinion-based, not about either computer hardware or software, possibly spam, let me see what more...
 
Burgi
Burgi
yeah, the guy is asking about if it is safe for backups
 
DavidPostill
DavidPostill
@Burgi Because if it isn't spam it belong on webapps.
And it's opinion based
 
Simon Sheehan
Simon Sheehan
@Burgi Webapps. Not to do with hardware or software really and a question like that would probably spark a debate.
 
That Brazilian Guy
That Brazilian Guy
And even there, it is arguably opinion-based
 
Simon Sheehan
Simon Sheehan
Yeah, it's just an argument waiting to happen. I, for one, trust no website to ever back up my stuff... all physical back ups for me.
 
DavidPostill
DavidPostill
9:50 PM
@Burgi Because I said so ;)
 
Burgi
Burgi
ok, flagged for move to webapps
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
I just realized that I missed the past hour or two of chat... and nothing of value was lost.
 
DavidPostill
DavidPostill
@allquixotic That's pretty normal for chat :p
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
Or in SoaSE terminology: "Nothing of value was found."
 
Burgi
Burgi
i think it is a legit question because the service is attractive for small companies but there are risks associated with the brand that wave serious flags for me
 
Simon Sheehan
Simon Sheehan
9:53 PM
And the question is now on hold. Bam
 
Burgi
Burgi
blargh
oooh @ThatBrazilianGuy got changed
 
DavidPostill
DavidPostill
 
Burgi
Burgi
decent review
 
That Brazilian Guy
That Brazilian Guy
@Burgi I tend to wear new clothes (almost) every day. Although I don't change them at work. Usually.
 
Burgi
Burgi
i personally wouldn't put anything on MEGA based on the fact that the NZ authorities impounded the servers last time and legitimate paying customers haven't got their data back yet
 
DavidPostill
DavidPostill
9:58 PM
Kim Dotcom
Kim Dotcom (born Kim Schmitz; 21 January 1974), also known as Kimble and Kim Tim Jim Vestor, is a German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur, businessman, musician, and political party founder who resides in New Zealand. He first rose to fame in Germany in the 1990s as a self-proclaimed teenage internet entrepreneur. In 1994 he received a two-year suspended sentence for computer fraud and data espionage because he was underage, and received a similar sentence in 2003 for insider trading and embezzlement. Dotcom was the founder of now-defunct file hosting service Megaupload but has subsequently been accused...
 
Burgi
Burgi
you are wearing a fetching looking mandelbrot fractal.
 
DavidPostill
DavidPostill
Would you trust this guy given his history?
 
Burgi
Burgi
no
the guy is dodgy as hell but i also think he is innocent of the copyright infringement stuff the NZ government are trying him for
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
@RahulBasu No
@allquixotic FU
 
DavidPostill
DavidPostill
"Because of his size and weight, Dotcom was allowed to have an ergonomic, specially designed chair brought into the courtroom"
 
Burgi
Burgi
10:02 PM
what a dick
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
@allquixotic A lonely, friendless, partyless, family-less family party? Great style Samsung
 
That Brazilian Guy
That Brazilian Guy
@RahulBasu What's the game at 3:40?
 
DavidPostill
DavidPostill
 
Burgi
Burgi
oh dear... they are demolishing the buildings next to the venue my sister is booked into for her wedding
meh, G-wagon
mercedes attempt to make a jeep
anyway, apparently she's crying her eyes out because the entire venue is coated in brick dust
 
DavidPostill
DavidPostill
@Burgi :/ When is the wedding?
 
Burgi
Burgi
10:12 PM
august
 
DavidPostill
DavidPostill
I suppose the dust will be gone by then ...
 
Burgi
Burgi
you'd hope so
 
DavidPostill
DavidPostill
Manchester? Doesn't it always rain in Manchester?
 
Burgi
Burgi
weirdly it hasn't rained this week
WTF...
In addition to the good advice given in the answers, you might want to make an appointment with a neurologist. This comment is based on personal experience. Hand-held binoculars are pretty much useless to me as of the last year or so. — David Hammen 7 mins ago
 
Psycogeek
Psycogeek
n.b.: Program code is almost never paged to the pagefile. If memory demands require, it is simply dropped from RAM (and the RAM thereby freed is used for something else). If it's needed again it's paged back in from the exe or dll (or etc.) that it came from, just like when it was first read in. — Jamie Hanrahan 2 hours ago
Something i cant argue with, but seems incorrect, for windows.
Very linuxey though
Take example of a running exe, it can easily reside in all aspects of the "virtual memory" but it can't not exist in "memory" and still be running, although parts of it could be re-loaded.
Also Xp would page out minimised programs , for no reason that we know of, and that was specifically going to paging file.
This statement has been used before (somewhere here I read it), but it is not accurate for what i have seen , but much of that was in the NT early years.
 
bwDraco
bwDraco
10:23 PM
AMD Polaris is here: anandtech.com/show/10389/…
RX 480: 5 TFLOPS for $200!
 
Psycogeek
Psycogeek
Also this statement is applied when there "is no paging file" , which has nothing to do with this question. The idea that without paging stuff would (therin) be reloaded from disk. Something rather counterintuitive again, as loading a file (file general) from a large cluster disk in a sequential manner could be many times faster. so Why would one find that most often it IS paged not dumped and re-loaded.
This argument (for the wonders of paging) would be used to make claim that paging would be "faster" than reloading the data from the disk. Often the same disk, yet paging is done badly in tiny hunks.
 
Burgi
Burgi
he has 4k on you... i think if you keep moving during the fight you can probably wear him down
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
@bwDraco rather boring, unfortunately; go big or go home... show me the flagship that beats the 1080 or
 
Burgi
Burgi
i like AMD
its not their fault the canadian government won't help them out
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
I might even be willing to listen if they could offer like 95% the performance of the GTX 1080 at 75-80% of the cost
better price-performance ratio while still basically running at the same perf category
 
Psycogeek
Psycogeek
10:30 PM
how about the 1070 ? for $200 less , just enough to do everything, except extreeme 4K , where a bit more would be more nessisary
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
5 GFlops is not competitive with the 1080
I think AMD is headed to the same place with their GPUs as they are with their CPUs, due to cost-cutting by their stupid CEO... constantly laying off their key engineers who could have a chance of getting them competitive again
AMD CPUs were okay in certain situations compared to the Core 2 era... they were pretty bad, but justifiable on the low-end during the Nehalem/Westmere era... they were looking old during the Sandy Bridge era... and ever since Ivy Bridge, AMD has basically been irrelevant on the CPU side, especially since Intel's GPUs started to grow rather beastly for non-gaming activities and easily beat the Radeons on AMD APUs
 
Burgi
Burgi
@allquixotic isn't an issue with corporate taxes?
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
as of Skylake, AMD isn't even worth thinking about on the CPU side
 
bwDraco
bwDraco
GTX 1070 starts at $380.
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
and it seems like Polaris is an abortive attempt to stay competitive with Nvidia, but is coming up grossly short of that goal
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
10:33 PM
@allquixotic I'd show you my 1080 Ti but it's under NDA so Mwahaha
 
Psycogeek
Psycogeek
@bwDraco that'll be more my speed.
 
Burgi
Burgi
the greatest chip maker in the world is british... maybe AMD should move here
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
@ThatBrazilianGuy Where do you work
@allquixotic And Intel CPUs were pretty bad and barely justifiable in the Athlon era, so?
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
the 980 gets 4.6 GFLOPS (single-precision)... I bet you'll see a flood of 980s on the used market for $100-$150 after the 1080 rollout hits full-swing
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
@allquixotic No, that was the Fury/X
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
10:36 PM
@qwertyuiop so AMD has lost momentum after being irrelevant for this many years, and their lack of revenue has pushed them further and further into debt, so there's no way they can come back
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
Based on existing numbers and benchmarks Polaris will be equal or better to Pascal in efficiency and +/-10% on performance, so success will largely come down to pricing.
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
losers lose more, and winners win more... that's how the market naturally pushes things... once you're down for the count, it's very hard to get back up
especially when you've been down for, what, almost a decade?
 
bwDraco
bwDraco
AMD Zen 8C/16T engineering sample demoed.
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
And yet Matrox is still around
And Creative. And Windows Server. And Oracle.
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
@qwertyuiop yeah, and a tiny fraction of the size of AMD or Nvidia, a very small and rather irrelevant company whose niche is to produce graphics chips capable of a very large number of display heads, but not capable of any notable amount of acceleration
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
10:38 PM
Even Crackberry is still trying
 
bwDraco
bwDraco
AMD: Phoenix rising?
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
Windows Server has an actually good market share and has put out some compelling products; they've also got an entire generation of engineers who grew up on Windows and don't know anything else
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
@allquixotic They make profitable high margin products. Their shareholders are happy
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
Oracle's DB has always been strong; anyone who needs scary-scale DBs has historically only had the option of Oracle DB... only now is Postgres just starting to maybe compete on the right hardware
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
I don't think you realise just how irrelevant these top-of-the-range performance-leadership halo products actually are to AMD/NVidia
Having the fastest card in the market makes sod all difference to their bottom line when they're a) low margin and b) Make up less than 10% of their discrete GPU sales
 
Psycogeek
Psycogeek
10:40 PM
lots of people out there still trying to run primo games on 100-200$ cards
 
bwDraco
bwDraco
I was thinking that if AMD can deliver a competitive 8C/16T product around the $500-600 mark, they'd have a real winner on their hands.
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
@qwertyuiop right, but aside from brand loyalists, there's literally no reason to stick with one brand over another if the other brand offers a better performance at your price point... and Nvidia has not only held the performance crown at the top-end, but they've also held the price-performance crown for years in the GPU space, and Intel has done the same in the CPU space.
the APIs used for games, desktops, and almost everything except, like, fixed-function media encoding, are identical across GPUs, and things are even more identical for CPU-driven code, to the point that you literally remove one part and put in the other and things Just Work (tm)
there is no lock-in factor at all, unless you live and die on using the AMD VCE for media encoding or something
 
Simon Sheehan
Simon Sheehan
@allquixotic At this point, all I buy is the GTX series... Best bang for the buck, always
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
so if you are a rational consumer and you look at the market and Nvidia is cheaper and faster, why would you go AMD?
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
There's five times as many people running games on Intel 4xxx integrated GPUs than GTX 980s after all
 
Simon Sheehan
Simon Sheehan
10:43 PM
@qwertyuiop Think of the number of people who now buy laptops and not desktops though.
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
And if AMD were so totally irrelevant why is it even 24% of gamers still run AMD chips?
@SimonSheehan So gamers who use laptops don't count?
 
Simon Sheehan
Simon Sheehan
@qwertyuiop Not saying that, but many of them don't have a choice there. They bought a laptop at some point with Intel Graphics, or are not familiar with computer hardware and use that
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
And were obviously happy enough with it to not buy an NVidia graphics equipped laptop instead
 
Simon Sheehan
Simon Sheehan
@qwertyuiop Or lack the knowledge. Speaking as someone who is a young adult surrounded by students who are all gaming on laptops, a huge majority are not familiar with computer hardware in any sense, but still game
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
Hell there's more people running Geforce GT 430's than GTX 940M's, the latter of which istheir most popular mobile chip
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
10:46 PM
@qwertyuiop 24% is nearly 5% less than just a year ago, and it's been going down steadily over the past few years... 24% is not enough to be competitive in the market, considering how much it costs to R&D these things.
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
@allquixotic Sure it is when a third to half the cost is fab/technology design and they don't have any of that to do
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
I remember when AMD had like 38 or 40% of the GPU market on Steam; that was back during the Radeon HD5000 era
 
Simon Sheehan
Simon Sheehan
@allquixotic The 57xx series was quite good then though. It was a great bang for the buck card at the time really.
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
After all if market share has been dropping by 5% each year for the past ten years it should be well into the negatives by new if they were truly "irrelevant" as you say
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
@qwertyuiop well they're either paying for R&D for the fab, or they're paying the fab per-chip for the costs incurred by the fab in creating the process... there's no such thing as a free lunch
just like I can either fix my car, costing me time and parts, or I can pay someone else to fix it and buy the parts... if I pay them to fix it, I'm still paying for the parts either way, and probably end up paying more because it's a service
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
10:48 PM
@allquixotic The costs are shared between dozens of other users of the fab though, including the likes of Apple, Intel, Samsung, and so forth
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
@qwertyuiop Apple, Intel and Nvidia aren't using Global Foundries... based on what I've read, AMD has shifted all Polaris manufacturing to GloFo... haven't seen them interacting with TSMC for the 14nm/16nm FinFET node(s) as of yet. Maybe they'll pick that back up later though, who knows
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
AMD are using TSMC for their Zen CPU manufacturing
And we have been talking about CPUs for the last five minutes
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
oh, I've been talking about both... because what I'm observing is that AMD's GPU market share is trending downward and "following" the AMD CPU unit down into the pits of irrelevance.
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
Similarly to there being no free lunch, they don't have to bear the costs of GF's fuckups with 14nm either, which Intel has to absorb in-house having paid for in front
Well I dunno about their GPU market share, all I know is it's been going up recently. I only see CPU market share figures on Steam's HW list
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
In fact, as of May 2016's Steam hardware survey, AMD's CPU and GPU market share percentages are quite close
@qwertyuiop really? it's the first graph
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
10:52 PM
I only see tables, I haven't found any graphs yet
 
Simon Sheehan
Simon Sheehan
@allquixotic I think a lot of people go Intel/Nvidia or AMD/ATI. They don't seem to mix well.
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
Oh
stupid Chrome click to show
 
Simon Sheehan
Simon Sheehan
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
56.64% green team, 17.53% blue team, 25.46% red team
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
Derp
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
10:52 PM
CPU: 76.76% blue team, 23.24% red team
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
I'm usually allergic to play buttons because it implies video and i HATE videos.
So I just clicked the Click for more info
 
Simon Sheehan
Simon Sheehan
I know it says "PC Video card usage", I'm curious to see what people are using for Mac's... Probably mostly intel
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
if you're only capturing a quarter of the market, and your prices are competitive with the competition, and your costs are at least half as much as the competition, you're making a lot less money than your competitor -- the only way to come out ahead would be to lower your costs so much that you can hold on to a quarter of the market with a razor-thin R&D team
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
Macs are PCs.
 
Psycogeek
Psycogeek
what if there is only 1 left, and then a nuclear shark tsunami hits, and the competitor had already left the playing field, before thier game starts?
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
10:54 PM
thing is, the bigger R&D budgets of Intel and Nvidia are actually leading to an increasing edge over AMD over the years
 
Simon Sheehan
Simon Sheehan
@qwertyuiop Steam hardware survey seems to separate Mac / PC, so I'm curious as to what the statistics include there.
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
Skylake is much further ahead of AMD's current (2015) CPUs than Nehalem was over the AMD CPUs of its era
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
Regardless. Intel has to pay for the years of delays and cock-ups their 14nm and soon 10nm processes. AMD don't, since that's already been paid for by Apple and Samsung and Qualcomm and so forth. And it's the foundries' job to price competitively so AMD has to shoulder far less risk than Intel does
Therefore the costs and profit margin requirements are totally totally different.
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
@qwertyuiop AMD has $2.2 Billion in debt and made almost $4 Billion in raw revenue last year. Assuming they aren't running their business on a $0 budget, it's going to take them a while to get out of debt. Meanwhile they're paying interest on that debt and their revenue is declining quarter over quarter.
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
And yet without any real innovation (aka proper new architecture) they've grown their mobile GPU sales share by nearly 20% in a quarter.
(7.3 percentage points = 19 percent increase)
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
10:58 PM
???
 
Bob
Bob
@allquixotic I want to look for more Clarkson documentaries now :P
@qwertyuiop Actually my current one is worse than the M6
That was my old one
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
> Mercury had a couple of interesting observations to draw from its recent research. On the red/green feud it says that AMD's gains are thanks, in part, to its renewed emphasis on quality drivers and efforts by the graphics dedicated Radeon Technologies Group.
So it's not even hardware, R&D or fabrication costs, it's retarded software programmers
@Bob Oh
Well
Those were the dimensions you posted under "my last one" I think so I copied them
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
Funny thing is that AMD's drivers are still pretty shit. And I've watched the AAA gaming market go from being extremely pro-AMD (remember that spate of games in 2011-2013 sporting AMD Mantle?) to extremely pro-Nvidia (if it's AAA these days it probably uses GameWorks)
So now they've lost their preferential status with AAA devs, for the most part
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
So in other words if they came out with the perfect drivers tomorrow they'd just about equal nvidia without any change to their product or hardware stack at all.
(Granted that news release was from before Pascal came out, so in reality, fat chance...)
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
if they came out with the perfect drivers, hell would freeze over, and I'd probably more seriously consider Polaris
while simultaneously running from imps trying to eat me
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
11:03 PM
Point being naysayers have been whinging about how AMD have no chance, no money, no resources, no talent and far too much debt to ever recover for the past ten years. They're still here.
Even I'm surprised as hell they've held out this long
Personally I was thinking they'd be gonners by 2012
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
Yeah, they're here, but they're on the precipice of just not mattering. You can downsize a company until your expenses are the cost of a third of an acre of land and run it out of a town house; does anyone care if your company is "still alive" while having 1 employee who barely scratches out $50k/year doing consulting? No, that's not a global corporation, and not competitive.
I mean, SGI is still here, too, but who ever cares about them?
SGI used to be the darling of silicon valley
now they have a small 1-story building on East Arques Avenue near Lawrence Expy in Sunnyvale with half a dozen engineers or so
are they still awesome and relevant to the world? nope.
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
That's still more than some of huge businesses today had during their startup stages five years ago
Stop starring me when I say uninteresting things
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
the first rule of stars is you don't talk about stars
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
because you'll get starred if you talk about stars
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
11:06 PM
I know I posted this already but OH MAN IM SO IMPRESSED BY MY MSPAINT SKILLS
I had no idea I was capable of such excellent work
 
Psycogeek
Psycogeek
@qwertyuiop I'll buy that for a doller, I almost dumped AMD GPU entirely, when they came out with CattleList software made in .net :-P for a group that could write a driver for a GPU, then to turn around and make thier interface software with .Net , but now Intel makes programs in .net too. i am so ashamed of them all :-)
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
@qwertyuiop that looks physically impossible... I guess you're using those invisible struts from KSP to keep the upper laptops from colliding with the lid of the bottom one?
I have a feeling that the definitive yes/no answer to that article's title will be handed down by the exact pricing of AMD chips (and Nvidia's price adjustment "answers" following AMD's launches) over the next 6 months
if Nvidia can afford to drop their prices to beat AMD, it's probably game over
if Nvidia decides to cede a portion of the market to AMD by simply allowing AMD to have a better price/performance ratio within some subsection of the market, AMD may yet live
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
@allquixotic I'm not saying it's good or anything
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
they could probably technically afford to sell products at cost or a slight net loss just to win market share from AMD, and further push them out of the graphics chip competition
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
But considering the best previous piece of artwork I did is this:
It's a freaking miracle in comparison
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
11:12 PM
o.o
 
Burgi
Burgi
-1
A: I am using Windows 7 and I get a 169.254.x.x ip address

HootusHike a leg and toot on the machine. Real loud.

 
Bob
Bob
@allquixotic I wouldn't be surprised if they wanted AMD alive.
Being a full monopoly comes with a lot of restrictions.
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
OK granted, that was my "work" too but that wasn't really meant to be artwork
And to be fair, that's just drawing circles and lines in MSPaint's default colours, hardly "art"
 
Bob
Bob
@qwertyuiop How did you tell those apart? O.o
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
Yeah! How!
 
Burgi
Burgi
11:18 PM
they have the names stamped on them
 
Psycogeek
Psycogeek
then how did you climb up there
 
Burgi
Burgi
did you not know? @qwertyuiop can fly! ;)
 
Psycogeek
Psycogeek
yea, but then somebody has to get the cat back down again
 
Burgi
Burgi
the firemen do that
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
@Bob Extreme nerdism
@Burgi No but using a drone to shoot those things would be a huge plus
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
11:21 PM
@Psycogeek his picture was taken when he was being involuntarily lifted by a firefighter off the pole after reading all the names
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
 
allquixotic
allquixotic
that face says "NOOOO! I was trying to read the last model number, you dick!"
2
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
^^ THAT there is my best piece of MSPaint artwork ever
Half the time the model numbers aren't stamped on there
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@allquixotic old sgi is dead, only the brand lives on
 
Burgi
Burgi
iirc sun bought the brand?
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
11:23 PM
Nope. Rackable I think
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
If you look really closely, you can sometimes see the labels on the back, and with the right lenses (not in those photos) or ladders you can sometimes read them - just
 
Psycogeek
Psycogeek
On April 1, 2009, SGI filed for Chapter 11 again, and announced that it would sell substantially all of its assets to Rackable Systems for $25 million. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
At others, the shape/size/colour of the label helps identify the manufacturer, and you can look through their catalogues to figure out which models they are
 
Burgi
Burgi
> During the Silicon Graphics Inc.'s second bankruptcy phase, it was renamed to Graphics Properties Holdings, Inc.(GPHI) in June 2009.[14][15]

In 2010, GPHI announced it had won a significant favorable ruling in its litigation with ATI Technologies and AMD in June 2010
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
The shape/length/connector colours are quite unique and helpful in identifying them
Also if you look at some of the ones like this:
You can see there's written markings on the RET modules that give away their function
"C U/G 900" for example
 
Burgi
Burgi
11:27 PM
your holiday snaps must be fascinating @qwertyuiop
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
Also AMD does have the console market cornered
 
Bob
Bob
@JourneymanGeek Not really high margin though
 
Psycogeek
Psycogeek
@qwertyuiop looks like something that should be in space, we got the deflector dish, the long and short range sencors, and warp plasma catalytic converter, for space smog issues.
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
 
Bob
Bob
@qwertyuiop and here I go "yup that's a mobile tower" :P
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
11:30 PM
Well that's one of my holiday snaps
And there's another
Neither of those people are me
 
Burgi
Burgi
images aren't loading
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
Press refresh
 
Psycogeek
Psycogeek
you din' miss nothun
 
Bob
Bob
Why do your holiday snaps include people undressing?
 
Burgi
Burgi
@bob, yours don't?
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
11:33 PM
There's a third, and a fourth
But this fifth one is DEFINITELY my best one ever
 
Burgi
Burgi
the mobile phone mast is hard to make out on the last one....
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
@Bob They were not undressing
 
Burgi
Burgi
phwoar!!!!!!!!
 
Michael Frank
Michael Frank
Ugh.... is there really no easy way to grant someone delegate access to a mailbox in Exchange 2010?
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
That's like NINE RRUs and six MHAs!
 
Burgi
Burgi
11:38 PM
almost pornographic
 
Simon Sheehan
Simon Sheehan
@MichaelFrank This is not working for you?
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
Look! It's a bad selfie, sans the selfie!
And a tree selfie
 
Burgi
Burgi
how does the tree hold the camera?
 
Michael Frank
Michael Frank
@SimonSheehan that would work, but is user side. I mean granting access from the server side.
 
Simon Sheehan
Simon Sheehan
@MichaelFrank Gotcha
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
11:42 PM
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@Bob yeah, but they have volume
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
You have to look pretty close to see the mobile transmitters in that one, cause there's five of them
 
Michael Frank
Michael Frank
Grant Full Mailbox Permission is too much, and send on behalf is to little. There's no in between. :/
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
For less experienced transmitter spotters, this one might be easier
 
That Brazilian Guy
That Brazilian Guy
4 hours ago, by That Brazilian Guy
Come work for $RandomBrazilianGovUni! Thepay is shit, but less shitty than the rest of the market. Rock solid job stability, flexible hours, and lots of challenges.
 
Burgi
Burgi
11:48 PM
nn
 
That Brazilian Guy
That Brazilian Guy
@qwertyuiop At $RandomBrazilianGovUni!, obviously!
 
Michael Frank
Michael Frank
@Burgi win+u+u
 
That Brazilian Guy
That Brazilian Guy
@qwertyuiop Wait, is your hobby spotting transmitters?
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
A super easy one for extremely blind/ignorant fools:
Wait, no that's not a mobile transmitter
No that isn't one either. That's a shopping trolley.
There, THAT'S the one I meant to send
 
That Brazilian Guy
That Brazilian Guy
Don't those things cause cancer?
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
11:51 PM
@ThatBrazilianGuy No.
 
That Brazilian Guy
That Brazilian Guy
@qwertyuiop Oh right, I'm confusing it with Wi-Fi antennas. Those cause cancer!
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
If you'd like a moderate challenge, you could try identifying the order of the operators on these ones:
 
Simon Sheehan
Simon Sheehan
@ThatBrazilianGuy Which also, do not cause cancer, from what I understand :p It's all low frequency radio waves.
 
Michael Frank
Michael Frank
Along with mobile phones, which cause cancer. In lab rats.
 
That Brazilian Guy
That Brazilian Guy
Oh, now I remember! Bananas cause cancer!
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
11:54 PM
^^ That's if you like "hard mode"
 
ChatBot John Cavil
ChatBot John Cavil
I have just been restarted! This happens daily automatically, or when my owner restarts me. Ready for commands.
 
Psycogeek
Psycogeek
@ThatBrazilianGuy only fukushima and chernobyl bannanas , which can power your phone for 10 years .
 
That Brazilian Guy
That Brazilian Guy
At least it's an organic power source!
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
Alternatively if you're an extreme sadist, and want to play "Spot the mobile transmitter" in absurd-ludicrous-extreme-scott-manley-difficulty^9999 mode, there's this:
Hint: There's over 9000.
 
Psycogeek
Psycogeek
But luckily it is far less than the background radiation , post all that wartime nuclear testing
 
qwertyuiop
qwertyuiop
11:59 PM
@ThatBrazilianGuy Good job I don't have to sleep next to someone!
Wow a dental X-Ray does as much radiation damage to my teeth as eating 50 bananas
 
That Brazilian Guy
That Brazilian Guy
@qwertyuiop Huh?! I also don't sleep next to someone on my job...
 
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