@MichaelFrank I rent from a homing company that doesn't provide any tech support (0x7x365) and does not provide love or even the most basic service, so if I need a box rebooted at home I have to go there and do it myself
Designing a processor to deliver high performance is far more than just increasing the clock rate. There are numerous other ways to increase performance, enabled through Moore's law and instrumental to the design of modern processors.
Clock rates can't increase indefinitely.
At first glance, i...
@allquixotic I'm a bit disappointed they couldn't do that with nvidia though... would love to see a 1070 or better paired but I guess they can't fit it (power or physical size, idk)
given that the full-size pascals are more efficient than the full-size vegas
maybe vega scales down better?
since AMD does APUs anyway and Nvidia doesn't... (Tegra?)
also, weird how we seem to have stepped back into 2012
@cpx Excellent movie. I watched it a few months ago. I felt quite sad at the treatment by the government of poor Turing just because of his sexuality. The film is not entirely historically accurate, however, that is not unusual for screen plays of real events.
The main question here is that I don't know what part of the computer is related with the CPU, what does it means to get a better CPU? — GuadalupeAnimationyesterday
superuser.com/questions/904415/… should we consider this answer advertising the "support website" there is no reason I can think of the image or link should even exist in the answer. In fact, it's just a duplicate answer.
Yknow how you were making jokes about the second forth Road bridge should be called the fifth road bridge? Well we have a second Severn crossing too...
What we have here is a failure to communicate.
There's a few issues in play here, many of which are well, not technical.
Lets start with "Work Network Admin refuses to give me a 2nd IP address". This is a right thing to do. One does not have arbitrary systems added to a work network. In many wo...
As far as the company, I'm not sure what specifically you're referring to, but generally speaking, most sufficiently large corporations are all equally bad. Especially Google, Microsoft, Intel, AMD, and Apple. The only decently-sized corporations in computing that I genuinely respect for their decisions are Red Hat and Joyent.
@djsmiley2k that's just a Steve Jobsism; Apple is not the same company post-Steve. They've become much more pragmatic and they've realized that those kinds of patronizing "excuses" don't work. Besides that, I literally ignore the marketing entirely. I get all my Apple product news from third-parties. I have nothing good to say about Apple marketing, because I don't pay any attention to it.
Steve was good and bad. Good for creating categories of devices and spurring innovation across the industry. Bad for being too patronizing to customers and inflexible in giving customers choice.
@djsmiley2k Certain Sonos speakers do the same thing. It's some weird, slow-acting, chemical reaction between the silicone and the wood or the polish on the wood. I don't think that excuses them from not testing this and using a different compound for the bottom of the speaker, but it's just a product flaw.
Apple will writhe and squirm to try not to be liable for damages for it, and they'll try to tell customers how to avoid it, etc. like every other company in deep shit
I haven't heard them literally say "you're putting it on the table wrong"
Granted, Apple is not the best company when it comes to addressing flaws when they do happen. Waiting a long long time to have free repair programs for GPU problems on old Macbooks. Waiting a long long time to have a free repair program for the Touch IC disease in the iPhone 6 Plus.
But I'm on the opposite end of the spectrum: I greatly value Apple's products' features, and couldn't give two shits about the Playstation, so I'm happy to dump on Sony.
Fast travel load times are reported to be very long.
(Assassin's Creed Origins has pushed 40-50 MB/s disk streaming I/O, and I suspect FFXV will push even more, at which point my SATA SSD may actually be a bottleneck under certain conditions)
I might move some of my existing games onto the other SSD.
Probably not as hard as Star Citizen (@allquixotic, any info on how much I/O Star Citizen does?)
If the game costs $40, there's room to raise the base price. There is no excuse for doing this.
Or is the game $40 precisely because dropping the base price and relying on microtransactions will increase profits?
Look, it's abundantly clear that $60 isn't enough. Heck, even $80 isn't enough given that an entire half of revenue at a couple of studios is from microtransactions.
But... will consumers pay $100, $120, or even $150 for a premium game if it meant eliminating microtransactions?
@djsmiley2k I agree. Or the components drawing from it. I also had someone who complained their motherboard+CPU failed at about the same rate as @FMLCat just said his flatmate's PSUs failed. Replaced their ratty PSU and the motherboards+CPUs stopped failing
TBH if Konami is doing this then they're getting very desperate for cash. They can't really last much longer.
Businesses (in any industry) doing things like this and getting increasingly aggressive with getting every last dollar they can while minimizing losses, from autoplaying video ads to binding arbitration clauses in TOS agreements, shows that every dollar counts in today's economy.
Designing a processor to deliver high performance is far more than just increasing the clock rate. There are numerous other ways to increase performance, enabled through Moore's law and instrumental to the design of modern processors.
Clock rates can't increase indefinitely.
At first glance, i...
