Root Access

Rahul Basu

21:00

@Psycogeek some mod somewhere is just itching for you to cross the line...

3

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

        wow
many troll

DavidPostill

@Psycogeek As can 2.6 billion or so other people.

Guitar Shoe Dave

darn

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

21:03

DavidPostill

@GuitarShoeDave lol

Guitar Shoe Dave

lol

That Brazilian Guy

@GuitarShoeDave Well, at least he's smaert.

Guitar Shoe Dave

smaert!!

Rahul Basu

;p

That Brazilian Guy

21:05

!!doge smaert, integillent, wize

ChatBot John Cavil

   wow
               much smaert
                             so  integillent
such  wize

Rahul Basu

Lel

Guitar Shoe Dave

love it

DavidPostill

@GuitarShoeDave Was this you?

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

21:10

XD

Guitar Shoe Dave

Copy pasting copy pasted copies makes generating copy pastarino'ed periods bliss.

Say that 3x fast

Rahul Basu

Lol

Ben N

@GuitarShoeDave PowerShell: $s = New-Object System.Text.StringBuilder; $s.Append("."[0], 9001); $s.ToString()

Guitar Shoe Dave

That works too

Its actually faster to type that as well.

Ben N

Oh, and tack on a | clip to copy it

That Brazilian Guy

21:23

@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

@BenN: "."*9001 | clip

cool way of doing it

Ben N

Oh wow, I never knew PowerShell could do that. Neat!

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

@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

21:39

May 27 at 14:57, by DavidPostill

Lynx browser. Creating sitemap.xml

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

@ThatBrazilianGuy Aah. That one ;) I bookmarked it in anticipation ...

Nick Alexeev

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Q: can high speed memory interfaces like GDDR5 or XDR ever become mainstream?

Given 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...

Simon Sheehan

@NickAlexeev I'm kind of intrigued by this question actually.

Burgi

@DavidPostill why do you think that MEGA question is off topic?

Simon Sheehan

@Burgi as in MEGA upload stuff?

That Brazilian Guy

21:49

@Burgi Primarily opinion-based, not about either computer hardware or software, possibly spam, let me see what more...

Burgi

yeah, the guy is asking about if it is safe for backups

DavidPostill

@Burgi Because if it isn't spam it belong on webapps.

And it's opinion based

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

And even there, it is arguably opinion-based

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

21:50

@Burgi Because I said so ;)

Burgi

ok, flagged for move to webapps

allquixotic

I just realized that I missed the past hour or two of chat... and nothing of value was lost.

DavidPostill

@allquixotic That's pretty normal for chat :p

allquixotic

Or in SoaSE terminology: "Nothing of value was found."

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

21:53

And the question is now on hold. Bam

Burgi

blargh

oooh @ThatBrazilianGuy got changed

DavidPostill

cloudwards.net/review/mega

Burgi

decent review

That Brazilian Guy

@Burgi I tend to wear new clothes (almost) every day. Although I don't change them at work. Usually.

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

21:58

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

you are wearing a fetching looking mandelbrot fractal.

DavidPostill

Would you trust this guy given his history?

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

@RahulBasu No

@allquixotic FU

DavidPostill

"Because of his size and weight, Dotcom was allowed to have an ergonomic, specially designed chair brought into the courtroom"

Burgi

22:02

what a dick

qwertyuiop

@allquixotic A lonely, friendless, partyless, family-less family party? Great style Samsung

That Brazilian Guy

@RahulBasu What's the game at 3:40?

DavidPostill

helsinkitimes.fi/lifestyle/…

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

@Burgi :/ When is the wedding?

Burgi

22:12

august

DavidPostill

I suppose the dust will be gone by then ...

Burgi

you'd hope so

DavidPostill

Manchester? Doesn't it always rain in Manchester?

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

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

22:23

AMD Polaris is here: anandtech.com/show/10389/…

RX 480: 5 TFLOPS for $200!

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

he has 4k on you... i think if you keep moving during the fight you can probably wear him down

allquixotic

@bwDraco rather boring, unfortunately; go big or go home... show me the flagship that beats the 1080 or

Burgi

i like AMD

its not their fault the canadian government won't help them out

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

22:30

how about the 1070 ? for $200 less , just enough to do everything, except extreeme 4K , where a bit more would be more nessisary

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

@allquixotic isn't an issue with corporate taxes?

allquixotic

as of Skylake, AMD isn't even worth thinking about on the CPU side

bwDraco

GTX 1070 starts at $380.

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

22:33

@allquixotic I'd show you my 1080 Ti but it's under NDA so Mwahaha

Psycogeek

@bwDraco that'll be more my speed.

Burgi

the greatest chip maker in the world is british... maybe AMD should move here

qwertyuiop

@ThatBrazilianGuy Where do you work

@allquixotic And Intel CPUs were pretty bad and barely justifiable in the Athlon era, so?

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

@allquixotic No, that was the Fury/X

allquixotic

22:36

@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

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

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

anandtech.com/show/10391/…

AMD Zen 8C/16T engineering sample demoed.

qwertyuiop

And yet Matrox is still around

And Creative. And Windows Server. And Oracle.

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

22:38

Even Crackberry is still trying

bwDraco

AMD: Phoenix rising?

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

@allquixotic They make profitable high margin products. Their shareholders are happy

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

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

22:40

lots of people out there still trying to run primo games on 100-200$ cards

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

@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

@allquixotic At this point, all I buy is the GTX series... Best bang for the buck, always

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

There's five times as many people running games on Intel 4xxx integrated GPUs than GTX 980s after all

Simon Sheehan

22:43

@qwertyuiop Think of the number of people who now buy laptops and not desktops though.

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

@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

And were obviously happy enough with it to not buy an NVidia graphics equipped laptop instead

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

Hell there's more people running Geforce GT 430's than GTX 940M's, the latter of which istheir most popular mobile chip

allquixotic

22:46

@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

@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

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

@allquixotic The 57xx series was quite good then though. It was a great bang for the buck card at the time really.

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

@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

22:48

@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

@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

AMD are using TSMC for their Zen CPU manufacturing

And we have been talking about CPUs for the last five minutes

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

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

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

22:52

I only see tables, I haven't found any graphs yet

Simon Sheehan

@allquixotic I think a lot of people go Intel/Nvidia or AMD/ATI. They don't seem to mix well.

qwertyuiop

Oh

stupid Chrome click to show

Simon Sheehan

allquixotic

56.64% green team, 17.53% blue team, 25.46% red team

qwertyuiop

Derp

allquixotic

22:52

CPU: 76.76% blue team, 23.24% red team

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

I know it says "PC Video card usage", I'm curious to see what people are using for Mac's... Probably mostly intel

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

Macs are PCs.

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

22:54

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

@qwertyuiop Steam hardware survey seems to separate Mac / PC, so I'm curious as to what the statistics include there.

allquixotic

Skylake is much further ahead of AMD's current (2015) CPUs than Nehalem was over the AMD CPUs of its era

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

@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

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

22:58

???

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

> 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

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

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

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

23:03

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

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

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

the first rule of stars is you don't talk about stars

qwertyuiop

allquixotic

because you'll get starred if you talk about stars

qwertyuiop

23:06

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

@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

@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?

digitaltrends.com/computing/…

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

@allquixotic I'm not saying it's good or anything

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

But considering the best previous piece of artwork I did is this:

It's a freaking miracle in comparison

allquixotic

23:12

o.o

Burgi

-1

A: I am using Windows 7 and I get a 169.254.x.x ip address

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

Bob

@allquixotic I wouldn't be surprised if they wanted AMD alive.

Being a full monopoly comes with a lot of restrictions.

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

@qwertyuiop How did you tell those apart? O.o

allquixotic

Yeah! How!

Burgi

23:18

they have the names stamped on them

Psycogeek

then how did you climb up there

Burgi

did you not know? @qwertyuiop can fly! ;)

Psycogeek

yea, but then somebody has to get the cat back down again

Burgi

the firemen do that

qwertyuiop

@Bob Extreme nerdism

@Burgi No but using a drone to shoot those things would be a huge plus

allquixotic

23:21

@Psycogeek his picture was taken when he was being involuntarily lifted by a firefighter off the pole after reading all the names

qwertyuiop

allquixotic

that face says "NOOOO! I was trying to read the last model number, you dick!"

2

qwertyuiop

^^ THAT there is my best piece of MSPaint artwork ever

Half the time the model numbers aren't stamped on there

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic old sgi is dead, only the brand lives on

Burgi

iirc sun bought the brand?

Journeyman Geek

23:23

Nope. Rackable I think

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

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

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

> 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

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

23:27

your holiday snaps must be fascinating @qwertyuiop

Journeyman Geek

Also AMD does have the console market cornered

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Not really high margin though

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

Bob

@qwertyuiop and here I go "yup that's a mobile tower" :P

qwertyuiop

23:30

Well that's one of my holiday snaps

And there's another

Neither of those people are me

Burgi

images aren't loading

qwertyuiop

Press refresh

Psycogeek

you din' miss nothun

Bob

Why do your holiday snaps include people undressing?

Burgi

@bob, yours don't?

qwertyuiop

23:33

There's a third, and a fourth

But this fifth one is DEFINITELY my best one ever

Burgi

the mobile phone mast is hard to make out on the last one....

qwertyuiop

@Bob They were not undressing

Burgi

phwoar!!!!!!!!

Michael Frank

Ugh.... is there really no easy way to grant someone delegate access to a mailbox in Exchange 2010?

qwertyuiop

That's like NINE RRUs and six MHAs!

Burgi

23:38

almost pornographic

Simon Sheehan

@MichaelFrank support.office.com/en-us/article/…

@MichaelFrank This is not working for you?

qwertyuiop

Look! It's a bad selfie, sans the selfie!

And a tree selfie

Burgi

how does the tree hold the camera?

Michael Frank

@SimonSheehan that would work, but is user side. I mean granting access from the server side.

Simon Sheehan

@MichaelFrank Gotcha

qwertyuiop

23:42

Journeyman Geek

@Bob yeah, but they have volume

qwertyuiop

You have to look pretty close to see the mobile transmitters in that one, cause there's five of them

Michael Frank

Grant Full Mailbox Permission is too much, and send on behalf is to little. There's no in between. :/

qwertyuiop

For less experienced transmitter spotters, this one might be easier

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

23:48

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That Brazilian Guy

@qwertyuiop At $RandomBrazilianGovUni!, obviously!

Michael Frank

@Burgi win+u+u

That Brazilian Guy

@qwertyuiop Wait, is your hobby spotting transmitters?

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

Don't those things cause cancer?

qwertyuiop

23:51

@ThatBrazilianGuy No.

That Brazilian Guy

@qwertyuiop Oh right, I'm confusing it with Wi-Fi antennas. Those cause cancer!

qwertyuiop

If you'd like a moderate challenge, you could try identifying the order of the operators on these ones:

Simon Sheehan

@ThatBrazilianGuy Which also, do not cause cancer, from what I understand :p It's all low frequency radio waves.

Michael Frank

Along with mobile phones, which cause cancer. In lab rats.

That Brazilian Guy

Oh, now I remember! Bananas cause cancer!

qwertyuiop

23:54

^^ That's if you like "hard mode"

ChatBot John Cavil

I have just been restarted! This happens daily automatically, or when my owner restarts me. Ready for commands.

Psycogeek

@ThatBrazilianGuy only fukushima and chernobyl bannanas , which can power your phone for 10 years .

That Brazilian Guy

At least it's an organic power source!

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

But luckily it is far less than the background radiation , post all that wartime nuclear testing

qwertyuiop

23:59

@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

@qwertyuiop Huh?! I also don't sleep next to someone on my job...

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