And here's my biggest complaint about Internet media over the last few years: advertising has ramped up dramatically in both quantity and aggressiveness. The problem is that ad revenue has been falling rapidly, especially traditional advertising formats like banners.
It is not merely a matter of staying competitive. The advertising problem has turned into one of survival.
This is also why we've been seeing more and more paywalls lately.
It is for this reason that while I do block some types of ads, I will try to avoid blocking all ads as long as I can get reasonable performance.
@bwDraco This, I'd rather have 3-5 small ads that don't impact on site performance or article readability; rather than 1 aggressive style ad that auto plays/popup or blocks my screen.
If they tone it down on websites to make competing for ad space more of an issue for advertisers I reckon ad revenue would go back up.
@rahuldottech my recent one. Someone asked "my chipset says it has PCIe 2.0 but the mobo claims PCIe 3.0" and I basically said that the PCIe 3 ports come from the CPU.
@bwDraco Gamers Nexus generally showed it provides more frame stability, with the 0.1% and 1% being higher than the RTX 2080 often, but it only beat the 2080 on average framerate when the architecture of the game engine favored AMD. Overall it seemed to be a toss-up, but he said it's a noisier card than the reference 2080, too.
The big differences are (1) it doesn't have ray tracing / tensor cores (but if you don't care about those features, this means nothing, so it isn't necessarily an Nvidia advantage), and (2) it outperforms even the 2080 Ti in OpenCL workloads by at least 15% up to 75% faster, so if you do anything OpenCL on a regular basis, this is the card to get
puts on his tinfoil hat I wonder if Nvidia deliberately slows down their OpenCL implementation (or doesn't put enough effort into it) to show how good CUDA is (CUDA always outperforms OpenCL on Nvidia hardware IIRC)
@Bob Other than at work, I use GDocs more than I use Word, basically because it provides automated, don't-even-think-about-it machine independence, so I can start work on a document or spreadsheet and hop over to another box seamlessly and continue working, without having to set up OneDrive or iCloud or something, which is at least an effort and may require a lot of effort (for iCloud you have to type your password again pretty often on Windows)
oddly, iCloud has become my de facto WIP code-sharing repository for personal stuff, for code that I know won't work at all but I want to save it to work on it later (possibly not on the same machine) because it's automatic on my Mac and it isn't all that hard to get it working on my Windows box
but for JS stuff I use repl.it which has similar advantages to GDocs
iCloud is more for Lua ESO addons or other random desktop stuff (Java, C#, ...)
(of course, once the code nominally works I push it to github)
> Office 365 Online and the Office 365 Mobile Apps both offer a feature set similar to what you’d find in their Google Docs counterparts.
> Word: You cannot create captions, citations, bibliographies, tables of content. You cannot create or apply styles. And you won’t have access to some of the more advanced reviewing, proofing, or page layout tools.
@bwDraco they should make a $1500, Radeon XIV with two chips on it, using the extra board space they save by having HBM on-die, and make it a triple-width card to give it plenty of extra cooling, and do, like, some crazy impeller + fans design :D
and schedule all GPU commands across the two die (albeit with no VRAM coherency as that would make it slow)
it'd have better scaling than SLI/CrossFire, just like the old two-GPU cards used to scale better
such a card would certainly beat the 2080 Ti and probably the RTX Titan
