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Re: Out of the Blue |
Aug 13, 2018, 13:22 |
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Cutter wrote on Aug 13, 2018, 11:45:
Can forest fires stop the U.S. Air Force?!
A slight breeze and cloudy skies will stop the Chair Farce. |
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| News Comments > Sunday Tech Bits |
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Re: Intel |
Aug 12, 2018, 20:04 |
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LC wrote on Aug 12, 2018, 19:46:
What I want to know is have they addressed the security problems found with speculative execution and hyperthreading.
No. That would require a full scale architecture redesign of the way CISC is implemented and that is not likely to happen for some time.
LC wrote on Aug 12, 2018, 19:46:
And are they still hiding their Minix 'Mangement Engine' in their chips.
Yes and that is unlikely to change so long as enterprise customers want that feature. |
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| News Comments > RAGE 2 Trailer |
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Re: RAGE 2 Trailer |
Aug 12, 2018, 01:13 |
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Creston wrote on Aug 11, 2018, 21:03:
Burrito of Peace wrote on Aug 11, 2018, 18:40:
Creston wrote on Aug 11, 2018, 15:15:
Yeah I'm really digging this. I'm down. When is this out again, November?
Q2 '19
Did it get delayed?? 
When I looked it up earlier today, every link I clicked showed a Q2 '19 date. |
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| News Comments > RAGE 2 Trailer |
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Re: RAGE 2 Trailer |
Aug 11, 2018, 10:42 |
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| I am a lot more excited for this than I am DOOM Eternal. However, I really, really liked Mad Max and I think Avalanche Studios did a phenomenal job with it. I'm really interested to see how well they do with RAGE 2. |
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| News Comments > DOOM Eternal Gameplay Trailer |
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Re: DOOM Eternal Gameplay Trailer |
Aug 11, 2018, 10:32 |
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I remember the original DOOM quite fondly. Playing it on LAN with my friends and my dad (who seriously kicked ass at it) on a then unheard of super speedy 100Mb LAN. Anyone who says that there wasn't monster arenas and insta-spawns are fooling themselves. In particular, there was a tiered arena where a couple of mechaspiders spawned and then a giant fucking Hell Baron shows up afterward.
I was rather "meh" about 2016's Doom. I didn't like hunting for collectibles as I felt it dragged down the game's pace. Otherwise, it was ok for a typical, mindless run and gun.
This one looks to be just OK. There's nothing particularly new, innovative, or stunning about it that I haven't seen in other previous games and that, I think, is one of two problems. The second problem is insurmountable. There's only so much you can do in a fast paced shooter without dragging it away from its core gameplay. But the last and insurmountable problem is that the original DOOM was groundbreaking and this is simply not, at least not from what this video shows.
At least not to those of us who played the original which is probably a shrinking demographic as we age out of gaming as a whole. This might very well be exciting to those who came after us. It just won't be for us because we've been there, done that.
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Aug 7, 2018, 07:25 |
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Mr. Tact wrote on Aug 6, 2018, 23:31:
Burrito of Peace wrote on Aug 6, 2018, 19:56:
That's certainly one solution, yes, and one I personally advocate. In 2018, there isn't really a need to be "technically savvy" to use Linux. No more than using Windows.
My mother is in her latter 60s and has been a full time Linux user for the last six years. Three years on Mint and the last three on Manjaro. It's been a while since I've looked at it, perhaps I should look again. I admit I'm not even familiar with Mint or Manjaro. What is the solution for gaming? Some kind of virtual box?
Depending on the game, yes. However, there are a many games that have Linux native versions through Steam. Generally, I find those to be more performant than their Windows counterparts.
For games that do not have a Linux version, I do have a VM that I use PCI passthrough (for the video card) with that gives me ~98% performance versus bare metal. Although it is not yet a one click solution, there's plenty of guides that can walk a person through how to do so with minimal difficulty. jdreyer and I talked about this some months back and he did it. He was, if I remember, quite pleased with the result. |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Aug 6, 2018, 19:56 |
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Mr. Tact wrote on Aug 6, 2018, 13:56:
Burrito of Peace wrote on Aug 6, 2018, 12:02:
[Shrugs] There are many ways around the Windows problem but people will still bitch about it while doing absolutely nothing about it. Which solution are you advocating? Linux? I'm technically savvy enough I probably could use Linux, but I'm just not interested in executing the effort which is required.
That's certainly one solution, yes, and one I personally advocate. In 2018, there isn't really a need to be "technically savvy" to use Linux. No more than using Windows.
My mother is in her latter 60s and has been a full time Linux user for the last six years. Three years on Mint and the last three on Manjaro. In that time, she has asked for help exactly once. She uses it to browse the web, email, watch movies, wrote a cookbook on it, and other light to medium duty usage. I would in no way quantify my mother as a technical user.
Likewise, my wife whom is also not a particularly technical user, uses Linux daily and even runs her payroll, bookkeeping, and accounting business using Quickbooks off of it.
It's absolutely doable. |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Aug 3, 2018, 11:16 |
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Kxmode wrote on Aug 3, 2018, 00:58:
Rather lengthy response...
First: Kxmode, I appreciate the time and effort you put in to your reply. From your point of view, it is well presented and researched. I respect that. Please take my response as conversational and neither adversarial nor sarcastic.
I disagree with your assertions because they're interpretive, not analytical. Like most responses from believers, they are based on inherent assumptions rather than provable data.
Abrahamic religions share the origin story that Yahweh/God/Allah created Adam and Eve. However, there are key differences in that some translations state that Adam and Eve are the very first humans created while others state that Adam and Eve were the first of the "Chosen People" created. While it may seem minor, it creates a schism in dogma because:
1. If Adam is the first male human, the story goes that he was created from dust/earth/dirt. Were that the case, then Adam himself would be an imperfect creature from the outset given that dirt is essentially eons of decayed matter both biologic and geologic. Therefore, without resorting to magic-handwaving, he is an impure and imperfect creature.
(Genesis 2:7 KJV)
2. If Adam, and therefore Eve, are the first of the "Chosen People", then it is clear they are not the first of the human race. Which means there are others that predate them and either they are flawed which destroys the credibility of a perfect deity or they were created by someone else which removes the concept of a single god. Moreover, there is transliterative problems with Eloha and Elohim. One is singular and the other plural and the plural gets used almost ubiquitously. This is further supported by Cain being exiled (to Nod and how is there a Nod and city therein), being marked so that no one should/would kill him (how could anyone else kill him if it is just Adam, Eve, Cain, and the late Abel up to this point), and then returning from exile with a wife. (Gen 4:15-17 KJV)
Further, proceeding under the guise that Yahweh/God/Allah is an omnipotent and omniscient entity, he/she/it/they would would therefore know that Adam and Eve would disregard instructions. You can't use the argument that Satan tempted them without said diety's knowledge. Likewise, you can't use the argument of free will, either, due to the nature of omniscience. If an entity is truly omniscient, then that entity would know this is the outcome and the punishment thereafter is intentional cruelty. Moreover, it goes straight in to psychopathy when that punishment is automatically inherited by descendants (whether they're from Adam and Eve or from the faceless "others") who had no part in the initial transgression.
Also, there's a great many mentions of being afraid or fearful. Why would you ever need to fear an allegedly kind and loving god?
We're not even going to delve deeply in to the mountain of atrocities directed by Yahweh/God/Allah but we can recap some of the more egregious ones:
(Numbers 31:7-18 KJV)God tells the Israelites to kill the Midianites, including cutting the unborn from their mothers wombs to dash against rocks, except for the virgins. That's because God tells them to keep them as party favors that they can rape at will.
(2 Kings 2:23-24 KJV) Children, children, are torn apart by bears because they mocked Elisha for his bald pate.
The many, many references to the acceptable policy of slavery, especially sex slavery, in Exodus and Numbers. Including members of one's own family.
One could argue that that is all in the Old Testament, which is true. Nevertheless, it pointedly puts to lie the assertion of a kind and loving god.
We can dig in to the New Testament, so let's. I won't be using the name "Jesus" because it's wholly and woefully inaccurate. If such an individual actually existed, his name would have been Yeshua.
Yeshua I like, from a philosophical perspective. He had a very good core message. To wit: Don't be a dick, help out when you can, not when it is convenient. Good message that, but it is a message that has echoed down the history of humanity from many different sources from many different areas of the globe through epochs long before the alleged events laid out in the New Testament.
Finally, we have Yeshua saying "This is the new and everlasting covenant..."
Wait a minute. If an omnipotent, omniscient, and perfect god exists, then why do we a need new covenant? Wasn't the first divinely perfect and pure? The answer is no because you have a book of mythology that is doing its best to retcon a savage, bloodthirsty, psychopathic war deity, Yaweh, with a more Gaian oriented deity in Yeshua.
A final point is that Abrahamic religions more or less transpose Satan and Lucifer when they are different entities within their own dogma. Satan, as an entity, is a creation of the early Hebrews. It is a literary device to frame all the foibles of human behavior and an extremely primitive understanding of the world. Lucifer, as an entity, is setup as an agent provocateur to give mankind agency in "helping" their deity by being as obedient to their dogma as possible. Both are used as devices to advance a social engineering agenda. |
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| News Comments > BioWare's Dragon Age and Mass Effect Plans |
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Re: LG VR HMD Specs |
Aug 3, 2018, 00:21 |
Burrito of Peace |
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Shineyguy wrote on Aug 2, 2018, 21:42:
If it's not Andromeda 2 then fuck you Bioware.
If it is Andromeda 2, then fuck you, Bioware. Andromeda was absolute garbage even after all the updates. But it's most damning problem is that it was god awful boring.
If they want to revisit the Mass Effect universe, go prequel and do the Human-Turian war. No Magic Savior Sheapherd, no bland cult bullshit. Hell, play a young Anderson who makes his bones during the conflict. |
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Re: More proof gods don't exist |
Aug 2, 2018, 21:10 |
Burrito of Peace |
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1badmf wrote on Aug 2, 2018, 20:57:
you knew that prick? dammit why aren't you a time traveller and, like, given him herpes or something. but at least you've confirmed you have a be a real asshole to spew all his sociopathic lies in order to sell his snake oil.
That's why I put "knew" in quotes. Back then, he was just a clownish asshole that was one of many conspiracy whackjobs that had public access shows and cheesy HTML websites with marquee text and animated GIFs. |
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Re: More proof gods don't exist |
Aug 2, 2018, 19:03 |
Burrito of Peace |
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You know, it's morbidly funny. I "knew" Alex Jones when he was kicking around the local community college and I was a student there. I say "knew" in quotes because it's not like we hung out and drank together. Even back then, he was an insufferable asshole but the difference is that this whole thing he has going on now is a persona, a brand. His early public access stuff done through the RTF department was mocked to Hell and gone. He used to get so, so pissed because, not that people wouldn't take him seriously, no one would buy his cheap crap that he was hawking.
As a former Catholic, I can tell you there is no "kind and loving God". If there were, explain childhood terminal cancer without resorting to magic hand-waving and/or some variation on theme of "It's God's unknowable plan". |
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