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Comment Fluid Design... (Score 1) 1191

It's not THAT hard to do. Just look at how much nicer this appears with that whitespace zapped. It's not perfect (The width value in the CSS has to be modified 'cause the source is in the wrong order - if that right bar came first in the HTML, the CSS for it could be set "float: right" and the main area just set "width: auto" and all would be perfect, including comments flowing underneath), but for now it's a touch better.

If anyone wants a stylish patch for the changes I've made, let me know. :)

Comment Re:Still better IMHO (Score 1) 259

Well, I was personally talking about desktop parts. I do realise that in server and computing applications, AMD's HyperTransport system gives them massive capability for expanding the number of cores they can put on a CPU (and the number of CPUs in a system), which in some cases can make up the overwhelming IPC deficit they have. I would be waiting for them to produce their next series of CPUs, hoping they can (at least) make up the difference, but it seems that persistent, intermittent hardware failures on my current rig (along with "Incompatible" RAM, of all things) mean that I'm going to have to change CPU and motherboard now (As in, as soon as I can get the cash together). So I'm going to have to go with a Haswell CPU and Z87-based motherboard, as I simply can't justify paying the same amount for poorer performing AM3+ part.

Comment Re:Still better IMHO (Score 4, Insightful) 259

Unfortunately, not everyone has the ready cash available to buy every CPU, set up a complete system for each, and benchmark them. We plebians have to rely on other people to do that kind of testing for us. And when a great deal of websites, all doing independent benchmarks and reviews, all show AMD getting their collective asses handed to them on a regular basis at the moment, I tend to lend those reviews some weight.

Comment Re:Before AMD committed suicide (Score 2) 259

Perhaps you should read the second chart here. That's testing encoding with Handbrake (Which is essentially a graphical frontend to x264). In that particular test, the i5-4670K wipes the floor with the comparably priced FX-8350, even without the former's huge overclocking potential.

Comment Re:Before AMD committed suicide (Score 1, Insightful) 259

It probably wouldn't. But a dual-core Intel processor would be as good as (or better than) a quad-core AMD. And a quad-core Intel would be as good as, or better than, an 8-core AMD. Especially with Intel's Hyperthreading enabling 2 cores-worth of processing to be handled on a single core.

Comment Re:Before AMD committed suicide (Score 1) 259

And for those computations, at the desktop level, 1 Intel core is approximately as fast as 2 AMD clocks. Intel has MUCH better IPC (Instructions Per Clock) and better re-ordering and lookahead than AMD, and have since the Intel introduced their "Core" infrastructure. This is why a mid-range Intel part (Say, an Intel Core i5-4670K) can handily (and significantly) beat AMD's top-of-the-line desktop CPU (An FX-8350)

Comment Re:No co-op (Score 1) 263

Consoles require you to have two copies of a game to play multiplayer too for the same class of multiplayer play.

So does this. If you want to play your copy of any game in your library while someone is using it, they get booted. Even if it's a different game. 'cause it's the whole library that is shared, not individual games.

Comment Re:No co-op (Score 5, Informative) 263

Read more carefully. The ENTIRE LIBRARY is shared. And not on a per-game basis, it's all or nothing. And if you (as the sharer) decide you want to play one of your games while someone is using your library, they get booted, even if it's not the same game. And if you're sharing your library with two other people, only one of them can play any game at a time. So you can't play Portal while friend A plays CS:GO and friend B plays HL2.

Comment Re:Clear something up? (Score 1) 227

You're not. If you want to use said portable device, you can do. And (In the UK at least) portable communication devices are in their own calling prefix, so you as a user know you're going to call a cellular customer ('cause you have to put in a cellular prefix), and that you're going to be charged more for it. If you don't want to pay extra to call me when I'm not at home or at work, you don't call my cell.

Comment Re:In the voice of a British peasant (Score 1, Insightful) 99

Oh, thank you, sir! For the privilege of accessing the hardware I have paid you money for, I am forever grateful! Next I should like to beg to turn off the camera feeding directly to the American authorities. Is such a dream possible?

Yes, yes it is. As they have said, countless times, you can disable the Kinect entirely if you so desire. If you have any proof whatsoever that data from XBoxes/Kinects are being sent to any US authorities (without a fully authorised warrant being issued), do please point to it, post it, or something similar. Otherwise it's just rampant, and damaging, speculation on your part.

Except, of course, that you're just a troll, and all you can do is innuendo and speculation to try and shill for your particular corporate overlord.

Comment Re:Pilot error? (Score 4, Informative) 506

The pilot HAD to manual land, the ILS system and PAPI glidepath height assistance for runway 28L (and 28R) at SFO is down, as reported in the current NOTAMs(Check for SFO)

!SFO 06/005 (KSFO A1056/13) SFO NAV ILS RWY 28L GP OTS WEF 1306011400-1308222359
!SFO 07/046 (KSFO A1326/13) SFO RWY 28L PAPI OTS WEF 1307062219

That means he was relying on nav beacons and glidepath estimates to come in. Given that SFO's beacons are approx 1.2 miles apart, if he picked the wrong beacon to guild his descent he would have been too high, dropped steeper than usual to get down once he noticed the discrepancy, and didn't have the necessary power to flare and ascend at the end of the runway, so he tailstruck. That makes it pilot error, but confounded and mitigated by most (if not all) the regular guidance and assistance systems they rely on being out of commission.

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