For all intents and purposes the "pro" part of Iris (bolting on EDRAM to the chip) does allow the GPU to do good graphics. It just isnt cost-competitive to buy a "pro" instead of buying a regular cpu with a discrete gpu card. These iris pro's are truly a ripoff.

I did a little comparison myself a few months back because I was backing up a bunch of DVD's .. VP9 was on par with H.264 for targeting 1GB filesizes, but H.265 was miles ahead .. targeted 600MB/movie and it was still better than either.

Subjective bullshit and I can prove it.

I declare that nothing you have ever done or potentially will ever do is useful. Now head off to jail, criminal.

You seem to be under the impression that the stuff I mentioned are or could be "tunables" -- they are based on specific conditions of a specific rendering scenario, cannot be discerned at runtime without a performance hit, etc.. determined by extensive profiling and statistics gathering, not your imaginary "tunable parameters"

It seems to me that you are quite far afield of your expertise to not know that determining if an edge of a polygon needs to be anti-aliased is something "tunable" - as if the end user is going to be presented with a list of several million polygon edges and enable and disable anti-aliasing on them individually..

I wonder why you bothered opening your mouth at all

Probably mostly corner cutting.

Don't need the 16x anisotropic shader if the texture isnt viewed from an extreme angle, or if the texture hasnt much high frequency detail, ...
Don't need the 16x antialiasing filter on edges of a polygon that connects seamlessly to another polygon, etc...

These two alone could be huge

Did you miss the whole mutually beneficial part of free markets?

You think this is "economics of advertising" when its just "economics" -- economics is the thing that tells you what is beneficial and what isn't -- its that whole efficient allocation of resources thing that flusters those that dont even understand what subject they are really talking about, but want to pontificate about it anyways.

You know, the thing about free trade is that when people are free to trade they only do so when they believe that it is beneficial for them to do so.

Viewing advertising is just another kind of cost. Its still trade.

The upshot is that so long as people are free to trade then trades are generally mutually beneficial. The advertiser wins, and the consumer playing that "free" game or watching that "free" program wins. They both win. Its win-win.

Not a zero sum game. The idea that society might lose is ultimately based on the notion that economies are zero sum games, but they aren't. They never have been. They never will be. The idea not only isn't right, its not possible for it to be right.

..and why isnt that basketball hoop handicap accessible?

My employer had an interesting solution about how to get rid of one particular problem employee that was "protected." They promoted him to a position that he couldnt possibly do even passably well. Then they waited for the first big fuckup. Then they fired him.

Not only is that not the only difference, you ignored the one he specifically mentioned and showcased, which was cultural differences.

Why did you ignore it? I know why.

because you would look like a real fucking asshole if you went on about how the solution to the problem of diversity is changing peoples cultural differences.

No, I take that back... you wouldnt look like a fucking asshole.. you would look like a fucking racist asshole.

Yes and he made it quite well.

And we sense bullshit. You know why and how we sense it? Because you are using "sense" as an fucking argument for your Statist Fascist belief system.

Yeah but this guy in particular wants the government to regulate every market, completely.

Dont make excuses for him. Don't try to downplay it. His belief system is based on the notion that the government rules and fuck individualism.

Looking at your posting history, we see that for you its all about government. You want the government into everything. You dont even believe in private property rights.

Why are you blathering on about public transport when the discussion is about private business?

Oh, I get it. You think that there shouldnt be any private business. You wont admit it of course, but anyone that takes a look at your posting history will see that its true. You do not believe in free enterprise, private property rights, nor the liberty of ordinary people.

You only assign liberty to government. Fuck off.