Probably an SF Bay Area transplant -- to them anyone not fervently clamoring for a Authoritarian Government to telling everyone what to eat, drink and how to generally live their lives is conservative. I hate the Bay Area and regret moving here -- leaving by this Summer I hope.

Well, considering that one of the areas I'm not entirely happy with is media transcoding times between various audio and video formats on some fairly sizable files, with this I think I'd see a profound effect on FFMPEG's performance.

To all conservatives, more government regulation is uniformly bad.

To all liberals, more government regulation is uniformly good.

And so there we have the two sides, one pressing us to a feudal-style Private Police State run by Corporate Fascists, the other into a Authoritarian Police State Run by Big Government and Corporate Citizens. Either way we are already good and fucked regardless of who you vote for.

Not necessarily. Sure speed bumps are common, but usually incremental. Doubling performance over a single generation is not too common in desktop computing these days. I was going to buy another laptop next month since I always have a spare and I just retired my spare. But was planning on going with the new Macbook or an Air for their slightly smaller form factor. Now it looks like I'll might be opting for another 13" MBP.

I am pretty miffed to read this. Nothing like paying a load of cash for a shiny new laptop only to find out a couple months later that you'd have been way better off waiting.

We are past the point of merely saying anything. We are to the point where only an outright civil war will stop our slide into a Totalitarian Police State.

Julian Bashir, because every Space Station needs an overcompensating closet case.

Yeah, well, it's not too hard to escape from unicode hell...

FTFY

You do know what Intel makes right? And even if they don't know how to make something as good as the competition in-house, they have the pockets to buy someone that can. It just takes the motivation.

ONLY MORESO???? Dude, not saying it does not happen with conventional cab drivers but claiming assaults and rapes happen more frequently with legit drivers isn't just disengienious, it's a blatant fucking lie.

Just look at Google: https://www.google.com/webhp?s... Uber comes up the search over and over and over again. And considering how many legit cab drivers there are vs how many Uber drivers there are -- it's pretty fucked up that a fledgeling service shows up so frequently in global results. Granted, some of those might be different links to the same incident, but the point remains the same. And that point is: NO -- rapes and beatings don't happen more frequently at the hands of legit cab drivers.

Seven Year Old San Francisco Girl Struck and Killed By Uber Driver; Uber Denies Responsibility http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/...

Boston Uber Driver Charged with indecent Assault and Battery http://www.bostonglobe.com/met...

Off-Duty LA Uber Driver Accused of Sexual Assault http://www.bizjournals.com/los...

Chicago Uber Driver With Felony Conviction Charged With Battery For Allegedly Hitting Passenger http://www.forbes.com/sites/el...

Writer and Activist Reports Being Choked in DC; Uber Denies The Event and Responsibility http://valleywag.gawker.com/ub...

DC Uber Driver Allegedly Assaults Customer for Burping http://www.washingtoncitypaper...

San Francisco Uber Customer Claims Abuse and Assault by Uber Driver (Pando) http://pando.com/2013/11/25/ub...

Passenger Struck In Head With Hammer by UberX Driver http://www.forbes.com/sites/el...

Uber Driver Pulls Gun on Valet in Atlanta http://pando.com/2014/09/08/at...

Uber Driver Punches Passenger in Oklahoma http://newsok.com/oklahoma-cit...

Lyft Driver Attacks Pedestrian in San Francisco http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news...

Lyft Driver Brandishes Knife in Los Angeles http://www.laweekly.com/2013-0...

Uber Customer Sues for $2M over Alleged Driver Stabbing in DC http://dcinno.streetwise.co/20...

DC Uber Driver Allegedly Rapes Customer http://betabeat.com/2013/03/ub...

Uber Driver Charged with Fondling Passenger in Chicago http://valleywag.gawker.com/ub...

DC Uber Driver Arrested for Alleged Rape But Not Charged Despite Strong Evidence http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Another DC Uber Driver Accused of Molesting Uber Rider http://valleywag.gawker.com/an...

Passenger Struck In Head With Hammer by UberX Driver http://www.forbes.com/sites/el...

Uber Driver in India Accused of Rape http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

Orlando Uber Rider Allgedly Touched by Uber Driver http://www.dailydot.com/crime/...

Alleged Assault by Chicago Uber Driver in November of 2014 http://www.chicagotribune.com/...

London Uber Driver Asks Rider for Oral Sex http://www.buzzfeed.com/franci...

Journalist Sexually Harassed and Stalked By Uber Driver http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...

"Rideshare" Driver Sends Seemingly Endless Amount of Creepy Text Messages to Rider http://valleywag.gawker.com/wh...

Three San Francisco Women Say Uber Driver Sexually Harassed Them http://abc7news.com/325011/

Uber focused on safety after another driver charged with sexually assaulting customer http://www.myfoxchicago.com/st...

Driver Allegedly Kidnaps Drunk Woman in LA and Take to Motel http://valleywag.gawker.com/ub...

Woman Claims Uber Driver Kidnapped Rider; Uber Claims "Inefficient Route" http://valleywag.gawker.com/ub...

DC Uber Driver Takes Riders on High Speed Chase http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Uber Driver Takes Woman On Nightmare $293 Zigzagging Odyssey http://gothamist.com/2014/12/1...

You know all those taxi driver licensing, screening and registration requirements Uber completely ignores? Those savings are being past down to you in the form of muggings, beat downs and rapes.

Have an UBER DAY!

Yeah, except Obama has done fuck all about it except for shrugging his shoulders and saying "meh" when the media created a shit-storm about it. So Obama is every bit to blame as Bush.

That's not what I was saying. I was saying that they backed in a lead in to a sequel into the plot. Maybe you didn't play HL2, but it ended at a major enem installation and it was made clear that the next step was to travel to where the invaders were based from. Then they just left it. It's an unfinished, incomplete story that promised to resume. And Gabe is saying they probably wont and those that want the conclusion are just delusional little shits. But Valve is a Company, not a Person and while an Author might not be able to finish his work due to illness or death, Valve is a company, is very alive and has hundreds of employees and contractors and can hire more as needed.

I don't think they care either. It was never meant as a formal boycott, just that I don't buy their games much anyway. However, they made lots of money on HL, and will make even more money on HL if they can be bothered to release the sequel they wrote into the plot. And this shit about Terry Prachett or whoever is ridiculous. An Author is one guy who has so much time in which to do his life's work. Valve is a company of hundreds and can hire more people to produce their products. So dishing on fans as such just comes off as really dickish.

What awesome games? I'm still waiting for a reason to buy a PS4 and so far the new game releases from 2014 and 2015 are shit-tier. Best thing I've seen so far is Mass Effect 4, which will be out... sometime before 2018... maybe. If it weren't for the release of the Mass Effect bundle last summer, I probably wouldn't be playing anything right now. The Last of Us is the only thing that's tempted me, but I hear the Multiplayer on that is pretty crappy so have decided to pass on that for now since it sounds like I'll just be doing that Single Player anyway -- so why bother shelling out $400 for that? Keep in mind that I've already played Bioshock infinite, Borderlands 2, Dead Space 3 and Dead Island Riptide (god awful pile of shit) on my PS3 before PS4 was even released.

So I'm curious where this backlog of awesome games are, or what you mean by awesome games, because right now, I can't think of any. But I'd like to know of any that might be worth my heading out and getting a PS4. I make occasional pop-ins at Gamestop to see the new releases, but so far nothing is tempting.