Apparently, they don't pay their waitresses enough to buy clothes. Bless their hearts.

How can you possibly remember all that? Are you maintaining some of these old industrial DOS systems? I can tell you from the top of my head what record label a rock song from 1970 was on, but I couldn't make an autoexec.bat or config.sys if you put a gun to my head without googling it. And I must have done it a thousand times back in the day.

Of course there are people using 4gig VRAM that aren't gamers or bitcoin miners. But they're probably not buying a 970gtx.

Redneck Heaven

Oh my. That's a real place.

You don't drive your Ferrari around at max speed all the time,

I do in Need for Speed Rivals, which brings us full circle back to VRAM and nVidia trying to get those people who just bought Geforce 970s to start bugging their parents (or wives) for a GeForce 980 because goddamit, they promised 4gig VRAM and now I may not be able to play Arkham Knight on Ultra and that makes me feel awful.

Yeah, but what if you got that really good looking waitress from the Tilted Kilt to finally go out with you and you told her your car could to 200 and you drive out the Bonneville Salt Flats and it turns out your expensive car runs out of horses at 175mph and you're looking like the world's biggest douche?

How are you supposed to recover from that, huh? DAMN YOU nVIDIA!

They just need to run himem.sys with the right parameters.....

You just gave me a little shiver when I read that.

. Probably 99.9% of users don't have applications or hardware to use more than half of that VRAM anyways

Sure they do. People who are buying the 970 are either gamers or dopey bitcoin miners, and the top tier (and most of the middle-tier) of new games will use 4gig VRAM. Who knows about the bitcoin mining because that's all nonsense anyway. But I'll bet their little programs that they run using $1 of electricity to get 50 cents in bitcoins use every bit of that 4gig VRAM. Because they've got nothing but time to deal with bitcoin mining and GPU performance since they dropped out of grad school and now dad keeps insisting that they be looking for work but how can they do that when they're mining bitcoins goddamnit, which is the future of money and then they'll never need a job because they'll be the ones with all the money and dad's Roth IRA is going to be worthless, watch and see. And if they could just get they're hands on another $1500 (you know dad probably has it), they could really get this bitcoin rig humming and then they'd be spending $1 of electricity to mine 75 cents worth of bitcoins.

Gamers on the other hand (like me) paid for 4gig of VRAM to get more p's and more frames-per-secondses, and by god, we deserve to get 4 gig of VRAM.

My problem with this new card is, as far as I can tell it barely meets the minimum requirements for some next-gen games. Isn't the min req for Assassins Creed Unity like a GeForce 680?

The specs for all new games are out of whack with the latest generation of video cards. If you buy a $200 card, you should be able to play any game released in the same year (though probably not on Ultra).

I just don't want to pull the trigger on a $350 video card, but it looks like game devs are making that the entry level for AAA games.

If the group had valid points, there would have been more than a handful of e-celebs who have identified themselves as part of the group instead of hiding behind anonymous white hoods.

Because Adam Baldwin is pro-GG and Ratzo is very anti-GG so he probably thinks that while he can peddle his point of view it's a bit outrageous that people who disagree with him can do the same.

I keep slipping that stuff in there hoping /gg'ers will post replies under their account names. Like Lt. Aldo "The Apache" Raine, I like to be able to see my gamergators coming.

But I guess the shame factor prevents them from doing so. I can understand that.

Could those have been addressed? No idea. It was great when I reached university though and all that shit went away.

Bless your heart. So much of growing up (and parenting) is just random, it seems. It's good that you can see how things changed for you. Maybe you come to some understanding of what played into the change. You'd probably be a good parent.

Most of what I remember about my kid's early and middle school years was fierce love and hope. Fortunately, my wife seemed to have a pretty good grasp on the complicated stuff of young girls, but even then, I remember a lot of cluelessness on our part. It was mostly a matter of doing our best to be honest with her and honestly listening to what she had to say.

I'm honestly glad it worked out for you. And it seems to have worked out for us, too.

Sorry, you're wrong. By your definition, this post is programming because I'm encoding commands for what should be displayed on screen in the form of ascii commands. HTML and CSS are not programming, they're design.

He's making sites from scratch without programming because HTML isn't programming. Most small business/personal websites require little to no work even at the javascript level. He isn't talking about writing a blog, he's talking about a dozen screens for a restaurant with their location, menu, and a few pictures. Which still probably shouldn't be done by hand anymore unless its a personal for fun project.

And that's stock, not cash. I don't think even Google has 200B cash sitting around. For the sale to go through they'd have to give stock, and at a premium. Realistically you'd see FB owning 35-50% of the new company in an all stock deal. Just not feasible.