My borrowed GTX970 doesn't have problems with games at full settings (other than AA) at 2560x1440 but I'm still not confident it'd handle full prettiness at 4k.

But I'm picky and want decent framerates too.

No, these people buy as high quality a card as they can afford and then turn the detail levels down anyway.

Framerates are king and shitty graphics cards don't give you guaranteed top end framerates.

Price/performance metrics put the GTX970 as a clear winner right now.

It's good enough for 1440p for current generation games. May struggle over the next couple of years so if you're buying for the future then.. well, it's a bad time to build. Although you're always only a year away from a new graphics architecture Nvidia will soon be dropping 16 or 20nm fabrication which should seriously improve performance/power ratios and that opens the door for a noticeable performance boost.

Makes it a tricky choice for you, but I'd be tempted to go with the 970 then sell it on once that shiny newness is available to upgrade.

This is why I don't own a 4k monitor. As lovely as it would be for photo editing I'd still end up gaming on my 2560x1440.

Yeah, I'd expect 4xAA to be far less costly than going for 4k resolution at approx. four times the resolution - each pixel takes multiple shader passes which collectively add up to far more work than the AA.

Of course, you can also add the AA on top, for added framerate shaftage.

Usually the CEO loses everything, as most CEOs put their savings and their effort into building a business that has failed. Have you seen the rates of small business failure?

You have any evidence of this?

Erm. Understandable, but not reasonable.

No. It's the job of the prosecution to help the judge understand the context, facts and details of the crime so that the judge can dispense justice.

I'd fucking sack any prosecutor that felt their job was to press for the maximum punishment.

When you're dealing with some obstreperous functionary who is leaning on status and authority rather than knowledge or competence, it will no longer be possible to think to yourself:

this asshole, too, will soon be departed

With the loss of life's great equalizer, about the first thing to happen is that the entire population goes into legacy mode.

It'll be like all those crappy ISA cards with jumper blocks in the back of your ugliest junk drawer that you never get rid of because, technically, they still work perfectly fine.

Only it will be the humans with ugly jumper blocks (slavery, racism, sexism, elitism, ageism, gated-community-ism) that live to be 10,000 years old and never "get with the times" because "the times" themselves have shuffled off their mortal coil.

Or just knock on my door and ask to use my PC for a couple of minutes.

It's pretty straightforward and although I'll ask for your name I promise not to sell it to advertisers.

I'm just confused about people deep-linking walled off content. It's fucking pointless. It's a bit like me offering you this awesome picture of Mel Gibson riding a motorbike with a chipmunk balanced on the handlebars:
file:///home/cederic/pictures/awesome/mel/motorbike-chipmunk.png

Awesome, isn't it?

I love your assumption that everybody uses this thing called Facebook. Here's a hint for you: Several billion people don't.

It's ok, the rest of the Internet mostly works.

Or I could treat content hidden behind a curtain as invisible, which to me, this is.

Fuck it, if they wanted to share they'd have posted it somewhere people could see it. Their choice.

I recall bicycles chained to railings outside railway stations being subject to summary destruction by the bomb squad for very related reasons.

London, late 80s..

It's a shame you replied to my post several branches down a conversation, as that security point is extremely pertinent.

Between the data slurping, the ad provision and the security concerns I'm reluctant to tread too heavily down the IoT route.

Then again, I have a smart tv with built-in camera and voice commands. You could argue I've already lost.