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Comment Re:AMD Refuses Review Hardware over Negative Revie (Score 1) 87

Former ATI (and then AMD) engineer here... Now work at NVIDIA. My take is that, generally speaking, the quality of the chips from either company are pretty much on par. I'm not talking performance, that's a separate issue. I'm talking the quality of work that went into design, implementation, manufacturing. Neither company's chips/boards is going to be any more reliable than the other, on the whole. Similar MTBF and whatnot, and as these are consumer parts, there will necessarily be folks who unfortunately get a bad part or two. It's just probability.

AMD's drivers have, historically, been a little more rough around the edges for special features (alt-tabbing to multitask with something on the right HDMI monitor while using dual monitors while gaming on the left in DVI-- this was a problem 3-4 years ago, but not now), but lately (last year that I've had my 7850) I've been impressed with their driver stability, and it reminds me of how well my 670 worked 4 years ago.

NVidia still has the edge on CPU efficiency with their drivers currently but that'll be changing with these DX12-capable cards where any game compiled in DX12 will make use of new parallelized draw calls that improve multi-core driver scaling substantially, which should solve AMD's current problem. In other words, this Fury/FuryX card looks like both fastest and cheapest card for anything but 4k gaming (where it sometimes loses to the 980Ti).

Comment a source (Score 1) 87

That was until someone on their side let it slip that TH knew that the poor hardware performance was because intel allowed specific optimizations to benchmark codes. Thus their real world performance was flawed.

The problem with this argument is that all the benchmarks are flawed for this reason. I never trust a synthetic benchmark to tell me how hardware is going to behave in the real world.

for anyone who was looking for more to read on this matter, Ars Technica looked into this with PCMark2005. I'm not sure why but I don't care if that was a 10 year old benchmark, 10 years is not a long time IMO. I suppose AMD could be blamed a little though for not supporting writable registers like Via on their chips...

NVidia does sorta-similar with their Game/HairWorks features in Witcher 3, or pushing retardedly stupid anti-aliasing modes because their architecture runs them better than AMD's.

Comment changing themeaning of 'unlimited' != 'free lunch' (Score 1) 272

I'm sorry, but a telco or commco changing the meaning of the word 'unlimited' to mean 'less than unlimited' is a free lunch. FCC just took it back.

All they have to do now, is actually specify the speed tiers. 10GB? full speed. after? 256kbps.

Meh. Not going to kill their business, nor is it a slippery slope to something worse that we're sliding down towards like socialism. This is simply defense of the english language against greed.

Comment Re:Don't worry, they'll try again (Score 1) 229

It is interesting to note that some of Disney's most well-known films are based on public domain works, while Disney has been one of the biggest factors in eliminating the public domain altogether.

can you open that up for us? I wasn't aware of this, and would appreciate a short schooling session

Comment Re:Don't worry, they'll try again (Score 5, Insightful) 229

honestly, if you're going to bribe congress to let you pillage the country's copyright system getting it extended every 25 years so that your financial conglomerate can continue leaching off the IP of one creative man who died 50 years ago, the least you can do is keep some Americans employed.

fuckers.

Comment Re:Let's be honest about the purpose of the hyperl (Score 1) 124

Elon Musk just wanted to kill the California high-speed rail.

if it weren't so laughably or desirably easy to do this, you would have a point.

Let's take a look:

* the founder of Paypal, largest digital payment system;
* and SpaceX, the company to be the first to land rocket stages backwards cutting launch costs to 10% what they were before;
* and Tesla, the only electric car company to actually make it, much less thrive

says he can do it again for much cheaper.

I, for one, welcome our new John Galtian overlord.

Comment Re:All your games (Score 1) 193

The summary and article:

you can play all your Xbox 360 games on your next-gen console.

Ars Technica:

Much like the Xbox 360's limited support for the first Xbox's games, more 360 games will be added to the backward compatibility list over time--and there's no guarantee that a favorite 360 game will ever be brought forward to work on Xbox One. Nonetheless, Microsoft promises over 100 titles to start, with hundreds more coming in the future.

For some reason, I find the second quote much likelier.

last time they raised their voice rah-rah'ing about the 360's backwards compatibility, it was the end of their efforts-- no new titles were added. I had gone to LameStop and purchased some Xbox games for cheap that I'd never gotten to play, and still haven't gotten to play them.

I am skeptical this time around, but frankly don't care. I won't be fooled again.

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