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Comment: awww mannn... (Score 1) 298

by Thud457 (#40214093) Attached to: Artist's Catcopter Causes a Stir
1. I don't think PETA would approve any more of giving live cats quadricopter backpacks
1a. There's a noise issue, I don't think the cats' sensitive hearing will enjoy
1b. Have you priced feline-sized hearing and eye protection?!!!

Granted that we can resolve those issues, and the system design issues of giving the cats control of their own flight, I heartily endorse this project, please point me to the kickstarter.
But I think it may be an insurmountable task training the cats to recognize the importance of recharching/refuling their quadcopters when the yellow light comes on. Hmmm, maybe build in automatic override to the nearest automated refuling point as needed? Oh wait, in-flight-refueling! How could I have missed that!!

Comment: Re:I'd consider buying Nvidia but (Score 1) 210

Ultimately it really doesn't matter as what you should check are features and speed, not an arbitrary choice of what technology they use.

Indeed. And with that in mind, I would be very interested if anyone can cite even a single credible source that compares "workstation" and "gamer" cards objectively from nVidia and/or AMD. You'll find a load of people who parrot the line that you "must" use the far more expensive workstation cards for certain kinds of professional applications, but few can really tell you why, and even those who do generally refer to drivers rather than any difference in the hardware. And that's before you even get into nVidia doing things like deliberately nerfing the drivers on its gaming cards because otherwise they were going to show up the many-times-more-expensive workstation cards built on essentially the same platform.

I'm with the guys who want Vendor #3. Both personally, as someone who used to enjoy gaming before there was a 50+% chance of pathetic bugs spoiling the experience and at least half of them seemed to be down to poor quality drivers, and professionally, as someone who uses some of those absurdly expensive applications and needs the performance to match, I'm fed up with the constant race to the bottom in quality control and non-existent customer service. I would literally pay twice what I have paid for any recent high-end graphics card, in either a personal or a professional capacity, for a high-end card that worked reliably and came from a vendor that provided honest information to help me choose what I need and then offered real customer support for the useful lifetime of that device.

If someone could fix all these trendy new technologies like HDMI and DisplayPort so they actually worked at least as well as DVI did years ago, that would be nice too. I'm fed up with all the windows on my twin monitor set-up reducing to 640x480 every time I switch the damned monitors off, and apparently the "newer, more advanced" connection technologies used by my "high-end professional workstation" graphics card and accompanying "certified" drivers have a lot to do with it.

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