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Comment: Napoleon said it better: (Score 5, Insightful) 158

by circletimessquare (#40204699) Attached to: The Nice Guy At the World's Largest Weapons Expo

'An army marches on its stomach.'

'C'est la soupe qui fait le soldat.'

Nothing, absolutely nothing, matters more at winning wars than logistics. The lethal fighting force is but the edge of a vast engineering and distribution network. Or, if it is not the edge of such a network, it is soon a defeated lethal fighting force.

Comment: Re:I'd consider buying Nvidia but (Score 1) 202

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.

Comment: Re:Declare the compounds (Score 1) 322

lsd is a drug

caffeine is a drug

therefore, they are the same legal entity

no, this is just intellectual dishonesty, sophistry, or you're just stupid

marijuana should be legal, but there's drugs out there where the effects are so horrible, they should stay illegal. simply because the effects of those drugs being illegal, while bad, are less than the effects drugs being legal: screwed up lives

methamphetamine. what this shit does to you? permanently? this shit should be legal?

then we get into a discussion about how safe environments and how carefully monitored dosing prevents tragedies

what the fuck?

when did society get in the business of enabling drug use?

if someone has fallen through the cracks and is addicted to drugs, society should treat this person, not put them in jail. but this should be reactive, not proactively enable "safe" use of highly addictive substances that really fuck up your life. addiction is a REAL PROBLEM, not a vague idea that a little application of will power can get over.

of course, some treatment is ineffective. with more resources, they might be effective

well yeah, with inffinite resources, even the most helpless basically suicidal self-destructive addict can be saved

but we don't live in a world of infinite resources

there's a difference between recreational casual use, and a person that is basically trying to kill themselves in slow motion

highly addictive substances have probably destroyed more lives in the history of homo sapiens than all wars combined, by orders of magnitude. making it all legal really just enables a lot of us walking around with the seeds of self-destruction to go full blown self-destructive. there has to be a barrier in society against the use of really vile substances

you have to understand what chronic drug use really is: suicide. society is not interested in enabling suicidal tendencies. therefore, there will always be illegal substances. come to grips with this, naive idealists

don't engage in sophistry and reductive nonsense when you talk about drugs. it is one of the most if not most complicated issues ever to face mankind. there are no easy answers, and there is really just a lot of pain, no matter what the legal approach

all i can say about drug use with certainty is this: as soon as someone says the answer is simple, and that simple answer is complete legalization or complete prohibition, you are dealing with a fucking moron who doesn't understand drugs

Comment: you don't get it (Score 1) 99

by circletimessquare (#40181711) Attached to: Google Highlights Censored Search Terms In China

you are blaming google for what china is doing, and you are not giving google any credit for being subtle, perhaps because you are a person who doesn't understand anything subtle

china is going to censor the web. with google or without google

now anyone with an iq over 50 can tell why their connection is breaking: it's not google, it's china being a censor

they didn't carefully avoid anything, they didn't say "china is censoring us" because then china would cut off google

do you understand now?

Comment: Re:Now that's conservative! (Score 1) 417

well yeah, scientists are always improving their models. this is why you can trust them, because they admit to unavoidable error and correct for it to the best of current abilities. eventually, the gray area is so small that you can trust them within an acceptable margin of error

what are you saying? that because there is a gray area in their model at all, no mattter how small, their model is completely unusable?

what is superior in your mind? just making shit up, covering your ears, and attacking anyone who questions you?

Comment: Re:in before the "freedom!" mel gibson imitators (Score 1) 1120

by circletimessquare (#40172099) Attached to: Soda Ban May Hit the Big Apple

i actually think if someone is engaged in unsafe sex, gay or not, they should be penalized, since this has societal costs. if you have aids, and you know it, and you knowingly have unsafe sex with someone else, gay or not, you should be punished

and you don't have to make fat people pay more for healthcare, nor do you have to ban large sugary drinks

you just have to tax the hell out of it, like cigarettes

go ahead, enjoy your large soda... that'll be $20 please

You're all clear now, kid. Now blow this thing so we can all go home. -- Han Solo

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