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  1. Just write a damn decent driver, will yas?!!
    4 points
  2. AMD's next-gen RDNA 3 performance jump rumored to be absolutely insane

    It'll be interesting to see how this turns out. I haven't gotten a new gpu yet because these current prices are insane. By the time they come down we're talking RTX 4000 and RT 7000 series GPU will be ready. Might just hold out even longer with my 1070 at this point. I have a XSX so I'll be switching over to more console gaming for a while.
    4 points
  3. TWIRL 17: China to send first taikonauts to the Chinese Space Station

    Huh? Taiko is the Chinese word for space.
    3 points
  4. Yeah, with a 1070 I suspect you will be good enough for a while (probably years to come assuming a person is basing things more on playable standards and not expecting perfect performance etc), especially if your doing around 1080p gaming. Yeah, only real reason I was looking for a upgrade this year was to get some RT ability for future gaming. I'll just wait, paying these silly marked up prices is not worth it atm.
    2 points
  5. Here are more details on AMD's big.LITTLE CPU architecture leak

    How is this different from turning off cores in current gen CPUs to save power?
    2 points
  6. And they'll be just as unobtainable as all the graphic cards for the entire last year...
    2 points
  7. I still don't know why they had to go and ruin the beautiful UI that Windows 7 had. All they had to do was just add new features on top of Windows 7 and call it Windows 8 without changing it visually, same with Windows 10 - just add new features on top and retain the nice looking UI. Right now Windows 10's UI is ugly, boring, blocky, it looks all over the place - Settings and other things look so oversized as if you're not clicking them with a mouse, but tapping them with a finger, it just doesn't make sense. Not to mention how ugly the UI is with the sharp corners, it looks like a temporary placeholder for a Pre-Early-Alpha test for a UI. And finally - Windows 10 is so unstable and these elements written in the UWP language or whatever it is called constantly break - disable Cortana or whatever and then your Start Menu stops indexing and newly installed apps don't appear in search results despite being there. Then you install StartIsBack++ and search works as perfectly as it did in Windows 7. I still won't forget that dick move that Microsoft did during Windows 8 - when people found out they can just copy the Start Menu files from Windows 7 into 8, edit some registry or whatever and get a fully functioning Start Menu, then when Microsoft found out, it was like a week or a month later, they released a patch so this stopped working... Imagine what kind of jerks they are - they don't like it when users make the OS work the way they want and is easier for them... I'm waiting for this Windows 11 on June 24 to see what is the big deal and will they actually create an UI that is not butt ugly. You can be disappointed now if you want, because nothing will really change I guess so. I just miss how awesome XP and 7 were and I still can't wrap my head around how we had that and we downgraded to the trash that is Windows 10.
    2 points
  8. I still don't know why they had to go and ruin the beautiful UI that Windows 7 had. All they had to do was just add new features on top of Windows 7 and call it Windows 8 without changing it visually, same with Windows 10 - just add new features on top and retain the nice looking UI. Right now Windows 10's UI is ugly, boring, blocky, it looks all over the place - Settings and other things look so oversized as if you're not clicking them with a mouse, but tapping them with a finger, it just doesn't make sense. Not to mention how ugly the UI is with the sharp corners, it looks like a temporary placeholder for a Pre-Early-Alpha test for a UI. And finally - Windows 10 is so unstable and these elements written in the UWP language or whatever it is called constantly break - disable Cortana or whatever and then your Start Menu stops indexing and newly installed apps don't appear in search results despite being there. Then you install StartIsBack++ and search works as perfectly as it did in Windows 7. I still won't forget that dick move that Microsoft did during Windows 8 - when people found out they can just copy the Start Menu files from Windows 7 into 8, edit some registry or whatever and get a fully functioning Start Menu, then when Microsoft found out, it was like a week or a month later, they released a patch so this stopped working... Imagine what kind of jerks they are - they don't like it when users make the OS work the way they want and is easier for them... I'm waiting for this Windows 11 on June 24 to see what is the big deal and will they actually create an UI that is not butt ugly. You can be disappointed now if you want, because nothing will really change
    2 points
  9. No biggie. My 670 is getting pretty old now anyway. Guess I'll just go and buy one of their new ones. Oh wait...
    2 points
  10. Time to upgrade those graphics cards guys to one of those mythical ones that can't be purchased anywhere.
    2 points
  11. One of the reasons to change it from 10 to 11, in my mind, is that it would allow for them to redo/change the servicing/support cycle for it. If you keep it as Windows 10 you're still stuck to the current life cycle they've been doing since 2015. If it's Windows 11, well, that's different now. Personally I think if they do go with Windows 11, we're going to see single, probably H2, updates each year with 1 year support for home/pro while ent/edu gets 2 years. Or they just call it Windows 11 and don't change the cycle at all, who knows? Or they decided Windows 10 will be "the last version of Windows" when Apple was using version 10 seemingly forever. Apple recently decided macOS will be version 11. Now Windows will, too? Hmmm.
    2 points
  12. The meme is real: Xbox Mini Fridge, launching holiday 2021

    The fact MS's xbox marketing team took a joke meme which was meant to make the console look bad and flipped it into something they'll actually make money off of has to be the smartest move I've seen in quite some time.
    1 point
  13. Starfield launches November 11, 2022 on Xbox and PC, trailer out

    I was expecting a much sooner release date Hopefully no delays happen. Now that they're part of MS and have all that money, no need for Bethesda to rush out it's games and have them be buggy messes like before. I'd rather they take the time needed.
    1 point
  14. Halo Infinite multiplayer gets the focus in new gameplay trailer

    Oh man, I'm excited!!!! Let's gooooooo. Waiting for more details.
    1 point
  15. It's beautiful.
    1 point
  16. Sea of Thieves is getting a Pirates of the Caribbean crossover

    Johnny Deep is back where it should be, finally!
    1 point
  17. Here are more details on AMD's big.LITTLE CPU architecture leak

    I think this will be a huge change for the OS too. How will it decide to give the work to the big or little cores? I imagine at first that it will work similar to preferred cores now and favor big first, then little if the bigs are full. Having a flag for threads to run on little sounds interesting, but existing apps won't have that.
    1 point
  18. That is what they are called.
    1 point
  19. Here are more details on AMD's big.LITTLE CPU architecture leak

    exactly. so if the work is light. you can use the small cores and turn off the big ones. so hopefully it'll save some more power.
    1 point
  20. Here are more details on AMD's big.LITTLE CPU architecture leak

    It is, but I'm not sure the first generation is going to be any good. The idea that the put a task on a specific CPU then time it and transfer it if it takes too long or is too fast, seems like it's going to add a lot of overhead. Think I'll wait for gen 2 or 3 before getting this that's a good point you make about overhead. Perhaps this why AMD made 3D V-cache. the additional bandwidth may help https://www.neowin.net/news/am...aks-zen-4-details-and-more/
    1 point
  21. America: The Motion Picture (2021) June 30

    Simon Pegg is in it.. and Archer cartoon is mentioned... And I like Archer and Pegg. So I will watch. But DAMN it looks silly. And not in a good way. 😟
    1 point
  22. Looks like China is in a similar peak era as The Soviet Union was in 1960s. China's government is not based on merit therefore average GDP per capita will remain far below average, when compared to first world countries. Economic problems will be blamed on external enemy. Cold War II will definitely intensify. Today, people have a chance to change regime when dictator dies from the old age. In future this chance will be gone. There is a chance that social engineering and atrocities committed in the past will pale when compared to what will happen in the future.
    1 point
  23. It is, but I'm not sure the first generation is going to be any good. The idea that the put a task on a specific CPU then time it and transfer it if it takes too long or is too fast, seems like it's going to add a lot of overhead. Think I'll wait for gen 2 or 3 before getting this
    1 point
  24. Taikonauts? Just embracing your new overlords, huh?
    1 point
  25. How to install new fonts in Windows 10 for apps like Office

    I've got 234 fonts in C:\Windows\Fonts and am typing this reply from that machine.
    1 point
  26. AMD's next-gen RDNA 3 performance jump rumored to be absolutely insane

    they are using MCM hence the big performance increase.
    1 point
  27. How to install new fonts in Windows 10 for apps like Office

    I've seen this "look around" comment a few times from people. Why would you have to dig around in the settings app to find something when there's a working search box right in the app? Some people look for excuses to make things difficult.
    1 point
  28. NASA Commercial Crew (CCtCap) test milestones

    Crew-3 New Crew Dragon (there are three new Crew Dragons and one Cargo Dragon on the production line) Booster B1067.2 Looking like late October Mission patch
    1 point
  29. What are you playing?

    I did all the dlc stuff to since I never had. Took a while. Finished ME:A and wish they would have had dlcs and a second game. They gave up on it easy to soon and was not as bad as people made it seem. No followup made things hanging with no resolution. Like the benefactor, quarians, and what happens with the kett.
    1 point
  30. Feedback taken. Thank you. You were absolutely right to say that. Windows 8 was crap. That is not an opinion, but a fact.
    1 point
  31. SpaceX Updates  (Thread 9)

    OCISlY is going to be carried, not towed, through the Panama Canal to Long Beach CA by the (massive) heavy lift ship Mighty Servant 1.
    1 point
  32. How to install new fonts in Windows 10 for apps like Office

    Not hard; impossible. The article has explained why and in which occasions. Please be sure to study the article carefully before making comments that make you look like an attention-hungry troll.
    1 point
  33. I still don't know why they had to go and ruin the beautiful UI that Windows 7 had. All they had to do was just add new features on top of Windows 7 and call it Windows 8 without changing it visually, same with Windows 10 - just add new features on top and retain the nice looking UI. Right now Windows 10's UI is ugly, boring, blocky, it looks all over the place - Settings and other things look so oversized as if you're not clicking them with a mouse, but tapping them with a finger, it just doesn't make sense. Not to mention how ugly the UI is with the sharp corners, it looks like a temporary placeholder for a Pre-Early-Alpha test for a UI. And finally - Windows 10 is so unstable and these elements written in the UWP language or whatever it is called constantly break - disable Cortana or whatever and then your Start Menu stops indexing and newly installed apps don't appear in search results despite being there. Then you install StartIsBack++ and search works as perfectly as it did in Windows 7. I still won't forget that dick move that Microsoft did during Windows 8 - when people found out they can just copy the Start Menu files from Windows 7 into 8, edit some registry or whatever and get a fully functioning Start Menu, then when Microsoft found out, it was like a week or a month later, they released a patch so this stopped working... Imagine what kind of jerks they are - they don't like it when users make the OS work the way they want and is easier for them... I'm waiting for this Windows 11 on June 24 to see what is the big deal and will they actually create an UI that is not butt ugly.
    1 point
  34. UK MPs ask Biden to drop Assange charges during G7 trip

    I was a fan of Assange until he became what the Russians refer to as a 'Useful Idiot' (at the very least, perhaps even an active collaborator) in Russian 'active measures' by the SVR and/or GRU to manipulate the American public during the federal 2016 election. Information was given to WikiLeaks by Russian government assets and/or operatives in their employ and the release was timed to have maximum impact on the election (the DNC hack perpetrated by those in the employ of the Russian government). Biden would be a fool to pardon someone who sought to undermine the integrity of our electoral process and likely seeks to continue doing so. Notice how WikiLeaks didn't have any RNC data or emails by GOP officials. Gee, I wonder why. Or how about posting leaked data that puts the Russian government and especially Putin and his cronies in a bad light? That won't ever happen so long as Assange is at the helm of that organization. I stopped liking WikiLeaks in general when Assange decided to use it as a political weapon. I don't get the sense that Assange is a bumbling idiot, so I am leaning towards him knowingly releasing that data knowing full well the effect it would have and playing right into the hands of the SVR and/or GRU operatives that supplied him with said information. It honestly wouldn't surprise me if one day Wikileaks themselves gets Wikileak'd and emails, etc expose that Assange blackballed the release of vetted data that compromises the Russian government or its UIs and active collaborators. Though I'm sure he GPG encrypted said information and kept it for insurance purposes in case the American GOP ever bites the hand that feeds.
    1 point
  35. Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, MacOS, Android, iOS Just a few to get you started. EVERY software company that produces newer versions with new functionality that supports modern hardware 'makes the new stuff mandatory'. The irony here, you can go run old Microsoft software more easily than software from most other companies. Want to test that theory quickly? Open the 2008 versions of Gmail or GDocs. I think you are just being silly to see if you can give some of a stroke. What the hell are you even talking about? How is Linux an alternative? Why do people use Windows To run their software What doesn't work on Linux? Most Windows software
    1 point
  36. UK MPs ask Biden to drop Assange charges during G7 trip

    They made it clear they were interested in helping the republicans.
    1 point
  37. How to install new fonts in Windows 10 for apps like Office

    You can always double click the font and it'll get installed as mentioned in the article.
    1 point
  38. Security updates will continue to be available until Sept 2024 for these cards. Nvidia discontinued 400/500 series support in April 2018 ... sooo, I guess my 980ti is safe until 2023/2024? Maybe I'll be able to find a new card at MSRP between now and then.
    1 point
  39. EdgeDeflector v1.2.2.0 release cleans up unused code

    And the people who use this will rant on MS when the next big update messes up their system....... Use it, or turn it off. Don't complain if it messes up your PC.
    1 point
  40. Notification area icons randomly disappear on primary display

    Yep I can confirm this is caused by StarDock Fences after the Windows10 Pro 21H1 Update. Seems to happen with other StartDock apps too. A work around is to enable that stupid news and interests icon on the taskbar again or to uninstall the update. Personally I have uninstalled the update. A full thread about this is on the StarDock support forums and will probably require a patch from MS or StarDock to resolve: https://forums.stardock.com/505139/after-windows10-pro-21h1-update-fences-causes-intermittent-disappearance-of
    1 point
  41. I love Windows 7 more than the ugly, stupid, broken Windows 10, but I also understand that Windows 7 is 12 years old and it's time for it to go despite how better it looked, how much more stable it was and whatnot.
    1 point
  42. Makes sense. A lot of new games releasing these days aren’t Win7 or 8 compatible. Those users tend to cry a lot on steam forums about it and get butchered by the community because they expect games and driver updates on an end of life platform (in the case of win7)
    1 point
  43. SpaceX Super Heavy and Starship updates

    5th integration tower segment is on the move...
    1 point
  44. UK MPs ask Biden to drop Assange charges during G7 trip

    Ignoring the original charges, he has participated in state level espionage, propaganda, and criminal activity to obtain and selectively distribute information designed to disrupt markets and political stability for person reasons. Doing horrible crap to watch the world burn is Dr. Evil ######. This is a ###### person, screw him. Nearly every wiki leaks dump omitted things that didn't fit his narrative. The con is appearing to provide raw data dumps, while holding back huge chunks censored from public view.
    1 point
  45. Oreos were the culprit!
    1 point
  46. I know people who complain about the vaccines yet, pumped themselves full of drugs as teens and 20's.
    1 point
  47. On the flip side of that, why should any company provide you something for free? Because if you replace the OS with something like "Photoshop" - that's how ludicrous and "entitled" you sound. Because I work as a senior infrastructure consultant on Microsoft and Azure products every single day? Which means I absolutely need the tools necessary to do my job. Can a cab driver drive without a car? Do you think that Ford donates those cars to the cabbies for free? Nope, but the cab company provides the cars to its employees/drivers. Get it now or do you need me to hand it to you with a spoon? Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. Either way, in that case the company is paying. Just as your company would pay for Windows. You're trying awful hard to be condescending for someone who's making a ridiculous and unrealistic analogy.
    1 point
  48. All matches (Group Stages)

    Match 7 England vs Croatia (Group D) 13 June 2021 at 15:00 CEST Venue: Wembley Stadium, London Group D standings
    1 point
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  50. Cool, as long as they aren't copying their ###### OS, ###### security, ###### kernel, ###### model, or ###### technology in general.
    1 point