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No it isn't. The collapse of the Manchukuo Army and that cutting off supply to the literally millions of men in China and SE Asia was about as persuasive as the nukes since it meant there was nothing left for Japan to negotiate with or hope for. Invasion of Hokkaido by the Soviets though- well, maybe in winter when they could drive there. The plan to invade Hokkaido as cited in FP, if the Japanese even knew about it, was from 4 days after they'd already surrendered. Unsurprising as anything other than an unopposed naval landing would be extremely difficult for the soviets. Even an area as unimportant as the Kurils had 40k Japanese troops there, and the soviets weren't going to be sweeping through the steppe with IS3 and T34s like in Manchukuo. Indeed, when they did invade the Kurils after Japan's surrender and with most of the Japanese not fighting they still suffered 15% casualties (and about twice the absolute losses of the Japanese who had no navy or air support at all).

The salient lesson was somewhat lessened in impact by the US nuclear program being riddled with spies so Stalin knew about the bomb well before most in the US government did. Soviets weren't going to invade Japan anyway, as they had almost literally no navy in the east with which to do it. It was probably always their plan to hand Manchukuo over to Mao as well, since China going communist was a far bigger prize.

Interesting, I had presumed it was a reference to McCain's alleged tendency to put a little extra fuel in on engine startup to freak out rookies. I'm with Gfted on this. I think a lot of the criticism of McCain is a response to him being lionised in death. He certainly had his good points and some moral issues he would not shift on no matter how politically expedient it would be and no matter how many other supposedly moral people did, like torture; and his conduct after being shot down in Vietnam was nothing short of exemplary. That's a lot more positive than you could say about most politicians no matter what else. But, he'd probably have been drummed out of the navy well previous if he was John Bloggs instead of John McCain as his record for hot dogging and crashing planes was extremely poor. His foreign policy was also rabidly interventionist- and worse, maintained even when patently stupid*- despite his first hand experience of what such interventionism lead to. Let's be honest, as much as the GWB's, Trumps, Cheney's etc were a bunch of chickenhawk hypocrites for their militarism while hiding from action McCain probably volunteered precisely because he wanted 'action' rather than sitting around, to get out there and actually bomb some godless commie goo^H^H^H^H Vietnamese- and not out of any 'nobility' or 'heroism'. *while he didn't actually get himself photographed with Baghdadi he did contrive to get himself photographed with three other 'moderate rebels' who became prominent ISIS commanders a year later, but that never shook his confidence.

Yeah, might mean no Power 7nm chips for IBM. GloFo's 7nm was largely based on IBM's own 7nm work.

Do what I did, get a closed case and put it under the desk. RGB free zone. Except for my mouse and keyboard, but at least those having LEDs has a use. It will probably be fine at 1080p as long as you don't enable Nvidia RTX and Nvidia HairWorks and Nvidia TXAA and Nvidia DongFX and Nvidia HyperSampling and Nvidia Super Duper Extra Ultimate Sampling and Nvidia SmellOvisioN and... And so long as a driver update doesn't 'accidentally' reduce performance for older cards. Really though, on your deathbed when your life flashes before your eyes do you really want to regret not having bought an RTX card? Just Buy IT

No 7nm from Global Foundries now, so Zen 2- and the 7nm graphics chips- will be exclusive to TSMC. Bit of a shame as contrary to what I said above GloFo's 7nm was actually tracking a bit better than TSMC's performance wise but apparently was looking to be a lot more costly and in the end too costly.

It's going to be very hard to prove it's election related when his womanising and covering it up has been systematic well before- well, well before- he started his election run. It would be embarrassing to Trump to disclose how many payments he's made, but it's clearly just embarrassing and anything else is wishful thinking. They only asked him what a lepo was because the moderate western backed head choppers were the ones losing there. When it's western backed moderate wahhabi saudi head choppers dropping the bombs and starving literally millions that's not worth mentioning.

Which one actually looks more realistic, rtx on or rtx off? That meme specifically- I presume- refers to the old bloom memes and applications from games like Morrowind where anything vaguely pale or reflective glowed fluorescently and looked comical rather than improving the game's graphics. Like most new graphics tech, and probably ray tracing, bloom was hugely overused and looked extremely 'fake' when first introduced because it was being used for marketing and as a buzz phrase not because it was actually useful. Happens all the time too, sometimes the tech ends up being useful in the end- after making every game person tenish years ago look like they used vaseline for skincare per pixel shading* is a lot better- sometimes it kind of fades away. There are a metric asteriskton of stuff that either is or was primarily annoying/ unrealistic though- bloom, hdr, motion blur, ssao, god rays, lens flare, tesselation (also added a lot to tank AMD's performance...), per pixel shading etc. *might have also been normal mapping there? My memory is a bit sketchy, but I remember every person in bioshock era games looking like they were sculpted from plasticene then painted with wet transparent lacquer.

Hmm. It could be said that you are an extremist regarding not apologizing to extremists. And if you apologised about thinking my position on apologising to extremists is extreme I would be further cemented in my belief in that position, exacerbating further the extremity of my position on it. Classic viscous circle, or something, not good for anyone ultimately.

Yeah, they're definitely doing 7nm Vega. Consumer cards were semi announced via roadmap last year but they've studiously avoided saying anything about them since or officially; pro level cards are definite and at the Engineering Sample stage. Now the RTX are announced we may hear something, not that it will help much. nVidia clearly had 1080Ti ready for Vega last time, and they have almost limitless scope for dropping prices and tuning their offerings if they need to. There will probably be Polaris 30 as well, so 680s etc. I really can't see ray tracing mattering much though, if the performance is bad. It's a hard sell spending 1000usd on a card to get 60 fps 1080 when a $200 card will do that with no ray tracing, worse still spending 1000 extra on a gsync 4k 144Hz to play at... 15fps (mathematically implied) with ray tracing on. AMD's big advantage will be supplying to consoles, and making CPUs as well. A Zen2 6/8 core 'proper' APU with a bunch of Navi/ Vega cores should be pretty compelling. They've also managed a paradigm shift- one of the few times that phrase is actually appropriate- in cpus that nobody expected and went from being zero competition to very serious competition, albeit with some own goaling from Intel.

They did, and their forums were still mercilessly negative at GOG apologising for their Postal 2 publicity and at CDPR for apologising over this incident. Never apologise to extremists, it only confirms to them their self importance and righteousness. One of the few things I'd take as a near absolute rule.

The 20 series pricing is about the best thing that could have happened for AMD under the circumstances, since they're competing for people who would already be buying 1080Ti+ performance/ price cards it's irrelevant to AMD, at this point- cheaper releases would have been far worse for AMD. I'd expect a consumer 7nm release from AMD as well which ought to improve Vega's efficiency and performance significantly. The ultimate problem for AMD is that nVidia will have massive scope to cut pricing which they don't have, but Jensen doesn't seem interested in offering 'value' propositions until forced to.

They have publicly claimed 'up to 6x more powerful' on their product page; although that could easily be either versus a previous gen running ray tracing via software, or compared to a ddr3 1030 for all we know. I'd suspect AMD claiming Vega64 > 1080Ti based on TFLOPS would be more practically honest than the 6x claim. That certainly seems to be the general consensus, though I'm actually expecting rather less than that. The focus on raytracing and lack of significant die shrink with associated 'free' performance gain- Maxwell/ Pascal was 28 to 16/14, so significant; this one is 16/14 to effectively 14nm+- suggests to me that conventional performance may not be as good as expected.

Guess Jensen was true to his word when saying he thought gpus were massively underpriced. 2080Ti non FE MSRP confirmed more expensive than my entire computer. nVidia 20 series page, for the carnage information from the horse's mouth.

Russia already gets a lot more domestic 'attention' than the US. One of the main reasons for them being in Syria is the number of Russian nationals in the various jihadi groups. Indeed, the most prominent ISIS military leader was Omar al Shishani ('the Chechen') and there are a lot- solid thousands by most estimates- of others. Hamas and the Houthis aren't really Iranian proxies. Hamas in particular isn't since they even fought against the Iranians in Syria before getting wiped out by loyalist Palestinian groups there. They still get some Iranian weapons smuggled to them but they're paid for by Qatar primarily, since they're sympathetic to Brotherhood philosophies. Houthis and Iran share a fair number of strategic goals and issues, but the fundamental reasons for the fighting in Yemen predate Iran being an Islamic Republic by a long time, and in some cases a long long time (Zaydi Imamate v North v South v united Yemen being the main historical issues). They aren't proxies in any real sense though, they're not getting appreciable supplies from Iran nor training nor planning, and their reasons for fighting are their own. While usually described simplistically as Shia Houthis aren't even the same sect as Iran, and in some respects their Zaydism is closer to Sunni than Ismaili/ Twelver Shia. Hezbollah and its Syrian and Iraqi offshoots though, definite proxies. Some other Palestinian groups probably qualify too, but not Hamas. They definitely work mostly by training other groups, the Revolutionary Guard trained heaps of Iraqi PMU groups and Syrian militias/ irregulars. The Russian trained groups in Syria seem to have been a lot better quality though.

That's pretty overblown, in practice, though- most of those expenditures come out of existing (training) budgets though, as does Russia's contribution. Liwa Fatemeyoun- the Hazara Afghan 'mercenaries' for those not au fait with Syrian Civil War word soup- was not an expensive group to set up or maintain and the vast majority of effort has gone into training rather than fighting despite US/ Saudi claims to the contrary. Arms came from the enormous military stockpiles Syria and Yemen, and to an extent Iraq, already had and about the only arms to come allegedly from Iran were the missiles in Yemen (still a lot more likely to be Yemeni Army stocks though, even the Saudis aren't stupid enough to not be able to enforce a blockade on Yemen and if they were the US isn't), a few dozen T90 tanks plus some Toophan TOW knock offs. Even after 5/6 years of war and in a besieged enclave (Ayyash, Deir Ez Zor; two separate links) the Syrian government still had tens of tons of ammo and weapons, in storage, for example. There were one or two examples where Iran definitely spent a fair bit of cash like supplying Fuah/ Kefraya for 3 years, but that's about it. And there wasn't really an alternative there given the moderate head choppers surrounding those two towns and what would likely have happened if they fell. That's also the first I've heard of Iran supporting the Taleban from anyone who isn't named Bolton/ Wolfowicz/ Rumsfeld. Everything I've seen suggests it's the standard since soviet invasion days- support an Ismail Khan or his equivalent in Herat and the shia minorities like the Hazara elsewhere. There's as much value supporting the Taleban in Afghanistan as supporting Al Qaeda in Yemen. Iran's military expenditure is also one of the lowest per capita in the region, not one of the highest. Highly militarised region so it's only comparatively low, of course, but still.

From what I've seen fact checking in US media is just another way to dress up bias as being impartial. Obama: "Cancer was cured during my presidency" Fact Checker: mostly true, lots of people recovered from cancer while Obama was president. Trump: "Cancer was cured during my presidency" Fact Checker: lol rofl pull the other one cheeto.

Markus Persson aka Notch, obviously. Bit harsh saying he hasn't got as much personality as Doomguy, but I imagine the ability to roll around in a swimming pool full of c notes will cushion the insult's effects somewhat, as will him apparently now being a fairly buff outdoorsman instead of a slightly chubby geek looking fellow. (Marcus Fenix from Gears of War? Apart from Fallout 2 Marcus- fairly sure that isn't him unless Beth canon gave him extensive plastic surgery sometime- he's the only one I can think of but I don't have a clue what he looks like)

Not just under those circumstances- if the employer violates the terms of the contract (usually via failing to pay agreed sums) then the ownership of code copyright remains with whoever wrote it since the contract is null at that point. There's also other potential reasons too, such as prior/ superceding agreements. If you made alterations to an existing engine then whoever owns the engine may also own or get compulsory licensing of alterations under their licensing agreement, or you may not be able to enforce normal claims due to the engine licensing.

There are a few links between Atenism and Judaism, but they're mostly equivocal- shared traits between multiple near east religions, and Judaism clearly evolved a fair bit after Moses which also muddies the waters. There's some circumstantial evidence for an atenism origin as well (timing for example, going monotheistic after leaving Egypt which was the only other place with a known monotheistic religion), but it too is equivocal with a change from poly to monotheistic belief. The problem really is with Exodus being a religious rather than historical text- even just naming the pharaohs would have sorted most of it out..

The Jewish God is near definitively a fire god from a polytheistic religion where at some point all the other gods' cults got the chop, there's just too many hints at that. Judaism developing from Atenism is a hilarious hypothesis and about the only other non faith based suggestion with any weight to it, but the timings are problematic since Atenism in Egypt was 100+ years before Ramses II and the most likely time frame of Israelites being in Egypt. A lot of the 'homosexual' stuff in animals is dominance related. That's probably why a bunch of things aren't included on wikipedia- like cow 'lesbianism' in dairy herds (which can be a serious problem when introducing new herd members...)

If it has Calvin Barkmore as a playable merc I'm in. I've always wanted to play someone with titanium bones. But they will inevitably be sued by Zenimax® to prevent confusion with iD®'s shooter Rage®.

Covfefe! Inshallah, mashallah etc --> wallah. It's arabic, and you just activated his trap card. What you though it was a miswriting of voilà instead? How silly. Though, to be fair you have to have a very high IQ to appreciate sonicmage117.

Wouldn't say its being hammered, they'll still sell oil to us here apparently. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/saudi-arabia-canada-oil-supplies-jailed-activists-1.4778749 so that's s good. They are kind of shafting their own a tad by pulling them from Universities and moving patients. KSA's reaction is curiosly aggressive, good thing no one called them out for funding terrorism or something major. They're most likely being over the top aggressive about it partly because they don't want people to talk about the terrorism etc. If they go bonkers over something minor what will they do over something major? type of thing, plus the lack of support from Canada's 'friends', while unsurprising, is also a deterrent to others. There's also the whole losing face thing. MbS is a pampered princeling who has never had criticism and has run into the harsh reality of not being anywhere near as competent as he thought he was- realistically, he's mostly shown gross incompetence- waving his hands in the air and shouting at clouds to seem 'strong' shores up support and at least in theory gives him an easy 'win' when he's losing everywhere else. (Shame Bush jr didn't criticise Saudi human rights in August 2001, the Saudis pulling their students out of US flight schools then would have had some... pretty positive effects.)

Bad Taste and Brain Dead (/ Dead Alive, depending on location). Two Peter Jackson classics from the time he was actually good his early schlock phase. Bad Taste certainly fits hilarious and awful, though it hasn't so much not aged well as started life looking like it was made with no budget, since it was made with no budget. (Vaguely related, but I can also report that the What We Do In the Shadows spin off Wellington Paranormal is pretty sweet. They even had one of the vampires (not Jemaine) in this week's ep)