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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)

Because it leaves off his qualification- he didn't serve them because they were gay and wanted a wedding cake, if they'd asked for a different sort of cake it would have been fine. If an asian couple asked a muslim baker to make a bacon cake and he refused you couldn't say it was because they were asian, it would be because they wanted him to use bacon. There is in that he got banned in a coordinated manner by multiple companies simultaneously, companies that- coincidentally? 'coincidentally'?- have been under pressure to make sure news only comes from mainstream sources. Doesdn't really matter if it isn't the government technically doing the banning if they're getting others to do it for them. Jones has definitely been asking for it for some time and is essentially worthless as a source of information, but the obvious coordination is a problem and it could easily be used against, others in a progressive slide- indeed 'unfriendly' news sources are already targeted via soft methods to suck up to US and other politicians.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dj7bIrFWwAELwlw.jpg Saudi Arabia: funny things or politics thread? The eternal question. (meh, twimg won't embed. Fake News/ SAD!)

Unless they really massage the schedule I can't see Stewart being in every episode. He's pretty fit, but he is over 70 and doesn't need the money. Him shooting main character length for 22 episodes of the notoriously grueling US TV schedule is not likely. If he's a main character then an X Files type limited season is most likely, otherwise he'd likely be used mostly for framing narrative while featuring in the big episodes- more like Mitch Pileggi in the X Files than Duchovny/ Anderson. In universe, Picard should be an Admiral and that also limits what he can realistically be doing week in week out. There's a reason why all the characters followed in TV trek have always been below flag rank.

Pretty much entirely facade. They aren't letting women drive because not doing so is regressive, archaic and stupid; they're letting women drive because they cannot maintain their economy- or at least their massive spending on arms, influence and enormous luxury yachts- with 50% of their workforce inactive and they're burning through their reserves at a ridiculous rate*. Most of the Saudis who called for the driving ban change have been jailed for doing so. *Hence them wanting to annex Qatar, which has huge monetary reserves and huge natural gas reserves (largest confirmed in the world, iirc) with natural gas being a lot more sustainable for the future as well since it's cleaner burning than oil.

I wouldn't be surprised if Dorn were in it since it could be the long rumoured (maybe pitched is more appropriate, since Dorn was pretty vocal about wanting it) Captain Worf series. That would also fit a hypothetical Admiral Picard role for Stewart where he could be as prominent or absent episode to episode as he wanted to be.

Supposedly Trump didn't even know that Qatar had the biggest US base in the Middle East, and that is what changed his mind. Don't think Trump was egging them on though, more along the lines of he was fine with them 'fighting terrorists' or 'Iranian proxies' however they saw fit, and that Qatar having a large US base probably meant they weren't actually Iranian proxies or terrorists; or at least were friendly Iranian proxies and terrorists. I have no doubt that any talk with Saudi or UAE about it was not even slightly nuanced/ accurate on their part and Trump simply doesn't have the base of knowledge in international affairs to know when he's being gulled.

Supposedly it's not going to be a reboot, that was just the assumption made by pretty much everyone in the press; it's going to be a new series in the same universe. Which at least makes a modicum of sense. It'll still likely either be garbage, or canned before actual production like Xena and various other 'reboots'.

You just cancel the subscription when there aren't any/ enough games to play. I got Origin Access for a year and that will be it until there's enough new stuff there to justify subscribing again in x years time- and that's how it should be since it encourages EA to improve the service and offer more titles. I don't have the slightest problem with subscriptions services that are genuine subscription services, they're certainly better than subscription services that are purchase services calling themselves subscriptions so they can legally disclaim all sorts of responsibilities (ie steam).

The ultimate end point of Bethesda's dialogue progression game to game is communicating entirely in emoticons. I can hear Todd and Pete hyping the concept as revolutionary even now. You could also be a porn star You could pimp your spouse out and make them a p0rn star as well. F2 really was well ahead of the curve. It was even early enough that same sex marriage didn't trigger claims of teh SJWs taking over.

The Turkish Interior and Justice ministers have been sanctioned by the US at least ostensibly over the detention of a pastor post coup attempt, though it probably has as much to do with Turkey being mean to Israel most recently over Israel's Apartheid Law which passed last week, plus backing Qatar (and hence annoying Saudi) and buying S400 from Russia. First time a NATO ally has been sanctioned by the US, I believe.

That's flat management for you. While people love to hate middle management and bad middle management is infuriating it exists to solve a very real problem- someone has to identify issues and have the authority to get said issues fixed in a timely manner. Allowing people to go where their enthusiasm leads sounds great in theory, but all too often their enthusiasm leads to eventual boredom at the hard work of fixing bugs. It's the old problem where if you make everyone head chef then you end up with everyone designing new meals and no one chopping onions and peeling potatoes for existing recipes day in day out.

Fair few = too many to easily list individually, hence not listing them individually but by category. Certainly most of them aren't individually that 'bad'- some random indie using assets from other games is pretty low grade as problems go and things like the DayZ/ WarZ fiasco in the end require some dumbness from the buyer (and happened before the open door policy)- but valve's policy makes them and things like cryptomining trojans inevitable, because that's human nature and they're a quick and easy way to make money at minimal risk. The problem with not really caring about the quality of the stuff you sell in some sort of libertarian, charitably- or minimal effort for maximum profit, less charitably- philosophy is that you will end up selling garbage from people who cut corners and are dishonest. If you have some sort of even basic curation you wouldn't cut out all of the bad stuff, but you'd make it a lot more difficult; and that is usually enough to discourage the vast majority of scammers who are, after all, wanting to make money easily.