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CCCP was amazing when it first came about. The last time I wanted to watch something, though, KCP was recommended over CCCP. Things are forever going to be a bit of a mess with playing anime since there's a long tradition of being on the bleeding edge of encoding.

When I gave the Nexus Mod Manager a try a little while ago, I wondered how it managed to take 18 hours to copy a few hundred files from one directory to another - on a SSD. Wouldn't be surprised if this was at least part of it.

$5/student/year with volume discounts available, according to the NYT piece.

Firefox performance on my older laptop just gets worse and worse. Just a few tabs open to the wrong websites can peg CPU usage at 100%. As far as I can tell this is mainly due to Mozilla "improving" the guts of their rendering at some point and basically no longer supporting rendering with the laptop's terrible Intel graphics chip, forcing software rendering instead.

Older hardware definitely often pays a price for supporting newer features.

I think they're called flexi discs.

http://www.npr.org/2015/04/18/400369975/its-thin-its-plastic...

Much much cheaper? What?

The 512GB 950 Pro is $349, 512GB SM951 is as much as $490 if you can manage to find it. The 256GB SM951 is more available, but it's the same price as the 950 Pro at the very best.

And that's before you start to see sales on the 950 Pro, which you will definitely see.

SM951 is an OEM product and you're generally hard pressed to find it available as a consumer in any substantial quantity. The 950 Pro is a mass market consumer product.

Just look at Amazon, Newegg, etc.

I'd say SSDs are going down in price pretty dang fast. The technology is advancing far more rapidly than HDDs could ever dream of. The Samsung 850 EVO 500GB is already ~25% cheaper than the equivalent 840 was a year ago, with better performance. Not to mention the high performance NVMe drives we're starting to see, where the price:performance is even better.

I haven't really used Twitch broadcasting since it was just justin.tv, but back in those days it was very much just IRC. You could just connect to the IRC channel, and in fact if you wanted to capture logs of the chat or do bots that's the way you had to do it. I have no idea what it's like now.

> I wish they would tone down how loose the physics on ragdolls

There's more than one "they", of course. You can certainly fault Havok for the default settings being set for impressive demonstrations rather than realistic immersion. But developers certainly deserve a lot of blame for not tweaking the knobs Havok provides to tone it down.

Look at Dark Souls vs Dark Souls II. Both Havok, one with comical ragdolling and one with very reasonable ragdolling (aside from enemy weapons that will launch themselves 30m in the air when the wielder dies, anyway, or stick straight up at a 90% angle).

If by chance it's an 840 (rather than the VNAND 850), there's been two firmware updates to improve performance over time - make sure to update the firmware.

If you count professional music artists, producers, and songwriters among fans, sure. It's certainly true that anyone can create a vocaloid track and have it gain popularity, but a number of the biggest hits have unsurprisingly been produced by people already professionally involved in music.

As sz4kerto said, it was probably tracked by building systems. But beyond that, weather services track every single lightning strike in most of the developed world. Eg BELLS: http://radar.meteo.be/en/3337408-Lightning+detection.html#pp...

This is how, for example, you can know whether a wildfire was started by lightning - once a point of origin is determined, simply check the data for strikes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_detection http://www.lightningmaps.org/

If the measurement was originally per 1000 gallons it makes sense to preserve the unit. It may be rounded from acre-foot/year, which is 893 gallons/day.

If you're not interested in spending the money to get top-tier performance, there's absolutely no reason to buy Skylake right now.

The Intel 750 is NVMe, the next generation of storage interface. The 750 can outperform a SATA SSD by 10x in reads, and even versus an outstanding SATA SSD will get you at least a 4x increase.

Load times are actually pretty important for games, and after a GPU I don't think there's anywhere you could spend extra that would give you more quality of life.

You'd already be looking at $250 for a similarly-sized high-performance SATA SSD, so the price difference isn't that large. You aren't getting high performance even as far as SATA for $100.

Ah, I guess I'm used to the Haswell DMI bus speed still, which severely limited M.2 speed even if it was 3.0 and 4 lanes. I guess that's probably not the case with Skylake.

You're right, it looks like most of the Skylake launch boards in Anandtech's review are M.2. Somewhat disappointing. I still suspect M.2 is obsolete in the long run, but seemingly not for this generation of Skylake.

There are at least a couple boards I see with a dedicated PCIE 3.0 x4 slot and U.2 support, but they're the highest end and I'm sure not cheap.

You can connect a 2.5" U.2 drive (Intel 750) to M.2, but it's obviously going to reduce performance to M.2 speeds.

If you care about spending an extra $30 on a CPU cooler, I'd say Skylake is definitely not for you.

If you're getting Skylake for gaming you should probably be planning to drop $400 (or more for a bigger size) on an Intel 750 SSD.

> M.2

My impression was that M.2 is going out of style, at least for desktop - the primary form factor for the Intel 750 etc is an actual PCIe card. The alternative connector if you want a 2.5" drive form factor is U.2 (SFF-8639).

The biggest thing I've seen that Skylake provides for high-performance gaming is 26 PCIE lanes.

This means you can run a PCIE 3.0 4x+ lane NVMe SSD like the Intel 750 while also running a 3.0 16x GPU (or two GPUs in SLI/CrossFireX). Given an appropriate board, anyway - I haven't looked at Skylake boards.

The performance increase of PCIE NVMe SSDs over SATA SSDs is amazing. SSDs are already great of course, but the Intel 750 can decrease load times by another order of magnitude.

Looking at the linked motherboard, its PCIE 3.0 slots are shared bandwidth, which isn't taking advantage of Skylake at all.

Edit: Actually, looking at the launch boards in Anandtech's review, most of them are routing the extra PCIE 3.0 lanes to M.2 ports (potentially a step backwards from U.2 but forwards from SATA). Getting maximum performance out of a NVMe SSD is seemingly still going to be restricted to only certain high-end boards for the time being.

At a glance, it looks like the "MSI Z170A Gaming M9 ACK" board has a dedicated 3.0 x4 slot separate and supports U.2, so there's at least some available, but it's $400.

Edit2: Apparently Skylake M.2 slots can provide full 3.0 x4 performance, so they're probably fine.

That's true of most anti-social behavior (as you acknowledge with "crimes of opportunity"), notably cheating.

They were pretty huge in volume at one point, mostly wholesale and rebranded. I don't know about now. 10-15 years ago you would always look for CD/DVD blank deals that were rebranded TY, and they were never difficult to find. When they got cheap enough I switched to just ordering large spindles of actual TY.

That was an entirely bizarre incident with entirely unique circumstances. Nothing similar has ever happened before, or may ever happen again once the troll is shot down in court.

Among other things it involves someone who's made 2,200 sales on a marketplace and was dabbling in straight up speculation.

When I was using 2-3 monitors, I had all kinds of trouble with them under linux. This was no doubt mostly due to them being different orientations, but there were no end of driver/window manager issues with various distros. Windows always worked flawlessly.

You seem to be overlooking a huge thing - collectibles have an (above-the-board) resale value. While perhaps the market crashes someday, for 25 years Magic cards have done nothing but go up in value. I'm personally up tens of thousands of dollars lifetime from paper Magic, and some thousands from dabbling in digital. And all of it was purchased for play, not investment.

Non-collectible virtual goods have dubious resale value. You can technically sell game accounts I suppose, but it's inevitably against Terms of Service and commensurately difficult.

That was not well researched though, if at all - it's by complete outsiders with little actual knowledge of what happened. Even the person they talk to (Skaff Elias IIRC) gives them a dubious offhand anecdote. It's a Malcolm Gladwell level story.

As far as I can tell, the tax avoidance is a bonus, but not the primary driver of this deal or most any deal that gets accused of being such.

Really difficult for a non-technical user, absolutely. For a technical person, more annoying than difficult.

The best practice for installing free Windows applications is definitely to use something like https://ninite.com/ which skips all crapware for you. If a free utility isn't on ninite, I think extra hard about whether I really need it and then make sure I'm hypervigilant while going through the installer.

The other mitigation, of course, is to pay for software. I don't worry about whether dbpoweramp is going to do something shady.

$200 TB SSDs is not what you should be excited about... sub-$400 400GB 2400MB/s consumer NVMe SSDs (Intel 750) is what's exciting.