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Time to remember that videocard you could never afford back in the day that ran Crysis
That new 3dfx videocard to run quake.
The 64bit processor hype.
Ageia Physx
The fight over Bluray and HDDVD and why neither won.
Bonus points for old tech you have still that went out of business or is a dead end never catching on.
Picture: The first card I would be extremely hyped over, just to be crushed when the 9700 pro blew it away shortly after. Wish I still had it though lying around.
Had the original monster 3d (voodoo 1) card. I threw it out a few years ago when getting rid of all kinds of old junk.
I have a copy of return to zork in the box still.
>>47742672
Wow, I remember I looked up who this 3dfx company was that was in my brand new windows 95 gaming rig when I was little.
I have a VHS that still works great as a spare in the closet. I sorta wanna see how well /bad it'd run GTA 5.
Behold the first DX10 capable GPU and a failed Razer dedicated sound card
FUCKING TOLD YOU SO, GET REKT
>lolAMD
>b-but muh cores
>muh poorfag prices
>>47746224
Wow, it's another marginal fucking improvement over the last generation.
I hate lack of competition so much.
>>47746251
why would you reply seriously to this? there's a bench thread every single day and only underage reply to them.
I bought this shit.
I like it.
I don't exactly like the interface.
Do I rockbox?
is there anything other than rockbox?
Do I really NEED to format my SD card for best results (FAT32)? whatever that means.
FiiO X1 General.
No need to rockbox it because it already has all the features you would have needed rockbox for.
>>47739609
i bricked it
>>47739609
From a review I watched, Rockbox puts X1's interface to shame.
![article-2210249-1541C242000005DC-914_636x381[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/EaqrULu.jpg "article-2210249-1541C242000005DC-914_636x381[1].jpg")
>in job interview
>asks me what i've programmed in my free time
>tell them i don't program in my free time
>they're genuinely surprised at my answer
Whats with this mantra that you must spend hours a week programming in your free time "for fun" in addition to a 40hr/week job so employers know you're passionate about your profession?
Who the fuck gets home at 6-7pm after staring a monitor for 8 hours and thinks...
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>>47742048
I program in my free time. Programming is energizing.
>>47742048
>He doesn't enjoy programming
>He's just a code monkey
>>47742048
People assume that you enjoy programming, because as far as careers go it's pretty fucking great. You're not breathing in dust, not walking miles a day, not doing retail or working on tips. You get to express creative thought to build something without really expending any *physical* effort, only intellectual.
If you think of programming unequivocally as a "grind", then you're going to burn out anyway. People get home at the end of an 8-hour day and think about how they can tinker...
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Soundfa/g/s report in
I'm going to get a MIDI controller and was wondering what you guys think of these few:
http://www.amazon.com/Novation-Launchkey-Instrument-Controller-Keyboard/dp/B00F9SWH8G/
http://www.amazon.com/Akai-Professional-MPK25-Keyboard-Controller/dp/B001SGWKR6/
http://www.amazon.com/Akai-Professional-MPK-MKII-Ultra-Portable/dp/B00IJ6QAO2/
I own a Launchkey 61.
It's good. Though I'm sure someone else has a "elite" opinion on the matter.
It works and does what I need it to do.
obviously the mpk25 is going to feel the best out of those three. all of those encoders seem like fun too.
the alesis vl25 is worth a look i think - the keys seem really nice, but then again youre looking for 25 key midi controllers, so i imagine thats not as much of a priority.
keystation + arduinome?
get a full sized MPK dont be a faggot.
I just got hired as a dev at a startup in California.
How do I blend in?
>>47737415
Wear a neck tie. And say stuff like "Hey, how are you doing?" and "Weather is nice out today, isn't it?"
Proclaim your love for Islam, communism and cuckolding. You'll fit right in :^)
Plaid, Starbucks, be skinny and wear skinny jeans
Didn't see one up. Someone come along to fill in gaps.
My problem: My laptop died on Saturday so I had to look at my friend's old Thinkpads as replacements. Only one of them worked - his X201 Tablet. I was really excited to use it, but on boot it only gives "Fan error" and shuts. The fan would boot up but then would immediately turn off. I replaced the fan as told by nearly every forum on the internet only to find this one also spins up for a few seconds, then shuts down resulting in "Fan error" again. The actual grate on the heatsink is...
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I had this problem. I replaced the cpu heat sink by one I bought off ebay. If you plan on doing this, make sure you have some thermal paste as well.
>X201
>old
underageb& detected
just press escape when it says fan error
>>47738200
I do press escape but it still shows "Fan error". And among the other Thinkpads, the lot was old. He had the X201 which I claimed as soon as I saw it.
He also had two T61s with Centrino Duos in them and W95.
>>47738185
So it's not the fan, it's the heatsink that needs replacing?
How does /g/ feel about steamOS?
It's almost ready
I'm a Valve employee by the way, I should disclose that. Nobody high up in the chain though.
>Valve employee
>beter performace
>windows
>>47743704
Well if it introduces more people to Linux its a good thing
Maybe it'll become Ubuntu for gaymers
>>47743750
>Maybe it'll become Ubuntu for gaymers
hopefully.
And the chain reaction from that is that we stard getting more software compatible with Linux. Valve itself has been on the business of selling software, not just games, since a few years.
A steam OS running on Debian, backed by a billion dollar corporation is a good thing for Debian based distros at least. It will ensure more compatibility and stuff available
>word.camera
Have any of you guys seen this yet? Some guy made (work-in-progress) a website where you can take pictures or upload them to get a long response describing the image. It's pretty fucking hilarious.
https://word.camera/i/XwJwzv9Av
I uploaded pic related and got a fairly accurate description in broken English.
>the dress has a floral print, and the blond is a person with fair skin and hair.
>Yes, an adult and a fun: the adult has a reach legal age, and the...
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How does this even work?
An actual AI is spitting out the text or is it mechanical turk?
>>47741577
Surprisingly accurate.
>>47741708
It has too much random knowledge to be a person. After running a few images it seems like it basically recognizes about 10 characteristics of the image and then gives filler info about them. Still pretty impressive that it recognizes toys, planets, people, and butts, and describes them, rather than just following a face.
>Adblock Edge has been discontinued in favor of uBlock
>gorhill now back in the drivers seat rolling out fixes and features for uBlock Origin for both Chrome and Firefox
>Chris Aljewdi's reputation has been utterly destroyed and he's not even in college yet and probably has cancer or AIDS judging from his video on Youtube
>uBlock is now seeing a huge grassroots following behind it as people are talking about it and the fact that Adblock Plus'...
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http://vaughnlive.tv/cajunflixx
>can't select the ads in the video with the element picker
>>47736568
If anything, gorhill's reputation as a person has been utterly destroyed.
>>47736606
>If anything, gorhill's reputation as a person has been utterly destroyed.
How so?
I loved these motherfuckers but the jack weakened and broke within a few moths of use.
What does /g/ recommend for in-ear headphones?
What is /hpg/
Repair the jack.
It's literally a $1 repair
>>47738998
Repair them or buy a pair of jeans the Apple EarPods on eBay for like $6. It's hard to tell which ones are authentic though.
What went wrong?
>Juggernaut in the 80s and 90s
>Had the gaming and entertainment world by the balls for most of the 2000s
>Shitting the bed since the 2010s
>>47745541
Its like paying a premium for chink electronics but you get bonus DRM.
Sony's answer has always been fuck the consumer add more DRM, that business model can't keep working when people increasingly prefer free open platforms and software.
>>47745541
meh the PS4 seems fine, at least better than the xbox one
>>47745541
China happened. They started producing good-enough gadgets for less money and Sony can't compete with that.
I mean they're trying, by releasing mediocre products at premium prices. Obviously that won't work for long.
So we've seen the leaked Zen core diagram, question is can AMD/Keller deliver.
1. New core design with at least 50% IPC improvement
2. New cache (AMD weak point) and interconnect (HyperTransport is now a bottleneck)
3. SMT (it took Intel years to get this right)
4. DDR4 controller (again, AMD weak point)
5. New instructions
All of this on a R&D budget that is 1/10th of Intel.
Realistically we can hope for something with Ivy Bridge performance, Haswell if we're lucky at the start.
More slides.
As much as Keller is a design guru he's just one man in AMD, the rest of his design team need to pull their weight to make Zen work.
>>47739136
He made the previously unsuccessful PA-Semi and Apple work...
He also made AMD work in the past, remember, prior to K7 AMD was a cheap-cheap Vendor making Intel clones.
>Intel themselves were slow competitive to the workstation market.
Zen will be a great arch, whether it will beat intel though, that's yet to be seen and any hype now is just jumping the gun.
Wait for REAL benchmarks next year.
![popcorn-time-logo[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/UtE8j6m.png "popcorn-time-logo[1].png")
>allowing big media companies to censor the internet to protect their profits
https://torrentfreak.com/court-orders-uk-isps-to-block-popcorn-time-150428/
>The order, obtained today by Hollywood’s Motion Picture Association, targets five popular Popcorn Time forks: popcorntime.io, flixtor.me, popcorn-time.se, and isoplex.isohunt.to.
>In his order Judge Birss notes that the Popcorm Time software has little to no legal use. Instead, he mentions that it’s mostly used to download...
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Hopefully same doesn't come to anywhere else, tho this may be cited in future cases.
>UK
There's your problem.
But really, anyone who lives in the UK I feel pretty bad.
>UK
gee, what a shock
What next, North Korea censoring stuff?
>not wanting a tiny laptop that fits in your jacket pocket
Why shouldn't I get one of these Chinese ARM laptops and slap on Linux?
Because that resolution sucks.
>>47741110
>jacket pocket
trench coat wearing, fedora tipping faggot detected
>>47741152
>implying
Looks like someone here doesn't have a tailor sew in an extra large inner pocket in his regular coat.
