AmVess

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by AmVess 12y ago
I've been reading TR since they split off from Ars, and never had to register to view content. I think that perhaps something may be amiss with your browser.
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by AmVess 12y ago
I don't know what the breakdown is (what number of cores goers to OS,number of cores for the games), the the Xbox One has a rather low performance 8-core AMD unit; the cores are provisioned amongst the OS and games as needed. Since the
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by AmVess 12y ago
Given that it's no secret that S&P ratings can be purchased, I have to wonder who the highest bidder on this rating was. I'm not a tin-foil hatter, nor is this a pithy comment, but it comes so far out of left field that this q
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by AmVess 12y ago
Kind of a strange exercise they are doing. Not that I can blame them, I'd be pulling it apart to see what makes it tick myself. As a practical exercise, however, this is rather futile; they aren't going to be able to replicate the
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by AmVess 13y ago
I'm a high functioning alcoholic, and denial is extraordinarily strong amongst us (other HFAs). Denial is just another enabler to being essentially blotto all the time. I lived in complete denial for 15 years before some of my HFA budd
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by AmVess 13y ago
Not everyone has insurance, and not not all insurance is good.
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by AmVess 13y ago
It's difficult even on land. I recall an accident that involved a twin engine light aircraft that vanished in the middle of the night in Alaska perhaps 20 years ago. Search parties searched for quite some time, but gave up. Five years
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by AmVess 13y ago
A seismologist tracked the sonic booms of the new Aurora spy plane at mach 5.2. A pretty slick hack as I've ever seen.
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by AmVess 13y ago
Wow, thanks for the link. What an astounding story.
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by AmVess 13y ago
This poor fellow did it at supersonic speeds and lived: http://jalopnik.com/5894022/what-happens-when-you-eject-out-...
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by AmVess 13y ago
How, exactly, was this a death threat? I find your response to be quite befuddling.
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by AmVess 13y ago
Well, a gentleman flew all the way from the UK to Japan to have a polite chat with him, so it's not outside of reality for someone to do bad things to him fairly easily. Beyond that, CEO's of large companies are generally under gu
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by AmVess 13y ago
For PC games, Hard copies return roughly 40-45% of the title to the publisher. Valve gets a 30% slice for distribution on Steam. I do not know what the breakdown of costs are on consoles, but I assume both Sony and MS still get a cut of the
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by AmVess 13y ago
I'm glad MS is building OSes. Imagine if they built cars; the brake pedal would be next to the brake lights.
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by AmVess 13y ago
They need to quit dinking around with garbage newsprint like this.
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by AmVess 13y ago
This was back when they made good food. Now, they make utter junk. I might not have been clear in my previous post. I was burning 4k calories a day. 3/4 of a large pizza wasn't even half the calories I needed just to get out of be
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by AmVess 13y ago
The something else is: someone is lying, or she's two-fingering in between takes (likely). At my peak, I was consuming 4000 calories a day doing some pretty hardcore construction work for 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. Even then, I cou
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by AmVess 13y ago
I clicked on this, not knowing at all what the entire thread was about. Now I am scarred for life. Have an upvote.
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by AmVess 13y ago
What the hell is wrong with some people? This is the 21st century; not the 12th. Also, his 'apology' is anything but. He blames alcohol and depression instead of making no excuses and taking the heat that he deserves. The only thi
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by AmVess 13y ago
The definition of rev-happy may have different meanings in different locales. In my locale, rev-happy means that they are very fast to rev, not that they have an RPM of X. Not to the point at all, but I collect and restore old Elsinores. Lo
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by AmVess 13y ago
CVT's in automobiles rely primarily upon metal chains for drive, not rubber bands.
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by AmVess 13y ago
I'll be worried when Amazon starts hiring precogs. The question then would be, would I want something before I want it?
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by AmVess 13y ago
My response to Amazon, if they do this, is something I call predictive returns. As in, I predict I will return everything they ship to me in this manner.
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by AmVess 13y ago
Perhaps is it reasonable cynicism informed by experience.
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by AmVess 13y ago
The starting pay at a (formerly) local company was $14.25/hr in 2000. They pay $10.25 for the same job 14 years later. The nearby Costco pays better, has realistic working hours, and offers actual benefits. I can't remember when i
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by AmVess 13y ago
I agree. Verbing weirds language.
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by AmVess 13y ago
They still sell 300+ MM of the things globally; PC's aren't going anywhere. The market will shrink to allow room for other players (tablets, etc), but it will never die off. I've been reading about the death of the PC since t
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by AmVess 13y ago
Criminal contempt of court can take place during a civil or criminal trial.
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by AmVess 13y ago
I've lost count of how many times I've deleted my + accounts across 2 different e-mail addresses. Broken feature is broken.
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by AmVess 13y ago
...I'm guessing reforms will be something along the lines of a new NSA logo, mission statement and revamped website, while the spooks continue to lurk with impunity.

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