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My mom just called me to ask how to plug in a USB headset to her iPad.

Of all the things to hate them for, pulling a violation of their copyright is the least suitable. Few game studios would allow this.

Some people will get mad about just about anything.
 
Why scream "fuck NVIDIA" for adding additional value for their cards? I really don't get how upset people get about things like Gameworks and these particle effects. This is a way for NVIDIA to differentiate themselves from AMD and provide a service that will entice people to get their cards. It isn't anti competitive, its the very definition of competitive. NVIDIA didn't force Bethesda to implement this feature or Gameworks in itself at all... they wanted this software to be in their game. Don't go blaming NVIDIA for offering the service, blame Bethesda for allowing it to be in their game if you are going to still get upset.
 
I think some people on here are acting extremely entitled when it comes to things like this. NVIDIA is under no obligation to make Gameworks even run on AMD cards because its their software that is intended for their cards. If you don't buy their stuff, then don't expect to receive the fruits of their labor... its that simple. When I had a 750 Ti, I didn't complain about not being able to use Mantle.
 
All the Gameworks features that either tank performance on my card or I just can't run to begin with, I do not care about. It doesn't effect the game at all except for terms of some minor graphical effects. Nobody is forcing me to use Gameworks effects, just as nothing is forcing me to use MSAA or the highest texture setting. If something hurts performance on your card, either get a new one or just move on.

I'm willing to bet that a good 90+% of kickstarters are set up by people who have never started a company before. And on top of that many of them just miscalculate the amount of money they will get from the time anyway. There was a guy who was pretty common on Tested (the website/youtube page) who explained it in one of the podcasts about all the things like fees, taxes and the costs of the "gifts" (with shipping of course). Just because you have a great idea doesn't mean you can build a business around it, or at the very least you should try and get some outside advice before trying.
 
So as for my guess I'm going to go with 90% chance of stupidity and 10% chance of malice.
 
That being said, I'm glad Kickstarter seems to be seeing that they are going to get a bad rap with all these big "success stories" failing, they shouldve just done it about 2 years ago. Their brand has been irrevocably harmed, in my opinion and i now almost never go there. Too little, too late.

Let me stop you right there, and leave: This is just retarded no machine is rendered useless because of a failed OS install, just format back to Windows 7 or 8 you dipshits.

I dare say I actually... almost enjoyed the campaign in Ghosts (only CoD I own past the first two, and that's just because it was $5 for a physical copy). For what it is, it was actually half decent, albeit quite the generic one. Actually considering spending the coin on the CoD franchise (if it's cheap enough and a physical copy, ofc)

The game is not that bad. If it was 20 bucks it would be a good game. But 120...

No, but they are the reason I have an adblocker installed. 
 
Does this only remove google's ads? If so, not as good as I was thinking, but still a nice way to contribute to a site

No. You'd destroy a lot of shitty websites with barely any original content like clickbait shit, uninspired bloggers, etc. Content worth watching would survive.
 
The internet can use many people doing business on it just frankly going away. Yes it's sad some folk made a career of it but shit happens: Look at the car industry in the US.

This is the one of the oldest fallacies about online advertising that has been floating around for years.
 
One, the web isn't "free" - if it were, there would not be advertisements up in my face on every site I visit.
 
Two, it is with certainty that corporate interests are driving the ad-blocking push-back; they have by far the most (money) to lose from ad-blocking. Shitty, useless websites that are limping along on advertising are no great loss, and not really what's at stake here.
 
Finally, no one is entitled to success. All these "content creators" that are surviving due to ad revenue are forced to do so because they don't actually have a marketable product or are too lazy to come up with a viable business model. They end up selling their users to ad companies, instead of selling their content to users. Frankly, I think the internet is becoming over-saturated with bloggers and YouTubers and what have you, that have nothing better to do than get paid by ad companies for page views.
 
In short, a lot is going to need to change to make the web truly free.

Here's mine

Do animated movies count? If yes, then Cars, Cars 2, Robots, Finding Nemo & Madagascar (1,2 & 3) [emoji1]
From the non-animated I suggest all of the Transformers movies (Dark of the Moon was my favourite) & all FnF movies

Starting January 1st im gonna watch one movie per day for 365 days. List your suggestions below

Erm, am I the only one here that finds this actually impressive? It's running on a 10 year old hardware which you can pick up for $130 right now. One, hundred, thirty dollars. You can't even build computer at that price...
 
EDIT:
I was right. A potato costs $188.

What do you expect from 10 year old hardware?

the fuck 

good.
 
I think android has a terrible long term support and keeping devices up to date. if its not a nexus its not getting updates.

Uhh.. this is a DICE game. You know Battlefield 3 and 4? Yeah, Premium memberships.
 
Seriously, this isn't new news. They have to make that DLC $ somehow.
 
The "Season passes" on their games are always $50, but buying every DLC? $70 or more.

Ill pay $250 and for free online

So, you think you've seen everything there is to see in Skyrim eh? Well you haven't seen this. It's time to fire up the Skyrim, again.
 
 
Judging by the trailer, this mod is no joke.

 
Not only is it apparently extremely well made, it is fully voice acted.
Source
 
I'm downloading it already. I've been working on a playthrough of heavily modded Skyrim for a while now, and other than a slight issue with my map (when I move the camera around the map....the icons move. As if the map in skyrim wasn't a pain in the ass as it is.) I've been enjoying the hell out of it.
 
And where can you find this mod? On modDB, Nexus, and the Steam Workshop
Nexus
ModDB
Steam

Source:
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/47826/nasa-dumps-over-8-400-photos-apollo-moon-mission-onto-flickr/index.html
 
 
NASA just opened the Project Apollo Archive on flickr. 
Photos sorted by the order they were on the roll of film.
 
 
This image is an amazing 4400*4600 resolution
 

 
 
My only question is, where are all the secret conspiracy confirmations?
 

Uh what.
 
Okay..um...
 
I literally have no words to describe my reaction this.
 
*Edit, after thinking about this a bit more and hearing other opinions on this matter I've come to this conclusion. Amazon is fully within their right to do this as it isn't anticompetitive, but it is a dickish move.
 
Having said that, are they going to remove all tablets and phones as well and only sell their Fire tablets/phones(I know they stopped selling this, but it's an example) then? Where do they draw the line?
 
To me it should be all or nothing.

I doubt there's some security system that can not be cracked eventually, if you have pretty good security measures, that doesn't stop anyone from trying to get in.

[sCROLL DOWN TO SEE DRIVER COMPARISON GRAPHS]
 
I have been an owner of the GTX 670 since 2012. I’ve read numerous claims from people stating that new drivers have led to reduced performance, but all of them were one off cases. Nonetheless, I remained curious, and over the past few days, have put these claims to the test by comparing five AAA games, each using a different game engine.
 
(Please note the data values on the Y-axis)
The data collected is the average frames per second for a given play through. I urge you to draw your own conclusions with the given data; below is my interpretation.
 
All the tested games have had a net improvement in performance over time, even after their end of life and introduction of a new series of cards.
 
In Dirt 3, I was concerned with 353.06’s performance, which is almost 10 FPS lower than the preceding driver, 350.12; this is corrected with 353.06 though. Just Cause 2 had a consistent improvement in performance after 344.89, which may have to do with the release of the multiplayer mod during that time (see table), increasing the player base. Just Cause 2 has had an almost 25 FPS increase from its lowest performance in 301.42 and its best performance in 347.88. Battlefield 3 had a ~5 FPS boost from its first driver to the time leading to the 700 series launch Sleeping Dogs, and Crysis 2 have had no major performance improvement or degradation The data does not account for added features such as ShadowPlay, or for support for newer games and performance enhancing improvements such as the capability for running SLI when using older hardware which may improve the driver in people's view
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Below are the settings used for each of the tests, along with the in game mission/ benchmark which I used for gathering the average frames per second.
Battlefield 3
           Preset: Ultra
           Mission: Going Hunting
           FOV: 70
           Motion Blur: 0
           Stop benchmark 5-6 seconds after first enemy fires at you Crysis 2
           Preset: Ultra     
           Mission: A Walk in the Park        
           Motion Blur: Low            
           When spawned; walk on the pathway, looking only straight on. Use armor mode with   the rifle equipped to take down the first   enemy; and invisibility with a shotgun to take down the other two. Walk up to the garden with the cloak, and pan from left to right    and then end the benchmark Dirt 3
      Preset: Ultra (no AA)     
      Mission: Benchmark (8 people rally in Aspen, 3rd person view) Just Cause 2
           Preset: Ultra (no AA; Bohek Filter Off)
           Mission: Benchmark (Concrete Jungle)
           Motion Blur: 0 Sleeping Dogs
           Preset: Extreme
           Mission: Benchmark
           Motion Blur: 0 Here’s the procedure I followed for removing and installing a driver
Uninstall the driver in “Programs and Features” Restart the system as prompted Delete the NVidia folder in the c:// folder Install the new driver (deselect everything else such as PhysX, HD Audio, GeForce Experience) Restart the system as prompted In NVidia Control Panel,
change only the following V-Sync option à “Use the 3D application setting” à “Off”
If the time taken for the drop down menu under V-Sync takes over 40 seconds to open during which time the NVidia control panel freezes, the menu is denoted “laggy”, if it responds instantly, it’s denoted “responsive” Miscellaneous
During testing, the GTX 670 stayed under 70 C in a temperature controlled environment of 21 C All tests were conducted offline 3DMark could not be tested because it cannot start offline Crysis 3 was omitted since during cut scenes, the frame rate exceeded 1000 frames per second Dying Light and Battlefield 4 are fairly new, the range of drivers to test them from would be small, hence these games were omitted I was initially testing two 670s in SLI under maximize 3D performance on a resolution of 5760x1080. However, I soon realized that not many people would have a setup consisting of three screens, hence opted for a single 1080p panel. However, SLI on a single screen caused purple flickering in all tested games; something which I could not find a solution to. Unfortunately, I ruled out several games such as BioShock Infinite and Arkham City to this; a problem solved by using only a single GPU. I did not revisit these games for testing when using a single card. Should I do this test in the future again with another card, I will bear this in mind. Certain games such as Dying Light crashed when FRAPS was being used to record the frames per second. At the time of running the tests, the only applications running in the background were Microsoft Security Essentials (for all), MSI Afterburner (for all), and, FRAPS (when testing Crysis 2 and Battlefield 3)
  All tests were run on the following setup-
Intel i7 3770K ASUS P8Z77-V-Pro Zotac GTX 670 (Reference) Corsair HX850 Corsair 8GB (2X4GB) CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 Corsair Force 3 SSD for the OS Windows 7 Home Premium 2x WD1003ABYX RE4 HDDs in RAID 0 for the games Acer S221HQL (1920X1080)           [i appear to have forgotten to make the table; I'll add that tomorrow morning (it's 3 in the morning right now!) ]

There are online games for smartphones so yes. They are.