Berkut99

He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past. I'm curious as to what a 4K remaster actually entails for games like these and what their feel is going to be. C&C and Red Alert were fast paced and really responsive games and it will be hard to replicate the feel. I'll be interested to see if they're simply putting a fresh coat of paint over the old .SHP files or if they're going to build from the ground up on a new engine (or possibly on the SAGE engine?). And I hope we also see a return to modding form with a little rules,ini. Regardless, as a lifelong C&C fan who was active in the modding community during the days of TibSun and RA2 and who places the original Red Alert as their favorite game of all time, I'm hyped. Bringing Petroglyph in as a partner and developer is a HUGE step forward, and I look forward to seeing what the old team can accomplish. I'd love to see a glimpse of Joe Kucan as well, just for old times sake.

Elbit makes good stuff, I won't deny it. I'd rather us stay in country for our displays or at least contract out to a JSF Level 1 partner, but I guess this is what it's got to be. I think the helmet is where the real refinement needs to go, but from what I understand, that's not too bad either. To all the naysayers: I totally agree--the F-35 is NOT an ideal combat aircraft in many specific ways and probably brings back ugly memories of the debacle that was the F-4's run, but we're over the hill here and the Peace Dividend really screwed things up for us. We need to accept it as a stepping stone to a proper next-generation light aircraft. The technologies and tactics that it is fielding are extremely important to push to reach full maturity--these technologies were supposed to be developed and deployed for the F-22, but we messed it up a bit. Ironically, as a result, the F-22 stands as a far more mature design because it didn't need to integrate these cutting-edge technologies as much, so it's specialties are readily identifiable and well-refined. Lockheed hasn't helped matters much with their inadequate project management, but we need to power through this contract and set up the F-35 as a proper interim combat aircraft. At this point we need to let it play out as the expensive testbed aircraft it is, so we can deploy what it has created into a cheaper, more refined aircraft in the future. Combat aircraft can tick-tock too. Unfortunately I think that's part of the nature of the military-industrial complex.

I have to say that I really appreciate this topic. I brought up 2FA with bankers and tellers for a while and they never told me that they had this available--I have now turned it on and updated my password. I need to move my accounts at some point but this will at least give me a little piece of mind in the meantime. Thanks to you @coonwhiz and the Redditor for bringing this up

Despite all the arguments over 4K conventional gaming capability it seems pretty clear to me that the release of this console is not for that reason, despite how much Sony's marketing wants to hype that up. The performance boost is likely just for VR at acceptable frame rates at Full HD resolutions--that's about it. The most likely reason for the new release is to allow Sony to market it's own highly-invested media format. It is not coincidence that this console is being talked about for release about a year after the first 4K Blu-Rays hit the market. Just like the PS2 and PS3 before it, the PS4K is built to provide people a multifunction unit that enables them access to the next generation of optical media. This was even already discussed by people around the PS4's original reveal around E3--ultimately the PS4 felt lacking because it broke the cycle that Sony setup for itself and the machine itself felt premature. All the PS4K is is a way to re-enable that cycle.

I am adding this to my download queue immediately tomorrow morning to put it in my IT tool box. I put together tons of Windows 7 builds for clients and this will significantly cut down on the time it takes for each build thanks to how many damn updates there are.

Metallic Hydrogen has been touted as the "holy grail of high pressure physics" for a while. This is the same type of hydrogen phase that has long been predicted to reside near the cores of gas giants. This isn't something that can really be used for electronics. Electrics on the otherhand? Maybe. But at the atmospheres needed, even with theoretical lithium doping, it's not likely to be what makes the world-saving superconductor we're all looking for. But it's still good news.

Considering I use OneDrive to act as my offsite backup for a lot of legacy files that amount to just over 5GB, I am damn pissed. I tend to be a big supporter of OneDrive since it gave me a little piece of mind for backup, but dropping it down to 5GB makes it significantely more difficult for me to manage those backups. I can do a spread between OneDrive, Google Drive, and Dropbox if I have to, but I lose a lot of convienience that I got with OneDrive. Come on, Microsoft. I tend to be one to cowardly cede whenever I hear about cutbacks like this, but dropping to a mere 5GB? Really? Part of the deal behind the Windows 8 licences I purchased was an agreement that I would get 15GB of storage. TOS regarding the reservation to change the agreement at anytime be damned, this is not helping your argument that you are shifting to a competent service provider business model. I don't even get legacy support? Come on!

Is this stupid from a practical point of view? Yes. But from an industrial design point of view that melds with Apple's design philosophy? It makes perfect sense. There is now an uninterrupted continuous line around the mouse. At no point does the mouse betray it's curve. This mirrors their design philosophy for all their products: Appearance first, function later. And what can I say? People go for that. Don't know why precisely, but they do.

I'd feel more confident that the ISA development will slow down due to less need to develop new extensions before chip area becomes an issue. Plus I don't think it's CISC architecture itself that has issues (I mean, CISC and RISC are getting harder and harder to differentiate between every passing day), but instead reputation feels more built on the insistence for crazy pipelining that these x86 CISC chips keep being developed with, whether it be NetBurst in days past or Bulldozer in the present. Intel's Atom line-up has done a pretty good job of demonstrating that the heavy x86-64 ISA can in fact produce an efficient, cool SoC.

16nm and 14nm are for all intents and purposes the exact same thing. What matters is the scaling percentage here, not the raw number. AMD is cutting their node size in half, so they're very much on track.

This makes perfect sense for the Japanese market, however. It was stated that NHK's roadmap for broadcasting was aiming to skip 4K adoption and aim directly for 8K as their UHD standard. Considering both the 4K and 8K UHD standards were ratified at pretty much the same time, I think their goal was to avoid the somewhat confusing and annoying HD/FHD issues with the past, where 720p really was simply a stopgap resolution for television until 1080 panels ramped up and broadcasters made the digital switchover.

I'm not entirely sure I understand where an R9 380X would fit in this line-up. If we hypothesize along perfect core and performance scaling a fully-unlocked Tonga would creep so closely up onto R9 390 territory that it's price-to-performance would make the latter card's sales grind to a standstill--8GB buffer be damned. AMD's already having a little trouble justifying the 100 dollar markup of the R9 390X when the R9 390 is such a great value. But hey, don't misunderstand. If AMD wants to release a fully unlocked Tonga GPU under 300 dollars here in the States, I would be first in line to pick it up. It would easily become the price-to-performance king much like it's predcessor was.

Well this is sure to thrill Russia, since this means that their Elbrus has run into yet another wall of competition. Though I guess in the end I don't know if they really want to focus as much on the Elbrus 2000 architecture's x86 emulation anymore anyway. Heck, maybe Russian manufacturers will simply buy these chips and restrict the E-2000 back into the VLIW market entirely. Regardless, this has been a long time coming. China's headstrong attitude into technology independence was destined to yield a contemporary CISC x86 processor at some point. It will probably stay with them, though. Well, Pakistan will probably begin importing chips as they see fit, but they don't have much of a use with them considering the U.S. hasn't restricted trade of consumer-grade computing components so far as I remember.

Harsh words. What would it be other than VISC then? I have a lot of questions regarding what these (admittedly unverified) results are showing. The issue I'm seeing right now is that if whatever IS Skylake is running actually could do a form of "inverse SMT" then that implies a lot, including idea that heavily parralellized physical architectures like GPU's would now be able to act upon single threads. Although ultimately I'm having trouble attributing this to instruction sets at all--there would be no reason for Intel to withhold information like that before release and all released documentation is showing nothing that would implment it, though I admit I haven't had a look at Intel's updated x86 datasheets. But on the other hand I can't seem to see it being anything other than implemented at the metal.

The controversy has hopefully been beaten dead and we've all moved on. But from a purely technical objective standpoint this is an interesting question: If this is in fact based on the 970-class GM204 that would imply that they would have had to redesign the chip to move past the barriers that I/O created, right? Or is it very well possible that we will see another I/O detriment past what I would assume to be 7GB if the ratio's hold up correctly. And if the chip WAS redesigned, does that imply there might be a consumer product refresh in the pipeline late in the Maxwell release cycle?