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http://deliddedtech.com/2017/05/28/bitcoincryptocurrency-craze-wipes-out-amd-gpu-supply/
 
Do you guys think this is good for AMD? They've had this happen before. While it certainly is helping short term sales, they aren't getting extra from the wholesalers/retailers that are charging more than MSRP. In addition, it could have negative effects in the long term due to large-scale offloading of used cards when this whole mining thing slows down, thus eventually encouraging users to pick up a used one for half price instead of buying new. In addition, gamers that are currently unable to get an AMD GPU at a reasonable price may go with NVIDIA, and get locked into proprietary hardware such as GSync monitors, thus discouraging them from upgrading to AMD in the future, thus hurting future sales.
 
I personally have an RX 380 that I need to RMA, but I'm worried about if they'll even have any extras to replace it with since they're selling so quickly.

Ridiculous. A software company is not responsible for it's consumers that blatantly misuse their product.

Ridiculous. A software company is not responsible for it's consumers that blatantly misuse their product.

http://deliddedtech.com/2016/09/30/amazon-announces-3-new-online-games/
 
Most of the info so far is just for Breakaway, the esports title, but I'm particularly interested in New World. As an avid MMORPG player myself, I really look forward to a sandbox MMO where I can build still and interact with the world, instead of the same usual grinding of the same content.
 
Which game interests you guys the most? I'm really looking forward to the next 3 days of Twitchcon to hear more.
 
 

http://deliddedtech.com/2016/09/12/california-energy-commissions-proposed-regulations-on-personal-computers-poses-threat-to-prebuilt-gaming-desktops-and-gaming-monitors/
I'm kind of worried that the regulations will backfire and just result in computers/monitors costing more, without actually improving power efficiency. Having seen the devastating unforeseen consequences of regulation before, I can totally see companies finding ways to circumvent these regulations in ways that drive up costs without improving power efficiency. For example, including meaningless hardware that raises the classification of the device without improving its performance or quality.
 
The best comparison I can make is the sugar tariff in the United States resulting in us getting horrible Pepsi/Coke made with high fructose corn syrup instead of real sugar. Seriously, if you tried pepsi/coke made with sugar, its 100x better. But they use this corn syrup garbage to avoid taxes on sugar.

I can see something similar happening with computers. Instead of improving power efficiency to meet regulations, they instead try to circumvent regulations by adding in components like more USB hubs that change the classification of the device to allow more power consumption, driving up costs while providing no benefit to power efficiency, simply because it's cheaper than conforming to power efficiency standards.

What are your thoughts on this?

http://deliddedtech.com/2016/09/12/california-energy-commissions-proposed-regulations-on-personal-computers-poses-threat-to-prebuilt-gaming-desktops-and-gaming-monitors/
I'm kind of worried that the regulations will backfire and just result in computers/monitors costing more, without actually improving power efficiency. Having seen the devastating unforeseen consequences of regulation before, I can totally see companies finding ways to circumvent these regulations in ways that drive up costs without improving power efficiency. For example, including meaningless hardware that raises the classification of the device without improving its performance or quality.
 
The best comparison I can make is the sugar tariff in the United States resulting in us getting horrible Pepsi/Coke made with high fructose corn syrup instead of real sugar. Seriously, if you tried pepsi/coke made with sugar, its 100x better. But they use this corn syrup garbage to avoid taxes on sugar.

I can see something similar happening with computers. Instead of improving power efficiency to meet regulations, they instead try to circumvent regulations by adding in components like more USB hubs that change the classification of the device to allow more power consumption, driving up costs while providing no benefit to power efficiency, simply because it's cheaper than conforming to power efficiency standards.

What are your thoughts on this?

It's a wonder I only have cancer in California. 

http://deliddedtech.com/2016/09/12/california-energy-commissions-proposed-regulations-on-personal-computers-poses-threat-to-prebuilt-gaming-desktops-and-gaming-monitors/
I'm kind of worried that the regulations will backfire and just result in computers/monitors costing more, without actually improving power efficiency. Having seen the devastating unforeseen consequences of regulation before, I can totally see companies finding ways to circumvent these regulations in ways that drive up costs without improving power efficiency. For example, including meaningless hardware that raises the classification of the device without improving its performance or quality.
 
The best comparison I can make is the sugar tariff in the United States resulting in us getting horrible Pepsi/Coke made with high fructose corn syrup instead of real sugar. Seriously, if you tried pepsi/coke made with sugar, its 100x better. But they use this corn syrup garbage to avoid taxes on sugar.

I can see something similar happening with computers. Instead of improving power efficiency to meet regulations, they instead try to circumvent regulations by adding in components like more USB hubs that change the classification of the device to allow more power consumption, driving up costs while providing no benefit to power efficiency, simply because it's cheaper than conforming to power efficiency standards.

What are your thoughts on this?

http://deliddedtech.com/2016/09/12/california-energy-commissions-proposed-regulations-on-personal-computers-poses-threat-to-prebuilt-gaming-desktops-and-gaming-monitors/
I'm kind of worried that the regulations will backfire and just result in computers/monitors costing more, without actually improving power efficiency. Having seen the devastating unforeseen consequences of regulation before, I can totally see companies finding ways to circumvent these regulations in ways that drive up costs without improving power efficiency. For example, including meaningless hardware that raises the classification of the device without improving its performance or quality.
 
The best comparison I can make is the sugar tariff in the United States resulting in us getting horrible Pepsi/Coke made with high fructose corn syrup instead of real sugar. Seriously, if you tried pepsi/coke made with sugar, its 100x better. But they use this corn syrup garbage to avoid taxes on sugar.

I can see something similar happening with computers. Instead of improving power efficiency to meet regulations, they instead try to circumvent regulations by adding in components like more USB hubs that change the classification of the device to allow more power consumption, driving up costs while providing no benefit to power efficiency, simply because it's cheaper than conforming to power efficiency standards.

What are your thoughts on this?

http://deliddedtech.com/2016/09/12/california-energy-commissions-proposed-regulations-on-personal-computers-poses-threat-to-prebuilt-gaming-desktops-and-gaming-monitors/
I'm kind of worried that the regulations will backfire and just result in computers/monitors costing more, without actually improving power efficiency. Having seen the devastating unforeseen consequences of regulation before, I can totally see companies finding ways to circumvent these regulations in ways that drive up costs without improving power efficiency. For example, including meaningless hardware that raises the classification of the device without improving its performance or quality.
 
The best comparison I can make is the sugar tariff in the United States resulting in us getting horrible Pepsi/Coke made with high fructose corn syrup instead of real sugar. Seriously, if you tried pepsi/coke made with sugar, its 100x better. But they use this corn syrup garbage to avoid taxes on sugar.

I can see something similar happening with computers. Instead of improving power efficiency to meet regulations, they instead try to circumvent regulations by adding in components like more USB hubs that change the classification of the device to allow more power consumption, driving up costs while providing no benefit to power efficiency, simply because it's cheaper than conforming to power efficiency standards.

What are your thoughts on this?

http://deliddedtech.com/2016/09/12/california-energy-commissions-proposed-regulations-on-personal-computers-poses-threat-to-prebuilt-gaming-desktops-and-gaming-monitors/
I'm kind of worried that the regulations will backfire and just result in computers/monitors costing more, without actually improving power efficiency. Having seen the devastating unforeseen consequences of regulation before, I can totally see companies finding ways to circumvent these regulations in ways that drive up costs without improving power efficiency. For example, including meaningless hardware that raises the classification of the device without improving its performance or quality.
 
The best comparison I can make is the sugar tariff in the United States resulting in us getting horrible Pepsi/Coke made with high fructose corn syrup instead of real sugar. Seriously, if you tried pepsi/coke made with sugar, its 100x better. But they use this corn syrup garbage to avoid taxes on sugar.

I can see something similar happening with computers. Instead of improving power efficiency to meet regulations, they instead try to circumvent regulations by adding in components like more USB hubs that change the classification of the device to allow more power consumption, driving up costs while providing no benefit to power efficiency, simply because it's cheaper than conforming to power efficiency standards.

What are your thoughts on this?

http://deliddedtech.com/2016/09/12/california-energy-commissions-proposed-regulations-on-personal-computers-poses-threat-to-prebuilt-gaming-desktops-and-gaming-monitors/
I'm kind of worried that the regulations will backfire and just result in computers/monitors costing more, without actually improving power efficiency. Having seen the devastating unforeseen consequences of regulation before, I can totally see companies finding ways to circumvent these regulations in ways that drive up costs without improving power efficiency. For example, including meaningless hardware that raises the classification of the device without improving its performance or quality.
 
The best comparison I can make is the sugar tariff in the United States resulting in us getting horrible Pepsi/Coke made with high fructose corn syrup instead of real sugar. Seriously, if you tried pepsi/coke made with sugar, its 100x better. But they use this corn syrup garbage to avoid taxes on sugar.

I can see something similar happening with computers. Instead of improving power efficiency to meet regulations, they instead try to circumvent regulations by adding in components like more USB hubs that change the classification of the device to allow more power consumption, driving up costs while providing no benefit to power efficiency, simply because it's cheaper than conforming to power efficiency standards.

What are your thoughts on this?

http://deliddedtech.com/2016/06/21/intel-is-looking-to-fight-1-2-billion-eu-antitrust-fine-once-again/
 
 
I really hope Zen is a success, Intel's audacity to defend these types of practices and spend a ton of money on legal battles over it makes me feel like they aren't deserving of my money. It's a shame that AMD currently doesn't offer the same performance as Intel at the high end. Hopefully this changes.

Wait so you're saying I was missing a quote from the article? I added one. Am I good now? I wanna make sure I'm abiding by the rules.

http://deliddedtech.com/2016/06/21/intel-is-looking-to-fight-1-2-billion-eu-antitrust-fine-once-again/
 
 
I really hope Zen is a success, Intel's audacity to defend these types of practices and spend a ton of money on legal battles over it makes me feel like they aren't deserving of my money. It's a shame that AMD currently doesn't offer the same performance as Intel at the high end. Hopefully this changes.

http://deliddedtech.com/2016/05/07/hidden-information-found-in-source-code-of-nvidias-gtx-1080-page/
 
 
NVIDIA announced a lot today, but for those of you that are looking for a bit more information, you can find more through either digging through the source code via inspect element(f12 in chrome/firefox), or reading the article linked for some highlights.

http://deliddedtech.com/2016/05/07/hidden-information-found-in-source-code-of-nvidias-gtx-1080-page/
 
 
NVIDIA announced a lot today, but for those of you that are looking for a bit more information, you can find more through either digging through the source code via inspect element(f12 in chrome/firefox), or reading the article linked for some highlights.

Polaris 11 is supposed to be the smaller, low power consumption GPU

http://deliddedtech.com/2016/02/19/black-desert-online-is-changing-the-refresh-rate-settings-of-144-hz-monitors-to-60-hz-60-hz-monitors-to-30-hz/
 

This is a pretty nasty bug, and the game is extremely popular as it launches in less than 2 weeks(currently in closed beta). Figured I'd get the news out here so that anyone considering playing it knows to play in Borderless, and NOT fullscreen. For those affected, all you gotta do is change your system's monitor settings to fix it.

http://deliddedtech.com/2016/02/19/black-desert-online-is-changing-the-refresh-rate-settings-of-144-hz-monitors-to-60-hz-60-hz-monitors-to-30-hz/
 

This is a pretty nasty bug, and the game is extremely popular as it launches in less than 2 weeks(currently in closed beta). Figured I'd get the news out here so that anyone considering playing it knows to play in Borderless, and NOT fullscreen. For those affected, all you gotta do is change your system's monitor settings to fix it.

http://deliddedtech.com/2016/02/14/steams-automated-refund-system-is-far-from-perfect/
 
I feel like Steam's refund system is effective 80% of the time in that it generally fits your needs, but I feel like it doesn't properly listen to the user and allow them to clarify why they should qualify for a refund. Has anyone else had a similar experience to the one described in the article?

The bug shouldn't affect too many people. It requires a very bizarre set of steps to replicate, its not something you come across on accident. Only way I can see it causing issues is people trying to brick others phones(who knows why), or tricking users into bricking phone.

http://deliddedtech.com/2016/02/10/amazons-free-lumberyard-engine-helps-indie-developers-create-mmorpgs/
 
 
We've seen the announcement of Amazon's Lumberyard, but few sites seem to expand upon how much potential it has to be used to create MMORPGs. Most tend to focus on the graphical element of it, which is based on Cryengine. I personally look forward to seeing smaller companies make unique MMORPGs with Lumberyard. It's support for integration with AWS and Gamelift makes it very easy for small development teams to produce and release MMORPGs without requiring a dedicated team for infrastructure, and producing both a server and client.

Nope. I'm pretty sure it would cause privacy concerns or something like that if they did create a feature like that.

The best you can do is ask the guy you traded to, and ask him who he traded to, then go to that person, and so on.