Being able to dress up Torrent without the use of mods has been requested so much. On one hand I feel like it worsens the experience as it can break the immersion. On the other hand, people already abuse the character creation screen to make abominations (although the lack of a hide helmet option makes this not super useful). And mods are also used a lot for all sorts of weird visual stuff. If someone wants to have some fun, why not?

Yeah especially because they now have some convoluted method involving different counts of processing, cache etc. But the developer has no easy way of seeing those statistics and thus has no feel for them. And developers already have little control over how much tokens a task takes. Which was fine with the flat rate, just use the service. But now that those things actually matter, the stats should be way easier to see?

So in typical Microsoft fashion not only did they raise prices they somehow made it even more shit. Like the AI already sucked, but does the service itself need to suck as well?

Not being able to control costs and very vague productivity improvement claims makes the ROI impossible to calculate. So even if the AI wasn’t shit, it would still be hard to figure out if it’s even helping at all.

Second floor basement?!?!?!

What’s this I hear about you having problems with your TPS reports? Didn’t you get the memo?

This isn’t a guarantee and also assumes the previous version management was git.

Literally 1984

Shout out to the Thought Emporium which are also working on getting brain cells to play Doom:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV5vCi3jPJdURZwAOO_FNfQ

Are we going some sort of animal? Of more of like anime waifu kind of vibe?

That’s no longer the way it works in this new economy (at least in the US). About 50% of all consumer spending is done by the top 10% of incomes. Companies have figured out they can either join the race to the bottom, fight with the competition and eak out meager profits. Or they can just make shit expensive as fuck, have record profits and still have enough customers in the rich. By simply doing less for more money, they can earn more even though the total amount of sales and customers has gone down. The decline in sales is easily offset by the higher prices, leading to more revenue and more importantly way more profit.

This is why there are so many people living pay check to pay check, unable to afford needed stuff and on the edge of losing everything. While at the same time the markets are doing better than ever, so many companies are having record profits across the board. And this trend is expected to continue in the near future. The rich are spending while the other 90% are unsure about the future and limit spending. This furthers the divide between rich and poor and makes companies target the rich and forget about the rest.

Maybe some crazy person would take the risk and try to make something for the other 90%. But in doing so they have to work a lot harder and margins would be slim. Costs are up on everything and anything, so making something regular people can actually afford is hard. Let alone do that and make a profit and be able to keep quality at a proper level. The quality would suffer, lots of outsourcing would be involved, meeting any sort of regulations is hard and costly let alone optional targets like the environment and being sustainable.

The only way companies see a future for less rich folk is with subscriptions. Just load everyone up with a shit load of cheap subscriptions. Can’t afford a new $1000 appliance? Not a problem, you get it now and pay later. Not mentioning that pay later means pay forever and the total amount paid is way more than $1000. Plus people have a hard time managing finances with a lot of small loans and subscriptions. It’s all abstract till they get overwhelmed with debt. Something that happens more and more each day.

Well you say that as a joke, but back in the day this was a real thing. Not exactly downloading, because the internet wasn’t really a thing back then, but using software to gain more ram.

I was a big fan of QEMM myself and had it in the original box with all the manuals and such. I already had a pirated version through the sneakernet, but got the original on sale as well. I still have that box somewhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMM

At allowed DOS and other TSRs to be loaded into what’s known as upper memory. This is the memory in between 640KB and 1MB. This area often wasn’t used as it can’t be accessed through regular addressing. Tools that need more memory could often address the space above 1MB and was designed for machines with 2 or 4MB (or more). As most games and other software was limited to 640KB it could be a pain in the ass to manage that memory. Often selectively not loading certain drivers at boot to leave enough memory for the more hungry software.

With QEMM this was no longer an issue, shoving a lot of stuff from below 640kb to above, leaving a lot of memory free all the time.

Later some of this was also implemented directly into DOS (I think MSDOS 5 but also other non MS OSes had this). Although I think by that point high memory was often used (the first little bit above 1M). But by that time most machines had more than 2MB of memory and games and other software often used all of the memory, not limited to 640KB. Software developers often used DOS extenders to act as middlemen where the software can access all of the ram without any complexity needed. The extender could just handle it without any issue and the developer could focus on their software instead of mundane things like memory access.

Note the often wrongly attributed 640KB quote of Bill Gates stems from the era. But he never said it and nobody thought that at the time. It wasn’t even a real DOS limitation, more of an IBM architecture limitation. And that became the defacto standard which made it harder to fix.

Yeah agreed, 11mph seems crazy. Usually in Europe they give a 3km/h margin, to prevent discussion around miss-calibrated camera systems and errors in the speed indicated within the car. But anything above that and you get a ticket.

It’s a really old cpu that was pretty slow to begin with. But it does have the required bits for virtualization, so it should work just fine.

It would be terribly slow tho, slower still than the system already is. And with only 4GB of memory I’m amazed it even runs Windows 10. It would run out of memory as soon as you do just about anything. If you can get some more memory into the thing, it would work better.

The info says desktop? But that’s a low end mobile cpu in there, 15W TDP, optimized to be cheap and have a good battery life. The downside is the performance sucks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM-e46xdcUo

It’s human leather? OMG IT’S HUMAN LEATHER

People who have loud cars and care about their cars being loud are some of the saddest people in existence. The only purpose is to shout at others about what an inconsiderate asshole they are. And to make them feel better about being such a sad small peened individual.

Be it old shitty cars with after market pipes, giant trucks designed to be as obnoxious as possible or “sports” cars only driven by dickheads who can’t drive for shit. I fucking hate them all.

Even the deals that might seem perfectly fine on the surface. Nvidia sells some hardware and the customer paid for them. However when we zoom in it’s not that they actually paid for them, it’s that payment is due sometime in the future. And it isn’t that the hardware is actually delivered, it’s what Nvidia calls buy-and-hold. This is a scheme where Nvidia holds on to the hardware till the customer has a data center ready to put them in. However it is since become clear that those data centers are never being built. And Nvidia has sold more than they have manufactured. And the customer doesn’t have the funds to pay them. So on paper it’s all fine and everyone is doing well, in reality it’s all just a huge bubble.

And yes this is super illegal, but in the Trump era it’s like the Wild West out there, utter lawlessness.

Oops somehow Rockstar went bankrupt even though GTA5 printed money for them. But luckily there’s this new investor, which totally isn’t the old owner wearing a fake mustache, who is willing to take the risk and take over the project and SOME of its personnel.

Tax the fucking rich!

This would depend greatly on where you want to air that commercial.

Listen here you little shit

See also Mohinder, Rashid and Vishal.