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if you live in a residentials area, then this would be illeagal.

I suppose it might be allowed in certain emergencies, such as if some houses have lost power and water and they need to dig a hole to fix the problem.

Yeah I called the cops and they said not only that someone else was on the line complaining about it, but it was a genuine emergency with the gas lines, so there was nothing they could do about it.

Dumb thief: if its shiny and feels modern, he steals it. Smart thief: looks inside the case and steals it.

And if he has a magical back like in TDM, he will probably steal both. And any sylverware he can find

they'll spend 2 to 4 minutes taking what they can sell then leave. If its too big or heavy they wont take it.

It could be made to go even faster though. If I could offload the flac decoding onto the graphics card and just use the CPU for the Opus encoding, that would speed things up some more. There is a FLAC encoder/decoder for the GPU floating around...

As good as lossless FLAC can be, you probably aren't going to hear a difference between it and 256-320 kbps MP3. So my question is: What was the Opus bitrate?

128k. It is for use on a cell phone, and it sounds great for being only 128k (Opus is amazing).

Come visit Moldova. We have unlimited bandwith and unlimited internet traffic for a fixed price (something like 15 $ per month).

Oh yes, these "strict limits" on bandwidth in America are nothing but marketing at work. Tel-Cos make money hand over fist, to the point that they could easily provide us all with quality and affordable service. My guess is they spend more money paying off politicians and on coke than they do improving the networks they run.

Anyway, Verizon should be prosecuted for "interfering with emergency services", and sued by everyone who was affected by the fire.

nice.

But, dude, developers threaten revolt!!!

Orb is a pro-Vulkan partisan! Get him!!! (Or just resign yourself to using GLSL to SPIR-V ...)

Introducing something new is well and good, but yanking out support for a cross-platform standard that is used by masses of programs is an assholish thing to do.

some cutscene's can been skipped in some game by pressing the esc key or space. depends on the game though.

Cost-saving water-proofing. ;-D

Actually DDR3 isn't (that) expensive, it's DDR4 where the real extortion is.

It wasn't a dream...

I played a VR game last night where you were in wheelchair set in a haunted hospital and it had a definite Dark Mod vibe. I guess I was supposed to be scared, but I was paying a lot of attention to the level design & flow. It looked pretty good for what it was.

Cool. Not sure I've ever dreamt about TDM. I have dreamt about Thief, though, a few years back... :-D

I use WFC to block all games(and other applications) I play so they don't get access to the internet.

The trouble is that most (all?) games require admin privs to install and play on Windows, at least if you install the official way. At that point, they can do whatever they like to your system. Security needs a redo on the PC, where programs are prohibited from tampering with each other by compartmentalization in the OS.

ESO is mentioned as one of the games which had RedShell. I noticed a quick update which isn't mentioned in the patch notes, so it's got to be RedShell removal.

The longer we keep them on the line, the less they can actually rip people off. The other day I asked one to fix my Linux computer. Boy, did that get him mad! At that point you're making it obvious that you're just toying with them.

I don't think so.

Ordinary workers on a wage have no guilt.

Ads were getting too intrusive and annoying even before adblockers were mainstream. The advertisers brought it upon themselves by making their ads so annoying. Hell the only reason I started using an adblocker is because a Flash add on DeviantArt was destroying my single-core PC at the time.

And don't forget the 8 other "download now" buttons that you find on file sharing websites which will download anything except what you are actually expecting...

NoScript is my friend with websites where 1 tab takes 500MB ram. It also adds the options to choose which scripts to allow, so I block google-analytics, facebook.net, etc. While allowing some trusted website.

Also consider blocking all cookies by default and allowing only a few trusted ones through.

Apparently, (Threat of) DMCA was used to remove some servers from easylist which the adblockers use, last year: https://torrentfreak.com/dmca-used-to-remove-ad-server-url-from-easylist-a...

Litigation is now being brought against the memory cartels. Maybe we'll see prices drop around the time the miners get done with the graphics cards, and then we can pick both of them up on the cheap.

Graphics card are already way cheaper. In fact, I got myself a half-year-old used GTX 1070 for 360€ the other day.

I dunno, the price tag tends to come and go on a whim. If the demand is high, so it also tends to skyrocket for the prices. Capitalism at it's finest I do say.

#TaxationIsTheft

HMRC over here are now trying that crap on with private sellers on ebay, amazon etc. When you sales got above a certain amount your deemed a business.

The state is the greatest creditor.

What makes you think it was a scam, and not just a dentist with different standards?

The dentist who says I need none has been in business for over 30 years and is a well reviewed/5 star dentist. The one who says I need 8 has only been here two years or so. 8 was such an alarming number that I did some research online and I found that this scenario isn't that uncommon.

I take care of my teeth, flossing daily. The other guy online was quoted the same extreme number out of the blue when he tried a new dentist. Ultimately I can't be 100% sure it's a scam because I can't interpret the slides, but a 0 to 8 disagreement is so big that something's not right.

Blimey, I thought it was real, the cup did look a bit to perfectly shiny though..

@Bikerdude, my thoughts as well. And here's the laptop model; it's about 3.5 million polys. https://www.blendswap.com/blends/view/72711

I wouldn´t have think it is a render if you wouldn´t have said it

I also have three small kids, and sometimes when they play too loudly indoors, I seek silence with industrial earmuffs. Good purchase, even though the wife disapproves, for some bizarre reason... =D

Oh yeah, cinemas... last time i went there, they turned the bass up to max, so it was BOOM BOOM BOOOOM!!! the whole time. Guess people need loud signals these days, otherwise they don't sense anything.

I've had tinnitus for about 5 years now. I also got mine from a concert where I was dumb and didn't bring my earplugs. Shitty band too, such a waste. Anyway I was also freaking out about it in the beginning, but I took solace in the fact that it wasn't affecting my ability to hear, and even very low sound makes it inaudible. Now I never notice it, unless I have a bad cold with a stuffy nose which makes it a bit louder, but a mild annoyance at most.

Honestly this would be a good standalone project on something like UE4. D3 had limited network support but wasn't great even in it's heyday.

Two important things to note are...

A: No need to code extensive NPC stealth interaction since it would be purely player based.

B: Project (light based) stealth could try and harness strict visibility based stealth. Since players will require clear line of sight, "fake darkness" really would have no place there. You really would need straight black in the darkest corners.

Almost done with arena map. thieves are on player side; mages, pagans and moors on elemental team - so you have 4 sides: monster, townsfolk, thieves, exotic. It crashes sometimes when you have about 20 creatures, but I guess there must be such price.

Amazon getting hit? Could be more cyberwar against the CIA. (Eg. Vault 7)

And we thought the management engine was bad...

Discuss here: http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/18055-2016-cpugpu-news/page-10

Yep. This was a bargaining chip in both the Hillary email and Trump Collusion cases. The oversight team kept on explaining abuses and lack of compliance as a reason not to renew.

Too bad there is more than one surveillance database now. CIA has one, Amazon has one, Google has one, etc. Not to mention the same thing from other Governments.

MI6 = CIA. NCA = FBI.

But since the American justice system runs on dollar bills, the above will never happen.

must be aimed at people from some other country than the one i live in, cause me not got it.

What's amusing here is that Mozilla has criticized others for sneaking add-ons in before, and they've even locked down Firefox against such practices. And now, *they* do it themselves! "Do as I say, not as I do" springs to mind. I am in the US, and this one showed up in Linux.