I'm stoked to see what Ampere is all about on Thursday but I do find this video to be ironic given how one of their debacles in recent history meant some users fixing graphics cards by putting them directly into ovens.
Amd will basically fix what is broken in rdna...nothing spectacular. If they would have executed correctly then the RX5700XT would have been an entirely different story...
Both AMD and Nvidia GPUs were hit in the successive Macbook GPU solderball issues. Nobody is immune from suppliers swapping solder formulations without informing upstream customers.
True there were issues with MacBook solder balls cracking, but heating in the oven is not a permanent fix it would works few weeks or few months (if you're lucky) and then break again, if you want to fix solder issues you nead to desolder the package and desolder with new solder balls for that you need more advanced equipment than home oven.
More than half the population of the Western world profits off shareholder value by holding stocks, or receiving pensions (such as the Canadian Pension Plan being a large holder of shares), so if you're Canadian you're also profiting.
The simple fact that lots of people own *some* stocks doesn't speak to whether single-mindedly maximizing shareholder value (at the expense of almost everything else) is really good for humanity or the planet. Whether a system is good or bad isn't defined by how many people are participating in it.
Also, degree matters. Someone with a few stocks in their pension fund doesn't have the same level of influence over their investments, and therefore responsibility for the resulting impact, as those with far larger holdings more at their own discretion. Citing pensioners is a favored diversionary trick of market apologists.
The funny thing is that I'm not even anti-capitalist.
If you want to save the system, you ought to be invested in diagnosing its problems and fixing them. Otherwise, we're likely to end up with something even worse... but not until considerable damage and misery completely destroys faith in the current one.
Well said. I'm also decidedly pro-capitalist, but many people's refusal to admit that the current economic system isn't a free market, but one rigged to benefit primarily a select few, will eventually send us towards a much worse system.
Those with power and resources can exploit the free market for their beneficial and by thus they can make the free market less free, less open and less neutral for others, regulation takes place to prevent abuse of power in way that will make the market a non neutral arena. Thus the role of the regulator is to create a fair and balanced market for all participants.
I'm still thinking about the trillions of dollars spent on stock repurchases over the years. What did the corporations have to show for it? Share price appreciation? Only to have it all blown away in the past few months (for those stocks that actually did appreciate - some just kept doing down, financial engineering be damned). So much for reinvestment, and so much for benefitting any but the select few well positioned to benefit from this corporate strip-mining.
why? because you don't want to run the dishwasher after every meal, but you also don't want to hand wash the spatula every time either because almost everything needs it.
Makes me depressed every time I think of how unavailable to watch this movie is where I live in this digital age of ours. Almost nobody has ever heard of it, especially 30ish years later.. *sigh*
I watched in on DVD, about 15 years ago. I think you'd be disappointed. It's not as good as I remember it, from when I was a kid. Maybe it was my age or maybe it was the times, but humor has certainly evolved.
If you like to cook, you want gas hob or induction (gas if you have a bunch of nice cookware already, induction if you can afford to or want to swap out for induction-safe cookware). Everything else sucks in comparison.
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saylick - Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - link
I'm stoked to see what Ampere is all about on Thursday but I do find this video to be ironic given how one of their debacles in recent history meant some users fixing graphics cards by putting them directly into ovens.nathanddrews - Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - link
As excited as I am for AMD's new GPUs, I think NVIDIA will probably steal the show. (again)yeeeeman - Wednesday, May 13, 2020 - link
Amd will basically fix what is broken in rdna...nothing spectacular. If they would have executed correctly then the RX5700XT would have been an entirely different story...wishgranter - Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - link
you mean the old Nvidia 8800 GTS ? Still have the notebook with it and its working :Dcoburn_c - Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - link
You don't understand advertising good sir. Now when you search 'nvidia oven' you will get this video instead. It's genius.p1esk - Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - link
brillianta5cent - Wednesday, May 13, 2020 - link
You mean misleading... like all advertising.edzieba - Wednesday, May 13, 2020 - link
Both AMD and Nvidia GPUs were hit in the successive Macbook GPU solderball issues. Nobody is immune from suppliers swapping solder formulations without informing upstream customers.Eliadbu - Wednesday, May 13, 2020 - link
True there were issues with MacBook solder balls cracking, but heating in the oven is not a permanent fix it would works few weeks or few months (if you're lucky) and then break again, if you want to fix solder issues you nead to desolder the package and desolder with new solder balls for that you need more advanced equipment than home oven.cosmotic - Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - link
Cool mansion bronathanddrews - Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - link
Could use more RTX bounces.Quantumz0d - Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - link
Lol good one. I think it's already running RTX as we can see lot of reflections and global illumination.Deicidium369 - Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - link
People who do actual things in Life tend to have nice homes. Especially those who have a net worth of close to $10Bwillis936 - Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - link
Is this what rich people tell themselves so they can sleep at night while unfairly profiting off of a shareholder value based dystopia?faiakes - Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - link
+100mode_13h - Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - link
Oh, pwned.webdoctors - Wednesday, May 13, 2020 - link
More than half the population of the Western world profits off shareholder value by holding stocks, or receiving pensions (such as the Canadian Pension Plan being a large holder of shares), so if you're Canadian you're also profiting.mode_13h - Wednesday, May 13, 2020 - link
What's your point?The simple fact that lots of people own *some* stocks doesn't speak to whether single-mindedly maximizing shareholder value (at the expense of almost everything else) is really good for humanity or the planet. Whether a system is good or bad isn't defined by how many people are participating in it.
Also, degree matters. Someone with a few stocks in their pension fund doesn't have the same level of influence over their investments, and therefore responsibility for the resulting impact, as those with far larger holdings more at their own discretion. Citing pensioners is a favored diversionary trick of market apologists.
mode_13h - Wednesday, May 13, 2020 - link
The funny thing is that I'm not even anti-capitalist.If you want to save the system, you ought to be invested in diagnosing its problems and fixing them. Otherwise, we're likely to end up with something even worse... but not until considerable damage and misery completely destroys faith in the current one.
a5cent - Wednesday, May 13, 2020 - link
Well said. I'm also decidedly pro-capitalist, but many people's refusal to admit that the current economic system isn't a free market, but one rigged to benefit primarily a select few, will eventually send us towards a much worse system.mode_13h - Wednesday, May 13, 2020 - link
The history of socialist revolutions holds lessons in how much inequality a society can sustain, before it collapses.Eliadbu - Wednesday, May 13, 2020 - link
Those with power and resources can exploit the free market for their beneficial and by thus they can make the free market less free, less open and less neutral for others, regulation takes place to prevent abuse of power in way that will make the market a non neutral arena. Thus the role of the regulator is to create a fair and balanced market for all participants.Cullinaire - Wednesday, May 13, 2020 - link
I'm still thinking about the trillions of dollars spent on stock repurchases over the years. What did the corporations have to show for it? Share price appreciation? Only to have it all blown away in the past few months (for those stocks that actually did appreciate - some just kept doing down, financial engineering be damned). So much for reinvestment, and so much for benefitting any but the select few well positioned to benefit from this corporate strip-mining.soylent boy - Wednesday, May 13, 2020 - link
How can some random guy be gifted so much money by killing poor people and eating babies? It really makes me think.drexnx - Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - link
you can tell they cook a lot, tons of spatulas.why?
because you don't want to run the dishwasher after every meal, but you also don't want to hand wash the spatula every time either because almost everything needs it.
Devo2007 - Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - link
Wonder if he bought them all from Spatula Cityshabby - Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - link
They still have that buy 9 get the 10th for 1 penny sale?!?mode_13h - Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - link
I wonder if he also has Conan the Librarian organize his bookshelves.FaaR - Thursday, May 14, 2020 - link
lol UHF jokes are the best jokes.Makes me depressed every time I think of how unavailable to watch this movie is where I live in this digital age of ours. Almost nobody has ever heard of it, especially 30ish years later.. *sigh*
mode_13h - Sunday, May 17, 2020 - link
I watched in on DVD, about 15 years ago. I think you'd be disappointed. It's not as good as I remember it, from when I was a kid. Maybe it was my age or maybe it was the times, but humor has certainly evolved.Ian Cutress - Wednesday, May 13, 2020 - link
The more you buy, the more you saveBedfordTim - Wednesday, May 13, 2020 - link
Its an old fashioned gas hob though.edzieba - Wednesday, May 13, 2020 - link
If you like to cook, you want gas hob or induction (gas if you have a bunch of nice cookware already, induction if you can afford to or want to swap out for induction-safe cookware). Everything else sucks in comparison.SaolDan - Wednesday, May 13, 2020 - link
Im Saoldan and i approve this comment.thedillyo - Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - link
He actually said "largest video card".thedillyo - Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - link
"largest graphics card".mode_13h - Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - link
I think it's missing some *kinda* important connectors to qualify as a graphics card.Tired though the old saying may be, it just might not be a graphics card, if it can't play Crysis.
satai - Wednesday, May 13, 2020 - link
It can probably play thousand of Crisies and stream they away ;-)mode_13h - Wednesday, May 13, 2020 - link
Calling it *a* graphics card implies that all 8 GPUs should function as one. If they don't then it's not *a* graphics card.FaaR - Thursday, May 14, 2020 - link
Please don't make me explain his joke... :PThe_Assimilator - Wednesday, May 13, 2020 - link
I'm inclined to believe it's purposefully ironic.Tomatotech - Wednesday, May 13, 2020 - link
Say it ain't so! Next you'll be telling me no leather jackets were involved in this video.yeeeeman - Wednesday, May 13, 2020 - link
I wonder what the CPUs are...mode_13h - Wednesday, May 13, 2020 - link
I'm sure it's dual Xeon Platinums, on another board, like in previous generations:https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions...
As Intel encroaches further into Nvidia's core markets, I wonder if Nvidia will partner up with an ARM server vendor, like Ampere.
mode_13h - Sunday, May 17, 2020 - link
In case anyone happens upon this thread, it actually turned out to be dual-AMD EPYC 7742 processors. Wow, how times have changed!Sivar - Wednesday, May 13, 2020 - link
Sure, but can it run Crysis Remastered?