On Wednesday, November 30, 2022 at 2:18:05 AM UTC+11, rksh...@rosettacondot..com wrote:
> WolfFan <akwo...@zoho.com> wrote:
> >
> > Of course, if idiots wouldn’t pay $1500 for a video card, none of this
> > would matter.

How much do you spend on books a year?
If people want a high-end graphics card because they enjoy playing games that's their business.

>> The video card in my main Windows box cost $150.

And that would go terribly playing modern games.

>>The entire box
> > that I’m typing this on right now cost $1200, including upgrading the RAM,
> > and Apple stuff is supposed to be expensive. There is no way that I’d spend
> > $1500 on a video card. Ain’t happening... unless it’s a _pro_ video card,
> > to do actual work which makes actual money.

Which is fine for you, it won't work for people who want to play games.

>> Note that crypto Ponzi crap

Learn what a ponzi scheme actually is.

> I'm guessing you're not a gamer. I lost my previous video card at the height
> of the crypto craze and ended up having to pay $769 for a comparable
> replacement. While I personally wouldn't sink $1500 into a card I can easily
> see serious gamers doing it (the really serious ones would probably go dual).

Nah, very few games support dual graphics cards anymore

> I'm still running on dual 1080p monitors, so I'm definitely not in the
> "serious gamer" category.

Most people are gaming at "2K" resolution now, 4K is generally not seen as worthwhile but the top end NVidia cards will do it impressively if people want to - with live raytracing

> In a lot of ways it's like audio. My audiophile friends sink more into
> individual speakers than I have invested in all of my A/V equipment combined.
>
So long as they aren't paying ludicrous amounts for some of the cabling

On Tuesday, November 22, 2022 at 2:21:00 PM UTC-7, Quadibloc wrote:

> Making Russia's (and China's) nuclear arsenals "impotent and
> obsolete" would be all very well if we could do it. It would be helpful
> to Ukraine and Taiwan.

Apparently there may be an easier way to bring Vladimir Putin
to justice.

We just have to pray that someday he will forget to recycle his
pizza boxes.

(Andrew Tate and Greta Thunberg, in case you're wondering about
the reference.)

John Savard

On Thursday, December 1, 2022 at 4:17:33 PM UTC-7, Quadibloc wrote:

> The section "Random number generation" by Jack Moshman
> from Volume 2 of Mathematical Methods for Digital
> Computers provides a bit more of the quote:

> "anyone who consideres arithmetical methods of producing
> random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been
> pointed out several times, there is no such thing as a random
> number - there are only methods to produce random numbers,
> and a strict arithmetic procedure of course is not such a
> method."

And here

https://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25

is a Dilbert comic strip that addresses this profound philosophical
question!!!

John Savard