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This quote from a book about failures [1] (without references) sounds interesting but I couldn't google any more info about it. Do you know any interesting read (military history) about it? [1] Auxiliary Signal Design for Failure Detection, page 2

It has happened: https://www.khronos.org/vulkan/ https://developer.nvidia.com/Vulkan

That's false. Again, it's not something that does the work. It's just an rendering API. You only need the support in the driver. It's known that the Vulkan has the ability to directly issue commands in GPU similar to DX12. There's no point for having faith in or disdain for either as it's quite opposite of something magical. You do need faith in BI making use of it. And there's simply no point in choosing proprietary implementation over standard one of the same thing and close doors to many market areas like Android or SteamOS[1]. https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/689440925500571648

These DirectX benchmarks are mostly pointless. It's the game and the hardware that is responsible for moar framez. The rendering API and drivers should have as little overhead as possible. That review misses the main newsworthy of DirectX 12 (and Vulkan) which is the low-level interface, which should greatly reduce this overhead, but the game needs to be vastly redesigned for it first. Hopefully these DirectX benchmarks will become even more pointless in future. Also, AMD donated Mantle to Khronos, which, along with major players in the industry (except Microsoft), turned it into Vulkan. So it's better to wait for its release and forget about Mantle.

Tomorrow is Khronos Vulkan meetup http://www.meetup.com/Khronos-Paris-Chapter/events/227540099/. Perhaps someone there will finally announce when they plan to release the damn thing. Android will use it and Oculus most probably too. http://android-developers.blogspot.cz/2015/08/low-overhead-rendering-with-vulkan.html Interesting write-up about current state of proprietary drivers: https://www.gamedev.net/topic/666419-what-are-your-opinions-on-dx12vulkanmantle/#entry5215019 http://blog.mecheye.net/2015/12/why-im-excited-for-vulkan/ Some more reading: http://blog.imgtec.com/tag/vulkan https://www.khronos.org/assets/uploads/developers/library/overview/vulkan-overview.pdf https://developer.nvidia.com/engaging-voyage-vulkan It'd be sad if BI chose another vendor lock-in for another 5 years. Wait, evaluate, incline to standards. <3

I can confirm it's prevailing point of view here in the center of EU. Freedom of speech should be absolute until nobody is harmed. Your little feelings or prophet don't count. What you regard as acceptable may be regarded unacceptable by other person. Go watch some Richard Dawkins to get the point. I enjoy and value controversial satire and black comedy. It's good eye opener sometimes. This is exactly what I expected: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=cs&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnarodnidemokracie.cz%2Fakcni-plan-pro-reseni-migracni-krize-v-cr%2F&edit-text=&act=url&act=url National "Democracy" hahaha... Hopefully, elections were shortly before migration crisis.

New Horizons probe is just passing the Pluto in a closest approach after 9 years of travel :bounce3:: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/. We will start getting images tomorrow :popcornsmilie:. I don't know about you but I still have tiny little hope for aliens. You check the program there: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Mission/The-Flyby.php

But it is Russian. Or do you seriously believe that citizens of Crimea would voluntarily choose current UA government? Don't bother with international rules (blah blah no country recognized it blah blah) and try to use common sense.

I don't see much into technology of long-range AA missiles but why can't such missile have two stages where one is activated on close range that is capable of same maneuvers as Sidewinder or AMRAAM? What you say sounds so last century. I predict long-range carriers for multiple (3-5) short range missiles. And lasers!

I feel Benjamin Netanyahu is a bit honest and speaks sense here:

Perhaps oversimplified and stupid. Nicely made nevertheless: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8xAXJx9WJ8

Confusion indeed. I find these half-believers most illogical though I disdain them less than fundamentalists. Anyway, the muslims you know are not all the muslims in Western Europe. I saw videos and photos from protests crowded with hardcore believers who demanded Sharia law, restriction of free speech and probably some other downright idiotic ideas.

Not trying to spread fears and whatnot but I assume this 1% represent only those muslims openly demanding it. I'd say that muslims demanding Sharia in Western Europe are 99.9% and if they get a chance they won't let it slip by. Never heard of Sharia Police in UK?

Why is there only Europe? What if I dislike government, like culture, dislike earlier history, but like later history? Should I just average it? What are the weights for particular criteria? I feel really sorry for you for disliking Ukraine that much (don't you put too much weight on current government criteria?). What's the point of this utter non-sense anyway? Here's my version: