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No, the vast majority of the fuel burned goes toward accelerating the rocket to escape velocity. Starting from low orbit with zero velocity might save 10~15% of the fuel/mass.

Pure Marketing Monkey idiocy. (And [H] clickbait - shame on the editors.) Unless they have some slick method for precipitating CO2 out of the exhaust gas, it will be vastly more cost efficient to make their batteries out of coal or petroleum residue, etc.

OMG, they're SO CUTE!! :D

The ban affects all aircraft. With all the agricultural land surrounding the stadium, I only hope the patrolling F-16s don't blast some poor crop duster who didn't get the memo. Perhaps more to the point, any 'smart' drone can be programmed to fly a fixed route. There may be one stashed in a...

I recently bought an AM3 Asus, the M4A79XTD, so as to properly OC my old Thuban without fear of blowing up the FETs on the notoriously fragile MSI 870AG54. Back in the day, a K7V was the 'board of choice for OC my Slot A Athlon. I has a Golden Fingers connector and managed to be the first...

Donate it to a retirement home or other senior organization. You'd be surprised how many old folks want a basic machine to e-mail the grandkids.

Sure it does. A big fat GPU core is a waste of transistors that could be dedicated to bigger caches and/or more x86 cores. Look at the Kaveri chips; they waste over half the die on GPU units that are (A) too bandwidth starved to ever work well, and (B) will go unused the moment you install a...

Great. Just great! Because Skynet + Hentai = So Much Fun!

It's not easy living up to their #1 rating, but if anyone can manage, it's Comcast. http://consumerist.com/2014/04/08/congratulations-to-comcast-your-2014-worst-company-in-america/

Sometimes it is. Sometimes not. :rolleyes: Look what AC/DC's B-in-B album has suffered through over the years.... (In this case, I'll bet the most recent vinyl sounds a hell of a lot better than any thing else released in this century.)...

I'll agree that an old, well mastered, LP sounds VASTLY better than any dynamically crushed digital device or medium. But... Please don't confuse choice of data storage medium with the dynamic issue. Vinyl vs CD vs. 24/96 (etc.) has nothing to to with the asinine Loudness War. Indeed, I...

No kidding! Just watch the preview; the movie looks absolutely wretched! It's all about stupid, unlikeable people making 'stinky dick' jokes. I guess 'Tammy' wasn't rock bottom after all. :(

Steve! For the love of sanity, please correct the apostrophe misuse.

No hand. Zero fucks are given. :) After watching the trailer, 'smelly dick' jokes and all, I want to personally thank Kim Jong-un for suppressing this depressingly stupid, vulgar film.

Oh, Asus, Great and Mighty! During this season of giving, please show mercy toward my feeble HD3850 infested system! If you could please share but a small portion of your bountiful pixel shader treasures, I would be most grateful. Amen.

New Scientist? ;) The same 'publication' that brought you supersonic hurricane busters? :rolleyes: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16172-invention-supersonic-hurricane-neutraliser.html It seems a stretch to believe that any practical laser will be powerful enough to vaporize a...

Big Shot Managers are like sharks - drawn to feast on the bleeding carcass... For what AMD pays the 'elite' Pointy-Haired-Idiots, they could hire half a dozen competent engineers. Oh, well. AMD was occasionally good while it lasted.

A double splattering of Buzzword Diarrhea... Woopie.

How is this useless press release[H] worthy? Are the editors THAT hard-up for page filler?

What I wonder is why [H] would stoop to dredging up sludge like this in the first place? :( C'mon, you can do better. Can't you?

Obama, the new Ackbar? If that's not already a meme, it needs to be. As someone who cautiously voted for him 6 years ago, I see his hardline defense of the Security State to be a huge back-flip. I left a strongly stated 500 word reply, making my cynicism toward Washington clear. Maybe...

Mr. [H] editor, please don't spout nonsense. GE 'discovered' nothing; the magnetocaloric effect has been known for decades. I suppose it's good that they are working on a practical application, but that clunky demo is many years, even decades, from becoming a reliable, efficient home...

Another drawback is that mining as many coins as possible, as quickly as possible is highly advantageous. Faced with increasing mining difficulty and the potential for a burst bubble, slow-and-efficient-and-steady doesn't sound quite as appealing.

Can's stand the nauseatingly slick ad. :(

I soooo hate business bullshitspeak!

You're forgetting one eensy-weensy detail: The latest and greatest killing technology always makes its way to the 'bad guys' sooner or later. It won't be nearly so 'badass' when the other guys start blasting 'us' with hypervelocity projectiles, will it? Our society's incessant glorification...

:rolleyes: Yea, because the GOP like, you know, really cares about the little people soooo much. :rolleyes: 99% of Washington is 100% corrupt. The reality is more like this...

Very glad to see IL-2 near the top. IMO Falcon 4 is definitely MIA!

The practice of [H] articles linking to themselves is pretty lame to start with.... :rolleyes:

:eek: Cooper's Union is apparently THE PLACE to go if you want to learn how to market and pitch an obvious, impractical idea to investors and the public. It's no crime to be a Young and Dumb student, but you start to get in trouble when you combine those factors with the level of...

:D That pretty much represents my take as well. Even if their box is supposedly "greener" and "non toxic," the Smug Factor exuded by the two inventors is waaay over FDA limits.

"intelligently enhances" = adds crappy surround filters and similar gimmicks. No thanks.

"Got Relevance?" (WTF kind of a question is that?)

Possibilities, in the future, sure. Maybe. Eventually... Until then, anyone who buys a discrete graphics card would arguably be better served by a chip that cuts GPU resources by ~50% or so (leave 'enough' to do any APU/HSA/gobbldygook stuff that may come along) and uses the liberated die...

Exactly. I was hoping they'd release just such a chip, both to provide an intermediate 'bridge' to the APU Wonderland, and to throw a bone to the enthusiast crowd, who are going to be buying discrete GPUs anyway and don't need all those on-chip shaders. Perhaps the power limitations of...

Gee, that's nice. That and a buck will get me a cup of coffee. In year or two, maybe, this whole GPU/APU/HSA scheme might begin to bear fruit. Until then, it's just so much marketing monkey hooting and hollering. Anyone care for a round of Buzzword Bingo? :D Until then, x86 is where it's at...

Show me the apps. (crickets) Show me the benchmarks. (crickets) Then (and ONLY then) will I sample a small cup of the Sickly Sweet Fruit Flavored Beverage you have been chugging with abandon.

You did a pretty good job of that all by yourself, Chief. HSA/GPU/blah-blah are nice ideas, but the application base, pretty much non existent at the moment, will take years to be developed. (You do 'realize that,' don't you? :rolleyes: ) In the meantime, AMD needs a stronger x86 offering...

Did you guys take any frame consistency measurements at all? Simply saying "it looked smooth" doesn't, IMO, quite make it. If a subjective judgement of "smooth or chunky" is sufficient, then why bother to measure framerate in the first place? ;)

It's a HD error. Mine does the same thing and has slowly, over the last few years, been getting worse. I suspect a cracked solder joint on the mobo or maybe HD slot interface. If the system suddenly starts running very slowly, Windoze may have reset the HD controller to work in PIO mode...