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    Six Years Later, Star Citizen Is Still Raking It In

    There is only one way to judge a project with infinite scope change . . . . that it is not seriously or effectively managed. Whatever else it is . . . is open to interpretation.
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    Star Citizen Backers No Longer Able to Get Refunds

    Neither. It was to keep hope alive!
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    Star Citizen Backers No Longer Able to Get Refunds

    Got my refund nov 2016. Went back in with just a starter package. Have ignored the game since. I try not to think about it . . . EVER.
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    Worst Graphics Card Ever? GT 1030 DDR4 Benchmarked

    Of all the things to pull out of it, you choose this? I think you target selection is suspect!
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    Worst Graphics Card Ever? GT 1030 DDR4 Benchmarked

    Prior behavior is very important in proving intent. Nv (like many companies) have a documented history of misrepresentation, the 970 being a recent prominent one. This is why companies settle rather than go to court where there is a likelihood of a jury assigning additional penalties as...
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    “Solo” Box Office a Historic Failure for “Star Wars”

    If I was going to make a "origin" star wars movie i would explore the history surrounding Sifo Dyas and what led to the secret creation of a clone army. Its almost a clean slate. You can do anything. No need to reinvent or castrate characters. https://www.starwars.com/databank/sifo-dyas
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    NVIDIA Starts Disinformation GPP Campaign

    Thank G-D you think it is NBC News. I would really be worried if Sean Hannity was griping about it only to later find out he was on the board of NV!
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    Vega Rumors

    If you didn't like hitting F5 you should not have called yourself buttons !!! P~ (couldn't help myself)
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    My friend took his daughter to Macy's in NYC

    with his brand new IPhone 8 in his pocket. She made him try some cologne. By the time they got on the train to head home he had received a text from the cologne vendor and a facebook post. His phone was in his pocket the whole time, locked. He asked me about it. I theorize that there was some...
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    Vega Rumors

    I have yet to find an instance where freesync hasn't worked. Perhaps you could provide some facts to back up that claim?
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    Star Citizen - media blowout, Chris Robert's new game

    I was a Wing Commander Junkie. I became a backer in 2012. I was enthusiastic thru 2015. In 2016, I got my refund (~$1600USD). I am now all-in for $35USD starter package and I have 5(LOL) AMD Omega's that were packaged with buying a GPU. Basically, CIG has fallen prey to allowing the visionary...
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    Watch Star Trek: Discovery’s Main Title Sequence

    The content distribution industry is in transition. Some of the inertia is because cable companies have had a monopoly and haven't dealt fairly with content providers. This opened up opportunities for Netflix and the like. What I find funny is that all these old school companies like CBS and...
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    Star Citizen Guild Gets a $45,000 Refund

    The original SC TOS actually promised a refund if the game was not released within 18 months of the original stated time frame. That language made the project attractive at some level. Furthermore, there is less of a case for SC to be considered a kickstarter once they internalized everything...
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    Star Citizen Guild Gets a $45,000 Refund

    This is a false statement. Perhaps CIG has refused you for some reason but they have been refunding pledges consistently for over 2 years.
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    Star Citizen Guild Gets a $45,000 Refund

    There is a subreddit dedicated to people posting their refunds. Mine is posted there ~1600USD. I got in in 2012 and out in 2016. Over the course of that time I concluded that I loved the project but hated the way it was managed. There is no doubt Roberts is a visionary; he just also happens to...
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    Thunderbird not secure ENOUGH?

    Yesterday Google decided my PC email client was no longer good enough for them requiring me to set my google profile to allow "less secure applications" access to my email. A quick search found that Google has set an arbitrary security requirement favoring their own products and use this...
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    RX Series Cards Are All Sold Out, Why Isn't AMD Making More?

    Thanks for reminding me how futile it is to post on the internet. My point . . . . first you first said blithely that they are too poor to adjust their plans. When challenged on that point you acknowledged that they could get access to Capital but it might be risky . . . . is that you are a flip...
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    RX Series Cards Are All Sold Out, Why Isn't AMD Making More?

    Are you ABLE to actually defend your position or is it just going to be spurious one-liners?
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    RX Series Cards Are All Sold Out, Why Isn't AMD Making More?

    Either they are TOO POOR and can not do anything or they are subject to good business decisions and use their capital wisely. You have claimed both. Your first sentence regarding risk is ridiculous. They won't be going to a loan sharking operation for a bridge loan.
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    RX Series Cards Are All Sold Out, Why Isn't AMD Making More?

    If you think that AMD does not have access to funds on demand then clearly you do not understand Capital Markets.
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    Error 502 Bad Gateway from Cloudflare

    11:08 AM EST This page (https://www.hardocp.com/) is currently offline. However, because the site uses Cloudflare's Always Online™ technology you can continue to surf a snapshot of the site. We will keep checking in the background and, as soon as the site comes back, you will automatically be...
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    Banks Should Let Ancient Programming Language COBOL Die

    I think a time machine might be required to find one of those ) First 2 I was taught as well.
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    Banks Should Let Ancient Programming Language COBOL Die

    Just for yucks here is the IBM marketing on their newest MF https://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/hardware/z13.html They claim it is the fastest single-threaded CPU in existence and clocks out at over 30,000 transactions per second. No I can not convert that the ghz )
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    Banks Should Let Ancient Programming Language COBOL Die

    Actually .. . . In the late 1950s, computer users and manufacturers were becoming concerned about the rising cost of programming. A 1959 survey had found that in any data processing installation, the programming cost US$800,000 on average and that translating programs to run on new hardware...
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    Banks Should Let Ancient Programming Language COBOL Die

    Many that I have worked at or have knowledge of still use mainframes for middle-office and back-office processing. Distributed systems rule the trading floors and investment bankers desks. Over the years many ancillary functions have been moved around but the foundational record keeping is done...
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    Banks Should Let Ancient Programming Language COBOL Die

    Welcome to batch processing. Every night 10's of millions of events must be processed, data files created and handed off. There is a relatively small window in which to accomplish this. Mainframe COBOL gets this done day in and day out with almost no downtime and no errors. When maintenance...
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    Website and Advertising Error

    Now not getting it. Amazing what people can do in 4 minutes!!
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    Website and Advertising Error

    Still getting the same error i posted above. So maybe not ?
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    Website and Advertising Error

    Just got for the first time ever This page (https://www.hardocp.com/) is currently offline. However, because the site uses Cloudflare's Always Online™ technology you can continue to surf a snapshot of the site. We will keep checking in the background and, as soon as the site comes back, you will...
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    Stick with 4x 290x or go something different?

    Do you keep a fire extinguisher next to your quad setup? )
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    Crossfire 580 vs single 1070

    It seems to me you do not understand economics or the marketplace. Just because AMD does not offer a product that is competitive on the high end does not mean they are not competitive on the whole. The market for CPU and GPU is vast. AMD's new products insure that they will have a growing market...
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    AMD Ryzen 5 Reviewer's Kit Giveaway

    once
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    Retrospective: Why Did Old PCs Have Key Locks?

    In 1987 I got an IBM RS6000 fresh off the assembly line. I wrote the first 'C' based algorithm to calculate the Option Adjusted Spread for Mortgages at PaineWebber. It had that very lock. In contrast the comparable HP machines of that time did not have locks.
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    Star Citizen $115 in funding? Ridiculous

    According to https://robertsspaceindustries.com/funding-goals : Current funding $144,208,360 OP there is a lot wrong with the SC project but you clearly have not done your research.
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    Best cpu cooler !

    https://hardforum.com/threads/replacing-cm-hyper-evo-212.1917942/
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    R9 Fury 4gb $240AR

    What do you mean by "unlocks"? thx
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    IBM Thinkpad: i7 2.5GHz, 8GB Ram, Radeon R7, Windows7, IPS, 15.6" $700

    Just out of curiosity why is this marketed with W7?
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    Star Citizen Switching To Amazon's Lumberyard Game Engine

    They have a product! They are selling a fantasy. Something most humans can not get enough of.
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    Star Citizen Switching To Amazon's Lumberyard Game Engine

    As a refund recipient I did not have to kiss it goodbye. Refunds are actually very easy to get. If anyone wants more information feel free to PM me.
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