AMD also released FreeSync, an open alternative to Gsync, a dynamic refresh-rate interface for monitors. The Nvidia version requires nvidia hardware and licensing and adds significant cost to the monitor, whereas freesync can be implemented in the control boards that already exist for the monitors, and without cost.
I think they're both great graphics cards, but NVidia tries its best to stifle competition.
NV lost their bet on Gsync, it's just not apparant yet. Intel announced they're adopting the tech behind Freesync for their own IGPs. Gsync won't hold up against Intel Kabylake's IGP + AMDs APUs and GPUs.
If the trend continues of Intel adopting AMD's open standard / libre alternatives to NV's tech, I'm not sure how NV can seriously stand against AMD + Intel using the same solutions. Intel IGPs are only going to get better and better and be more relevant over time, Broadwell Iris Pro was already impressive and Kabylake intends to take that to the next level.
In Europe the Commission (likely also pushed by the Council/Germany/France/Spain/Italy) shamefully decided to raise the NOx limits by 2x until 2019 and 50% until 2021. It's the first time since they launched the emissions "euro" standard that they actually raised the limit.
I guess they saw everyone cheats by at least 2x, as some reports have also said.
I can't directly respond to bruceb, but a child getting ahold of a gun is the fault of the parent, who neglected to responsibly secure it. If someone with a child isn't willing to buy a safe, they shouldn't buy a gun.
A safe does indeed make it slower to get to the gun. That's a tradeoff lots of people are willing to make, however, and safes are generally a mature technology.
I don't know a single gun owner who has any interest in so-called smart guns.
tradeoffs... That was the point I was trying to make. You can either have safety or convenience/reliability. It seems to me that this offers another option.... do you trust a dongle or do you trust your ability to get into your gun safe before the "bad guys" "get" you. Seems weird to me to just write it off without knowing which is actually better.
That's fair enough, ignoring your scare quotes. I think a lot of the visceral reaction that gun owners have against these things is the (totally justified) fear that they'll be foisted on us by law sooner or later.
> The effects of the gas are particularly pronounced in London, where the Greater London Authority already recognises that it prematurely kills 2,600 Londoners each year;
And they’re partially owned by the government of the largest nation that doesn’t run a deficit™, so even if they’d be at risk of default, no politician is willing to fire 600'000 thousand people.
Just makes me so very, very glad that the right decisions were made by so many people in those trying times.
I'm sure there are plenty of individual heroes whose small contributions individually and collectively prevented nuclear war that we'll never hear about.
Well - if you have big enough database (of anything) - the Feds will come after it, and the Supreme Court chances of reaffirming 3rd party information doctrine are high.
I think they're both great graphics cards, but NVidia tries its best to stifle competition.