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Xbox One and PS4 Not Powerful Enough for the Elder Scrolls 6
Elder Scrolls VI Officially Announced
The revelation of The Elder Scrolls VI at this year's E3 came as a complete surprise for most gamers, since no one was really expecting news about the open-world adventure. The teaser trailer is only 36 seconds long, and it opens up with a foggy flyby of a large mountainous area.
[...] Unfortunately, there is no gameplay, no details on the characters, no information on the story, and nothing about the mechanics, physics, or technology other than that game director Todd Howard revealed that the current generation of home consoles are not not powerful enough to run the game, including the Xbox One and PS4.
I take this to mean that Xbox One X and PS4 Pro are also not powerful enough.
Recently it was leaked that Microsoft was working on various products, including the next Xbox "Scarlett" for around 2020. There were no technical details. However, there have been reports about the AMD CPU and graphics architecture that will be used in PS5 (and maybe Xbox):
PS5 Possibly uses AMD Ryzen CPU as Sony Appears to be Actively Working with the Tech – Rumor
Sony working with AMD on PS5 gear
What we might see is the same 8 core count in these consoles, except using more powerful Ryzen cores, possibly on the 7nm GlobalFoundries/TSMC node. Maybe they will have 2 threads per core instead of 1.
Here's a bit of Navi news:
AMD’s Navi will be a traditional monolithic GPU, not a multi-chip module
Coyote and Apple
Einstein Follow-up
Chinese defend Einstein's portrait of their people as 'filthy' and 'obtuse'
Chinese internet users have defended Albert Einstein’s recently published travel diaries in which the physicist calls the Chinese “industrious, filthy people.”
[...] While some internet users called for a “boycott of Einstein” and said his observations proved “all humans, even Einstein, have a stupid, shallow side,” most said the China Einstein witnessed is nothing like it is today. “Einstein went to China at the wrong time,” said one Weibo user, describing the early years of the Chinese republic, established in 1912, which came after centuries of imperial rule. “Hunger, war, and poverty all pressed on the Chinese. How could Chinese people at the time gain Einstein’s respect?”
Many were in strong support of the scientist: “This is called insulting China? That’s ridiculous. Did the Chinese in that era look dirty? When I see the photos from then, they look dirty, Einstein depicted the true state of that era.” Others compared the scientists’s observations to that of Lu Xun, considered the father of modern Chinese literature, who was best known for his scathing satire of Chinese society in the early 20th century. “We praise Lu Xun because he pointed out our disadvantages. Why should we blame Einstein for this?”
[...] The state-run Global Times published an editorial on Friday praising the level-headed response of Chinese internet users. The author, who goes by the pen name Gengzhige, wrote: “I’m curious what Einstein would write now if he saw the open attitudes most Chinese show today toward his private diary.” The editorial elicited over 2,000 comments. One of the most liked responses said: “Dignity is earned by oneself, not given by others.”
But there were some dissenting voices amongst the comments: “This is just racism. We can see that Einstein is strong in physics but he doesn’t understand humans at all.”
Some Chinese Are Actually Defending Einstein's 'Racism' Against Their Ancestors
Previously: Albert Einstein: Racist
Albert Einstein: Racist
Janrinok covers up Nazi Brits confession!
We're sorry, your submission "Alleged UK Neo-Nazi Admits Plot to Murder Lawmaker" was declined for the following reason:
We don't usually report murders or other sensational stories - so the only reason that you would submit this is because it includes the alt-right? Journal--JRThe editors felt it inappropriate for them to correct the issue themselves. Please feel free to correct the issue yourself and resubmit.
JR, in case you actually read this, there was no murder, only a confession to a plotted murder by one of your countrymen. I fear the real danger is not Syrian refugees, but Englishmen exposed to that alt-right. And I especially fear that janrinok is one of those.
Holy war?
Holy war? Holy crap! Forget all the distractions in the news. Erdogan is apparently going off the deep end.
ISTANBUL, Turkey — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday strongly criticized Austria’s move to close mosques and expel Turkish-funded imams, slamming the decision as anti-Islamic and promising a response.
“These measures taken by the Austrian prime minister are, I fear, leading the world toward a war between the cross and the crescent,” Erdogan said in a speech in Istanbul.
Hello, liberals, progressives, and fellow travelers! Wakey, wakey! Are you woke?
This is exactly the thing that many of us have been warning against, for the past ten years, and more. Islam is most certainly NOT a "religion", and absolutely not a "religion of peace". Islam is a complete society, with a religion, politics, military, and everything necessary for a complete civilization. And, Islam is intolerant of EVERY FORM OF religion, politics, military, and all else that is necessary for a civilization.
Austria decides to crack down on Muslim activists, and Erdogan is talking about a holy war.
His comments came the day after the Austrian government announced it could expel up to 60 Turkish-funded imams and their families and would shut down seven mosques as part of a crackdown on “political Islam,” triggering fury in Ankara.
Interior Minister Herbert Kickl of the far-right Freedom Party (FPOe), the junior partner in Austria’s coalition government said the move concerned imams with alleged links to the Turkish-Islamic Cultural Associations (ATIB) organisation, a branch of Turkey’s religious affairs agency Diyanet.
Isn't Erdogan supposed to be the head of a "secular government"?? WTF is he talking about, "holy war"? I guess he has put the lie to that old claim. The Turkish army has failed in it's mission to safeguard secularism.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/erdogan-warns-austria-imam-crackdown-will-lead-to-holy-war/
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1318351/middle-east
“Parallel societies, political Islam and radicalization have no place in our country,” Chancellor Sebastian Kurz of the ruling center-right People’s Party said.
http://indianexpress.com/article/world/austria-to-shut-down-mosques-expel-foreign-funded-imams-5209799/
The moves follow a “law on Islam”, passed in 2015, which banned foreign funding of religious groups and created a duty for Muslim organisations to have “a positive fundamental view towards (Austria’s) state and society”.
“Political Islam’s parallel societies and radicalising tendencies have no place in our country,” said Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, who, in a previous job as minister in charge of integration, steered the Islam bill into law.
This topic only came to my attention, several minutes ago. It popped up in my news feed, at OneAmerica - http://www.oann.com/austria-plans-to-shut-down-mosques-expel-foreign-funded-imams/ Newsfeed says the story was posted at 4:30 AM, but when I click it at about 11:00 AM, it has been taken down. A web search turns up many hits, almost all of them on foreign nations. None on America's mainstream media. Search terms used are "austria expel imam". Try it - Duckduckgo gives me pages of results, none of them from abc/nbc/cbs/cnn/fox/turner/hearst. None.
Helluva thing, if the whole Korean thing gets defused, while Islam is busy launching a holy war against the rest of the world.
What say the apologists?
Vaping Essays for Scholarships
More on illegal aliens: Mallorca Spain
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6433935/five-brits-arrested-in-magaluf-for-hate-crime-as-ex-pats-and-prostitutes-continue-to-clash-in-party-resort/
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/06/03/knife-wielding-prostitutes-british-tourists-in-violent-clashes-at-notorious-party-resort-in-spain.html
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/531866/magaluf-prostitutes-british-tourists-robbed-calvia-police
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/966432/Magaluf-prostitutes-mugging-robbing-tourists-majorca
Mallorca has been a wild, wild party place since before I joined the Navy. It had a reputation, even then, of "anything goes". If you have the cash, pretty much anything you desire can be yours, for a night at least. The stories allude to the fact that the authorities generally look the other way, and don't get involved.
But, the illegals are changing that:
Taxi drivers say they know of the women as they frequently give them lifts and believe they are raking in around 1,000 euros each a day.
"During the past weekend, 50 to 60 prostitutes approached visitors offering 'full' services for 40 pounds, that is, the standard price they have established. All this is an excuse," it is alleged.
"The real purpose is to approach drunken young people. Prostitutes are specialists in capturing the attention of tourists in the area, cajole them and lead them to some dark alley. Once there, several of the women beat and rob their victims."
British businesses fed-up with the situation have staged a demonstration in Calvia calling for urgent action.
One trader said: "We are fed up with a group of undesirables spoiling our activity season after season."
The organisers say the prostitutes stir up trouble which goes against the long list of "co-existence" rules drawn up by Calvia council. The authority has put up signs in Magaluf and the other nightlife areas warning of 200 euro fines for bad behaviour.
They haven't been able to get official residence papers and as some have children, the only work they can do is prostitution, they added.
Nigeria? I guess the Nigerian princes aren't getting enough action on the internet these days. They have to send their women to the outside world to hustle up some money.
