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In other words I should also keep my wife away at least for a few months at the minimum. She does game and care about gaming but just mmo games where she can create girls in skimpy outfits and it's going too be a long time before she gets a dx12 card.
But there is still the risk she will opt in anyway, she is an avid iphone user and despite having a 5s she still downloads every new update even thou I warn her it will only slow down her phone and eat up more memory. Bah, couldn't they just announce that they would keep win7 around forever instead?
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Once games start supporting it, DX12 will speed things up even on cards a few years old. MS doesn't require devs to write separate code paths for each DX level they support; an older card won't get all the new extra eye candy options; but the low overhead APIs that give most of the speedup will be supported for anything released in the last few years.
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/207598-demystifying-directx-12-support-what-amd-intel-and-nvidia-do-and-dont-deliver[^]
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Does a hd 5850 from around 2009-2010 count as the last few years. I swear that monstrosity sound like a jumbo jet even when it's idling.
Attracts dust also. A lot.
But you do make DX 12 sound very interesting.
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That's more than a few years old; to the point that I'm mildly surprised it's still working. It's also two years and two architecture generations older than the oldest architecture AMD's initial DX12 drivers will be supporting; and unfortunately it appears that the VLIW4 (and presumably the older VLIW5) architectures were too rigid in design to make the newer APIs work. nVidia is supporting higher end cards back to 2010; but they've got a major advantage in having switched to a more general purpose architecture first
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The Flash Player update released Tuesday not only fixed two vulnerabilities that were being targeted by attackers, but added additional protections that will make entire classes of security flaws much harder to exploit in the future. Bwahahahaha! Oh, they kill me.
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Did they turn-on the automatic memory management ? 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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The security firm Symantec just released its monthly report for June, and it's got some good news for spam fighters. "Don't make a fuss, dear. I'll have your spam. I love it."
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Is it because the quantity of SPAM has been reduced or because the quantity of other emails are increasing?
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Microsoft promises the traditional decade, or as long as the hardware can handle the OS, whichever comes first. Or until they announce Windows 11
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Or they might be counting in binary!
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OK, so the main difference here is that you will get updates (i.e., features) as well as support for 10 years. Previously it was updates just within the 5-year mainstream support period, right? Caveat being that your PC can handle any increase in system requirements.
Kevin
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If you truly think your electronics have been invaded by an evil spirit, there's someone who will take your call — Reverend Joey Talley — a Wiccan witch from the San Francisco Bay Area who claims to solve supernatural issues for techies. "She turned me into a newt!"
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Windows 10 has a secret screen recording tool that can be used to capture on-screen activity as a video file. Coming soon: conspiracies about its "real purpose"
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Might be useful, and "secret" is a bit misused in this case.
Geek code v 3.12 {
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
}
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[^] I don't want to have something I am wearing, or carrying, broadcasting; and yes, I do realize that even my entry-level Samsung cell-phone (not a smart-phone) does that.
Yes, I am becoming more and more an old curmudgeon, perhaps like Howard Hughes, but without the money, the penthouse, or the Mormons 
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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Off and on we have things in common. Who'da figured?
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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BillWoodruff wrote: Yes, I am becoming more and more an old curmudgeon
No, you're not even nearly paranoid enough.
Once most of the people can be tracked, we will have world-peace. Anyone opposing the idea will be disposed of by some drone.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: will be disposed of by some drone.
How?
That reminds me that if I ever have a cat I will name it "Belling". 
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It should give you the creeps.
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For the last 40 years, Moore's Law predicted that processors could double in power every two years. Intel acknowledges that it's on more of a two-and-a-half-year cycle. Reduced speed ahead
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Time for the next big leap.
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They more than doubled in some instances so Intel has some "credit" to use up during this rough patch. 
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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Getting really good at telling teammates that their code is littered with problems is like getting really good at breaking into your car after locking yourself out of it. "Careful with that axe, Eugene"
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Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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If your shop uses code reviews, then it is not necessary to single out a developer and tell them how bad they are.
You have a controlled environment where you can make suggestions and point out issues that must be resolved.
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