LOL *NSFW* *The new Demote thread*

So Samsung reckons more than half of TV's sold in 2019 will be 8K UHD...

Yeah OK, maybe in South Korea with your nice, modern internet infrastructure and culture for excessive spending on technology and gadgets (SK's debt vs disposable income is even higher than the UK's).

Good luck getting even 1% of TV sales in the UK though!

 

Some people should not be allowed to do things unsupervised...

 

Now this I like

 

Methinks, if the chicken is heated to 205C all the way through, it's going to be well and truly buggered.

 

Based on this, I wonder if Rolls Royce sells it's chickens to Bernard Matthews after using them for Bird Strike testing on their Jet Engines labelling them as "partially cooked"

 

The chicken only needs to get to 165F all the way through. Roughly (and that's the best I can do it) 2000 mph. I'm not a great mathematician. I just cook a lot.

 

I'm assuming the slapper (for want of a better word) would have also overcooked his/her own hand?

 

No problem:

 

But why though?

I mean, just because you can, doesn't mean you need or should.

 

If you're rich enough, some of the time use it for something other than gaming that actually utilises the extreme hardware and also enjoy the hobby, why not?

People spend more on fast cars.

 

Oh, i'm not saying the bloke shouldn't spend his money how he wants - but $40k+ on a home PC that he says he "hopes he gets enough time off from work to use"? That's excessive by ANY metric...

 

As @Mister_Tad can no doubt confirm...

 

Haha. Notice the U-bolts with Penny washers on the ends. What purpose do they serve?

 

He has a MacBin on the desk and clearly has no concerns for noise or dust.

Also

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/06/hipsters_all_look_the_same_fact/

 

I read the thread (because why not) and apparently they do do some work with it at home and that work involves deep learning, clinical decision support, isotopes, medical imaging and applications that run into the 100s of GB of RAM usage. So there's that. I sense it's not just for fun. If you get paid enough the spending a load on a high end system is probably less of an extravagance than something that will be just used for gaming and web.

 

...admit it, most of us would probably do the same if we could.

 

I would, and I'd hook it up to my CRT monitor, just for shits n giggles