It's hard to infer tone from reading, but when I read a site with some quotes from him, he used a LOT of "I's", "me's", and "my's"...so it's very easy to come to the conclusion that he was bragging from reading them. He was probably just excited and not necessarily bragging.
Hehe I figured part that would elicit a response from someone here:-)
The only thing that even slightly concerns me is a trojan, keylogger or something similar that can steal passwords to financial info. And even then, while an inconvenience, can be cleared up after a some phone time with the bank(s). I reformat most of my PCs every 3-6 months anyway (A little OCD I suppose, and yes I nuke the Linux box too), so getting hit with something and doing it a little early wouldn't terribly inconvenience me...It would just suck a bit more on a Saturday since my backups run Sunday morning:-)
Life is like a MMORPG encounter-risk vs reward...being overly paranoid all the time is not worth avoiding the small chance of getting hit with something bad. I take a few precautions and generally don't worry about it too much after that. It's not like I'm browsing with an unpatched IE6 allowing unsigned ActiveX controls. I know I'm running considerably more secure than the average idiot out there.
For me it's just speed, stability, and correct rendering in that order. Security isn't really a concern, that's what I run AV and a software firewall, and the PCs I use for any length of time have 2 or 4GB of memory..and if I need to utilize that much in another app I close my damn browser. I had used IE6/7 on my windows machines and FF on my linux box up until about a year ago when I realized Opera was a) faster and b) free (and not ad supported). If these speeds hold up it looks like I may be dropping Opera for FF for all my PCs again. Definately going to have to pick up the Speed Dial extention for it...I'm completely addicted to that feature.
But then we'll have lots of people living in massive space colonies to mine the asteroids and then will eventually feel oppressed by the people living on Earth whose souls are weighted down by gravity and give birth to a revolting faction that will develop giant robots and use psychic pilots and start many wars where they usually try to drop these colonies and asteroids onto Earth.
Some people have money they WANT to spend on a computer even though they'll see little benefit from it (they just don't listen to reason somtimes...I guess they can't believe a PC that exceeds their needs is only $400). I've built a dozen or so computers on the side where they asked how they could make it more powerful, and I tried to explain how they would see little if any improvment over CPU upgrades and they went ahead with it anyway./shrug
Maybe you should lay off the weed instead of me? On Newegg, I can only find the 9500 for $189, 9600 Black for $229 and 9600 standard for $239. If you have a link please post it.
Exactly...it does depend on what you want the PC for and what you want to spend. Sub $400-500ish, AMD all the way. But $500-800 or so and it depends on what you want to do with the PC...if you want to do gaming, you'll want to save cash on the CPU and mobo (AMD chipsets seem to be a bit cheaper too) and buy a more powerful video card...but if you don't plan on much 3D usage, you'll want to go with the faster CPU and skimp on the video card.
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If you'll note, I said E6750, not E6420. It'd be stupid to pay $200 when you can get a better processor for a bit less:
Now unless it's one of the few apps that actually utilizes quad-core, the E6750 beats or compares to the 9700, which is at least $50 more expensive than it is (can't find a 9700 for sale anywhere, 9600 is $240). And if you need quad-core, the Q6600 is probably about the same price as the 9700 and about the same performance.
I've never been a fanboy of Intel nor AMD (being a fanboy in general is pretty stupid...no company always makes the best products). My prior PC was an AMD 64 3800+ (which is now chugging away happily as a server). I build AMD machines for the workstations where I work because you can make a great machine for $300. What I'm saying is that AMD is simply not competitive for most applications in the mid-high end right now. I really wish they were and hope they get there, because competition is good, very good. Intel getting the crap kicked out of it for years and producing the Conroe is a great example of why....had AMD not been beating them, they might have just stayed lazy and complacent and just done the standard MHz upgrades.
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When you can buy an E6750 for $180 that is competitive with/beats AMD's more expensive top of the line Phenom depending on the application, then it's really hard to justify buuilding a $600-700 PC that uses AMD.
Now for the really cheap machines, AMD 64 X2's are the way to go...much better than any Intel processor in that price range ($60-$120).
I started playing EQ my senior year of highschool and played it well into college myself. Funny thing is, my G/F actally bought the game for me (old style big box Ruins of Kunark)...she ended up regretting that. I never got her stuck on EQ but got her to pick up being a tailor in SWG and later EQ2. (We eventually broke up, but not because of the games, but because she was an obsessive bitch).
Absolutely agree with the other posters here. If your parents care about what your 7-year-old sister does on her computer, count yourself lucky that you have at least halfway decent parents. Being overprotective is much better than not caring at all.
I agree...no need to stop there though. I work for a medium-sized company, and we have at least 50 static IP addresses we aren't using. We need a respectable number for coordination between our overseas facilities. I would think there would have to be thousands of other companies like us with extra addresses that are not needed at all.
You're on the right track, but while we're in there splicing genes, let's make them amphibious and cross them with bears. Then they can be Mutated Godless Killing Machines with Frickin' Laser Beams on their heads.
And what is probably the more stupid thing is I bet most of the music piracy occurs over programs such as Limewire, and not torrents. So not only will it open people eyes to torrents (Discography? You mean I can download all their songs at once?! And not in shitty 128k quality?), it will also have a fairly minimal impact on music piracy initially.
But I still highly doubt this will get any traction. TPB has proven to be rather immune to direct copyright infringement, and has ridiculed the Web Sheriff on several occasions. The only reason the other recent indictment has stood up is because it approaches it from a different angle (accessory to copyright infringement).
And even still, even if any of this results in a verdict against TPB...the owners apparently don't even know where the site is hosted anymore since the '06 raid. They presume several different countries but have requested not to be informed of the location. So really probably the worst thing that could happen is the domain name gets forced down...and then it changed to thepiratecove.org or something.
I would generally consider that a very false statment anyway. The Dell Axims were very well received during their time and were some of the best PDAs for the money too. They left on a bad note with X50/51 Windows Mobile 5 support, but the x5, x3, x30, and x50 were all considered very good PDAs when launched and years later.
I saw that shortly after I posted....not in any of the 'normal' areas, so I missed it (I usually check the recently added downloads and it wasn't up there).
Apparently in their native tongue, "Windows Update" and "uTorrent" come out the same. This is NOT available from Microsoft to the general public, or even their TechNet & MSDN subscribers (just double-checked mine to be sure). There are currently two methods I am aware of: Installing a fresh copy from the ISO that has been leaked, or doing some registry magic on RC2 update package to make it not expire, which has been rumored to be the RTM but I haven't seen any confirmation anywhere.
The other thing is electronics are generally a good deal more expensive in developing countries (talking about real stuff, not chinese knockoffs), not to mention harder to come by....I wouldn't plan to replace it.
If you don't want to spend the cash on a true rugged laptop, I would probably suggest a IBM Thinkpad or a Dell Latitude series...being in IT now and having worked in a computer retailer in the past, I have seen a lot of notebooks and generally those are two of the more durable notebook lines. But I would really look at spending the cash, and getting a nice, comfortable backpack you can take anywhere with you.
One thing I do when traveling (including overseas) and I have to leave my laptop behind, I will get a quality, small, padlock and lock the notebook in my large suitcase.
Hey, I just got back from China a week ago, and let me tell you, the copy of "Windows Vista Professional" I got for $2.50 was top notch. I mean it actually came with a DVD cover, and probably only fifty or so trojans eager to steal my personal information.
(In all seriousness, I did actually buy one as a souvenier...and it was named Vista Professional, which of course isn't actually a real version of Vista, but funny nonetheless. I can't read the Mandarin on it, but on the back it mentions CRACK and readme.tx in red lettering along with some Chinese symbols. It came in a flat celophane package with a cardboard DVD cover that could fit on a DVD case....cost 18 RMB (I had to talk them down from 20, hehe.))
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It's hard to infer tone from reading, but when I read a site with some quotes from him, he used a LOT of "I's", "me's", and "my's"...so it's very easy to come to the conclusion that he was bragging from reading them. He was probably just excited and not necessarily bragging.
You should know by now that you're not actually supposed to RTFA here. The videos are incentive to prohibit this reckless behavior.
That does beg the question....have 2 pedophiles solicited sex from eachother?
Hehe I figured part that would elicit a response from someone here :-)
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The only thing that even slightly concerns me is a trojan, keylogger or something similar that can steal passwords to financial info. And even then, while an inconvenience, can be cleared up after a some phone time with the bank(s). I reformat most of my PCs every 3-6 months anyway (A little OCD I suppose, and yes I nuke the Linux box too), so getting hit with something and doing it a little early wouldn't terribly inconvenience me...It would just suck a bit more on a Saturday since my backups run Sunday morning
Life is like a MMORPG encounter-risk vs reward...being overly paranoid all the time is not worth avoiding the small chance of getting hit with something bad. I take a few precautions and generally don't worry about it too much after that. It's not like I'm browsing with an unpatched IE6 allowing unsigned ActiveX controls. I know I'm running considerably more secure than the average idiot out there.
For me it's just speed, stability, and correct rendering in that order. Security isn't really a concern, that's what I run AV and a software firewall, and the PCs I use for any length of time have 2 or 4GB of memory..and if I need to utilize that much in another app I close my damn browser. I had used IE6/7 on my windows machines and FF on my linux box up until about a year ago when I realized Opera was a) faster and b) free (and not ad supported). If these speeds hold up it looks like I may be dropping Opera for FF for all my PCs again. Definately going to have to pick up the Speed Dial extention for it...I'm completely addicted to that feature.
Sure thing, as long as you don't mind a little plagarism.
But then we'll have lots of people living in massive space colonies to mine the asteroids and then will eventually feel oppressed by the people living on Earth whose souls are weighted down by gravity and give birth to a revolting faction that will develop giant robots and use psychic pilots and start many wars where they usually try to drop these colonies and asteroids onto Earth.
That or I've been watching way too much Anime.
Some people have money they WANT to spend on a computer even though they'll see little benefit from it (they just don't listen to reason somtimes...I guess they can't believe a PC that exceeds their needs is only $400). I've built a dozen or so computers on the side where they asked how they could make it more powerful, and I tried to explain how they would see little if any improvment over CPU upgrades and they went ahead with it anyway. /shrug
Maybe you should lay off the weed instead of me? On Newegg, I can only find the 9500 for $189, 9600 Black for $229 and 9600 standard for $239. If you have a link please post it.
Exactly...it does depend on what you want the PC for and what you want to spend. Sub $400-500ish, AMD all the way. But $500-800 or so and it depends on what you want to do with the PC...if you want to do gaming, you'll want to save cash on the CPU and mobo (AMD chipsets seem to be a bit cheaper too) and buy a more powerful video card...but if you don't plan on much 3D usage, you'll want to go with the faster CPU and skimp on the video card.
If you'll note, I said E6750, not E6420. It'd be stupid to pay $200 when you can get a better processor for a bit less:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115029
Now unless it's one of the few apps that actually utilizes quad-core, the E6750 beats or compares to the 9700, which is at least $50 more expensive than it is (can't find a 9700 for sale anywhere, 9600 is $240). And if you need quad-core, the Q6600 is probably about the same price as the 9700 and about the same performance.
I've never been a fanboy of Intel nor AMD (being a fanboy in general is pretty stupid...no company always makes the best products). My prior PC was an AMD 64 3800+ (which is now chugging away happily as a server). I build AMD machines for the workstations where I work because you can make a great machine for $300. What I'm saying is that AMD is simply not competitive for most applications in the mid-high end right now. I really wish they were and hope they get there, because competition is good, very good. Intel getting the crap kicked out of it for years and producing the Conroe is a great example of why....had AMD not been beating them, they might have just stayed lazy and complacent and just done the standard MHz upgrades.
When you can buy an E6750 for $180 that is competitive with/beats AMD's more expensive top of the line Phenom depending on the application, then it's really hard to justify buuilding a $600-700 PC that uses AMD.
Now for the really cheap machines, AMD 64 X2's are the way to go...much better than any Intel processor in that price range ($60-$120).
Not on a Tempurpedic matress. Maybe that's why NASA uses it, it defies the laws of gravity!
I started playing EQ my senior year of highschool and played it well into college myself. Funny thing is, my G/F actally bought the game for me (old style big box Ruins of Kunark)...she ended up regretting that. I never got her stuck on EQ but got her to pick up being a tailor in SWG and later EQ2. (We eventually broke up, but not because of the games, but because she was an obsessive bitch).
Absolutely agree with the other posters here. If your parents care about what your 7-year-old sister does on her computer, count yourself lucky that you have at least halfway decent parents. Being overprotective is much better than not caring at all.
I agree...no need to stop there though. I work for a medium-sized company, and we have at least 50 static IP addresses we aren't using. We need a respectable number for coordination between our overseas facilities. I would think there would have to be thousands of other companies like us with extra addresses that are not needed at all.
If we rigged this up to the Total Gym, Chuck Norris could power the entire country in just 20 minutes a day for low low payments of $19.95.
You're on the right track, but while we're in there splicing genes, let's make them amphibious and cross them with bears. Then they can be Mutated Godless Killing Machines with Frickin' Laser Beams on their heads.
And what is probably the more stupid thing is I bet most of the music piracy occurs over programs such as Limewire, and not torrents. So not only will it open people eyes to torrents (Discography? You mean I can download all their songs at once?! And not in shitty 128k quality?), it will also have a fairly minimal impact on music piracy initially.
But I still highly doubt this will get any traction. TPB has proven to be rather immune to direct copyright infringement, and has ridiculed the Web Sheriff on several occasions. The only reason the other recent indictment has stood up is because it approaches it from a different angle (accessory to copyright infringement).
And even still, even if any of this results in a verdict against TPB...the owners apparently don't even know where the site is hosted anymore since the '06 raid. They presume several different countries but have requested not to be informed of the location. So really probably the worst thing that could happen is the domain name gets forced down...and then it changed to thepiratecove.org or something.
I would generally consider that a very false statment anyway. The Dell Axims were very well received during their time and were some of the best PDAs for the money too. They left on a bad note with X50/51 Windows Mobile 5 support, but the x5, x3, x30, and x50 were all considered very good PDAs when launched and years later.
I saw that shortly after I posted....not in any of the 'normal' areas, so I missed it (I usually check the recently added downloads and it wasn't up there).
Apparently in their native tongue, "Windows Update" and "uTorrent" come out the same. This is NOT available from Microsoft to the general public, or even their TechNet & MSDN subscribers (just double-checked mine to be sure). There are currently two methods I am aware of: Installing a fresh copy from the ISO that has been leaked, or doing some registry magic on RC2 update package to make it not expire, which has been rumored to be the RTM but I haven't seen any confirmation anywhere.
The other thing is electronics are generally a good deal more expensive in developing countries (talking about real stuff, not chinese knockoffs), not to mention harder to come by....I wouldn't plan to replace it.
If you don't want to spend the cash on a true rugged laptop, I would probably suggest a IBM Thinkpad or a Dell Latitude series...being in IT now and having worked in a computer retailer in the past, I have seen a lot of notebooks and generally those are two of the more durable notebook lines. But I would really look at spending the cash, and getting a nice, comfortable backpack you can take anywhere with you.
One thing I do when traveling (including overseas) and I have to leave my laptop behind, I will get a quality, small, padlock and lock the notebook in my large suitcase.
Oh yeah...even more than before.
Hey, I just got back from China a week ago, and let me tell you, the copy of "Windows Vista Professional" I got for $2.50 was top notch. I mean it actually came with a DVD cover, and probably only fifty or so trojans eager to steal my personal information. (In all seriousness, I did actually buy one as a souvenier...and it was named Vista Professional, which of course isn't actually a real version of Vista, but funny nonetheless. I can't read the Mandarin on it, but on the back it mentions CRACK and readme.tx in red lettering along with some Chinese symbols. It came in a flat celophane package with a cardboard DVD cover that could fit on a DVD case....cost 18 RMB (I had to talk them down from 20, hehe.))