Yea, the AMD IGP is better and sure as hell offers better gaming performance but and this is the big fucking but, the i3-2120 offers far better performance in the area's that count for business/enterprise users. The CPU has enough performance that even with the crappy Intel IGP, they still do what's needed quite well while offering a much lower TDP and even that's becoming important to everyone.
I've been looking into this for a while and working up a build for the new year that's based on an Intel option. Much of the reason is that I'll be using a Xeon with the Intel 4000 IGP (good enough) as the TDP is 45w for the CPU while Passmark results show performance over 8000. The next best AMD offering is a meager 6000 for a 130w TDP and pretty much the same price. I hate to say that Intel is beating AMD in multiple area's and Performance per Watt is just one of them.
Well I'm one of those who's looking at an Acer W500 Tablet as a desktop replacement. Yes it'll handle my desktop needs with the exception of storage but with a NAS at home, why do I need more then enough capacity to handle a limited set of local files anyway? The nice thing is the AMD APU is powerful enough to actually run my primary game (Guildwars), thus it is quite capable of functioning as a desktop replacement for me. Hell I rarely use word anymore since I've got OneNote installed and it offers the functionality that I really need from word.
There are actually two reasons many of us use hosts like Blogspot or Live Journal. It's the simplicity as you said. It just works. Then there's the cost of doing it yourself. Money is tight and I'd rather not spend it on something that I can get for free while being able to spout my bable as desired. Hell like most of us, I tend to talk to myself though thankfully, I've not started holding entire conversations with myself.
This was the first thing I thought of in response to people buying the cards from Newegg and others in the States. Confiscation by Customs is going to be part of the law. Then those customs agents will be selling all of those confiscated cards on Ebay and such just to confiscate the damn things again.
what are you smoking as I'd like some of it myself. KDE did change the damn UI and forced it on us when they switched from 3 to 4. One feature I use and depend on is the multiple desktop mode as I tend to configure each desktop for a specific purpose. Then they dropped all of that in favor of the god damn M$ way of a single desktop and crammed it down our throats.
Personally, I'm glad someone decided to keep working on fixing the bugs and various problems in 3 (Trinity Project) as it allows me to continue using the10+ multiple desktops that I've configured to support my various workflows. KDE 4 is so bad, I may as well run Win7 and forget about open source.
To me, there's another just as important reason as Bang for Buck. It's the Higher TDP of their chips. For a large office, it's becoming very important to get a lower TDP chip that performs well and looking at the numbers, the Celeron G540 offers the most bang for buck at a nice 65 watt instead of the miserable 95 watts of any of the Athlon x2/x4 chips. Sure AMD has some that are in the 65 watt range but compared to even the low end celerons, their performance stinks and all of these reasons have pushed my decision towards an Intel chip for my next build. Even their onboard graphics are decent enough to handle what I actually do on a daily basis while allowing me some light/medium gaming. Of course, there's another reason and it's the quaility of the Open Source Drives, meaning I'm not locked into the MS or Apple camps and that's damn important to me.
Yea! MS is really going hard for the HTPC market with their WMC dvr software that isn't included unless you buy Win8 Pro. What's that? Another unwanted/unused feature has been added to Pro? Yep. That's the breaks folks. WMC is no longer included in Home where it should completely replace WMP. God Damn Monkey Boy, can't even throw chairs at the right develepers.
Yes I know just how bad both Media Player and Media Center are but I have found that Media Center works pretty good with just about any Hauppauge Tuner Card with decent drivers. It also handles BD playback, if you have a BD player/burner installed unlike WMP.
hell when I upgraded from the 14 to 14.01, Firefox fragged my profile and wiped out all of my bookmarks, pws and cookies. Completely overwrote everything on me. At that point, I pretty much gave up using firefox and since I'm running Win7-64, switched to using IE9-64. Personally, I don't see why in hell he moz devs give a shit if there's no 64bit support in flash or other plug-ins, It's simply not their fucking problem. Give me the option to use a 64bit version or get off my lawn and that's why I've switched to Palemoon64. They at least get it and give me the option.
I wish I only needed 2TB of storage as I've got 4+ between the 4 desktops in the house. Add in the laptops and I've got close to 5TB of storage and all of it's spinning rust.
The next system I build is going to use a 30GB SSD for the OS and it will have a trio of drives and they'll likely be 2TB or larger.
This JavaDocs - What Is? Never heard of it and don't run Java on my system but I have used QT Torrent, QT-Web, Firefox, Palemoon along with Notepad++ yet the quality of the docs tend to suck pretty badly. A good example is the Firefox Docs. They're online only and insist on trying to connect using Firefox only, which is a problem when Firefox is borked. QT-Web is a nice app but docs? What Docs? There's a few entries and FAQ pages but docs simply don't exist. QT Torrent suffers the same problem. It's more common then not to encounter no docs with any app and that's just plain pitiful. I'll take a FAQ and Wiki over nothing at all but I'd prefer a decent set of general purpose docs. Detail can be easily provided by a FAQ/Wiki online with any examples and the latest information/changes there.
I get exactly the same effect with my Hosts file and for those that don't understand how they work, it's pretty god damn simple. I never make the connection to the god damn server - no ad/malware or other crap to see. As to updating the damn thing every week? I don't do that. That's why I also use Noscript and I look at what scripts are being blocked. If any ads make it through, I'll cut and paste into my plain text editor the obnoxious site. Works quite well for me. Yes I do see the random ad but now that my hosts file is configured, I rarely see them as I'm not surfing all over the net anymore and into the god damn underbelly.
I'll keep reminding others to use NoScript. Adblock Plus has been bought out so it's no longer usable. For the many ads that I don't see, I have to thank Ghostery and the Hosts file for the permanent ban
Well I'm one of those mommy bloggers you so vehemently bitched about. The big thing is, I don't have the Discretionary funds to pay a host for my effin blog and that's why in hell I juse Live Journal. Decent trade-off to me. I get their free package, they gain a little more ad-revenue to cover my hosting costs
In regards to Blogger and some of the other obnoxious sites. Hell yes, I actually agree with you that they need to die and it's why I refuse to visit most if not all blogs hosted by them leaches. Yes LJ does have ads but their simple enough to be unobtrusive to me and I don't block their ads in ghostery. I Do continue blocking flash/silverlight and god damn iframes with noscript though for general security reasons.
It is not the job of the U.S. Constituion to restrict the acts of congress but the People and until the People decide that Congress and the government have overstepped the Limits established by The People, nothing that congress does is ilegal even if it's against the Constitution.
Posted 14 hours ago and I still can't reach the main page for slackware. Pretty big slashdotting this time around. At least the distrowatch link to the torrent works
Blanket Fail statememt. I have a desktop but am looking at getting a tablet to replace a notebook due to changes in usage. Simply put, I'm spending more and more time in god damn waiting rooms w/o tables or desks and the laptop just isn't as useful anymore while a tablet offers enough functionality to be useable while being smaller. In fact, based on the damn changes in usage, I may even be able to use the tablet to replace most of my desktop functionality while converting it to a home server. It's still useful but...
because he's an effin brit. Just like the stupid gits we revolvted against over 200 years ago.
Of course, our god damn solution wasn't any effin better then what we got rid of, in fact it's worse because only the power hungry pursue power like the addiction it is and that is explictly what the Contitution provides us with.
Buzz! Adobe does have a plan. It's called shove it under the carpet until it costs us money. The problem is, it hasn't reached that point yet so they sure as hell wont change things. Unlike MS where it's "Developers, Developers, Developers" for Adobe it's "Money, Money, Money" as they don't even give a damn about profit so long as they get their pay. Corporate value? Not their problem. Security? Costs fucking money. Anything else? Costs money.
I find that some of the Aero features are nice but I don't use the compositing features normally as I don't care for the damn eye candy. Simply put, give me the translucency effects, thumbnail previews of open apps otherwise get the hell out of my way. What I wish MS would do is use the lest needed effects and make it easy for us to add those we want instead of insisting the god damn UI is a game.
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Yea, the AMD IGP is better and sure as hell offers better gaming performance but and this is the big fucking but, the i3-2120 offers far better performance in the area's that count for business/enterprise users. The CPU has enough performance that even with the crappy Intel IGP, they still do what's needed quite well while offering a much lower TDP and even that's becoming important to everyone.
I've been looking into this for a while and working up a build for the new year that's based on an Intel option. Much of the reason is that I'll be using a Xeon with the Intel 4000 IGP (good enough) as the TDP is 45w for the CPU while Passmark results show performance over 8000. The next best AMD offering is a meager 6000 for a 130w TDP and pretty much the same price. I hate to say that Intel is beating AMD in multiple area's and Performance per Watt is just one of them.
follow the "Ferengi Rules of Aquisition". That way the only thing that's exploited is your wallet.
Well I'm one of those who's looking at an Acer W500 Tablet as a desktop replacement. Yes it'll handle my desktop needs with the exception of storage but with a NAS at home, why do I need more then enough capacity to handle a limited set of local files anyway? The nice thing is the AMD APU is powerful enough to actually run my primary game (Guildwars), thus it is quite capable of functioning as a desktop replacement for me. Hell I rarely use word anymore since I've got OneNote installed and it offers the functionality that I really need from word.
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IIRC, this is one of the key techs needed for mechwar. Add in an implanted cell phone and "Resistance Is Futile"
There are actually two reasons many of us use hosts like Blogspot or Live Journal. It's the simplicity as you said. It just works. Then there's the cost of doing it yourself. Money is tight and I'd rather not spend it on something that I can get for free while being able to spout my bable as desired. Hell like most of us, I tend to talk to myself though thankfully, I've not started holding entire conversations with myself.
Bingo! We have a Winner.
This was the first thing I thought of in response to people buying the cards from Newegg and others in the States. Confiscation by Customs is going to be part of the law. Then those customs agents will be selling all of those confiscated cards on Ebay and such just to confiscate the damn things again.
what are you smoking as I'd like some of it myself. KDE did change the damn UI and forced it on us when they switched from 3 to 4. One feature I use and depend on is the multiple desktop mode as I tend to configure each desktop for a specific purpose. Then they dropped all of that in favor of the god damn M$ way of a single desktop and crammed it down our throats.
Personally, I'm glad someone decided to keep working on fixing the bugs and various problems in 3 (Trinity Project) as it allows me to continue using the10+ multiple desktops that I've configured to support my various workflows. KDE 4 is so bad, I may as well run Win7 and forget about open source.
To me, there's another just as important reason as Bang for Buck. It's the Higher TDP of their chips. For a large office, it's becoming very important to get a lower TDP chip that performs well and looking at the numbers, the Celeron G540 offers the most bang for buck at a nice 65 watt instead of the miserable 95 watts of any of the Athlon x2/x4 chips. Sure AMD has some that are in the 65 watt range but compared to even the low end celerons, their performance stinks and all of these reasons have pushed my decision towards an Intel chip for my next build. Even their onboard graphics are decent enough to handle what I actually do on a daily basis while allowing me some light/medium gaming. Of course, there's another reason and it's the quaility of the Open Source Drives, meaning I'm not locked into the MS or Apple camps and that's damn important to me.
Palemoon - Version: 15.1.1-x64 on Win7-64 with 16GB. The only difference is in a few settings and tweaks that are more useful for desktop users.
Yea! MS is really going hard for the HTPC market with their WMC dvr software that isn't included unless you buy Win8 Pro. What's that? Another unwanted/unused feature has been added to Pro? Yep. That's the breaks folks. WMC is no longer included in Home where it should completely replace WMP. God Damn Monkey Boy, can't even throw chairs at the right develepers.
Yes I know just how bad both Media Player and Media Center are but I have found that Media Center works pretty good with just about any Hauppauge Tuner Card with decent drivers. It also handles BD playback, if you have a BD player/burner installed unlike WMP.
hell when I upgraded from the 14 to 14.01, Firefox fragged my profile and wiped out all of my bookmarks, pws and cookies. Completely overwrote everything on me. At that point, I pretty much gave up using firefox and since I'm running Win7-64, switched to using IE9-64. Personally, I don't see why in hell he moz devs give a shit if there's no 64bit support in flash or other plug-ins, It's simply not their fucking problem. Give me the option to use a 64bit version or get off my lawn and that's why I've switched to Palemoon64. They at least get it and give me the option.
I wish I only needed 2TB of storage as I've got 4+ between the 4 desktops in the house. Add in the laptops and I've got close to 5TB of storage and all of it's spinning rust.
The next system I build is going to use a 30GB SSD for the OS and it will have a trio of drives and they'll likely be 2TB or larger.
This JavaDocs - What Is? Never heard of it and don't run Java on my system but I have used QT Torrent, QT-Web, Firefox, Palemoon along with Notepad++ yet the quality of the docs tend to suck pretty badly. A good example is the Firefox Docs. They're online only and insist on trying to connect using Firefox only, which is a problem when Firefox is borked. QT-Web is a nice app but docs? What Docs? There's a few entries and FAQ pages but docs simply don't exist. QT Torrent suffers the same problem. It's more common then not to encounter no docs with any app and that's just plain pitiful. I'll take a FAQ and Wiki over nothing at all but I'd prefer a decent set of general purpose docs. Detail can be easily provided by a FAQ/Wiki online with any examples and the latest information/changes there.
Nah!! Worse would be switching to WP8 and finding that "It Just Works"
I get exactly the same effect with my Hosts file and for those that don't understand how they work, it's pretty god damn simple. I never make the connection to the god damn server - no ad/malware or other crap to see. As to updating the damn thing every week? I don't do that. That's why I also use Noscript and I look at what scripts are being blocked. If any ads make it through, I'll cut and paste into my plain text editor the obnoxious site. Works quite well for me. Yes I do see the random ad but now that my hosts file is configured, I rarely see them as I'm not surfing all over the net anymore and into the god damn underbelly.
I'll keep reminding others to use NoScript. Adblock Plus has been bought out so it's no longer usable. For the many ads that I don't see, I have to thank Ghostery and the Hosts file for the permanent ban
Well I'm one of those mommy bloggers you so vehemently bitched about. The big thing is, I don't have the Discretionary funds to pay a host for my effin blog and that's why in hell I juse Live Journal. Decent trade-off to me. I get their free package, they gain a little more ad-revenue to cover my hosting costs
In regards to Blogger and some of the other obnoxious sites. Hell yes, I actually agree with you that they need to die and it's why I refuse to visit most if not all blogs hosted by them leaches. Yes LJ does have ads but their simple enough to be unobtrusive to me and I don't block their ads in ghostery. I Do continue blocking flash/silverlight and god damn iframes with noscript though for general security reasons.
It is not the job of the U.S. Constituion to restrict the acts of congress but the People and until the People decide that Congress and the government have overstepped the Limits established by The People, nothing that congress does is ilegal even if it's against the Constitution.
Posted 14 hours ago and I still can't reach the main page for slackware. Pretty big slashdotting this time around. At least the distrowatch link to the torrent works
Blanket Fail statememt. I have a desktop but am looking at getting a tablet to replace a notebook due to changes in usage. Simply put, I'm spending more and more time in god damn waiting rooms w/o tables or desks and the laptop just isn't as useful anymore while a tablet offers enough functionality to be useable while being smaller. In fact, based on the damn changes in usage, I may even be able to use the tablet to replace most of my desktop functionality while converting it to a home server. It's still useful but...
because he's an effin brit. Just like the stupid gits we revolvted against over 200 years ago.
Of course, our god damn solution wasn't any effin better then what we got rid of, in fact it's worse because only the power hungry pursue power like the addiction it is and that is explictly what the Contitution provides us with.
Buzz! Adobe does have a plan. It's called shove it under the carpet until it costs us money. The problem is, it hasn't reached that point yet so they sure as hell wont change things. Unlike MS where it's "Developers, Developers, Developers" for Adobe it's "Money, Money, Money" as they don't even give a damn about profit so long as they get their pay. Corporate value? Not their problem. Security? Costs fucking money. Anything else? Costs money.
RH 5, Mandrake/Mandrivia, Debian, ZipSlack, Gentoo, FC14, Gentoo, LFS, Gentoo, XP, Win7
I find that some of the Aero features are nice but I don't use the compositing features normally as I don't care for the damn eye candy. Simply put, give me the translucency effects, thumbnail previews of open apps otherwise get the hell out of my way. What I wish MS would do is use the lest needed effects and make it easy for us to add those we want instead of insisting the god damn UI is a game.
But Naga's are only good for their hides anyway. Otherwise, they're always trying to kill people and eat our crops or steal our stuff.