If you are on the road and you have to make a quick callback, yes, it is a big deal. Unless your fingers come equipped with interchangeable screwdriver heads, which I seriously doubt. Next up, you're going to tell me "don't hold it like that", right?
Um, a GTX 260 consumes 182W (worst case), a GTX 680 consumes 320W (Crysis 2 Stress Test). Given my general PC consumption and the fact that the PSU is 5.5 years old... I'm not going to take any chances, sorry.
I have a Core 2 Duo E6750, overclocked to 3.2 GHz (it does 3.46 GHz but I got a couple blue screens and a kernel panic a few months ago, so I tuned it down), matched with a GTX 260. The machine was bought in November 2007, the GPU was bought in early 2009 IIRC, I have not changed anything since then (just bought some external HDDs), and games work great. Those games which don't support Windowed mode (maximized) I play at 1650x1080 Windowed, everything else becomes Windowed maximized. I grown to dislike full-screen for being too "immersive" (I start a quick gaming session and all of a sudden it's 5 AM), whereas Windowed mode allows me to eyeball the clock and keep a tab on my IMs.
The bottleneck seems now to be shared between the CPU and GPU. Some games use up all CPU and the low framerate comes from there. Some others are GPU-intensive and I have to crank down graphical settings. So now I'm looking for one of those exceedingly rare Q9550s CPUs, because really everything else works fine and I'd rather not spend 1500+ USD on a whole new gaming rig. Upgrading the GPU means a new PSU as well, as my current PSU is a wonderful Corsair HX520. It does very well but certainly won't stand any of those new power-guzzling GPU monsters.
My English blows, but I thought what you're saying can be summarized by "secured", "guarded", "militarized". What you say there can be applied to any bank's vault, does it make that vault "secret"?
Can you please read my fucking post? What happens when your battery dies, like "phone holds for 20 minutes then poof it goes"? I spend 15 bucks on a new battery and snap it in. Good luck doing that with your iPhone. Geez, dude. READ before writing.
I would have marked you insightful. There's plenty of retarded stories out there on Slashdot. This is merely one of them, and it doesn't even make top 10.
Yeah and if you were to work 80 hours a week for 3 years, it will be much, MUCH less. Again, if you're looking at it strictly from money perspective, it might not be worth it. Feel free NOT to participate, then. Consider this: Snooker players train for years and years and the prizes are simply not worth it if you consider time spent to even have a chance of winning. Same goes for most lesser known sports such as curling and whatnot. Winning Romanian gymnasts used to receive a few hundred dollars during the communist era. International Olympiad participants (highschool) sometimes pay the trip out of their own pocket. The final prize is sometimes just a "good to have" thing. The feeling of achievement is priceless. For some. Others just stay on the side and make angry comments without moving a muscle.
Your problem is that you see a competition as a chore or a job. Certainly, in such case, the competition does not address to you.
The answer is on the main page: 50K dollare, and 4x 10K dollars for runner-ups. That's why. It's like any sport out there: you can either win the big buck or go home with your dick in your hand. It's a fucking competition, that's what it is. Sheesh.
Yeah well, the dudes could just as well have made back-ups of their work documents onto some device and not take the device with them when they left. Or maybe they did. We'll see. Forensics will still flag the activity in either case.
Wait, wait. Company A outsourcing to company B involves liability from company B if something is afoot. Employee A outsourcing his own work to Chinese guy X means Chinese guy X can fuck the company without ever being caught, and employee A will get the shaft, but the company is still screwed.
There are other issues here. If the code is sensitive enough, an employer is willing to pay a lot more and keep the job in-house rather than outsource it. You want, as an employer, to have as much control as possible over someone who codes your financial software, for example. Also I'm sure that there are zounds of rules that were broken by this behavior.
Either those guys were amazingly stupid, in which case they deserve what's coming, or AMD is throwing a smoke screen at the crowd to stop those dudes from producing work for nVidia. Time shall tell.
My sister lives in another country, she has a Facebook account and is free to post whatever she wants in there. I choose not to do the same, and family members have a choice to acknowledge that or not. Their choice.
"Dropbox shared folders let you collaborate on a set of files. When someone joins a shared folder, the folder appears inside their Dropbox, and syncs to their computers automatically."
So, no. All they need is to have a Dropbox account.
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If you are on the road and you have to make a quick callback, yes, it is a big deal. Unless your fingers come equipped with interchangeable screwdriver heads, which I seriously doubt.
Next up, you're going to tell me "don't hold it like that", right?
You ave a disturbing lack of sense of humor.
Interesting, I have taken my numbers from the Internet as well, separate reviews. So in this regard, it's a tie :)
If you go back beyond the 1770's, yes, it kind of is :)
Armed with a Pepper Spray, at least?
Um, a GTX 260 consumes 182W (worst case), a GTX 680 consumes 320W (Crysis 2 Stress Test). Given my general PC consumption and the fact that the PSU is 5.5 years old... I'm not going to take any chances, sorry.
I have a Core 2 Duo E6750, overclocked to 3.2 GHz (it does 3.46 GHz but I got a couple blue screens and a kernel panic a few months ago, so I tuned it down), matched with a GTX 260. The machine was bought in November 2007, the GPU was bought in early 2009 IIRC, I have not changed anything since then (just bought some external HDDs), and games work great.
Those games which don't support Windowed mode (maximized) I play at 1650x1080 Windowed, everything else becomes Windowed maximized. I grown to dislike full-screen for being too "immersive" (I start a quick gaming session and all of a sudden it's 5 AM), whereas Windowed mode allows me to eyeball the clock and keep a tab on my IMs.
The bottleneck seems now to be shared between the CPU and GPU. Some games use up all CPU and the low framerate comes from there. Some others are GPU-intensive and I have to crank down graphical settings. So now I'm looking for one of those exceedingly rare Q9550s CPUs, because really everything else works fine and I'd rather not spend 1500+ USD on a whole new gaming rig. Upgrading the GPU means a new PSU as well, as my current PSU is a wonderful Corsair HX520. It does very well but certainly won't stand any of those new power-guzzling GPU monsters.
My English blows, but I thought what you're saying can be summarized by "secured", "guarded", "militarized".
What you say there can be applied to any bank's vault, does it make that vault "secret"?
I have a HTC and I agree, after a bit over 18 months of moderate usage my battery holds for almost 48 hours with wireless and bluetooth enabled.
As in "18 months"? Oh well, one more reason to not buy one.
Can you please read my fucking post? What happens when your battery dies, like "phone holds for 20 minutes then poof it goes"? I spend 15 bucks on a new battery and snap it in. Good luck doing that with your iPhone.
Geez, dude. READ before writing.
Add me to that list. I have colleagues and friends who had to spend more than I would admit it's fair to change their dying iPhone batteries.
Sue me.
Also, "Lets not forget".
I would have marked you insightful. There's plenty of retarded stories out there on Slashdot. This is merely one of them, and it doesn't even make top 10.
Yeah and if you were to work 80 hours a week for 3 years, it will be much, MUCH less.
Again, if you're looking at it strictly from money perspective, it might not be worth it. Feel free NOT to participate, then.
Consider this: Snooker players train for years and years and the prizes are simply not worth it if you consider time spent to even have a chance of winning. Same goes for most lesser known sports such as curling and whatnot.
Winning Romanian gymnasts used to receive a few hundred dollars during the communist era. International Olympiad participants (highschool) sometimes pay the trip out of their own pocket. The final prize is sometimes just a "good to have" thing. The feeling of achievement is priceless. For some. Others just stay on the side and make angry comments without moving a muscle.
Your problem is that you see a competition as a chore or a job. Certainly, in such case, the competition does not address to you.
The answer is on the main page: 50K dollare, and 4x 10K dollars for runner-ups. That's why.
It's like any sport out there: you can either win the big buck or go home with your dick in your hand. It's a fucking competition, that's what it is. Sheesh.
Yeah well, the dudes could just as well have made back-ups of their work documents onto some device and not take the device with them when they left. Or maybe they did. We'll see.
Forensics will still flag the activity in either case.
Wait, wait.
Company A outsourcing to company B involves liability from company B if something is afoot.
Employee A outsourcing his own work to Chinese guy X means Chinese guy X can fuck the company without ever being caught, and employee A will get the shaft, but the company is still screwed.
There are other issues here.
If the code is sensitive enough, an employer is willing to pay a lot more and keep the job in-house rather than outsource it. You want, as an employer, to have as much control as possible over someone who codes your financial software, for example.
Also I'm sure that there are zounds of rules that were broken by this behavior.
Either those guys were amazingly stupid, in which case they deserve what's coming, or AMD is throwing a smoke screen at the crowd to stop those dudes from producing work for nVidia. Time shall tell.
My sister lives in another country, she has a Facebook account and is free to post whatever she wants in there. I choose not to do the same, and family members have a choice to acknowledge that or not. Their choice.
You just made the assumption my sister is dumb enough to do that. She isn't.
Yeah, I don't know, I prefer meeting them rather than commenting on pictures on social media. Oh well, to each his own.
"Dropbox shared folders let you collaborate on a set of files. When someone joins a shared folder, the folder appears inside their Dropbox, and syncs to their computers automatically."
So, no. All they need is to have a Dropbox account.