Intel really should just start marketing itself to enthusiasts with a slogan "because time you spend troubleshooting matters".
They could but honestly I mean aside from rabid Intel fanboyism I have never seen this claim made before. (I dismiss everything anyone says Intel/AMD/Ford/Chevy/whatever once I detect rabid fanboysim.)
Maybe you have been on the wrong side of a weird statistical blip but for large managed situations where games are not an issue I've never had issues with AMD mobos being harder to work with than Intel. If anything both of them have their own set of quirks that can be anything from just that quirky to downright Office Space want to take the whole lot of them out to a field with a bat maddening.
Is anyone really surprised by this? I don't mean to cast aspersions on everyone in China but dammit if they don't have a huge right wing group of people who are hell bent on enforcing totalitarianism on not only themselves but the world at large.
And the kicker is that we have had our own group of people who viewed 1984 as a manual rather than a cautionary tail working since the 60's.
I'm sorry but for everyone that view the right wing slide as OK you are so wrong. So very wrong.
Honestly I don't know wtf was going on. I just do have a vivid memory of walking into a Radio Shack to buy a battery (not just a AA or something like that but a coin style battery that at the time was not widely carried at say Walgreens, CVS, or WalMart like they are now) and as I was about to get rung up the cashier asked me for my SSN.
As has been posted a lot of Radio Shacks were privately owned franchises that had their own rules so maybe this one was just doing something odd in that they were trying to profile people to see if they could sign them up for a CC. But I honestly don't know why they did it.
I remember it because it was one thing to rebuff the sales person for asking for my name, phone number, address and whatnot. But that day when they asked me for my SSN I was like WTF?
When Radio Shack asked my for my SS number when I was just buying a battery they jumped the shark. This was in the 90's. They have been dishonest money grubbing whores likely even before that. (Very likely during the 80's when it become 'cool' to be be right wing and greedy.)
I would love to have a parts store like what the Radio Shack used to be when I was growing up. But saving some mogul who has billions to burn who can open up a private, ie not reporting to investors every quarter as to why they not fleecing every customer for every dime that they have, type of store that will have just parts and stuff...I don't see it happening.
I hate to say it but with our current Supreme Court it is not a good idea to push civil liberty issues their way. While I personally think that the intent of the Bill of Rights was to protect civil liberties I don't think our current sitting SC will rule that way.
I don't understand how the inability of you to cool your house during a heat wave contradicts anything I said.
Because I did not start talking about my inability or any thing like that.
One of the things that drives me mad when I post on overclocking forums is that people often talk about temps without ever saying what their ambients are. Never mind the delta on their humidity.
The fact is, the router is sitting in a garage with no temperature or climate control.
Bolded is your inane response. You try to change the argument right away. My main point was that in an un-climate controlled environment, like say a garage, that there will be a huge delta on temps and humidity based on location.
I then, sadly, tried to appease you by trying to explain that even in climate controlled environments when you live in zones with high deltas in your temps and humidity that it can be hard to control even the areas you attempt to control. Never mind what the deltas are like in the exposed zones.
Who cares what the ambient is outside of your thermal system, it has ZERO effect on the electrical components inside. If you can't keep your equipment cooled and dry, it's an issue of climate control/hvac. Nowhere am I suggesting running these things in the middle of the tropical rainforest without indoor climate control.
The GP was talking about where they kept their gear in THEIR GARAGE! Or if you don't remember:
It's sitting in a garage with no heat or AC. I use just about every aspect of DD-WRT and have moved terabytes of data through it in the last few months. And that's hardly a record for my old Linksys routers.
And yes I have HVAC systems in place here. But they do what they can vs the climate. Back about 2 years ago there was a huge heat wave that had our outside temps up if not over 100. I was driving home from St. Augustine at the time and as I got closer inland the temps only went up.
When I got home my HVAC, or AC if you want, had been set to keep the place at 80 but it was already on and the place was hot. Every thing in my house was hot, the walls were hot, the furniture was hot, hell even the cat gave me a dirty look like wtf it's freaking hot.
Do you know why it was so hot even thou I had set my AC at 80? Because that thermodynamics is complicated. The point where my AC trips on is on a wall in my living room. Set away from the sun. It does not care that the sun is creeping in from my kitchen window heating up all the metal in there. It is only when that energy reaches a point that it flows over to that thermostat that it turns on.
And here is the kicker, it only turns on enough to cool the AIR down enough to where that thermostat on the wall in my living room will say yeah, ok we are cool. Shut the cooling systems off. Meanwhile the metal that has a ton of energy in my kitchen from the sun, never mind my walls, are still radiating heat like made.
I could go on but I hope you understand my point. Thermodynamics is not some binary system. Nor is the greater system that I tried to make my previous point on. My ambients and the ways in which I have to maintian them are not the same as those in a more temperate environment.
I'm sorry for the UID shot. I've been annoyed by this issue for so long that I used a personal attack. Again, I'm sorry.
But I hope you will try to understand what I'm saying here.
Make your house ~70 deg F and dry. It will be more optimal than whatever his garage is, guaranteed.
Use some common sense
What the hell are you talking about?
Do you know what ambient even means? Or do you even have a clue as to the variations in climates are? Are you really suggesting that the subtropical region that I live in has the same type of ambient temps and humidity as a place like Denver CO? Or some place in Canada? Or hell lets go to real extremes and talk about some outpost at the North Pole. Do you think even with the best efforts of the people who are living there to maintain livable temps that their ambients are the same as mine?
In short, you are clueless and I feel sad that when I see a UID that is as high as yours that these are the types of posts that I have to reply to these days.
One of the things that drives me mad when I post on overclocking forums is that people often talk about temps without ever saying what their ambients are. Never mind the delta on their humidity.
I live in Florida and so when some one, like your post, says something like this without saying what type of environment that hardware is in it has no validity to me. You could be like me in an environment that could easily kill any consumer level hardware I were to leave it in a garage. Or you could be in a incredibly temperate part of the world where that garage is great for hardware. Or you could have even taken other steps to make sure that the spot that your hardware is in that garage is in the very best place for hardware.
I'm not trying to hate on you or what your hardware has done for you. But please understand that you have to provide more information about exactly what type of environment you have you hardware in before it will have any real validity.
I recently picked up a new client who needed a fair amount of work done to their small network/computers. The location thou is about as far as I advertise my services and had they not needed all the work that they do I would have likely referred them to someone more local. As my profits would not have been worth it with the current gas prices even with my decently efficient vehicle.
So in driving out there so often I have noticed how often the speed limits will change in even just a few miles. Going from 45 to 35 then back up to 45 then to 40 then...you get the idea. It's a freaking nightmare for a number of reasons:
- The police in the area seem pretty well disposed to enforce speed limits and know EXACTLY where the best spots are where say the limit goes from 45 to 35. I've seen them working in teams on an intersection where you turn off a 45mph road onto a road where the limit is 35 [b]for no more than an 1/8 of a mile![/b] (Then of course it goes right back up to 45.)
- Trying to follow this yo/yoing of speed limits only makes it that much harder to drive around as there are plenty of people who just don't care that much. Doing the speed limit in slow lane has netted me dirty looks.
- Can't just set my cruse control and just go even when I'm going to be going straight for a fairly long stretch because for whatever reason because doing 45 clearly is so dangerous at some point in that stretch that I need to be only doing 40 for a few blocks.
As such I've been starting to ponder as I make these drives who the hell is doing this to us? Is it law enforcement or civil engineers who are saying that that 5mph for a few blocks is a good idea? The best answer I've come up with in my head is it's likely a clusterfuck of law enforcement, civil engineers, and politics. Very depressing.
Dual headed system with my PCIe GPU driving my main monitor for games. My mobo GPU drives my 2nd monitor.
My 2nd monitor mostly is all about media. But it also gives me the ability to have a 2nd monitor when I need to have a 2nd terminal, editor, website, etc open.
For media I have often open streaming media: JTV and my Orb server mostly. And then of course either VLC/MPC/WMP for video and or audio.
My Orb server sits in my office and has a TV card that can capture the non-encrypted signals that I get from my cable. I am lucky in that my cable offers nearly everything on that line unencrypted. I stupidly thought that was the way it worked across the board when I told my brother in law and sister that they should get a TV card for their computer too.
(My Orb server is not just an Orb server, rather it is my office comp and does very well at that. A low power AMD 4450 that also has my USB backup drive plugged into it.)
Not only did I screw up because the TV card I wanted to get them was out of stock at Newegg and got them a sub standard one that has to feed back the audio via their Audio-In port but Comcast freaking sucks balls in that they only offer the mandated channels unencrypted along with, whoo hoo!, HBO. In short they never use the setup that I got for them which makes me sad but it only was a $20 card so not a big deal but it still pisses me off and Comcast sucks.
In closing I love my live sports. I doubt I will ever want to live without that. But I love my streams too and I really do like my setup currently that gives me the best of both of those worlds. For an end user my setup would be way too much but then again I'm not any normal end user.
I've been working more and more with clients, either consumers or businesses, that are looking to make use of tablets and my overall stance on how you use a tablet has not changed. And I say this having used a Palm for many years and more recently a n810 for almost 4 years now.
Tablets are an augmentation to what you do with computers. Not a real replacement for a desktop/workstation, not a replacement for a true mobile computer (laptop/netbook), and not a replacement for smartphones. This is not to say that tablets can't perform some of the functionality that laptops or smartphones provide but they still have pros and cons for each.
To the point at hand what type of conductivity you need for a tablet depends on what role you are looking for it to fill. If you are looking for it to augment the role your smartphone currently fills then having good conductivity is going to be key. And unless you can reliably and price competitively tether then a 3g tablet will likely be best.
If on the other hand you are looking to augment a laptop then you likely are in places where you will nearly always have Wifi and do not need to worry about a 3g connection.
Caps to me are still the real issue. I say that because once you have any decent broadband connection it is typically going to be 'fast enough' for an average end user. Most end users are not downloading an ISO a day or something to that effect. In fact since most if not all end user pipes are not even close to full duplex they are not really that much good for anything but normal end user type stuff.
Now I will throw in the caveat that as you add more users to a connection clearly that is when a bigger pipe will help. But that still brings us around to again the real issue, caps. With more users you are running even a bigger risk of going over a cap if you are using what the modern internet can do. Streaming, online gaming, downloads, smartphones/tablets switching over to Wifi mode when they are in range, and of course all of the standard stuff like email/web/IM/etc.
Caps are something that need to be seriously regulated as it is not like we have a lot of options when it comes to our broadband options. They should be pretty damn high as in you really would be having to running full bandwidth for a week straight out of a month.
We have embraced the ignorance generation. I wish I were kidding but that is what we are/have been doing. And I take no pleasure in attacking the far fight but they have taken such a hold of our public discourse that I have to.
Back in the 70's there was no evangelical movement. Religion was left to itself. But in the 80's there were people that decided that due to the decline in relgion that they had to start up the 'movement' to make sure people knew that ignorance/intolerance/and all the other stupid shit that religion promotes is good was center stage. And they took every dollar they had, as well as every dollar that they could get from stupid/dying/ignorant people and funded the right wing that we know now.
The right wing that we now know is not the right wing I grew up with. It is a religiously charged hardcore social addenda movement that has nothing to do with the old school republican party. And any republican that claims they are the same is a liar.
So way off topic so I'll mod myself down here. Just saying. I'm so angry that I have to live in this generation of people that have been forced into ignorance because the current mythology in power is upset that it is not as strong as it used to be. I've left much of my old school hardcore atheism behind as I've grown older but FUCK YOU mythology. Seriously, fuck off. You served your purpose and now you need to die just like the horse and buggy.
And the new householder is likely to be none the wiser.
You are telling me that Joe and Jane Enduser don't know about how RF works? Or that their computer is not the monitor? Or that their smartphones are also working off of RF?
And further that there are new homes that are being built without setting up even some basic runs for modern say CAT6 wires? You say that all you need is co-ax? Or some 1900 tech pair of twisted strands?
Oh and the right wing tells me to chant USA USA USA no matter what idiotic news I see? Golly Lassy! Tech Timmy is down a well! Better go run to Fox News with why ignorance is good!
Yeah, that site is a mess if you are using NoScript. I normally will allow the site itself and see if that will fix it but it did not. So rather than allowing the 5+ data-mining addresses to operate I just will do without.
My cousin is in Fiance. He's worked in it in various forms for places like BoA, a few investment houses, and most recently a 'high tech' finance company. (They mostly sell software packages that manage finance for other investment houses.)
He's about as right wing as you can get and let me tell you the whole industry is like that as far as I have seen. Not crazy Glen Beck right wing but more like Bill O'Reilly right wing. Smug assholes who are thoroughly convinced of everything they say, regardless of what it has to do with reality. None of them are much above stepping on each others backs to get to the next step on the ladder so you can only imagine how they view everyone else.
Every now and then when I see him I will press him on some of the more egregious issues of the day. It is funny to watch as he runs out of talking points when I use logic and reason with him. He's not stupid and puts up a good fight but in the end it's hard to argue for pure greed being a virtue.
Your sample size and personal observation can only make for a huge change in the way AMD does things.
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Seriously, why the hell was this modded up? My 5670 rocks the house with every single game that I've been playing on it and that is WITH it being dual-homed with an NVidia onboard GPU that I use for my 2nd monitor. I think a lot of the credit to them playing well goes to Win7. The point remains that my 5670 has done just fine for me but that is only my opinion and it is just that. One persons sample does not make for a real observation.
Remember, we are trying to be geeks here. Please try to post accordingly.
My n810 runs Linux. I can, if I really needed too, compile stuff on it. At the time when it was somewhat new had Flash support.
These days I mostly run it as a way to remote desktop into my more powerful PCs. That way I get to have Firefox with all it's adblocking glory and whatnot. And really that is really good. If I'm out and about it's too big to lug around unless I'm out on some sort of trip. For that I use my smartphone and it works just fine.
I started off topic so let me close a bit more on topic: Tablets are not laptop replacements, they are not smart phone replacements, they are not desktop replacements, they are something you use in between all of that. More specifically they are something you use on the couch, in bed, or on the john.
And for that they do it quite well. For some reason some people want to think that tablets are laptop replacements. But they are not.
There is no story behind a browser war that included MS being convicted of monopolistic practices, dominating the browser world too the point that there was no major update for 6 years?!, and now finally having to fight off newcomers?
I want to say to everyone in Japan that I support you and wish you all the best.
That being said, tinfoil hat time!
If this type of thing were happening here I have no doubt in my mind that our government would lie it's ass off. They would downplay every facet of the details in order not to panic the rest of the people. In fact it has become something of a joke given that we have seen governments do it over and over again as we watch from the outside. Iraqi War Minster anyone?
As such Japan is between a rock and a hard place. They have this huge situation where many people could very well die/eventually die but to say so would create a panic. So if they tell everyone the honest truth they fear that a panic would take place and chaos would break out which would lead to them not being able to fix the thing that might actually kill everyone.
So instead they lie and say it's fine, stay in your homes, wear a mask! We all here in Japan love to wear masks! Wear one today! And the hope is that with the lie they can keep people calm and fix everything.
Problem is that the dynamic of human communication has shifted such that you can't just lie to people like that anymore and it stays local. We have this whole world wide web thing going on, some people call it teh internet, and communication is at an all time high in the world.
I will hope that one day we can all take the honest truth and deal with it. I know that we are really young as far as a civ goes and that Japan might have to take one for the team here, but dammit I still think that honesty is best when looking at the forest.
Asking that there is a link for the video in question, not even on the main page but maybe after we click though to the story, is cause to call for insults?
The votes that pass something don't always really show the votes that could be gotten. It is a long established practice for people in all forms of congress to vote no if they can get away with it, even if they personally wanted to vote yes, if it will play well in their districts/states.
Example: I am sitting in congress and Bill X comes up for a vote. I personally want the bill to pass, be I think it is a good idea or more likely I'm being paid to like it, but the people back in my district don't want the bill to pass. So I wait while the vote takes place.
And during the vote there are enough yes votes for the bill to pass which then lets me cast a no vote that I can take home and say, "See you yokels! I am on your side!" While saying behind closed doors to my donors that if needed I would have voted for it.
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Intel really should just start marketing itself to enthusiasts with a slogan "because time you spend troubleshooting matters".
They could but honestly I mean aside from rabid Intel fanboyism I have never seen this claim made before. (I dismiss everything anyone says Intel/AMD/Ford/Chevy/whatever once I detect rabid fanboysim.)
Maybe you have been on the wrong side of a weird statistical blip but for large managed situations where games are not an issue I've never had issues with AMD mobos being harder to work with than Intel. If anything both of them have their own set of quirks that can be anything from just that quirky to downright Office Space want to take the whole lot of them out to a field with a bat maddening.
Is anyone really surprised by this? I don't mean to cast aspersions on everyone in China but dammit if they don't have a huge right wing group of people who are hell bent on enforcing totalitarianism on not only themselves but the world at large.
And the kicker is that we have had our own group of people who viewed 1984 as a manual rather than a cautionary tail working since the 60's.
I'm sorry but for everyone that view the right wing slide as OK you are so wrong. So very wrong.
It was across the street from a Publix iirc. :P
Honestly I don't know wtf was going on. I just do have a vivid memory of walking into a Radio Shack to buy a battery (not just a AA or something like that but a coin style battery that at the time was not widely carried at say Walgreens, CVS, or WalMart like they are now) and as I was about to get rung up the cashier asked me for my SSN.
As has been posted a lot of Radio Shacks were privately owned franchises that had their own rules so maybe this one was just doing something odd in that they were trying to profile people to see if they could sign them up for a CC. But I honestly don't know why they did it.
I remember it because it was one thing to rebuff the sales person for asking for my name, phone number, address and whatnot. But that day when they asked me for my SSN I was like WTF?
When Radio Shack asked my for my SS number when I was just buying a battery they jumped the shark. This was in the 90's. They have been dishonest money grubbing whores likely even before that. (Very likely during the 80's when it become 'cool' to be be right wing and greedy.)
I would love to have a parts store like what the Radio Shack used to be when I was growing up. But saving some mogul who has billions to burn who can open up a private, ie not reporting to investors every quarter as to why they not fleecing every customer for every dime that they have, type of store that will have just parts and stuff...I don't see it happening.
I hate to say it but with our current Supreme Court it is not a good idea to push civil liberty issues their way. While I personally think that the intent of the Bill of Rights was to protect civil liberties I don't think our current sitting SC will rule that way.
I don't understand how the inability of you to cool your house during a heat wave contradicts anything I said.
Because I did not start talking about my inability or any thing like that.
One of the things that drives me mad when I post on overclocking forums is that people often talk about temps without ever saying what their ambients are. Never mind the delta on their humidity.
The fact is, the router is sitting in a garage with no temperature or climate control.
Bolded is your inane response. You try to change the argument right away. My main point was that in an un-climate controlled environment, like say a garage, that there will be a huge delta on temps and humidity based on location.
I then, sadly, tried to appease you by trying to explain that even in climate controlled environments when you live in zones with high deltas in your temps and humidity that it can be hard to control even the areas you attempt to control. Never mind what the deltas are like in the exposed zones.
But sall good, I do kinda pity you thou.
Who cares what the ambient is outside of your thermal system, it has ZERO effect on the electrical components inside. If you can't keep your equipment cooled and dry, it's an issue of climate control/hvac. Nowhere am I suggesting running these things in the middle of the tropical rainforest without indoor climate control.
The GP was talking about where they kept their gear in THEIR GARAGE! Or if you don't remember:
It's sitting in a garage with no heat or AC. I use just about every aspect of DD-WRT and have moved terabytes of data through it in the last few months. And that's hardly a record for my old Linksys routers.
And yes I have HVAC systems in place here. But they do what they can vs the climate. Back about 2 years ago there was a huge heat wave that had our outside temps up if not over 100. I was driving home from St. Augustine at the time and as I got closer inland the temps only went up.
When I got home my HVAC, or AC if you want, had been set to keep the place at 80 but it was already on and the place was hot. Every thing in my house was hot, the walls were hot, the furniture was hot, hell even the cat gave me a dirty look like wtf it's freaking hot.
Do you know why it was so hot even thou I had set my AC at 80? Because that thermodynamics is complicated. The point where my AC trips on is on a wall in my living room. Set away from the sun. It does not care that the sun is creeping in from my kitchen window heating up all the metal in there. It is only when that energy reaches a point that it flows over to that thermostat that it turns on.
And here is the kicker, it only turns on enough to cool the AIR down enough to where that thermostat on the wall in my living room will say yeah, ok we are cool. Shut the cooling systems off. Meanwhile the metal that has a ton of energy in my kitchen from the sun, never mind my walls, are still radiating heat like made.
I could go on but I hope you understand my point. Thermodynamics is not some binary system. Nor is the greater system that I tried to make my previous point on. My ambients and the ways in which I have to maintian them are not the same as those in a more temperate environment.
I'm sorry for the UID shot. I've been annoyed by this issue for so long that I used a personal attack. Again, I'm sorry.
But I hope you will try to understand what I'm saying here.
Make your house ~70 deg F and dry. It will be more optimal than whatever his garage is, guaranteed.
Use some common sense
What the hell are you talking about?
Do you know what ambient even means? Or do you even have a clue as to the variations in climates are? Are you really suggesting that the subtropical region that I live in has the same type of ambient temps and humidity as a place like Denver CO? Or some place in Canada? Or hell lets go to real extremes and talk about some outpost at the North Pole. Do you think even with the best efforts of the people who are living there to maintain livable temps that their ambients are the same as mine?
In short, you are clueless and I feel sad that when I see a UID that is as high as yours that these are the types of posts that I have to reply to these days.
It's sitting in a garage with no heat or AC.
One of the things that drives me mad when I post on overclocking forums is that people often talk about temps without ever saying what their ambients are. Never mind the delta on their humidity.
I live in Florida and so when some one, like your post, says something like this without saying what type of environment that hardware is in it has no validity to me. You could be like me in an environment that could easily kill any consumer level hardware I were to leave it in a garage. Or you could be in a incredibly temperate part of the world where that garage is great for hardware. Or you could have even taken other steps to make sure that the spot that your hardware is in that garage is in the very best place for hardware.
I'm not trying to hate on you or what your hardware has done for you. But please understand that you have to provide more information about exactly what type of environment you have you hardware in before it will have any real validity.
I recently picked up a new client who needed a fair amount of work done to their small network/computers. The location thou is about as far as I advertise my services and had they not needed all the work that they do I would have likely referred them to someone more local. As my profits would not have been worth it with the current gas prices even with my decently efficient vehicle.
So in driving out there so often I have noticed how often the speed limits will change in even just a few miles. Going from 45 to 35 then back up to 45 then to 40 then...you get the idea. It's a freaking nightmare for a number of reasons:
- The police in the area seem pretty well disposed to enforce speed limits and know EXACTLY where the best spots are where say the limit goes from 45 to 35. I've seen them working in teams on an intersection where you turn off a 45mph road onto a road where the limit is 35 [b]for no more than an 1/8 of a mile![/b] (Then of course it goes right back up to 45.)
- Trying to follow this yo/yoing of speed limits only makes it that much harder to drive around as there are plenty of people who just don't care that much. Doing the speed limit in slow lane has netted me dirty looks.
- Can't just set my cruse control and just go even when I'm going to be going straight for a fairly long stretch because for whatever reason because doing 45 clearly is so dangerous at some point in that stretch that I need to be only doing 40 for a few blocks.
As such I've been starting to ponder as I make these drives who the hell is doing this to us? Is it law enforcement or civil engineers who are saying that that 5mph for a few blocks is a good idea? The best answer I've come up with in my head is it's likely a clusterfuck of law enforcement, civil engineers, and politics. Very depressing.
Currently my main computer setup works like this:
Dual headed system with my PCIe GPU driving my main monitor for games. My mobo GPU drives my 2nd monitor.
My 2nd monitor mostly is all about media. But it also gives me the ability to have a 2nd monitor when I need to have a 2nd terminal, editor, website, etc open.
For media I have often open streaming media: JTV and my Orb server mostly. And then of course either VLC/MPC/WMP for video and or audio.
My Orb server sits in my office and has a TV card that can capture the non-encrypted signals that I get from my cable. I am lucky in that my cable offers nearly everything on that line unencrypted. I stupidly thought that was the way it worked across the board when I told my brother in law and sister that they should get a TV card for their computer too.
(My Orb server is not just an Orb server, rather it is my office comp and does very well at that. A low power AMD 4450 that also has my USB backup drive plugged into it.)
Not only did I screw up because the TV card I wanted to get them was out of stock at Newegg and got them a sub standard one that has to feed back the audio via their Audio-In port but Comcast freaking sucks balls in that they only offer the mandated channels unencrypted along with, whoo hoo!, HBO. In short they never use the setup that I got for them which makes me sad but it only was a $20 card so not a big deal but it still pisses me off and Comcast sucks.
In closing I love my live sports. I doubt I will ever want to live without that. But I love my streams too and I really do like my setup currently that gives me the best of both of those worlds. For an end user my setup would be way too much but then again I'm not any normal end user.
I've been working more and more with clients, either consumers or businesses, that are looking to make use of tablets and my overall stance on how you use a tablet has not changed. And I say this having used a Palm for many years and more recently a n810 for almost 4 years now.
Tablets are an augmentation to what you do with computers. Not a real replacement for a desktop/workstation, not a replacement for a true mobile computer (laptop/netbook), and not a replacement for smartphones. This is not to say that tablets can't perform some of the functionality that laptops or smartphones provide but they still have pros and cons for each.
To the point at hand what type of conductivity you need for a tablet depends on what role you are looking for it to fill. If you are looking for it to augment the role your smartphone currently fills then having good conductivity is going to be key. And unless you can reliably and price competitively tether then a 3g tablet will likely be best.
If on the other hand you are looking to augment a laptop then you likely are in places where you will nearly always have Wifi and do not need to worry about a 3g connection.
It is not a TUMOR!
(It's an implant.)
Caps to me are still the real issue. I say that because once you have any decent broadband connection it is typically going to be 'fast enough' for an average end user. Most end users are not downloading an ISO a day or something to that effect. In fact since most if not all end user pipes are not even close to full duplex they are not really that much good for anything but normal end user type stuff.
Now I will throw in the caveat that as you add more users to a connection clearly that is when a bigger pipe will help. But that still brings us around to again the real issue, caps. With more users you are running even a bigger risk of going over a cap if you are using what the modern internet can do. Streaming, online gaming, downloads, smartphones/tablets switching over to Wifi mode when they are in range, and of course all of the standard stuff like email/web/IM/etc.
Caps are something that need to be seriously regulated as it is not like we have a lot of options when it comes to our broadband options. They should be pretty damn high as in you really would be having to running full bandwidth for a week straight out of a month.
We have embraced the ignorance generation. I wish I were kidding but that is what we are/have been doing. And I take no pleasure in attacking the far fight but they have taken such a hold of our public discourse that I have to.
Back in the 70's there was no evangelical movement. Religion was left to itself. But in the 80's there were people that decided that due to the decline in relgion that they had to start up the 'movement' to make sure people knew that ignorance/intolerance/and all the other stupid shit that religion promotes is good was center stage. And they took every dollar they had, as well as every dollar that they could get from stupid/dying/ignorant people and funded the right wing that we know now.
The right wing that we now know is not the right wing I grew up with. It is a religiously charged hardcore social addenda movement that has nothing to do with the old school republican party. And any republican that claims they are the same is a liar.
So way off topic so I'll mod myself down here. Just saying. I'm so angry that I have to live in this generation of people that have been forced into ignorance because the current mythology in power is upset that it is not as strong as it used to be. I've left much of my old school hardcore atheism behind as I've grown older but FUCK YOU mythology. Seriously, fuck off. You served your purpose and now you need to die just like the horse and buggy.
And the new householder is likely to be none the wiser.
You are telling me that Joe and Jane Enduser don't know about how RF works? Or that their computer is not the monitor? Or that their smartphones are also working off of RF?
And further that there are new homes that are being built without setting up even some basic runs for modern say CAT6 wires? You say that all you need is co-ax? Or some 1900 tech pair of twisted strands?
Oh and the right wing tells me to chant USA USA USA no matter what idiotic news I see? Golly Lassy! Tech Timmy is down a well! Better go run to Fox News with why ignorance is good!
Yeah, that site is a mess if you are using NoScript. I normally will allow the site itself and see if that will fix it but it did not. So rather than allowing the 5+ data-mining addresses to operate I just will do without.
Posting as an AC to protect the guilty.
My cousin is in Fiance. He's worked in it in various forms for places like BoA, a few investment houses, and most recently a 'high tech' finance company. (They mostly sell software packages that manage finance for other investment houses.)
He's about as right wing as you can get and let me tell you the whole industry is like that as far as I have seen. Not crazy Glen Beck right wing but more like Bill O'Reilly right wing. Smug assholes who are thoroughly convinced of everything they say, regardless of what it has to do with reality. None of them are much above stepping on each others backs to get to the next step on the ladder so you can only imagine how they view everyone else.
Every now and then when I see him I will press him on some of the more egregious issues of the day. It is funny to watch as he runs out of talking points when I use logic and reason with him. He's not stupid and puts up a good fight but in the end it's hard to argue for pure greed being a virtue.
Your sample size and personal observation can only make for a huge change in the way AMD does things.
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Seriously, why the hell was this modded up? My 5670 rocks the house with every single game that I've been playing on it and that is WITH it being dual-homed with an NVidia onboard GPU that I use for my 2nd monitor. I think a lot of the credit to them playing well goes to Win7. The point remains that my 5670 has done just fine for me but that is only my opinion and it is just that. One persons sample does not make for a real observation.
Remember, we are trying to be geeks here. Please try to post accordingly.
My n810 runs Linux. I can, if I really needed too, compile stuff on it. At the time when it was somewhat new had Flash support.
These days I mostly run it as a way to remote desktop into my more powerful PCs. That way I get to have Firefox with all it's adblocking glory and whatnot. And really that is really good. If I'm out and about it's too big to lug around unless I'm out on some sort of trip. For that I use my smartphone and it works just fine.
I started off topic so let me close a bit more on topic: Tablets are not laptop replacements, they are not smart phone replacements, they are not desktop replacements, they are something you use in between all of that. More specifically they are something you use on the couch, in bed, or on the john.
And for that they do it quite well. For some reason some people want to think that tablets are laptop replacements. But they are not.
Because there is no story...
There is no story behind a browser war that included MS being convicted of monopolistic practices, dominating the browser world too the point that there was no major update for 6 years?!, and now finally having to fight off newcomers?
Really?
I want to say to everyone in Japan that I support you and wish you all the best.
That being said, tinfoil hat time!
If this type of thing were happening here I have no doubt in my mind that our government would lie it's ass off. They would downplay every facet of the details in order not to panic the rest of the people. In fact it has become something of a joke given that we have seen governments do it over and over again as we watch from the outside. Iraqi War Minster anyone?
As such Japan is between a rock and a hard place. They have this huge situation where many people could very well die/eventually die but to say so would create a panic. So if they tell everyone the honest truth they fear that a panic would take place and chaos would break out which would lead to them not being able to fix the thing that might actually kill everyone.
So instead they lie and say it's fine, stay in your homes, wear a mask! We all here in Japan love to wear masks! Wear one today! And the hope is that with the lie they can keep people calm and fix everything.
Problem is that the dynamic of human communication has shifted such that you can't just lie to people like that anymore and it stays local. We have this whole world wide web thing going on, some people call it teh internet, and communication is at an all time high in the world.
I will hope that one day we can all take the honest truth and deal with it. I know that we are really young as far as a civ goes and that Japan might have to take one for the team here, but dammit I still think that honesty is best when looking at the forest.
Asking that there is a link for the video in question, not even on the main page but maybe after we click though to the story, is cause to call for insults?
Really?
I'll give you another stab at the apple:
I asked who ran up the debt. Please tell me how I said anything about it being 'the other guys fault', and or more seriously 'let us ignore it."
Can you answer that in the context of that discussion?
The votes that pass something don't always really show the votes that could be gotten. It is a long established practice for people in all forms of congress to vote no if they can get away with it, even if they personally wanted to vote yes, if it will play well in their districts/states.
Example: I am sitting in congress and Bill X comes up for a vote. I personally want the bill to pass, be I think it is a good idea or more likely I'm being paid to like it, but the people back in my district don't want the bill to pass. So I wait while the vote takes place.
And during the vote there are enough yes votes for the bill to pass which then lets me cast a no vote that I can take home and say, "See you yokels! I am on your side!" While saying behind closed doors to my donors that if needed I would have voted for it.