Many of those 10,000 supported the demise of the 3k, so I'm just fine with that.
That's a morally problematic stance to take. First of all, what's "many of those 10.000"? 1.000? 5.000? Let's say 5.000 for the sake of avoiding harder math. Ok, so the next step would be to take you and 16.665 like-minded individuals (plus a midget), put them in a group with 16.666 random people (plus a midget) and kill the whole group.
And I think the bluntness of the AC didn't really convey what I find to be a valid point: you should remember the ramifications. The most important lesson to learn, here, is that 9/11 didn't end with the building coming down. It resulted in much more people (including a lot of non-combatants) getting killed in two wars, an enourmous economic crisis, creation of the Patriot Act and the TSA etc. The reaction to the event was arguably worse than the attack itself, and if people forget about that and only think "honor our 3.000 and fuck the terrists", they are only fostering the kind of exploitable us v. them mentality that led to this political and economic nightmare to begin with.
It seems you are correct. I had some conflicting information about the issue and jumped the gun (in full accordance to proper/. etiquette). Oh, well, HAHAHA DISREGARD THAT, I SUCK COCKS, then.
To be fair to TFS (and we might as well do, for a change of pace) it doesn't say that they do manufacture Apple products.
They do, though. To be more specific, they make iPhones (4, not 4S, for some reason) and are scheduled to start making iPads soon. Here are two links (in portuguese - feel free to use Google translate), and another one saying that's the same plant that's threatening to strike. Which is not surprising, considering it's the only plant they have in Brazil. I'm wondering if the GGP is misinformed or just providing an information disservice.
Well, it's like an app that launches apps. Cue "yo dawg i herd you like ad-supported apps so we put ad-supported apps in you ad-supported app so u can be bothered while u're being bothered".
While I also use Steam and find it to be mostly ok, the GP does raise a valid point: offline mode doesn't always work. If your connection fails during an attempt to connect, for example, offline mode will be broken until you can connect again, which on my case can take a full weekend. Also, on my admittedly crappy connection (512kbps and very flaky at that), the client takes at least one minute (at peak hours about seven or eight) to start. And some games take two or three extra minutes to even start loading, which is kind of a drag. But those are mostly faults with my connection, and while I'd appreciate a little more consideration with us rural folks, I'm sure they are non-issues for anyone with a 1mbps+ stable connection.
Oh, and yes, I did download a bunch of 6 or so Gb games with my POS connection. It usually takes about a week of almost constant babysitting for each. Feel free to build a statue of me anywhere you like.
While you have plenty of good points, one thing has to be said about BD/PD: it's not a bad idea. They aren't betting the farm only on a crappy chip, tehy're doing it on GPGPU. That's why they have so few FP units - with their Fusion line, the idea is to leave heavy FP computing to the GPU. It's a very good plan, actually, if it works, but it's going to take some time. The Adobe CS6, released today, is starting to use GPU computing, but until it's a big enough trend, AMD will not have a significant advantage. If they can survive long enough, I think we may both see the offspring of BD shine.
Regarding Thuban, is seems that PD is achieving, at least, IPC parity with it. Which means the newer arch's clock gains are probably going to be felt. Let's hope. Then they can do something about that dumbfuckery they did with the cache design for Steamroller. And stop further crippling botched CPUs for no reason! Not that I think they're going to do that - AMD is already going down a despicable road now, launching Trinity with locked multipliers except for a few select chips. Let me burn my CPU if I want to, you morons.
To tell you the truth, I'll probably still go with AMD for my next rig, unless PD is no better than BD. Mainly because I do video encoding, and for that BD isn't half bad, but also to support the #2. It's not like Intel doesn't already do most of what's making me dislike AMD right now - they even lock a few instructions for Pentiums and Celerons, for fuck's sake. But I couldn't recommend them to a friend. Not a good friend, anyway.
Really? I have not used a Bobcat, do I don't know much about them. Cool to know that they can actually play games - maybe that's why they are responsible for most of AMD's sales (or profits, or both - I forget).
Bulldozer sucks and I agree with you about their through use of the Phenom chain. And while they do it to a certain extent with Bulldozer, there's no excuse to disable extra cores phisically. If I could buy a FX6100 and try to turn it into a FX8120, then they would have a much more attractive product. I have never won extra cores in the AMD lottery, but why they would deliberately remove such a fun "feature" is a mystery to me.
That's not my point. My point is that HD4000 isn't significantly better than HD3000 because there's a monstrous leap in needed performance between "casual use" and "serious use". It's especially not enough for an i7, being too bottlenecky. If they make it to the Celerons without too much gimping, though, Intel will pack a reasonable punch in the low end.
Also, Llano won't be competing against Ivy, Trinity will. We will have to see how good of an iGPU it has, but seems like they have achieved the same 50% increase, thus widening the gap and beating the ~570 range of Radeons. Mind you that they also are asymmetric crossfire capable. Depending on price and x86 performance (a "not laughable" rating on both would be good and very much unlike Bulldozer's), AMD might take back the crown for low end price/performance.
Very significant for Intel, not for users. AMD is leading in that segment by far, still being the only relevant option in integrated graphics. And Trinity will only widen that gap. Sandy Bridge was already enough for desktop effects, video playback and legacy gaming, and Ivy is good for exactly the same things. The performance gains, impressive as they are (50% is a major leap) aren't that significant for any of those tasks nor improve serious usage by a lot. And, given that Llano has far superior performance in integrated graphics and is merely acceptable for anything intense, I'd say HD4000 still isn't good enough.
I know. What I meant to highlight is that pixel-based design is stupid, because you have no idea how big that pixel will be when displayed. It's not like we coundn't use perfectly scalable vector graphics and define size based on a percentage of the screen.
Why? 800x600 was fine for a few years ago. Before that, 640x480 was ok (320x240 was always shitty, though). The important thing is size. Pixel density is a luxury. A 800x600 19" isn't pretty, obviously, but is certainly big enough to display a lot of shitty-looking text and images for you, quite comfortably.
"Jerry had a fairly troubled past, and had been suicidial before those final few days of his life," Sandy said. "His ex-wife, who is the mother of his disabled 20 year old daugther, took a lot of his money for support and never let Jerry see his daughter.
What I'd like to know is how can 9 assholes on reddit saying "right on, do it" be more responsible for his depression-fueled suicide than that woman. Honestly, I can't comprehend that line of "reasoning".
The installer sucks (why it stays frozen, doing exactly nothing for about 30 minutes on all my machines after copying files is a mystery), granted, but I have a working Geforce FX 5200 (from 2003) using the legacy 173 drivers from the repository. No pain at all. (Getting a Radeon HD5570 to work, on the other hand, was a bit more challenging because it requires a manually written xorg.conf.)
About the egos, I always smile when I read on distrowatch's list of cons "discussion in the mailing lists can get a bit uncultured at times". I'd call it "excessive passion", cutting the developers a slack because Debian is a colossus of a project that just shouldn't work, when you think about it. It's collaborative and pays nothing to its voluntaries, but managed to be the biggest distro (both in number of packages and, if you count its derivatives, in users), handling five branches concurrently (oldstable, stable, testing, unstable, experimental) while being a cornerstone of stability and democratically led with no major corporate sponsor.
Debian is a lot like Wikipedia. Sure, we can bash its editors for being egotistical and picky, but it's their work that gave us the biggest (and arguably the most accurate) encyclopedia ever. Flamewars are an insignificant overhead, when we look at the sheer magnitude of the result, and even if we have no interest in joining the flamefest, we should respect people devoted enough to fight for what they think is right, for free. It's what makes great projects great. The Torvalds-Tanenbaum feud also springs to mind.
we are quickly joining the ranks of third world countries in regards to health care, housing and jobs. Don't think so, go ask around.
While you're definitely falling, so are we, since corporate exploitation is omnipresent. If things keep proceeding at the same pace, you'll probably never catch up. Or down, in this case.
No, but why should someone stop you for punching someone else who was up for it? Like, say, boxing? While we're wallowing on this metaphor, see Stallone talking about gay rights here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjIHYjiXJuE
For short, call him "master 'bater". Seriously, though, he might have a point. Maybe what he means to say is "hey, if some guy fucked you, you'd just like it and change you mind about that sort of thing, you know?". Really, "fuck you" isn't just a bad argument at all when sexuality is being discussed, it just has a very bad rep. It's especially useful when opposing abstinence.
Why? I mean, the game probably already gives you the option to go forward with the romance or not. So there's a conversational switch already somewhere in there. Personally, I think there shouldn't be. Quite a few of your character's likes and dislikes should be random or derivative of seemingly unrelated actions. It not only makes for better roleplay, but can you imagine the incredibly fun fallout of such a scenario? You're a happy bigot playing Mass Effect as a male Shepherd and then, suddenly, you're having sweet, sweet buttsechs with a Krogan. Just for an added kick, you can keep the conversational switch (Krogan: "Hey, Shepherd, want to come to and in my cabin tonight?" Possible answers: "Yes / Sure / I'd love to")
In Vampire: Bloodlines, you have to choose between keeping a character alive and getting the best armor in the game. I'd like to see more of that sort of thing in games, and I'm hoping one of them will give you an infinity +1 sword for being gay. I'm not sure what kind of message it would convey, but it would surely upset prejudiced completionists and trigger amusing message board discussions.
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Many of those 10,000 supported the demise of the 3k, so I'm just fine with that.
That's a morally problematic stance to take. First of all, what's "many of those 10.000"? 1.000? 5.000? Let's say 5.000 for the sake of avoiding harder math. Ok, so the next step would be to take you and 16.665 like-minded individuals (plus a midget), put them in a group with 16.666 random people (plus a midget) and kill the whole group.
And I think the bluntness of the AC didn't really convey what I find to be a valid point: you should remember the ramifications. The most important lesson to learn, here, is that 9/11 didn't end with the building coming down. It resulted in much more people (including a lot of non-combatants) getting killed in two wars, an enourmous economic crisis, creation of the Patriot Act and the TSA etc. The reaction to the event was arguably worse than the attack itself, and if people forget about that and only think "honor our 3.000 and fuck the terrists", they are only fostering the kind of exploitable us v. them mentality that led to this political and economic nightmare to begin with.
It seems you are correct. I had some conflicting information about the issue and jumped the gun (in full accordance to proper /. etiquette). Oh, well, HAHAHA DISREGARD THAT, I SUCK COCKS, then.
To be fair to TFS (and we might as well do, for a change of pace) it doesn't say that they do manufacture Apple products.
They do, though. To be more specific, they make iPhones (4, not 4S, for some reason) and are scheduled to start making iPads soon. Here are two links (in portuguese - feel free to use Google translate), and another one saying that's the same plant that's threatening to strike. Which is not surprising, considering it's the only plant they have in Brazil. I'm wondering if the GGP is misinformed or just providing an information disservice.
Outside of middle schools. Bring a black van, some candy and chloroform.
Well, it's like an app that launches apps. Cue "yo dawg i herd you like ad-supported apps so we put ad-supported apps in you ad-supported app so u can be bothered while u're being bothered".
While I also use Steam and find it to be mostly ok, the GP does raise a valid point: offline mode doesn't always work. If your connection fails during an attempt to connect, for example, offline mode will be broken until you can connect again, which on my case can take a full weekend. Also, on my admittedly crappy connection (512kbps and very flaky at that), the client takes at least one minute (at peak hours about seven or eight) to start. And some games take two or three extra minutes to even start loading, which is kind of a drag. But those are mostly faults with my connection, and while I'd appreciate a little more consideration with us rural folks, I'm sure they are non-issues for anyone with a 1mbps+ stable connection.
Oh, and yes, I did download a bunch of 6 or so Gb games with my POS connection. It usually takes about a week of almost constant babysitting for each. Feel free to build a statue of me anywhere you like.
While you have plenty of good points, one thing has to be said about BD/PD: it's not a bad idea. They aren't betting the farm only on a crappy chip, tehy're doing it on GPGPU. That's why they have so few FP units - with their Fusion line, the idea is to leave heavy FP computing to the GPU. It's a very good plan, actually, if it works, but it's going to take some time. The Adobe CS6, released today, is starting to use GPU computing, but until it's a big enough trend, AMD will not have a significant advantage. If they can survive long enough, I think we may both see the offspring of BD shine.
Regarding Thuban, is seems that PD is achieving, at least, IPC parity with it. Which means the newer arch's clock gains are probably going to be felt. Let's hope. Then they can do something about that dumbfuckery they did with the cache design for Steamroller. And stop further crippling botched CPUs for no reason! Not that I think they're going to do that - AMD is already going down a despicable road now, launching Trinity with locked multipliers except for a few select chips. Let me burn my CPU if I want to, you morons.
To tell you the truth, I'll probably still go with AMD for my next rig, unless PD is no better than BD. Mainly because I do video encoding, and for that BD isn't half bad, but also to support the #2. It's not like Intel doesn't already do most of what's making me dislike AMD right now - they even lock a few instructions for Pentiums and Celerons, for fuck's sake. But I couldn't recommend them to a friend. Not a good friend, anyway.
Really? I have not used a Bobcat, do I don't know much about them. Cool to know that they can actually play games - maybe that's why they are responsible for most of AMD's sales (or profits, or both - I forget).
Bulldozer sucks and I agree with you about their through use of the Phenom chain. And while they do it to a certain extent with Bulldozer, there's no excuse to disable extra cores phisically. If I could buy a FX6100 and try to turn it into a FX8120, then they would have a much more attractive product. I have never won extra cores in the AMD lottery, but why they would deliberately remove such a fun "feature" is a mystery to me.
Didn't MS already implement the scheduler fix on Win 7 via a hotfix? It saw gains of about ~2% overall - see http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/windows-7-hotfix-bulldozer-performance,3119-6.html Which means Bulldozer will suck forever. Piledriver seems better, though, according to http://www.techpowerup.com/img/12-04-10/79a.jpg That's if such table is trustworthy, and it's doubtful, given that they didn't even get the FP/GHz percentage gains right.
That's not my point. My point is that HD4000 isn't significantly better than HD3000 because there's a monstrous leap in needed performance between "casual use" and "serious use". It's especially not enough for an i7, being too bottlenecky. If they make it to the Celerons without too much gimping, though, Intel will pack a reasonable punch in the low end.
Also, Llano won't be competing against Ivy, Trinity will. We will have to see how good of an iGPU it has, but seems like they have achieved the same 50% increase, thus widening the gap and beating the ~570 range of Radeons. Mind you that they also are asymmetric crossfire capable. Depending on price and x86 performance (a "not laughable" rating on both would be good and very much unlike Bulldozer's), AMD might take back the crown for low end price/performance.
Very significant for Intel, not for users. AMD is leading in that segment by far, still being the only relevant option in integrated graphics. And Trinity will only widen that gap. Sandy Bridge was already enough for desktop effects, video playback and legacy gaming, and Ivy is good for exactly the same things. The performance gains, impressive as they are (50% is a major leap) aren't that significant for any of those tasks nor improve serious usage by a lot. And, given that Llano has far superior performance in integrated graphics and is merely acceptable for anything intense, I'd say HD4000 still isn't good enough.
...they treat us all like morons.
Well, their idea now is to only treat some of us like morons. So it's an improvement.
I know. What I meant to highlight is that pixel-based design is stupid, because you have no idea how big that pixel will be when displayed. It's not like we coundn't use perfectly scalable vector graphics and define size based on a percentage of the screen.
Why? 800x600 was fine for a few years ago. Before that, 640x480 was ok (320x240 was always shitty, though). The important thing is size. Pixel density is a luxury. A 800x600 19" isn't pretty, obviously, but is certainly big enough to display a lot of shitty-looking text and images for you, quite comfortably.
"Jerry had a fairly troubled past, and had been suicidial before those final few days of his life," Sandy said. "His ex-wife, who is the mother of his disabled 20 year old daugther, took a lot of his money for support and never let Jerry see his daughter.
What I'd like to know is how can 9 assholes on reddit saying "right on, do it" be more responsible for his depression-fueled suicide than that woman. Honestly, I can't comprehend that line of "reasoning".
Actually, that'd do wonders to keep traffic flowing. And fast. Because who'd want to stop?
The installer sucks (why it stays frozen, doing exactly nothing for about 30 minutes on all my machines after copying files is a mystery), granted, but I have a working Geforce FX 5200 (from 2003) using the legacy 173 drivers from the repository. No pain at all. (Getting a Radeon HD5570 to work, on the other hand, was a bit more challenging because it requires a manually written xorg.conf.)
About the egos, I always smile when I read on distrowatch's list of cons "discussion in the mailing lists can get a bit uncultured at times". I'd call it "excessive passion", cutting the developers a slack because Debian is a colossus of a project that just shouldn't work, when you think about it. It's collaborative and pays nothing to its voluntaries, but managed to be the biggest distro (both in number of packages and, if you count its derivatives, in users), handling five branches concurrently (oldstable, stable, testing, unstable, experimental) while being a cornerstone of stability and democratically led with no major corporate sponsor.
Debian is a lot like Wikipedia. Sure, we can bash its editors for being egotistical and picky, but it's their work that gave us the biggest (and arguably the most accurate) encyclopedia ever. Flamewars are an insignificant overhead, when we look at the sheer magnitude of the result, and even if we have no interest in joining the flamefest, we should respect people devoted enough to fight for what they think is right, for free. It's what makes great projects great. The Torvalds-Tanenbaum feud also springs to mind.
Meet the second, then: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_XiA4U_XsE (3 minutes)
They gave you Vista for free? Man, they must really hate your guts. So relax, they'll probably give you Windows 8 too.
Spot on analysis. There's only one minor flaw.
we are quickly joining the ranks of third world countries in regards to health care, housing and jobs. Don't think so, go ask around.
While you're definitely falling, so are we, since corporate exploitation is omnipresent. If things keep proceeding at the same pace, you'll probably never catch up. Or down, in this case.
It's a funny issue. I have it on Firefox, but not on Iceweasel. Same version, 10.0.2. Mighty weird.
No, but why should someone stop you for punching someone else who was up for it? Like, say, boxing? While we're wallowing on this metaphor, see Stallone talking about gay rights here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjIHYjiXJuE
So you're pro lesbian but anti male/male union? Odd, but not unprecedented.
Actually, it's not odd at all.
Source: porn.
Well said man. You're a masterful debater
For short, call him "master 'bater". Seriously, though, he might have a point. Maybe what he means to say is "hey, if some guy fucked you, you'd just like it and change you mind about that sort of thing, you know?". Really, "fuck you" isn't just a bad argument at all when sexuality is being discussed, it just has a very bad rep. It's especially useful when opposing abstinence.
Why? I mean, the game probably already gives you the option to go forward with the romance or not. So there's a conversational switch already somewhere in there. Personally, I think there shouldn't be. Quite a few of your character's likes and dislikes should be random or derivative of seemingly unrelated actions. It not only makes for better roleplay, but can you imagine the incredibly fun fallout of such a scenario? You're a happy bigot playing Mass Effect as a male Shepherd and then, suddenly, you're having sweet, sweet buttsechs with a Krogan. Just for an added kick, you can keep the conversational switch (Krogan: "Hey, Shepherd, want to come to and in my cabin tonight?" Possible answers: "Yes / Sure / I'd love to")
In Vampire: Bloodlines, you have to choose between keeping a character alive and getting the best armor in the game. I'd like to see more of that sort of thing in games, and I'm hoping one of them will give you an infinity +1 sword for being gay. I'm not sure what kind of message it would convey, but it would surely upset prejudiced completionists and trigger amusing message board discussions.
bans mention of the words "new", "york" and "city"
You could always complain about the-city
*buzzer*