back in reality, PC users are smart enough to build their own computers. All Apple customers have to go through Apple. You must use Apple! You must use itunes! You must use an ipad! An iphone! Apple TV! No other alternatives! Come to our store or shop online! Those are your only options! Apple has spoken!
Sorry, I was channeling Apple for a second. Yeah basically anyone with a brain knows to go to a custom shop like mine, shop on newegg or TD, or build their own PC. Apple users...well those aren't even options.
The Pentium G860 is fast enough to do basically anything short of intense gaming or video editing. It's faster overall than the AM3 Phenom X4 quad core chip. I think the G2120 ivy bridge even beats Phenom x6 Deneb chips. So oh no, my brand new Haswell i7 isn't overclockable. It's so darn slow I just have to overclock it. With any i7 from the Haswell series, your hard drive and RAM are the bottlenecks so if you're trying to speed yourself up by overclocking, "you're doing it wrong."
Yeah and all those signs in Wisconsin that says concealed guns aren't allowed on the premises at random restaurants and shops and crap worked wonders to stop shootings and robberies. It was almost as effective as if they'd let level headed people carry concealed guns in just in case there was a robbery.
Seriously, do they really think passing a law is going to stop anyone from doing this? At least most criminals don't know how to use Autocad, Maya, Milkshape, a 3D printer, or a computer, lol.
Maybe I should crowdfund/crowdsource/kickstart/Angelfire/Tripod/Zynga a project to hire that blonde guy with the giant teeth from Contact to blow up the telescope. You know, since it's a really stupid idea to tell aliens we're here. That's the consensus from intelligent people at least.
"The PC market (desktops, notebooks, and tablets)"
One of these things is not like the other. One of these things just doesn't belong. Can you tell which one of these things it is by the time some dumbass writes an article about it?
Tablets are not PCs! They can't run x86 or x64 software! They're impossible to type on! They're not PCs! If they're PCs then so is my phone and my PSP.
What is this, 1950? I'm leaving these old timers behind and hopping on the pro-random-matter-fusion energy plant bandwagon. Yeah, the project is like 3x over budget and congress wants heads to roll but I want my Mr Fusion damn it. Also, I'm pre-pro-antimatter/matter reaction-based energy too. As in it hasn't technically been formally invented yet but I'm still all for it.
I never drink coffee because it tastes like disgusting burnt plants or something. Maybe since it causes headaches, high blood pressure, dehydration, kidney stones, teeth stains, etc maybe this is a sign that you all should stop drinking it. If not for your health, just walk into a Starbucks and see what kind of self-important, hippie, too-cool-for-you douchebags are there drinking $5 coffee imported specifically and purposely from somewhere you've never heard of and then reconsider your morning drink. I down some energy drink with TONS of vitamin B6 and B12 and no creatine or anything real harmful and 42 mg of caffine (1 can of most sodas contains 52 mg and one cup of coffee is usualy 70+). Then I ride the metabolism bonfire, anti-oxident happy train all the way to 5:00 lol.
In case any of you forgot, I'm pretty sure Intel's 1366 (2011 socket precursor) i7 extreme edition chips ran at 185 Watts. Their current ones are 130 Watts. 220 beats all that but it's not like Intel never upped the power handling for a forced stable overclock and called it a new chip without really changing much if anything in the infrastructure. It's basically like buying a factory superclocked model graphics card. You're paying for better power handling and guaranteed predone overclocking.
A lot of the new Vishera chips can be overclocked to 5GHz on air cooling. Even AMD's own promotional and marketing materials say that word for word. So, I'm wondering, do chips really draw that much power when you overclock them like 20%? I would have thought they only hop the exact mathematical increase in clock speed in wattage. Like 10% more speed = 10% more watts roughly. Does it really go up exponentially-ish like this with other chips?
Self contained modular components are always superior in ease of replacing and overall use to both the manufacturer and the consumer. If it's some one of a kind custom one made just for them, that's trouble because the manufacturer has them by the balls and it's just one supply source. The last time I heard of a company getting 100 "identical" Dell laptops, there were 4 different hard drive models in them. That's because of cost and supply changes. With just 1 item to choose from, that's bad.
Then from the consumer side, some modified BIOS that only boots off of PCI-E controlled storage devices and then not being able to use Acronis or GParted because it's a custom driver on a custom controller are both huge problems. Not being able to replace it with any 2.5" drive, just 1 single replacement option at a price-gouging 5x charge from the manufacturer is pretty awful too. Your upgrade options go out the window too.
Then it's just some anonymous nothing brand. There are 3 brands of SSDs that I buy and that's it because I don't want the flash chips failing in a year like Kingston SSDNow or Adata or Sandisk or any of those wacky off brand ones. HP and Dell are famous for garbage like rebranded lite-on DVD burners that fail constantly instead of something nice like Phillips so you bet it's going to be a true piece of crap.
100% of the computers we bought in the last 2 years including up to last week were Windows 7 pro at my business. At my other part time custom builds and repair shop, 100% of the last 100 systems I built had Windows 7 on them (which I'm allowed to do because I'm not an MS partner and neither is my OEM builder license vendor). So no, it won't boost Windows 8 sales. It will help crush Best Buy and Officemax and Office Depot and Walmart in favor of builders like me though because we offer Windows 7.
leading to reduced fertility
That's not difficult at all. Diet, temperatures, radiation, hormone therapy, steroids, and apparently mountain dew can all do that. 100% stopping fertility is the hard part. This discovery is absolutely nothing. "Reduced" fertility is not good enough and never will be. "This sort of works" is not a good marketing strategy for contraceptives. In women you try to stop 1 cell from doing something. In men, you have to stop 100% of trillions. It's basically impossible.
I didn't know Chinese super tankers came down the Mississippi River daily, thus making it ungodly expensive to create bridges high enough to let them pass under and effectively turning the average distance between bridges to 10x what it would be if only smaller boats passed down it. That never came up in Huck Finn apparently.
Look at a map of Nicaragua. It's at least twice if not 3x as wide as Panama at its thinnest point. What an unbelievably stupid idea, not to mention how stupid it is to completely cut your country in half.
I'm so sure that after someone steals an iPhone, they'll give it back to the owner once they realize that it can't be used because it's in lockdown mode. In reality, they'll destroy it and/or sell it for parts. It won't be a deterrent either. A thief can't tell the difference between the versions so if it has an Apple logo, it's getting stolen regardless.
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back in reality, PC users are smart enough to build their own computers. All Apple customers have to go through Apple. You must use Apple! You must use itunes! You must use an ipad! An iphone! Apple TV! No other alternatives! Come to our store or shop online! Those are your only options! Apple has spoken!
Sorry, I was channeling Apple for a second. Yeah basically anyone with a brain knows to go to a custom shop like mine, shop on newegg or TD, or build their own PC. Apple users...well those aren't even options.
The Pentium G860 is fast enough to do basically anything short of intense gaming or video editing. It's faster overall than the AM3 Phenom X4 quad core chip. I think the G2120 ivy bridge even beats Phenom x6 Deneb chips. So oh no, my brand new Haswell i7 isn't overclockable. It's so darn slow I just have to overclock it. With any i7 from the Haswell series, your hard drive and RAM are the bottlenecks so if you're trying to speed yourself up by overclocking, "you're doing it wrong."
Did they factor in the Mars population though? You obviously have to subtract that.
Yeah and all those signs in Wisconsin that says concealed guns aren't allowed on the premises at random restaurants and shops and crap worked wonders to stop shootings and robberies. It was almost as effective as if they'd let level headed people carry concealed guns in just in case there was a robbery.
Seriously, do they really think passing a law is going to stop anyone from doing this? At least most criminals don't know how to use Autocad, Maya, Milkshape, a 3D printer, or a computer, lol.
Maybe I should crowdfund/crowdsource/kickstart/Angelfire/Tripod/Zynga a project to hire that blonde guy with the giant teeth from Contact to blow up the telescope. You know, since it's a really stupid idea to tell aliens we're here. That's the consensus from intelligent people at least.
"The PC market (desktops, notebooks, and tablets)"
One of these things is not like the other. One of these things just doesn't belong. Can you tell which one of these things it is by the time some dumbass writes an article about it?
Tablets are not PCs! They can't run x86 or x64 software! They're impossible to type on! They're not PCs! If they're PCs then so is my phone and my PSP.
What is this, 1950? I'm leaving these old timers behind and hopping on the pro-random-matter-fusion energy plant bandwagon. Yeah, the project is like 3x over budget and congress wants heads to roll but I want my Mr Fusion damn it. Also, I'm pre-pro-antimatter/matter reaction-based energy too. As in it hasn't technically been formally invented yet but I'm still all for it.
Forget those amateurs! I could identify the letter AND shoot it in one shot! I hear that's an achievement.
Just run them on nuclear already. It works for submarines, lol.
Are there no limits to OEMs cheaping out on parts? Really? They can't just buy an existing product? They have to have their awful vendors do it for slightly cheaper despite typically epically screwing it up? Here's the thing they just invented except oops, this one's over a year old and is faster and more respectable.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227744
And don't forget the fastest single drive in the entire world:
http://www.amazon.com/OCZ-Z-Drive-Series-Maximum-ZD4CM84-HH-300G/dp/B005HU0KCG
I never drink coffee because it tastes like disgusting burnt plants or something. Maybe since it causes headaches, high blood pressure, dehydration, kidney stones, teeth stains, etc maybe this is a sign that you all should stop drinking it. If not for your health, just walk into a Starbucks and see what kind of self-important, hippie, too-cool-for-you douchebags are there drinking $5 coffee imported specifically and purposely from somewhere you've never heard of and then reconsider your morning drink. I down some energy drink with TONS of vitamin B6 and B12 and no creatine or anything real harmful and 42 mg of caffine (1 can of most sodas contains 52 mg and one cup of coffee is usualy 70+). Then I ride the metabolism bonfire, anti-oxident happy train all the way to 5:00 lol.
If you're the one cutting the trees down, that's good physical exercise so you'll probably have better heart health and respiratory capabilities.
In case any of you forgot, I'm pretty sure Intel's 1366 (2011 socket precursor) i7 extreme edition chips ran at 185 Watts. Their current ones are 130 Watts. 220 beats all that but it's not like Intel never upped the power handling for a forced stable overclock and called it a new chip without really changing much if anything in the infrastructure. It's basically like buying a factory superclocked model graphics card. You're paying for better power handling and guaranteed predone overclocking.
A lot of the new Vishera chips can be overclocked to 5GHz on air cooling. Even AMD's own promotional and marketing materials say that word for word. So, I'm wondering, do chips really draw that much power when you overclock them like 20%? I would have thought they only hop the exact mathematical increase in clock speed in wattage. Like 10% more speed = 10% more watts roughly. Does it really go up exponentially-ish like this with other chips?
Self contained modular components are always superior in ease of replacing and overall use to both the manufacturer and the consumer. If it's some one of a kind custom one made just for them, that's trouble because the manufacturer has them by the balls and it's just one supply source. The last time I heard of a company getting 100 "identical" Dell laptops, there were 4 different hard drive models in them. That's because of cost and supply changes. With just 1 item to choose from, that's bad.
Then from the consumer side, some modified BIOS that only boots off of PCI-E controlled storage devices and then not being able to use Acronis or GParted because it's a custom driver on a custom controller are both huge problems. Not being able to replace it with any 2.5" drive, just 1 single replacement option at a price-gouging 5x charge from the manufacturer is pretty awful too. Your upgrade options go out the window too.
Then it's just some anonymous nothing brand. There are 3 brands of SSDs that I buy and that's it because I don't want the flash chips failing in a year like Kingston SSDNow or Adata or Sandisk or any of those wacky off brand ones. HP and Dell are famous for garbage like rebranded lite-on DVD burners that fail constantly instead of something nice like Phillips so you bet it's going to be a true piece of crap.
Overall, it's a terrible idea.
100% of the computers we bought in the last 2 years including up to last week were Windows 7 pro at my business. At my other part time custom builds and repair shop, 100% of the last 100 systems I built had Windows 7 on them (which I'm allowed to do because I'm not an MS partner and neither is my OEM builder license vendor). So no, it won't boost Windows 8 sales. It will help crush Best Buy and Officemax and Office Depot and Walmart in favor of builders like me though because we offer Windows 7.
Okay first of all, Goldman Sachs will be thrilled about this!
Anyway, many sci fi movies have already solved this problem. Blow up the moon! Technically, allegedly, that's a female contraceptive but whatever.
zero of my company's software suites run on Linux so no it won't.
And then the fee to go through it goes down because a lot of medium to small boats now have 2 options
leading to reduced fertility
That's not difficult at all. Diet, temperatures, radiation, hormone therapy, steroids, and apparently mountain dew can all do that. 100% stopping fertility is the hard part. This discovery is absolutely nothing. "Reduced" fertility is not good enough and never will be. "This sort of works" is not a good marketing strategy for contraceptives. In women you try to stop 1 cell from doing something. In men, you have to stop 100% of trillions. It's basically impossible.
Have you seen the height of the average super tanker and the Nicaraguan budget for infrastructure improvements like bridges?
I didn't know Chinese super tankers came down the Mississippi River daily, thus making it ungodly expensive to create bridges high enough to let them pass under and effectively turning the average distance between bridges to 10x what it would be if only smaller boats passed down it. That never came up in Huck Finn apparently.
Obviously trolling but gee, hmm, maybe PANAMA?! You know, make it even wider. I don't suppose you considered that.
Look at a map of Nicaragua. It's at least twice if not 3x as wide as Panama at its thinnest point. What an unbelievably stupid idea, not to mention how stupid it is to completely cut your country in half.
I'm so sure that after someone steals an iPhone, they'll give it back to the owner once they realize that it can't be used because it's in lockdown mode. In reality, they'll destroy it and/or sell it for parts. It won't be a deterrent either. A thief can't tell the difference between the versions so if it has an Apple logo, it's getting stolen regardless.