For the record, all current Intel desktop CPUs are pinless. The pins are on the board. So saying it ships without pins doesn't really say much. That's why I have a sneaking suspicion that the author might just be a clueless dumbass talking out their ass.
AMD is down, but not out yet. A boneheaded move like this for Intel could be a boon for AMD.
Are you kidding me? I'd be throwing a "we won" banner up and having an office party over at AMD. There is no way to understate just how screwed Intel is over this idiotic decision. My shop builds dozens of computers per year custom for our customers and I need specific motherboard-cpu combos. So they better drop that stupid idea and get real or I'm going back to AMD for 100% of my builds. Their new APUs demolish Intel's products on the low and mid end anyway so it's not like I'm losing much.
I have an alternate theory. Some dumbass released a PR that was written ahead of time just in case because they saw that it was overdue for release and was never classified as "this didn't happen."
Damn right! This year is 2x as bad as last year which was 2x as bad as the year before it. Here's ever single company's MO for black friday:
1. buy a ton of something straight from Asia that's way below your normal quality standards from brands nobody's heard of
2. put it on sale near cost but understock it so it runs out quickly
3. mark up things people actually want
Even newegg got into it. I put in a newegg order about 1 in 3 days during my shop's busy season so I know what things cost and they are outright lying about the discounts. Like I ordered two Vertex 4 128GB SSDs while they were on sale for $79. They claimed it was "50% off of an original price of $149." Bullshit! It's been $110 for months. Maybe $150 was launch price or MSRP or something but either way, they're lying to their customers. And even they got into 2012: The Year of the Crappy Sub-$100 Android Tablet.
But there are much more expensive rigs that scale up price vs speed almost exactly evenly so buying the low end Jalapeno ASIC would make very little money. You actually make the same from a ratio standpoint so their ROIs are all identical, it just comes down to how much money you want to risk. I did some very controversial calculations on the bitcoin forum about how long it'll really take to pay off an ASIC based on how many pre-orders there were rumored or proven to be and it's not pretty. It's like 250 days with a sunny estimation.
The thing is, a Radeon 5830 was around $140 back in the day and it'd profit after electricity around $20/month depending on BTC price and that was at about 320MH/s. The new low level ASICs for $150 run 3500MH/s. So everyone thinks they'll get rich and pay it off in 9 days but that's based on today's numbers. Everyone's going to get their ASICs as basically the same time and the way the network works is 50 BTC every block solve (approx 10 mins) and everyone shares. So if everyone scales up their MH/s, everyone's back up to even again.
Also, for vendors, chargebacks. It's impossible to "file" a chargeback in a system run by nobody. If you want to know how big of a problem it is, ask any paid online MMORPG company.
Exactly. It's all about removing the chip, not ditching the lanyard/card thing. Nowhere did they mention not putting adhesive Faraday screen on the back of it and in the lining of their jacket, lol. Try reading that chip now. I'd be more than happy to leave it in there in that case.
It's like the old iPhone theory. New ones coming out does not modify the awesomeness of the original. I've had 10 year olds go berserk just as much as I did at that age over N64 games. Games are games, lol.
Game Boy Color:-) They're about $30 lol. Age does not somehow make them less awesome as an absolute measurement compared to modern PSPs and stuff, merely as a relative standpoint. But for $30, get that GBC and Pokemon Gold out lol.
There have been studies posted about on Slashdot that state a ridiculously high percentage of all CEOs have significant mental problems. I think it was close to 50%. They're definitely more driven than clock punchers with no real motivation. They better watch their ass for business owners like me though. I operate lean and mean in a customer centric way and are super motivated to take out my competition by simply doing better instead of just running the company with my balls as a status symbol and building a $50,000 fountain out front with my face on it, lol.
Start making the recyclers who pay cash for copper keep records and start prosecuting them for receiving stolen goods.
I deal with a scrap dealer all the time and trust me, what you're saying is so naive and moronic it's off the charts. That wouldn't work for about 100 different reasons. It's the same as a pawn shop. He asks the right questions and sort of gauges the person's behavior but beyond that, you have to take their word for it about where it came from. By the way, I see cops taking gear out of the pawn shop all the time.
We just switched off of our dozen or so blackberries at my company, almost entirely because of their terrible server software that has horrible memory leaks. We demoed an iPhone at the owner's request (ugh) and it was a disaster. Even the cell phone company mentioned that it was a terrible idea for us because it was too fragile for our workers in the field. It was also ungodly overpriced like all Apple products which is why they have absolutely no place in a business environment. We went with Android. So I guess the NTSB instead jumped out of the frying pan and into the stupid.
I'm a human and I can't accurately judge age, gender, and race very well a significantly portion of the time. There's no way a robot could do better at such a subjective, human-specialized task.
Men are aggressive and showy and women often fail to use logic and rely more on emotion. That's how our brains work. Are you going to say that's not at all true, it's made up BS by brain and biochem scientists and women and men are actually 100% identical? You're an idiot. There's "nice" and "reality" and you should learn which is which. For example: asians are short. Impolite, true. I just choose to reside in reality instead of let's all hold hands and get along land.
That's definitely not correct. They obviously had internal squabbles since the minority of them support violent terrorists. Israel is no peach exactly but Hezbollah are always the aggressors and most violent and most hated throughout the world. Internal squabbles mean attempts to blow each others' covers so they probably just put a lid on it and went back to being stupid somewhere else.
That or they're primarily overblown script kiddies. In fact fuck it, they're script kittehs lol. Maybe they should stick to making lolcat photos.
Exactly! This is why we need a randomly selected American civilian (similar to jury duty) to follow around every congress member and every time they do something stupid or controversial or clearly evil, they'd get to react like "WTF are you signing that crap? Are you shittin' me right now? Why are you adding that to the bill? Why are you going to a $1000 luxury dinner with that oil company exec?"
Now that's representative-based democratic oversight, lol.
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Well, click to view more articles by the same clueless asshat author and you'll read that AMD isn't making CPUs anymore, lol.
What kind of "enthusiast" are they talking about?
Having just watched the Burning Man sting operation episode of Reno 911, I can say with certainty that they're talking about LSD enthusiasts.
The company is called "SemiAccurate?" WTF? lol. Sounds like maybe not the best source for news perhaps.
I don't think I have ever seen an ARM processor in a socket (discounting my old Archimedes, that is).
or run anything useful let alone anything useful to an "enthusiast" as they put it.
For the record, all current Intel desktop CPUs are pinless. The pins are on the board. So saying it ships without pins doesn't really say much. That's why I have a sneaking suspicion that the author might just be a clueless dumbass talking out their ass.
AMD is down, but not out yet. A boneheaded move like this for Intel could be a boon for AMD.
Are you kidding me? I'd be throwing a "we won" banner up and having an office party over at AMD. There is no way to understate just how screwed Intel is over this idiotic decision. My shop builds dozens of computers per year custom for our customers and I need specific motherboard-cpu combos. So they better drop that stupid idea and get real or I'm going back to AMD for 100% of my builds. Their new APUs demolish Intel's products on the low and mid end anyway so it's not like I'm losing much.
I have an alternate theory. Some dumbass released a PR that was written ahead of time just in case because they saw that it was overdue for release and was never classified as "this didn't happen."
Damn right! This year is 2x as bad as last year which was 2x as bad as the year before it. Here's ever single company's MO for black friday:
1. buy a ton of something straight from Asia that's way below your normal quality standards from brands nobody's heard of
2. put it on sale near cost but understock it so it runs out quickly
3. mark up things people actually want
Even newegg got into it. I put in a newegg order about 1 in 3 days during my shop's busy season so I know what things cost and they are outright lying about the discounts. Like I ordered two Vertex 4 128GB SSDs while they were on sale for $79. They claimed it was "50% off of an original price of $149." Bullshit! It's been $110 for months. Maybe $150 was launch price or MSRP or something but either way, they're lying to their customers. And even they got into 2012: The Year of the Crappy Sub-$100 Android Tablet.
They made a severe mistake in that summary. The actual, 2012 rankings of highest gross sales are:
Amazon
Newegg
Ebay
But there are much more expensive rigs that scale up price vs speed almost exactly evenly so buying the low end Jalapeno ASIC would make very little money. You actually make the same from a ratio standpoint so their ROIs are all identical, it just comes down to how much money you want to risk. I did some very controversial calculations on the bitcoin forum about how long it'll really take to pay off an ASIC based on how many pre-orders there were rumored or proven to be and it's not pretty. It's like 250 days with a sunny estimation.
The thing is, a Radeon 5830 was around $140 back in the day and it'd profit after electricity around $20/month depending on BTC price and that was at about 320MH/s. The new low level ASICs for $150 run 3500MH/s. So everyone thinks they'll get rich and pay it off in 9 days but that's based on today's numbers. Everyone's going to get their ASICs as basically the same time and the way the network works is 50 BTC every block solve (approx 10 mins) and everyone shares. So if everyone scales up their MH/s, everyone's back up to even again.
Also, for vendors, chargebacks. It's impossible to "file" a chargeback in a system run by nobody. If you want to know how big of a problem it is, ask any paid online MMORPG company.
Humans can't even solve those, lol.
Are you perhaps implying that getting blown up is somehow equally inconvenient? Don't be silly!
Exactly. It's all about removing the chip, not ditching the lanyard/card thing. Nowhere did they mention not putting adhesive Faraday screen on the back of it and in the lining of their jacket, lol. Try reading that chip now. I'd be more than happy to leave it in there in that case.
It's like the old iPhone theory. New ones coming out does not modify the awesomeness of the original. I've had 10 year olds go berserk just as much as I did at that age over N64 games. Games are games, lol.
Game Boy Color :-) They're about $30 lol. Age does not somehow make them less awesome as an absolute measurement compared to modern PSPs and stuff, merely as a relative standpoint. But for $30, get that GBC and Pokemon Gold out lol.
There have been studies posted about on Slashdot that state a ridiculously high percentage of all CEOs have significant mental problems. I think it was close to 50%. They're definitely more driven than clock punchers with no real motivation. They better watch their ass for business owners like me though. I operate lean and mean in a customer centric way and are super motivated to take out my competition by simply doing better instead of just running the company with my balls as a status symbol and building a $50,000 fountain out front with my face on it, lol.
Start making the recyclers who pay cash for copper keep records and start prosecuting them for receiving stolen goods.
I deal with a scrap dealer all the time and trust me, what you're saying is so naive and moronic it's off the charts. That wouldn't work for about 100 different reasons. It's the same as a pawn shop. He asks the right questions and sort of gauges the person's behavior but beyond that, you have to take their word for it about where it came from. By the way, I see cops taking gear out of the pawn shop all the time.
We just switched off of our dozen or so blackberries at my company, almost entirely because of their terrible server software that has horrible memory leaks. We demoed an iPhone at the owner's request (ugh) and it was a disaster. Even the cell phone company mentioned that it was a terrible idea for us because it was too fragile for our workers in the field. It was also ungodly overpriced like all Apple products which is why they have absolutely no place in a business environment. We went with Android. So I guess the NTSB instead jumped out of the frying pan and into the stupid.
I'm a human and I can't accurately judge age, gender, and race very well a significantly portion of the time. There's no way a robot could do better at such a subjective, human-specialized task.
How about they just tell people to deal with their problems like normal human beings instead of unhealthy escapism with drugs?
Sure, if you have an extraordinarily loose definition of "money."
Money: something that people give value to.
What backs the US dollar again?
Men are aggressive and showy and women often fail to use logic and rely more on emotion. That's how our brains work. Are you going to say that's not at all true, it's made up BS by brain and biochem scientists and women and men are actually 100% identical? You're an idiot. There's "nice" and "reality" and you should learn which is which. For example: asians are short. Impolite, true. I just choose to reside in reality instead of let's all hold hands and get along land.
That's definitely not correct. They obviously had internal squabbles since the minority of them support violent terrorists. Israel is no peach exactly but Hezbollah are always the aggressors and most violent and most hated throughout the world. Internal squabbles mean attempts to blow each others' covers so they probably just put a lid on it and went back to being stupid somewhere else.
That or they're primarily overblown script kiddies. In fact fuck it, they're script kittehs lol. Maybe they should stick to making lolcat photos.
Exactly! This is why we need a randomly selected American civilian (similar to jury duty) to follow around every congress member and every time they do something stupid or controversial or clearly evil, they'd get to react like "WTF are you signing that crap? Are you shittin' me right now? Why are you adding that to the bill? Why are you going to a $1000 luxury dinner with that oil company exec?"
Now that's representative-based democratic oversight, lol.