A comparable spec PC can probably be built for less then 700$US. Just a quick look at some current prices got me 115$CAN for an Asus FX5200 card, and 207$CAN for an Athlon 64 3000+.
Some people always see more expensive as being better no matter what you'll say. Kinda like picking an Intel CPU over an AMD CPU.
P.S: If we start talking benchmarks, let's use Doom 3, not Photoshop.
I hardly think he got short changed then. I'd rather have 125 million and be relatively anonymous then be the richest guy on the planet, but unable to walk around in public without being annoyed (like movie/music/sport stars).
Not that I have a choice between either unfortunately.
Congratulation, by that single post the size of the leak has been amplified by several orders of magnitudes. That torrent will be burning soon. A post at the front site of thepiratebay.org already says that their ISP's been asked to take the file down and they denied the request.
Good work soldier!
P.S : Don't ask me if I'm sarcastic, I'm not really sure yet.
What's "new" about this new develeopment is that they are using Christopher Lee and Heather Graham as opposed to their brother-in-law to do the voice acting.
Christopher Lee -> Saruman in LOTR, 'nuff said. (plays Lucan, the bad guy in charge in freeport) Heather Graham -> Hot chick from Austin Powers. (plays the good chick in charge in qeynos)
Public funding only for the lowest income families in the form of special programs for cheap computers and net access.
Canada has this weird system where tax money goes to the majority (lowest income) instead of giving it to the minority (high income) like in some other countries.
Let me get this straight, you fund studies about yourself to be able to pick up women in bars? What's your line, "I know I might seem like a geek, but these studies clearly state that I'm a stud and you should come home with me"?
He was mainly referrig to a story about this telephone company that used a threat to move to linux to get MS to lower their price. Stop being so defensive.
I don't know how it works in the US, but calling yourself an "Engineer" when you don't have the education to actually call yourself is illegal in Canada. The only exception I know is train engineers, which are basically operators/mechanics but kept their designation because of their long tradition.
To call yourself a P.Eng. (english Canada) or an ing. (Quebec), you need to have the education, work experience, and passed an ethics examination. When you're an engineer you have a liability for everything you create/approve.
Yes, lots of people have no education and became really rich. That's usually used to show that you don't need education to be rich, and well, yeah it's true. Mike Tyson is (was) probably richer then all of your friends combined, but he's no Einstein. In the end, remember that being rich doesn't make you smart, and being smart doesn't make you rich. Most of the scientist that we owe our modern lifestyle thanks to their inventions lived in incredibly modest settings.
But actually, the true failing of your comment that was rated "insightful" is that you didn't even understand what that line you quoted meant. It's not that 94% of the engineers in the USA have no education, it's that 6% of the Engineers in the world got their education in the US, and 94% of them got their education outside the US.
Final note : yes, you can become rich with no education. You can also become stinky rich by winning the lottery, or smuggling huge amounts of cocaine or whatnot. But getting the right education can do wonders to making you earn more money in your adult life. You really do make a good example for the proverbial slashdot post that gets modded up but is totally meaningless.
If you're building a 5000$ server, chances are you're running 2-4 cpus. Getting four of those "Athlon-Trouncing" cpus will cost you 2000$ more. I doubt getting this CPU in any system will justify the price. Putting that 500$ in your HD/video card/RAM will probably yield you way more bang for your buck in a gaming rig.
Good point. I don't think being 9.27% faster on a "Super Pi 2.0" benchmark justifies paying 243% of the price of an Athlon. But maybe I'm just old fashioned.
Why should a slower drive improve if a faster doesnt?
Does it, or does it not? That's a question a benchmark would answer. I haven't spent the last 20 years working for Maxtor or Promise, I can't tell.
See, this brain thinks that if you can get close performance for half the price, it's an interesting choice. Benchmarks would help answer that question.
If you read Anandtech's article, you'll see that his test only covered the fastest drive available, the 10K rpm WD Raptor. The price/GB (in canadian dollard) for this drive where I live is 4.61$/GB, compared to 0.86$/GB for a WD Caviar drive.
What I was looking for was a 0+1 array, striped and mirrored, using inexepensive drives. I'm one of those old fashioned people that didn't switch to using "independent".
So Anand shows that if you take the fastest drive available, you don't get much by striping it. But what about the average 7200rpm drive, is there a performance increase? Does it get close to a single raptor?
How would you think about using a Raptor as your main drive where application would reside, and a mirrored array of inexpensive 200GB drive to store your various collections of files, would that be a better choice?
The whole point of the flashlight is having to choose between seeing where you want to shoot, and being able to shoot there. This mod simply eliminates one of the aspect of the game.
How about an aimbot mod for singleplayer, would that be "brilliant"?
I wonder, what would people do if I stated facts, and those facts could not be attacked based on evidence.
Why, the cowards would attack me, of course.
Grab a copy of the 9/11 commission final report, and cross-reference whatever you think is false. Then make a point instead of doing asinine character assassination.
You've never seen Rocky IV? Ivan Drago is the russian boxing machine that comes and kills Apollo Creed in the ring and then Rocky has to face him. He's very much a stereotypical cold-war russian indestructible uber-soldat (yes, I know that's german, not russian, it's just fitting).
Your comment just made me think of him telling the americans he would destroy them because he's so much stronger.
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A comparable spec PC can probably be built for less then 700$US. Just a quick look at some current prices got me 115$CAN for an Asus FX5200 card, and 207$CAN for an Athlon 64 3000+.
Some people always see more expensive as being better no matter what you'll say. Kinda like picking an Intel CPU over an AMD CPU.
P.S: If we start talking benchmarks, let's use Doom 3, not Photoshop.
I hardly think he got short changed then. I'd rather have 125 million and be relatively anonymous then be the richest guy on the planet, but unable to walk around in public without being annoyed (like movie/music/sport stars).
Not that I have a choice between either unfortunately.
Congratulation, by that single post the size of the leak has been amplified by several orders of magnitudes. That torrent will be burning soon. A post at the front site of thepiratebay.org already says that their ISP's been asked to take the file down and they denied the request.
Good work soldier!
P.S : Don't ask me if I'm sarcastic, I'm not really sure yet.
The old news is that there is voice acting.
What's "new" about this new develeopment is that they are using Christopher Lee and Heather Graham as opposed to their brother-in-law to do the voice acting.
Christopher Lee -> Saruman in LOTR, 'nuff said. (plays Lucan, the bad guy in charge in freeport)
Heather Graham -> Hot chick from Austin Powers. (plays the good chick in charge in qeynos)
Simply stating that you're in beta is a violation of the NDA. Now fork over your Station Id so we can get you banned and free up a spot for us!
Pros : You are now immune to HIV.
Cons : If you see a giant flying robot yelling "Mutant gene identified", run like hell.
True. Some people need to think for a second about what pimps do when they run across needy teenage runaways in North America.
Hint : They don't drive 'em back to their parent's house.
Probably easier on their mind to think it's only elsewhere that this happens.
Wait, we're not getting "Digital Girls with big Boobies playing Volleyball 1"?
Think nothing is impossible? Try slamming a revolving door.
Place a 2 by 4 on the floor in the door.
Slam the revolving door.
Another impossible problem solved.
Public funding only for the lowest income families in the form of special programs for cheap computers and net access.
Canada has this weird system where tax money goes to the majority (lowest income) instead of giving it to the minority (high income) like in some other countries.
You also have to start knowing what you're talking about.
Meet me at the bike rack after school, we'll settle this l0s3r.
-Crusher
Let me get this straight, you fund studies about yourself to be able to pick up women in bars? What's your line, "I know I might seem like a geek, but these studies clearly state that I'm a stud and you should come home with me"?
Unfortunately, this advice comes a few years too late for people like Libby Hoeler...
He was mainly referrig to a story about this telephone company that used a threat to move to linux to get MS to lower their price. Stop being so defensive.
I don't know how it works in the US, but calling yourself an "Engineer" when you don't have the education to actually call yourself is illegal in Canada. The only exception I know is train engineers, which are basically operators/mechanics but kept their designation because of their long tradition.
To call yourself a P.Eng. (english Canada) or an ing. (Quebec), you need to have the education, work experience, and passed an ethics examination. When you're an engineer you have a liability for everything you create/approve.
Yes, lots of people have no education and became really rich. That's usually used to show that you don't need education to be rich, and well, yeah it's true. Mike Tyson is (was) probably richer then all of your friends combined, but he's no Einstein. In the end, remember that being rich doesn't make you smart, and being smart doesn't make you rich. Most of the scientist that we owe our modern lifestyle thanks to their inventions lived in incredibly modest settings.
But actually, the true failing of your comment that was rated "insightful" is that you didn't even understand what that line you quoted meant. It's not that 94% of the engineers in the USA have no education, it's that 6% of the Engineers in the world got their education in the US, and 94% of them got their education outside the US.
Final note : yes, you can become rich with no education. You can also become stinky rich by winning the lottery, or smuggling huge amounts of cocaine or whatnot. But getting the right education can do wonders to making you earn more money in your adult life. You really do make a good example for the proverbial slashdot post that gets modded up but is totally meaningless.
If you're building a 5000$ server, chances are you're running 2-4 cpus. Getting four of those "Athlon-Trouncing" cpus will cost you 2000$ more. I doubt getting this CPU in any system will justify the price. Putting that 500$ in your HD/video card/RAM will probably yield you way more bang for your buck in a gaming rig.
Good point. I don't think being 9.27% faster on a "Super Pi 2.0" benchmark justifies paying 243% of the price of an Athlon. But maybe I'm just old fashioned.
Why should a slower drive improve if a faster doesnt?
Does it, or does it not? That's a question a benchmark would answer. I haven't spent the last 20 years working for Maxtor or Promise, I can't tell.
See, this brain thinks that if you can get close performance for half the price, it's an interesting choice. Benchmarks would help answer that question.
If you read Anandtech's article, you'll see that his test only covered the fastest drive available, the 10K rpm WD Raptor. The price /GB (in canadian dollard) for this drive where I live is 4.61$/GB, compared to 0.86$/GB for a WD Caviar drive.
What I was looking for was a 0+1 array, striped and mirrored, using inexepensive drives. I'm one of those old fashioned people that didn't switch to using "independent".
So Anand shows that if you take the fastest drive available, you don't get much by striping it. But what about the average 7200rpm drive, is there a performance increase? Does it get close to a single raptor?
How would you think about using a Raptor as your main drive where application would reside, and a mirrored array of inexpensive 200GB drive to store your various collections of files, would that be a better choice?
The whole point of the flashlight is having to choose between seeing where you want to shoot, and being able to shoot there. This mod simply eliminates one of the aspect of the game.
How about an aimbot mod for singleplayer, would that be "brilliant"?
You misspelled Satan.
I wonder, what would people do if I stated facts, and those facts could not be attacked based on evidence.
Why, the cowards would attack me, of course.
Grab a copy of the 9/11 commission final report, and cross-reference whatever you think is false. Then make a point instead of doing asinine character assassination.
You've never seen Rocky IV? Ivan Drago is the russian boxing machine that comes and kills Apollo Creed in the ring and then Rocky has to face him. He's very much a stereotypical cold-war russian indestructible uber-soldat (yes, I know that's german, not russian, it's just fitting).
Your comment just made me think of him telling the americans he would destroy them because he's so much stronger.
Battery life.
Existing huge gaming library.
Strong 3rd party support.
Reputation in mobile gaming.
No moving parts.
It is a nice try. So nice it'll succeed.