when I think Intel, I think "what gimmick can we make this week?"
Seriously - MMX. Did CRAP forever, but they marketed the hell out of it. Same thing with the dual-core stuff (that 99% of applications don't even use), same thing with chips that hit extremely high GHz clock speeds for their time yet had performance less than an AMD chip that was "clocked" half as fast.
Ok, what are you smoking
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and why won't you share you stingy bastard?
Hmm. Phenom 9700, $200. E6420, $200.
Phenom kicks the crap out of E6420.
I go with the AMD.
It is all about the platform.
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Dell is finally selling PC's with AMD processors right along the Intel offerings.
They finally, now, have the platform.
Not just that - the difference between Intel is hubris vs economics. As nerds, WE have the responsibility to show people where they're wasting their money. If you're shelling out $6000 to get something bleeding-fucking-tomorrow-edge, yes, you want Intel. If you want something you can use for the next 3 years, but not top of the line (which most people don't need), then an AMD chip will cost you less than half as much as an equivalent-powered Intel.
My hope is that AMD continues to grow and gets their chips into lines from a few other commodity manufacturers. The best thing for the consumer would be two companies competing on approximately equal footing.
Actually, the reason we are in Iraq is that for over a decade, Saddam Hussein flaunted and refused to comply with the terms of an armistice he himself had signed.
And then he added to that by doing far too good a job blustering and trying to convince people that he had an active WMD program - so good a job that the Russians, French, Germans, Spanish, Chinese, and even the Swiss thought he did still have it going. Why was he doing it? Because it was the only thing keeping Iran off his ass. Problem? He fooled everyone else too, and his history scared the crap out of people that he'd lob a nuke towards someone (Turkey, Israel, Kuwait, Iran) that he considered an "enemy" and touch off even more crap.
We're in Iraq today because the Middle East is ruled by a bunch of fucktards who use a 7th-century religion to justify barbarity and evil, towards each other just as much as towards the "dar al-harb" they profess to hate.
When you see the "metered" services, they become a joke. I have a friend who got a Verizon internet card with his "Unlimited" (read: a couple gig/month before they threaten to kick you off the service) data plan.
First he noticed the gigs/month "hidden cap"... and realized he can't download his server backup (~2 gig once a month) over it without risking hitting that.
Then, for curiosity, he started up a 1-day track on his bandwidth usage, fired up just the basics (2 hours of WoW, plus ICQ/AIM left on, plus a couple hours of browsing). Grand total? The tier below the "unlimited" plan would have capped off in two weeks.
Yeah. That's what they all want to do. Rather than give the consumer what they pay for (and he's not being egregious by any means), they want to fuck them over. Those "needless and costly" upgrades are needed and costly because they never bothered to do proper sequential upgrades and routine maintenance the first time around, and just want to milk the consumers in the 90% of America where they have a sitting monopoly dry.
Remember: in 90% of America, you have a choice between ONE provider or dial-up, you don't even have dsl/cable competition. Every one of the companies deserves a fucking monopolistic abuse lawsuit.
... the conclusion is that they droned on for 3 pages and basically said nothing good about the product. Drastic oversimiplification of monsters? See the Pit Fiend they put forth, which basically is a WoW ripoff. See how most of the monsters have a set of feats that basically boil down to "do this, then this, then this, lather, rinse, repeat" with no tactical points.
D&D 4e = a transparent attempt to make people pay $15/month to play a tabletop game. That's why they killed the print mags and gave Paizo the big "FUCK YOU", that's why they stuck it all behind the $15/month wall, and that's why all the new books will have only half the content, the other half being "unlockable online with your DDI subscription."
that this might, JUST might, get them to move GenCon back to Milwaukee where it belongs?
I mean, seriously - they bitched and moaned about "not enough hotel space" being the prime factor when by moving it just one weekend later they WOULDN'T HAVE TO COMPETE FOR HOTEL SPACE WITH FUCKING WISCONSIN STATE FAIR.
Then the very next year at GenCon Indy - "not enough space in the dealers' room, we're growing out of all the hotel space we can find in Indy..." bah.
Move it back to Milwaukee where it belongs. I miss taking my buddies to The Safehouse.
Lessee... I've got the same issue. Sent my 360 in for (the THIRD TIME) repair (1 RROD, 2 dead DVD-Rom drives) to discover that in order to see the extra content in Oblivion, Rock Band, Guitar Hero 2/3 it has to be logged in on my name.
My roommate keeps his own profile so we can keep our saves and info separate. His fucking savegames broke on Oblivion because with the replacement box it now won't load up the expansion content.
Interestingly, this only happened THIS time, the other two times the replacement XB360 worked fine. Which means this is something in the DRM that MICROSOFT CHANGED RECENTLY.
Fuck this crap. MS screwed up royally. This isn't "can still access it in a limited way", this is fucking bullshit.
This is Micro$oft we're talking about. They fixed 20 exploitable things and put in 30 more exploitable things, but will refuse to admit the 30 in the name of "security through obscurity."
Never noticed this either, and I really don't remember ever fiddling with the internet preferences. Is there a little checkbox on the message that says "Never ask me this again"? Try checking it and see if it helps.
And you just proved you've never fucking used VISTA - because they deliberately REMOVED that particular checkbox and option under Vista (but it's there in IE7 for XP).
And here they prove they still have their heads square up their fat asses.
It's nothing to do with the "install experience" save for that if the installer crashes, they're up shit creek.
The underlying problem is that even after you install SP1, it's still fucking vista. With every one of the annoyances - the DRM bullcrap, the nagware, the "oops someone used javascript on this website do you want to continue" click dialog under IE7 EVERY FUCKING GODDAMN PAGE, the stupid crap like DOS programs (yeah I still like to load up a few old games) not being allowed to go fullscreen.
In short, Vista SP1: If you put whipped cream on a turd, it's still a fucking goddamn turd.
Anyone who thinks that wireless everything is the wave of the future has never considered the simple phrase "electromagnetic interference."
Imagine you and your closest 35 neighbors in an apartment complex, all wanted to use one of the 11 available 802.11 channels for your routers... at once...
Lessee... prosecutor bribed off by MafiAA companies. Check. Judge who authorized raids on flimsy pretenses after being bribed off by MafiAA companies. Check. Police who did raids on flimsy pretenses after being bribed off by MafiAA companies. Check.
Corrupt MafiAA industry that ought to be put out of its misery: Check.
The interesting argument brought up is that the defendants are in this to make money, and the prosecutor says he can prove elaborate plans to split the quite hefty incomes from advertising that the Pirate Bay is raking in. While linking to copyrighted material may be legal, making money from actively enabling people copyright infringement probably is harder to sneak by the courts.
Rephrase: The interesting argument brought up is that the bribed prosecutors and MafiAA are in this to make money by hook or by crook (preferably crook), and the defendants can prove the MafiAA have elaborate plans to split the quite hefty incomes they make using illegal tactics like price fixing while leaving the actual artists with precisely two things: Jack and Shit. While linking to copyrighted material may be legal, making money by defrauding the public, engaging in monopolistic price gouging, and fraudulently cooking the books to deny money to the artists ought to be harder to sneak by the courts.
Universities should be areas for the open exchange of ideas.
Actually, universities are where people come to get an education and hopefully a bachelors' degree, masters' degree, business degree, or doctorate. They are also where people get together for scientific and philosophical study.
There is a certain structure to this. Classes, by default, are where people to go seek instruction from someone who presumably, by virtue of having already attained a degree, are qualified to impart to them the structure and specifics of a certain topic. In the classroom, for better or worse, the professor is in charge. If the professor chooses to have a class wherein they seek student feedback and ideas, great, but they can also insist on teaching and insist students save the questions for later.
If a 9/11 retard wants to come in on a soapbox and yell at people on the sidewalks on campus, he has (sorry, should have) the right to do so.
If he's on the sidewalk? Sure. Until he physically assaults someone, blocks someone and tries to push flyers into their chest (has happened to me), treatens violence.
Vice versa, if a fundamentalist minister wants to walk onto the stage in the campus center and harangue everyone (which happened at UCSD once or twice a year), telling them they'll all burn in hell, he should have that right, too.
Funny thing: I'm pretty sure he was invited onto campus and sponsored by student groups, no?
Putting a piece of paper on your car is not forceful. At worst it's littering.
Which, if you hadn't heard, is illegal. To say nothing of all the fucking car alarms these people set off doing it. Ever tried to hold class when half the class are rushing out terrified it's their car alarm going off?
Sticking it on would be different, though.
Has been done. I've had to remove at least 20 variants of anti-war fucktard bumper stickers from my car that some retard was going around the parking lot putting on every vehicle down the line.
Slashdot has a number of readers who hoard mod points and then mark "flamebait", "offtopic", "overrated" for anything they don't agree with.
The more political the discussion, the more likely they'll show up - especially if you disagree with people who are rabid lefties. Nothing irritates a lefty more than someone disagreeing with them - after all, it's not "diversity" if anyone disagrees with the lefties.
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when I think Intel, I think "what gimmick can we make this week?"
Seriously - MMX. Did CRAP forever, but they marketed the hell out of it. Same thing with the dual-core stuff (that 99% of applications don't even use), same thing with chips that hit extremely high GHz clock speeds for their time yet had performance less than an AMD chip that was "clocked" half as fast.
Phenom 9700 for $200. ON NEWEGG.
and why won't you share you stingy bastard?
Hmm. Phenom 9700, $200. E6420, $200.
Phenom kicks the crap out of E6420.
I go with the AMD.
Dell is finally selling PC's with AMD processors right along the Intel offerings.
They finally, now, have the platform.
Not just that - the difference between Intel is hubris vs economics. As nerds, WE have the responsibility to show people where they're wasting their money. If you're shelling out $6000 to get something bleeding-fucking-tomorrow-edge, yes, you want Intel. If you want something you can use for the next 3 years, but not top of the line (which most people don't need), then an AMD chip will cost you less than half as much as an equivalent-powered Intel.
My hope is that AMD continues to grow and gets their chips into lines from a few other commodity manufacturers. The best thing for the consumer would be two companies competing on approximately equal footing.
The only reason we are in Iraq is oil.
Actually, the reason we are in Iraq is that for over a decade, Saddam Hussein flaunted and refused to comply with the terms of an armistice he himself had signed.
And then he added to that by doing far too good a job blustering and trying to convince people that he had an active WMD program - so good a job that the Russians, French, Germans, Spanish, Chinese, and even the Swiss thought he did still have it going. Why was he doing it? Because it was the only thing keeping Iran off his ass. Problem? He fooled everyone else too, and his history scared the crap out of people that he'd lob a nuke towards someone (Turkey, Israel, Kuwait, Iran) that he considered an "enemy" and touch off even more crap.
We're in Iraq today because the Middle East is ruled by a bunch of fucktards who use a 7th-century religion to justify barbarity and evil, towards each other just as much as towards the "dar al-harb" they profess to hate.
I'm talking Night Court in its fifth season laaaaaaaaaame (cha!)
When you see the "metered" services, they become a joke. I have a friend who got a Verizon internet card with his "Unlimited" (read: a couple gig/month before they threaten to kick you off the service) data plan.
First he noticed the gigs/month "hidden cap"... and realized he can't download his server backup (~2 gig once a month) over it without risking hitting that.
Then, for curiosity, he started up a 1-day track on his bandwidth usage, fired up just the basics (2 hours of WoW, plus ICQ/AIM left on, plus a couple hours of browsing). Grand total? The tier below the "unlimited" plan would have capped off in two weeks.
Yeah. That's what they all want to do. Rather than give the consumer what they pay for (and he's not being egregious by any means), they want to fuck them over. Those "needless and costly" upgrades are needed and costly because they never bothered to do proper sequential upgrades and routine maintenance the first time around, and just want to milk the consumers in the 90% of America where they have a sitting monopoly dry.
Remember: in 90% of America, you have a choice between ONE provider or dial-up, you don't even have dsl/cable competition. Every one of the companies deserves a fucking monopolistic abuse lawsuit.
... the conclusion is that they droned on for 3 pages and basically said nothing good about the product. Drastic oversimiplification of monsters? See the Pit Fiend they put forth, which basically is a WoW ripoff. See how most of the monsters have a set of feats that basically boil down to "do this, then this, then this, lather, rinse, repeat" with no tactical points.
D&D 4e = a transparent attempt to make people pay $15/month to play a tabletop game. That's why they killed the print mags and gave Paizo the big "FUCK YOU", that's why they stuck it all behind the $15/month wall, and that's why all the new books will have only half the content, the other half being "unlockable online with your DDI subscription."
that this might, JUST might, get them to move GenCon back to Milwaukee where it belongs?
I mean, seriously - they bitched and moaned about "not enough hotel space" being the prime factor when by moving it just one weekend later they WOULDN'T HAVE TO COMPETE FOR HOTEL SPACE WITH FUCKING WISCONSIN STATE FAIR.
Then the very next year at GenCon Indy - "not enough space in the dealers' room, we're growing out of all the hotel space we can find in Indy..." bah.
Move it back to Milwaukee where it belongs. I miss taking my buddies to The Safehouse.
There has YET to be a game to be worth buying for it that's not also on other consoles. With better built-in netplay.
Worst fucking waste of $600 ever - all I got was a $600 upsampling DVD player.
And I'll believe Home and the in-game XMB when I see them. Which should be about the time Duke Nukem Forever launches.
Lessee... I've got the same issue. Sent my 360 in for (the THIRD TIME) repair (1 RROD, 2 dead DVD-Rom drives) to discover that in order to see the extra content in Oblivion, Rock Band, Guitar Hero 2/3 it has to be logged in on my name.
My roommate keeps his own profile so we can keep our saves and info separate. His fucking savegames broke on Oblivion because with the replacement box it now won't load up the expansion content.
Interestingly, this only happened THIS time, the other two times the replacement XB360 worked fine. Which means this is something in the DRM that MICROSOFT CHANGED RECENTLY.
Fuck this crap. MS screwed up royally. This isn't "can still access it in a limited way", this is fucking bullshit.
This is Micro$oft we're talking about. They fixed 20 exploitable things and put in 30 more exploitable things, but will refuse to admit the 30 in the name of "security through obscurity."
Never noticed this either, and I really don't remember ever fiddling with the internet preferences. Is there a little checkbox on the message that says "Never ask me this again"? Try checking it and see if it helps.
And you just proved you've never fucking used VISTA - because they deliberately REMOVED that particular checkbox and option under Vista (but it's there in IE7 for XP).
Just another plant from Micro$haft I see.
And here they prove they still have their heads square up their fat asses.
It's nothing to do with the "install experience" save for that if the installer crashes, they're up shit creek.
The underlying problem is that even after you install SP1, it's still fucking vista. With every one of the annoyances - the DRM bullcrap, the nagware, the "oops someone used javascript on this website do you want to continue" click dialog under IE7 EVERY FUCKING GODDAMN PAGE, the stupid crap like DOS programs (yeah I still like to load up a few old games) not being allowed to go fullscreen.
In short, Vista SP1: If you put whipped cream on a turd, it's still a fucking goddamn turd.
The problem with that strategy is, there's no way that Crazy Uncle Paul wins a brokered convention.
Scarier, however, is McCain winning the nomination. Sad will be the day when the Republicans run a feminine version of Hillary Clinton.
"Offtopic"... yeah fucking right.
Slashdot's own wikipedia trolls attack for the sig. I get the abusive admin message loud and clear, wikifucks.
Anyone who thinks that wireless everything is the wave of the future has never considered the simple phrase "electromagnetic interference."
Imagine you and your closest 35 neighbors in an apartment complex, all wanted to use one of the 11 available 802.11 channels for your routers... at once...
Must be the wikipedia trolls at it again - nothing like the first post of a highly reasonable point to bring the haters out.
Lessee... prosecutor bribed off by MafiAA companies. Check.
Judge who authorized raids on flimsy pretenses after being bribed off by MafiAA companies. Check.
Police who did raids on flimsy pretenses after being bribed off by MafiAA companies. Check.
Corrupt MafiAA industry that ought to be put out of its misery: Check.
The interesting argument brought up is that the defendants are in this to make money, and the prosecutor says he can prove elaborate plans to split the quite hefty incomes from advertising that the Pirate Bay is raking in. While linking to copyrighted material may be legal, making money from actively enabling people copyright infringement probably is harder to sneak by the courts.
Rephrase:
The interesting argument brought up is that the bribed prosecutors and MafiAA are in this to make money by hook or by crook (preferably crook), and the defendants can prove the MafiAA have elaborate plans to split the quite hefty incomes they make using illegal tactics like price fixing while leaving the actual artists with precisely two things: Jack and Shit. While linking to copyrighted material may be legal, making money by defrauding the public, engaging in monopolistic price gouging, and fraudulently cooking the books to deny money to the artists ought to be harder to sneak by the courts.
It's trolling to downmod someone merely because you disagree with them.
But then, I suppose I should stop feeding the Anonymous Retard Troll.
Now go back and view the individual post breakdowns and see how many downmods the trolls tried to apply to same.
Universities should be areas for the open exchange of ideas.
Actually, universities are where people come to get an education and hopefully a bachelors' degree, masters' degree, business degree, or doctorate. They are also where people get together for scientific and philosophical study.
There is a certain structure to this. Classes, by default, are where people to go seek instruction from someone who presumably, by virtue of having already attained a degree, are qualified to impart to them the structure and specifics of a certain topic. In the classroom, for better or worse, the professor is in charge. If the professor chooses to have a class wherein they seek student feedback and ideas, great, but they can also insist on teaching and insist students save the questions for later.
If a 9/11 retard wants to come in on a soapbox and yell at people on the sidewalks on campus, he has (sorry, should have) the right to do so.
If he's on the sidewalk? Sure. Until he physically assaults someone, blocks someone and tries to push flyers into their chest (has happened to me), treatens violence.
Vice versa, if a fundamentalist minister wants to walk onto the stage in the campus center and harangue everyone (which happened at UCSD once or twice a year), telling them they'll all burn in hell, he should have that right, too.
Funny thing: I'm pretty sure he was invited onto campus and sponsored by student groups, no?
Let's see... "open exchange of ideas."
I wonder what threatening a female ex-muslim student with death has to do with "open exchange of ideas."
I wonder what you'd call this? "free speech" or felony assault by those who assaulted the speakers?
I suppose the violence by muslims at Concordia is what you consider "open exchange of ideas"???
Putting a piece of paper on your car is not forceful. At worst it's littering.
Which, if you hadn't heard, is illegal. To say nothing of all the fucking car alarms these people set off doing it. Ever tried to hold class when half the class are rushing out terrified it's their car alarm going off?
Sticking it on would be different, though.
Has been done. I've had to remove at least 20 variants of anti-war fucktard bumper stickers from my car that some retard was going around the parking lot putting on every vehicle down the line.
Slashdot has a number of readers who hoard mod points and then mark "flamebait", "offtopic", "overrated" for anything they don't agree with.
The more political the discussion, the more likely they'll show up - especially if you disagree with people who are rabid lefties. Nothing irritates a lefty more than someone disagreeing with them - after all, it's not "diversity" if anyone disagrees with the lefties.
The only time I have seen students making it impossible to hold classes, preventing people from passing into buildings and so on ...
It's not the students. It's a bunch of outside organizations like Code Pinko, ANSWER, and La Raza.