I've been using an Intel SSD as a boot drive and I think it's worth every penny so far. I have a few programs and games on the boot drive and they all load up considerably faster than the alternatives. I don't care about write speeds. Their size alone means they're not really meant for storage yet, so using it as such is a bit retarded. If you're doing a lot of write operations to your SSD, you should probably think about moving that file(s) to a different storage device.
It's not always about FPS gain. As a PC gamer I consider other aspects as well. For example, how well it can handle local hosting when I need to (for example L4D, where my PC can handle local hosting far far better than a good portion of the servers I've played on). Or how it handles processor intensive actions inside a game. Things along these lines are important too. Yeah, the GPU might be the bottleneck for FPS, but I don't expect my CPU to churn out graphics, I expect my CPU to do CPU specific tasks. Besides, if the GPU is doing horrible things to your frame rate, you probably want to think about investing in something greater.
It must be a cultural shift? Yeah, corporations here pay taxes on profits. If there's less taxation, that's more money for the company for them to expand in some fashion. It doesn't necessarily have to be building size or amount of employees. It could fund some much needed equipment. If you're company needs a new CNC machine, well now it might be more affordable. How about a new lift for an auto shop? Oscilloscopes for an engineer? Maybe new cash registers for a convenience store?
If your businesses in the UK don't think like that, then I'd say they're doing business wrong. When you have extra money coming your way for your business (money you didn't plan on), you should be doing things to invest in its future. Keeping the money in your pockets probably doesn't help it any.
Everyone screams "LESS TAXATION" and other hoopla to waive their economist e-peen around like it's some giant stick of holy fruition to wake up people you disagree with.
But you know what? I don't think that will help either. For smaller business, maybe, just maybe. Larger businesses already pay next to nothing through creative accounting and the government really doesn't give a shit. Less taxes just makes it easier on them to line their pockets that they are already lining.
Yeah, some business will be responsible and use less taxes to help grow their business, but I have my doubts as to it being a large majority.
I'm not saying this is a sure fire thing, but as a rough indication, compare their primary competitor that does try for powerhouse GPUs and CPUs. Look at how they perform on the former with their competitors, and the latter with Intel.
While AMD's offerings in the GPU segment aren't "top of the line", in price versus performance they're doing really well. AMD isn't trying to be the top dog, and for a while they were! AMD just needs to work on their driver support to take advantage of the fact that they use superior hardware in their GPU's when you compare to NVidia.
CPU offerings, yeah, they're lacking, but their CPU's still aren't that bad. Remember, for the longest time Intel CPU's sucked, and it was merely by chance that the Core2 was formed. If they had ignored their little experiments on that technology, which they almost were ready to do, Intel wouldn't be sitting too hot right now.
Intel strikes me as a company that gets really lazy when they're on top. AMD on the other hand has shown mixed results, so it's hard to say either way.
Which is precisely why I think this story is bullshit. No gaming machine, whether it be console or PC, will want an Intel GPU as it's workhorse for graphics. It just isn't possible. Not today. Probably not in the near future either. Unless, however, they plan on making the PS4 some super casual console that doesn't need a lot of oomph for their up and coming stick figure games.
The RIAA doesn't have to do anything. What the music industry giants need to do is change their business model so that it suits the current trends. You can not stop copyright infringement, period. Those that want to will find ways to do it.
These guys have been extremely slow to adapt. Quicker adoption of an emerging market should be the key here. Brick and Mortar stores are too expensive. Business models that screw over your artists is not necessarily something that 10% to 15% of the people out there want to deal with (just a random guess).
So this begs the question... Which game? It simply could have been a bug with their overlay, and not alerting them of it is no help to anyone. No, Steam isn't perfect, but it is a model that's proven to work way more often than not.
Let's face it, Epic has gone on record numerous times saying that they were thinking about not giving the PC platform another thought. It's really no surprise that they'd botch this. They're the type of assholes to bite the hand that's fed them for so many years. Instead of adapting to how the market has changed, they would probably rather abandon it.
Their track record as of late on the PC market hasn't been great. These guys are ailing dinosaurs who don't seem to get it. Maybe I'd actually even give a shit about their games if they weren't so mediocre. Maybe I'd actually give a shit about their games if they weren't just the same fucking iterations over and over again.
Wake me up when Epic does something that isn't an epic fail.
If a juvenile joke bothers you that much, I suggest you unclench. You can't tell me that neither you nor any of your friends ever make those type of jokes at least once in a while.
As a TA, you can get them in trouble for cheating. I know I would. Surely the same people have the same track record for turning in the exact same assignments. How hard is it to keep track of that? Not very. Do the world a favor and out them.
The problem is management never likes being proven wrong. They don't like it when you point out that individual(s) xyz are just milking money from the company, even when you have clear evidence. I don't know how many times I've gotten into these such arguments with my bosses and seen nothing done about it. It's such a shame that the route for management is just having bodies to fill seats. There are a lot of qualified people in any given type of field you work in. Getting your bosses to recognize that, even while providing any sort of cost benefit analysis is often a wasted effort. I don't know how companies like this stay in business, but they do.
I'm in the same boat here... well mostly. Not every politican will do everything you like. Most presidents will erode our natural rights to some extent (though some might try to strength others). I would say the warantless wiretapping is pretty damn scary.
Like all politicians, you should take everything he does with a grain of salt. Obama still has the potential to do a lot of good yet, however. I'm not saying we should over look this, but it is what it is for the time being. Maybe we all should take some time out of our bitch-fest here on/. and write some letters? Get active?
When was the last time you used Windows? It does not work like that anymore. Not for XP or Vista. Just to test this theory I grabbed some really old games and some really new ones. Popped in the discs and sure enough, none of them actually opened the disc, just asked me what I wanted to do with it. My choices were either a.) use autorun, or b.) explore the contents of said disc
The fact that someone modded you informative just shows that they too don't know what they're talking about.
Yes, no longer true for them as long as they don't touch another person's computer that does have Windows on it. Once they do, their careless habits could cause grief for someone else.
bang on the default "administrator" account all day
I set these boxes up myself. All default accounts are disabled. They can bang on those accounts all day, it doesn't matter. They're not on. They're not going to turn on.
Did you mention that autorun unless carefully disabled, will automatically run programs in the root of any new media they insert, including music CDs, DVD videos, LCD picture frames, pen drives, cameras and so on?
Autorun doesn't work specifically like that anymore. It at least asks you what you want to do on XP and Vista. If you just want to explore the contents of the media that's connected to your PC, you can do that instead of it automatically trying to run everything inside of it.
This is relevant because those are the precise features being used to spread the worm in TFA.
Irrelevant for my family as long as they keep their boxes up to date. An up to date Windows system is unaffected by said worm.
Whether you like it or not, the majority of the world uses windows. At least when they use someone else's windows box, they won't gunk it up with unnecessary malware.
Isn't targeted much by worm writers yet. That's the key difference. Once market share grows, people will start poking holes in it. Sure, they probably are more secure than Windows in a lot of ways, but that doesn't mean someone couldn't find exploits if they really wanted to.
That's 15% between the two (I'm sure Apple probably has the larger slice of that 15%), and they still don't make up the overwhelming majority. Call me when either one hits a market share of 30%. Those operating systems have holes too. Just because the majority of the people in the virus scene ignore them doesn't mean they aren't there.
Did you try educating them the importance of safe browsing habits? If that failed, did you try allow time for them to learn on their own so they see how much trouble you go through and really learn a lesson?
You can install whatever you wish, but you've really done nothing to stop their bad browsing habits. All you've done is seemingly hide it. It doesn't matter what your OS of choice is, everyone should exercise some caution when online.
And after reading your link (I didn't bother to click because you were wrong regardless), it even validates my point further down the page. Good job showing everyone you fail at reading.
The terminology I used here works. You feel that OSX and Linux are secure. I pointed out that the reason they appear to be that way is because they're obscure, "fringe", not a lot of users.
If you were a virus writer, would you spend your time writing viruses for OS's that doesn't have the overwhelming majority of the market share in this scenario? No, you wouldn't. You'd have far less of a chance infecting as many people as you could in comparison to the larger other OS install base.
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Maybe, but if it can't, it can at least help you forget that you were ever in that cult in the first place!
I've been using an Intel SSD as a boot drive and I think it's worth every penny so far. I have a few programs and games on the boot drive and they all load up considerably faster than the alternatives. I don't care about write speeds. Their size alone means they're not really meant for storage yet, so using it as such is a bit retarded. If you're doing a lot of write operations to your SSD, you should probably think about moving that file(s) to a different storage device.
It's not always about FPS gain. As a PC gamer I consider other aspects as well. For example, how well it can handle local hosting when I need to (for example L4D, where my PC can handle local hosting far far better than a good portion of the servers I've played on). Or how it handles processor intensive actions inside a game. Things along these lines are important too. Yeah, the GPU might be the bottleneck for FPS, but I don't expect my CPU to churn out graphics, I expect my CPU to do CPU specific tasks. Besides, if the GPU is doing horrible things to your frame rate, you probably want to think about investing in something greater.
It must be a cultural shift? Yeah, corporations here pay taxes on profits. If there's less taxation, that's more money for the company for them to expand in some fashion. It doesn't necessarily have to be building size or amount of employees. It could fund some much needed equipment. If you're company needs a new CNC machine, well now it might be more affordable. How about a new lift for an auto shop? Oscilloscopes for an engineer? Maybe new cash registers for a convenience store?
If your businesses in the UK don't think like that, then I'd say they're doing business wrong. When you have extra money coming your way for your business (money you didn't plan on), you should be doing things to invest in its future. Keeping the money in your pockets probably doesn't help it any.
Everyone screams "LESS TAXATION" and other hoopla to waive their economist e-peen around like it's some giant stick of holy fruition to wake up people you disagree with.
But you know what? I don't think that will help either. For smaller business, maybe, just maybe. Larger businesses already pay next to nothing through creative accounting and the government really doesn't give a shit. Less taxes just makes it easier on them to line their pockets that they are already lining.
Yeah, some business will be responsible and use less taxes to help grow their business, but I have my doubts as to it being a large majority.
First generation 4870's (512MB) range from $189 to $309.
Second genereation (1GB) ranges from $191 to $275.
The x2's (2GB) ranges from $425 to $525.
And quite honestly, you're better off going after the 1GB 4870's in price vs performance. So essentially yeah, they're well under $500.
I'm not saying this is a sure fire thing, but as a rough indication, compare their primary competitor that does try for powerhouse GPUs and CPUs. Look at how they perform on the former with their competitors, and the latter with Intel.
While AMD's offerings in the GPU segment aren't "top of the line", in price versus performance they're doing really well. AMD isn't trying to be the top dog, and for a while they were! AMD just needs to work on their driver support to take advantage of the fact that they use superior hardware in their GPU's when you compare to NVidia.
CPU offerings, yeah, they're lacking, but their CPU's still aren't that bad. Remember, for the longest time Intel CPU's sucked, and it was merely by chance that the Core2 was formed. If they had ignored their little experiments on that technology, which they almost were ready to do, Intel wouldn't be sitting too hot right now.
Intel strikes me as a company that gets really lazy when they're on top. AMD on the other hand has shown mixed results, so it's hard to say either way.
Which is precisely why I think this story is bullshit. No gaming machine, whether it be console or PC, will want an Intel GPU as it's workhorse for graphics. It just isn't possible. Not today. Probably not in the near future either. Unless, however, they plan on making the PS4 some super casual console that doesn't need a lot of oomph for their up and coming stick figure games.
The RIAA doesn't have to do anything. What the music industry giants need to do is change their business model so that it suits the current trends. You can not stop copyright infringement, period. Those that want to will find ways to do it.
These guys have been extremely slow to adapt. Quicker adoption of an emerging market should be the key here. Brick and Mortar stores are too expensive. Business models that screw over your artists is not necessarily something that 10% to 15% of the people out there want to deal with (just a random guess).
So this begs the question... Which game? It simply could have been a bug with their overlay, and not alerting them of it is no help to anyone. No, Steam isn't perfect, but it is a model that's proven to work way more often than not.
Let's face it, Epic has gone on record numerous times saying that they were thinking about not giving the PC platform another thought. It's really no surprise that they'd botch this. They're the type of assholes to bite the hand that's fed them for so many years. Instead of adapting to how the market has changed, they would probably rather abandon it.
Their track record as of late on the PC market hasn't been great. These guys are ailing dinosaurs who don't seem to get it. Maybe I'd actually even give a shit about their games if they weren't so mediocre. Maybe I'd actually give a shit about their games if they weren't just the same fucking iterations over and over again.
Wake me up when Epic does something that isn't an epic fail.
If a juvenile joke bothers you that much, I suggest you unclench. You can't tell me that neither you nor any of your friends ever make those type of jokes at least once in a while.
As a TA, you can get them in trouble for cheating. I know I would. Surely the same people have the same track record for turning in the exact same assignments. How hard is it to keep track of that? Not very. Do the world a favor and out them.
The problem is management never likes being proven wrong. They don't like it when you point out that individual(s) xyz are just milking money from the company, even when you have clear evidence. I don't know how many times I've gotten into these such arguments with my bosses and seen nothing done about it. It's such a shame that the route for management is just having bodies to fill seats. There are a lot of qualified people in any given type of field you work in. Getting your bosses to recognize that, even while providing any sort of cost benefit analysis is often a wasted effort. I don't know how companies like this stay in business, but they do.
I'm in the same boat here... well mostly. Not every politican will do everything you like. Most presidents will erode our natural rights to some extent (though some might try to strength others). I would say the warantless wiretapping is pretty damn scary.
Like all politicians, you should take everything he does with a grain of salt. Obama still has the potential to do a lot of good yet, however. I'm not saying we should over look this, but it is what it is for the time being. Maybe we all should take some time out of our bitch-fest here on /. and write some letters? Get active?
Hey... Wait! I just got his mail too! Something fishy is going on here...
When was the last time you used Windows? It does not work like that anymore. Not for XP or Vista. Just to test this theory I grabbed some really old games and some really new ones. Popped in the discs and sure enough, none of them actually opened the disc, just asked me what I wanted to do with it. My choices were either a.) use autorun, or b.) explore the contents of said disc
The fact that someone modded you informative just shows that they too don't know what they're talking about.
Yes, no longer true for them as long as they don't touch another person's computer that does have Windows on it. Once they do, their careless habits could cause grief for someone else.
bang on the default "administrator" account all day
I set these boxes up myself. All default accounts are disabled. They can bang on those accounts all day, it doesn't matter. They're not on. They're not going to turn on.
Did you mention that autorun unless carefully disabled, will automatically run programs in the root of any new media they insert, including music CDs, DVD videos, LCD picture frames, pen drives, cameras and so on?
Autorun doesn't work specifically like that anymore. It at least asks you what you want to do on XP and Vista. If you just want to explore the contents of the media that's connected to your PC, you can do that instead of it automatically trying to run everything inside of it.
This is relevant because those are the precise features being used to spread the worm in TFA.
Irrelevant for my family as long as they keep their boxes up to date. An up to date Windows system is unaffected by said worm.
Whether you like it or not, the majority of the world uses windows. At least when they use someone else's windows box, they won't gunk it up with unnecessary malware.
Isn't targeted much by worm writers yet. That's the key difference. Once market share grows, people will start poking holes in it. Sure, they probably are more secure than Windows in a lot of ways, but that doesn't mean someone couldn't find exploits if they really wanted to.
That's 15% between the two (I'm sure Apple probably has the larger slice of that 15%), and they still don't make up the overwhelming majority. Call me when either one hits a market share of 30%. Those operating systems have holes too. Just because the majority of the people in the virus scene ignore them doesn't mean they aren't there.
Did you try educating them the importance of safe browsing habits? If that failed, did you try allow time for them to learn on their own so they see how much trouble you go through and really learn a lesson?
You can install whatever you wish, but you've really done nothing to stop their bad browsing habits. All you've done is seemingly hide it. It doesn't matter what your OS of choice is, everyone should exercise some caution when online.
And after reading your link (I didn't bother to click because you were wrong regardless), it even validates my point further down the page. Good job showing everyone you fail at reading.
The terminology I used here works. You feel that OSX and Linux are secure. I pointed out that the reason they appear to be that way is because they're obscure, "fringe", not a lot of users.
If you were a virus writer, would you spend your time writing viruses for OS's that doesn't have the overwhelming majority of the market share in this scenario? No, you wouldn't. You'd have far less of a chance infecting as many people as you could in comparison to the larger other OS install base.