It's no wonder. You should only need a notepad and web browser for that work.
I wasn't able to function in OSX with 1gb, so I had to wipe the system and install Ubuntu. Overall, a mac for business was a bad idea since I had a poorly supported, over priced linux box in the end.
After spending a year around an all mac shop, I noticed people just didn't say anything about something not working until a solution was brought forward, then a collective 'OMG finally!' would be felt.
People who overlock do so because they want higher PEAK performance, not because they enjoy wasting energy 24/7. Just about everyone I've known who's been around computers their whole life think overclocking is pretty stupid nowadays.
Sure, there was a day when you could run a 25Mhz cpu at 33Mhz and see a big jump in performance, but now you can just a couple of percentage points because the tolerances are much tighter.
Plus, unless you are buying the absolute fastest, super dooper extreeeeeeme edition multi-cored CPU, the cooling system will probably cost more than just plunking down for the faster processor to begin with.
It's been my practice to minimize the trouble and just buy the best cost vs buck cpu/mobo close to the top (more than enough for games) and sell them to upgrade before it gets too old. I figure this is more environmentally friendly than the article, since most of my shit won't be ending up in landfills for a few more years as it's passed on to the next tier of user, instead of burnt out.
I only ever noticed a speed increase when overclocking video cards back years ago. If your Quake is only getting 20fps in 1024x768, the extra 5fps was kind of key to comfort playing.
Nowadays, it's just stupid. If you are getting 80fps at 1600x1200 with FSAA, you won't notice an extra 10fps. People will swear it makes a difference, but I don't see it.
I'll tell you why overclock features are present: It's because of the kiddy kulture regarding the practice. If you toast your video card, mobo, cpu, etc -- you'll be buying a new one. It helps feed the need to sell more shit.
Plus, it helps the children feel like they understand electronics when they double-click an application or go into the bios and make a change. Sure, they don't really know what's going on, won't be able to troubleshoot it beyond "OMG IT DONT WORK", but they'll feel good about them self until the shit burns out.
Dude, you will hardly ever find negative reviews on a movie prior to it's release. They are technically 'previews', but the only folks who see the movie prior to release tend to have their hand in the cookie jar.
Not knocking this movie as I will see it on DVD, but if you are going by previews, you will find titles such as Waterworld "stellar".
I didn't make any anti-US remark. All I'm saying is that they try to be anti-war without being anti-military and it was interesting to watch them walk that line. What the hell else is a movie going to do with that shit going on right now? They have a goal of projecting what most people will relate to. Otherwise, there will be a media scat festival about how anti-US the movie is.
Jim Rome sucks. He's an ESPN newscaster who tries to be controversial but comes across as someone who isn't even articulate enough to qualify for Fox News. Most opinions he expresses are just contrary for the sake of being contrary, as a result, his knuckle-dragging audience thinks he's smart and witty, or something.
I wouldn't compare you to him, you are more an Alan Colmes in my mind.
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I won't go because they allow people who smell like some combination of feet and fried chicken in, as well as babies.
With home theaters easy to obtain these days, ain't no reason to put up with that shit any more. I, too, will be seeing Ironman on DVD.
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Just for that, I printed out the credit information for Ironman off imdb, took it outside and pissed all over it.
What? You felt that had an entertaining aspect to it? Be sure to email webmaster and beg for more non-stories that go no where and lack the details that often spark ideas and interest.
Holy fucking shit.. Are we going to get rehashes of every robotics story we've ever heard comparing it to how it somehow is kind of like Ironman's fictional gear?
I guess this has to happen over every geekpr0n movie. It'll get called a blockbuster before release, then everyone will run out and buy shit related to the movie, then mcdonalds will have a happy meal toy for it, slashdot people will run linking headlines to any article that merely mentions the title.
My point is that every time you hear about a fire in a hall or event, you also hear about people getting trampled. If you think back a short while, people were getting trampled during the holiday season over the past few years for mere items such as DVD players. Sure, that's just a small minority of people, but the activity is present and every person has a low threshold before panic and craze sets in when flesh starts to melt or smoke starts to burn respiratory systems.
Socialism is fine, just be sure to go to a country where people are happy with that. I'm certainly not happy with it in the US. Every 'social' program we have has been a disaster, never goes away after it's proven to cause overall harm, and will ultimately be what stalls our system. Sure, keep spending $40k a year per druggie detained! medicare works? OMFG NO WAY!? How about social security? REALLY? How about the goddamned wellfare system? Do you really like watching methed out crack mamas keep squeezing out babies our tax dollars end up supporting?
I believe we do better in small groups working together, not giant socialized governments that are designed to keep the lowest common denominators sucking at my wallet like it's a big, buttery titty.. If a family member falls down, we are there for them. If a stranger falls down, well, he should have thought twice before pissing off his family, eh?
So keep investing in ventures to push towards a tomorrow where every child has the same laptop.
Hell, I heard we could save money by dressing up the poor in grey canvas clothing much cheaper than premium cottons. Let's start a company to 'deliver clothing to every child' so they can have a snappy lil Stalin uniforms to match their laptops. All the while, the media would be like "WOW, WHAT GREAT GUYS! CLOTHING FOR THE POOR!".
The only reason it is sometimes frowned upon is because the users might tend to be overly confident and overestimate the level of protection it provides. Exactly. Security folks have been harping on how bad security through obscurity is for so long that just about everyone has forgotten the power of most security, at least in a technical sense, is derived from obscurity.
But it rhymes, so the mouth breathers will remember it and it'll get repeated more times than a true common sense answer to most people's needs.
Does the first amendment apply in this case? The man is sending mail from overseas servers that have no intent other than selling something. I know that the first amendment doesn't cover dangerous communication, or communication about illegal acts, but does it cover bad, mass advertising that costs the end user money and that they can't really opt out of? I'd like to think it does.
Actually, when things are down to the wire-- people rarely act in heroic fashion.
When food runs out, yes. It's time to get what you can get by any means to keep your immediate family going. In any event, someone's going hungry.
Name one instance of a large fire in a crowded building with restricted exits where people were, in fact, not trampled. Fires without lots of burn injuries don't count.
There's people at just about every company who do this. Most often it's a manager who just couldn't understand why his employees stopped performing their best after his patented "We've got to give 110% to up the sales this 1/4" stopped working two quarters ago.
Hell, go talk to anyone who has done Coast Guard rescue and they'll tell you how quickly anyone will go crazy and lose their mind when they think their number may be up.
Keep feeding us the socialist dream while I keep get modded down by our friends from the east.:)
"It's about getting it into kids' hands. Anything that is contrary to that objective, and limits that objective, is against what the program stands for.'"
Screw the kids, where is my free laptop?
While I would like to see utopia, I recognize it's not going to happen. Instead of this socialist "FOR THE KIDS" crap, let's buy our own kids the things they need and put what we'd spend on strangers into our retirement or our own children's college education.
Handing a computer to a kid who's brain is damaged from malnutrition does nothing except add another life-long banner ad clicker to the Internet.
Is there any way I can opt-out of this rescue program with all it's expensive equipment and trained personnel? I don't go anywhere too crazy and I'm pretty sure most of my friends could find me considering my predictive habits.
With all the money I'm apparently going to be forced to spend on other people's stupidity, would it possibly be cheaper to just force everyone to wear a cheap GPS anklet and let the government just check to the where the beacon appeared last if they turn up missing?
With a GPS circuit being well under $50 and momentary low speed/low frequency packet radio capable designs for even less, we could lay off all these expensive experts.
The only bank I ever knew of that had realistic hours was BankSouth back in the early 90s. They were about the only banks located in local grocery stores, they were open until 7pm and on weekends.
In my social realm, all of my friends and I had accounts there because you couldn't beat having the only bank in town that was open a couple of hours after leaving work. I suspect this had a lot to do with their success of people I don't know.
But they got snatched up and turned into shit with the Bank of America purchase.
I called 911 to report an accident once and got a $6 fee on my next phone bill. In protest, when someone broke into the business across the street, I just ignored it because I didn't want to fork over more money. Let the business owner's insurance deal with it.
A bigger part of the equation is that it's easier to keep turning out the shit they turn out now. A super-lightweight car has less room and weight capacity for bullshit options people don't need. I've lost track of the number of dumbshit seniors I've seen driving a V6 car as if it had three cylinders. The salesperson has every motivation to sell them more car than they need, because they make more money. Therefore they try to sell people shit they don't need. This is called sales, but it's harming everyone in this case. California tried to turn this around, but the Federal government announced their intent to sue California for doing so, and the CARB caved. Otherwise we'd probably have much better-mileage cars in the US already.
Yeah, what the fuck happened to cars? When I started driving, your future was bright if you had an after-market CD player. While I don't discount many of the more modern safety features, it seems like motorized, hiding navigation screens, refrigerated cup holders, 360 degree camera systems, twin sun roofs, and all that other new shit is just a waste for a car that won't be worth a few thousand after 100k miles.
I'm one of those people who prefer a stick shift and manual windows. All those extras are going to break at some point and could assist in devaluing the vehicle when you try to sell it. Why not give me more composite body panel options or a more fuel efficient design with the money and let's skip the girly trim extras?
You can't attach a 'home-brew hack' for putting electricity back into to the power grid. It must be taken into consideration that your house would have to survive an inspection and nobody at the power company is willing to risk death because you were too cheap to provide a tested or approved solution.
Also, if you are going to waste bandwidth on the Internet, why not give some damn details about your plan? Make it interesting at least. Right now, your ramblings seem to indicate you want free help for a possibly commercial idea you want to keep secret.
Yeah, I came in here to call bullshit on them already labeling it a 'blockbuster', too.
It's incredibly gay that the media can get away with such tripe these days.
The trinkets and other marketing garbage associated with this will probably cause my stomach cramps to come back by the end of May if it pulls a Star Wars on the media.
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It's no wonder. You should only need a notepad and web browser for that work.
I wasn't able to function in OSX with 1gb, so I had to wipe the system and install Ubuntu. Overall, a mac for business was a bad idea since I had a poorly supported, over priced linux box in the end.
After spending a year around an all mac shop, I noticed people just didn't say anything about something not working until a solution was brought forward, then a collective 'OMG finally!' would be felt.
Sure, there was a day when you could run a 25Mhz cpu at 33Mhz and see a big jump in performance, but now you can just a couple of percentage points because the tolerances are much tighter.
Plus, unless you are buying the absolute fastest, super dooper extreeeeeeme edition multi-cored CPU, the cooling system will probably cost more than just plunking down for the faster processor to begin with.
It's been my practice to minimize the trouble and just buy the best cost vs buck cpu/mobo close to the top (more than enough for games) and sell them to upgrade before it gets too old. I figure this is more environmentally friendly than the article, since most of my shit won't be ending up in landfills for a few more years as it's passed on to the next tier of user, instead of burnt out.
I only ever noticed a speed increase when overclocking video cards back years ago. If your Quake is only getting 20fps in 1024x768, the extra 5fps was kind of key to comfort playing.
Nowadays, it's just stupid. If you are getting 80fps at 1600x1200 with FSAA, you won't notice an extra 10fps. People will swear it makes a difference, but I don't see it.
I'll tell you why overclock features are present: It's because of the kiddy kulture regarding the practice. If you toast your video card, mobo, cpu, etc -- you'll be buying a new one. It helps feed the need to sell more shit.
Plus, it helps the children feel like they understand electronics when they double-click an application or go into the bios and make a change. Sure, they don't really know what's going on, won't be able to troubleshoot it beyond "OMG IT DONT WORK", but they'll feel good about them self until the shit burns out.
Dude, you will hardly ever find negative reviews on a movie prior to it's release. They are technically 'previews', but the only folks who see the movie prior to release tend to have their hand in the cookie jar.
Not knocking this movie as I will see it on DVD, but if you are going by previews, you will find titles such as Waterworld "stellar".
Jim Rome sucks. He's an ESPN newscaster who tries to be controversial but comes across as someone who isn't even articulate enough to qualify for Fox News. Most opinions he expresses are just contrary for the sake of being contrary, as a result, his knuckle-dragging audience thinks he's smart and witty, or something.
I wouldn't compare you to him, you are more an Alan Colmes in my mind.
I won't go because they allow people who smell like some combination of feet and fried chicken in, as well as babies.
With home theaters easy to obtain these days, ain't no reason to put up with that shit any more. I, too, will be seeing Ironman on DVD.
Just for that, I printed out the credit information for Ironman off imdb, took it outside and pissed all over it.
Hell yeah, varsity volley ball was fun compared to wrestling and baseball. Just stand around bapping a soft leather ball back and forth.
What? You felt that had an entertaining aspect to it? Be sure to email webmaster and beg for more non-stories that go no where and lack the details that often spark ideas and interest.
I agree..
And..
Holy fucking shit.. Are we going to get rehashes of every robotics story we've ever heard comparing it to how it somehow is kind of like Ironman's fictional gear?
I guess this has to happen over every geekpr0n movie. It'll get called a blockbuster before release, then everyone will run out and buy shit related to the movie, then mcdonalds will have a happy meal toy for it, slashdot people will run linking headlines to any article that merely mentions the title.
Damn it people.
My point is that every time you hear about a fire in a hall or event, you also hear about people getting trampled. If you think back a short while, people were getting trampled during the holiday season over the past few years for mere items such as DVD players. Sure, that's just a small minority of people, but the activity is present and every person has a low threshold before panic and craze sets in when flesh starts to melt or smoke starts to burn respiratory systems.
Socialism is fine, just be sure to go to a country where people are happy with that. I'm certainly not happy with it in the US. Every 'social' program we have has been a disaster, never goes away after it's proven to cause overall harm, and will ultimately be what stalls our system. Sure, keep spending $40k a year per druggie detained! medicare works? OMFG NO WAY!? How about social security? REALLY? How about the goddamned wellfare system? Do you really like watching methed out crack mamas keep squeezing out babies our tax dollars end up supporting?
I believe we do better in small groups working together, not giant socialized governments that are designed to keep the lowest common denominators sucking at my wallet like it's a big, buttery titty.. If a family member falls down, we are there for them. If a stranger falls down, well, he should have thought twice before pissing off his family, eh?
So keep investing in ventures to push towards a tomorrow where every child has the same laptop.
Hell, I heard we could save money by dressing up the poor in grey canvas clothing much cheaper than premium cottons. Let's start a company to 'deliver clothing to every child' so they can have a snappy lil Stalin uniforms to match their laptops. All the while, the media would be like "WOW, WHAT GREAT GUYS! CLOTHING FOR THE POOR!".
Yes, but if we vote for Hillary, it'll keep the Democrats busy until the primary and make McCain look less old and stuffy.
Accept that your "rights" are just mere words.
Remember the college kids getting gunned down by our own national guard for simply protesting the Vietnam war.
Take note of the "protest zones" outside large party conventions.
This system only exists to satisfy a few while keeping the rest too far up hip hop's butt to care.
Doesn't this approach merely obscure the police schedules from public view?
That's the problem with arguing catch phrases.
But it rhymes, so the mouth breathers will remember it and it'll get repeated more times than a true common sense answer to most people's needs.
Actually, when things are down to the wire-- people rarely act in heroic fashion.
:)
When food runs out, yes. It's time to get what you can get by any means to keep your immediate family going. In any event, someone's going hungry.
Name one instance of a large fire in a crowded building with restricted exits where people were, in fact, not trampled. Fires without lots of burn injuries don't count.
There's people at just about every company who do this. Most often it's a manager who just couldn't understand why his employees stopped performing their best after his patented "We've got to give 110% to up the sales this 1/4" stopped working two quarters ago.
Hell, go talk to anyone who has done Coast Guard rescue and they'll tell you how quickly anyone will go crazy and lose their mind when they think their number may be up.
Keep feeding us the socialist dream while I keep get modded down by our friends from the east.
"It's about getting it into kids' hands. Anything that is contrary to that objective, and limits that objective, is against what the program stands for.'"
Screw the kids, where is my free laptop?
While I would like to see utopia, I recognize it's not going to happen. Instead of this socialist "FOR THE KIDS" crap, let's buy our own kids the things they need and put what we'd spend on strangers into our retirement or our own children's college education.
Handing a computer to a kid who's brain is damaged from malnutrition does nothing except add another life-long banner ad clicker to the Internet.
Is there any way I can opt-out of this rescue program with all it's expensive equipment and trained personnel? I don't go anywhere too crazy and I'm pretty sure most of my friends could find me considering my predictive habits.
With all the money I'm apparently going to be forced to spend on other people's stupidity, would it possibly be cheaper to just force everyone to wear a cheap GPS anklet and let the government just check to the where the beacon appeared last if they turn up missing?
With a GPS circuit being well under $50 and momentary low speed/low frequency packet radio capable designs for even less, we could lay off all these expensive experts.
Corvettes are the most environmentally friendly sports cars on the road with 28mpg hwy. Not bad for a car with 500hp potential (z06).
It's quite likely your rust bucket produces more waste than a brilliantly designed v8.
The only bank I ever knew of that had realistic hours was BankSouth back in the early 90s. They were about the only banks located in local grocery stores, they were open until 7pm and on weekends.
In my social realm, all of my friends and I had accounts there because you couldn't beat having the only bank in town that was open a couple of hours after leaving work. I suspect this had a lot to do with their success of people I don't know.
But they got snatched up and turned into shit with the Bank of America purchase.
I called 911 to report an accident once and got a $6 fee on my next phone bill. In protest, when someone broke into the business across the street, I just ignored it because I didn't want to fork over more money. Let the business owner's insurance deal with it.
A bigger part of the equation is that it's easier to keep turning out the shit they turn out now. A super-lightweight car has less room and weight capacity for bullshit options people don't need. I've lost track of the number of dumbshit seniors I've seen driving a V6 car as if it had three cylinders. The salesperson has every motivation to sell them more car than they need, because they make more money. Therefore they try to sell people shit they don't need. This is called sales, but it's harming everyone in this case. California tried to turn this around, but the Federal government announced their intent to sue California for doing so, and the CARB caved. Otherwise we'd probably have much better-mileage cars in the US already.
Yeah, what the fuck happened to cars? When I started driving, your future was bright if you had an after-market CD player. While I don't discount many of the more modern safety features, it seems like motorized, hiding navigation screens, refrigerated cup holders, 360 degree camera systems, twin sun roofs, and all that other new shit is just a waste for a car that won't be worth a few thousand after 100k miles.I'm one of those people who prefer a stick shift and manual windows. All those extras are going to break at some point and could assist in devaluing the vehicle when you try to sell it. Why not give me more composite body panel options or a more fuel efficient design with the money and let's skip the girly trim extras?
You can't attach a 'home-brew hack' for putting electricity back into to the power grid. It must be taken into consideration that your house would have to survive an inspection and nobody at the power company is willing to risk death because you were too cheap to provide a tested or approved solution.
Also, if you are going to waste bandwidth on the Internet, why not give some damn details about your plan? Make it interesting at least. Right now, your ramblings seem to indicate you want free help for a possibly commercial idea you want to keep secret.
Yeah, I came in here to call bullshit on them already labeling it a 'blockbuster', too.
It's incredibly gay that the media can get away with such tripe these days.
The trinkets and other marketing garbage associated with this will probably cause my stomach cramps to come back by the end of May if it pulls a Star Wars on the media.