I think that people are either forgetting or ignoring this point:
AMD doesn't and didn't have the fab capabilities to take the market overnight. It would take a long time to start eating away the market share that Intel has. The amount of fab capacity that Intel has is enormous. They could stockpile months of chips if they wanted. AMD was selling chips as soon as they came off the production line.
AMD could not have gone to Dell and said "I'll supply all of your x86 chips cheaper than Intel, buy mine instead" if they wanted to. They wouldn't have been able to keep up with the demand.
I usually look at the deals on Steam and Impulse, and buy something if it looks interesting.
Usually I can pickup a game for $5-20 (at 33%-75% off normal price) and I usually get my money's worth. I'm not "losing" that $5-20 of value because I can't resell it, because
I can play the game again, and you can't
It's not worth my time to try to sell it on E-bay. In fact, I see that as a huge waste of my time for a measly $10. I'd rather be doing something else.
I rarely buy anything at full ($50) price. It will be on sale (or drop to the $20 price range) eventually.
The OTHER reason is much bigger : consoles are vastly cheaper to purchase than a gaming PC. Just $300, and any game works immediately without hassle.
Bullcrap. You'll spend an extra $300-400 on extra overpriced accessories before the end of the product's lifecycle, and games are generally more expensive on the console. When a game releases for $60 on the console, PC version releases for $50. At the end of the console's lifecycle, the price difference is a wash, plus you can usually get more years usage out of your PC than your console counterpart before upgrading.
The majority of the gamers in the world don't have the patience or knowledge to screw around with the many, many incompatibilities and bugs associated with PC hardware and software.
Huh? Random number generators can be seeded with other data from your hardware, such as the system clock time, reading PCI devices, or some random data off your hard drive. Every single time you reboot your system clock has changed. If you have a hard drive, the data on there has probably changed too, so you can just read some information off the drive at the block level (you don't need to mount it). Every user who uses a live CD has different hardware.
The problem is trivial at best to solve. It may not be the absolutely perfect solution, and probably not good enough if you need a true random number generator, but good enough for this purpose. You definitely won't be in the same state every time you reboot (at the very least the time changed).
Somebody told me about MWave 2 years ago when I built my last computer.
I paid $1200 for my new rig (nice big monitor, new speaker system, the works) and it would have been $200 more if I bought the same exact parts from Newegg (everything was cheaper across the board).
It was a bit slower than Newegg - I was used to ordering stuff UPS ground and getting it the next day/2 days from newegg (I think it took about a week for the stuff to finally arrive from MWave).
I haven't made any large purchases since, so I've been using mostly Newegg (it's worth paying slightly more at Newegg when I get get my stuff in a day or two), but I'd probably check out MWave again if I had to make another large purchase.
I haven't tried MWave's return policy, OTOH, I've used Neweggs return policy on many occasions and I haven't had many complaints.
The only complaint: I once had to RMA 2 dead hard drives (I bought 9, 1 died within a day, the other one was damaged during shipping), and they refunded the drives instead of sending me new ones. I called, and they said they were "out of stock". I looked on the website, and the ordering page for that drive model said otherwise. I told this to the CSR, whom told me something to the effect "the website hasn't updated yet, but we don't have any in stock". I ignored her, ordered the 2 "out of stock" replacement drives after hanging up the phone. UPS delivered them to me the next morning.
... by the end of the 4th season. The current story is pretty dead end at this point, and they need to finish it soon, otherwise they're going to be left with nothing but filler episodes.
If they want make season 5, fast forward 5 years or so, make a second battlestar, and start a new adventure. (The humans finally go after the Cylons, maybe?)
If Earth is just an inhabitable wasteland, I'm going to be severely pissed off...
These new chips are not true 64-bit chips. The EMT64 chips just add support for more memory, and will "support" 64-bit operating systems (they're just doing some fancy emulation).
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I think that people are either forgetting or ignoring this point:
AMD doesn't and didn't have the fab capabilities to take the market overnight. It would take a long time to start eating away the market share that Intel has. The amount of fab capacity that Intel has is enormous. They could stockpile months of chips if they wanted. AMD was selling chips as soon as they came off the production line.
AMD could not have gone to Dell and said "I'll supply all of your x86 chips cheaper than Intel, buy mine instead" if they wanted to. They wouldn't have been able to keep up with the demand.
Sure, whatever. It's not text, it's "something else". But that something else can easily be converted to text.
You can copy/paste text out of a PDF in almost all PDF reader software. You can't possibly argue that you can't extract text from the PDF.
Some people value their time more than others.
I usually look at the deals on Steam and Impulse, and buy something if it looks interesting.
Usually I can pickup a game for $5-20 (at 33%-75% off normal price) and I usually get my money's worth. I'm not "losing" that $5-20 of value because I can't resell it, because
I rarely buy anything at full ($50) price. It will be on sale (or drop to the $20 price range) eventually.
The OTHER reason is much bigger : consoles are vastly cheaper to purchase than a gaming PC. Just $300, and any game works immediately without hassle.
Bullcrap. You'll spend an extra $300-400 on extra overpriced accessories before the end of the product's lifecycle, and games are generally more expensive on the console. When a game releases for $60 on the console, PC version releases for $50. At the end of the console's lifecycle, the price difference is a wash, plus you can usually get more years usage out of your PC than your console counterpart before upgrading.
The majority of the gamers in the world don't have the patience or knowledge to screw around with the many, many incompatibilities and bugs associated with PC hardware and software.
Citiation needed
I swear, some people can't be helped
Huh? Random number generators can be seeded with other data from your hardware, such as the system clock time, reading PCI devices, or some random data off your hard drive. Every single time you reboot your system clock has changed. If you have a hard drive, the data on there has probably changed too, so you can just read some information off the drive at the block level (you don't need to mount it). Every user who uses a live CD has different hardware.
The problem is trivial at best to solve. It may not be the absolutely perfect solution, and probably not good enough if you need a true random number generator, but good enough for this purpose. You definitely won't be in the same state every time you reboot (at the very least the time changed).
Somebody told me about MWave 2 years ago when I built my last computer.
I paid $1200 for my new rig (nice big monitor, new speaker system, the works) and it would have been $200 more if I bought the same exact parts from Newegg (everything was cheaper across the board).
It was a bit slower than Newegg - I was used to ordering stuff UPS ground and getting it the next day/2 days from newegg (I think it took about a week for the stuff to finally arrive from MWave).
I haven't made any large purchases since, so I've been using mostly Newegg (it's worth paying slightly more at Newegg when I get get my stuff in a day or two), but I'd probably check out MWave again if I had to make another large purchase.
I haven't tried MWave's return policy, OTOH, I've used Neweggs return policy on many occasions and I haven't had many complaints.
The only complaint: I once had to RMA 2 dead hard drives (I bought 9, 1 died within a day, the other one was damaged during shipping), and they refunded the drives instead of sending me new ones. I called, and they said they were "out of stock". I looked on the website, and the ordering page for that drive model said otherwise. I told this to the CSR, whom told me something to the effect "the website hasn't updated yet, but we don't have any in stock". I ignored her, ordered the 2 "out of stock" replacement drives after hanging up the phone. UPS delivered them to me the next morning.
... by the end of the 4th season. The current story is pretty dead end at this point, and they need to finish it soon, otherwise they're going to be left with nothing but filler episodes. If they want make season 5, fast forward 5 years or so, make a second battlestar, and start a new adventure. (The humans finally go after the Cylons, maybe?) If Earth is just an inhabitable wasteland, I'm going to be severely pissed off...
for my High School Chemistry test.
These new chips are not true 64-bit chips. The EMT64 chips just add support for more memory, and will "support" 64-bit operating systems (they're just doing some fancy emulation).
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http://developer.intel.com/technology/64bitextens
We shouldn't see a TRUE 64-bit chip from Intel for a year.