Try reading some reputable websites where they test modern games with modern cpus (like hardocp.com) and you will see that at high resolutions and high graphic settings, there are huge differences in frames per second between processors.
I agree with what you're saying about quality parts, but to be fair, even premium items fail (like the high end £90 monster) -- that's why expensive servers have redundant power supplies.
I'm not really sure. It could have been a false/obsolete requirement. At work, people occasionally want to listen to web casts that are in real format.
Exactly. Also, Real has managed to get rid of the advertising free versions that used to be available for educational use. Luckily, I still have a corporate ad-free real client at work that I downloaded a few years ago for someone if real-alternative doesn't work.
I recently went back to school for some classes, and not only does one of my classes want you to install Java on your home computer, but they want you to install Real as well.
You can't really be a bit bilingual, any more than you can be quite pregnant, or fairly dead. Bilingual means you speak/write/read a language as well as your native one.
That's a rather harsh definition. Even assuming you have exactly the same skill in both languages, as soon as you learn a new word in either language, you cease to be bilingual.
How can you call apple the opposite of "solid as a rock"? If anything, the metal and glass iphones are the solidest phones out there compared to all the plastic phones everyone else is making.
I have bad history with AMD from way back in the day when they had poor motherboard chipsets. Perhaps that is no longer the case, but why even risk it? I've also been bitten by the big Intel Sandy-Bridge chipset bug, but at least Intel recalled all of those and replaced the motherboards for free.
I work at a non-profit charity and many of our machines are donations from various companies. Many of these machines are 10 years old! (Granted 10 year old machines are at least 1.8GHz P4's now days) As long as I can get 512MB ram on XP or 1GB for Win 7, these machines perform common tasks such as web browsing and document writing just fine, though extra ram helps a lot if running antivirus.
Are voice calls and SMS messages *really* overpriced when people continue to use them despite there being cheaper alternatives?
When I had AT&T, my friends with free texting pre-paid plans would text me all the time and AT&T would charge 25 cents for each and every one sent or received.
Last time I looked at the cost to rent from Rent a Center some 20 years ago, I calculated that the amount spent to rent-to-own would be about 3 times the price to buy the item. I never looked again since. And I agree. These stores are just preying on the ill informed.
"just with borders on the top and bottom." - The fact that this is at +5 PROVES COOL-AID drinking.
Borders are what happens when a resolution doesn't make sense, it's the worst/universal solution for this kind of idiocy, the only alternative is stretching but that looks strange, especially where the colours need to blend.
I can only assume from this that you are one of those guys who zooms letterbox dvds to fill the entire screen and don't care about losing information in the process? I prefer to have the black bars and view the content as originally intended.
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Try reading some reputable websites where they test modern games with modern cpus (like hardocp.com) and you will see that at high resolutions and high graphic settings, there are huge differences in frames per second between processors.
I have an outdoor porch light that seems to eat florescent bulbs. I've only had the LED bulb in for a few months, but so far it's doing fine.
Same here- I'm not sure why I was looking in there though.
I agree with what you're saying about quality parts, but to be fair, even premium items fail (like the high end £90 monster) -- that's why expensive servers have redundant power supplies.
I'm not really sure. It could have been a false/obsolete requirement. At work, people occasionally want to listen to web casts that are in real format.
Exactly. Also, Real has managed to get rid of the advertising free versions that used to be available for educational use. Luckily, I still have a corporate ad-free real client at work that I downloaded a few years ago for someone if real-alternative doesn't work.
I recently went back to school for some classes, and not only does one of my classes want you to install Java on your home computer, but they want you to install Real as well.
You can't really be a bit bilingual, any more than you can be quite pregnant, or fairly dead. Bilingual means you speak/write/read a language as well as your native one.
That's a rather harsh definition. Even assuming you have exactly the same skill in both languages, as soon as you learn a new word in either language, you cease to be bilingual.
The back of their phones is made out of glass, I repeat, the back of their phones is made out of glass.
And what is glass made of?
How can you call apple the opposite of "solid as a rock"? If anything, the metal and glass iphones are the solidest phones out there compared to all the plastic phones everyone else is making.
Great. Now I'm going to have nightmares about "SoW" requests...
Yeah yeah, btw, lovely purple picture you have there, is that an acid-filter?
Lol. Somebody is jealous of the purple pictures...
I have bad history with AMD from way back in the day when they had poor motherboard chipsets. Perhaps that is no longer the case, but why even risk it? I've also been bitten by the big Intel Sandy-Bridge chipset bug, but at least Intel recalled all of those and replaced the motherboards for free.
I work at a non-profit charity and many of our machines are donations from various companies. Many of these machines are 10 years old! (Granted 10 year old machines are at least 1.8GHz P4's now days) As long as I can get 512MB ram on XP or 1GB for Win 7, these machines perform common tasks such as web browsing and document writing just fine, though extra ram helps a lot if running antivirus.
Are voice calls and SMS messages *really* overpriced when people continue to use them despite there being cheaper alternatives?
When I had AT&T, my friends with free texting pre-paid plans would text me all the time and AT&T would charge 25 cents for each and every one sent or received.
Chuck Norris said that inaccurate map data would lead to "a thousand years of darkness".
Unfortunately, nobody knows what you mean since you didn't explain it yourself.
I worry that people labelled as "the Brilliant Jerk" are sometimes "the guy smarter than me who doesn't go along with what I propose."
+1 on that thought. Especially if what that person proposes involves me doing all the implementation.
obviously, the comment struck a chord.
So, Leapfrog has a tablet with a horrible stylus-driven UI, therefore tablets are trash.
The Nabi, etc. use conventional touchscreens. It's pretty much a kid-proofed nexus 7.
Exactly. Kids have no problem using android or iphones to play well designed games that are actually fun to play.
Speaking of keygens... my sister got a virus years ago through an Adobe Photoshop keygen.
Last time I looked at the cost to rent from Rent a Center some 20 years ago, I calculated that the amount spent to rent-to-own would be about 3 times the price to buy the item. I never looked again since. And I agree. These stores are just preying on the ill informed.
"just with borders on the top and bottom." - The fact that this is at +5 PROVES COOL-AID drinking. Borders are what happens when a resolution doesn't make sense, it's the worst/universal solution for this kind of idiocy, the only alternative is stretching but that looks strange, especially where the colours need to blend.
I can only assume from this that you are one of those guys who zooms letterbox dvds to fill the entire screen and don't care about losing information in the process? I prefer to have the black bars and view the content as originally intended.
Take a literal look at the two passages below, as reported by two different writers, about what John the Baptist said.
Matthew 3:11: whose sandals I am not fit to carry
Luke 3:15: I am not worthy to tie his sandals.
Obviously they cannot both be right.
Why can't both be right? Not only can both conditions apply to one person, but there are different conditions for different people.
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FTFY.