Until he realizes that he has a problem there is NOTHING you can do to help him.
In all likelihood his problem isn't computer games... it is that he has a problem (a mental anguish) that (for him) only computer games will temporarily take away.
The addiction to the MMO is more of a symptom of a bigger emotional problem that this person has.
If you are determined to try and help this person I'd recommend trying to get them out of the house to do other activities that might make them feel better about themselves.
But keep in mind that although you care about this person, it is ultimately their life and they get to decide what to do with it, no matter how bad their choices are, you can't change the way a person thinks.
I've noticed a few people getting the numbers wrong already...
1. It is NOT 768 cores, it is 48 cores with 768 paths through them.
2. They never mention the die size so this processor could be significantly larger in terms of silicon than others.
3. Its score in 3DMark is INSANE, not Ludicrous.
I have a serious question for you guys. I do a little computer help on the side and a businees owner wants me to setup a backup system for his personal computer. He mainly just wants to backup his e-mail. He's using outlook on an win XP box, so what Windows friendly program would you recommend for the task?
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The story on the sunday herald doesn't seem to hold up to jouralalistic integrity. It describes a story of McKinnon's arrest that is totally at odds with what he describes in his own interview.
Anyone tried the real-alternative player? Thats what I use.
I can just imagine some militia men sitting in the back of a pickup truck with their AK-47's. One of them has only a PDA and is guiding the driver to where the americans are.
Thats right, they've modded the PDA to detect the chips in the passport, and now they can home in on them. Makes life a whole lot harder for foreign aid workers/missionaries/reporters/contract workers in any hot zone.
It runs at 1.3v as I've read. They say it's temperature is between 40C and 52C. Nobody is going to get cold this winter, but you aren't going to need water cooling either.
The reason this chip isn't as hot as the sun is because its being produced by a smaller nm process than current processors. The smaller the nm process the smaller the transistors and therefore less power and heat are required for the same clock speed. AMD is still using a 130nm process to produce most of its processors with a 90nm factory opening soon to produce a new line of chips. These Cell processors are going to be produced using a 60-65nm process in factories that are currently under construction by IBM, Sony and Toshiba.
The factories to mass produce these things aren't even finished yet, so don't get your hopes of seeing one up until mid summer 2006.
P4 processors have 125 million Transistors in them now and use a 90nm process. If they double that number (ie. 2 cores anyone), they will have 250 million transistors, 15 million more than the 235 million purported to be on the cell.
Money is a medium of exchange, it has no value itself. It's simply easier to sell something for money than it is to barter.
I can see how an infinite flow of large amounts of gold would cause hyper-inflation in the prices of items. However I haven't seen anyone look at the underlying cause of this problem. To get the gold you kill a monster, but how did that monster get the gold in the first place? Did it kill a player and take his gold? No. It spawned with gold like freshly printed interwar period German Marks.
What I'm saying is that every time a monster spawns the game is 'printing money'. To avoid the natural consequence of hyper-inflation game developers need to find a more complex and realistic method for paying characters. Perhaps an online fur trade?
I see nothing wrong with the exchange of one currency (REAL money) for another (Online Gold, Gil, whatever). Perhaps the game developers should hire some economists to solve this problem!
And for the record, Sweatshops are bad, and it is inconceivably easy to turn a game that was meant to be fun into a form of labour.
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Until he realizes that he has a problem there is NOTHING you can do to help him. In all likelihood his problem isn't computer games... it is that he has a problem (a mental anguish) that (for him) only computer games will temporarily take away. The addiction to the MMO is more of a symptom of a bigger emotional problem that this person has. If you are determined to try and help this person I'd recommend trying to get them out of the house to do other activities that might make them feel better about themselves. But keep in mind that although you care about this person, it is ultimately their life and they get to decide what to do with it, no matter how bad their choices are, you can't change the way a person thinks.
Whew, guess I can stop stockpiling bullets and beer then.
Depending on how you slice the pie Hewlett Packard is the largest PC company. When is that the case? Pretty much any other way you look at it.
They'd better contact Solid Snake, I hear he has experience with this type of thing.
CRAB BATTLE!!!!
I've noticed a few people getting the numbers wrong already... 1. It is NOT 768 cores, it is 48 cores with 768 paths through them. 2. They never mention the die size so this processor could be significantly larger in terms of silicon than others. 3. Its score in 3DMark is INSANE, not Ludicrous.
I have a serious question for you guys. I do a little computer help on the side and a businees owner wants me to setup a backup system for his personal computer. He mainly just wants to backup his e-mail. He's using outlook on an win XP box, so what Windows friendly program would you recommend for the task?
What the heck is a darknet?
Anyone tried the real-alternative player? Thats what I use.
OK, so how long until they figure out they can use this thing to play tetris?
I can just imagine some militia men sitting in the back of a pickup truck with their AK-47's. One of them has only a PDA and is guiding the driver to where the americans are. Thats right, they've modded the PDA to detect the chips in the passport, and now they can home in on them. Makes life a whole lot harder for foreign aid workers/missionaries/reporters/contract workers in any hot zone.
Religious adherence to evolution? Are you trying to be Ironic?
Don't look now but.... http://devolab.cse.msu.edu/software/avida/
The evolutionaries are one step ahead of you!
The reason this chip isn't as hot as the sun is because its being produced by a smaller nm process than current processors. The smaller the nm process the smaller the transistors and therefore less power and heat are required for the same clock speed. AMD is still using a 130nm process to produce most of its processors with a 90nm factory opening soon to produce a new line of chips. These Cell processors are going to be produced using a 60-65nm process in factories that are currently under construction by IBM, Sony and Toshiba.
The factories to mass produce these things aren't even finished yet, so don't get your hopes of seeing one up until mid summer 2006.
P4 processors have 125 million Transistors in them now and use a 90nm process. If they double that number (ie. 2 cores anyone), they will have 250 million transistors, 15 million more than the 235 million purported to be on the cell.
...will it still respect you in the morning?
Money is a medium of exchange, it has no value itself. It's simply easier to sell something for money than it is to barter. I can see how an infinite flow of large amounts of gold would cause hyper-inflation in the prices of items. However I haven't seen anyone look at the underlying cause of this problem. To get the gold you kill a monster, but how did that monster get the gold in the first place? Did it kill a player and take his gold? No. It spawned with gold like freshly printed interwar period German Marks. What I'm saying is that every time a monster spawns the game is 'printing money'. To avoid the natural consequence of hyper-inflation game developers need to find a more complex and realistic method for paying characters. Perhaps an online fur trade? I see nothing wrong with the exchange of one currency (REAL money) for another (Online Gold, Gil, whatever). Perhaps the game developers should hire some economists to solve this problem! And for the record, Sweatshops are bad, and it is inconceivably easy to turn a game that was meant to be fun into a form of labour.