Since you clearly have some aptitude and massive amounts of free time I would recommend you go out find a job. Or at the very least write a book. Do something constructive.
Because there a LOT of companies that assume expensive software is better software. I know that I could tell my manager that I needed $500 for "Media Win G-Playa xT 3.0 Enterprise Edition" and I would get it (as long as it really existed, which it does not). Even if Media Player or WinAmp did the same thing, the price would indicate that it was better in the eyes of the uninformed.
The nomination of a Chief Justice is not in any way News for Nerds
I disagree. There are many kinds of nerds. It's only presumed that/. is for computer nerds. But there are band nerds, civil war nerds, and even Supreme Court nerds. If you had ever met Nina Totenberg you would know I speak the truth.
I grow tired of that too. But I think of no more concise way to define laws relating to IT principles. I am open to suggestions however. Maybe, "Elaw" or "Etherlaw"??
I don't know man....the rise of the CD has rekindled a love for vinyl LPs. The Fred Meyer in my town even has a small section dedicated to/new/ vinyl. And I am sure there was a niche market created for horse buggy makers after the rise of the automobile.
The tricky part is ADHD is a clinical diagnosis. There is no authoritative test to determine if someone has it or not (at least not yet). So people tend to just read Wikipedia and diagnose themselves. But back before being ADHD was, for lack of a better word, 'trendy' it was pretty clear which kids had the problem.
Those kids were not simply running around and not paying attention, they were incapable of doing so. With a non-ADHD kid you could entice them with treats, or threaten them with punishment and they would behave (at least for awhile). But the ADHD children simply could not do it. No matter what the consequence. Even if you said 'I will buy you a new [insert highly coveted toy here] if you just be quite and sit still for 15 minutes', it was just beyond their ability.
But these days, parents will convince themselves that it's not their poor parenting or terrible home life making their children act up. Their children must have this ADHD they have heard so much about. Yeah that's it. See? It's not my fault....my kid's special. So they will go to doctor after doctor until they one who will give them the diagnosis (and the drugs) they are looking for.
average lifespan of these people is around half that of people who do
This means nothing. All 'average lifespans' numbers are grossly non-representative of the typical lifespan of people in a particular community. The reason being is the infant mortality rate. A nation with minimal access (due to economic or cultural limitations) to ob/gyn facilities will have a higher infant mortality rate, and therefore a much lower 'average lifespan'.
In short, just because the average lifespan is, say, 40 does not mean there isn't a large elderly population. It just means the infant mortality is high.
Yeah that works. But the money you are saving on the card(s) will be more than eaten up by the need to a crossfire compatible board (i.e. one with 2+ PCI x16 slots). Mobos with only a single slot are less than half the price.
You know, just because it's not a FPS, doesn't mean it's a "2-3 year old game". Most of the games I play came out less than a year ago. In fact, I have a beta of StarCraft III (I know a guy) running on my system now that looks great with my GeForce 9500gs 512MB card. I think it was like $150 if that.
Take That! *pasted from the print page*
Battle of the Budget Gaming Graphics Cards
May 20, 2009
By Joel Durham Jr.
In graphics cards, does the brand matter? Sure it does, if you know of a brand that habitually puts out defective or weak hardware. On the other hand, if you know a particular GPU is cheap and powerful, shouldn't you get it for the best price you can regardless of the price?
That's what we do. We tend to shop first by budget, then by GPU, and finally by brand. We also look at various extra goodies that manufacturers throw in to keep us interested. Today's graphics cards are getting more and more powerful for less and less money.
This roundup looks at nine graphics cards comprised of parts from six different manufacturers. The GPUs come from ATI and Nvidia. We split them into two categories: $150 and down, and greater than $150 up to a maximum of $250. We look at performance, branding, and also give you a strategy to help you buy your next budget graphics card. Continued...
We have quite a lineup this time around. We burned through a pile of nine graphics cards from six different brands. We're sort of separating the gang into two groups: those that cost between $150 and $250, and those that price at $150 or below. The pricing we used was generated from scouring through a number of computer parts Web retailers and creating an approximate average.
The cards included in the roundup, and the GPUs they are based upon, are:
$170 to $250:
* PNY XLR8 GeForce GTX 275 896MB (Nvidia GeForce GTX 275)
* EVGA GTX 260 Core 216 (Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 core 216)
* ASUS ENGTS250 DK G1 (Nvidia GeForce GTS 250)
* AMD ATI Radeon HD 4870 (well, duh!)
and
$150 and down:
* Gigabyte GTS 250 (Nvidia GeForce GTS 250)
* Gigabyte 9600GT (Nvidia GeForce 9600GT)
* AMD ATI Radeon HD 4850 (like it says)
* ASUS EAH4770 (ATI Radeon HD 4770)
* XFX Radeon HD 4770 (ATI Radeon HD 4770)
It's fairly obvious from each model name which chipset the card is based upon, and we've gone into deep architectural detail on each in article's past, which you can read by clicking on any of the GPUs above.
We decided to see what each of these cards can do specifically for gaming. In this economy, not every gamer can afford the newest, dual-GPU, hot-enough-to-fry-eggs monstrosity that runs more than $600.
That brings us to the best news of all: you no longer have to spend that much money to get an acceptable--and even impressive--gaming experience with newer titles. Many of these cards pulled down very nice frame rates in crushing games like Far Cry 2 and Crysis. Budget gamers no longer have to compromise--much, anyway--on detail levels and resolutions. Continued...
Read message boards about computer hardware, and you'll end up reading a great deal about brand loyalty. A brand's reputation amongst builders comes not from clever advertising or big booths at trade shows, but from building parts that work well and last a long time.
You'll notice something else, however. For everyone who loves one brand, there are plenty of people who love another. A lot of that is based on personal experience: Maybe Joe has had terrible luck with Brand A's stuff catastrophically failing on him, while Bob has had nothing but pleasant experiences with Brand A. Joe tries Brand B, it works, and he likes it. Now we have two people who dig different brands simply due to firsthand experience.
To be more realistic, change that from two customers to tens of thousands, and from two brands to scores of them. Things get complicated very quickly. To make matters worse for manufacturers, the chipset makers that license to the parts manufacturers tend to have stringent control over exactly how the manufacturer builds parts. In other words, twenty different branded versions of Product A might be very, very similar to each other because the people who made the chips to be used on Product A only want them used in a certain way.
Graphics cards fall under this umbrella. Besides fiddling with the cooling system, or maybe overclocking a chipset to a
Exactly. Let users rate the levels, fine. But only reward the maker if the developers (or trusted users designated by them) also rate it high. This will end the 'my levels are teh aw3some. just ask my friendzors!' problem.
Dude! Don't knock the Periodic Table Shower curtain. I have one of those and it's awesome! I have an 9 y/o son that has already memorized the atomic weight of nearly every element. I want to get the weather-cycle shower curtain from the same company (Thinkgeek gets these from Simple Memory Art).
So I am guessing your view is what we all really need is more dismissive, flippant, sarcasm that offers nothing but a woefully uneducated opinion? Brother, this Stewart/Colbert bit getting old. Can we get some constructive criticism for a change?
I don't think I want to know a six-year-old who isn't a dreamer, or a 'sillyheart.' And I sure don't want to know one who takes their student career seriously. I don't have a college degree. I don't even have a job. But I know a good kid when I see one. Because they're all good kids, until dried-out, brain-dead skags like you drag them down and convince them they're no good. You so much as scowl at my niece, or any other kid in this school, and I hear about it, and I'm coming looking for you! Take this quarter, go downtown, and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face! Good day to you, madam.
BTWm your examples are pretty limited. Most prostitute do it for the money. At lest the none I have talked to.
My mother use to run a brother in NV. So yeah, I actually do know a thing or three on how they work.
Between the 'none' you have talked and your Mother running 'a brother' in Nevada, it's no wonder all your comments stay at 1 or less.
I think it just turns the site into a bobo-chic posterchild. CR is multi-million dollar enterprise, yet they seem to intentionally under design the site to give the appearance of being an old-internet independent. Just a pet peeve I guess.
I am aware of the browser option but I guess my thinking is this: I should not have to tweak default browser settings just to make a web page look like it was designed by someone with at least a passing familiarity of modern web design practices & standards. It's not that I don't like TNR at all; I agree it has its' place. And I am all for substance-over-style websites. It's just that CR has taken that concept to an extreme - a little style would be nice.
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Since you clearly have some aptitude and massive amounts of free time I would recommend you go out find a job. Or at the very least write a book. Do something constructive.
Because there a LOT of companies that assume expensive software is better software. I know that I could tell my manager that I needed $500 for "Media Win G-Playa xT 3.0 Enterprise Edition" and I would get it (as long as it really existed, which it does not). Even if Media Player or WinAmp did the same thing, the price would indicate that it was better in the eyes of the uninformed.
I don't get it.
I disagree. There are many kinds of nerds. It's only presumed that /. is for computer nerds. But there are band nerds, civil war nerds, and even Supreme Court nerds. If you had ever met Nina Totenberg you would know I speak the truth.
I grow tired of that too. But I think of no more concise way to define laws relating to IT principles. I am open to suggestions however. Maybe, "Elaw" or "Etherlaw"??
I don't know man....the rise of the CD has rekindled a love for vinyl LPs. The Fred Meyer in my town even has a small section dedicated to /new/ vinyl. And I am sure there was a niche market created for horse buggy makers after the rise of the automobile.
The tricky part is ADHD is a clinical diagnosis. There is no authoritative test to determine if someone has it or not (at least not yet). So people tend to just read Wikipedia and diagnose themselves. But back before being ADHD was, for lack of a better word, 'trendy' it was pretty clear which kids had the problem.
Those kids were not simply running around and not paying attention, they were incapable of doing so. With a non-ADHD kid you could entice them with treats, or threaten them with punishment and they would behave (at least for awhile). But the ADHD children simply could not do it. No matter what the consequence. Even if you said 'I will buy you a new [insert highly coveted toy here] if you just be quite and sit still for 15 minutes', it was just beyond their ability.
But these days, parents will convince themselves that it's not their poor parenting or terrible home life making their children act up. Their children must have this ADHD they have heard so much about. Yeah that's it. See? It's not my fault....my kid's special. So they will go to doctor after doctor until they one who will give them the diagnosis (and the drugs) they are looking for.
Don't forget the Jew, the Italian, and the redhead gay.
I think he meant "by them asses". When you read it that way it makes WAY more sense.
This means nothing. All 'average lifespans' numbers are grossly non-representative of the typical lifespan of people in a particular community. The reason being is the infant mortality rate. A nation with minimal access (due to economic or cultural limitations) to ob/gyn facilities will have a higher infant mortality rate, and therefore a much lower 'average lifespan'.
In short, just because the average lifespan is, say, 40 does not mean there isn't a large elderly population. It just means the infant mortality is high.
Like I said....I know a guy. Actually I meant to type StarCraft II....
Yeah that works. But the money you are saving on the card(s) will be more than eaten up by the need to a crossfire compatible board (i.e. one with 2+ PCI x16 slots). Mobos with only a single slot are less than half the price.
You know, just because it's not a FPS, doesn't mean it's a "2-3 year old game". Most of the games I play came out less than a year ago. In fact, I have a beta of StarCraft III (I know a guy) running on my system now that looks great with my GeForce 9500gs 512MB card. I think it was like $150 if that.
Take That! *pasted from the print page* Battle of the Budget Gaming Graphics Cards May 20, 2009 By Joel Durham Jr. In graphics cards, does the brand matter? Sure it does, if you know of a brand that habitually puts out defective or weak hardware. On the other hand, if you know a particular GPU is cheap and powerful, shouldn't you get it for the best price you can regardless of the price? That's what we do. We tend to shop first by budget, then by GPU, and finally by brand. We also look at various extra goodies that manufacturers throw in to keep us interested. Today's graphics cards are getting more and more powerful for less and less money. This roundup looks at nine graphics cards comprised of parts from six different manufacturers. The GPUs come from ATI and Nvidia. We split them into two categories: $150 and down, and greater than $150 up to a maximum of $250. We look at performance, branding, and also give you a strategy to help you buy your next budget graphics card. Continued... We have quite a lineup this time around. We burned through a pile of nine graphics cards from six different brands. We're sort of separating the gang into two groups: those that cost between $150 and $250, and those that price at $150 or below. The pricing we used was generated from scouring through a number of computer parts Web retailers and creating an approximate average. The cards included in the roundup, and the GPUs they are based upon, are: $170 to $250: * PNY XLR8 GeForce GTX 275 896MB (Nvidia GeForce GTX 275) * EVGA GTX 260 Core 216 (Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 core 216) * ASUS ENGTS250 DK G1 (Nvidia GeForce GTS 250) * AMD ATI Radeon HD 4870 (well, duh!) and $150 and down: * Gigabyte GTS 250 (Nvidia GeForce GTS 250) * Gigabyte 9600GT (Nvidia GeForce 9600GT) * AMD ATI Radeon HD 4850 (like it says) * ASUS EAH4770 (ATI Radeon HD 4770) * XFX Radeon HD 4770 (ATI Radeon HD 4770) It's fairly obvious from each model name which chipset the card is based upon, and we've gone into deep architectural detail on each in article's past, which you can read by clicking on any of the GPUs above. We decided to see what each of these cards can do specifically for gaming. In this economy, not every gamer can afford the newest, dual-GPU, hot-enough-to-fry-eggs monstrosity that runs more than $600. That brings us to the best news of all: you no longer have to spend that much money to get an acceptable--and even impressive--gaming experience with newer titles. Many of these cards pulled down very nice frame rates in crushing games like Far Cry 2 and Crysis. Budget gamers no longer have to compromise--much, anyway--on detail levels and resolutions. Continued... Read message boards about computer hardware, and you'll end up reading a great deal about brand loyalty. A brand's reputation amongst builders comes not from clever advertising or big booths at trade shows, but from building parts that work well and last a long time. You'll notice something else, however. For everyone who loves one brand, there are plenty of people who love another. A lot of that is based on personal experience: Maybe Joe has had terrible luck with Brand A's stuff catastrophically failing on him, while Bob has had nothing but pleasant experiences with Brand A. Joe tries Brand B, it works, and he likes it. Now we have two people who dig different brands simply due to firsthand experience. To be more realistic, change that from two customers to tens of thousands, and from two brands to scores of them. Things get complicated very quickly. To make matters worse for manufacturers, the chipset makers that license to the parts manufacturers tend to have stringent control over exactly how the manufacturer builds parts. In other words, twenty different branded versions of Product A might be very, very similar to each other because the people who made the chips to be used on Product A only want them used in a certain way. Graphics cards fall under this umbrella. Besides fiddling with the cooling system, or maybe overclocking a chipset to a
Groan - nevermind that doesn't actually work. Damn ASP.
Here's the single page link: http://www.extremetech.com/print_article2/0,1217,a%253D240530,00.asp
Exactly. Let users rate the levels, fine. But only reward the maker if the developers (or trusted users designated by them) also rate it high. This will end the 'my levels are teh aw3some. just ask my friendzors!' problem.
Dude! Don't knock the Periodic Table Shower curtain. I have one of those and it's awesome! I have an 9 y/o son that has already memorized the atomic weight of nearly every element. I want to get the weather-cycle shower curtain from the same company (Thinkgeek gets these from Simple Memory Art).
So I am guessing your view is what we all really need is more dismissive, flippant, sarcasm that offers nothing but a woefully uneducated opinion? Brother, this Stewart/Colbert bit getting old. Can we get some constructive criticism for a change?
Wait, there's a law for that? I have been grossly misinformed about F-bombs.
I don't think I want to know a six-year-old who isn't a dreamer, or a 'sillyheart.' And I sure don't want to know one who takes their student career seriously. I don't have a college degree. I don't even have a job. But I know a good kid when I see one. Because they're all good kids, until dried-out, brain-dead skags like you drag them down and convince them they're no good. You so much as scowl at my niece, or any other kid in this school, and I hear about it, and I'm coming looking for you! Take this quarter, go downtown, and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face! Good day to you, madam.
You can. Many do. It works better at broadcasting to a wide audience than SMS via a cell phone.
Between the 'none' you have talked and your Mother running 'a brother' in Nevada, it's no wonder all your comments stay at 1 or less.
I think it just turns the site into a bobo-chic posterchild. CR is multi-million dollar enterprise, yet they seem to intentionally under design the site to give the appearance of being an old-internet independent. Just a pet peeve I guess.
I am aware of the browser option but I guess my thinking is this: I should not have to tweak default browser settings just to make a web page look like it was designed by someone with at least a passing familiarity of modern web design practices & standards. It's not that I don't like TNR at all; I agree it has its' place. And I am all for substance-over-style websites. It's just that CR has taken that concept to an extreme - a little style would be nice.