The reason you haven't heard of the "big names" is most likely you don't know about Chinese movies. And what sells in the Chinese language market may not sell so well outside it.
I've seen two of those (And IP Man 2), but my post wasn't really about me, or any one individual. IP Man, for example only grossed $21 million. Hollywood would consider that a flop even if it doubled that amount, and that was one of the best movies of the year from China.
Whenever it's possible I'm about to hit a pedestrian, I always floor it. I heard that going faster can reduce the likehood that they'll damage the front of the car as they tend to bounce over the hood that way.
Hmmm.. I also walk around in Chicago, with my headphones on usually, so the noise the car makes would make absolutely no difference, and I've never been hit yet. But that's likely cause I actually pay attention, and assume most people driving are either retarded, or putting on their make up and not paying attention to silly distractions like stop lights.
Your complaint is about DRM which is a totally different subject than copyright. Without copyright, it would be nearly impossible to produce multimillion dollar movies, TV Shows, etc because only *1* person would need to buy the $11 movie ticket, then he could record the movie with a HD video camera (Not sneaking it in, because it's now legal), and then upload it. So movie houses could reasonable expect a few thousand dollars in return for their investment. The movie, music, and software industries would shut down over night.
I don't like DRM, and I don't like a lot of the restrictions that copyright supposedly has (Not able to format/place shift, etc). But getting rid of copyright would just be insane. China for example doesn't really enforce copyright, and what have they produced? What was the last big name movie you saw that came out of China (that wasn't a US/EU movie that was copied there, lol)? Favorite Chinese band? Yeah, there might be some, but they pale in comparison and copyright is the reason.
NewEgg isn't cheap anymore, nor have they been for years. There are quite a number of other places that have cheaper prices, amazon for one. However, neweggs site is very very good, and they always deliver what you order without hassle. I still do a fair amount of business with them, even when I find somewhere cheaper just for that reason.
I'm not sure how your definition makes your complaint any less valid. Those are the same 10,000 people that could recompile the source if it was your version of open source, or does being able to get the exact source from motorola somehow make it easier than to get it from google?
The answer is simple, they already have a written policy, although you likely don't like the answer. It's they can throttle your connection whenever they want for whatever reason they want. Does that make you happier now that you have it written down (again)? Didn't think so.
Why do some of us get a little peeved when entitled fools like yourself start going off at the mouth? Because we actually know what the costs of an internet connection is, what the connect fees, wire fees, etc are because we've worked with them since the beginning of time. You demand business class connections.. That cost $6,000 a month with a full SLA, and bandwidth guarantees, then complain about your $50/month bill. You want to get the government involved to start mandating this or that because you don't like the service you are getting. Of course, they don't realize that won't make things just magically better. Your ISP will just have to raise everyone's monthly rate to cover the cost of implementing the new policies, or buying more upstream bandwidth etc. I don't want to pay more just because there are a few vocal minority that want to ruin a good thing for the rest of us.
You want a full SLA, no throttling, full bandwidth available at all times? Like I said, it's available in almost every city in the united states, however, you won't like the price (most likely). You DO have a choice, you've ALWAYS had a choice. People complain that there is no alternative, but there IS. What they always mean is that they can't get everything they want, and still pay sub $50 a month. There is a reason for it, and all the whining, name calling, and pointing figures at "the big bad companies" out to screw the little guy comes off as ignorance.
Personally, I'm tired of paying for a government agency to try and protect everyone from themselves. That isn't what this country was founded on and goes against everything in the constitution. People like you are ruining this country one stupid legal ruling at a time. Turning what was supposed to be the country of the free into the country of the nanny state that watches everything everyone does and takes all their money to pay for the privilege of it.
If you want an internet connection with a SLA, all you have to do is call AT&T and request a fractional DS3 line. I haven't checked in a while, but last time I did, it was approximately $12,000/month for a full DS3, and probably $6000 for a 1/4. There, your expectations are now set, enjoy. Oh, you wanted the SLA, the no throttling, but you didn't want to pay for it. I see.
Apparently, you are NOT one of those 'some people'. Some of my friends have sold their 3 and 4 way NVidia 480 cards to replace them with 3 and 4 way 580's for the 8% performance increase -- at a cost of $900-$1200.
Well except the 130TDP of the 3690x is less than the 140TDP of the (almost equivalent) 6282 SE from AMD. Don't let facts get in the way of your beliefs.
You are an entitlement nag. You know the service you have. You might not have realized it when you got it, because you didn't PAY ATTENTION. You want some government body to step in and make rules and laws so YOU don't have to READ stuff BEFORE YOU SIGN IT. You know very well now what your service is. If you don't like it, please switch to another provider, and stop whining that you didn't know/read what you were getting.
If you take the benchmarks on x264 encoding, first pass that YOU linked, the 3960x scored 230.11 and the 8150 scored 141.39. I'm not sure that I would call that close. However, let's go ahead and extrapolate that out (with a ton of assumptions of course, of which many are probably inaccurate).
The 3960x is producing 230.11 over 6 cores, therefore over 8 cores, you might expect 230.11/6*8=306.81. The 8150 is producing 141.39 over 8 cores, therefore over 16 cores, you might expect 141.39/8*16=282.98.
Seems the 3960x (a desktop chip) should be 8.4% faster, if everything else remains equal, and both CPUs scale linearly. Not only that, but the 6282 SE is more expensive, hotter, and uses a more expensive motherboard than the 3960x. I don't see any category in which AMD competes -- it loses in price, performance, AND heat all at the same time.
Click the link and read please before commenting. The FPS is multithreaded performance. It's refering to how many frames per second it can encode video, and PIBM is right. There is a huge difference between the two processors in those tests, eye balling it, it looks like approximately 42-50% improvement on each of them.
I put my music in, its automatically on my devices, no cables. It just works. One second after creating a playlist on line its on my phone. On my tablet.
This seems like what Apple has right now with iCloud, except apple also supports my receiver (Pioneer), my computer (iTunes), my TV (through Apple TV).
I can buy or upload music from any source available to me, not just ONE. For free. How is this less?
Because you can buy music from any source available right now for iDevices. It's not less, just late.
Why would it imply base 10? You have 20 digits (usually), just like the first numbering system used by the Mayans. You may assume anything you want, but that doesn't make it correct.
Well except that the article says that 90-95% of all their "older" machines are newer than 2009 (extrapolated from their 20-30 of 300 estimate). Seems like this is more of a publicity stunt than a real problem that needs solving. Maybe things are different in Portugal, but here in the US, I don't think there were any machines sold new that can't run Windows 7 (since Windows 7 was out at that time, and Vista's minimum requirement were even higher), and run it well enough for a school to teach on. Students are the heaviest computer users.
Yes, Windows 7 can network boot from a clean image as well, and make them virtually impervious to virus. Just reboot, and you get a brand spanking new image to boot from. Not rocket surgery.
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The reason you haven't heard of the "big names" is most likely you don't know about Chinese movies. And what sells in the Chinese language market may not sell so well outside it.
I've seen two of those (And IP Man 2), but my post wasn't really about me, or any one individual. IP Man, for example only grossed $21 million. Hollywood would consider that a flop even if it doubled that amount, and that was one of the best movies of the year from China.
Whenever it's possible I'm about to hit a pedestrian, I always floor it. I heard that going faster can reduce the likehood that they'll damage the front of the car as they tend to bounce over the hood that way.
Hmmm.. I also walk around in Chicago, with my headphones on usually, so the noise the car makes would make absolutely no difference, and I've never been hit yet. But that's likely cause I actually pay attention, and assume most people driving are either retarded, or putting on their make up and not paying attention to silly distractions like stop lights.
Actually... make my penis bigger kinda fits the person driving the sky blue electric powered yaris.
Your complaint is about DRM which is a totally different subject than copyright. Without copyright, it would be nearly impossible to produce multimillion dollar movies, TV Shows, etc because only *1* person would need to buy the $11 movie ticket, then he could record the movie with a HD video camera (Not sneaking it in, because it's now legal), and then upload it. So movie houses could reasonable expect a few thousand dollars in return for their investment. The movie, music, and software industries would shut down over night.
I don't like DRM, and I don't like a lot of the restrictions that copyright supposedly has (Not able to format/place shift, etc). But getting rid of copyright would just be insane. China for example doesn't really enforce copyright, and what have they produced? What was the last big name movie you saw that came out of China (that wasn't a US/EU movie that was copied there, lol)? Favorite Chinese band? Yeah, there might be some, but they pale in comparison and copyright is the reason.
NewEgg isn't cheap anymore, nor have they been for years. There are quite a number of other places that have cheaper prices, amazon for one. However, neweggs site is very very good, and they always deliver what you order without hassle. I still do a fair amount of business with them, even when I find somewhere cheaper just for that reason.
I'm not sure how your definition makes your complaint any less valid. Those are the same 10,000 people that could recompile the source if it was your version of open source, or does being able to get the exact source from motorola somehow make it easier than to get it from google?
The answer is simple, they already have a written policy, although you likely don't like the answer. It's they can throttle your connection whenever they want for whatever reason they want. Does that make you happier now that you have it written down (again)? Didn't think so.
Why do some of us get a little peeved when entitled fools like yourself start going off at the mouth? Because we actually know what the costs of an internet connection is, what the connect fees, wire fees, etc are because we've worked with them since the beginning of time. You demand business class connections.. That cost $6,000 a month with a full SLA, and bandwidth guarantees, then complain about your $50/month bill. You want to get the government involved to start mandating this or that because you don't like the service you are getting. Of course, they don't realize that won't make things just magically better. Your ISP will just have to raise everyone's monthly rate to cover the cost of implementing the new policies, or buying more upstream bandwidth etc. I don't want to pay more just because there are a few vocal minority that want to ruin a good thing for the rest of us.
You want a full SLA, no throttling, full bandwidth available at all times? Like I said, it's available in almost every city in the united states, however, you won't like the price (most likely). You DO have a choice, you've ALWAYS had a choice. People complain that there is no alternative, but there IS. What they always mean is that they can't get everything they want, and still pay sub $50 a month. There is a reason for it, and all the whining, name calling, and pointing figures at "the big bad companies" out to screw the little guy comes off as ignorance.
Personally, I'm tired of paying for a government agency to try and protect everyone from themselves. That isn't what this country was founded on and goes against everything in the constitution. People like you are ruining this country one stupid legal ruling at a time. Turning what was supposed to be the country of the free into the country of the nanny state that watches everything everyone does and takes all their money to pay for the privilege of it.
If you want an internet connection with a SLA, all you have to do is call AT&T and request a fractional DS3 line. I haven't checked in a while, but last time I did, it was approximately $12,000/month for a full DS3, and probably $6000 for a 1/4. There, your expectations are now set, enjoy. Oh, you wanted the SLA, the no throttling, but you didn't want to pay for it. I see.
My encodes take hours, even on the best of machines today. Encoding high quality video at full HD (or QHD) resolution takes some time and horsepower.
Apparently, you are NOT one of those 'some people'. Some of my friends have sold their 3 and 4 way NVidia 480 cards to replace them with 3 and 4 way 580's for the 8% performance increase -- at a cost of $900-$1200.
No, they aren't.
Well except the 130TDP of the 3690x is less than the 140TDP of the (almost equivalent) 6282 SE from AMD. Don't let facts get in the way of your beliefs.
You are an entitlement nag. You know the service you have. You might not have realized it when you got it, because you didn't PAY ATTENTION. You want some government body to step in and make rules and laws so YOU don't have to READ stuff BEFORE YOU SIGN IT. You know very well now what your service is. If you don't like it, please switch to another provider, and stop whining that you didn't know/read what you were getting.
If you take the benchmarks on x264 encoding, first pass that YOU linked, the 3960x scored 230.11 and the 8150 scored 141.39. I'm not sure that I would call that close. However, let's go ahead and extrapolate that out (with a ton of assumptions of course, of which many are probably inaccurate).
The 3960x is producing 230.11 over 6 cores, therefore over 8 cores, you might expect 230.11/6*8=306.81.
The 8150 is producing 141.39 over 8 cores, therefore over 16 cores, you might expect 141.39/8*16=282.98.
Seems the 3960x (a desktop chip) should be 8.4% faster, if everything else remains equal, and both CPUs scale linearly. Not only that, but the 6282 SE is more expensive, hotter, and uses a more expensive motherboard than the 3960x. I don't see any category in which AMD competes -- it loses in price, performance, AND heat all at the same time.
I find it funny that you posted a link to another forum where people are calling you a whiner in the very first post.
Click the link and read please before commenting. The FPS is multithreaded performance. It's refering to how many frames per second it can encode video, and PIBM is right. There is a huge difference between the two processors in those tests, eye balling it, it looks like approximately 42-50% improvement on each of them.
If I am paying $1500-$2000 for an enthusiast computer, do you think I care whether my electric bill is $88 or $89 this month?
It's not a benchmark to see which is better, it's a benchmark to see how much better it is.
The $300 version is called i5.
I put my music in, its automatically on my devices, no cables. It just works. One second after creating a playlist on line its on my phone. On my tablet.
This seems like what Apple has right now with iCloud, except apple also supports my receiver (Pioneer), my computer (iTunes), my TV (through Apple TV).
I can buy or upload music from any source available to me, not just ONE. For free. How is this less?
Because you can buy music from any source available right now for iDevices. It's not less, just late.
Why would it imply base 10? You have 20 digits (usually), just like the first numbering system used by the Mayans. You may assume anything you want, but that doesn't make it correct.
Sorry, the AC is completely wrong. That is not the way NTFS works at all, not even close.
That was supposed to be "Students aren't the heaviest computer users".
Well except that the article says that 90-95% of all their "older" machines are newer than 2009 (extrapolated from their 20-30 of 300 estimate). Seems like this is more of a publicity stunt than a real problem that needs solving. Maybe things are different in Portugal, but here in the US, I don't think there were any machines sold new that can't run Windows 7 (since Windows 7 was out at that time, and Vista's minimum requirement were even higher), and run it well enough for a school to teach on. Students are the heaviest computer users.
Yes, Windows 7 can network boot from a clean image as well, and make them virtually impervious to virus. Just reboot, and you get a brand spanking new image to boot from. Not rocket surgery.