i heard that she abused her position to fire someone who disagreed with her, and also someone who divorced her niece or something. AND she admitted to making the calls in question. is that a fight against corruption too ?
i didnt understand zit from this choice of mccain.
he was shouting that obama was too inexperienced all around.
then he went, and chose someone who has just been elected into state governorship, fresh out of the mayorship of a WHOPPING 10.000 crowded town.
not only that, but alaska is a place that is totally different from all states in america, hell, forget that, it is a state and geography that is TOO different from almost ALL countries and regions in the world save a few.
scarcely populated, its almost a polar region.
then theres this - you are running for a conservative party, and you are choosing a woman for vp. a woman who looks like she's an upstart too, not someone who is in senate for 20 years, 10 years, etc. a woman in charge is a turn off for many conservative voters not only in u.s., but worldwide. you may be trying to play into the 'change' calls going on out there, but taking that much risk, how come ?
and someone who is actually under investigation, NOW. not before. and someone who admitted to doing stuff that may easily be interpreted as abuse of power, office too.
and gonna pit against whom ? biden. a looooooong time senator, chairman of foreign relations committee for years.
please someone explain me what the hell is going on.
all the reasons that ati destroys nvidia in crossfire ARE the reasons why single card ati is far more superior to nvidia.
and solely due to what you and i outlined.
dont you think that it is way too easy for ati to fix 2 4870 processors on a single card, and cope with 280 ? it is. and they are already doing it.
what i am trying to say is there is no "single" card concept now. we are at a point in time where an architecture's worth is considered from how many chips (or eventual processing power) you can fit onto one standard PCB.
and the fact is, EVEN though the hardware manufacturers oblige with the growing size of cards, and push bigger cases, stronger mobos that can accommodate humongous cards, ati will STILL have the advantage, because it will be able to squeeze in more processing power onto one card than nvidia can.
there is no 'single' card concept now. there is 'how many on a single card' concept.
separate state, federal, regional taxes and shit are causing a lot of problems with ecommerce software, wasting valuable development hours, for both developers and their ecommerce clients. tax goddamn income on a reasonable level, and get rid of all conditional/regional taxes, and make both commerce and accounting/taxing processes easier dammit.
no they are not comparable. thats why in Dual (Sli, Xfire) mode ati smokes nvidia.
reason is simple. nvidia went the big, monolithic, powerful gpu route, whereas ati went the smaller, but comparably powerful gpu route.
ati took care to make its chip smaller, energy efficient, less heating per processing power.
result ? while it is overly ridiculous to try to squeeze 2 280s and their accompanying huge (30 cm long) cooling apparatus into a case in sli mode, and have to have a humongous psu to support them and burn electricity like madmen, you can reach similar processing power by putting in 4 4870s.
not only that, but 4870 x 2s are possible, whereas 280x2s are not. because, 280s require too much cooling, and too big in size that you cant fit 2 on one PCB.
result ? unbelievable setups like 4 x 4870x2s are possible, whereas 2 280s in sli would be questionable.
that basically means ati packs more processing power per size and transistor, or power consumed than nvidia. and thats kicking ass in my book.
APM is just an indicator of what potential someone has to MICRO manage the units. many top level competitors in sc gaming are people who dont have omnipotent apm. get yer facts together first.
in starcraft, you demand intel reports in 3 seconds, they come in 1 seconds, you have to process it in 10 seconds and act in 20 seconds. thats what starcraft is.
it would be a tactical game if you didnt have resources and production, and ability to change your production and tap more resources. it isnt. its much more strategic than any turn based game.
starcraft is not played outside boundaries of time. time also passes when you are playing a starcraft game.
excuse me, whomever takes hours to develop a 'strategy' in a turn based game, is a moron, not a good strategy player. in starcraft, you have to see the next 10 to 30 minutes in front of you (duration also varies upon anything that can happen during the game), but also update your entire strategy constantly depending on what happens in that duration. that may cause strategy change for 1 to 4 times on any competent starcraft game.
so if it takes you 2 hours to come up and execute a strategy, excuse me, but you lack the capacity to play starcraft. you gotta do what you do in 2 hours in other games in 1.5 minutes in starcraft. if you cant, you get the shaft.
your text gives out the fact that you have never played starcraft since 1998.
there are multitudes of strategies in between micromanaging, macromanaging, and anything in starcraft. please dont make assumptions without information.
excuse me but age of empires and similar games dont have nothing to do with rts. they are basically "Whomever builds the baddest, fastest unit the most and sends them over, wins". there are small variation in tactics you can do, because every unit has an anti unit, but its nothing like starcraft. also the races, faction units are almost all the same, with only 2-3 different in 15 unit selections. they are basically the same.
in starcraft you have 3 different races with TOTALLY different units all having totally different abilities.
no unit has a clear anti unit. there are many different units that can stand against and be an anti unit of a particular unit because of their different abilities.
and this makes the game an infinite variation of strategy. there are countless ways to win a matchup. you can go mass production, but if your opponent has good micro (management, meaning using units very effectively individually) and uses very little number of units and their abilities perfectly, you are totally screwed.
no sir, either you dont know zit about strategy, or havent really played starcraft by giving its due.
nvidia should concentrate on their main product, graphics cards, and better them, instead of bickering about another company's different product line, and trying to encroach into it. they got their ass whopped by ati's latest release, yet they are there just criticizing intel.
which is filled with conservatives from prior decades, and hardliners, and run accordingly ? well, thats no surprise. fraud entire nation in white house and get pardoned by president, but do a little piracy and get 400 k fine and 15 months prison time. great justice understanding these conservatives have.
when i criticized it and said it will hurt a lot of small businesses and communities, some people came up with darwinian shit like 'if they are not able to afford a $100 buck a year ssl, they dont deserve to be on the internet anyway'.
and look now, even the biggest can be affected by this overzealous, self righteous implementation in ff3, not only small businesses and communities who are 'so easily forfeitable'.
can the idiot who modded the above troll explain the evidence to the contrary of the statement contained therein ?
everyone and their dog are being given mod points these days, and not only that, but they are merrily being fanatics about nationalism freely in an international platform.
i urge anyone who is not out of the nationalism adolescence yet (many chinese, apparently) to go back to their local environment, get their satisfaction from 19th century nationalism, and THEN come out to internet and join the INTERnational community.
get a load of that. coming from a turkish, who is supposed to be nationalist by tradition.
but sorry, yea, mac platform falls WAY behind the pc platform in terms of capabilities and what you can do with them.
its apparent that you mac fanbois here do not want to hear this, and want to hear forced opinions that give 'equal credits to both', but there is no such thing.
almost all of the it world is being run by pcs, intel based frameworks, and internet is no exception. majority of whats done on any computer related area gets done on pcs.
even your late macs are Intel based, macos loaded computers.
you should ditch the fanaticism and wake up to the fact that you are buying an IMAGE, not functionality, and quit pestering us non mac users with the long tirades about those shiny macs of yours. because the fanaticism and the pestering is really growing annoying. we're not in 90s anymore.
what you call as 'in-house' is a long term business relationship thats just inside a company's roof. (sometimes even not under the same roof). an outsourcing is no different. IF you do it properly, as a long term relationship.
some of you people have the tendency of taking outsourcing as a "on a need basis, one shot go" type of relationship. it isnt.
it doesnt differ zit from any kind of business relationship since the dawn of trade - you have to choose carefully, you have to choose a reliable source to do business with, you have to choose according to your needs, and also, buyer beware.
i want to stress reliable. this is the key to any business relationship, not only outsourcing.
in any reliable business relationship you'll find that the interaction between companies over a long duration of time start to resemble what you call in-house business relationships under one company's roof.
on people who know i.t. shit, this pr stunt is not gonna have any effect much like the same.
yea, hip, and all that, yea, pc is a geek and mac is hip and with a mac you can browse your music, load them to your ipod, create family albums and this and that, and do design work too
.... but, the shit people are doing with pc setups are SO varying in numerousness and nature that nothing mac does can be compared to what pc is.
those kind of ads only can coerce less technologically keen people into 'style'.
sorry mac fans. i respect you people, and even quite respect the design work you do (many designers work on mac), but thats about it. for all the rest (and even design) there is still pc.
...........
(duh, i just remembered late macs are intels with macos. so much for pc-mac distinction)...
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i heard that she abused her position to fire someone who disagreed with her, and also someone who divorced her niece or something. AND she admitted to making the calls in question. is that a fight against corruption too ?
i didnt understand zit from this choice of mccain.
he was shouting that obama was too inexperienced all around.
then he went, and chose someone who has just been elected into state governorship, fresh out of the mayorship of a WHOPPING 10.000 crowded town.
not only that, but alaska is a place that is totally different from all states in america, hell, forget that, it is a state and geography that is TOO different from almost ALL countries and regions in the world save a few.
scarcely populated, its almost a polar region.
then theres this - you are running for a conservative party, and you are choosing a woman for vp. a woman who looks like she's an upstart too, not someone who is in senate for 20 years, 10 years, etc. a woman in charge is a turn off for many conservative voters not only in u.s., but worldwide. you may be trying to play into the 'change' calls going on out there, but taking that much risk, how come ?
and someone who is actually under investigation, NOW. not before. and someone who admitted to doing stuff that may easily be interpreted as abuse of power, office too.
and gonna pit against whom ? biden. a looooooong time senator, chairman of foreign relations committee for years.
please someone explain me what the hell is going on.
the driver department of ati really needs a revamp.
you still miss my meaning.
all the reasons that ati destroys nvidia in crossfire ARE the reasons why single card ati is far more superior to nvidia.
and solely due to what you and i outlined.
dont you think that it is way too easy for ati to fix 2 4870 processors on a single card, and cope with 280 ? it is. and they are already doing it.
what i am trying to say is there is no "single" card concept now. we are at a point in time where an architecture's worth is considered from how many chips (or eventual processing power) you can fit onto one standard PCB.
and the fact is, EVEN though the hardware manufacturers oblige with the growing size of cards, and push bigger cases, stronger mobos that can accommodate humongous cards, ati will STILL have the advantage, because it will be able to squeeze in more processing power onto one card than nvidia can.
there is no 'single' card concept now. there is 'how many on a single card' concept.
4870x2 is already out btw.
separate state, federal, regional taxes and shit are causing a lot of problems with ecommerce software, wasting valuable development hours, for both developers and their ecommerce clients. tax goddamn income on a reasonable level, and get rid of all conditional/regional taxes, and make both commerce and accounting/taxing processes easier dammit.
no they are not comparable. thats why in Dual (Sli, Xfire) mode ati smokes nvidia.
reason is simple. nvidia went the big, monolithic, powerful gpu route, whereas ati went the smaller, but comparably powerful gpu route.
ati took care to make its chip smaller, energy efficient, less heating per processing power.
result ? while it is overly ridiculous to try to squeeze 2 280s and their accompanying huge (30 cm long) cooling apparatus into a case in sli mode, and have to have a humongous psu to support them and burn electricity like madmen, you can reach similar processing power by putting in 4 4870s.
not only that, but 4870 x 2s are possible, whereas 280x2s are not. because, 280s require too much cooling, and too big in size that you cant fit 2 on one PCB.
result ? unbelievable setups like 4 x 4870x2s are possible, whereas 2 280s in sli would be questionable.
that basically means ati packs more processing power per size and transistor, or power consumed than nvidia. and thats kicking ass in my book.
APM is just an indicator of what potential someone has to MICRO manage the units. many top level competitors in sc gaming are people who dont have omnipotent apm. get yer facts together first.
in starcraft, you demand intel reports in 3 seconds, they come in 1 seconds, you have to process it in 10 seconds and act in 20 seconds. thats what starcraft is.
it would be a tactical game if you didnt have resources and production, and ability to change your production and tap more resources. it isnt. its much more strategic than any turn based game.
starcraft is not played outside boundaries of time. time also passes when you are playing a starcraft game.
excuse me, whomever takes hours to develop a 'strategy' in a turn based game, is a moron, not a good strategy player. in starcraft, you have to see the next 10 to 30 minutes in front of you (duration also varies upon anything that can happen during the game), but also update your entire strategy constantly depending on what happens in that duration. that may cause strategy change for 1 to 4 times on any competent starcraft game.
so if it takes you 2 hours to come up and execute a strategy, excuse me, but you lack the capacity to play starcraft. you gotta do what you do in 2 hours in other games in 1.5 minutes in starcraft. if you cant, you get the shaft.
your text gives out the fact that you have never played starcraft since 1998.
there are multitudes of strategies in between micromanaging, macromanaging, and anything in starcraft. please dont make assumptions without information.
any player who cant beat a kekekeke zerg rush is someone who played starcraft for a month back in 1998 and never played afterwards.
excuse me but age of empires and similar games dont have nothing to do with rts. they are basically "Whomever builds the baddest, fastest unit the most and sends them over, wins". there are small variation in tactics you can do, because every unit has an anti unit, but its nothing like starcraft. also the races, faction units are almost all the same, with only 2-3 different in 15 unit selections. they are basically the same.
in starcraft you have 3 different races with TOTALLY different units all having totally different abilities.
no unit has a clear anti unit. there are many different units that can stand against and be an anti unit of a particular unit because of their different abilities.
and this makes the game an infinite variation of strategy. there are countless ways to win a matchup. you can go mass production, but if your opponent has good micro (management, meaning using units very effectively individually) and uses very little number of units and their abilities perfectly, you are totally screwed.
no sir, either you dont know zit about strategy, or havent really played starcraft by giving its due.
nvidia should concentrate on their main product, graphics cards, and better them, instead of bickering about another company's different product line, and trying to encroach into it. they got their ass whopped by ati's latest release, yet they are there just criticizing intel.
which is filled with conservatives from prior decades, and hardliners, and run accordingly ? well, thats no surprise. fraud entire nation in white house and get pardoned by president, but do a little piracy and get 400 k fine and 15 months prison time. great justice understanding these conservatives have.
when i criticized it and said it will hurt a lot of small businesses and communities, some people came up with darwinian shit like 'if they are not able to afford a $100 buck a year ssl, they dont deserve to be on the internet anyway'.
and look now, even the biggest can be affected by this overzealous, self righteous implementation in ff3, not only small businesses and communities who are 'so easily forfeitable'.
i wonder what those people have to say now.
when i say that we really wanna get rid of the cables for good. i hope they perfect this as soon as possible.
can the idiot who modded the above troll explain the evidence to the contrary of the statement contained therein ?
everyone and their dog are being given mod points these days, and not only that, but they are merrily being fanatics about nationalism freely in an international platform.
i urge anyone who is not out of the nationalism adolescence yet (many chinese, apparently) to go back to their local environment, get their satisfaction from 19th century nationalism, and THEN come out to internet and join the INTERnational community.
get a load of that. coming from a turkish, who is supposed to be nationalist by tradition.
but sorry, yea, mac platform falls WAY behind the pc platform in terms of capabilities and what you can do with them.
its apparent that you mac fanbois here do not want to hear this, and want to hear forced opinions that give 'equal credits to both', but there is no such thing.
almost all of the it world is being run by pcs, intel based frameworks, and internet is no exception. majority of whats done on any computer related area gets done on pcs.
even your late macs are Intel based, macos loaded computers.
you should ditch the fanaticism and wake up to the fact that you are buying an IMAGE, not functionality, and quit pestering us non mac users with the long tirades about those shiny macs of yours. because the fanaticism and the pestering is really growing annoying. we're not in 90s anymore.
not quite.
what you call as 'in-house' is a long term business relationship thats just inside a company's roof. (sometimes even not under the same roof). an outsourcing is no different. IF you do it properly, as a long term relationship.
some of you people have the tendency of taking outsourcing as a "on a need basis, one shot go" type of relationship. it isnt.
it doesnt differ zit from any kind of business relationship since the dawn of trade - you have to choose carefully, you have to choose a reliable source to do business with, you have to choose according to your needs, and also, buyer beware.
i want to stress reliable. this is the key to any business relationship, not only outsourcing.
in any reliable business relationship you'll find that the interaction between companies over a long duration of time start to resemble what you call in-house business relationships under one company's roof.
why anything critical of macs get modded down here.
This Al ?
there are many brands that are solidly built on pc front. asus for example. cheap and rock solid. and there is also eee.
spending karma for your reading pleasure here.
on people who know i.t. shit, this pr stunt is not gonna have any effect much like the same.
.... but, the shit people are doing with pc setups are SO varying in numerousness and nature that nothing mac does can be compared to what pc is.
...........
(duh, i just remembered late macs are intels with macos. so much for pc-mac distinction)...
yea, hip, and all that, yea, pc is a geek and mac is hip and with a mac you can browse your music, load them to your ipod, create family albums and this and that, and do design work too
those kind of ads only can coerce less technologically keen people into 'style'.
sorry mac fans. i respect you people, and even quite respect the design work you do (many designers work on mac), but thats about it. for all the rest (and even design) there is still pc.
a few witty humor, and im gonna turn all the pcs around me to vista, just like that.
are kramer, george and jerry gonna come and fix the pc issues that my close circle is gonna have afterwards ? dont think so.