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If the internet gets destroyed by a bunch of idiots that don't understand the internet, I don't think people will just turn around, bend over, and drop their pants. Instead, I think people will just create their own networks. Think of the "good" old days BEFORE the internet.
Oh, it just gets on my nerves when people say stuff like that. They're NOT going back to the pentium III, the Core processors are based on Pentium M which is more similar to PIII than P4. It's because the whole point of NetBurst was to be able to have super high clock speeds. Reality did not match up with spec, so NetBurst was a failure. If power consumption didn't go through the roof so quicky, NetBurst would've been extremely fast. I'm writing this on an Athlon XP 2000+, so no, I'm not an Intel fanboi. I'm not anybody's fanboi. The truth in the matter was that I was planning on upgrading this year to an Socket 939 Athlon 64 3700+, but held off when I heard about AM2 coming out. I never looked into Intel because I had gotten so used to their crap. I then read THG's article on the Pentium D 805 overclocking and I got a little interested in Intel. While AMD's prices are shooting straight up now (I got this Athlon XP 2000+ because it was so darn cheap when it came out and was one of the fastest things on the mid-range market at the time), Intel is actually cutting their prices and there's so many examples of Intel having higher performance per dollar. I think Conroe is going to kick AMD in the butt, a kick AMD needs. I think AMD has gotten a little arrogant being on the top on the performance per price, but now are flip-flopping. I think this time it'll be different though, because AMD is going to work their butts off trying to beat Intel. AMD's 4x4 is evidence of that. But it seems like AMD's answer for everything now is buying fancy, shiny new hardware that makes your system more and more expensive. Their answer for EVERYTHING is buying high-end things just to compete with Intel. SLi memory is the only way to actually get full performance out of your RAM, you have to buy dual-core to get any performance anymore out of AMD (oh, and BTW, the Athlon 64-X2 3800+ is such a ripoff. I don't remember what Pentium D it was, but Intel had a dual-core chip that outperformed it for over $100 less), their new plan for performance is buying TWO outrageously prices X2 chips (same approach the graphics cards makers are taking) and a bunch of coprocessors, and I heard AMD is switching sockets AGAIN next year. If I'm not mistaken, Core 2 Duo is still going to use LGA 775. You can snag the cheapest Core 2 Duo for $160 as well, and it'll probably outperform most of AMD's Semprons.
So very well put. I'm the exact same way. Both parties are exactly the same, in my opinion. They just use different tools (pun intended) to push their agendas.
It's like people have never heard of birthday money. I usually got like $40-60 from all the birthday cards I'd get. Combine that with loose change and extra-curricular activities, and you can get away with a lot. I remember getting Resident Evil: Nemesis and GTA3 on my own using my own money. My parents still don't know I have those games. Not that it'd matter much though, as they've been letting me buy Mature games for the past couple of years (after explaining to them how Wolfenstein 3D, the first computer game I ever played, was rated PC-13 when it came out and then got bumped up to Mature when ESRB got a hold of it. They knew that Wolf3D wasn't that bad so didn't have a problem ever since. I'm about to be 18 anyway, so it doesn't matter)
Parents like to "protect" their children by keeping certain things blocked or hidden from their children. They pretend like the things simply do not exist. It's the ostrich syndrome. Unfortunately, since parents aren't willing to discuss things with their children, they are actually harming them. A kid becomes curious and his parents put him into fear of even asking, so the only source is his friends. His friends are in the same boat, and they all learned it from Billy, the psycho whose dad films child porn and takes him to strip clubs for his 8th birthday. Another way they harm their children is that a child subjugated to constantly being told "no" and shut out from things sees his parents in a negative light. He only sees his parents as people who take things away from him. Thus, teenagers tend to completely despise their parents (frustration with parents is natural, but for some children it is just extreme). When the dictator who blocks his children's things and doesn't expose his children to things (to explain the right and wrongs of these things) loses power of his slaves (once the kids go to college), crap like Girls Gone Wild happens. As well as all the dumb things many college students subject themselves to (hard drinking, drugs, unprotected sex, crime). But instead of being their children's true mentors, they'd instead just to be half-assed and pretend the "bad people" didn't exist. Who cares when I can just complain to the school board that my kid now cusses like a sailor! It's THEIR responsibility to raise my child. And when the kids come back home (a moment I DREAD), the TV needs to raise them. Ah, but it needs to be blocked, and if they see anything, I'm contacting the FCC. I shouldn't have to deal with things like explaining that the violence they see on TV isn't real, that would take away my time with the hot woman down the street I've been cheating on my wife with.
Conspiracies thrive when they convince their victims there's nothing wrong. Funny you're so quick to judge something you have not seen as being mere paranoia when you haven't even the information the person wanted to submit. I can guarantee you injustices are more important than duped articles about an OS that won't even come out until next year.
That's where the stupidity lies. Are they putting GPU's in the CPU's? no? They shouldn't market it like that then. "4x4" sounds lame anyway. Why not call it "Dual-socket motherboard"?
Or the fact that Best Buy lied to a customer. Is that not a crime? It's nice to know you condone dishonest business. All I know is that I never really bought much anything from Best Buy, but I NEVER will again. As well as I'll tell everyone I know not to.
That's the problem these days. Nobody has morality. The reason the US has so many loopholes is because every law is just a bandaid. The whole system needs rehaul, and the poor morality (the mindset of "I'll research this as much as possible, and even though I broke the law I won't be a man and take the proper consequences).
This country disgusts me and I am leaving ASAP.
Perhaps that'll annoy people enough not to delete the system icons. I used to get so mad when I used the family computer and my dad would delete an icon for something on his account and it got deleted on mine too.
Another thing about shortcuts I hate: some applications only install them for the account you installed the program with. I had to make shortcuts by hand for every account on the machine or manually copy the shortcut to the shared shortcuts.
It's only a show pony because most people on this world are idiotic. Probably the only way they can continue their funding is if they show people the "progress" they've made. Yeah, it ends up being little stupid gags, but that's what idiotic people like. A lot of the things they've worked on on ASIMO Jethro wouldn't understand.
Baby steps. They're not pouring that money into ASIMO because they think ASIMO is useful. ASIMO is merely a test platform. When the need arises to build a humanoid robot, they'll already have worked on many of the components necessary and can implement them right away.
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If the internet gets destroyed by a bunch of idiots that don't understand the internet, I don't think people will just turn around, bend over, and drop their pants. Instead, I think people will just create their own networks. Think of the "good" old days BEFORE the internet.
Oh, it just gets on my nerves when people say stuff like that. They're NOT going back to the pentium III, the Core processors are based on Pentium M which is more similar to PIII than P4. It's because the whole point of NetBurst was to be able to have super high clock speeds. Reality did not match up with spec, so NetBurst was a failure. If power consumption didn't go through the roof so quicky, NetBurst would've been extremely fast. I'm writing this on an Athlon XP 2000+, so no, I'm not an Intel fanboi. I'm not anybody's fanboi. The truth in the matter was that I was planning on upgrading this year to an Socket 939 Athlon 64 3700+, but held off when I heard about AM2 coming out. I never looked into Intel because I had gotten so used to their crap. I then read THG's article on the Pentium D 805 overclocking and I got a little interested in Intel. While AMD's prices are shooting straight up now (I got this Athlon XP 2000+ because it was so darn cheap when it came out and was one of the fastest things on the mid-range market at the time), Intel is actually cutting their prices and there's so many examples of Intel having higher performance per dollar. I think Conroe is going to kick AMD in the butt, a kick AMD needs. I think AMD has gotten a little arrogant being on the top on the performance per price, but now are flip-flopping. I think this time it'll be different though, because AMD is going to work their butts off trying to beat Intel. AMD's 4x4 is evidence of that. But it seems like AMD's answer for everything now is buying fancy, shiny new hardware that makes your system more and more expensive. Their answer for EVERYTHING is buying high-end things just to compete with Intel. SLi memory is the only way to actually get full performance out of your RAM, you have to buy dual-core to get any performance anymore out of AMD (oh, and BTW, the Athlon 64-X2 3800+ is such a ripoff. I don't remember what Pentium D it was, but Intel had a dual-core chip that outperformed it for over $100 less), their new plan for performance is buying TWO outrageously prices X2 chips (same approach the graphics cards makers are taking) and a bunch of coprocessors, and I heard AMD is switching sockets AGAIN next year. If I'm not mistaken, Core 2 Duo is still going to use LGA 775. You can snag the cheapest Core 2 Duo for $160 as well, and it'll probably outperform most of AMD's Semprons.
So very well put. I'm the exact same way. Both parties are exactly the same, in my opinion. They just use different tools (pun intended) to push their agendas.
It's like people have never heard of birthday money. I usually got like $40-60 from all the birthday cards I'd get. Combine that with loose change and extra-curricular activities, and you can get away with a lot. I remember getting Resident Evil: Nemesis and GTA3 on my own using my own money. My parents still don't know I have those games. Not that it'd matter much though, as they've been letting me buy Mature games for the past couple of years (after explaining to them how Wolfenstein 3D, the first computer game I ever played, was rated PC-13 when it came out and then got bumped up to Mature when ESRB got a hold of it. They knew that Wolf3D wasn't that bad so didn't have a problem ever since. I'm about to be 18 anyway, so it doesn't matter)
Parents like to "protect" their children by keeping certain things blocked or hidden from their children. They pretend like the things simply do not exist. It's the ostrich syndrome. Unfortunately, since parents aren't willing to discuss things with their children, they are actually harming them. A kid becomes curious and his parents put him into fear of even asking, so the only source is his friends. His friends are in the same boat, and they all learned it from Billy, the psycho whose dad films child porn and takes him to strip clubs for his 8th birthday. Another way they harm their children is that a child subjugated to constantly being told "no" and shut out from things sees his parents in a negative light. He only sees his parents as people who take things away from him. Thus, teenagers tend to completely despise their parents (frustration with parents is natural, but for some children it is just extreme). When the dictator who blocks his children's things and doesn't expose his children to things (to explain the right and wrongs of these things) loses power of his slaves (once the kids go to college), crap like Girls Gone Wild happens. As well as all the dumb things many college students subject themselves to (hard drinking, drugs, unprotected sex, crime). But instead of being their children's true mentors, they'd instead just to be half-assed and pretend the "bad people" didn't exist. Who cares when I can just complain to the school board that my kid now cusses like a sailor! It's THEIR responsibility to raise my child. And when the kids come back home (a moment I DREAD), the TV needs to raise them. Ah, but it needs to be blocked, and if they see anything, I'm contacting the FCC. I shouldn't have to deal with things like explaining that the violence they see on TV isn't real, that would take away my time with the hot woman down the street I've been cheating on my wife with.
Conspiracies thrive when they convince their victims there's nothing wrong. Funny you're so quick to judge something you have not seen as being mere paranoia when you haven't even the information the person wanted to submit. I can guarantee you injustices are more important than duped articles about an OS that won't even come out until next year.
Well, at least they can consistent about it.
That's where the stupidity lies. Are they putting GPU's in the CPU's? no? They shouldn't market it like that then. "4x4" sounds lame anyway. Why not call it "Dual-socket motherboard"?
Or the fact that Best Buy lied to a customer. Is that not a crime? It's nice to know you condone dishonest business. All I know is that I never really bought much anything from Best Buy, but I NEVER will again. As well as I'll tell everyone I know not to.
That's the problem these days. Nobody has morality. The reason the US has so many loopholes is because every law is just a bandaid. The whole system needs rehaul, and the poor morality (the mindset of "I'll research this as much as possible, and even though I broke the law I won't be a man and take the proper consequences). This country disgusts me and I am leaving ASAP.
Perhaps that'll annoy people enough not to delete the system icons. I used to get so mad when I used the family computer and my dad would delete an icon for something on his account and it got deleted on mine too. Another thing about shortcuts I hate: some applications only install them for the account you installed the program with. I had to make shortcuts by hand for every account on the machine or manually copy the shortcut to the shared shortcuts.
It's only a show pony because most people on this world are idiotic. Probably the only way they can continue their funding is if they show people the "progress" they've made. Yeah, it ends up being little stupid gags, but that's what idiotic people like. A lot of the things they've worked on on ASIMO Jethro wouldn't understand.
Baby steps. They're not pouring that money into ASIMO because they think ASIMO is useful. ASIMO is merely a test platform. When the need arises to build a humanoid robot, they'll already have worked on many of the components necessary and can implement them right away.
OMFG, I'm still laughing at that
Let's just hope these hearts don't start getting DRM'd!
Most definitely trash. I think "gamer" cases are designed by monkeys on acid.