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Little update on your wait. AMD has all but said they won't be releasing a new GPU until next year, with speculation on lack of market need and being too busy making parts for the new Xbox/PS4. Haven't been paying attention to AMD's next generation CPU release, unlikely that they will compete in the mainstream performance market. Intel's Haswell desktop parts are scheduled to be released this summer, June 2. Haswell should bring slightly better performance per clock - usually listed around 10%, along with new instructions, massively improved integrated graphics, Thunderbolt(woot!), new cache/TLB design, and moving the CPU's VRM from the motherboard directly onto the CPU which I haven't seen from Intel since the Pentium Overdrive upgrade processors. Power consumption will be around the same or lower vs Ivy Bridge parts with the quad core performance parts having TDPs ranging from 35W to 84W, however I'd assume these numbers include the new onboard VRM which makes for significantly lower overall power consumption.

nVidia's 700 series has a few parts out - the Titan with it's $999 price tag and and some mobile parts which are just rebadged 600 series parts. No word yet on mainstream performance cards, but it should be interesting. The Titan is based extensively off the Tesla K20 and sports some 7.1 billion transistors, nearly 3 times the number of the Sandy Bridge-EP parts with their 8 cores and 20M of L3 cache. With that level of complexity and a die size of some 551mm^2 matched against TSMC's dated 28nm process it's pushing the limits of practicality, with which must be an extremely long lithography process with poor yields. Even if nVidia's neuters Titan and drops the total number of GPCs from 5 down to say 3, and moves from a a 384 bit to 256 bit memory bus in order to reduce die size and increase yields(and likewise reduce cost) it'll be questionable whether they'll offer enough of a performance increase in today's software verses current solutions to be of value. If you were looking to use software that utilizes OpenCL or CUDA then the Titan and any descendants of it would be an excellent choice but for gaming vs the dollar it is up in the air. It may just be a moot point for nVidia at this time until TSMC(or GlobalFoundries) offers a smaller process with reasonable prices and yields.

TL:DR - I wouldn't wait for nVidia or AMD at this point unless you feel like waiting a year. Intel's Hawell should be available in a little over 3 months and bring improved performance and new features, but probably not enough to be a deal breaker if you don't want to wait.

Little update on your wait. AMD has all but said they won't be releasing a new GPU until next year, with speculation on lack of market need and being too busy making parts for the new Xbox/PS4. Haven't been paying attention to AMD's next generation CPU release, unlikely that they will compete in the mainstream performance market. Intel's Haswell desktop parts are scheduled to be released this summer, June 2. Haswell should bring slightly better performance per clock - usually listed around 10%, along with new instructions, massively improved integrated graphics, Thunderbolt(woot!), new cache/TLB design, and moving the CPU's VRM from the motherboard directly onto the CPU which I haven't seen from Intel since the Pentium Overdrive upgrade processors. Power consumption will be around the same or lower vs Ivy Bridge parts with the quad core performance parts having TDPs ranging from 35W to 84W, however I'd assume these numbers include the new onboard VRM which makes for significantly lower overall power consumption.

nVidia's 700 series has a few parts out - the Titan with it's $999 price tag and and some mobile parts which are just rebadged 600 series parts. No word yet on mainstream performance cards, but it should be interesting. The Titan is based extensively off the Tesla K20 and sports some 7.1 billion transistors, nearly 3 times the number of the Sandy Bridge-EP parts with their 8 cores and 20M of L3 cache. With that level of complexity and a die size of some 551mm^2 matched against TSMC's dated 28nm process it's pushing the limits of practicality, with which must be an extremely long lithography process with poor yields. Even if nVidia's neuters Titan and drops the total number of GPCs from 5 down to say 3, and moves from a a 384 bit to 256 bit memory bus in order to reduce die size and increase yields(and likewise reduce cost) it'll be questionable whether they'll offer enough of a performance increase in today's software verses current solutions to be of value. If you were looking to use software that utilizes OpenCL or CUDA then the Titan and any descendants of it would be an excellent choice but for gaming vs the dollar it up in the air. It may just be a moot point for nVidia at this time until TSMC(or GlobalFoundries) offers a smaller process with reasonable prices and yields.

TL:DR - I wouldn't wait for nVidia or AMD at this point unless you feel like waiting a year. Intel's Hawell should be available in a little over 3 months and bring improved performance and new features, but probably not enough to be a deal breaker if you don't want to wait.

I'm not even gonna touch Walker, but on your side note militarization of the police has been happening since 9/11. I mean you came from NYC, a city with a police force with a larger budget than the majority of the rest world's armies. They operate some eleven offices in foreign nations, supposedly have MANPADs anti-aircraft weaponry, and operate both aerial and submarine drones. What's more lovely is that police are changing from 'peace officers' to 'soldiers', police are supposed to be friendly and useful, helping people not scaring them. Going further I don't believe any police station needs an APC, at that point lets just give them a stockpile of Javelins and M1A1s, that'll stop those terrorists.

As for an added conspiracy theory post I'd like state the Meteor happened in the same area that Dyatlov Pass incident happened where nine experience skiers had left their tent in the nude in -30F weather and were found dead with various injuries and high radiation. Also the home of the largest nuclear fuel processing plant in Russia which had one of the worst(or the worst) and most covered up nuclear incidents of all time. Ah, Russia.

How is it in any way comparable to porting software to Windows ME?

It is a fact however that Socialism does not work in a Capitalist system and the evidence of that is our current state of affairs. It is a fact that there are economic systems that work and those that do not. The same can be said for political and ideological systems. Far left systems do not work and it is that simple. I'm not quite sure what makes our system 'far left', but certainly Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark are and last I checked they are and have been functioning governments. Even Germany which has free health care and free/very little cost secondary education would 'more left' than us and they have one of the strongest economies in the world.

Only stating that your "Socialism does not work in a Capitalist system" is wrong. Also note like just about every other developed nation on the planet we are a mixed economy, we are not and never have been a a straight up capitalist market. A true laissez-faire state has never existed, nor could it.

1. The Constitution trumps any misguided attempts to restrict guns. Guns are not the problem, the culture is. I also do not believe the same people responsible for giving guns for the Mexican drug cartels have any credibility on the issue. This ultimately is a discussion for another thread.

The constitution makes no mention of firearm controls, nor the right to own one. The second amendment of the Bill of Rights - not the constitution - states

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

Keeping in mind that 1) The idea was for the states to have armed militias as even after the abysmal failure of the Articles of Confederation people were scared of power central government and it's Continental Army and wanted to able to defend themselves from it. 2) The weapons it refers to are vastly different than today's weapons 3) It doesn't prevent restrictions on firearms.

I'll go 75.99

EDIT: I can't read/type.

It is a fact however that Socialism does not work in a Capitalist system and the evidence of that is our current state of affairs. It is a fact that there are economic systems that work and those that do not. The same can be said for political and ideological systems. Far left systems do not work and it is that simple.

I'm not quite sure what makes our system 'far left', but certainly Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark are and last I checked they are and have been functioning governments. Even Germany which has free health care and free/very little cost secondary education would 'more left' than us and they have one of the strongest economies in the world.

The cake is a lie.

Just a few more months till the new season comes out

I hate biggs as he think's he is better than me 'cause he has ten fingers. jerkface.

Only read the first page of the Esquire article as after that it failed to format correctly on my PC. However it states he won't get any medical - so long as he was honorably discharged he should be able to to get healthcare(including mental) at any VA hospital/clinic for life. Doesn't make much sense he served 16 years just four years short of retirement. If he didn't want to be active anymore why not transfer to the reserves or the Guard or being a 16 year vet with apparently heavy experience in DEVGRU I can't imagine he couldn't get a transfer to a non-combat state-side training position, serve his four remaining years and get his retirement. That is just part of being in the military, you either serve the two years and get your GI bill rights, or you serve 20 and get both.

We have at least 5 consistent players right now

Hard to say how much better Haswell will be until it's out, but it will require a new motherboard and socket(LGA1150) and will feature new chipsets. At least a card of nVidia's 700 series is supposed to be out this month, already been pics and benchmarks and retailers taking pre-orders. AMD's 8000 series is supposed to be out within the next few months as well, certainly wouldn't hurt to wait unless you're in a hurry.

You probably already have 4G of RAM, you just have Windows Vista 32 bit which won't use/recognize over 3.5GB and you have 512MB of video RAM which means Windows will only use/recognize around 3GB of RAM. Minecraft will run on your laptop but you may have to turn down some settings, I'd suggest downloading OptiFine 1.4.6_L_B5 and MagicLauncher. Start magic launcher, press setup, then add, and add the Optifine zip file you downloaded. Then hit the advanced tab and change memory to 1024.

Hah, my baby has competition, good work. Only question is from the first screenshot, why is twm your window manger?

Pet hamster? Lucky.

Uhh, cut off your right hand middle finger just past the second segment and send it to me. I need one.

Err, links posted to pornography(real or not) on the forums probably aren't the best idea.

Impressive.

I'm guessing the CD had physical damage/flaws that you couldn't/didn't see, as polycarbonate doesn't really break down unless exposed to long term UV.

These guys tested CDs all the way up to 175X(35,000RPM) way back in 2003, and never had one come apart until they released it from the shaft - then they fly across the room, up walls, and explode. You can find plenty of video on Youtube now too, and Mythbusters did an episode on it.

The video from the top link, gotta love englishrussia.com

You can just delete everything in the steam folder but steamapps, when you reinstall it'll find your games. You sound like you may have a network issue more than anything now. You get the samething in Chrome? Run Malware Bytes Antimalware and make sure you're not infected?

Hrm, didn't really read anything I wrote. Bewilder's PSU will be loaded to 50% under typical gaming, maybe 65% under a heavy burn-in. The math for it is even above.

Done the standard deleting of the ClientRegistery.blob? and restarted steam?

Or just deleted everything in X:\Program Files\Steam\ besides steamapps\, and reinstalled?

Yea, forum load times seem stable quick now mother/FK.