"or wanting the newer GPU 5-10 years down the road"

At the current pace of technology, it is very likely that 5-10 years down the road your system won't even support/have the new bus slot the newer GPUs will require. That's including the current-gen of processor we are now discussing. PCI express is going to go away with direct processor interconnects on an interposer. Soon we will be at the point I predicted in my teenage years, where we have a closely-linked multi-socket motherboard, and all we do is replace the primary processors. RAM, Audio, Networking, all will be self-contained. CPU with 128GB RAM on-die? GPU with access to the same memory on the same interposer? Multiple sockets on a single motherboard (which is in and of itself just a large-scale interposer...)

And likely 5 years after that, my little dream will die out to someone with a better idea.

" this CPU is able to beat last generation dedicated GPUs"

To boot, no, bullshit, and I proved this in the AMD spreadsheet performance comments from yesterday/day before. This new i7 processor can't even match a 9800GTX+ in single-precision FLOPs.

So, no, it isn't even beating GPUs from SEVEN GENERATIONS ago.

"Horseshit. Video cards are special purpose items these days "

I guess you haven't heard of GPGPU. Well, given your UID, not a surprise.

" The output from the NVIDIA chip gets piped through the Intel chip, as the Intel chip is the only one attached to the display."

"There's also a mild performance reduction with the Optimus solution."

So, here I sit on a desktop system with both discrete GPU (GTX 260 Core 216) and an Intel IGP, triple-monitor setup.

I absolutely fucking hate when the system renders on the GTX yet insists on displaying through the monitor attached to the Intel IGP. We're talking a no-shit measured 50% drop in framerate - FOR DOOM I/II ON THE ZANDRONUM PORT.

I can only imagine the shit performance Optimus provides, and that is why I've explicitly avoided buying laptop systems using Intel/nVidia with Optimus.

"A real "Password Manager" would be even better - if I find one that I trust, and I'm comfortable using. I haven't found it yet . . ."

Ever try a Rolodex?

BTW, Mr. Anon coward, that password in plain text - 8 nonillion years to crack. Done up with numbers and symbols like I posted, it's 252 undecillion years.

So, yes, adding numbers DOES significantly increase bitwise entropy. By a few orders of magnitude.

"Why does it need numbers in it? This does not significantly increase bitwise entropy, but forcing me to think of a phrase that has numbers in it has suddenly reduced my space of possible phrases from hundreds to a handful"

Y0ur br@1n 0bv10u$ly d0e$n't w0rk.

"Do you have a citation for that Mr. Scraps of Bad Security on Paper?"

Every fucking government agency that uses a fucking AIR GAP like a REAL PROFESSIONAL.

Which you are obviously NOT.

"Why the hell don't you have port knocking enabled for SSH?"

Because http://www.giac.org/paper/gsec... maybe.

"The alternative being what?"

Purpose-specific passwords. E-mail gets one long and secure password. Forums/discussion sites get another password that's nowhere related to my e-mail password. Games sites and services get another password. And then my own anime site which uses a picture/caption/password combo for all users (Not captcha, caption, as in you type your caption to match the image you chose for security, hit confirm, and if those match you're prompted to enter your password on the next screen. My bank has this for login as well.)

No problems.

"I agree with the article - blocking password managers lowers security."

Password managers suck. You want to know what works better? Image/phrase/password verification like my bank is using (and I've been using on my anime forum for at least a decade.)

Let's see your password manager work worth a shit when your system hard drive takes a dump and you don't have a backup.

Well, I put in the TOP of the line server hardware versus top of the line GPU hardware.

If we go to the desktop region, then the performance disparity increases!

Example, the latest Core i7 5960X is only 384 GigaFLOPs. It can't even get to half the power of a 9800GTX+.

But that doesn't even begin taking into account the efficiency of algorithms and code utilized.

"A GPU is not 500 times faster than a CPU, more like 2 or 3 times"

Just on FLOPs alone you're dead wrong. The latest and greatest E-series Xeons (V3) have barely enough power to match the 9800GTX+ - about 800 GigaFLOPs. The 980 GTX Ti is roughly 5.6 TeraFLOPs.

What's so damned special about relationships? If it's about equality, then tell me, why does a childless married couple pay less in tax than a widow with a child who earns the same as the couple? I'd say the widow's relationship to the child matters to society, the couple's relationship doesn't matter to anyone but them.

Why is it legal to discriminate on the basis of marriage?

Why does any government in a secular country have anything at all to do with marriage?

A large proportion of the time it ends with MS sending patches. On Patch Tuesday the damned thing is useless for an hour sometimes. Other times I have to reboot it to make it usable.

Windows: "Quality? Why make a quality product when crap sells so well?"