well, as the title of the article says, this is a gaming box. Quad isn't used in gaming, so you can get a duo with a higher clock speed at that price. They are spending like $200 on an AMD quad. With that price, you can get a top of the line intel at 2.4 or 2.6GHz that you can overclock the crap out of. For games, you need 2 cores and major clock speed, not a quad core and mediocre clock speed.

Budget machine has a quad core? And is almost a grand?

Tom's Hardware does these, and the budget is usually closer to the $600 mark, with the mid range around $1200.

And the fact that they put two optical BD burners on the extreme one (one on each page) makes me think that this article was slapped together instead of fully investigated. Where's the benchmarks? The proof that you built a good machine?

Looks like a buncha kids opened up newegg and built themselves machines in their head...

I was going to say 'parasite', myself...

Believe it or not, Al Davis and the Raiders always try the run and verticle pass offense. It worked wonders in the 80s, and should work now-a-days, but there isn't that many OC's that run the offense, anymore. Norv Turner and Scott Linehan run this type of offense...

Here's your best bet. Granted, I don't expect you to come up with the next big idea while learning to develop code, if you work on your stuff on your own resources and time, they have no rights to your code.

Just don't turn it in as a homework assignment ;)

First of all, the A11 isn't legal in college or the pros, only in high school. It abuses a rule that allows eligible numbers on the line in scrimmage kick formation (punt formation). That loophole doesn't exist in college or the pros.

The spread will not work in the pros. None of the college scheme/trick offenses will. NFL defenses are far too disciplined and fast to crack with it. Put the spread in NFL, you'll see the defense running cover-2, cover-3, and zone blitz that will tear it apart and force a tremendous amount of turnovers. Not to mention how beat up the QBs will be, not to mention the WRs running over the middle.

Nope... no one around here runs it, but, to be honest, I hate it. Its abusing a rule that allows for non-lineman to be on the line when in scrimmage kick formation (punt formation). The rule is there for smaller schools that don't have enough lineman to play in special teams. Now the big schools abuse the rule to make for a trick offense. It doesn't work in college or the pros because they don't have that 'small school' rule in place.

I would almost be willing to throw a flag for devious play (like running to the sidelines claiming the ball is bad only to run down for a touchdown when the defense isn't watching).

But you are right... you need very smart and using proper signals for your line judge and head linesman... cause they get 2 seconds to determine eligibility of receivers...

High School football ends at the end of Oct/early Nov. So I'm not ref'ing at the moment, but will be next year...

While I agree with parent and GameMaster's comments, I must also ask you to proceed with caution. Most companies have it in the contract you sign with them to not do outside work that is similar to your current work without permission. Talk to your boss about doing outside development work... just 'trying it out' can get you fired from the stable job you have now.

If you really want to try contract work, get in a contract company. If you live in the midwest, I can get you a job with my contracting firm. Usually the job is pretty stable, and they handle your insurance and other headaches that freelance work brings...

That's not saying much (I think Cassell is just a product of the system, too, btw)

While I don't see the Raven's making it all the way on a rookie QB, your flips are definitely not out of the question!

I could use the same rationalization as to why I called kids names when I was in elementary school... but when you become an adult, you tend to realize that calling people/companies names is entirely juvenile and makes you come across as a tool.

But, hey, if you want to come across as an ass, by all means... just don't try to rationalize it to me.

River City Ransom and Metroid...

I've already mentioned... unread is basically google reader with a comments. All that google reader would need to do is add threading to the comments, and you have my dream of unread...