If you are only using 4-8 cores at a time, you are clearly not the target audience for these chips.

That's what i get for trying to be slightly funny in a trekkie thread, not a single +1 funny, but several people tripping over themselves to bitch about how the trek-reboot isnt canon and has all sorts of minor inconsistencies with TOS

oh true, i can appreciate him as Kirk, but i cant for the life of me understand why we should care what he has to say about ST vs SW

well he got stranded on some icey outpost because he was only the stepchield of the deputy of the temporary night shift engineer of the local shuttle service shop, but then he beamed himself into the primary coolant loop of a starship travelling at warp speed, after some vulcan from the future give him the magic instructions, which is how he got the job.

Forget about enterprise, and watch battlestar galatica, for FSMs sake!

i've seen my share of TOS, but shatner completely lost any respect i had for him with all the shitty sit-coms he's doing. I wasnt a fan of him in third rock from the sun, but i watched him in "shit my dad says" last week, and the guy just cant act...

Vulcan nerve pinch Vs force powers + lightsaber? You can guess where my money is.

And i havent seen a car company remove more and more features on a model during its lifespan

"oh, you have a '11 focus, yeah, ford removed the power windows and stereo by then, but you do get a bigger boot!"

if you are open to custom building yourself, you can dispense with the optical drive and other crap you dont need (pick smaller drives if storage isnt a concern etc.. avoid windows tax, how ever small it may be on a 250 quid box) and dump that into stronger hardware

Late last year we had a crunch-intensive problem at work, and the internal IT department wouldnt even give us a price quote, just said they could do it (a problem which required six octo-core xeon machines, in a world wide company with 90k in people, go figure), so i drafted a small proposal saying i could build ten hex-core AMD boxes with 4 GB ram each for 5k in euros. Off course it wasnt take seriously, because it wasnt enterprise, but there you go, custom bare bones build with a beefy cpu

i fully agree with you, right up to

Yes, a core i7 has much better performance per clock-tick then a P4, but not orders of magnitude (which implies at the very least 100x)

I've read you referring to yourself like that before in this discussion, and after seeing it yet again, i can only think that you, a person living 160 km from the site, who apparently is too paranoid to put any stock into 20 km exclusion zone (or the 30km voluntary evacuation zone), coupled with the fact that radiation decreases exponentially as distance goes up, referring to yourself as a "Fukushima refugee" is almost and insult to people who actually used to live in the exclusion zone.

It makes about as much sense as me calling myself a london riots refugee, never mind the fact there is a flippin sea between me and those pikes*.

*not calling londonners pikes by the way, just the willfully enumployed, "check out the bag of basmati rice i looted, gunna get some sneakaz tomorra!" scum.

i would hardly call shutting down ~30% of existing nuclear plants, and taking the rest down within a few years, reverting mostly back to coal a reasonable reaction. Never mind the fact that fukushima was triggered by a massive earthquake (which are known to happen in japan), while Germany is generally a geologicaly stable region.

Considering that this is Japan we're talking about, slightly larger than the average american lavatory.

Also, Idou, you keep spewing the "why dont you invest in real estate" crap around, and i decided to compile a short list:
- I am not a japanse national, nor do i live within 12 hours flight of japan, i assume there are japanese laws preventing foreign nationals buying up real estate, given their tendency for xenofobia (not slamming the japanese, just stating a fact)
- no matter how "cheap" the real estate is around there, i do not have a significant amount of money to invest in long term investments
- I am not an investor, nor do i consider myself the type of person to engage in financial speculation, i prefer to be as risk averse with my money as possible.

As for you friend with his appartment, boo-hoo, my mother has been trying to sell her house for three years now, and she hardly gets any viewers, also notice that this is several thousands of kilometers away from both fukushima and chernobyl, it is called economic crisis.

Personally i wouldnt have any problems living 160km away from fukushima, ask me for it though, and i will compile a list of why i am not moving to japan to buy your buddies appartment.

Even on 6-monthly releases, ubuntu has proven to be somewhat unreliable in terms of feature/usability/overal stability. Moving to monthly releases doesnt seem like a way to improve this in my eyes.

Mint is better then 11.04 since it just keeps gnome 2.4 as the default, not forcing its users to relearn the GUI all over again, but i have no illusions that at some point Mint will be forced down the ubuntu path to flashiness for flash's sake

1) Ask slashdot what fanless hardware to use for emulation
2) Casually mention you previously tried a mini, but it was too loud
3) ???
4) PROFIT!

Seriously though, what would be the point in trolling this? Most slashdotters wil get stuck in designing mini-itx system or suggest modded consoles for solving the problem, like the good little geeks they are. The Apple Defense Squad might hook on to the "mini was too loud" bit, but there are much more fun ways to troll those guys.

As for the mini blu-ray thing, you have a point, i'm guessing external blu-ray drive?