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Comment Re:Finally a replacement (Score 1) 166

I might think about an upgrade like that when those processors are being thrown away, if I haven't upgraded before then. But right now they're still over $120 for the 1090T, and around $200 for the 1100T. The last time I spent that much I upgraded from a 720BE and doubled my cores. If I'm going to spend another hundred bucks, I need to double my performance again, which isn't really possible. It would make more sense to just buy a new MB+CPU, otherwise. The one I have now doesn't even support SLI, which I would consider now that there are low-wattage cards worth doing it with. I'm not interested in using a kilowatt or more for gaming, that's bullshit. My system TDP is around 300W and I can play current games, albeit not at top quality and top resolution at the same time. I mostly don't play current games anyway, so I mostly don't care.

Comment Re:Finally a replacement (Score 1) 166

I have the same chip and it is ridiculous at everything but gaming.

Ridiculously good for the amount of money I have spent on it versus the amount of time I've had it, I think you mean.

It's single core performance is laughingly bad.

Single-core performance? What is this single-core? Nothing which uses a lot of CPU is single-threaded, and hasn't been since forever. Whether I'm [de]compressing an archive, transcoding video, playing a game, or surfing the web, I'm using multiple threads which can be relocated across processors — and are.

My Girlfriends' 1st Gen i5 absolutely smokes it.

Bullshit. We all know you don't have a girlfriend.

Comment Re:So when will this actually happen? (Score 1) 372

While renewable/nuclear energy will be produced locally, we will have to import the technology from places that were smart enough to make the investment.

That's okay, we'll just export some military technology to them and they'll be happy to give us their fusion generators or whatever, like always. But seriously, you can buy science.

Comment Re:Sororities (Score 1) 257

No, it's called the "Having a place to go to party and meet hot women, hang out with a bunch of buddies who will back me up and help me out" program,

I think you mistyped jerk me around and jack me off, there.

Only people who haven't had real adversity in their lives are brought together by bullshit frat initiation adversity.

Comment Re: nonsense (Score 1) 532

Why didn't you give us a link to that quote? Just curious.

And maybe the waiting periods for those hip replacements in Canada (for some reason, these articles always cite hip replacements) should be weighed against the people in the US who are simply denied hip replacement surgery by their insurance companies or cannot afford the out-of-pocket.

You see, waiting periods can be very misleading. You have to compare outcomes.

Comment Re:Finally a replacement (Score 1) 166

I have one of those too but I've been too lazy to badcap the system it's in. It was a really great processor too, got it to OC to 3.2 with a $20 cooler master heat pipe and arctic silver iv. I bought that originally for $100, and then upgraded to this twice-the-cores X6 1045T later, for $110 shipped or so. You just can't beat the value of these mid-range AMD chips.

Comment Re:Laws that need to be made in secret (Score 1) 169

That's a lot to assume based on nothing and in fact contrary to plain language of the document.

But that's really a side issue. No law should be passed in secret, or the text sequestered in a special room where only a representative or senator can read it and can't take notes or copies or get expert guidance on unfamiliar topics -- the congresspeople can't even discuss what they remember reading.

http://www.politico.com/story/...

The ONLY reason this is being done in secret, is because the special corporate interests it is designed to further know people would bitch about it if it was public. That's anti-democratic and the entire process surrounding this bill should be enough of a basis, on its own, to reject it out of hand.

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