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Comment Re:Ars Troll Articles Are Arse (Score 2) 235

I posted this bellow but realized it should go here.

Anandtech.com provides much more knowledgeable and professional reviews. They had this to about AMD's new chip,

"Unfortunately, with the current power management in ESXi, we are not satisfied with the Performance/watt ratio of the Opteron 6276. The Xeon needs up to 25% less energy and performs slightly better. So if performance/watt is your first priority, we think the current Xeons are your best option. The Opteron 6276 offers a better performance per dollar ratio. It delivers the performance of $1000 Xeon (X5650) at $800. Add to this that the G34 based servers are typically less expensive than their Intel LGA 1366 counterparts and the price bonus for the new Opteron grows. If performance/dollar is your first priority, we think the Opteron 6276 is an attractive alternative." http://www.anandtech.com/show/5058/amds-opteron-interlagos-6200/1

I don't understand why other sites are more popular.

Comment A much better source for this kind of information. (Score 5, Informative) 235

Anandtech.com provides much more knowledgeable and professional reviews. They had this to about AMD's new chip, "Unfortunately, with the current power management in ESXi, we are not satisfied with the Performance/watt ratio of the Opteron 6276. The Xeon needs up to 25% less energy and performs slightly better. So if performance/watt is your first priority, we think the current Xeons are your best option. The Opteron 6276 offers a better performance per dollar ratio. It delivers the performance of $1000 Xeon (X5650) at $800. Add to this that the G34 based servers are typically less expensive than their Intel LGA 1366 counterparts and the price bonus for the new Opteron grows. If performance/dollar is your first priority, we think the Opteron 6276 is an attractive alternative." http://www.anandtech.com/show/5058/amds-opteron-interlagos-6200/14

Comment Terms of use (Score 1) 176

1. You only eat your iMeal with an approved iSpork. 2. You may only dispose of digested iMeals in an iToilet. 3. In case of frequent inability to digest, and subsequent regurgitation, please purchase an iBag. 4. Sharing your iMeal with friends, family, or persons in distress will result in immediate legal proceedings to the full extent of the law.

Comment Re:Ideal for HTPC (Score 1) 199

No it's not. I've played with recent PCI gpus and they aren't suited for decoding video. Even decoding a 480p youtube will suffer. It's not just about the Mbit/s of the video because the GPU still has to make lots of calls to the system's memory when decoding video in most cases! So PCI will not handle current requirements video well! Stay away from PCI GPUs unless you have a real use for it. Video can be handled by PCI GPUs as long as the CPU does the decoding and not the GPU.

Comment is Abhaxas a bad movie reference? (Score 1, Interesting) 76

I posted this last time I saw a story about this hacker but I point out again. Abhaxas must have taken the name from Abraxas Guardian Of The Universe. It easily ranks among some of the worst movies ever mane. But I'll let other be the judge of that. Here's part one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs6yYAMpxUs Or is there some other reference I'm missing?

Comment Why do we even need to ask? (Score 1) 278

I have a BA in Fine Studies (along with a Acc. in Computer Science) and I can tell you with 100% certainty that video games are art. Art is at it's most basic level the conveying of an idea or ideas through a craft (simplified statement). This doesn't mean that all video game are high art and in fact I'm not sure any meet that standard but they are art. It is fair to compare them to films because it's popular art, and it's fair to say that many games are the Art equivalent of Men in Black II. But there are a good number of games which convey a number of great visual, emotional, and cultural ideas.

Comment article correction! (Score 1) 450

Having working on PCM audio recording there is a few things I want to point out. 1. Studios don't record in 24Bit. They use a 32Bit float to avoid clipping. Once the file of normalized it can be converted to a 24Bit int. It's a small point because it doesn't really change the quality but it's good to know. 1. The only reason to ship audio above 40KHz in to allow room for a lowpass filter to cut anything above 20KHz. 44100Hz doen't leave a lot of room for the cutoff and that's why 96000KHz is nice. Anything above that is useless to the listener and can only be useful in production. I could go on about 16bit Vs. 24bit and sampling rates in PCM audio but I don't think people would care.
Lord of the Rings

Submission + - LOTR Rewritten from Perspective of Mordor

Hugh Pickens writes writes: "It's been said that history is written by the winners but Laura Miller writes in Salon about a counterexample as she reviews a new version of "Lord of the Rings" published to acclaim in Russia by Kirill Yeskov, a professional paleontologist whose job is reconstructing long-extinct organisms and their way of life from fossil remnants. Yeskov performs essentially the same feat in "The Last Ring-bearer," reconstructing the real world of Tolkien's Arda from "The Lord of the Rings" set during and after the end of the War of the Ring and told from the perspective of the losers. In Yeskov's retelling, available in translation as a free download, the wizard Gandalf is a war-monger intent on crushing the scientific and technological initiative of Mordor and its southern allies because science "destroys the harmony of the world and dries up the souls of men" and Aragorn is depicted by Yeskov as a ruthless Machiavellian schemer who is ultimately the puppet of his wife, the elf Arwen. Sauron's citadel Barad-dur is, by contrast, described as "that amazing city of alchemists and poets, mechanics and astronomers, philosophers and physicians, the heart of the only civilization in Middle-earth to bet on rational knowledge and bravely pitch its barely adolescent technology against ancient magic." According to Miller "in Yeskov's scenario, "The Lord of the Rings" is a highly romanticized and mythologized version of the fall of Mordor, perhaps even outright propaganda; "The Last Ringbearer" is supposed to be the more complicated and less sentimental true story.""

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