you should have bought a card from a proper manufacturer. 5970s are still monster cards.

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this is what you will be doing throughout your entire career. time constraints, budget constraints, legal constraints, XYZ constraints - there will always be something effecting you to have to do it the hack way.

ussr did not want to 'conquer' everyone. ussr wanted communism to be the dominant system in the world. they did not go about invading countries to do it.

they have done exactly what u.s. had been doing for a century - they supported friendly factions inside countries that would turn about. from korea to vietnam this has been the case.

so, there is nothing you can accuse ussr of, that you cannot accuse usa of.

BUT, in contrast with usa, ussr did not invent 'liberation' excuses to send its navy overseas and 'liberate' irrelevant countries for the resources they have by military force. they had all the power to be able to do that. and frankly, let me tell you, short of a nuclear war, entirety of the world did not have the conventional military power to stop ussr.

ussr had been the sane party throughout cold war too - mcarthur wanted to nuke china over korean war. but it was the ussr which backed down when it came down to cuba missile crisis - they pulled their missiles despite u.s. was storing missiles in turkey, right under ussr's nose.

leave aside not sending overseas invasion parties, they even didnt trifle with countries which were neighboring them, if they did not think they were strategical - other than eastern europe and extreme-east asia, they did not do anything - they could do anything to iran, india for example. and india is a 1 billion crowded country. they invaded afghanistan, because muslim factions supported by u.s. were trying to topple the established government. just like what happened in iran by the way.

u.s did not lose interest in 'liberating' countries in the last 2 decades. anyone proposing or believing otherwise, is flat out stupid.

much ignorance in regard to geopolitics in slashdot.........

iran has stood up to u.s. only because ussr was backing it. and, there were a lot of more lucrative targets to 'liberate' after ussr had had phased out. notice, how it started with 'liberating' iraq in 1991. then afghanistan, then another 'liberation' of iraq, and then another 'humanitarian bombing campaign' in libya, and only now its their turn.

its not like because of their nuke building or whatnot. north korea already has nukes. but u.s. cant even stir shit there. why ?

russia/china are behind them. apparently, u.s. feels that it can pull iran off. but, not north korea.

let me tell you why - because at the time of chinese spinning out on their own, there was ussr and usa just couldnt go and bomb them to hell like it did to other countries.

hell, mcarthur even intended to, and openly requested to be allowed to bomb china during korean war. and thats why he was retired. because there was ussr, and the result would be world war iii.

and in the passing time in between korean war, in which chinese troops actually participated, and today, you had a lot of other stuff like vietnam and so on. you lost vietnam to chinese actually, not some random guerillas. NOTHING like these was perpetuated by iran, iraq or afghanistan.

but despite that, u.s. was not able to go bomb the shit out of them. thanks to ussr in the early stages, and then chinese had established themselves.

please dont talk about stuff when you dont know shit about history. in the wake of above historical actuality, your ignorance shows in your below bullcrap.

Has that industry has been utilized for ANYthing other than perpetuating distant wars for the profit of a few corporations at great public expense ?
Which expense, then came out of stuff that reflects directly on people's well being, and the general stability of the society in general, like social security or healthcare ?

why should people give a fuck ? let corporations defend themselves with the money they sucked away from public funds behind the pretense of defense.

im on a 6950, it is clocked at 810 mhz, but it can do 910 mhz by just using the ati catalyst slider. no fancy stuff. if you go into serious overclocking, you can approach 1000 mhz easily, if you play with the voltages and stuff.

moreover, X950s are generally unlockable. for example i unlocked the 6950 im sitting on, unlocking 24-30 or so shaders, basically making it a 6950. i could also flash a 6970 bios and make it a full 6970, but that's totally unnecessary, since i can get more than that by overclocking.

a good deal.

dont cheer for hollywood. for the actors they can slight would not be the ones you would like to.

Legitimate data alongside questionably illegitimate data has gone to cinders. Those people had a right to their property too. Sue u.s. govt. for that data and the damages.

to irs, they are uneconomical to produce, and they are making losses. and yet, they keep doing them. can you believe all the recently made star wars movies made losses or insignificant profits ...

lying in wait for someone to post a certain post in a particular thread.

that's what you have been doing. keep it up.

with the patch microsoft put out for windows 7, there has been 10% performance increase in dozer chips. and moreover, some people have seen over 28% performance increase in games like bf3.

its just that you were too impatient and short sighted to perceive that new platforms require new software and updated old software to shine.

you just rationalized/justified slave labor. whats next ? death by stoning and tar pits ?

it is creeping down. and it will creep down as long as we let it creep down.