The argument likely aims at the fact that storming of Bastille was the event that launched chain that resulted in creation of modern democracy, modern Western power structures and Napoleon Code.

As a result, it can be argued that any modern Western democracy should celebrate the day Bastille was stormed. I would personally counter argue that while it was the event generally associated with start of French Revolution, it wasn't the cause or even the main event. As a result, it should stay mainly a French holiday. Other nations may consider having their independence day or similar national holiday to also celebrate the creation of modern society. Which is done in many countries already.

Pre K7 AMD was a non-starter really. Far too many issues. I didn't build any PCs before that, but I did tinker with my first PC (I was 13 and it was a pentium 120mhz, which I managed to overclock to 133mhz by fucking around with jumpers, scary shit when you consider that hardware cost more then my allowance for several years).

That's how you learn not to have sex on top of your PC tower, with router next to it, and with no additional furniture for support in the end game.

In many cases, it's always been like this. AMD offers best bang for a buck. That's their niche. But intel offers best bang, as well as best compatibility and support.

I'm not a fanboy of any manufacturer, my first computer that I built with my hands was a first gen athlon (slot A) with a geforce, my second was an intel core duo with ati, and my current one is intel with ati. I just couldn't be arsed to fight the few small fights you need to fight with AMD/ATI anymore and just paid extra ~10% for slightly more peace of mind.

If I was still hunting for best bang for a buck, AMD is still where it's at.

If they have indeed invented a way to ship items on the internet, rather then on delivery vans, I think they deserve the patent! :D

Difference:

This thing is aimed for certain missions. Missions like catching unaware enemy in the house by mapping their house and defenses from inside with something they are unlikely to even notice.

You noisy big toy will tell everyone with a gun that there's an attack coming. Oops. You saved a few k on costs of your recon drone and you lost a squad to alert enemy ambushing you.

But it was cheap.

That is the reason why military hardware is generally more expensive. It has extremely stringent requirements, and lives actually depend on it working exactly as intended.

If they get site's database, you're dependent on their encryption strength of the database, not your password length.

No. But it makes good headlines and sells whatever "security expert of the day" happens to be peddling.

On most of the web, a good secure 8 random character password that you don't reuse on other sites is about a few orders of magnitude too secure for hackers to even bother thinking about cracking. The "account hacks" are usually about people managing to steal a list of user names and passwords from some shitty forum that has old version of BBS software, and then trying those combinations of user names and passwords on other sites. Pretty much all brute force methods require direct access to database that is badly encrypted (perhaps behind a weak password that they intend to crack?).

Other then these scenarios, vast majority of "your password is too short and as a result not secure" is scaremongering bullshit.

Full disclosure: I have several battle.net accounts, a LoL account and countless other similar game accounts that are very much wanted in hack and sell world, all under the same email. I get absolutely hammered by "your account is being closed for hacking, click here to fix" phishing emails and other similar bullshit on that email address. My WoW account was very valuable for a couple of years (very good server, easily within top 0.1% of people in terms of wealth and in top 1% in terms of rare items and progression, legendary and so on). Didn't get hacked a single time. Several guildies and countless people I know had their accounts hacked during this time, some more then once. I used, and still use a short UNIQUE password for each account. Not a single account breach.

Why? Because no one sane brute forces remote passwords when doing actual hacking for profit. It's bloody stupid to even bother trying. There are far more profitable and easier methods, that actually work.

I would go that "it's going to be worse then my E-450 laptop" in terms of responsiveness. It may have better graphical fidelity though.

Lack of controls responsiveness would mean that such game would have to have zero micro management and would still be painfully uncomfortable to play.

Take a look at early prototyped of various prototypes when things went over one generation. Like first prototype implementations of MFDs, or first HUDs, or first HMDs.

They looked daft and fake as hell because they were bad prototypes when people were trying to figure out what works and what doesn't.

There is a reason why people don't play football while wearing 10kg shoes on each foot. By your argument, that doesn't matter as long as all parties wear 10kg shoes.

Has it ever occurred to you that benefit has NOTHING to do with enjoyment if no one is enjoying it due to retarded lack of responsiveness due to latency?

One of the main reasons why WoW is so popular is that its so damn responsive due to very permissive ruleset on what client can do mostly independent of server. Things like moving around for example.

Having latency on your every motion is utterly horrible in MMO. It goes against one of the core reasons why WoW is so successful.

You brag about it when it's desperately needed to keep the spirit of a nation that has been under severe blockade for years and decades. It's about propaganda value. Not actual hardware.

MMOs don't need "better AI". They need CONSISTENT AI.

In many cases, AI being too good is actually a very bad thing for a MMO.