I've had an amd 1800+ simply refusing to work anymore. Maybe the silicon got stiff or something, it got WAY TOO hot, and just kept freezing up. So i just chucked the whole computer(motherboard + cpu + ram + PSU). cd and dvd drives seem to only last for so long before refusing to read disks, floppy drives(3.5") seems to go forever in comparison. Hdds seems to be worsening as capacity increases over the years. samsung 1tb F1 only lasted 2months before crapping out with bad sectors all over, that was my first NON WD in a long time and probably last for some years until i have a wd do some unexpected failure. An old hitachi had a nasty headcrash, nothing i could do afterwards :(

i would have it it weren't for this stupid country that i live in which always suppose newest technology is what everybody wants and completely removes every tech a few years old from the lineup. but that's mainstream i suppose. Everybody except me, wont buy old tech although it's still very viable/usable and is NOT obsolete in real world applications. And on top, it would prove cheaper, since it's more 'sunk in'.

44% biffs, and not many McFly's makes me sad to see the truth.

I believe the word for pirating starts before internet, thus making it the right term to use here, and was when you were getting pirated cable tv and whatnot in the same manner as tapping in to the electrical lines, which was done here, and you can therefore term it as pirating electricity as they did.

at the whim of sounding like a complete arrogant jerk, does this actually support the theory that we've hit a wall with the x86 architecture with general computing, or is it still the 'best' at that?

I'm a bit confused when they, again and again, come up with gpu architecture doing stuff miles faster that our old trusty x86. I mean, would it be meaningful to actually start researching the architectural way of computing like we have seen gaming consoles do for decades? (latest being the ps3's cell)

just a thought that came to mind.