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Great pic! What I like most is that Shutterstock apparently does not have a single employee that can recognize the multitude of problems with this photo. You can't expect a tech company that sells millions of stock photos to actually have their tech-literate staff see even a tiny fraction of them p...

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OK all, if you don't have info or assistance to post; don't post. Thanks for listening. I'm going to close my account. I just realized this was never really a community to discuss or chat, but more of a tactic to milk free tech support from users while the few owners make modest money from the adve...

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vandy wrote:

Haven't gotten laid in awhile huh? Its ok, I forgive you. Need a hug?

Oh the irony, douche. And don't touch me, I don't want a hug from you sweaty fat man.

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Are we still talking about the fragility of pins on LGA mobos? What is this 2006? OP said he just built a new rig last week and it sounds like it is his first encounter with 1155 socket. Don't be a dick. I forgot this place is patrolled by the feelings-police where every user is an undercover feeli...

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Are we still talking about the fragility of pins on LGA mobos? What is this 2006?

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I have a Galaxy Nexus and like it well enough. I think, for $350, it's hard to find a better value Android (and maybe any) phone right now if you don't want a contract. The Galaxy SII has slightly better hardware specs, but you'll likely not notice it. The Nexus is still more than capable at runnin...

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For me it is because super computers these days are so fast. Just two or three years ago, and especially like 5 years ago, the FAH network was way way more powerful than the fastest super computer, but these days many super computers are way more powerful in FLOPS and also way way more efficient bec...

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But why would you think that's a good indication of the future at all? The economy and the world is WAY different than it has been, and it's not just "bigger" it's different. I'm not depending on the appearance of the economy being the same, on things like the continued importance of foss...

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You could put it in equity markets, but then you never know how much you're getting every year. No, but 120 years of historical evidence tells me it'll likely be around a 4% real return each year. I won't be spending more in the years that the equity markets outperform that estimation; take that, c...

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At a 4% withdrawal rate, which is likely to preserve principal forever, it's $28k per year. It's a tight budget, but it's doable. But who is gonna sell you a perpetuity for 4% annual rate in this interest rate environment?? You could put it in equity markets, but then you never know how much you're...

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Thanks, just took the plunge. I'm a bit nervous about the supposedly flaky USB connection, but we'll see. I have this keyboard but with the blue cherry switches. The usb thing hasn't broken for me, and I don't see it breaking unless i'm not careful with it. However, upon start up the keyboard may n...

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I want to retire at 30 with no debt and a ~$700k portfolio. I'm on track. Ish. Probably going to be hard to live for another 60 years on just the returns from $700k. Haha yea... Assuming monthly payments and you use it as an annuity for 60 years... if the interest rate annual is 1% : you get $1293 ...

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I do know how it works there. It's the same as the rest of the country. Like where I live, for example. You add your federal tax rate, your state tax rate, and your local tax rate. It's not that tough. Since state and local add up to 10.5%, you would have to be in the 35% bracket for your total tax...

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The top new york city and state tax rates are 3.648% and 6.85%, so the only way you could be getting taxed 'literally 45% at least' is if you make more than $388k after deductions before you receive your bonus for the year. I don't think you know how it works here man.... there's also federal tax. ...

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The median household income in the very wealthiest census tract in the city is $188k/year. $300k is rich, even for NYC. Not when shoebox apartments rent for $10,000 a month! :P I'm renting a ROOM (thought pretty nice sized) for 1350 a month a block from Columbus Circle!I got a bonus and literally 4...

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It also depends on the vocation you choose. It's much easier to become rich (based on probability) by choosing to be an investment banker than many other jobs. I'm an investment banker (a young one), and it's not easy to get rich in this industry anymore just looking at the people I work with and t...

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I have the m90 and it feels really good. I don't know what people keep saying about it being heavy, I think its just right. Any lighter and the mouse would be cheap feeling.

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druidcent wrote:
:D It's the Santa Clara, CA store...

Looks like I've got this week to get my build up and running.. I recently just got a bunch of stuff from them.. I need to make sure it works.

OH THANK GAWD.

I was getting really scared you were talking about my neighborhood one in St. Davids, PA.

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Captain Ned wrote:
SpotTheCat wrote:
I want to see a better explanation of gravity. Is that next?

Not until you can find a way to bring gravity into the quantum world. Start with finding gravitons and gravitational waves.

All they need to do is find a 2-spin boson ! LOL !

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Your IPC overhead will likely eat up any benefits of binding to a specific processor on Windows. If you are accessing the same files from different processes you still need to synchronise file access between the processes. Synchronisation objects aren't that hard to understand once you get a handle...

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I want more control because the Windows thread scheduler seems to bounce around threads for no reason. If I make it multithreaded, then I am at the mercy of whatever crazy algorithms have been programmed into the scheduler. Yea that is true :/ Though I'm never sure keeping a process pinned to a sin...

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This might be a very dumb question but I thought the return of time investment on multithreaded programming isnt all that great unless your problem is easily parallelizable. So why go that route? Why not just concentrate on increasing the single threaded utilization of all the cores by dividing you...

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I was wondering. If I created four single threaded console based C or C++ programs and set each one's affinity to a certain core in my system, that would keep my four cores fully utilized, right? To minimize I/O latencies, I could use a ram drive, seeing how cheap ram has become ( I have 32GB DDR3-...

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But doesn't that depend on the engine? Like aren't some engines really easily and fast to develop for like Unreal 3? I thought the point of having an awesome engine to generate these graphics is that the engine is largely a fixed cost and you just need to develop the same game you would on a crappie...

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So I'm a little late in getting started on building my credit. I'm 22, yet I've never had a credit card I've always hated to pay more for things I already bought and have been even more risk averse with credit cards as a general rule. I got my first when I was 27 not because I wanted but because a ...

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I'm surprised how many of you got your first cards so late too. And yea you guys also mentioned the cash-back rewards, which is also what I wanted over just having a debit card.

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Geez so much hate towards credit cards. I was thinking of just using it like my debit card Then why get a credit card? Why not just continue with you the simplicity you knew before? Well for one, I feel MUCH better giving out a credit card number online and at other places that might accidentally c...

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Geez so much hate towards credit cards, but I will take the advice given. I never knew why some people my age spend so much and keep a balance on the card after they get the first card. I was thinking of just using it like my debit card, which means I would never be spending money I don't have alrea...

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Not snake oil; I bought a bandana for snowboarding that was advertised as having better UV protection because it is a tighter-weave material, and unlike my old one, my forehead didn't go red after a week. There is no magic coating or special treatment, it's just a different fibre that lets no light...

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So I'm a little late in getting started on building my credit. I'm 22, yet I've never had a credit card, because I've always been happy just using cash that I have via my debit card. But seeing the protection a credit card provides and the really vital need of a credit score I've applied and gotten ...

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