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by Shining Arcanine
Wed Dec 15, 2010 2:09 am
Forum: Gaming
Topic: World Of Warcraft
Replies: 6792
Views: 1367930

Re: World Of Warcraft

It's been a long time, but guys at work are talking WoW up again. Guess there's some good stuff going on. Worth getting back into it after a couple years away and NO toons, gold, etc left over? I quit WoW in January of this year. I suggest that you stay away from it. Your time would be much better ...
by Shining Arcanine
Wed Dec 15, 2010 1:59 am
Forum: Graphics
Topic: 69XX Pricing
Replies: 6
Views: 1140

Re: 69XX Pricing

I saw the earlier iteration of your post. I'm not too sure why you included that. Well really I am pretty sure why, but whatever. I edited it because I didn't think I should say anything about performance before I read a couple more reviews(including TR's). Anandtech's review contradicted your perf...
by Shining Arcanine
Wed Dec 15, 2010 1:07 am
Forum: Graphics
Topic: 69XX Pricing
Replies: 6
Views: 1140

Re: 69XX Pricing

I saw the earlier iteration of your post. Anyway, Anandtech claims that the Radeon 6970 is $369 and that "its performance is more or less equal to the GeForce GTX 570". http://www.anandtech.com/show/4061/amds-radeon-hd-6970-radeon-hd-6950 For those interested in a summary, here are the gam...
by Shining Arcanine
Mon Dec 13, 2010 3:30 pm
Forum: Processors
Topic: Cell Microprocessor's
Replies: 14
Views: 3366

Re: Cell Microprocessor's

Has this been asked before? We are having a debate here about the Cell Processor, and why it's not used in desktop computers these days. Afterall, it's a fast little thing (In the PS3 at least), and is technically very advanced. I read a wiki article on it's creation moments ago, but found it a lit...
by Shining Arcanine
Mon Dec 13, 2010 3:19 pm
Forum: Hot Deals
Topic: Newegg sales lost due to rebates
Replies: 12
Views: 2217

Re: Newegg sales lost due to rebates

I don't even factor rebates into the real cost of item. Instant rebate or GTFO. Some rebates like the Cash Back at fatwallet.com are fairly automatic, as it comes from the kick backs that stores give to fatwallet.com for "referring you". Of course, stores never advertise them because they...
by Shining Arcanine
Mon Dec 13, 2010 2:26 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: The Mob Mentality and Bullying
Replies: 3
Views: 1119

The Mob Mentality and Bullying

I came across the following post in a thread: Er...is there any chance we could not let the SA train plow through this thread? I'd genuinely like donuts to test those scenarios I listed if he has the time. I do some encoding as well and if putting the source on the RAM disk speeds up the operation t...
by Shining Arcanine
Mon Dec 13, 2010 1:05 am
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: Ha-HA! Not Gonna Play It Cheap This Time! MUHUHA!
Replies: 28
Views: 3647

Re: Ha-HA! Not Gonna Play It Cheap This Time! MUHUHA!

ECC memory? GTX 580? SSD's? That's all way more than the OP needs. What the heck happend to this site. He is using AGP and a CRT monitor. He needs a whole new system, monitor, software, and headphones/speakers. The Econobox will set you back 500+ greenbacks, and you will need the rest of the 1K to ...
by Shining Arcanine
Sat Dec 11, 2010 8:14 pm
Forum: Motherboards, Chipsets, & RAM
Topic: RAM Disk usage + Handbrake = Awesome
Replies: 18
Views: 17425

Re: RAM Disk usage + Handbrake = Awesome

Something cannot be both I/O bound and CPU bound. It has to be one or the other. Being bound by something means that you cannot improve performance without improving that thing. How so? If I have a rig with both a slow CPU and slow hard drive running massive photoshop files, I think that would qual...
by Shining Arcanine
Sat Dec 11, 2010 4:49 pm
Forum: Motherboards, Chipsets, & RAM
Topic: RAM Disk usage + Handbrake = Awesome
Replies: 18
Views: 17425

Re: RAM Disk usage + Handbrake = Awesome

The idea is that encoding is both IO and CPU bound. Generally, you don't want to encode a file from the same disk that you're outputting to, so theoretically, the best performance you should get is when the source is entirely on the RAM disk and you're outputting to the SSD. It shouldn't matter whe...
by Shining Arcanine
Sat Dec 11, 2010 4:45 pm
Forum: Hot Deals
Topic: SeaSonic X650- a awesome deal for a super efficient PSU
Replies: 9
Views: 2041

Re: SeaSonic X650- a awesome deal for a super efficient PSU

All the reviews for this product suggest its about one of the best PSU's you can get. Super efficient at low loads and high ones. Super quiet, its fan doesn't even kick in till a very high load is reached and then its barely audible. And its just as efficient at higher more likely case temperatures...
by Shining Arcanine
Sat Dec 11, 2010 2:13 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Google programmers are amateurs?
Replies: 94
Views: 8125

Re: Google programmers are amateurs?

I recall that you do web development professionally. If you write a web application and someone encounters some non-zero quantity of bugs, is it okay for him to call you an amateur and then make broad derogatory comments about your software without providing any information by which you can improve...
by Shining Arcanine
Sat Dec 11, 2010 1:15 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Google programmers are amateurs?
Replies: 94
Views: 8125

Re: Google programmers are amateurs?

That was your only escape plan? :roll: The OP pointed out (in a longer form) that Google Docs is buggy (assuming that he was using a recent browser, of course). Same thing I concluded. Software that doesn't provide functionality as both required and expected is either incomplete, buggy, or both, al...
by Shining Arcanine
Sat Dec 11, 2010 12:54 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Google programmers are amateurs?
Replies: 94
Views: 8125

Re: Google programmers are amateurs?

Term papers have nothing to do with software. Oh no? Well, mine had specifications, just like software. Which, if I failed to meet, deducted from the grade, and strangely enough, I didn't have an EULA to help me. No gray area here. In this case here, the specification is (since it's the market lead...
by Shining Arcanine
Sat Dec 11, 2010 12:32 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Google programmers are amateurs?
Replies: 94
Views: 8125

Re: Google programmers are amateurs?

morphine wrote:
Aaaaah that is sooooo cool, you played the EULA card.

Tell me, do you also deliver EULAs with your term papers, covering any possible errors?


Term papers have nothing to do with software.
by Shining Arcanine
Sat Dec 11, 2010 12:27 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Google programmers are amateurs?
Replies: 94
Views: 8125

Re: Google programmers are amateurs?

What "gray area" are you talking about? The application either meets its proposed target or doesn't. The proposed target is a desktop office replacement, on the web. It doesn't meet its stated goal (note stated goal , not some hypothetical, lofty objective). Next time your boss/teacher po...
by Shining Arcanine
Sat Dec 11, 2010 12:18 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Google programmers are amateurs?
Replies: 94
Views: 8125

Re: Google programmers are amateurs?

This is an office application that runs in a web browser and if you use a poorly designed web browser, it suffers. It is not the application's fault. Great. Now if the OP used a recent browser, we can conclude that it's the application's fault. As we were all trying to point out. That is a gray are...
by Shining Arcanine
Sat Dec 11, 2010 12:04 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Google programmers are amateurs?
Replies: 94
Views: 8125

Re: Google programmers are amateurs?

Taking your argument further: If you honestly believe that the crashing of this web-based application is due to the version of the browser used, then the person writing the web-based application should be checking for browser version and handling the exception gracefully instead of crashing. "...
by Shining Arcanine
Sat Dec 11, 2010 12:02 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Google programmers are amateurs?
Replies: 94
Views: 8125

Re: Google programmers are amateurs?

So, Shining Arcanine, are you seriously saying that we should all bugs, never mind if they're reasonably expected or not? In other words, no matter how buggy or poorly made an application is, we're supposed to be understanding to the company/authors? When what they have made is no worse than what o...
by Shining Arcanine
Sat Dec 11, 2010 11:57 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Google programmers are amateurs?
Replies: 94
Views: 8125

Re: Google programmers are amateurs?

So, Shining Arcanine, are you seriously saying that we should all bugs, never mind if they're reasonably expected or not? In other words, no matter how buggy or poorly made an application is, we're supposed to be understanding to the company/authors? When what they have made is no worse than what o...
by Shining Arcanine
Sat Dec 11, 2010 11:44 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Google programmers are amateurs?
Replies: 94
Views: 8125

Re: Google programmers are amateurs?

If I hire someone to make an elephant chair and it's all wobbly and falls to pieces when the elephant sits on it, the technician failed at his job. If I hire someone to write a piece of software for general use and it's all wobbly and crashes under general uses, the technician failed at his job. It...
by Shining Arcanine
Sat Dec 11, 2010 11:29 am
Forum: Developer's Den
Topic: Math question...
Replies: 26
Views: 6820

Re: Math question...

Now that I think about it, there is a contradiction in saying that a ^ (a <<n) = 0 where n > 0 and a is non-zero, which can be used to prove that the result zero only occurs when a = 0, Let's try out a = 10101010b and n = 2. a << 2 = 10101010 a ^ (a<<2) = 10101010 ^ 10101010 a ^ (a<<2) = 0. I suspe...
by Shining Arcanine
Sat Dec 11, 2010 11:21 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Google programmers are amateurs?
Replies: 94
Views: 8125

Re: Google programmers are amateurs?

I disagree. One does not need to know exactly how a technician did something to know that they did it poorly. If I hire someone to make a piece of furniture and it's all wobbly and falls to pieces, I know that they failed. If I hire someone to make a piece of software and it's all wobbly and crashe...
by Shining Arcanine
Sat Dec 11, 2010 10:39 am
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: Ha-HA! Not Gonna Play It Cheap This Time! MUHUHA!
Replies: 28
Views: 3647

Re: Ha-HA! Not Gonna Play It Cheap This Time! MUHUHA!

Okay, so what Seasonic power supply should I get from that page, and how much does it cost? Here is one of their newer models: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151088 They appear to have joined the PSU power rating arms race, although the review at SPCR speaks highly of this...
by Shining Arcanine
Sat Dec 11, 2010 10:11 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Google programmers are amateurs?
Replies: 94
Views: 8125

Re: Google programmers are amateurs?

Listing C and C++ separately is a little silly, since C is essentially a subset of C++. I hesitate to call bash a programming language, though I suppose it qualifies. And this is all irrelevant anyway, since the number of different languages someone has used is not necessarily correlated with progr...
by Shining Arcanine
Sat Dec 11, 2010 9:53 am
Forum: Developer's Den
Topic: Math question...
Replies: 26
Views: 6820

Re: Math question...

<A> XOR <A> is not a hash function either, since (as you've pointed out) it always results in zero. <A> XOR <C> (where C is a known constant) preserves information. As another interesting example, consider the swapping of two variables without the use of a temporary -- the following sequence will s...
by Shining Arcanine
Fri Dec 10, 2010 11:01 am
Forum: Developer's Den
Topic: Math question...
Replies: 26
Views: 6820

Re: Math question...

At a glance, it looked like a hash function, which lacks the property of bijection. Not necessarily; XOR preserves information, and (assuming that L(m) has the same number of bits as m) there very well could be a 1-to-1 mapping of values. Hash functions generally reduce the number of bits by a some...
by Shining Arcanine
Fri Dec 10, 2010 10:42 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Google programmers are amateurs?
Replies: 94
Views: 8125

Re: Google programmers are amateurs?

I hate when idiots online always use this argument to defend crappy products. I know 7 programming languages and have written hundreds of thousands of lines of code. What about you? Which seven? I know the following: ⋅ C ⋅ C++ ⋅ Java ⋅ FORTRAN ⋅ SML...
by Shining Arcanine
Fri Dec 10, 2010 10:25 am
Forum: Motherboards, Chipsets, & RAM
Topic: RAM Disk usage + Handbrake = Awesome
Replies: 18
Views: 17425

Re: RAM Disk usage + Handbrake = Awesome

I have 8GB of RAM and I use it as a tmpfs for compiling my operating system. A tmpfs is a dynanmically sized RAM disk, so it only requires space for what you store and no more. I recently enabled a feature in my system's package manager that adds debug data to the mix so that I could file better bug...
by Shining Arcanine
Wed Dec 08, 2010 4:21 pm
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: Ha-HA! Not Gonna Play It Cheap This Time! MUHUHA!
Replies: 28
Views: 3647

Re: Ha-HA! Not Gonna Play It Cheap This Time! MUHUHA!

Ya know all those kooky problems I've been having with several of my last computers, posting here about them? Well screw those problems! I'm gonna get a MUCH biggerer and betterer new computer, much less distantly behind the current standard. This guy's not gonna play it cheap, this time! MUHUHAHAH...
by Shining Arcanine
Tue Dec 07, 2010 7:35 am
Forum: Processors
Topic: Floating-point units in server-grade CPUs
Replies: 178
Views: 22626

Re: Floating-point units in server-grade CPUs

Apparently you need a good FPU to run Crysis! =P http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/2485/physx2.png From: PhysX87: Software Deficiency by David Kanter Run this on a GPU and >95% of the floating point calculations will disappear from the CPU. That is how it is meant to be played. Wikipedia calls it ...
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