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That's the funniest shit I've read since reading 'Sh*t my Dad told Me'

Those seem like some dandy bundles. Do you trust their OC testing, and have you priced the parts separately? I wonder if the fans are good? I wouldn't know, but it's a big OC-so more important. Maybe Toms Hardware has some reviews of those models.

Shit, he could just move. I'm sure he could make a deal with one of the drug lords to buy his place for cash. I'm sure you already thought of both items. However, if you do get into home defense event given your situ, would it really be an isolated thing? I have other friends who were in crap neighborhoods, eventually targeted for whatever reason (not directly for drugs), and it wasn't a one-time thing. They all moved for safety, since their necks got sore from ducking. Hopefully the gun is just a stop-gap until you can find greener pastures.

5th and Lexington, 3AM. Wear red heels and blush. I'll fix you up.

You must be old enough for this now:

That ol' photo again? We need something fresh for Idan's birthday:

Some reading for the next bout of downtime you find: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

I get newsletters for my boy from the 'Young Eagles' program in Canada, and the coolest series of stories was in the most recent one: Newsletter Highlights: Halo Interceptor Car First Civi-owned Mig-29 Earhart Mystery bone? Shuttle video

That's the program. I know the memory max is 3G for the program, but an x32 system can only use 3.25. My thought was an x64-based system would permit an allocation of a full 3G of RAM to the program itself with more for the OS. We currently run it on a C2D, not sure of the chipset exactly (writing from out of office), with 3G of RAM on XPx32 and a 9600GT VGA. The computer can run the program fine for some tasks, but the higher resolution data, given how the program runs (taking raw data files @100mb each and assembling them into 'ev' files), it lags out. It can certainly still do the work, just not in an efficient manner. In this case then, a single quad core like an i5 might do the trick with W7x64 and 6G RAM. I might try to sell boss on an SSD for this program and associated files alone, but it doesn't seem like a dual-quad setup is necessary now. I use the Optiplex 980 myself, which is an easy aquire for the office since that's the current evolution on higher-end desktops at the office. A few extra customizations perhaps? How's that jive?

What's the difference between a workstation and a regular PC, other than 'just more stuff'? I am already long-sold on going with an x64 OS, we want to give the offending program it's full 3G max usable RAM +more for OS and prog's, so that'll be at min 6G memory from the start. As for processing we might be fine with a single quad-core. What I still want to figure out is if the bottleneck is the R/W speed on the HD or a processor limitation, either coupled with low RAM. How would I break that down? There are easy expensive options to remedy any of these issues, dual-quad chips, SSD-HDs, etc, but we do have to be sensible about the spending.

Shit b'y, I didn't say they did it right! However I can't fix 'em, they know more than me, and they control the network. Sooo. I get an IT-friendly machine in a building with 3 IT people and probably 1500 machines.

We need to go with a full commercial setup. Getting into custom rigs with our IT dept. is just bad news.

I don't think we need a server, there seem to be plenty community-use dedi, and I found that hosting didn't introduce any big lag issues.

At work we're having hangups with a program called echoview, and boss wants to try a dual quadcore like his mac, but a PC version. Through our purchasing agreements we can probably get a Dell Precision T7500, but is that really a good option?

Awesome, now we can d/l the addon maps including this gem. I tried it last night on the pub, and it's a well played self-flagellation. Other good maps of different varieties as well. Easy to install, and steam manages the lot of it (with the L4D2 steam addon tool)

I had a look, and that's above price-point. Nice little rig though.

Looking at laptops for the lad. A line of Compaq Presario CQ56's are in the price range, but here they come with either the AMD V140cpu or IntelT4500, both at 2.3ghz. The V140s are less expensive, but I can't find any benchmarks for how bad performance might really drop. The remainder of the 4 models offered are either a 2G or 3G DDR3 memory w/250G HD using the v140, or 3G or 4G DDR3 memory w/320G HD using the T4500. Price differences are 320-340 or 360-380. Thoughts? Remember, this is for a teenager who is completely stunned when it comes to maintaining his own computer, and I don't want to offer him something powerful enough to play serious games. Cheers!

If schedule doesn't get plugged, then I'm in. (don't hold your breath)

Sorry I wasn't on (yet). Turns out I'm driving to the US tomorrow, so had to get prepped. Will be on shortly. Bothersome-looks like I missed the boat. It's 7:37 now, just after 11pm UK. I'll be on for a bit now and then again next Thursday. Gone for the week coming.

I don't know the maps for this game-so give me a link to the right ones and I'll plop 'em in.

I could be free at 4:15pm my time, 7:45 UK-that could be a bit late, and I'd only have about an hour. Still possible?

I might be game-haha, get it? I kill myself.

Wasting time on a sunday-stumbled into this link. The first video-It's like that kid smacking his monitor with a keyboard.

Thanks for the extra piece.

Saw it last night on the big screen. Watch it watch it watch it.