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Suggested replacement for Klipsch Promedia 5.1 Ultra

I've had my promedia ultra 5.1s for SEVEN YEARS and they've been ON nearly the entire time I have owned them and I have had ZERO amp issues. These things are unbeatable by any pc speaker offering. I paid 700 cad for them at the time at the now-defunct compuserve. Just absolutely...
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- Post #36
- Nov 26, 2011
- Forum: Audio Components
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What is next after C++?

Dear God Schradenfroh, Lord have mercy on thy soul!! Nothing is after C++. It is the most complete, well built language I have come to love. Starting with bare C, I never thought I would warm up to C++ and its bells and whistles. Things like Vectors, and other elegant data structures scared...
- McCartney
- Post #20
- Jun 7, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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See the world in HD!

because amber colored lenses make everything clearer!!
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- Post #24
- Apr 19, 2010
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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See the world in HD!

*please not HD vision please not the hd vision ad* GOD DAMNIT, I HATE THIS AD, WHOEVER MADE THEM SHOULD BE HSOT
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- Post #21
- Apr 19, 2010
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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My benches so far. Adding GTX480 SLI benches.

it was when i professed my affection for you! lawl. these arguments are always amusing. I never thought apopping would go to [H]
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- Post #248
- Apr 2, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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GeForce GTX 480 noise levels bunked

I am happy I kept my PA120.3, it makes getting 2 480s more palatable. No need to worry about this noise nonsense. FWIW I've had an FX 5900 gainward golden sample. Still have it too, NOTHING is louder than that card. I PROMISE. It sounds like a dirtbuster.
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- Post #73
- Mar 31, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Why the undying love for nvidia?

nVidia was the reason I found my love for computers. I don't love them because of their brand, I love them because they've always tried to do better. I believe they will be one of the biggest players in the next 20 years. They remind me of the most important company in technology in history...
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- Post #23
- Mar 30, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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The Official 2nd Annual $10 ATOT Fantasy Baseball Head to Head Pay League - Play Ball

i'm in. pm me. i'm busy during the afternoons but i'll get around to it. In for SURE
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- Post #59
- Mar 30, 2010
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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My benches so far. Adding GTX480 SLI benches.

Rubycon, I love you Sincerely McCartney
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- Post #71
- Mar 30, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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My benches so far. Adding GTX480 SLI benches.

This is a significant amount of performance, as we have long passed the days of linear performance increases with each product release.
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- Post #32
- Mar 29, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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AT fermi review is up!

The 280s are still scaling well in a lot of games. I really do believe that Fermi isn't being tapped because there is a push to scale ~256 cores, but then the next leap is 512 and that's where they need to be for fermi. To me it seems like they're just releasing hardware we'll need in the...
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- Post #383
- Mar 29, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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AT fermi review is up!

Don't worry. They'll scale much better in a few driver releases. nVidia is still working on the software. The hardware has yet to be fully tapped because I'm pretty sure they haven't fully optimized the code paths.
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- Post #380
- Mar 28, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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AT fermi review is up!

^ what he said. It's not *impossible* to have linear performance, but it sure is hard in the real-world to do so. You can try, but the amount of optimization defeats the purpose of a good API.
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- Post #341
- Mar 27, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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AT fermi review is up!

You didn't think the DX11 scores were impressive? Since you're in the industry, isn't it logical to assume that as people get more familiar with the UDA and an improving ISA that the performance will be even better? I got in trouble on hardforum for trying to tell some members there that the...
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- Post #337
- Mar 27, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Does computer science research have value? (Inspired by the career path thread)

A degree doesn't annotate ones' theoretical understanding of the concepts, nor does it say anything about their programing skills. If you cannot abstract the problem a theoretical one, then what are you trying to solve? Nothing. If you make the correct, or reasonably close abstraction you will...
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- Post #27
- Mar 25, 2010
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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What if porn was banned across the board?

eh, it's "eh". It's not that I won't watch it, it's just not preferable. I'm all about B/G. G/G allows too much rehearsed moaning, and then they look at the camera trying to fool the sucker who's doing the plumbing. I don't fall for those eye contact tactics if they're not legit acting, it's...
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- Post #76
- Mar 25, 2010
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Does computer science research have value? (Inspired by the career path thread)

Graph theory doesn't interest me. I didn't belittle anyone who did it. I have quite a few friends doing it. It's just very, very different and requires incredible skills. I love Algorithms and Complexity theory just not like the people doing Phds or MSc's in it.
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- Post #21
- Mar 25, 2010
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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What if porn was banned across the board?

I cringed, really hard. holy crap the mere image of an asshole getting plugged by another male is WRONG GAH RAW GROSS >KL< <> >< >< >< ><
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- Post #55
- Mar 25, 2010
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Does computer science research have value? (Inspired by the career path thread)

God bless your soul. And this is why I'm trying to show restraint and impartiality because of the fact that many of the up and coming CSers don't share the same attitude as you and I, which is fine. I'm not saying he should be doing research until he's older, or he needs to contribute. All I'm...
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- Post #14
- Mar 25, 2010
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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What if porn was banned across the board?

I'll actually have to go out and satiate the monster called lust by establishing a substantial amount of meaningless conversation with an attractive female, whom I cannot connect with because I'm emotionally incapable, and get what I need. Girls need it just as bad as guys imo. The world...
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- Post #42
- Mar 24, 2010
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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The ol' career path debacle. Any insight helpful

I would like to be apart of a lab. Maybe not the PI, I don't think I could do that. Not many can. I agree that it's definitely tough to get funding. Here in Canada the funding comes in 3 year renewals, I think. And you're absolutely correct, worrying about where it's going to come from can be...
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- Post #49
- Mar 24, 2010
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Does computer science research have value? (Inspired by the career path thread)

And nowhere did I dispute that Computing Science contains an area of applicability. There are many papers that USE what we have now in NEW ways and contribute to CS significantly. One example would be using the Minimum Spanning Tree algorithm to develop a 2 approximation algorithm for the...
- McCartney
- Post #4
- Mar 24, 2010
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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The ol' career path debacle. Any insight helpful

Your last point is too true. This is precisely the reason I may get an MSc from my University in the area of Machine Learning but with the specialization. This would require me to take 1 more course in the first year of my study, but it is also more rigorous. I want to keep my options open...
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- Post #47
- Mar 24, 2010
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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The ol' career path debacle. Any insight helpful

Thank you so much for understanding my position. I am debating a PhD as well, maybe even jumping the MSc thesis portion by doing 1 year of the MSc and then going into a PhD, if my work merits this case. Thanks for this advice Paige, because it's comforting to know someone understands where I...
- McCartney
- Post #44
- Mar 24, 2010
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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The ol' career path debacle. Any insight helpful

I think you've misconstrued my intentions. My goals are strictly that, goals. They are also goals that are SELF fulfilling. I do not need recognition, money, and all these other things that people are asserting I am chasing. Far from it. For me it's all about self-gratification, believe it or...
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- Post #42
- Mar 24, 2010
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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The ol' career path debacle. Any insight helpful

I agree with you 100 percent. You know what is also unfortunate though? What the person may be doing is "working with a friend" or collaborating completely legitimately per university policy, BUT they end up asking the other person so many questions that they don't learn how to do it themselves...
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- Post #39
- Mar 24, 2010
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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The ol' career path debacle. Any insight helpful

I think someone as accomplished as you (I see the signature, and obviously you have extensive knowledge in the field) should know that I'm actually trying to figure out what I said to offend you. I don't think anything I said was baseless or inaccurate. If I did I'm asking you to help me out by...
- McCartney
- Post #36
- Mar 24, 2010
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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The ol' career path debacle. Any insight helpful

Can you please share instead of ridiculing me and saying I'm missing it? It would be helpful. I agree with the last poster talking about the application and knowing how to apply it. I agree completely. That's why I've been learning how to implement algorithms (heavy theory) in C++, using...
- McCartney
- Post #33
- Mar 24, 2010
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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The ol' career path debacle. Any insight helpful

And the work I hope to contribute would definitely have an implementation with a source code listing. I don't think it's realistic to publish theorems or ideas without having any feasibility...
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- Post #29
- Mar 24, 2010
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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The ol' career path debacle. Any insight helpful

I'm sorry, where did it say my ability to program sucked? Someone as educated as yourself realizes that operating systems programming is probably the most demanding type of programming. You also would realize that I didn't say I hated programming, or I didn't know how. I would like to say...
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- Post #28
- Mar 24, 2010
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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The ol' career path debacle. Any insight helpful

See, not many people enjoy reading lots of papers and critically analyzing them. I do. I really love reading papers, actually. :/ If I don't have the knowledge then I usually do extensive study on the background/preliminaries to help guide my intuition. There is nothing pretty about...
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- Post #26
- Mar 24, 2010
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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The ol' career path debacle. Any insight helpful

There is already money in the profession. I'm more focused on doing what I love in it rather than making money. I have been blessed to have my education, among many other things, paid for.
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- Post #16
- Mar 24, 2010
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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The ol' career path debacle. Any insight helpful

Does it actually help everyone here who may have suggestions? I don't see how it can but if it actually can then I will disclose it. I just don't want any professor or faculty member who knows me to think I'm doing something socially unacceptable, because people can take things the wrong way...
- McCartney
- Post #13
- Mar 24, 2010
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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The ol' career path debacle. Any insight helpful

Because in the graduating class there's only about 20, maybe 30 students. The enrollment isn't very high in the upper years. and if you wanted to find out who took all these courses I am the only one who took as difficult of a semester this year...
- McCartney
- Post #11
- Mar 24, 2010
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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The ol' career path debacle. Any insight helpful

Sure you can. I don't see how my current school affects a selection from the rest... How am I an elitist? Computing scientists aren't supposed to be programmers. I believe my brethren have a purpose much higher than developing software, since that isn't our job. We aren't software engineers...
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- Post #8
- Mar 24, 2010
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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The ol' career path debacle. Any insight helpful

Before I get flamed or whatever, it seems that the hardforums got me crickets so I'm posting here as well to see if I can get any input from someone. I'd be really thankful. Thanks in advance. Hi guys, Currently I'm a 4th year Computing Science student who is graduating this April...
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- Mar 24, 2010
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- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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No Fermi benchmarks / Price & TDP revealed

You're mistaken about the x1800 getting a full launch, that was the x1900. The X1800 (i had it) was a soft launch that didn't have massive availability on shelves. The x1900 just came out a month or 2 after and was widely available.
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- Post #245
- Mar 21, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Nvidia Fermi versus radeon 5800 benchmarks out!

What I think is ridiculous is arguign superiority of a card that has yet to have its NDA lifted. I am also astounded to see you ridicule my claims my concern of the architecture of the video cards. It's unfair you expect great performance metrics without first understanding how they are...
- McCartney
- Post #166
- Mar 11, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Nvidia Fermi versus radeon 5800 benchmarks out!

QFT, but the 5800FX didn't have the lasting power of the Geforce 256. I remember that bad boy lasting me 2 very solid years. What a great card. I had the guillemot edition, too...
- McCartney
- Post #165
- Mar 11, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Nvidia Fermi versus radeon 5800 benchmarks out!

How could you argue otherwise Lonyo? I'm sure nVidia could refresh and beef up their GT200 architecture and sell it. What's the point? I'm sure they learned their lesson when they put out the FX5900 ultra, which was just a ridiculously high-clocked FX5800 (which got pwnt by the Radeon 9700 Pro...
- McCartney
- Post #164
- Mar 11, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards

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