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    The Fall of the American Empire

    in Gossip Café [/offtopic]

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    meh i think this is pretty stupid... every empire falls sooner or later. hell we have lasted the longest havent we? If america ever does fall oh well life goes in.. maybe a few more wars yadda yadda.... all counrtys probably wont let us leave and we will end up dealing with it and become just another country just like brittian.... then we will go on about how cool our empire was... like brittian <_<.

     

    then when ever china takes over everyone will think there assholes and wish america was in control again.

    I definitely wouldn't say you lasted the longest, if we're going to count the British Empire, the Roman Empire, hell the Ottoman Empire compared to the American Empire is like a movie compared to a commercial.

    Sony IBM Unveil PS3 Engine

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    they're using it for PCs too??

     

    I don't see why they wouldn't extend its benefits to all electronics. It's not like this processor is PS3 exclusive. Sony might use it in their own PCs kind of like how Macs use an IBM chip. But I don't know if it will be available for the public like AMDs and Intels are but I want to know how they stack up. Both of those companies are also working on next gen multi-core processors.

     

    I think they're going to use this processor as a way to converge a whole bunch of consumer electronics. Hell, they just might slap a keyboard and mouse with a PS3 and sell it as a PC. Apparantly this CELL processor can use multiple OSes at once, the application of that is yet to be seen.

    I can think of one very important application for multiple OSes at once - emulating the ps2 so there'll be backwards compatibility.

     

    And Axl, why on earth do you hope the ps3 fails? Would you rather Micro$oft succeed with their xbox-next? Well not me! I hope the xbox-next fails.

    The Fall of the American Empire

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    I am not really worried; for one if this was a real threat don't you think it would be all over the media and news, talk radio stations, etc... Think about it, anyone can come up with there conspiracy theories and call it a fact. Come on now. Don't you think it would be all over the world news and everyone would be in a panicky up roar, sorry this is not a fact random, more like speculation and theories.

    This was the chairman of the largest bank in America telling his investors objectively what they needed to know for the next few fiscal years, not just some random person with a crackpot theory. Plus he was saying it in private, so it's not like he was trying to make a big deal for the press - he never expected the minutes from the meeting to GET to the press.

    And of course the reason other newspapers/networks/news sources aren't running with this story is that it would incur the wrath of the republican party. Bush has spent four years retraining the journalists in your country to instead become propaganda conveyors. I mean, what, you expect a story like this to appear on FOX news? HA!

    Basically, who do you trust to tell you how it is on economic matters, the chairman of the largest bank in America, or embedded journalists who rely on the president's office for most of their news reporting, and therefore don't want to risk incurring the wrath of the republican party?

    Shopping for a new video card

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    It says the core frequency of it is 385 mhz. The core frequency of an XT is 412 mhz. The core of a Pro is 380 mhz.

     

    This seems to be an overclocked pro...but don't hold my word on that.

    Damn.

     

    But then, look at this price list: http://www.ausprices.com.au/Computer/Compo...Card/54021.html

     

    It seems that the 256mb XTREMES are substantially cheaper (ie actually in my price range) than the 256mb XTs, so I may have to compromise and get one of those.

    The Fall of the American Empire

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    No worries, I will soon move to Australia and hang out all day with my great buddy Random Guy:thumbsup:. We will go out, have pizza, pick up on chicks, party all night, catch up on old times in the local bar; I'll sleep with his girlfriend, etc... Can't wait for America to fall flat on its back, the sooner it happens the sooner me and Random will be out clubbing. :D

    All well and good, but the collapse of the largest economy in the world will have some substantial side-effects on the world market. Although, considering the unpayable amounts of debt 3rd world countries owe to America, some countries could well get better off, countries such as Australiia with such close economic alliegances with America will no doubt suffer quite badly. I can't remember who said it first, but this quote sums it up best, "When America sneezes, Australia catches a cold".

    Shopping for a new video card

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    Check these two links out: http://forums.devshed.com/t173056/s.html

    http://www.hardavenue.com/reviews/gf68001.shtml

     

    Actually, the GeForce 6800s are nice cards... the GeForce4MX were a sham.

    Fair enough, it does seem to be better, but it is more expensive and the 9800xt seems to be plenty good enough for me. Now the only thing I'm worried about is if that really is an XT. See, it's called a 9800 XTREME (I've also seen it written EXTREME though), and while XTREME has XT in it, that may be a deliberate case of false advertising.

    Can anyone who knows the difference make sure that this card really is an XT?

    512 cable slow why

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    i dunno why but today the whole day my inet connection was slooow  and i am on 512  :D

     

    why why why  :)

    It could be that your ISP was heavy in traffic, or that there were problems with the cables. Also, on my DSL plan, once we download over a certain limit (10 gigs in this case) they slow down our connection exponentially the more we download. Maybe your ISP has a similar deal. If you're on wireless, there could be a lot of other reasons.

    Shopping for a new video card

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    It is a nice card. It does quite well in games. But for curiosity's sake, how much are NVIDIA's GeForce 6600 or 6800 and/or ATI X800 cards?

    The x800s are about twice as expensive, and the geforce 6800 would be about $50 more, but I can't seem to find any locally. I could order one but it would add extra hassle.

    Besides, I prefer radeon to geforce (only because the geforce 4 440 mx is such a bullsh*t card :D ).

    The Fall of the American Empire

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    Still trying as hard as you can to put America down every chance you get.

    No, fatal, I am not. I am sharing an article in which experts who know a lot more than you and I are predicting economic armageddon for the US because of the way Bush is running the country.

    I'm not happy about the fact that at the rate its going your country is going to collapse. Even beside all the poor (ie anyone who doesn't have an offshore bank account) US citizens who will be thrust into economic disaster, it could spell global catastrophe considering the economic upturn that will be an inevitable result. But it is happening, and will happen soon at the rate things are going. That is not my opinion, it is a fact.

    Shopping for a new video card

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    Now that christmas is rolling around I can finally start shopping for video cards. This is the one that captured my fancy: http://www.centrecom.com.au/catalog/produc...1c7b63b22c86271

    Here's the features

        *

          Powered by the AGP 8X, 128-bit RADEON® 9800 (R360) Visual Processing Unit (VPU).

        *

          Supports multiple display configurations for CRT/DVI/ TV-out display output.

        *

          Supports 256MB DDR with 128-bit memory interface to delivers the bandwidth for real time 3D gaming, graphics and barrier free performance. 

        *

          Supports the latest Microsoft DirectX® 9.0 and OpenGL® feature sets.

        *

          Integrated 8 parallel rendering pipelines and 4 parallel geometry engines for incredibly fast 3D graphics.

        *

          Integrated 400MHz RAMDAC to support display mode up to 2048 x 1536 16.7M color @ 85Hz refresh rate. Maximum 3D resolution up to 2048 x 1536 16.7M color (with 128MB Frame Buffer). 

        *

          SMARTSHADER™ 2.1 technology supports the latest Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 feature sets, enabling more complex and cinematic-quality lighting effects.

        *

          SMOOTHVISION 2.1 technology delivers the sharpest, clearest textures, removes jaggies and brings out fine texture details without sacrificing frame rates.

        *

          128-bit full floating point precision enables billions of color variations to render the same lighting and effects as Hollywood studios.

        *

          FULLSTREAM™ and VIDEOSHADER™ produce smoother looking, higher quality video and streaming Internet content without putting extra strain on the CPU.

     

    Specifications

     

     

     

    Model Name  GECUBE RADEON®  9800 (R360 VPU) 128-bit 256MB

    ASIC  RADEON® 9800 (R360)

    Core Frequency  385MHz

    Memory Size  256MB

    Memory Type  16*16  DDR

    Memory Bus  128 bit

    Interface      AGP

    D-Sub              Yes

    TV-Out              S/AV-out

    DVI              Yes

    Video-In    N/A

    Cooling    Fansink

     

    Does it look like it's worth buying? It's a 9800xt I think so it should be pretty good right? It's alot of money though so I don't want to buy an obsolete card.

    The Fall of the American Empire

    in Gossip Café [/offtopic]

    Posted

    http://business.bostonherald.com/businessN...articleid=55356

     

    Here's an excerpt.

    Economic `Armageddon' predicted

    By Brett Arends/ On State Street

    Tuesday, November 23, 2004

     

    Stephen Roach, the chief economist at investment banking giant Morgan Stanley, has a public reputation for being bearish.

        But you should hear what he's saying in private.

        Roach met select groups of fund managers downtown last week, including a group at Fidelity.

        His prediction: America has no better than a 10 percent chance of avoiding economic ``armageddon.''

        Press were not allowed into the meetings. But the Herald has obtained a copy of Roach's presentation. A stunned source who was at one meeting said, ``it struck me how extreme he was - much more, it seemed to me, than in public.''

        Roach sees a 30 percent chance of a slump soon and a 60 percent chance that ``we'll muddle through for a while and delay the eventual armageddon.''

        The chance we'll get through OK: one in 10. Maybe.

        In a nutshell, Roach's argument is that America's record trade deficit means the dollar will keep falling. To keep foreigners buying T-bills and prevent a resulting rise in inflation, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan will be forced to raise interest rates further and faster than he wants.

        The result: U.S. consumers, who are in debt up to their eyeballs, will get pounded.

        Less a case of ``Armageddon,'' maybe, than of a ``Perfect Storm.''

        Roach marshalled alarming facts to support his argument.

        To finance its current account deficit with the rest of the world, he said, America has to import $2.6 billion in cash. Every working day.

        That is an amazing 80 percent of the entire world's net savings.

        Sustainable? Hardly.

     

    Hope you Americans enjoyed living in an affluent first-world country, because by the looks of things, that isn't going to last. This is what the Bush tax-cuts and massive spending have done to your country- he's bankrupted it.

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