Everything posted by obfuscator
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Possibly buying a new computer - new question
Great, thanks! I now wish to know...how big of a tower will I need to hold that stuff? And I don't have a clue about video cards, I have this preconceived notion that anything GeForce or Radeon is good but obviously that's not necessarily true..
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Possibly buying a new computer - new question
Edited, see above.
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Possibly buying a new computer - new question
So, currently the only computer I have is my school laptop...which works pretty well but is starting to slow down, and suffers from major lack of video card so gaming is near impossible. TF2 and WOW on low graphics is about its limit. So, I need a new computer - I know practically nothing about hardware, so I need some help. I'm not against the idea of building my own, if it will actually be cheaper but I'm just not sure what parts are good etc. I want to skimp as much as possible on DVD Drive, hard drtive, and motherboard... I want to get a good processor, video card and at least 4g of RAM. The motherboard would ideally have 4 slots rather than 2. Does motherboard quality matter all that much? I'd like to skimp as much as possible if it won't matter too much, my budget is $750 tops, I need to buy a monitor as well and I'd like a good one.. I don't want to know specific parts per se, more just wondering if getting a decent computer for my price range is feasible, what I can skimp on, any brand reccomendations, etc. Ps. I also thought about buying something prebuilt, is this any good? http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=5631349&CatId=4928 Thanks in advance for the help :) EDIT: To clarify - monitor, speakers, mouse and keyboard will be taken care of separately from the tower - I can spend up to $750 on the tower itself.
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The official World of Warcraft thread.
Has anyone ever beaten the Lich King on ICC25 heroic? I couldn't find any vids...
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Is it worth getting this for PC? I've heard very mixed things...
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denies the 9/11 attacks...
I think Obama should start denying that America has troops in Iraq.
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Wrestling Lifts
I'm no wrestler, but you can't go wrong with heavy squats.
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"I want a girlfriend/boyfriend", and other such relationship advice
Agreed. Just forget about relationships until you're in high school at least.
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Apparently, our days got shorter now :O :P!
That's interesting...makes you wonder if millions of years from now earthquakes will be the end of us.
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"I want a girlfriend/boyfriend", and other such relationship advice
Personality is more important tbh....besides, I know it's horrible but I'm guessing you're not out of high school yet, and I remember a lot of really ugly girls from my high school got really hot once they matured.
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Falklands Dispute
They should just stay British, although it does seem unfair that Argentina inherited them and can't have them..
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Forum search not working?
Search has always been iffy on these forums I find, same with the old ones.
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American Education and Foreign Language Learning
I think languages are important, but unless you have a truly bilingual country it shouldn't be mandatory.. For example, here, you learn french from kintergarden to grade 9 - and you can take it past that if you wish.
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Justice System Fails
...really? If you honestly can't see what's wrong with that statement, then there's nothing more that I can say; there's no use addressing the rest of your post if you truly feel this way. It's ridiculous that I have to try to explain this at all. :? I agree completely - this sort of "she started it" attititude is ridiculous and frankly immature. I support 100% the protection of your assets, because, yes, it did seem like this woman was taking advantage of the situation, but, I'm sorry - wishing that kind of misfortune upon another human being is absolutely uncalled for. It seems to me that someone should be angry at the incredible naivety shown by your grandfather in becoming involved with a woman of this sort.
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Olympics
I suppose it wouldn't matter if I said America got the most medals total which means they placed in the top 3 in more events than Canada did? I'm not claiming Canada did better than the States did - the states is by far the most dominant country at the Olympics, summer and winter, and they have a ton of phenomenla athletes. Still, Canada did improve significantly, and acheive something signficant, so I'm merely proud of my country for that.
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Books: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
You know what, it isn't a great resource book - but that's not what it's supposed to be. If all the constant paragraphs of text and vague examples tend to confuse you, these books use a much more varied way of presenting the information. Now, I found for some things it basically resulted in a huge oversimplification, but for some harder concepts I picked them up really fast thanks to the explanations they gave.
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Books: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
I really liked Head First PHP and MySQL: http://www.amazon.com/Head-First-MySQL-Lynn-Beighley/dp/0596006306/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267463404&sr=8-2 I've read it all, haven't worked through the code examples much though, so I don't consider myself to have completed it. It's a very simple book, not like your typical textbook, lots of examples, it goes slowly, but I found that worked pretty well.
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Java - clone() method
Quite true dear sir. I shall now attempt to write such a method being extremely bored at work.. EDIT: Never mind, I won't, I forgot I don't have Java :(
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Wikipedia fallacies
In general I find wikipedia to be pretty good - I'd never use it as a reference for anything but I usually start my research with a wikipedia article, it generally gives a good background, plus many references they use are great sources.
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akutou-remix vol II
Nice, I love the colours :D
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Java - clone() method
Wouldn't a clone method basically just contain the same thing?
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Obama Extends Patriot Act
I'm not American, but I think this act should continue to be in place as long as the States is still in Iraq, Afghanistan.
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Blind People and Braille
Aha such win... My question is...does it hurt to have those signs there? Even if one blind person happens to stumple across it, and it helps them, it's worth it.
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Olympics
[bleep] yeah Canada, hockey gold and most golds by host :D
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Java - clone() method
Hmm, I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to do (never used byVal) but couldn't you just do something like this? Object a (property a, property b, property c); //object you want to clone to clone: Object b(a.getProperty(a), a.getProperty(b), a.getProperty(c)); Unless I'm not understanding what you want to do that seems like an easy way to do it.... If you wanted a unique object ID or something you could do a(1, b, c); b(1+a.getProperty(id);