Playing Mass Effect

Semester is over, enjoying Mass Effect. I had to deal with the Normandy bug. It's fun, i give it a 9.0. Reviewed it



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Here is the no DVD exe so I can play it with the 1.02 update.

DirectX 11 takes a lot of memory.

DirectX 11

DirectX 9

I'm officially braced the DirectX 11 future with a version of Windows 7 Ultimate and a GPU. The reviews said the card was fast, yet only first gen of DirectX 11 cards. My card does 4.64 Teraflops, more than quadruple the Geforce GTX 280. At the moment, the only DirectX 11 benchmark is Battleforge, a real-time strategy game. The directX 9 games all run past 150 fps at 2650x1600 resolution. DirectX 10 games have an average frame rate of 150 fps at 1920x1080.



This is really fast for me, I usually stay with the old school thought where 60 fps was fluid and anything more was faster than the human eye could process. This old school thought came from 2D fighting games like Marvel vs. Capcom 2 for Sega Dreamcast. That's a 2000 era thought.


DirectX 11 API (Battleforge, EA 2009)

Yeah, I asked for a XFX Radeon HD 5970 Black Edition for Christmas along with a TB hard drive to get rid of the RAID5. I didn't wait for the Geforce GTX 380 this time around, because it had 1.5 GB GDDR5 memory. From what I hear the Catalyst drivers are very buggy, so I should see a 12-15 fps increase in 6-7 months in the future with better drivers. My card also supports OpenGL 3.2 so that API beats DirectX 11 graphics a little.

IT DOES ABOUT 5/8 a IBM ASCI White SUPERCOMPUTER IN 2000 (7.226 TFLOPS).



December 27 2009 update





Card intelligently underclocks chips and RAM when not doing 3D graphics.

US Dollar: The Yuan's Nemesis

China deflating the yuan, and Chinese politicians don't admit it. The US Mint job is to level it out by printing non-gold backed banknotes. That's why China wants to move to a IMF currency or mixture of currencies so the United States can't balance out their inflating yuan. China buying a lot of gold reserves from other countries. They also want to release a "golden yuan" so that it can replace the US Dollar as a world currency. The US of course wants to win the war in Afghanistan so US doesn't want the yuan be used as the peg currency. I don't believe China would fight terrorists or any war except the Cyber Cold War. See, I just admitted it!

http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/barry/2009/0709.html

Setup to fail?

 

Seven
Lies about American Business AAC 1.1 MB

Seven
Lies about American Business Vorbis 1.6 MB

My shanghai Tourism

Yep, I was in Shanghai for a four day tourist visit. I only ate from Subway, McDonalds, 7 Eleven, Pizza Hutt, Arbys, and Burger King. This was from after my birthday to November 5th.

Arguing with Idiots

Audio book: mp3

http://rapidshare.com/files/296080733/Glenn_Beck_-_Arguing_With_Idiots_32_kbps-ez_fx.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/295235939/Glenn_Beck_-_Arguing_With_Idiots_32_kbps-ez_fx.part2.rar

OpenSuse 11.2 mini review

The downside to OpenSuse 11.2 is that there aren't as many games as there was, and some even crash! I don't get Revolution's Software Beneath a Steel Sky or Penguin Command or Super Tux anymore. I'm using it to download the full version of Windows 7 Ultimate (7600) with Kget and the part file is a life saver. One thing I like is the stupid login screen won't appear at night erasing downloads which is again the only brilliance OpenSuse 11.2 has. Why do I have to go to a OpenSuse FTP and look up a *insertprogram*_11.2_x86-64.rpm everytime I want something new to work? Ubuntu 7.1 recognizes every program, but then they won't load for some reason.

Applications 7.0 – where are all the games? And why do I not have a FFMPEG decoder on the DVD yet? Either is very disappointing.
Stability 8.5 – some programs refuse to load like GNU chess...all are games.
Usefulness 10.0 – Got me Windows 7600 free.
Installation 7.0 – had to use the repair installation twice due to kernel panic after the first repair job.
Technology 10 – state-of-the-art EXT4 and OpenOffice 3.1.1 is compatible with DocX.
Overall 8.4 - Leaves enough to be desired. No FFMPEG Where is WINE on here...unchecked at Installation? Who knows. The NV drivers are so/so. The offical video drivers are a lot faster.



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Stable Suse 11.2 review

OpenSuse 11.2 review.

I know I gave the beta a 1 star. I've been playing with Suse Linux 11.2 since November 2009. It saves your butt on laptops. When the Ubuntu 9.1 DVD stalls and Windows 7 giving you HDD errors or DVD-ROM errors during installations; Suse Linux 11.2 will install all three KDE, Gnome and XFCE that almost dead laptop HDD that was formatted on too many times. When that Windows partition really sucks, you can format the NTFS partition in BTRFS in Yast! Oh yeah, OpenOffice 3.1 is already compatible with DOCX, and the Crossover Linux RPM works without dependency hell problems like Ubuntu can! This is my favorite Linux distro! It is as stable as Windows 7 and Linux kernel wont be attacked constantly, because it's Linux! Fedora 12 had dependency problems with Crossover Linux, I had to use the shell version on Fedora....

10 out of 10! Puts Ubuntu 9.1 to shame. Didn't have any of those kernel stalling on OpenSuse 11.2 unlike Ubuntu 9.1.

Servers should go with Ubuntu, because they have long term releases and the kernel is like 2.6.32-25. 25 means it's really "Debian grade stable". The British really know how to do Linux SERVERS. The Germans know how to make it desktop grade!

My power tool and utilities collection!

See, I collected power toys as well as videogames. I mow the lawn and execute wood. Nothing to fancy, and I'm not like spending too much on these toys. I don't have black and decker or john deere lawn mowers. All these are used powertools I got off Ebay so they didn't break the budget! I bought the tractor used from an anonymous homeowner USED. In this economy, you never know when you'll come across a diamond in the rough.

B-2 electro-gravitic

B-2 [Stealth bombers] have electro-gravitic systems on board; and that this explains why our 21 Northrop B-2s cost about a billion dollars each!

RIP Geocities, Archive.org has most of my pages on their server.

I logged into my account at nightwalkers101 and noticed that Geo-cities is going down on October 28. I sent Archive.org all of my site's links within the last week. Hope they archive in time. My site was one of the better looking, because it was done in namo webeditor5. My bandwidth is exceeded. Damn that was a cool site. Videogame pages on it rocked, and was relaxing.

This was the place for webpages before there was Angelfire Myspace or Facebook.

http://www.archive.org/details/Nightwalkers101
http://rapidshare.com/files/294811615/Geocities.zip.html

Geocities website is now online at OOcities!

There is a complete snapshot at the Wayback Machine URL.

Wisconsin politician wants Geothermal

Catastrophe-Dick-Morris

Catastrophe-Richard
Morris audio book Part 1100 MB mp3

Catastrophe-Richard
Morris audio book Part 2100 MB mp3

Catastrophe-Richard
Morris audio book Part 360 MB mp3

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President Bush and Amitai Etzioni

Overall, President George W. Bush was somewhat liked by conservatives even though he was a medicare supporting neo-conservative which obviously goes to young and elderly due to no private insurance making a profit on them.

One of the people that G.W. Bush associated himself with was Amitai Etzioni. Amitai Etzioni graduated from George Washington University and was a communtarian. Amitai said that he was trained by Martin Buber in Jerusalem. Amitai said that communtarianism has its roots from ancient Greece and the Old and New Testaments Communtarianism is very similar to Third Way. Communitarians explore such as the balance between rights and responsibilities in society, community justice, multiculturalism, the community's moral voice, and developing global society." The program was a successor to G. H.W. Bush's "Thousand Points of Light". G.W. Bush sought rather than officially designating Communities of Character, use heroes to tell the story.

Communitarianism calls for balancing the rights of the individual with the rights of the community. The government-sponsored neighborhood associations are being used to create the illusion of community buy-in. The government wants citizen buy-in, but they actually manage it by creating their own government-sponsored neighborhood associations and then manufacture consent.

Nuclearized Batteries to replace Lithium batteries.

Maybe when I turn 32 or something Earth will not only have laptop or Blackberry nuclear powered batteries, but anything that used a Lithium battery in the 2000.

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/44243/181/

went to Armin Van Buuren @ Epic Yesterday

Was a the Epic Night Club yesterday and had it was extremely interesting.

Going Next Generation November 27st

I'll just pick the Geforce GTX 380 SLI when it comes out November 29th. Radeon HD 5870 crossfire doesn't' work in a SLI board.

First internal cards are based on A1-stepping and feature 1024MB of GDDR5 memory, with all the memory chips located on front of the card. There are also cards with 2048MB, but we were unable to confirm the codename for the 2GB board. Oddly enough, the 1GB card has a codename fitting nicely in the current line-up, even behind one upcoming dual-GPU single-PC part, which would imply that nVidia has the cards for several weeks now.

According to the German site Hardware-Infos, the sample boards now come with a higher GPU clock. The alleged GT300 A1 silicon ticks at 0.7 GHz, with 512 cores working at 1.6 GHz. GDDR5 memory was upped to 1.1 GHz QDR or 4.4 GT/s [billion transfers per second], resulting in memory bandwidth of massive 281.6 GB/s. According to information we had, nVidia firstly clocked the at 1:1 ratio with GeForce GTX280 for a baseline comparison. If the leaked information is true and those clocks remain final, that would mean GTX380 missed it targeted clock by a double-digit percentage. Still, a beast nevertheless.

If the figure of 1.6 GHz for 512 shaders is final, then the chip can achieve 2457 GFLOPS, e.g. 2.46 TFLOPS. This is a very good jump from 933 GFLOPS on the original GTX280. But the dark horse here is not the single-precision score, but rather the efficiency of dual-precision format. If our sources were true, GT300 chip has radically improved way of calculating dual precision operations and should bring anywhere between 7-10x improvement in performance.


10

11

DirectX 11/ Xbox 720

http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews.php?reviewid=842&pageid=14

It'd be funny if both the Playstation 4 and Xbox 720 had a Radeon HD 5780 chip, because by then it would be the one of the cheapest DirectX 11 chips on the market. It seems to me the G60 didnt' work out for PS3, because Geforce 6800 GTX couldn't do 1080p while the G70 barely could. It is amazing they can do 1080p with only 256 MB VRAM on PS3 too.

Nautilus traveling to space station

The Nautilus is another space-faring craft, a secret military spacecraft which operates by magnetic pulsing. It operates out of the unacknowledged new headquarters of the U.S. Space Command, deep under a mountain in Utah. It makes twice-a-week trips up to the secret military-intelligence space station, which has been in deep space for the past thirty years, and manned by U.S. and USSR (now CIS) military astronauts. The Nautilus also is used for superfast surveillance operations, utilizing its ability to penetrate target country airspace from above from deep space, a direction not usually expected. It is manufactured jointly by Boeing's Phantom Works near Seattle and EU's Airbus Industries Anglo-French consortium. During travel to Washington State several years ago, I had a conversation with a former Boeing executive who worked in their Phantom Works, Boeing's black projects division, (roughly the equivalent of Lockheed's Skunk Works). The executive confirmed what I had earlier learned from an intelligence insider: that Boeing had teamed up with Europe's Airbus Industrie to manufacture the Nautilus.

Top 100 Power Ranger Episodes

1                    Power Rangers in Space: Countdown to Destruction: Part 2                7.7        1998   
2                    Power Rangers in Space: Countdown to Destruction: Part 1                7.7        1998   
3                    Power Rangers Time Force: The End of Time: Part 3                8.1        2001   
4                    Power Rangers Time Force: The End of Time: Part 1                7.3        2001   
5                    Power Rangers Time Force: The End of Time: Part 2                8.1        2001   
6                    Power Rangers Time Force: Beware the Knight                5.6        2001   
7                    Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Day of the Dumpster                7.5        1993   
8                    Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Green with Evil: Part 1                9.2        1993   
9                    Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Green with Evil: Part 5                9.1        1993   
10                    Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Green with Evil: Part 2                9.1        1993   
11                    Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Green with Evil: Part 3                9.2        1993   
12                    Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Green with Evil: Part 4                9.2        1993   
13                    Power Rangers Turbo: Chase Into Space: Part 2                8.4        1997   
14                    Power Rangers Turbo: Chase Into Space: Part 1                7.5        1997   
15                    Power Rangers S.P.D.: Reflection: Part 2                7.3        2005   
16                    Power Rangers Lost Galaxy: Quasar Quest: Part 2                7.9        1999   
17                    Power Rangers Lost Galaxy: To the Tenth Power                7.8        1999   
18                    Power Rangers Lost Galaxy: Heir to the Throne                7.9        1999   
19                    Power Rangers Zeo: Mondo's Last Stand                7.4        1996   
20                    Power Rangers Zeo: Good as Gold                8.5        1996   
21                    Power Rangers Zeo: The Power of Gold                7.9        1996   
22                    Power Rangers Lost Galaxy: The Lights of Orion                6.8        1999   
23                    Power Rangers Time Force: Force from the Future: Part 2                8        2001   
24                    Power Rangers Lost Galaxy: Journey's End: Part 1                7.3        1999   
25                    Power Rangers Lost Galaxy: Journey's End: Part 3                7.2        1999   
26                    Power Rangers Lost Galaxy: Journey's End: Part 2                7.2        1999   
27                    Power Rangers Zeo: A Golden Homecoming                8.1        1996   
28                    Power Rangers DinoThunder: Fighting Spirit                7.8        2004   
29                    Power Rangers in Space: The Great Evilyzer                6.4        1998   
30                    Power Rangers Lost Galaxy: The Magna Defender                6.4        1999   
31                    Power Rangers R.P.M.: Three's a Crowd                        2009   
32                    Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue: Trakeena's Revenge: Part 2                8        2000   
33                    Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue: Trakeena's Revenge: Part 1                7.5        2000   
34                    Power Rangers Time Force: The Time Shadow                5.9        2001   
35                    Power Rangers Wild Force: The End of the Power Rangers: Part 2                7.7        2002   
36                    Power Rangers DinoThunder: The Passion of Conner                6.3        2004   
37                    Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue: The Fate of Lightspeed: Part 2                8.6        2000   
38                    Power Rangers R.P.M.: Blitz                        2009   
39                    Power Rangers Time Force: Quantum Secrets                6.7        2001   
40                    Power Rangers S.P.D.: A-Bridged                7.4        2005   
41                    Power Rangers Jungle Fury: Now the Final Fury                7.1        2008   
42                    Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Doomsday: Part 1                8.6        1993   
43                    Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Doomsday: Part 2                8.6        1993   
44                    Power Rangers Time Force: Worlds Apart                7        2001   
45                    Power Rangers Wild Force: Forever Red                8.2        2002   
46                    Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Return of an Old Friend: Part 2                9.1        1993   
47                    Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Return of an Old Friend: Part 1                9.1        1993   
48                    Power Rangers S.P.D.: Missing                        2005   
49                    Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Return of an Old Friend: Part 2                9.1        1993   
50                    Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Return of an Old Friend: Part 1                9.1        1993   
51                    Power Rangers Mystic Force: Mystic Fate: Part 2                8.4        2006   
52                    Power Rangers Wild Force: The Wings of Animaria                8.2        2002   
53                    Power Rangers R.P.M.: Ranger Red                6.3        2009   
54                    Power Rangers Samurai: Samurai Forever                7.5        2011   
55                    Power Rangers Mystic Force: Dark Wish: Part 3                7.6        2006   
56                    Power Rangers Mystic Force: Dark Wish: Part 1                8.5        2006   
57                    Power Rangers Mystic Force: Dark Wish: Part 2                8.5        2006   
58                    The History of Power Rangers: Power Rangers Dino Thunder: Part II                8.4        2010   
59                    Power Rangers Time Force: Short-Circuited                5.9        2001   
60                    Power Rangers DinoThunder: White Thunder: Part 1                7        2004   
61                    Power Rangers DinoThunder: White Thunder: Part 3                7.6        2004   
62                    Power Rangers Wild Force: The Master's Last Stand                8.1        2002   
63                    Power Rangers Wild Force: Reinforcements from the Future: Part 2                7.6        2002   
64                    Power Rangers Wild Force: Reinforcements from the Future: Part 1                7.8        2002   
65                    Power Rangers S.P.D.                5.9        2005   
66                    Power Rangers DinoThunder: Thunder Storm: Part 1                7.3        2004   
67                    Power Rangers DinoThunder: Thunder Storm: Part 2                7.4        2004   
68                    Power Rangers DinoThunder: Day of the Dino: Part 1                7        2004   
69                    Power Rangers DinoThunder: Day of the Dino: Part 2                7.6        2004   
70                    Power Rangers DinoThunder: Back in Black                7.5        2004   
71                    Power Rangers Wild Force: The Lone Wolf                6.6        2002   
72                    Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Happy Birthday, Zack                8.3        1993   
73                    Power Rangers Operation Overdrive: Once a Ranger: Part 2                7.7        2007   
74                    Power Rangers Operation Overdrive: Once a Ranger: Part 1                8        2007   
75                    Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: White Light: Part 2                8.9        1993   
76                    Power Rangers in Space: From Out of Nowhere: Part 2                7.9        1998   
77                    Power Rangers R.P.M.: Heroes Among Us                6.9        2009   
78                    Power Rangers Wild Force: The Ancient Warrior                        2002   
79                    Power Rangers Wild Force: Sealing the Nexus                8.3        2002   
80                    Power Rangers Wild Force: Unfinished Business                8.1        2002   
81                    Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Power Transfer: Part 2                6.2        1993   
82                    Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Power Transfer: Part 1                7.8        1993   
83                    Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Birds of a Feather                8.3        1993   
84                    Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Clean-Up Club                8.3        1993   
85                    Power Rangers Zeo: A Zeo Beginning: Part 1                8.5        1996   
86                    Power Rangers Zeo: A Zeo Beginning: Part 2                8.1        1996   
87                    Power Rangers S.P.D.: Shadow: Part 2                7.9        2005   
88                    Power Rangers S.P.D.: S.W.A.T.: Part 2                        2005   
89                    Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Mutiny: Part 3                8.6        1993   
90                    Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Mutiny: Part 1                8.6        1993   
91                    Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Mutiny: Part 2                8.6        1993   
92                    Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: A Friend in Need: Part 1                6.8        1993   
93                    Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: A Friend in Need: Part 2                6.4        1993   
94                    Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: A Friend in Need: Part 3                6.6        1993   
95                    Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: A Pressing Engagement                6.9        1993   
96                    Power Rangers in Space: The Rangers' Mega Voyage                7.3        1998   
97                    Power Rangers in Space: Five of a Kind                6.8        1998   
98                    Power Rangers in Space: The Enemy Within                7.2        1998   
99                    Power Rangers Megaforce: Mega Mission                7.7        2013   
100                    Power Rangers Megaforce: Ultra Power                5.8        2013   

Still Handling Homeland Security With a 9/10 Attitude

The feds rejected the imams' attempt to shake down the airline with a discrimination lawsuit. But three years later, law enforcement officers are still battling the flying extortionists. Political correctness remains the handmaiden of terrorism.

Over at the Justice Department, Attorney General Eric Holder is committed to eliminating racial "disparities" in law enforcement. His anti-profiling allies at the ACLU and something called the "Rights Working Group" are working to end Bush administration counterterrorism initiatives, "including FBI surveillance and questioning, special registration programs, border stops, immigration enforcement programs and the creation of 'no fly lists.'" The ACLU and RWG have appealed to the United Nations to intervene through the "U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)" -- which they say is empowered to require sovereign governments "to review national, state and local policies and amend or repeal laws deemed to be creating or perpetuating discrimination."

Now, add anti-gun activism and stubborn union squabbling to the mix. As I reported two weeks ago, the Obama administration has quietly gutted the nation's most highly trained post-9/11 counterterrorism rail security team. According to multiple government sources who declined to be identified for fear of retribution, the Office of Security Strategy and Special Operations' East Coast and West Coast teams have not worked in a counterterrorism capacity since the summer. Their rifles were put under lock and key after Amtrak Vice President for Security Strategy and Special Operations Bill Rooney and Amtrak Inspector General Fred Weiderhold, who played an instrumental role in creating OSSSO's predecessor at Amtrak, the Counter-Terrorism Unit (CTU), were pushed out by Team Obama.

Amtrak confirmed to me last week that the elite members of the specialized OSSSO no longer carry long-arm weapons, which played a vital role in the unit's show-of-force patrols. Government sources blame anti-gun hostility inside Amtrak for the move. Amtrak also confirmed to me that West Coast members of the rail security unit -- most of whom come from Special Forces, counterterrorism and other military service -- have been denied police credentials. According to OSSSO sources on both coasts, the rival Amtrak Police Department, in conjunction with the local police union in California, have stymied the process over labor issues (OSSSO members are non-union).

"Amtrak fully expects to have a resolution in the near future," I was told by the rail agency's press office last week. In the meantime, according to a high-ranking homeland security source, Amtrak's unionized police chief has taken over and makes counterterrorism deployment decisions based on pay squabbles. The rail agency is still dealing with grievances filed by Amtrak police officers over compensation during the Democratic National Convention in Denver.

Says my rail security source: "The deciding factor is overtime, not security."

Dickering while jihadis plot. Feel safer yet?

Quad layer Bluray and 2 HVDs to choose from: Worth it

LOL, even though I have a bluray rewritable installed, I still use single layer DVDs a lot at home. I written to bluray only for my music collection which only took up 1 SL-BDR. Now there is going to be 3 HVDs from GE, 100 GB one from Optware and

[[General Electric]] Global Research Center have made a [[HVD|holographic disc]] which is the same size of a DVD/CD, yet can hold 500 Gigabytes of Data. It is going to be released onto the market in less than four years. General Electric has been working on their HVD for six years. Their technology is compatible with CD, DVD, and Bluray. [http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/04/ge-holographic-breakthrough-squeezes-100-dvds-into-a-single-disc/http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/04/ge-holographic-breakthrough-squeezes-100-dvds-into-a-single-disc/] They have plans to commercialize it.



== References ==

[http://www.gereports.com/ge-unveils-holographic-disc-breakthrough/
www.crn.com/storage/217200230

http://www.techshout.com/hardware/2009/28/ge-micro-holographic-disc-equals-100-dvds/

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/04/ge-holographic-breakthrough-squeezes-100-dvds-into-a-single-disc/

Why I cheated and ignored the Zune HD

...because I bought a Creative Zen Touch 40 GB for 1/4 the asking price it (Zune HD = $299). LAME 3.97 still sounds decent. Now I have 3 working mp3 players, two 20 GB, and one 40 GB and i don't use them all that much. The Zune HD is supposed to be better than the 3rd gen iPod Touch due to better battery life. Zen Touch would have the same battery life as the Zune HD.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/zune-hd-review/

F-22 Raptor

The F-22 Raptor advanced stealth fighter is built by a joint effort of the Lockheed-Martin Skunk Works and Boeing’s Phantom Works. In crude imitation of extraterrestrial starcraft, the guidance system of this aircraft incorporates special Artificial Intelligence (AI), meaning that Star Visitor genetic material is incorporated into the semi-alive and autonomously-functioning guidance system mated with the aircraft. In addition the F-22 has antigravity field propulsion capability, which is exercised selectively by the pilot who is in mental connection with the AI guidance system, which activates the antigravity propulsion as needed in coordination with the F-22's conventional jet engine thrust, to effect the maneuvering of the F-22 Raptor. I have personally witnessed a F-22 stop on its tail in mid-air and dance slowly and gently about without regard for gravity’s pull

AMD Bulldozer 12 core in 2011

This is going to be a long stretch from the Intel QX6700 (3 GHz) and the new Bulldozer 12 core processor in 2011. I doubt there will be more than one DirectX 11 game that I want throughout the next 2 years. They'd all be DirectX 10. I have two Geforce GTX 280s, well enough to play any game at the highest settings until 2011. I tried out hardware acceleration and Windows 7 is very, very fast on an mediocre Athlon 64 X2, 3 GB of RAM thanks to a Geforce 8800 GTX. The Geforce GTX 280 SLI has 4 times the stream processors and almost 3 times the memory. AMD is always cheaper than Intel, only that Intel had a Quad core CPU at the right price in 2k7. 32 nm CPU so power it uses less voltage than my current quad-core. All my DirectX 11 games could very well be Xbox 720 if I even care to play.

In 2011, you still probably see all these new DirectX 9 games. The game developers said on gameindustry.biz that the current generation won't end until 2011. Then what's next? I say a DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 dual specd games? A technology I had since November 2006! Not to worry, I'll have DirectX 11 GPU by December 2012 in THE PC (not counting Xbox 720) when there is an awesome DirectX 11 game worth having. By then the AMD R800 core GPU will be very affordable. My next PC is probably due 2011 or 2012 depending on both money flow, and worthy software. If the word crazy enters your mind, just remember that the 16 core is due in 2011 around the same time and that the 1st gen of 12 core CPUs is due 2010.

I had my new PC just before the White house called it an official recession.


That's my Intel Core i7 980x from Christmas 2010