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was the company still in that business by the time you got your machine?
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Cardboard Box A posted:Wait, wasn't the 360 notoriously cheap as well? I mean they cut out the mandatory hard drive, no pads on the disc drive, and that entire bloody xclamp design...? also that entire paying for everyone that bought one in the first couple years to get a new one
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Aug 27, 2014 13:11
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univbee posted:Sony and Microsoft used to do this (both the PS3 and 360 had manufacturing costs north of $800USD at first and they were proper-losing a few hundred for every console sold), but pretty much vowed not to anymore because it cost both of them astronomically last time. Sony especially seems to have hit the sweet spot of system build/price, although it's selling gently caress-all in Japan (it's been 6 months and I think they still haven't sold the same number of PS4's as Sony did on the first day PS2's were available there) console gaming is dead in japan, its all portables
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Aug 27, 2014 16:49
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homo punching bag posted:too bad sony doesnt have a portable lmao this is why they're coming out with that wacky tv thing
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Aug 27, 2014 17:04
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Fabricated posted:i wonder how long Microsoft can keep up their strategy of "literally do the exact opposite thing of what would fix <whatever> problem" and still remain solvent hp is closing in on 2 decades of this
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Aug 31, 2014 06:15
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Metrication posted:if cats had acquired the ability to express themselves in words you would have thought they could do it with decent grammar and spelling it really isn't that much of a leap just saying "tuna" over and over doesn't require grammar
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Sep 7, 2014 11:26
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Sniep posted:wait whats really stupid is that they're surface 2 pros. like this is one thing that a windows rt tablet would work for and apparently MS didn't trust it enough
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Sep 8, 2014 16:25
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oh wait windows rt doesn't support imaging or active directory! sorry, they had to use surface pros
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Sep 8, 2014 16:26
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iPads are taking over in enterprise because Microsoft's offering has less AD integration
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Sep 8, 2014 16:26
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then why did they give away surface 2s after the surface 3 is out?
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Sep 8, 2014 16:26
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raruler posted:are those tiny american flag lapel pins? pretty sure they actually say the name of the show (nfl on fox)
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Sep 8, 2014 22:44
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graph posted:your worst nightmare in the courtroom is lawyers on both sides who are buddies imagine being the judge that drew the short straw on that one
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Sep 9, 2014 01:26
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look at this scrub without a flat trinitron
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Sep 11, 2014 20:59
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:
i hate it when i can zoom in without moving my hand off the touchpad
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Sep 11, 2014 21:45
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LastInLine posted:throw this loving thing in the goddamn trash and buy a macbook all he should have to do there is hit cmd-q
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Sep 18, 2014 15:03
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come to think of it a chemistry "sandbox" "game" would be pretty cool and could be a useful educational tool if done right good luck getting the right people together and funding to develop something like that though
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Sep 19, 2014 14:33
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Pinterest Mom posted:(the 101 class was a bioware game) on your way to save the world there are some kittens on the side of the road! do you either: 1. kill the kittens 2. take a week off from saving the world to try and find homes for the kittens
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Sep 19, 2014 15:22
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poty posted:ok guys im gonna cancel you win wii u only has nintendo games on it. so if you want to play mario and mario kart then do it. otherwise ps4
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Sep 20, 2014 14:10
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The Leck posted:look, SOMEONE's dad had to take it from work
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Sep 21, 2014 16:51
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Fabricated posted:People doing CAD/CAM/etc work here buy Precision Laptops. They're pretty nice outside of being gently caress-off huge. these things own for opengl stuff. they even seem to be fairly decently put together
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Sep 21, 2014 22:49
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carry on then posted:why? just the gpu they use or something else? they have quadros and are giant bricks so are free to use higher tdp stuff
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Sep 21, 2014 22:56
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:precision laptops are hilariously heavy, overpowered poo poo purchased by engineers displaying a cad model with as many polygons as an average game from 1997 and almost none of the people who purchase them actually need them and yet, those applications showing a 1997 game's worth of polygons will run at 5 fps unless its a "pro" card
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Sep 24, 2014 01:31
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raruler posted:do people still reflash their video cards with workstation card firmware? i wish there was a solution because consumer graphics cards make it look like rendering a million poly mesh in opengl is the hardest thing in the world
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Sep 24, 2014 01:50
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pagancow posted:or people working in visual studio i run it in a vm, works4me
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Sep 25, 2014 01:27
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:thankfully the low-end firepro and quadro cards cost next to nothing these days unfortunate if you want to run something on a laptop
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Sep 25, 2014 15:38
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Internaut! posted:this sounds amazing and why doesn't solidworks/autodesk/et al offer that kind of service today, either their own cloud or DIY cloud servers a ton of bandwidth would be required for that and engineers like their fancy workstations
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Sep 25, 2014 20:38
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:if solidworks/autodesk is going to be doing it then you'll have distributed datacenters and would connect to the closest one. pull your content from a Clod Save and work away. It doesn't exist yet and you can't really roll your own for what you're describing but it could be possible in a year or two. i don't think relying on the wifi for some random hotel in bumfuck north dakota is going to be a good business proposition
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Sep 25, 2014 21:13
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raruler posted:wait why is this a feature if you have to pay dell approved consultants $texas/hr then it has to be better than some crap open source thing!
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Sep 25, 2014 21:14
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:Not going to North Dakota is a good business proposition 
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Sep 25, 2014 21:51
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Miley Virus posted:cause you know ballmer would co-opt other wrestlers' catchphrases yeah
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Sep 26, 2014 12:44
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Internaut! posted:always entertaining to hear goons disparage masters business programs we're talking about MBA's not an MAcc
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Sep 29, 2014 10:21
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Shaggar posted:lol wrong thread oh i thought ballmer had bought a mls team
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Oct 9, 2014 01:46
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mod sassinator posted:synology not diy linux but yes this is the way to go. not dirt cheap either just don't do anything retarded and expose it directly to the internet
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Oct 9, 2014 14:28
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carry on then posted:*~*scalability~*~ me too!
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Oct 9, 2014 21:19
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Improbable Lobster posted:yeah having a baby every year to avoid work sounds catholic
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Oct 10, 2014 03:30
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you can divorce Jesus?
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Oct 10, 2014 13:51
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its microsoft, i'm sure asking for a raise is an automatic 4
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Oct 10, 2014 21:04
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carry on then posted:lol people lined up outside stores to buy windows 95 well they only had windows 3.1 before then and you couldn't really download stuff that size at the time
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Oct 13, 2014 18:31
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speaking of not being able to download things in the 90s, who else made little forts out of msdn binders?
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theadder posted:Ballmer and Bill Gates are apparently on the outs, and are no longer on speaking terms with one another. maybe gates will buy a good basketball team
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