The Official "rant/bitch/moan" Thread

Jonathan

Baza210 wrote: »

Show me an Intel clocking 8.4 GHz for €140.

Meh.

GHz mean nothing these days, but to answer your question:

I cannot find an Intel with that spec for that price, but if you are going in pure GHz, you aren't really getting that much of a bargain.
Phenom II X3 720 works out at about 60Mhz per dollar.
Core 2 Duo Q8400 works out about 59.11Mhz per dollar.

Unless of course you are trying to access the 4th core of the Phenom. :pac:

Brian

I'm going for the lower-ish end of the market, so an increase in price for a CPU isn't desirable, higher Hz/$ or not

Edit : wait what. You linked me to a more expensive processor with lower Hz/$.

Then again, maybe it's a moral aversion to AMD that you have :P
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1296848/amd-inside-iran-missiles-supercomputers

Boston

Baza210 wrote: »

Ankermann don't sell the processor I want. Newegg don't ship internationally. My dad's going to the USA in November, and to be honest I have nowhere near the money right now so I might get him to pick up some bits for me over there. For example, the GPU in the US costs less in USD there than it does in Euro here, even before the exchange rate.

The Americans never price anything with Tax included, so you can factor in 20% tax or more onto whatever you're buying from them. It may work out cheeper, but no where near as cheep as it used to be.

Mark200

Boston wrote: »

The Americans never price anything with Tax included, so you can factor in 20% tax or more onto whatever you're buying from them. It may work out cheeper, but no where near as cheep as it used to be.

I think vat was only about 8% the last time I was in America. Could depend on what state it is though

Boston

Yep, theres loads of different taxes. You'll pay state, county and city tax.

Brian

Newegg's prices include tax unless you live in California.

Kwekubo

Lost a job offer due to an interview date mixup :mad:

Mark200

Failed DLD. ****. Does anyone know what the repeats are like for DLD?

Babbit

Mark200 wrote: »

Failed DLD. ****. Does anyone know what the repeats are like for DLD?

I heard its impossible to pass that particular exam.

I, on the other hand, achieved a first in all of my results. Aren't I a clever bastard.

tolosenc

Babbit wrote: »

I heard its impossible to pass that particular exam.

I, on the other hand, achieved a first in all of my results. Aren't I a clever bastard.

Shut up.

Jonathan

Babbit wrote: »

I, on the other hand, achieved a first in all of my results. Aren't I a clever bastard.

Must be hard not to get a first when you where hogging library desks for the whole year...

mathew

Babbit wrote: »

I heard its impossible to pass that particular exam.

I, on the other hand, achieved a first in all of my results. Aren't I a clever bastard.

No.

Is your ban over already??

edit: Seems it was downgraded to an infraction... http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=60833670&postcount=21

Babbit

Wat are you on about lads?

Brian

69% in 1E7? Seriously?

Boston

Baza210 wrote: »

69% in 1E7? Seriously?

Did you do any of the assignments?

Brian

Boston wrote: »

Did you do any of the assignments?

Er, yeah, all of them..

Mountain_Surfer

I have repeats - f*ck

mathew

could most likely have got a research summer job in college had i thought of asking

Brian

Didn't you just get two normal jobs instead?

mathew

Well ye.. Only took one tho cause it wasn't possible to take both.
Still tho.. it's a shop job.. Me don't like shop jobs at all

Liquorice

mathew wrote: »

could most likely have got a research summer job in college had i thought of asking

I took a research summer job, but they told me from the start they couldn't pay me. A fortnight in, some moolah down (naturally, it's summertime) and I'm starting to think putting up with abuse from middle-aged, middle-class women with nothing better to do than accuse me of lying to them about not having a book in stock might have been work the €8.76 or whatever an hour.

Boston

mathew wrote: »

could most likely have got a research summer job in college had i thought of asking

That CS internship program looks very good.

Cerium

Babbit wrote: »

What are 'muppets'?

I'm a far cry from being Irish.. And even I know how undesirable a title it is.


On a sad note, 'tis piddling with rain again, someone ship me to sunnier coasts.

Awayindahils

I've slept for 26 hours since the start of the weekend and my cold is going no where....*pox*

Brian

installed keyboard. didn't work. doublesided taped in. can't get out. using on-screen keyboard. such an idiot.

mathew

Baza210 wrote: »

installed keyboard. didn't work. doublesided taped in. can't get out. using on-screen keyboard. such an idiot.

oh... thats a bit crap................

Jonathan

Baza210 wrote: »

installed keyboard. didn't work. doublesided taped in. can't get out. using on-screen keyboard. such an idiot.

No way of prying it out or anything? Sure all the cables are connected and stuff?

mathew wrote: »

oh... thats a bit crap................

Make him feel worse why don't you.. :rolleyes:

Brian

I got it off, but damaged it in the process. My left shift key doesn't work, along with a bunch of other keys maybe when I get paid I'll buy another one. It's pretty banged up now. I bent it out of shape when I pried it off. I still have my previous keyboard, so I guess I'll put that back on. The reason it didn't work is because I got the ribbon locking logic messed up - you push it in to lock it, whereas I thought you pull it out - so when I had put in the keyboard ribbon it wasn't actually locked in.

Awayindahils

How come my really fun job is so utterly exhuasting...*sigh* well rather *grumble*

Brian

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