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Keep going down..nope further down...further than that...you'll see the AMD Phenom II 965 benchmarked at 4261 compared to the Intel Core i7 940 @ 2.93GHz at 6000 and change. I accept that only someone with more money than sense will go for Intels top offering.
Thats a damn site more that a few percent difference, although like I said I grant there will be much less difference in a normal pc environment. My original contention was simply that you didn't have to go to £900 to make a system.
Also if a little cheating is allowed, i7s are very overclocking friendly you can take a "cheap" 920 (£180) at 2.6gHz and overclock to 4 - the days when AMD were the only overclocking cpu in town are gone.
Yes, but like I said you don't have to spend £650 on an i7; you can come down to an i7-920/930 (1/3-1/4 the price of the high end i7quoted) and still show an AMD X4 a very clean pair of heels.
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html
Incidentally, I'm not saying you'll see 50% difference in a PC on these benchmarks, just that the performance is there if you can use it....
..the pricing quoted above was a complete whackjob.
Unless you go for the highest level i7, I don't see an i7 upgrade costing £8-900 notes. Only the 3.33 Extreme version is up in the £600+ bracket, and a reasonable 2.8/2.9Ghz version can be had for round £200.
i7 motherboard bundles with 6GB ram are £500 inc VAT, and that's only for a quick look....
"One of the traditions we have is that the President doesn't get involved in decisions around prosecutions, extradition matters," Obama said.
Maybe Cameron can bounce that comment back in respect of Al Megrahi. "The Scottish Judicial system made their decision, and its not the job of Prime Ministers to be involved...."
McKinnon would be solved by implementing a UK law that forbids extradition of its citizens where the accused is willing to admit committing the equivalent UK offence and accept a UK judgement and sentence.
..that the majority of the population lives in the South East, where most of the wealth is generated, and therefore more money gets spent on the infrastructure there, which allows more people and wealth to live be generated there.....
In order to break out of this, and to ensure you don't need to concrete over everything south of Watford, you're going to have to make it more attractive to stay out of the South East, and one factor will be ensuring that the whole country has access to good broadband, not just inside the M25.
If I recall, NTP only became alive because RIM were claiming that they were owed royalties for things covered by NTPs patents. Further NTP initially only wanted $6m from RIM.
It appears that RIM were entirely responsible for digging this up from the dead, and now the zombie is going after the brainzzz and the money.
That said, I am surprised that NTPs patents didn't fail the obviousness factor.
I wasn't sure whether to buy an iPhone (3GS) or HTC Desire, but had a personal preference for the latter.
So I sent wifey down to the local phone shop to try each out, without injecting my personal beliefs into the conversation. I thought the game would end in a 1-1 draw, but the final score is: HTC Desires: 2 Iphones: 0
It's possible the iPhone 4 addresses the display issues wifey had with the 3GS. Use in sunlight was a no-no and the better resolution of the HTC did show through.
There are a number of things about Apples App Store which competition may be a good way to get suppressed.
The rules about approval for your application seems to depend on Steve Jobs whims, and it seems your application can be withdrawn at random if those whims change. It seems you are fine to have an application containing boobies if you are a large company like Playboy, but not if you're a small time developer. You have to clear a revenue threshold for each country before you get any money from that country, instead of simply clearing a number of sales internationally, which seems to me to be a scam to get more money for Apple at the expense of lower unit selling applications. At least Microsoft is actually giving developers money upfront.
Ensuring there is a level playing field for all should be mandatory, and whilst I'm not really a Microsoft fanboy, I don't have any objection to them providing competion
Recently, a comparison of Ogg v H.264 was carried out and used to refute any charges that Ogg was inferior. As Googles proposed codec is meant to be superior to Ogg, I don't see how it can be significantly worse than H.264
Whether you agree or not, I will say it is good to see Steve Jobs willing to defend his POV
Extradition to many jurisdictions is hard, but extradition to other EU members is simples under the EU Warrant system.
Extraditions in most countries, including ours, drag on for the simple fact that extradition has a huge number of legal issues to address and appeal against, and a good defense can use political issues when that fails.
I'm beginning to see the benefits of systems like Russia, which does not allow extradition of their citizens.
Introduce an Act that makes extradition unlawful where the accused submits a guilty plea to the equivalent UK offence.
Result of this: McKinnon has already admitted guilt under the Computer Misuse Act, he'd get a slap on the wrist from a UK judge, perhaps with a short stay in a UK prison (or more likely a suspended sentence)
As far as such images go, I suggest that you restore from before Jimmys moralistic hacking and go through the list of images that Jimmy has deleted on impulse and give them an all clear or not.
I am deeply uncomfortable when THE World-Wide Encyclopedia adopts the restrictive morals of a small minority in one country, especially when it gives in to such pressure. Wikipedia has effectively become the encyclopedia for the world, where various countries have a huge spectrum of moral viewpoints, and Wikipedia should act accordingly. I'm wondering whether Wikipedia should be exported in its entirety to Wikileaks, which seems to have a much more robust response to outside interference.
As mentioned - where's the IT angle?
Obviously which party gets in will decide how much gets spent, whether contractors can dump IR35 etc, but none of this is mentioned in the article.
Even the Sun managed to get an angle by saying that your Bulgarian Funbag viewing would be compromised if you didn't vote Conservative. (There's even an IT angle in this as the Guardian claims it was photoshopped),
In short, must try harder.
You aren't allowed to discuss jury proceedings - ever (the only exception is if you believe the jury has been unlawfully manipulated, and even then you are expected to report it to the authorities and not the press).
The Ministry of Justice site is very clear on that point.
With the US, freedom of speech overrides such restrictions.
I notice a number of people have complained about the fact that Apple, rather than the specific engineer were contacted with regard to the return of the phone. As it is a prototype, I highly doubt that the engineer "owns" the phone, he merely had it on loan. The obligation is to return "possibly" stolen property to its owner, not the person it may be loaned out to.
As it appears attempts were made to contact Apple to return the phone, then I don't see how any potential prosecution could stand. And that is before the protected journalism shield rights and warrant validity come into play.....