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From time to time I do. Not so much anymore as I'm watching my weight but I still do. What it is varies from whats in the house and whether or not I bought chips or something. As such its mostly chips. Sometimes its black and white cookies. But my favorites are Danish butter cookies and poutine. Neither of which are common as fries and gravy are rare to find in the fridge at the same time and I don't buy Danish butter cookies because if I did, I'd weigh 500 pounds.

How often do you see these things and have you considered seeing a doctor about it? Because if it isn't sleep deprivation, it could be something else.

If these bluming submarines in my foggy ceiling would go away, maybe I wouldn't be so sleepless at night. I've always been a night person so trying to catch sleep when the sun is down has always been a bit of an issue. A good chunck of the time I go to bed at a set time, but thats when the carnival kicks into high gear. Doesn't help when you're in a caffinated cycle either. Then again the occasional hallucinations brought on by (hopefully) sleep deprivation can be quite nice. Not so much the auditory ones but the occasional glimpse of Rainbow Dash in the corner of my eye or random tetris peices appearing keep things varied. Though what you're describing OP is a bit extreme.

I've been reading AT forums for a while now because I want to know every fuzzing detail there is to know about Intel's upcoming archecture codenamed "Haswell". In one of the threads, there was something about a show called Computer Chronicles and as I'm easily amused by watching fast screens, I watched the episode where they were comparing Intel's Pentium CPU to that of a 486. I had a good amount of laughs as they're talking about motherboards with 256K of cache and having to use a heatsink because they run so much hotter. It got me thinking about my first computer. The first computer I owned wasn't technically mine at first but I was pretty much the only one using it. It was by far the most unbalanced pile of rubbish made from parts that I'm assuming were found in a bin somewhere. It had an Intel Pentium MMX at a blistering 233 MHz with 24 Megs of SDRAM, a Cirrus Logic video card with some presumably very small amount of VRAM and an unbranded ISA sound card all piled on a miserable Baby AT motherboard I've long since lost and I'm pretty sure it had a SiS chipset as well. It also sported a 10 gigabyte hard drive and another 15 gig drive I didn't find out about til about a year after I got a socket 478 rig. Ran Windows 98 like a champ that just had diarreah. But it played games within reason. I could play Doom very well, along with Starcraft, Tiberian Sun, Unreal, Duke Nukem 3D, some crappy NASCAR game, Sonic CD along with a Sega Collection for PC and Red Alert 2. Out of all of those, Red Alert 2 was the worst. 1 in-game second counted as 2 real time seconds. On a 2 player map. At 640x480. Still fun though. Couldn't get the sound to work in Unreal or Duke Nukem either, but I'm tellin' you young whippersnappers that those were the days. I remember trying to get the sound to work for quite some time. It wasn't muted or anything, but after messing with the bios, I gave up. Fun times they were.

If you must go with AMD for some reason, make sure the second number in the processor model is a 3, such as AMD FX 4300 as these are an updated version of the 4100 you have listed originally. They're much better than bulldozer but both are very power hungry. In terms of a power supply, I'd recommend a Seasonic power supply, something like this. Seasonic tends to be pricey but top notch quality and this one is capable of pushing nearly all of its power where you need it to. Also, any particular reason you're getting a soundcard? Outside of those factors, looks alright. Edit: If you decide to do some power supply comparisions, you should have a minium wattage of 550 and I'd also look at Antec and Corsair as both of those brands tend to be very good as well.

Because it has turned into the poster child for retail conglomeration. The reason it's such is because most of the people who complain about walmart don't support the other businesses walmart is supposedly "crushing". I personally don't really care for walmart as they typically don't sell what I'm looking for and I buy elsewhere anyways (Amazon FTW). What I do hate is the "WalMarx" t-shirts that are floating around. Good greif, how dumb does one have to be to wear that in public?

Like Dubstep. Not the Skrillex rubbish though. I like the more liquid stuff. Unfortunately I don't have that big of a collection as the 5 artists I do follow haven't done much since I found them. Pandora hasn't played much in the way of it either. Anywho this is the style I listen to: I know I'm not the greatest at finding music but it does seem a bit difficult finding this kind of stuff. Even Pandora is like "We see you like Skream, so here's some Blentec'd sid chip!"

Asus and Lenovo are the 2 brands you should be looking at. From what I've read, they have excellent build quality and my friend is very happy with his Lenovo. I'd recommend going with Intel in terms of CPU and try to find one with a 7200 RPM hard drive. No sense in waiting faster.

Good riddance but its not gonna matter much. EA has already killed my favorite games quite some time ago and I doubt a new CEO will fix that. I'll reserve some false hope though. A proper Command & Conquer would be nice if the new CEO is willing to let such a risky proposition see the light of day.

Dogs. Declawing cats is considered inhumane (and outright wreckless in these parts) and I hate having my inner thigh treated as a pin cushion. dogs also tend to actually be aware of what mood your in and at least mine stay far enough away when I first walk in the door. Unlike the cat that decides annoying the fuzz out of me is always the way to go cause screw him, he's not hungry, he's just making food for no damn reason! I'll take throwing a tennis ball for 30 minutes and deal with my own mouse problems over having to deal with an annoying and nearly useless cat. I don't find them adorable either.

Gnocchis are made with potato and flour, so to be that guy, they aren't technically "pasta". Still love 'em though. The only pasta dish I don't care for is lasagna because every one I've had has always had way too much ricotta in it. The best about pasta is the leftovers. Fried leftover Spaghetti FTW. Sauce doesn't matter either. White sauce, tomato sauce, chuncky or puréed. I don't care, I'll still eat way too much of it and then more fore breakfast the next day.

Yes I do. I went from a Cowon D2 with ~36 gigs of room to a Sansa Clip Zip with ~40 gigs of room. I have a lot of music on there. Easily over a thousand tracks but its all either in high bitrate MP3 or FLAC so I only have about 9.8 gigs left. The Clip sound a lot better too. Much warmer especially at higher volumes.

You know, I've been asking myself that for years now despite being what a grumpy old man would call a whippersnapper even though I'm old enough to buy beer. I've thought about it a lot, sometimes just consuming my mind like a plague with no regard to any form of escapism thrown its way. Just constant, rhythmic banging that doesn't stop. It used to be to pay back debt, be it understood or outstanding owed to all that I know and society at large. Even that is a fading dream now. For me, it all boils down to my biological fear of death.

I know this song has probably been posted before but its worth the repost just for the awesome drumming: Can't freakin' wait for their new album.

It depends on the food. I only put yellow mustard on my hotdogs and brown mustard on sausage. Conversely I only put ketchup on fries and a dab of it in kraft mac. Never mixed though and Worcestershire on a burger unless its 5 guys. However, in general, I prefer mustard.

I see the computational religous war is going on here so why not throw some gas on the fire in the hopes of putting it out? Wall o' text incomming Before getting to my personal best, I'd like to mention my personal worst being good ol' OS X. Made by a company I despise and on hardware that's either anemic or needs to be outright replaced every 5 years, it starts off of the line a lap behind. Throw in a universal menu bar and a dock that I don't much care for along with not bloody deleting files off of a flash drive but instead putting them in a .trash folder ON THE ****ING DRIVE when I do inevitably delete them and ultimately finding no real use for it, I have no reason to use nor like it. On the same token I despise Windows 8, mainly because they've made the interface about as fast to navagate as molasses in Antartica. Control panel is part of the applications list. General PC Settings is comprised of not a control panel. Numerous clicks and 2 restarts to access the UEFI instead of oh I don't know, PRESSING ****ING F2 LIKE A NORMAL PC. The audacity to say that "we killed the start button" while numerous people are complaining about the lack of it and the fact that people modded one in. Lastly, the idea of using the search bar to find things. In and of itself, I don't have an issue with it but when I google how to do x and the first thing is to search for it, I have to wonder why they went through the effort of even designing a GUI and not just having a giant friggin search box with a start bar for tray icons. Windows 7 (AKA Windows Vista: Working Drivers Edition) Is good. Not my favorite OS but it is a good version of Windows. Stable. Snappy even by today's standards. Still a bit of malware to worry about but safe computing habits largely mitigate it and for the most part it works. I've been using it as a daily driver for the majority of the 4 years I've been using it as being a PC gamer nearly requires it given that I'm running AMD hardware which brings me to my favorite OS out there. That's right, Good ol' fashion GNU/Linux. Specifically Linux Mint with KDE and that's only because I'm waiting for OpenSuSE 12.3. Either way, I've had nothing but a good experience with Linux Mint. It's always just worked and has suited most of my needs however, as I've noted, my main PC is running on AMD hardware and to be more specific, an AMD GPU. Now, support simply isn't as good as it should be. As in, the drivers are a bit wonky but I don't mind too much as my main PC runs Win7. My spare Intel rig however, doesn't have these issues as Intel is excellent at providing open source drivers. More importantly, the KDE project understands that Tablets and Laptops/Desktops are 2 different paradigms and really should have different GUIs so I get a more traditional Windows like UI with some fancy features. I like the way Linux handles software installs in that I rarely have to go to www.freewarezborkyourpc.cc to get software and the stuff I do get from the web is in a .run format so I can install it on any distro with no additional software. There are some coveats. Apparently people are still having audio issues, myself included. Audio over HDMI simply ain't happening for me and I'm not entirely sure why though analogue audio still works. I'll just blame PulseAudio even though its really ALSA. A bit of a irk but it was through a monitor anyways so not a real loss. There still isn't a whole lot of professional content creation software either. The only big one I can think of is Lightworks, and that is a professional video editor that's still in alpha iirc. But as my bases are covered anyways by the open source tools available this doesn't affect me and if I really have to, there's always Wine. Now that there is Steam for linux, I can finally move into linux as it does everything I require it to and then some. Still gonna wait for Haswell though. TL:DR Chalk me up for a linux vote.

This song has always brightened up my day provided you don't mind songs that lack vocals, (note: you may not like the title of the song): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbAdy4Dk1y4

I've been perma-banned from 1 forum and no game servers (as of yet) and my VAC status has been "in good standing" since I joined steam. I've been kicked from servers, mainly C&C Renegade for dumb crap like base to base attacks with a sniper rifle or something and L4D cause people suck. I was banned from that forum because the line between abandonware and piracy is a lot fuzzier than I thought. I do have some long expired infractions on my Dave account. Outside of that, nothing to write home about.

Windows 8 isn't bad, but it's unpolished. The not-metro interface smells of beta. The start button is gone because "We killed it" according to some div at microsoft whose name I've forgotten out of rage. Getting to the control panel is awkward and the settings menu is duplicating functionality. Going into the UEFI on my mother's new laptop that it was installed on required me to go into advanced settings, which required a restart, and then click on access UEFI, which required a restart, rather than say, just pressing F2 like a normal PC. Like I said, its not bad. It didn't crash and it wasn't any slower than 7, but it isn't polished and is going through some growing pains. Luckly for me though I got to replace it with Linux Mint 14 at her discretion which makes my life easier.

Both HDTVs and smart phones took a long time to proliferate to the levels they're at now. When Smartphones were taking off it was all about the blackberry. Yes, RIM used to be very relevant and it wasn't until around '04 that High res meant something outside of your computer display. I'd post the XKCD comic itself but apparently this forum hates XKCD so here's the hyperlink. The same goes for 3D. 3D movies have been around for quite some time. I remember watching one on a field trip around 2002. The tech has been around for quite some time, but we're just now upgrading. Are we moving too fast? No, not at all. Silicon based ICs have been around for about 40 years if not longer and Moore's law says 2017 is when they "top out" in terms of die size. It took at least 30 years for CPUs to have more than one core on the same die. Quantum computing is just getting started. SSDs still have under a million writes per bit. The most efficient warp drive we could build as of now (provided we could even build one, which we can't) would take exajoules worth of energy to drive. The most high tech battery we have outside of a lab is still Lithium ion. The most power efficient CPU in existence has less computational power than that of a underclocked Prescott Pentium 4. The best "cloaking" done thus far was a few microns in outer space. Solar energy generation is still under 50% We don't have any permanent establishments outside of Earth. The most high tech bionic eye we have is a pixellated, monochromatic mess (though it is an excellent stride forward). Various cures, medical augmentations and maybe even regenerations are years off. And the icing on the cake is people are still using Windows XP.

Its not bad but its using a variant of AMD's Jaguar CPU which is horrendous to say the least. First thing is people are calling it an 8 core or octo-core CPU when it simply isn't. Its a quad core with 2 integer units for every FPU. On top of that, the FPUs used in Jaguar are half baked versions of those used in AMD's own FX line of CPUs as its meant for tablets and low power PCs and its clocked at 1.6GHz. Moreover, the best report I've seen on the GPU side puts it a few clusters short of a 7970m, which puts it 5% if not moreso behind a desktop 7850. So right out of the gate, it's already holding games back. On the upside, FX CPU owners and those on HT enabled Intel CPUs should be happier due to better parallelism.