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    Doom (2016) Discussion

    I have a Dell 34" Ultrasharp 3440x1440 display and a single 980 Ti delivers consistent 60fps on ultra settings. This game is GREAT. I have only played through E1M1 so far but I really like it. If one level is any indication, then the SP campaign alone will be worth it and the MP and Snapmap...
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    Major snow storm dc-nyc this weekend (1/23/16)

    aaand in rural eastern Tennessee, town's been shut down since yesterday if we get a couple inches of wintry mix tomorrow, i'll be working from home all next week
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    Do you know of any chains/stores that carry "Science" the magazine/journal?

    Last time I was in a B & N (months ago), they had both Science and Nature on the shelf. Call yours and ask if they have it. Edit: Open access FTW.
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    ***OFFICIAL*** NCAA Men's basketball tournament bracket pools

    Hair dye and cosmetic surgery are not the fountain of youth.
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    ***OFFICIAL*** NCAA Men's basketball tournament bracket pools

    Nuts. They almost won everything: B1G regular season, B1G tournament, ending the asinine Kentucky hype, and the national championship. But there's not a team in this country that could've beaten North Carolina, Arizona, Kentucky, and Duke in four consecutive games. It's going to be fun...
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    ***OFFICIAL*** NCAA Men's basketball tournament bracket pools

    The longer I've been in academia, the more I hear about the shenanigans that go on at the prominent programs. Rupp's racism and Paterno's pedophilia-enabling are in a class of their own, but if you think UNC is the only paper classes program, then you're wrong. The ringers simply pull in too...
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    ***OFFICIAL*** NCAA Men's basketball tournament bracket pools

    The best part of this thread is that Engineer went through it this morning and systematically edited out every last one of his posts.
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    Google Product Abuse discussion ban - a slippery slope?

    A whiff? That's putting it politely...
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    what % of your FB friends are gullible?

    At over 14 posts per day on AnandTech alone for the last eight years, you certainly know something about wasting time online, don't you?
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    Fractal design cases are so cheaply made =\

    This. I've built 100+ custom PCs in Fractal cases, from the cheap Core 1000 to their higher-end products. At every price point, they're comparable in quality to other companies' cases. When I wrote buyers' guides for the main site, I strongly recommended them frequently. OP is the kind...
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    2014-2015 NHL Discussion Thread

    Minimally, I hope the Wings keep their postseason streak alive. I'd also enjoy watching them win Lord Stanley's Cup again. I might be able to get back for a game in the D but will likely have to settle for seeing them somewhere down south. Might have to go to a Predators game this year.
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    Here comes the 10TB HGST beasts!

    I don't need a 10TB HDD yet but I would appreciate less expensive 6TB HDDs, which hopefully 10TB HDDs will facilitate.
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    Well what I would like for Christmas Santa...

    Discounted round trip tickets from Atlanta to London.
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    Alien: Isolation

    Thanks! Last time I looked they had not yet announced requirements.
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    Alien: Isolation

    Getting pumped for this one. Any ideas what the GPU requirements might be? I have a 750 Ti but might upgrade to a newer, more powerful Maxwell-based card solely for this game.
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    Why does America hate its teachers?

    Simple answer to your question, OP: (most) Koreans value education more than (most) Americans.
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    Ray Rice Incident

    As you note the size and strength disparity here is marked. She can cause him physical harm, but she does not pose a serious threat to his safety (she is unarmed and not going after his vulnerable anatomy). There's a difference between restraining her so she can't keep hitting him, and clocking...
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    Ray Rice Incident

    "Seems," eh? It's a lot easier to brush something under the rug when it's not a viscerally upsetting video getting replayed 24/7 all over the media.
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    Ray Rice Incident

    For someone with a photo of HST as their icon, I'm surprised you'd rather be a sucker than a cynic. It's clear at this point that if the NFL did not see this video (which is unlikely), they willfully didn't look at it. And that's implicitly as egregious.
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    ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL! official NFL week 1 thread

    I know retards who can use "it's" and "its" properly.
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    Ray Rice Cut By Ravens

    You're a despicable piece of shit.
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    Ray Rice Incident

    No, other people like you think violence is OK when it's domestic. lol. The NFL also says that repetitive head trauma sustained during the course of playing football doesn't cause CTE. I bet you believe that, too.
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    Ray Rice Cut By Ravens

    Yes. No shit. (See above.) Yes. But look at this thread - it's filled with pieces of shit who think that it's OK for a dude who is 5'8", 220 pounds, and less than 10% body fat to hit a woman, as long as she hit him first.
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    Ray Rice Cut By Ravens

    The lesson here is obvious: if you're the Baltimore Ravens, then stop signing guys named Ray.
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    $199 laptop from Best Buy (11.6" Celeron)

    FWIW IMO the keyboard is bad and the trackpad is worse. The battery will not last more than two-three hours during office productivity at mid-level screen brightness. The CPU is up to basic office/web use, though, especially if you remove the slow spinner drive with an SSD. I sold mine a week...
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    Paul George's Nasty Injury

    I did the same thing when I was 15. He'll likely be back on the court by February. It looks terrible, but it's MUCH better than blowing out a knee.
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    Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB SATA 3.5" Internal HD: $49-newegg

    Same price on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barrac...dp/B005T3GRNW/), which typically has this drive only a couple of bucks more anyway.
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    Is Zotac a quality brand?

    Is it even a real Zotac?
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    Educational costs are out of control...now high school edition...

    Administrative bloat is a cancer from K-12 on through to graduate/professional schools. Of course, it's easy to understand why, given imbeciles like slugg with zero relevant training know exactly how to teach anything, as he's demonstrated in this thread, haha.
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    Educational costs are out of control...now high school edition...

    This is totally asinine. You clearly have no idea at all how much time writing a book takes.
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    Educational costs are out of control...now high school edition...

    As a professor, I am aware of others who do this, and consider it unethical. Basically, textbook publishers provide kickbacks to professors who require their locked-down rentals. Sometimes it's blatant, like gift cards, meals, bogus "reviewer's payments," and sometimes it's more subtle - as...
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    3.2Ghz Pentium G3258 Overclocked To 6.8Ghz

    I've put 13 4130s into machines over the last year and not one of them has come with a copper plug heatsink. Only i5s and i7s come with those, in my experience.
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    HAHAHA! P4 3.2GHz laptop with a Radeon 9700

    Damn I miss nice, high-res laptop screens...
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    HD temps, hotter != more failures

    I wrote about this years ago: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4666/file-server-builders-guide/5 That 2007 piece by Pinheiro, Weber, and Barroso remains the authoritative work on the topic, to my knowledge.
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    Soundgarden / Nine Inch Nails Summer Tour 2014

    No sufficiently convenient locations for me. A decade ago I would've driven a day and paid a lot of money for this show. Alas, I am now too old to be arsed.
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    Kingston V300 NAND bait-and-switch - Has anyone managed to get a replacement?

    It's printed on a label that's affixed to the drive and is visible without even opening the packaging.
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    Kingston V300 NAND bait-and-switch - Has anyone managed to get a replacement?

    Firmware 5.06 and higher are the inferior version. These appear to have entered the market by Black Friday, as the two I have that were bought on Black Friday are gimped.
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    What book(s) are you reading right now?

    I know the authors of that book and my doctoral adviser was the lead author on the scientific paper that it is based upon. There are some parts of the book that didn't/wouldn't get past peer-review (like the chapter on Ashkenaz intelligence), so take them, along with much of Wade's upcoming...