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Posted by scary_jeff on Sat Feb 7th at 2:02pm 2004

Well, I'm in the 3rd year of a 4 year electronic engineering degree, and we have modules about processor architecture which require us to know about stuff like this. I think Crono does a Computer Science degree; in general, these focus more on the software side of things than the hardware... that may not be the case for his course though.



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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Feb 7th at 2:15pm 2004

*sighs*

well i guess i will have to be content with my knowledge of military engineering and explosives.. not as glorious as electronic engineering to be sure, but just about the best this older model human can do

maybe i can talk one of my kids into electronics ..

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Posted by scary_jeff on Sat Feb 7th at 2:51pm 2004

Explosives sound more exiting than circuit boards



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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Feb 7th at 2:59pm 2004

? posted by scary_jeff
Explosives sound more exiting than circuit boards

it has its perks, but i honestly have more interests in PC's.. as you know, i built my first one from scratch recently, it was IMO far more exciting.. besides, i haven't used any demolitions since 1985.

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Posted by Kapten Ljusdal on Sat Feb 7th at 4:09pm 2004

I like explosives, specially the one my brother made for the new year. We wrapped it around a pizza and blew it up

It made a little crater in the ground, too

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Posted by Dr Brasso on Sat Feb 7th at 5:02pm 2004

i dont know man....explosives were a "make ya s**t yerself on the spot" kinda thing back in my day....damn exciting stuff....now you see it, now you dont....MAGIC!!!!

on the converse, im in the same damn boat you are Orph, and i feel like we are using one oar to try and get the same effect...kids of the pit...."STAY IN SCHOOL!"

Doc Brass...

if i had the resources to go back to school, id do it in a new york second....i appreciate it now a helluva lot more than i did when i was a kid....***sigh





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Posted by GreenDragon on Sat Feb 7th at 10:17pm 2004

Id upgrade my car ... f'ing rustang (i mean mustang) needs a new motor



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Posted by Wild Card on Sat Feb 7th at 10:47pm 2004

Crono, the thing you seem to be forgeting is that I live in Canada, not the States, therefore, prices are naturally higher. The XP2100 for 105$ is about as cheap as I can get here. That would be around 70-85$ US currency.

me checks pricewatch again...

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Posted by Crono on Sun Feb 8th at 12:57am 2004

No, I'm well aware of that. I was simply saying you're getting screwed in one way or another.

And yes, I'm a CS major. Believe it or not we have to know a s**t load of electronic configurations about the architecture. I mean, how else would I be able to make things effcient?
I'm in the technical 3rd year lol. classes aren't offered sometimes when I need to take them so ~sigh~ I'm a little behind, but making it nonetheless. (An example of what I'm talking about is coding for the Itanium (Puke!) you have to know exactly where you want everything, because it doesn't do much for you.)

I appologize, WC, if you thought I thought you lived in the US. But, what I was trying to say is, you can get direct from manufacturer, if you really wanted, which will always be cheaper. I also understand, you don't have a credit card, neither do I, but I can still buy things online if I really need to. In any case, if you think something like 10% increase is vaible, so be it.

You should just go and checkout AMD's site or whatever RAM manufacturer you want to see what their prices are. THen you can leave leway of the dollar conversion and see if stores you're going to are trying to rip you off or not. [addsig]




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