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Looking at the latest WAN show right now and the general idea is: Giving scalpers money is making them scalp more. Its their "job" so the problem gets worse. What I would suggest: Fight scalpers with their own tools, become one of them.. undercover. 1. Get someone from yiour staff to try and find shady routs to aquire cards like scalpers, hire a scalper to show how they do it. Make it a series, it will be huge. 2. Make buyer bots and use scalper tactics to buy up cards, again series, again huge, I mean how to make a buyer bot for your card good stuff. Make that bot part of the verified gamer program, an app online so every verified gamer get their 1 to 4 (SLI anyone?) card share from the bot's "catch" so you don't have to sell the stock you own but sort of backlog of future "bot catches". 3. A program where you pay "scalper price" for the card to LTT, but for that extra you install an app on your PC that from time to time tracks that the card is still installed in your PC and that you kind of sort of actually use it. So when 3 years pass, you get a choice- you can get the extra scalp money back if you have really used that card or you get an upgrade if you send your card back for other gamers that are on budget and want used and then you get an upgrade to the latest tech it covers or you can pay more for higher tier upgrade, no questions asked, already verified. That app also gives you some perk like floatplane subscription, discounts at LTT store ability to report your configuration to LTT for statistics and a verified gamer xYears tag at forums. All used stuff flipping will make alot of more work. But that means you become a tech store. I know there is the issue that you might then appear as biased. But make it a non-profit store. Have you ever taught of that? Even if you are profitable, you can start funds to support stuff like right to repair. Plus you get tons of more hardware to review before NDA, tons of more customer feedback info also. Even if you are non profit, it does not mean you have to cut prices, you just have to use the profit for charity. You can also help many beginner system builders that could maybe use affiliate links of system configurations to bring people to your store so that they can get paid for advice what to buy. You don't have to run it, just make the rules and own it. Hire people to run it. I know margins are little, but you'd be a huge success from day 1.

So.. How did it go? Sorry for reviving the old thread, but I am trying to do that exact same thing now, since I got this RX480 on the shelf I bought for gaming some years back, but it was like used and has "BAD" marked outside, so I might get mixed results here, it was supposed to be refurbished, but still.. Until now I have been using the workstation with Quadro K4000 and for work it is excellent, but I was figuring, since I got this dual Xeon E5-2697 v3 56 28-core - 56 thread beast now, I have some lanes to spare and take out the Tesla C2050 which driver is heavily conflicting with the K4000 driver. And the RX480 will be better for some occasional Star Citizen action. Update: The two cards work beautiful together, I have 2 monitors connected to one and 2 to other. So I can use CAD applications with K4000 (select it as preferred graphics in Nvidia control panel under 3D setiings for all applications you want to use with K4000) One of the coolest things is that I can now use the Quadro view (former nview) multiscreen window management. I really suggest to flash any 480 to 580. I just had to downclock it 2% and 3DMark scores are way higher for some reason than 480 overclocked with the same clocks that a 580 has. Its weird, really. Its like the card is a downgraded 580, the flashed 580 bios feels more stable and original, less crashes more performance, much less heat. Its weird.

As the title says- https://www.cnet.com/news/equifax-argentina-vulnerability-admin/?ftag=COS-05-10-aaa0a&linkId=42196486 Even my mother is smarte with internet security.

Yes, you can change the firmware only when the model number ends with "L" (Linux). I have one 54GL and one 54G in a box somewhere. The G is dead but the GL runs DD-WRT, which is awesome. I just keep it as a collector item together with my AGP-bus GT 7800 GS. These things will get pricy one day.

This just aired on TED: Gets you another perspective of VR developments. Luke, did you get that Vive set up already?

I need this keyboard to show it off. Besides, backlighting suits my quite dark setup that has projector instead of a monitor. Go flightsimming!

Hey, wait a second.. Isn't Android Linux? I think that some numbers are wrong there. Computer is a weird definition nowadays. If you mean the classical intel Laptop or desktop computer, I agree. If you mean computers in general then I strongly disagree. All the tables with keyboards and phones themselves are mostly Android. In the end of last year there were 1,4 billion Active Android devices. It could be TV, tablet or phone, or even a watch, but its still a computer. More powerful and usable than computers just 20 years ago.

I am not comparing technologies, I am comparing development of materials and peoples expectations. I never said Carbon fiber is 50% plastic, I said that Boeing 787 fuselage is made out of 50% Composite- Plastic, carbon fibre reinforced (did you even check the link from Boeing.com before you replied?). still, 53 years ago it still wasn't realistic that this material would ever have anything to do with bringing down the costs of materials for airplanes. Why it has to be clear? The element that generates electricity is not clear. The glass that covers it is. With material development, it is possible that this leads to developing new nanomaterials (just one of the million possibilities) that can be mixed into asphalt or concrete. There are tons of ways that would make the glass covering on solar cells unneccessary, that will be developed in future. Ofcourse, this kind of development wouldn't be needed, if we'd keep our solar panels on rooftops and wouldn't walk on them. But hey, if we could develop a material that collects some of the suns power, does that inexpensively and isn't very productive, but would still pay for itself. Then we could have free road mainteanance- every road would pay for its mainteanance itself. theninja35 (above) from Michigan would have beautiful, enjoyable roads. Think of Africa, India. None of this will ever happen, if there won't be someone who says that, hey I know, it costs more, but we will build it, just to prove the point that its worth developing, just to inspire people. Like 7 gamers one cpu for 30000$.

For RAM-intensive applications its always best to have dual channel, 2x4GB. If you are on budget and have a real opportunity to upgrade later and you are not going for 2x16GB, then its smarter to get 1x8GB.

I think the point of this is as it is generating energy, even if not very efficiently, then it still is going to pay for itself to some degree, that makes it even or cheaper to build asphalt or concrete roads. The mainteanance costs can be seen in the first video in replies, the EEV blog video.

You seem to assume it has to be optically clear. Also you seem to assume that materials (like plastic or glass) to be used are the same that are already developed and in the market. I think that if anyone would have said 50 years ago that the best material for racecars would be carbon-based and that airplanes will be also made 50% of plastic that is reinforced by carbon, then people would've laughed and said something like: Anything based on plastic would be dangerous to fly on. Especially in heights where the airplane cabin is pressurized. To get the surface of plastic or carbon to enough strength to be safe, you will be adding the weight of the panels to more than half. Its just not feasible. with any technology. The whole idea is just broken. Its a worse way of cutting the weight than aluminum that is cheap and that we already use. But now we have this: http://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/articles/qtr_4_06/article_04_2.html And its affordable, usable, saves costs and gives people opportunities by that, that they never could have if engineers were all pessimistic and lacking vision. Or if no one pioneered the new technologies in bold and large scale to bring up the demand so that development of neccessary technologies would be profitable and supported by big sponsors, investors and companies

I would've liked to see a heart rate monitor or calorie burn result measuring in the comparison.

I think its not about evolving solar panels. Its about the development of road surface materials.

This guy is so focused to writing down the idea, that he misses the point. Going to moon was not efficient too. But if there is no pioneering, no demand, the technology will never evolve to reasonable phase.

In the last Wan show I saw Linus mention that Solar roadways turned out to be not a thing and are laughably impossible. Wtf, I taught immediately. I just heard that they are building them in France. Not the exact same thing, but still solar roadways. So here you go: The ecology and energy minister of France, Ségolène Royal announced recently a plan to create 621 miles of solar-paneled roads throughout the country. Its called The Wattway project and they will be installing durable solar strips on top of existing roads: http://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/france-seeks-power-5-million-residents-new-solar-panel-roads?mbid=social_facebook http://www.forbes.com/sites/federicoguerrini/2016/02/07/france-wants-to-install-1000-km-of-solar-roadways-over-the-next-five-years/#21362fa1857e http://news.yahoo.com/france-using-almost-600-miles-175400819.html http://www.globalconstructionreview.com/trends/france-pa7ve-1000km-ro7ad-so7lar-panel7s/