Blaber Dear

I always did find it a bit funny that people saw the two lines on the back of the M8 and M9 and said "HTC copying Apple's design!", even though they hardly looked any different from the M7 which also had the exact same lines, before any iPhone had them.

These are some of the nicest looking boards I have seen in some time.

I would love to see a company offer a board with removable coloured bits on the heatsinks, and maybe coloured covers/skins for the RAM and PCI slots. Would open up a whole new level of nicely themed builds. 

Thanks for sharing this! I just won a $25 bet because of this.

Okay, I'm going to try and not quote the entire article here, even though I really want to. First news post.
This piece of legislation is a response to the recent terrorist activity that's been happening in Australia.
Source: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/consumer-security/terror-laws-clear-senate-enabling-entire-australian-web-to-be-monitored-and-whistleblowers-to-be-jailed-20140926-10m8ih.html
 
First of all, the unlimited access to any and every device upon a network:
 
 
So the government now has access to absolutely everything they want to, as well as being able to control it, even if it's not the device that they're targeting.
 
Next up; what happens if you're a whistleblower, journalist or even a normal person who leaks information.
The government want's to keep it's secrets, and it'll jail the shit out of anyone who thinks about doing otherwise.
 
Now, something to ice the cake on just how extreme this is:
Yup, it would have allowed them to torture people, keeping in mind that could be any average person who leaks information.
 
Now, this is batshit fucking crazy you say. Well, you're right, and there are some good politicians who tried to do something about it.
Senator Brandis being the asshat behind all of this.
 
Oh, and you know that thing about the government forcing ISP's to store data?
So they ended up sneaking it in to a different piece of legislation, like they always fucking do.
 
Now, finally, what some of the others had to say about this.
And finally, the comment I think best sums up the situation:
 
Sorry for all those quotes, I just felt that it was necessary to make sure I included everything I needed to. 
I personally think that the current direction is going to make Aus go to complete shit, but all in the name of protecting the people. I used to get angry, then for a while I stopped caring, but now I'm just incredibly frustrated. You know that feeling you get when you just want to punch the living daylights out of someone, but you really can't? Yeah, just like that.
 
I think that the terrorist actions have been completely wrong, and that the reasons behind those actions are also wrong, but I can see how these sort of actions by the govt are going to edge people closer to taking doing crazy things against the country, and it's government.

So, do you want one? just post here and I'll pick random people based on profile picture and message : D

If anyone is still reading this.. i most likly will use my invites on here too.. when i get some!

The c**ts

Can't wait to see what these CPUs can do. 8 Cores, which all should have amazing single core performance... wow...

Nice Cables man!

Loving the high ram clearance! 

Original Article: here

This is incredibly fascinating. A brain, which runs on something like 20 watts equivalent of electricity, is orders of magnitude faster than a supercomputer with 82,944 processors, 8.162 petaflops of performance, capable of 1,016 billion operations per second, has 663,552 cores and uses 12.6 Megawatts (12,600,000 watts) (Source: TweakTown and Wikipedia)

What "K" simulated: 1.73 Billion Neurons, connected to 10.4 Trillion Synapses, each synapse containing 24 bytes of data.
What is actually in the brain: ~86-100 Billion Neurons and 1 Quadrillion synapses in a child, and between 100 and 500 trillion synapses in an adult.

Fun fact: Some people calculate that the data storage capacity of the human brain is between 2.5 and 5 petabytes, that is equivalent to between 2,500 and 5,000 1TB hard drives! All stored in your brain!

The brain packs quite an incredible punch for such a small, lightweight (~3lbs), and energy efficient unit that can run on Cheetos and Mountain Dew. It is like the De Lorean from Back to the Future, just add organic matter!

Here is an interesting calculation for you, 40 minutes = 2,400 seconds, so I suppose that our brains are 2,400x more powerful than the "K" supercomputer. The supercomputer uses 12.6MW, so I calculated that if you had enough "K" supercomputers to equal the brain (you would need roughly 2,400 of them), the brain would be 1,512,000,000x more power efficient than the "K" supercomputer.
 
 
Very rough Bitcoin mining calculations:
I did some research and some people here said that each core of the CPU's used in the "K" supercomputer would be capable of 327 Khash on SHA-256-based coins. So 327x8=2616 Khash per CPU (SPARC64 VIIIfx), and there are 82,944 CPUs. So the extremely rough average hashrate of the "K" supercomputer is 216981504 Khash, or roughly 216 GHash (Remember that this is CPU, not GPU mining). Multiply that by 2,400 (how many times more powerful the brain is over the supercomputer) and you get 520.75 Thash/s. So IN THEORY the brain is at least capable of 520.75Thash/s of bitcoin mining. Assuming that Scrypt coin mining is roughly 10% as fast as SHA-256 mining, the brain would be capable of 52.075 Thash/s of scrypt mining. With that kind of power, using your brain, in theory, you could mine $135,663.96 of bitcoins per day, running on only 20 watts, but according to CoinWars, if you were mining the most profitable coin you could, you could make upwards of $500,000 per day.
 
Disclaimer: These calculations are EXTREMELY rough, and are not to be taken literally. I am not responsible for that one guy who tries to upload cgminer to his brain which fails and then goes into a coma for the rest of his life.
Calculated using this link.
 
 
The bottom line is, if your brain were a graphics card, it would, in fact, be able to play Crysis