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Wow. Some people would send us all back to the stone age to make a profit.

This appears to be a simple case of patent infringement when you put the two designs side by side, but I don't see any simple benefits from the patent's existence. ...Unless I'm supposed to believe that Asetek's (or some other company's) development of this type of AIO was contingent on them being able to get patent protection, and that without patent protection, AIOs wouldn't exist as soon as they did. I'm open to this possibility...
 
Maybe this will force Fury X2 to use an Asetek cooler. Maybe Asetek was mad that AMD didn't use something from them for the Fury X.
  Asetek will have a monopoly on cooling solutions for top end AMD cards unless AMD cools them with air (probably not feasible), integrates the pump and reservoir with the radiator (unless someone has a patent on -that- too), or uses separate waterblocks, pumps and radiators (probably too expensive).

Volkswagon defeats emissions... 18 Billion dollar fine... 
Toyota accelerator pedal results in 89 deaths... 1.2 Billion dollar fine. 
GM faulty ignition has resulted in 169 deaths... 900 Million dollar fine.
 
Seems fair. 

Supposedly the one on the right is a Honeywell Demo Kit, so it kind of undermines your point. See http://www.symbioticpublishing.com/BS/articles/MaltaOuter.shtml.
 
EDIT: Some other sources say it's a demolition controller. Zooming in on the image, it says "Charge Demolition M112" on the bottom. ...there's a lot of doubt as to what this is, but I haven't seen a link to any case of someone trying to blow up an airport or public location with this thing.

"Better safe than sorry" ... That could apply only if they had actually taken it seriously to begin with and evacuated the school. They either knew it wasn't a bomb or dangerous and continued to improperly handle the situation by traumatizing the kid OR they really considered it a threat AND still managed to screw it up by leaving school staff and students at risk. 

It's easy to judge when you have no idea what are you talking about.
That doesn't look sketchy at all, I see not explosives at all.
You have not seen many electronic projects at all.
 

You realize we don't have an image of the confiscated device, so we can only guess what it looks like from some of the other circuit boards we see him with (which is hardly reliable), right? ...seriously though, even if the English teacher, principal and police officers were stupid enough to think a student's electronics project was a bomb, the engineering teacher should have been able to set the record straight. Maybe he was paranoid that it was a bomb too? Or maybe he was just reluctant to argue an opposing view against the principal and five police officers out of fear they'd accuse him of being the boy's accomplice?
 
EDIT: Well now we do have an image.

Picture

...yikes, I remember bringing an electronic project to school when I was 11 or 12. Sure, it was an order of magnitude simpler, only 2 transistors, some flashing LEDs and some passive components, but it's a little scary that they might have thought the same of my device. Good thing that was in a pre-9/11 world, in a country that does not earn the wrath of the middle-east, or any other region of the world.
 
 
You can kiss your rights goodbye if anyone "sincerely" thinks they're in danger, even if they're naive idiots who think that depictions of bombs in movies are even remotely accurate.
 
What is that thing anyway? Something like an Arduino? I'm guessing it's not actually an Arduino since those tend to use blue boards.

You realize we don't have an image of the confiscated device, so we can only guess what it looks like from some of the other circuit boards we see him with (which is hardly reliable), right? ...seriously though, even if the English teacher, principal and police officers were stupid enough to think a student's electronics project was a bomb, the engineering teacher should have been able to set the record straight. Maybe he was paranoid that it was a bomb too? Or maybe he was just reluctant to argue an opposing view against the principal and five police officers out of fear they'd accuse him of being the boy's accomplice?
 
EDIT: Well now we do have an image.

You realize we don't have an image of the confiscated device, so we can only guess what it looks like from some of the other circuit boards we see him with (which is hardly reliable), right? ...seriously though, even if the English teacher, principal and police officers were stupid enough to think a student's electronics project was a bomb, the engineering teacher should have been able to set the record straight. Maybe he was paranoid that it was a bomb too? Or maybe he was just reluctant to argue an opposing view against the principal and five police officers out of fear they'd accuse him of being the boy's accomplice?
 
EDIT: Well now we do have an image.

NO.
 
Torrents eventually die. File-lockers eventually delete files. ...and sometime, governments destroy file-locker sites. There are some things (like anime and other related stuff) that are unlikely to stay available on the internet forever. Even if they do remain -somewhere- on the internet, it can't beat the simplicity and uniformity of files stored on a local HDD.
 
...yes, I realize that HDDs die too, but since the HDD is in your control, you have at least a decent chance of retaining your files forever if you backup responsibly.
 
Also, I realize that in the next decade, SSDs will probably takeover territory that HDDs have held for a long time: the boot drive. There's a limit to how big you can make HDDs before consumers start to say "no, I want the laptop the costs the same but has -less- storage, because I think it will be enough, and it will boot and load much faster". SSDs are already recommended for the boot drive of a gaming PC. Barring an explosion in local storage requirements for an average consumer, or a massive reduction in prices of small HDDs, SSDs may become a suitable boot drive for even inexpensive PCs.

NO.
 
Torrents eventually die. File-lockers eventually delete files. ...and sometime, governments destroy file-locker sites. There are some things (like anime and other related stuff) that are unlikely to stay available on the internet forever. Even if they do remain -somewhere- on the internet, it can't beat the simplicity and uniformity of files stored on a local HDD.
 
...yes, I realize that HDDs die too, but since the HDD is in your control, you have at least a decent chance of retaining your files forever if you backup responsibly.
 
Also, I realize that in the next decade, SSDs will probably takeover territory that HDDs have held for a long time: the boot drive. There's a limit to how big you can make HDDs before consumers start to say "no, I want the laptop the costs the same but has -less- storage, because I think it will be enough, and it will boot and load much faster". SSDs are already recommended for the boot drive of a gaming PC. Barring an explosion in local storage requirements for an average consumer, or a massive reduction in prices of small HDDs, SSDs may become a suitable boot drive for even inexpensive PCs.

Sure, but the original claim is that "SSDs will never match the per-gigabyte costs of HDDs", and it's not a crazy claim. Pointing out that a 256GB SSD may be preferred over a 1TB HDD at the same price by many consumers is interesting, and kinda relevant, but doesn't invalidate the original claim.
 
HDDs have helium, SMR, and possibly HAMR to help them stay relevant next to NAND flash for anywhere from years to decades.

Meh... people complaining that their favorite tax loophole is being closed. >.>
 
Also too many idiots comparing this with income tax, which is completely different.

Reminds me of PC Gamer's Large Pixel Collider they built a few years back.

I love the case, but what is it?
 
Edit: I would love to see a Compensator 1.5 with watercooled Titans.

Maybe linus can test this pump header on his whole-room-water-cooling pumps.

I'm not sure about this, but I think with 2 stacks, the bus width, and therefore memory bandwidth, would be cut in half compared to using 4 stacks. That would still leave just as much bandwidth as the Fury X has though, since HBM2 appears to be twice as fast per pin, all else equal.
 
Alternatively, you could have 4 stacks, 2-high, for cards requiring less memory, but then you'd have to adapt the height of the heatsink or heat spreader.
 
 
Just trying to be correct, since GB refers to the metric gigabyte (1000^3 bytes), while GiB refers to the binary gigabyte (1024^3 bytes). I assume video memory is measured in binary gigabytes.

You can buy an entire PSU for the same price.

And this is exactly why it's in everybody's interest, that AMD does well in the GPU, but also in the CPU market. 
 
The 390 and the Fury most likely rattled nVidia's cage the most as they're cheaper and perform on the same level with most of nVidia's higher end offerings while undercutting the prices. All I hope for now is also some cuts in the GTX970's pricing as the 390, as of right now, seems to be a better choice, while being similarly priced in most places. Poor Australians

I ask you... why do you keep calling it "Fury (Non-X)"? You don't call the 980 a "980 (Non-Ti)".

Taking a bit of the GPU codename and tacking it on the end of the commercial name sounds even worse. Just call them Fury/Fury X, 980/980Ti and Titan/Titan Black/Titan Z/Titan X and no-one should get too confused.

I ask you... why do you keep calling it "Fury (Non-X)"? You don't call the 980 a "980 (Non-Ti)".