Kroney

Hi guys! It's me, Kroney from the internet. I pop up every now again to be sarcastic at people. I've got to say, you guys really do have a great variety of posters on here, don't you? This chap in particular is a triumph. Say, do you think he'll be able to find time to carry on posting links to what I shall generously call "alternative theory" sites next half term?

May as well stop bothering to build your own machines if that's the case. I'm going to need a copy of 64 bit Windows 7, too.

Oh right, yeah. I'm speaking as somebody who's au fait with, er, creative media acquisition.

If the 1150 socket is going to be around for a while, then I might end up Crossfiring with another card and bumping the RAM and stuff. We'll see!

I'm incredibly unlikely to overclock. I've never bothered trying it before and I can't see myself starting. I'm resenting spending the 300-odd pounds on it already, I can't justify the extra thirty or forty quid on capability that I *might* use, but almost certainly won't bother with. *shrug* Oh, it turns out the CPU is an E7400, but I'm guessing it's still way too old. I bought the old system in 2009, apparently. It's lasted surprisingly well.

I use XBMC over Media Centre because it's prettier. If something's going to be plonked in your sitting room it's just GOTS to look good. If you're on Win8 there's no reason not to use XBMC unless you're a masochist. If you're on Win7, then the only reason not to use it would be if you're so heavily apathetic that you just can't be bothered learning how to use it.

I'm not really planning on overclocking. I can't really be bothered with it, to be honest. As I understand it, those two are aimed at overclockers? And no, DDR2 ram costs the same as DDR3.

For multimedia applications, you can use a £200 laptop. You honestly don't need to spend huge amounts of money on an AVPC. Your most important consideration is how it hooks up to your existing AV. You'll want to look at whether your TV and PC can support HDMI sound, for example, or whether you'll need coax or TOSlink connectors. My advice would be to buy a small form factor case, buy a mobo with SPDIF out (you can get connectors with most TOSlink cables to adapt to a SPDIF) and HDMI out and a hard drive. You don't need dedicated graphics and you'll only need a sound card if you're not using an external AV amp. If you do have an external amp, just use onboard sound as the amp will do the processing. I have my gaming machine in the sitting room with separate hard drives for films and TV etc, plugged through a DVI to HDMI adaptor and SPDIF to TOSlink adaptor to an external amp. It works just fine.

Hello! Figured I'd post here, rather than start my own. Building up my first PC in a damned long time. Previous machine's based on a four year old motherboard. Core 2 Duo 5000 series CPU, Radeon 4850 GPU, 2GB DDR2 RAM. Now, I'm well out of touch. I don't build very often. I recently purchased a Radeon R9 270X and am, probably fairly obviously, bottle-necking hard. So, I'm looking at purchasing an H97 L1150 board, an i-5 4460 CPU and 8GB of DDR3 RAM. I guess the question is, is it worth saving all that money and simply expanding out the DDR2 RAM to, say, 6 or 8GB for the moment? Will that cure the bottle-neck or have I now got to the point where the CPU and board are now hopelessly obsolete?

Half man, half wildebeest, ALL EVIL.

This and Muslim thread are precisely why gentlemen do not discuss religion or politics at the dining table.

You guys should insist on devolution. May be you'll wind up with the kind of Federalism that's supposedly guaranteed by our Constitution. In related news, a significant percentage of Americans would like to secede: http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0HE19U20140919?irpc=932 The idea of secession has really skyrocketed recently. It'll never happen, but it is weird.There's a part of me that would find England saying "Oh, you've decided our money's too good to turn your back on? Well I'm sorry, but we've decided that we want to go it alone, so enjoy working out how you're going to pay for Wales." quite amusing.

Possibly, though I bet I've got more justification to hang a saltire than you do, Susan. It's Nancy, actually, and I watch Braveheart once a year, drink Scotch like an unemployed miner during every The Open Championship--easily plenty enough times to know all there is to know, about wherever Scotland is. Actually, I take it back, chuck a cardiac event at 35 in there and you could be a native.

So the next big question is the West Lothian question and what that throws up. For those that aren't aware, due to the lack of a separate, English parliament, Scottish MPs can vote on Scottish-only matters (ie. matters brought to the Scottish parliament) and English MPs can't. Conversely, because there's no dedicated English parliament, Scottish MPs can vote on English-only matters. The obvious answer is to have an English parliament. However, by removing that problem, you could easily create a situation whereby a Labour government, which happens to have a majority of MPs elected to seats in Scotland, being unable to bring a majority to bear in Westminster. So you have a majority Government without a majority. Federal Britain, please.

Possibly, though I bet I've got more justification to hang a saltire than you do, Susan.

I don't see anything wrong with nations within the UK being autonomous at all. It's more likely to hold the UK together in the long run. It's a highly fractious arrangement and, as seen, unpopular with as nearly as many people as for whom it's popular.

Well that is the concern actually, there are many people in Scotland who question the military involvement of the UK in various areas. So it would have been highly unlikely an independent Scotland would have been involved in any UK military missions. And obviously this would have weakened the overall UK military mission going forwardUnder independence, their armed forces would have been 300 thousand men, two frigates and six helicopters; it's not like anyone would have noticed whether they took part or didn't. As it stands, they're not going to be able to dictate whether we go to war or not.

God, that's all we need, colonials several generations distant banging on about kinship with countries they know next to nothing about.

Two words will prove you wrong: Jessica Rabbit http://www.yayahan.com/portfolio/costumes/jessica-rabbit haha what the hell

You know, I'm beginning to think that obyknven is a bit of a rum one.

You know, I don't think they will.

A Yes vote might mean they have to patch out the UK flag. I don't even know why Scotland has its own flag in that game. It's not the only game I've noticed that in, either. Wouldn't have minded too much if English and Welsh flags had also been included. However much they bleat about the Cornish language and St Perran's cross, they're still just a county. Gromnir's link was quite interesting, but didn't really include much that was surprising.

My own opinion is this doesn't go far enough. I vote for a federal Britain with a number of separate states. Scotland, Wales, NI obvs. Then Northumbria and Wessex plus a separate state for Greater London; the north and south of England have little in common with each other and London's practically a city state to start with. They have their own regional assemblies with a central parliament for Greater Britain concerned with defence, foreign policy and the welfare state. The Isle of Man, the Channel Islands, the Hebrides and the Northern Isles are all distinct entities so they can have their own assemblies, too. Europe's heading that way anyway, might as well get ahead of the game. Kroney for PM!

Not far off, though displacement didn't really happen. In fact the English are very nearly as Celtic as everybody else in the British Isles (though don't say that to the Fringe, they've got precious little else to be proud of, bless them). We are all mongrels here, though. I am myself a mix of English, Scottish and Welsh.

That's a point. If you go, can you take the Welsh with you? I'd really rather not, quite frankly.