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Simonetti   11-14-2006 at 06:12:50 PM

In this page:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/reality_redefined.html

there is a video called "Overclocker Priceless Video "

Near the end they state that a waiting truck full of liquid nitrogen costs US$ 25,000 !!!

WTF???? I can (and I have) buy liquid nitrogen pretty cheap around here (it's less expensive than gasoline). 1 liter of liquid N costs about US$ 1.60. To use in OC one will use at most 5-10 liters. Why the hell do you need a TRUCK of liquid N????

That's pretty BS-loaded. Who the heck needs a truck of liquid N to OC ????? Damn!

That spoiled the entire movie, which would be pretty cool otherwise.

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CompTIA_Rep   11-14-2006 at 06:29:45 PM
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How long did they want to keep the computer on display? The longer on display, the more LN they need, as well as means to keep it cool.

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tool_462   11-14-2006 at 06:31:48 PM
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Having that tanker truck full of LN2 would probably be $25,000. Especially having the truck on 24/7 standby. That means you can have it when you want it. I'm not saying it is necessary, they obviously made it unrealistic, but I think the price is justifiable and is only used to sound more extreme than k|ngp|n already is.

Pretty cool commercial though, think of the 99% of the world that has never heard of overclocking, let alone LN2 cooling :P You can see his setup at Xtremesystems.

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megame255   11-14-2006 at 06:37:50 PM
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WTF???? I can (and I have) buy liquid nitrogen pretty cheap around here (it's less expensive than gasoline). 1 liter of liquid N costs about US$ 1.60.



A little off the subject, but if you pay more than $1.60/liter for gas.....Sucks for you.

I feel much better now about having just paid $2.15/gallon.

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lcdguy   11-14-2006 at 06:42:40 PM
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while we don't pay 1.60 a liter for gas where i am in the summer months it went up to 1.10/1.20 right now it sits arodun 76-95 cents per litre.

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tool_462   11-14-2006 at 06:45:03 PM
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$2.15 is not bad at all. I don't drive during the school months and during the summer I drive a ton, all around Minnesota and I had to pay $3/gallon. Within three weeks of me not driving anymore it was down to $2.08 :P I think I am the reason they jack up gas prices.

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CompTIA_Rep   11-14-2006 at 06:45:46 PM
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We buy by the gallon, not puny liters.

Even more worse off countries buy gas by the spoon fill.
The lower on the food chain your country is, the smaller units of gas you can buy.



I <3 United States.

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bumblebee13   11-14-2006 at 06:50:19 PM
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We buy by the gallon, not puny liters.

Even more worse off countries buy gas by the spoon fill.
The lower on the food chain your country is, the smaller units of gas you can buy.



I <3 United States.



Idiot :roll:

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MadHacker   11-14-2006 at 06:57:49 PM
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Quote :

We buy by the gallon, not puny liters.

Even more worse off countries buy gas by the spoon fill.
The lower on the food chain your country is, the smaller units of gas you can buy.



I <3 United States.


you need the larger gallon... to compensate for your diminished e-penis

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megame255   11-14-2006 at 07:01:40 PM
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Quote :

We buy by the gallon, not puny liters.

Even more worse off countries buy gas by the spoon fill.
The lower on the food chain your country is, the smaller units of gas you can buy.



I <3 United States.



Idiot :roll:

You're just calling names because you wish you had the gallon too(and the price we pay on a gallon).

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lcdguy   11-14-2006 at 07:02:09 PM
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And arrogance and stupidity of Americans is confirmed yet again.

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Anonymous   11-14-2006 at 07:06:06 PM
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Lol, that was funny.

But seriously: Gallons,feet,miles, are the most stupid measuring Unit ever made. The metric system is sooo much better, why the HELL would you have 12 inches in one foot and 5280 feet in one mile, the guy who came up with that was seriously drunk!

Usa should suck it up and switch to metric, the more they wait the more it becomes impossible, probably already is!

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lcdguy   11-14-2006 at 07:11:19 PM
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agreed, metric is so much more efficient. Although nothing like seeing some one driving on a Canadian high thinking the speed limit is 100 mph and not 100 kph :)

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Anonymous   11-14-2006 at 07:12:57 PM
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lol! agreed, bought a new car in the US, importing it back to Canada, don't know if I can keep the Miles dial with the small Km ones...ummm

Oh yeay, new user tittle!

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Simonetti   11-14-2006 at 07:35:52 PM
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And arrogance and stupidity of Americans is confirmed yet again.



:):):):):)


Couldn't have put it better myself!

The English system is definitely the "stupidiest" think ever invented!

To err is human... to insist on the error is just plain stupid.

I <3 metric system!!!!


Actually gas here is pretty expensive. It went up over 40% since George "King of Stupidity" Bush invaded Iraq. The destabilization of the middle-east accounted for an increase in oil-derived products all around the globe. thanks mr. bush: I am paying for you arrogance and dumbness.

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megame255   11-14-2006 at 07:54:17 PM
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Actually gas here is pretty expensive. It went up over 40% since George "King of Stupidity" Bush invaded Iraq. The destabilization of the middle-east accounted for an increase in oil-derived products all around the globe. thanks mr. bush: I am paying for you arrogance and dumbness.



We're all being picked on with gas prices.
Before the whole Iraq thing, we also paid a lot less than we do now while all the big oil companies have been posting record profits. Seems kinda funny considering our prez made his money off the oil business and especially considering gas prices took a dive just before this past round of major elections.

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Scrapmaster09   11-14-2006 at 08:51:24 PM
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I absolutely love the metric system, and I'm an American, though an engineer.....

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kaotao   11-14-2006 at 09:17:04 PM
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Actually gas here is pretty expensive. It went up over 40% since George "King of Stupidity" Bush invaded Iraq. The destabilization of the middle-east accounted for an increase in oil-derived products all around the globe. thanks mr. bush: I am paying for you arrogance and dumbness.



We're all being picked on with gas prices.
Before the whole Iraq thing, we also paid a lot less than we do now while all the big oil companies have been posting record profits. Seems kinda funny considering our prez made his money off the oil business and especially considering gas prices took a dive just before this past round of major elections.

Bush didn't invade Iraq, the U.S. Coalition did, using the same stupid, lame a**, faulty intelligence that Clinton had when he accused Saddam of secretly developing WMD's. Now we're there, and it's a totally mismanaged mess, so let's keep politics and the conspiracy theories where they belong...not here.

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Anonymous   11-14-2006 at 09:40:07 PM
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Agree with that!

And uh, the Us coalition is like US and British...WIIIKIII!

But yeah let's leave that alone, gotta like the Undisclosed JTF2 fighter for canada, the Joint Task Force 2 guys are bad ass, too bad we have like 5 of them lol

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lcdguy   11-14-2006 at 09:54:18 PM
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true, but man are they cool :) (a friend of mine is trying to get in to JTF2) Worse comes to worse we can just shove timbits in our fuel tanks :)

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kaotao   11-14-2006 at 10:00:05 PM
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Yeah. sorry about that. I should've useed the term The Coalition, or U.S. lead. Gotta love the British, the Canadians, the Autralians, etc.. :)

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dean7   11-14-2006 at 10:11:01 PM
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Quote :

We buy by the gallon, not puny liters.

Even more worse off countries buy gas by the spoon fill.
The lower on the food chain your country is, the smaller units of gas you can buy.



I <3 United States.



Idiot :roll:

Agreed. The reason we pay less for gas is that it's subsidized by our government because they don't want it to sting as much at the gas pump, because they want us to keep driving, because it's "good for the economy". It's all about illusion and control. So while you are just loving the US in your big SUV that guzzles gas that people are dying for, you are in a pleasant illusion.

It'll be interesting to see what happens when that illusion is forcibly lifted from our country (e.g. when everybody gets fed up with us bragging about our POS units of measurement and how that makes us superior to everybody else).

Grow up, read some books then travel abroad.

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dean7   11-14-2006 at 10:16:52 PM
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And arrogance and stupidity of Americans is confirmed yet again.


Hey, I'm American and I try to slap down people with the good ol' "Texas attitude". So don't hate us all please?

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dean7   11-14-2006 at 10:24:01 PM
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Agreed... I wish we could switch to metric. And, I think that's where things will eventually head (I don't know a single even semi-intelligent person who doesn't like metric... it's just that we're all used to non-metric)

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kaotao   11-14-2006 at 10:24:37 PM
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Quote :

We buy by the gallon, not puny liters.

Even more worse off countries buy gas by the spoon fill.
The lower on the food chain your country is, the smaller units of gas you can buy.



I <3 United States.



Idiot :roll:

Agreed. The reason we pay less for gas is that it's subsidized by our government because they don't want it to sting as much at the gas pump, because they want us to keep driving, because it's "good for the economy". It's all about illusion and control. So while you are just loving the US in your big SUV that guzzles gas that people are dying for, you are in a pleasant illusion.

It'll be interesting to see what happens when that illusion is forcibly lifted from our country (e.g. when everybody gets fed up with us bragging about our POS units of measurement and how that makes us superior to everybody else).

Grow up, read some books then travel abroad.

Hold on, speak for yourself. I don't feel where I'm from, or what unit of measurement I use makes me, or my country superior to anybody else. Please stay on a topic that is relevent to these forumz, or on a topic you might actually know something about.

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dean7   11-14-2006 at 10:39:36 PM
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Hold on, speak for yourself. I don't feel where I'm from, or what unit of measurement I use makes me, or my country superior to anybody else. Please stay on a topic that is relevent to these forumz, or on a topic you might actually know something about.



Well, I just noticed that post came off all wrong actually. I was trying to illustrate the fact that Comptia_Rep's post made us all look like a bunch of idiots but it sounded like I was making a gross generalization. My bad.

My whole point is: some countries see Americans as a bunch of people like Comptia_Rep, and that's not what we are all like. Saying "We buy by the gallon, not puny liters" reflects poorly on every American IMO.

Anyway, this IS horribly off topic. Sorry for replying to those messages. :oops:

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kaotao   11-14-2006 at 10:52:16 PM
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I guess we should all be apologizing to the OP for highjacking this thread. :)

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lcdguy   11-14-2006 at 10:54:58 PM
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I don't hate all Americans (some of my relatives are from the states) but it doesn't help your image when you have a few bad eggs.

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icbluscrn   11-14-2006 at 11:05:02 PM
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I guess we should all be apologizing to the OP for highjacking this thread. :)



No you shouldnt original thread was stupid anyways, so adding more stupidity can't hurt

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kaotao   11-14-2006 at 11:14:43 PM
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I don't hate all Americans (some of my relatives are from the states) but it doesn't help your image when you have a few bad eggs.



The same can be said for all countries, so let's leave it at that.

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kaotao   11-14-2006 at 11:17:38 PM
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I guess we should all be apologizing to the OP for highjacking this thread. :)



No you shouldnt original thread was stupid anyways, so adding more stupidity can't hurt

So, using your logic, we could turn this into a PC vs console thread. :)

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tool_462   11-14-2006 at 11:21:22 PM
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I like my measuring tape I use at work. Measures in feet and tenths of feet...

Easy for me to visualize "ex: 18 feet" but easy to calculate 4.58 feet - 3.94 feet.

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dean7   11-14-2006 at 11:23:44 PM
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I guess we should all be apologizing to the OP for highjacking this thread. :)



No you shouldnt original thread was stupid anyways, so adding more stupidity can't hurt

So, using your logic, we could turn this into a PC vs console thread. :)
Please... no... we all surrender! Anything but that!!!! :lol:

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akahuddy   11-14-2006 at 11:23:48 PM
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I absolutely love the metric system, and I'm an American, though an engineer.....



Seconded!

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