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What are your goals? The only way to get the most for your money is to be very specific about what you want (which games at which graphics settings, resolutions and frame rates). Then you can build towards a system that does that best. It would also help if you could indicate whether you do not care about the system doing anything else (optimizing for now), or that you want a bit of flexibility too (optimizing for a longer period of time). I would recommend the latter, as I have seen too many people regret choices that were too specific. Your interests will almost always last shorter than your computer, no matter how crazed you are for a certain game now. Without knowing what you want and what you want to emphasize, a frugal build is not really possible. Even with 1200 dollar to spend, you will need to make choices.

You cannot compare GHz to GHz. Every generation will have a different performance at the same clock speed. For instance, the Pentium 4 is infamous for high clock speeds without very impressive performance. A modern day 1,5 GHz chip will likely outperform a 3 GHz Pentium 4. That being said, I think the computer in the clip is a fair amount of bang for buck. I do not see any terrible choices being made. The choices make sense and the advice seems solid. He even mentions the option of buying second hand and he does not skimp on the PSU, which is nice to see. You might be better off saving up a little more, but this is a pretty good way of spending $300 if gaming is your goal.

The correct answer is it depends If you can present an example of such video, we might be able to comment on the validity of the claims made in that specific video.

I would recommend the Crucial MX200 series. The EVO series has made a couple of design choices that cut cost, but reliability too. Unfortunately, Crucial pulled the same shenanigans with the MX300 series, which is actually slightly slower. Try to figure out whether your motherboard has SATA-2 or SATA-3 It will help you make a sensible choice without wasting money.

Shut up and get to work You have various talents and qualities and being unsaveable is not one of them. You are not fooling us. It gets easier over time. The more you know about something, the easier you pick things up. This can turn out snowballing in pretty amazing ways. Additionally, at some point all the various islands of knowledge start merging into a huge land mass.

I am not sure ZooNamedGames is of legal drinking age in his part of the world.

Cool. What is your question?

Good, that means you are on the right path. Any scientist can tell you that when they do their work correctly, they end up with more questions than answers. The point is that they will have answered their previous questions and furthered their knowledge. New answers will invariably lead to new questions and that is how you learn.

The internet is full of helpful people. There are so many tutorials, videos and whatnot. Even if you get stuck with one, there always is another that does explain it in a way that you do understand. Do not wait for someone to bring the information to you, as that is not likely to happen. There is a veritable ocean of useful things out there, you only have to get a bucket and get scoopin'.

That job is up to you

Sure! pxi's suggestion is great too.

Do not get hung up on copyright permissions. It is a terribly complex area. If you fashion your ideas in such a way that they will work well without the IP involved too, your games will be better for it and copyright permissions are not a huge issue either.

We told you before, you need to generate curiosity. You do that by helping people understand your project one way or another. Kerbart had a pretty good example of how to do something like that. And yes, being creative means people disliking your idea. That is part of the deal. It also generally involves people liking your idea, so it is not all that bad. You also should be aware that creative people are pretty most always insecure about what they created. That feeling never goes away, no matter how much success people have. Famous comic artists still think their good ideas have dried up. Even people like Beyoncé sometimes throw up before a show, because they are still nervous about it. Your creation is your baby and presenting it to the world means people might step on it. Do not let you discourage you, however. The end result is all worth it

I am not talking about the way of communicating, I am talking about the process itself. Somehow you manage to sidestep any and all questions about the content, never once making any statement about it. It would really help if you would do that.

They are not. The degree to which they are sterilized is depended on a complex calculation and quite a few assumptions. As my previous post indicated, this can only lead to trouble. It really is not a serious effort al all. Also see planetary protection and the categories they employ.

They are not committed, ethical and responsible. If you apply some sort of calculation to it, which is mostly based on assumptions about stuff we just do not quite know, it becomes a lot of hocus pocus and handwaving. If you were serious about preventing contamination, you would decontaminate everything at a severe level, if not the most severe level. Anything else is careless and playing roulette. Drifting probes can end up in strange places when you are talking about cosmic time scales and circumstances on your goal body will be different than expected.

Somehow it feels rather counter productive to send a rover to a far away place, only to steer it away from something that could yield the discovery of the millenium. I have always felt that these calculations how stringently a space craft needs to be decontaminated are ridiculous. You should always prepare for the worst, since you are, by definition, heading into the unknown. This incident proves that wonderfully. Some sort of surprise shows up and suddenly we cannot investigate it further and risk contaminating a planet a such way that any evidence will be wiped away. Yes, it will be very expensive and prohibitive in various fashions, but anything else is just an act to please our personal feelings.

How do you propose to test these concepts?

Somehow I feel they missed a huge opportunity by not calling it the Terran-OSIRIS-REx.

Looking at much more anaemic cards that run a modded KSP just fine, even that seems massive overkill.

It seems it still is. You can even do it online.

Nonsense. At worst, you do not function well within a school system, but that means you are incompatible with that specific system, not with learning in general. Did you feel school was fun? Did it challenge you? Did it interest you? You might be right. Personally, I both enjoyed the switch from high school to college and from college to work again. The burden of having more responsibilities was compensated and then some by having more freedom and actually doing relevant things.

No, it does not. The why and how would be a long discussion, but that is the gist of it. Look. The past century or so, people have told children that a diploma is the way to make it in life. And they were right. Getting a diploma meant the difference between being stuck forever in a low paying job, or climbing the ladder and getting somewhere. Most of that logic still applies. Getting a diploma means acquiring a set of skills and a way of thinking that will serve you the rest of your life. Now think hard. Does that not remind you of something discussed in this topic before? The thing is, the world has changed the past decade or so. Before, you had no different way of acquiring your skills than to go through schools. Information was hard to access and locked up in specific places. So even though that acquiring the skills associated with a diploma are still valuable, there are now other ways of acquiring those skills. Stay in school, they used to say, because that was the only way to do it. It still is a good way of doing it. However, there now are many different ways of doing it. Keep on learning is what they meant and should have said. Schools are a way, instead of the way. Instead of sitting in a classroom, you can now visit a website to learn mathematics. You use an app to learn various languages. You can learn how to program on many different websites. You can follow advanced classes on many MOOC websites, often organised by renowned institutions. You can download amazing tools for free and learn how to model in 3D. You can even find videos on how to solder, weld or tie your tie. Information is no longer locked up in specific places, which means you can keep on learning in many different ways. If you think about it, the value of a diploma is that it guarantees that you have basic knowledge X and Y. If you can get your diploma, by all means, it will not hurt. However, if that does not turn out to be the way to go, you can keep developing, and you should. It is not the end of the world, because there are other ways of doing it. That is what makes you a valuable employee and what will land you jobs in the end. You will see this when you start working too; very soon it is not about your diploma any more, it is about what you know, can do and have done. That is what gets you to where you need to be in life. Long story short: a diploma is valued because it represents an acquired skill set and knowledge. It is an easy way of showing people what you did and know, which it is why it is good to have one. However, it is not the only way. In the end, it is your skills and knowledge and how you put them to use that make your career.

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It would be great to get a diploma if you can. However, it will not be the end of the world if you cannot. You still have your creativity and wit. That is what gets you through life.