Possibly. Although if you are using the latest AMD drivers (11.12), that also doesnt help. Try bitminter, see my signature. Its easy to use and among the fastest for radeon 5xx0 cards. You can also try cgminer, but its a bit more hassle to set up.

Around 660 MH/s with cgminer or bitminter I think. There is absolutely no point running the card at 1000 MHz memory though. Clock it as low as it will go, it wont hurt performance (in fact, it may marginally increase performance) and it will save you a fair bit of heat/electricity.

If you have good idea's, Ill gladly contribute to the realization of them on a per case basis. If I think your idea sucks (like trying to convert a Philippine village to bitcoin), you're on your own. So I dont see the point of pledging anything at this point.  Wanting 100 people to 'vote' for you seems little more than ego tripping, no offense.

THG didnt overclock any of those card in that mining test. They got 375MH which is exactly what Im getting from my 5870 at stock speed. 375.3 to be exact.  That I can overclock mine to 1 GHz is irrelevant, THG could also overclock their 7970 to >1.1 GHz. Hashrate scales perfectly with clock.

If the average person has enough money to finance his desiderata, if and when its needed, someone will invest to provide those. The idea that there isnt enough capital for investment is ludicrous; never in recent history has there been a greater concentration of wealth. That wealth is available to invest, the only thing thats missing is the incentive.. ie, profitability of the investment.

I dont see how wealth or corporate power enters the picture here. I guess I dont see what your point is?

Didnt mean to imply it was unworthy of anything, its just that Im hardly an anarchist scholar. Still, as I understand, in an anarchist (or if you prefer,  libertarian socalist) society, a distinction is made between property and possession. You wouldnt own the oil under the ground. Something which is not that revolutionary as its already true in many state capitalist societies.  Even in the US, afaik, oil thats found offshore doesnt belong to any individual. Its the state that assumes and then sells mineral rights to that oil.

You might be interested in reading this:
http://www.constitution.org/elec/secI5.html

Then they dont. Most libertatian socialists advocate voluntary associations, rather than forcing people in to it. Which kinda makes sense, as by its very nature the movement is opposed to authority and statehood.

Really? And you think you could elect someone uncorruptable enough that there is no need for checks and balances, and that this despote would actually rule in favor of the people and not himself and his inner circle? And that he wouldnt change the laws so he could be re-"elected" again, over and over? Care to give a historical example, preferably that worked better, than say, Putin?

I did say liquid assets. Diamonds or art are not. Let me rephrase my analogy; why would you give 100 euro in collateral for a 100 dollar loan? Are you then loaning or speculating on currency exchange rates?

AFAIK, Java JRE is written in C. If you dont like installing Oracle software, bitminter works fine on IcedTea on linux.

Just who would loan if he has more than the loan's principle in liquid assets? Its like loaning $100 and giving $150 in collateral.
 

You dont have to use it.
I think its a good idea though, to make the process even simpler for facebook newbies, which is one audience that bitminter should attract to. I also dont see the point of making a bitminter only login; whats wrong with myopenid?

Cant say I always agree with him, but always a pleasure to hear Wilkerson talk:

Lawrence Wilkerson: A shameful pandering to the far right is an embarrassment; Ron Paul's foreign policy cannot coexist in the GOP, he will likely create a third party; Wall St. elite happy with Obama
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=767&Itemid=74&jumival=7748

Hu?

There is not exactly a lack of capital. US banks are literally sitting on trillions of dollars, thats not the problem. The problem is the majority of consumers are broke.


Whether a third is too much or not you can debate, what really matters is what you get for your tax dollars. I actually dont mind paying over a third (in fact I pay about 50%) since I get a lot back for it. Decent infrastructure and public transport, excellent and virtually free healthcare, top notch and virtually free education and a social security system thats good enough to give me peace of mind even in difficult times. If I were to pay all that out of my own pocket Id likely end up paying more for less.

But if people want less of that for less taxes, thats fine. As I see it the major problem in the US is the political system that legalizes corporate bribery. As a result you have a government thats not working in the people's interest, but for special interests and your tax dollars are wasted and further enrich the rich. I can understand that breeds hate for government, but  IMO the solution to that is not so much shrinking the government as fixing campaign financing and "lobbying". If one day you again have a government that is by and for the people, perhaps you may be less inclined to want to abolish it and end up with a Somalia style government-"free" country.

Or pay down the debt, or lower taxes on the other 99%. Its not up to me to say how US taxpayers money should be spent, whether its on a functional healthcare system, infrastructure, education or something else, but from an economic POV its madness to have an upper 1% who own nearly 40% of the wealth and effectively tax them at lower rates than the bottom 99%. Wealth doesnt create jobs, demand does.

The problem is that wealth gets you power. And power gets you wealth. The system is incompatible with democracy. We are headed towards corporate feudalism.


If he is a socialist, then its in the original meaning of the word, which one would better call libertarian socialist or anarchist, since the word "socialism" has lost all meaning, after being applied to various totalitarian state regimes that are anything but socialist and almost opposite of what people like Chomsky stand for.

As for Chomsky not understanding capitalism.. yeah right. Maybe he should read a book or something  

So I borrow $100 for a few months. If BTC price goes down by 20% or more, I just keep the dollars. If it doesnt go down, or not enough, I repay the loan. Bitcoinica is for suckers, your system is far better.

Overclocking actually increases efficiency at a given voltage. Power consumption of the card scales at most linearly with clock, meaning the entire rig's (including CPU, ram, motherboard etc) power scales less than linearly with the gpu clock. Performance does scale linearly, so MH/W improves as you overclock the gpu. Overvolting OTOH is of course not going to increase power efficiency, its going to reduce it quite dramatically.