• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

Recent content by kevinpet

  1. K

    Odds of retina Macbook Air?

    I think product differentiation is a large part of it, but there are other issues with going to Retina. The Air is about sacrificing everything in favor of portability at a reasonable cost. The Pro is about keeping near-desktop capabilities in as portable a package as possible, even if that...
  2. K

    XBMC is running fine on Raspberry Pi

    Apparently the chip has hardware h264, but anything else would be software, and much slower. 1080p h264 was a design goal I gather.
  3. K

    VGA, DVI Display Interfaces to Bow Out in Five Years

    What really pisses me off about this whole thing is that we're moving to two competing standards - DP and HDMI. I don't know what to buy. It would be okay if it were something like HDMI for video equipment and display port for real monitors, so that at least you could predict when you'd need a...
  4. K

    ASUS Introduces 12.5” Business Laptop

    I'm writing this on a 1440x900 13.3" MacBook, and the extra resolution is wasted on my eyes. Anything above 120dpi just makes me blow up the text size.
  5. K

    Gates: Don’t Try to Be a Billionaire, It’s Overrated

    Dude, I get not reading the article, but I'd think you could at least read the blurb here. He's saying don't waste your time trying to become super rich. Focus on trying to become just normal rich, because normal rich is sweet, but beyond the first few million, the next million doesn't make much...
  6. K

    Supreme Court Refuses To Rule On Game Industry's $1.4M Attorney Fees

    This is standard procedure. Because this was a civil rights case (it was a free speech question), the lawyers are entitled to fees from California. Groups like ACLU and Pacific Legal Foundation would not be able to bring cases like this if they weren't going to get paid. SCOTUS didn't rule but...
  7. K

    Did Netflix create Qwikster just to sell it?

    Well... yeah. This makes absolutely zero sense unless you realize that the DVD business also pisses off the studios. Netflix has made concessions on each side to placate the other. By splitting the business, Qwikster can give the studios the finger and buy as many copies of new releases as soon...
  8. K

    Mac App Store Now Warns Customers Buying Pre-Installed Apps

    The money maker is probably going to be to transfer your ownership into the app store model so that apple will get a cut of future upgrades.
  9. K

    Motorola's CEO to Get $66M Golden Parachute

    MMI spun off from Motorola at the beginning of 2011 at about $31/share he just sold it to Google for about $40/share. If I ever find myself writing "made the shareholders $3,500,000,000 in a year" on my resume, I would certainly expect at least a private island out of the deal.
  10. K

    Apple Is Not THAT Valuable

    Sorry guys, but if Apple's market cap exceeded everyone else, then they were the most valuable company on the planet. Do you think the market price doesn't factor in the fleeting nature of their business? You can argue that the market overvalues Apple, but you can't argue that the market thought...
  11. K

    DefCon Kids Joins Adult Hacker Conferences

    The mob is a very family-oriented organization.
  12. K

    Sub-$400 Sandy Bridge Notebooks Hit the Market

    I went to the Apple store today to check out the new Air. Visually and design-wise? Beautiful machine. That makes up at least a solid 5% of my buying decision. Trackpad? It's nice and big, but I prefer PC-style tap-to-click. Keyboard is like typing on a photo of a keyboard. There's no travel...
  13. K

    Are Ubuntu's Glory Days Over?

    To summarize: Article: "Is boxer Joe Shmoe past his prime?" DeathPrincess: "What a stupid article. Boxing is a stupid sport."
  14. K

    No Cost Way To Wall Mount Flat Screen TVs

    Thanks, I'll pass. I live about 3 miles from the San Andreas fault.
  15. K

    Linkedin IPO Scammed by Bankers?

    I was initially on the "scammed or at least poorly served" side, but then someone with more experience in these things than me pointed out that the shares that traded hands in the IPO were a smaller fraction of the company. If you sell 10% of the company at at 50% discount, you've actually only...
See more
Back
Top