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hmpff.... The reason PC gaming declined in the first place is because of Intel's shitty graphics. More than half of all PC's can't game well or at all. Intel knows it and they don't care.

Actually I expect AMD to start investing pretty heavily in ARM. I wouldn't be too shocked if they buyout some player in the mobile SOC space.

The reason why it's necessary is because the current API's are made for a different kind of hardware architecture that doesn't exist anymore. DX12, Vulkan, Mantle are designed to function at a lower level. Basically they work at an instruction level rather than a function level. All of the...

I'm surprised at how few people know how bad Samsungs fiscal situation is. They are losing money hand over fist right now. Actually S Korea as a whole region isn't looking very good right now.

Now I could see AMD licensing a graphics chipset to Samsung, they already did to Qualcomm. But there is pretty much no chance the whole company would go to them.

I'm just saying the same thing you guys are, but Nintendo needs 2 things, 1: Hardware that is comparable to the current generation, and 2: A fucking control paddle.... I mean seriously, the last competitive hardware they had was the gamecube, and that came late as hell to the market. And...

:D I never did figure out the shells. I live with shit streaks in my pants everyday.

Yeah, this is very important actually. More so with the transition from OpenGL to Vulkan though. AMD's OpenGL driver sucks major ass.

This has to be the 3rd dozen amd buy out rumor made by a completely uninformed so called "journalist" EDIT: replace journalist with "click baiter" EDIT: it would leave Intel in a monopoly position, I doubt the SEC would allow it. That's the only reason they allowed AMD to buy ATI in the...

Yes, that was one of the first AMD boards I ever owned. I remember it had a cache slot in addition to the memory slots.

I don't know, then you'll wind up with something like a NUMA-like adressing architecture. For GPU's that would mean coherency across the PCIe buss. That wouldn't be a good thing.

Eh... I do like netflix, i'm not knocking it, but.... There are alternatives....

Yeah, No charge for coming out, or for mileage or anything. Bu,t if I have to do a clean up on site it's gonna take a few hours at least. It works well. For a lot of business customers that can't bring their machines in, I make out pretty good. edit: I see what you mean. 70 bucks an hour...

It sets standards on folder layouts, but it doesn't do anything about versioning or dynamic linking.

I do understand that re-installing can be nice because it wipes out old and unneeded files. But it is completely unnecessary. If what you want is a very clean system, then re-install. But, if all you want is a well running system, you don't have to.

I like the idea. It's pretty cool. I'm just not sure how enforcement of the law would be implemented. I mean sure, they could actively look for people running services that break the law and prosecute them. But they won't even get 1% of offenders that way. When 99% is breaking the law, it's...

I've been using linux since about 99. Things have changed a lot since then, but really the thing that's been holding back game distributors from porting to linux is the same thing that makes linux awesome. If they target Windows 7, it's gonna work on windows 7. Windows 8 and Windows 10 too...

Oh yeah, it's a pain in the ass. Some of the hardest crap to remove are the fake agents, like the fake anti viruses. 70 bucks an hour is what I charge for doing it on site. 145 bucks if you bring it in. I usually have a few cleanups going at the same time. The money isn't bad. Plus I've been...

I come from a different background. I have to repair computers to earn my money. The only time I consider a fresh re-install is when the harddrive has so many bad sectors that the disk can't be read to make an image. But, as long as I can get an image off that isn't too screwed, I can usually...

That's a GCN card, it'll work well enough, but there is going to be a new kernel driver soon. AMD is essentially combining the kernel bits from the catalyst driver with the kernel bits from the oss driver. The userspace bits for catalyst will remain proprietary, while the userspace bits for the...

If you'd be willing to use the oss driver, I think a VLIW5 card would work well for you. Otherwise if you need a proprietary driver (maybe you need opencl) go nvidia.

The proprietary nvidia drivers are great. Overall they are damn good. You really can't go wrong recommending nvidia to anyone who wants to use a proprietary driver. On the other hand if you want to use an oss driver then AMD is the way to go. Right now I'd suggest sticking with a VLIW5 card...

Did I ever say anything else differently?

Yeah, and you apparently didn't bother reading the rest of it either.... BigBadAl already corrected me on that issue.

The first experimental broadcast was in like 1881 or 1882 or something like that.. I don't remember clearly EDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Edward_Hughes 1880 apparently....

well, that kinda sucks. But oh well. There is a linux tool call badblocks as well as a another dos tool called hdd regenerator that can usually correct bad sectors that aren't physically damaged.

Hey, I have a drive that has a handful of bad sectors that I'm repairing for a customer of mine. I'm going to sell him a new drive regardless, so this isn't really that important. But, he already ran seatools on the drive and it remapped those bad sectors. I would like to be able to un-remap...

And it's people like you that make excuses to force others to do what you do. That's why deregulation is absolutely necessary. EDIT: Hundreds of years? Really? It's only been since the early 1880s. And really only since the 1930s that rf has been in significant use. And only since 2004 that...

Oh, god.... The last thing needed is more regulation. We're sill waiting for regulation on the 700mhz band. My opinion is what we need is massive, large scale across all bands, deregulation. The FCC charter should be completely rewritten.

Well, I suppose there might be some use for a ham radio that only has a range of a few thousand feet. I don't know what it would be, but I'm sure somebody would have a use for it. I suppose if you put such a antenna up high on a tower, you could get some decent propagation out of it. EDIT...

Nope, Ham operates on a number of bands with wavelengths ranging from 10 meters to 160 meters. 2.4ghz is a much shorter wavelength (roughly 12cm). They behave totally different. EDIT: That's what's great about ham I think. If you could get a 160 meter antenna, you could operate on the 160...

Suffice it to say I disagree with you. What you're doing is comparing completely different concepts and trying to extrapolate. That doesn't work because it isn't the same thing. Ham radios operate on a much lower frequency band which has totally different propagation properties. My laptop...

I do use wise registry cleaner. But, that's only on really badly fucked up machines. Defragmenting the registry can help improve performance if it's spread out all over the drive. I just use it as part of my repair routine.

OH, MY!! You found it. It works. That was exactly what I needed. Thank you so much. Knowing the filename to search for made all the difference. I found it in like 2 seconds once I knew what to search for.

Yeah, Thanks for your suggestions. It still isn't resolved, but in truth I feel a little better that I'm not the only one stumped by this. At least now I can go to the owner of the machine and suggest she buy a new board. This is the problem with old unsupported hardware. Though, AMD at minimum...

It's a repair I'm doing. I can boot a linux livecd and mount the drive fine from there. lspci shows the controller. At least on a linux distro the hardware seems to work fine. Also I can boot up seatools and it detects the drive and is able to run diagnostics on it, which all pass. I'm not...

Yeah, I looked carefully at all the boot options. None of them seem to give me the option to change sata modes. I did find an updated bios on HPs web site, but no dice there either. What about Vista or 7 x64? Do they also include ahci drivers? I tried both of them already and they didn't...

No you didn't You said some nonsense and then said trust me... I have no reason to trust your nonsense. What's truly ignorant is you're attempt to convince people that you're way should be the only way

2 watts would burn the shit out of you. There's no way it's pushing out that much, let alone 100 watts.

Good luck with that. It amazes me that so many people here think that this is somehow wrong. And with no other explanation than it's "illegal". I don't care. Here is the fact, after doing this my connection improved by something like 10 times. That's what happened. And there isn't...