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    IBM Bans All Removable Storage, for All Staff, Everywhere

    Well, this is NOT going to bode well for us in the field service division. Booting off USB keys is a daily practice after replacement of system boards to load the VPD and firmware. Guess they better give us a part number for a 100 pack of CD-R's for us to burn to load code for the various...
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    Threadripper Pays for Itself Using Cryptocurrency Mining @ [H]

    All I can say is I am without my gaming PC as my 980Ti smoked (but still just barely under warranty thank goodness) but I have been waiting 2 weeks so far because EVGA has NO STOCK to send me a compatible replacement card. And they told me why. Cryptominers. Personally, I think they still should...
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    Corsair HX1000 1000W Power Supply Review @ [H]

    Well this is all well and good, BUT, most (platinum and some gold) 1Kw power supplies (and above) are all out of stock at major online retailers right now. Miners perhaps? Whatever the case, my new PC build is on hold because of it.
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    ASUS ROG Crosshair VI Extreme Motherboard Review @ [H]

    Understood. And thank you all for all your time and clarification.
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    ASUS ROG Crosshair VI Extreme Motherboard Review @ [H]

    Umm, more confusion... "NOTE: For all Subsystem Testing, an AMD Ryzen 1700 (3.0GHz / 3.7GHz Boost) and 4x 4GB (16GB total) Corsair Vengeance LPX (4000MHz DDR4 16-18-18-39, [email protected]) memory modules running at DDR4 2133MHz speeds (stock testing, up to 2800MHz overclocked) were used." That does...
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    ASUS ROG Crosshair VI Extreme Motherboard Review @ [H]

    Forgive my ignorance, but I just want to be clear. Early in the article, you said this "There are four 288-pin DDR4 DIMM slots supporting a total of 64GB of RAM at speeds up to DDR4 3200MHz using two modules and 2400MHz using four modules. This limitation is due in part to AMD’s AGESA code" But...
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    The First Text Message Was Sent 25 Years Ago

    This is not (entirely) true. Motorola working with IBM created the ARDIS radio network in 1983 using the Motorola KDT800 Portable Terminal (otherwise known as "The Brick" since it weighed 2.5 lbs) for IBM service personnel to use as their communication device to manage service calls, order...
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    Steam: how many hours?

    5128 Hours in ARK. Only the original DOOM game comes close (of course there is no telling the total hours put in there AND it's not a steam game.) I can only say that Doom consumed my life for the better part of two years. I bought ARK within 10 minutes of it's release in 2015 and never put it...
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    The Next Most Powerful Supercomputer in the U.S. Is Almost Complete

    As of now... #2 I was supposed to spend two weeks there in December helping to finish it, but those temporary positions were filled with folks who are a bit closer than me. Darn.
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    AMD Ryzen Threadripper NVMe RAID 0 Demonstrated

    Sorry, but it was a bit hard to understand him. What motherboard was he using exactly?
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    Bill Gates Regrets Control-Alt-Delete Key Command

    Like most things in computing, this key combo has a history. Some of you know, before there was ever such a thing as Windows 95, Microsoft and IBM were co-developing the replacement for windows 3.X . This operating system was called OS2. At a point in it's development the relationship between...
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    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Video Card Preview @ [H]

    Brahmzy: With all due respect, did you read the text at all or just look at pictures? It explains this was a comparison of what I have vs. looking at upgrading to the 980Ti. Araxie: Not applicable meant that none of the 980Ti documentation I found specified a different Cuda clock vs. "base...
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    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Video Card Preview @ [H]

    Still resizing for proper display. This better?
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    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Video Card Preview @ [H]

    Thanks so much GoodBoy. Your timing is impeccable as I just finished making a comparison graphic between 580-980Ti and 580 SLI (note I am no expert and some of the 580 SLI numbers may not REALLY be double that of one card) it's just a rough specification comparison. (to help justify buying one...
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    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Video Card Preview @ [H]

    Only running 1900x1200 on a single 24" monitor Other than not having DX12 support I'm just wondering if it would really be worth it to ditch my 580 GTX SLI setup for a single 980 or 980Ti ? (and later turn that to SLI when the game graphics curve jumps again).
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    Netflix Is Available in Cuba

    I wonder how much of the TWENTY DOLLARS A MONTH average income in Cuba will Netflix cost? :rolleyes:
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    IBM Hard Drive Being Loaded Onto an Airplane In 1956

    As a field service rep working on IBM mainframe tech for nearly 30 years, I have seen a lot of this firsthand. I remember having to replace 60lb 15 10" platter "HDA's" (Head/Disk/Assemblies) that the box it came in was on a pallet. I had to take it out and seat belt it into the back of my car...
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    MakerBot CEO Announces Tabletop 3D Scanner

    Wow. This will take copyright infringement to new heights. Disney will be thrilled!! :cool:
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    World's First Lickable Flavored Ad

    Actually, it reminds me of the scratch and sniff that Hustler did in September 1993. No, i'm not kidding. :rolleyes:
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    The Game Industry Turns 40

    Yes, I do. And somewhere I have a picture of myself and friends playing "Adventure" on an Atari 2600. :cool:
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    Sixers Unleash World's Largest T-Shirt Cannon

    Apparently they did not clear this with Maude Flanders....umm, Oh ya. ;)
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    Taco Cannon

    "Huge gun that shoots tacos" ? I dont really see the attraction here. I have a huge gun that shoots tacos too.... ;)
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    NVIDIA's "A New Dawn" Demo Now Available

    Shrink the chest melons down to normal and reduce the download from 770mb to 40mb. :rolleyes:
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    High Tech Halloween Masks

    Exactly. If someone got hold of anothers face mask and used it for a crime, talk about identity theft! :eek:
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    HardOCP.com on iPad going to mobile site

    Indeed. Now if we can just get the site to load correctly the first time..........
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    HardOCP.com on iPad going to mobile site

    Same behavior on I.E. 8 on a PC ! cant get to main site (www.hardocp.com) at all. Changed/reset/deleted all settings and cookies to no avail. I want the real site back!! :-(
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    Special Deux Ex Announcement Tomorrow?

    Tweet this morning from Edios Monteal's David Anfossi (thanks Blues News) Well here's a hint to help you to crack the #DXHR #deusex code: r 5 / i e / y p ...like thats gonna help...lol :rolleyes:
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    3D Face Scans In Two Seconds Flat

    How do you know how "Affordable" it is. You have to request a price quote. Never a good sign.
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    Now This Is A Wearable Computer!

    Awesome! Now you can Facebook *AND* tweet while under enemy fire, WooHoo! :rolleyes:
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    Rumor: Crysis 2 Will Be DX9 Out of the Box

    This is all over the crymod forums. The admins cant lock the threads fast enough. About the low-rez demo textures, encrypted .cgf files, lack of graphical tweaking options..etc, etc. (this obviously explains that, lol!) Wondering if it was a decision in order to still make the (already...
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    Chart: The Death Of The Music Industry

    I dont know about "free" Mp3's, (exactly when that started) but Napster came to be (more or less) in June 1999. Look at the big dip (on CD's) RIGHT AT THAT TIME!! lol. And CD's never recovered other than a small blip in 2004. :eek:
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    Mexico to Pioneer Iris Technology on ID Cards

    Wrong. I have been using biometrics to move around secure locations for over 5 years. And BTW, the one in that pic (the dual retina scanners by panasonic) are way better than the slow single eye scanners from LG.
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    The Kinect Exposes Kids To Interactive PORN!!!

    Here is another one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNAXVs8rydU Here is the link to download the tool and play with it yourself (erm, no pun intended!) http://forum.xentax.com/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=4582&p=46580#p46580
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    Kinect Sex Games

    Hmmmm, Interesting the game appears (mostly) playable with one hand......
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    Steam is Killing the PC Market?

    Totally agree with #12 The "brick and mortar" stores did this to themselves. They started cutting back PC game inventory LONG before steam really hit "critical mass" .They decided that getting you to pre-order it was more cost effective than having to pay for a bunch of inventory that may or...
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    Segway Owner Drives Off Cliff

    Guy was worth 262 million dollars. It's like they say though.."Money cant buy you gravity"
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    State Reviewing Massive Computer Meltdown

    Thats why the old saying goes.."no one gets fired when they buy IBM" You get what you pay for. Which is why IBM loses sometimes in government (competetive) bids. All they see is the bottom line and not the added value of what is (truly) behind it. Yes, I bleed blue, but thats besides the...
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    Duke Nukem Forever Confirmed?

    UstreamTV is showing duke live right now..being played BY THE PUBLIC! http://www.ustream.tv/2kgameslive Yup.....the pigs, they are a flyin' :D
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    Lithium-Ion Batteries Threat To Airline Safety?

    Yep...This NEVER happens. :rolleyes: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=19356
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    Gearbox Working on Duke Nukem Forever?

    Are peoples expectations of what this game SHOULD be? Maybe. Nobody is going to be able to take back the legendary vaporware nature of Dukes development cycle. Whats done is done. But what I think, (and hope) is that its not really all about cutting edge graphics and what not. It's the gameplay...
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