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Best formula for winning picture of the year is to, in some form or another, make a reference back to the movie industry. I felt “The Shape of Water” was just an OK movie but, because they could say it was a nod to Creature from the Black Lagoon, blah blah, it got the nod. Hugo? I thought I...

Very similar here. I recently upgraded from an almost 10 year old i940. Went with an AMD 2700 I got on a good deal. New motherboard, new memory, new nvme drive, new case. The only things I didn’t change were the PSU (~2 year old seasonic) and the GTX 1060 graphics card. No compelling reason...

It’s like they expect people to not have a memory of previous prices. When I got my GTX 1060 2.5 years ago, they decided to push the price of a mid-range card past the ~$200 mark. The MSRP for a 6GB model was something like $249 but it was relatively easy to find card for $10-30 less than that...

Of course many deals are coming fast and furious right now, but I figured I would point this one out. The Samsung B die 3200 CAS 14 memory has been very resistant to coming down in price. It has largely stayed above $220 for the 2X8 kit regardless of brand. Right now Newegg has G.Skill Flarex...

Pretty crazy that 1060 cards are only now selling for their prices that I paid 2 years ago. Feel fortunate that I got in while prices were reasonable. I am currently assembling a new rig but one of the parts I’m definitely migrating for now is that old 1060 (that and a pretty young Seasonic...

Glad they finally addressed this. I have a Gigabyte 1060 6GB model hooked up to an Acer Predator 27" G-sync monitor. With my old monitor hooked up by DVI, I never had boot issues. As soon as I hooked up the Acer using Displayport, I started to run into random black screens (no signal) when...

I can see the questions now, "How does spectre affect the series of tubes that is the internet? If I see ghosting on my monitor, does that mean I've been infected? Is this a friendly ghost (Casper) or an unfriendly ghost (poltergeist)? Can we simply have a priest conduct an exorcism on Intel...

Ooops, I used the wrong word in my original post. I should not have used "protagonist" but, instead "antagonist" or maybe villain. I really, really enjoyed Stephen Russell's work as Garrett and was disappointed when they dropped him for the most recent version. I did not like the voice he...

Thief: The Dark Project/Gold is probably one of my favorite games ever. For the time, it's graphics were behind the curve as it was only 8-bit, but they did a pretty good job of dithering, etc. to give a sense of a wider palette. What really mattered, though, was the game play. You could tell...

It's too bad if Kinect goes away. Some people have figured out innovative ideas for using them. Geography/geology departments have used them to create real-time projection models of topographic maps on 3D surfaces (for example).

Yup, and I like that the Roku is largely agnostic when it comes to different content providers. It does not push me to Apple. It doesn't push me to Amazon. I decide. And, yeah, Roku has some pretty good hardware if you buy in at that level. Heck, I even bought my parents a roku express for...

I guess I'm a weird one that actually likes 3D sometimes (not always) if the movie actually benefits from it. LG has really been the main one that has promoted the passive approach that doesn't require the expensive shutter glasses and I prefer that. I have a ~5 year old Panasonic TV that is...

One small caveat that I remember from installing my HL-2270DW Brother printer is that you select its connection method when you set it up the first time. In other words, while it may have the connections for ethernet, USB, and WiFi, it only can be set up to use one of those at a time. To...

Honestly my little Brother has been rock solid for the years I've owned it. I would say it's graphics/photo quality is just fine for everyday use. I printed my college dissertation on it and nobody complained about the quality. If you were highly interested in super fine grayscale photos or...

Well I have a Brother HL-2270DW and have used it for 4-5 years. It has wifi and does duplex printing. If you like using generic toner replacements, there are some really cheap ones out there, though I really do prefer buying the Brother cartridges (high capacity often ~$45). You may be able...

Bong hits for Apple!

Talk about click-bait language. So Nest users should be terrified that their neighbors know their zipcode? Yes, it's a minor security issue but it was patched in October. Oohh but scary scary language, "what about the next bug?" What about the next bug in any piece of software/hardware? I...

Just replaced my 9.5 year old Corsair HX620 (made by Seasonic) because I ran into a spontaneous reboot (no warning, no OS crash info) for the first time ever. So, yeah, not that challenging to get 10 years out of a PSU. What did I go with? Seasonic. Just wish I would have cashed in on the...

I picked up a Nighthawk X4 for $149 on a one day Amazon sale in November. It has been rock solid for me so far. The big, big, big thing to know about the Netgear X4 AC2350 is that there are two versions. Version 1 was released in September of 2014 and is based on a Quantenna chipset...

A mini-itx case that is small enough that it could be mounted to the VESA mounts on a monitor. Though there would have to be trade-offs going so small, I figure Corsair could extract the most out of such a small sized unit.

concrete-core chokes and hardened MOSFETs

It looks like the shell shocker price is still good for the rest of the day. All a person has to do is follow the link above and then click on the M500 picture near the top. Performance differences: M500 960 GB - 500 MB/s sequential reads, 400 MB/s sequential writes, 80k random reads, 80k...

Newegg is having a bit of a blowout on their Crucial M500 960 GB. Edit: Though I originally thought this was only until 1 pm Pacific, it is apparently good for the whole day (just have to back up in the shell shocker list). It's going for $285 as part of a Shell Shocker...

When I first started building my own systems, I did try some other brands that cost less, but I always seemed to pay for it with weird, quirky incompatibility problems. After that, I switched to Asus and haven't looked back. I also build systems for friends and family and know that using Asus...

It would be absolutely fantastic if they really do get it to work. Consider me skeptical, though, as fusion has been continually touted since the 1950s as the energy technology that is about 10 years away from becoming reality.

Note that it is only for 15(30) GB data buckets and larger. I was hoping it would allow me to double my 10 GB data bucket.

Looks like they are running this again for $399. Lightning deal is on until noon Pacific time on Saturday. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00K9HIF4C/

I think 4K will become something of a niche market and not mainstream. The bottom line is that you need a very big view screen to justify going above 1080P. At a typical viewing distance of 7-9 feet, a person needs a 42" TV to tell the difference between 720P and 1080i/p. By most calculations a...

My interest in MMOs seems to have waned at just about the same time that "F2P" and pay to win became ubiquitous. I think it was mostly burn out, but it also annoyed the crap out of me to be nickled and dimed and that somebody willing to drop hundreds of dollars in the game could have an unfair...

As others have said, give me a movie worth watching. I just can't get excited about another Transformers movie. The trailers for "Tammy" just looked painful (stupid fat woman goes on a pointless road trip, oh joy). Though I tend to like all of the Marvel movies, I'm not sold on the Guardians...

Correction to my post, my old power hungry box was probably a DCT3400 instead of a DCX3400.

Though I know people love to hate on 3D television, I actually found it to be the only method that forced Comcast to upgrade my cable box to a newer model. Before: Comcast wanted to give me their standard HD DVR box which was, if I remember right, the Motorola DCX3400. That model is huge and...

The Amazon student suggestion might be a good solution for some, but the student accounts are more restricted than regular prime accounts. Unless they've changed something in the past year, the student account is for one person, period. A regular prime account can have multiple family members...

Have to agree with Skripka on this one. I don't think I've ever heard of or seen a Sony store.

The concept of honor appears to still be alive in Japan. In the U.S. such a move would either be perceived as weakness or other business leaders would think that you had lost your mind.

Next up: The Dr. Kevorkian plan for long life.

Myst seemed to take the basic explore and manipulate games made famous by Infocom (e.g. Zork) and added a pretty visual interface. Having played both, I found Zork to be more fun. Myst was pretty but one of the dullest games I've ever played.

Most of your small office printers aren't going to have that kind of capacity on their cartridges. Once you move up to business/enterprise class printers you can get what you seek. The HP Enterprise 500 M551n will meet your specs. The high yield black cartridge is rated at 11,000 pages and each...

That does not appear to be the case. The 7.0.1 release is only for the 5s and 5c for "general bug fixes" and to allow the fingerprint scanner on the 5s to be used for iTunes purchases. The lock screen vulnerability has not been patched...

Hardware Canucks have a review up. Some good stuff and some critique of the case. A few notable bits are that the hard drive cage isn't removable and that 11" long graphics cards will require a little bit of Dremel work in order to fit...