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This would work and I'm willing to spend extra to minimize the clutter, though I have no particular need for thunderbolt (just yet). seems to be the best (only?) option out there. I guess this isn't something people are wishing for...

Looking to cut another wall charger, I'd like to able to charge my laptop (USB C 65W charger) using my desktop (MSI x570 Tomahawk and Corsair SF750). The mobo in-built USB C is insufficient for this, so was hoping there was a PCI board for this. Prelim searches turned up nothing, does such a...

Anyone want any broken, but fixable Soyo's? I'm happy to send them for the cost of shipping (from California) to whoever wants them for parts, or to fix up etc. They are in their original boxes. Based on their symptoms, both have presumably shot PSUs, one of which also has a blown inverter...

qi baishi painting in the background?

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Have a $180 (well $179.41) Best Buy store credit FS for $170. Priced less than the gift certificate resellers. PIN has not been scratched off and have a receipt to document its value If in Los Angeles, will be happy to meet up at the Best Buy in Culver City (Washington and Overland) to...

Wonder if this is population related? Japan had a declining birth rate.

It's a nice idea, but I'd much rather have net neutrality and less monopolization than an arbitrary minimum. This won't even do anything to bring broadband to people who don't have it (who still e exist), and doesn't make any promises about the affordability of the service either.

Yeah it definitely seems retrograde, but that's humanity for you: willing sacrifice long term good for short term convenience. I don't blame manufacturers either, since they're just responding to customer desires.

Even though I'm a long time gamer, I'm surprised by the popularity of let's play videos. it simultaneously doesn't seem interesting and takes up a lot of time. I guess I do watch the occasional Street fighter tournament clip on YouTube, but after a few minutes I'm ready to start playing myself...

The linked gizmodo article from a couple of years back is a great read if anyone hasn't read it yet. the branding is amazing, extending to all strata. i saw a not-wealthy-appearing high schooler buying a $300 pair of beats, and also read a new yorker article recently where the writer needed a...

it's such a great concept, an upgradeable console, but it really has to be cheap and have zero maintenance issues, and have tons of games to really take off. it's true what someone else said though, if valve can't make it work, it's hard to imagine who could.

among certain (younger) non-game playing demographics, no one uses a desktop. makes me feel like a dinosaur sometimes. rawr. anyway, PCs will never die, but as a result of lesser popularity, I do feel that desktop components are more stratified: things are either really cheap (for office...

female equivalent could be "booth beef" ...ew.

didn't know that. have tmobile for a while and i love the flexibility and price, and I have great coverage where I live (a big city), I can't deny outside that area coverage is spotty. Personally, I think there should be shared spectrum and common cell phone towers, and companies should...

LOL this thief. meme waiting to be born.

interesting thing was the point about branding: Amazon, unlike Apple, is never an aspirational/cool brand, so they can't really command premium prices. also, even though no one saw a use case for the 3d feature (which they spent a "surreal" amount of money on), no was was able to say so to Jeff...

mine is still suffering from a recent move, but i think i have a new "geek resolution" : clean workstation and finally post in the "post your workstation" thread, 2015 edition

payment enough was the entertainment value in reading their emails.

no company will make this change willingly, because consumers will just compare numbers across devices and say "16 > 12." It's like the MHz wars. Unlike in that scenario, where true performance is difficult to define, let alone assess, in this case, forcing manufacturers to advertise the...

yeah, i don't imagine google has a 90 day disclosure deadline for the Android vulnerabilities they discover themselves.

I was going to cite a recent New Yorker article about just this very topic, but I see that the linked article does so as well. The New Yorker article is worth a read: http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-open-office-trap FWIW, I think open offices are terrible, and I can't really...

java is a perfectly fine language, both functionally and to learn on. java on desktops may be mostly server side, but most android apps are also written in java. also the jvm is an wonderful thing, that many other languages have been written for.

I see. I considered pen use not "tablet" per se, since the Type Cover is often still attached, and a touchscreen clamshell laptop could theoretically use a pen as well. OneNote handles both pen and keyboard pretty well.

The 1337th Division Fighting Neckbeards.

Too bad they cancelled (back in 1993) the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) which was supposed to be built in Texas. It would have still been more powerful than the upgraded LHC. Per Wikipedia:

yes, it's an SP3 (someone should try installing XP/sp3 on an SP3...). my spouse is the primary user, and she wouldn't have been as happy with a conventional laptop. she likes the slim form factor and and uses the pen a fair amount. while only on occasion does she remove the keyboard (like at a...

i imagine as more and more public shaming attempts are tried, they'll just be so many that both companies and the public will stop caring, and we'll be back to square one: poor customer service with no recourse.

github? good thing they don't do much software development in india :rolleyes:

lots of love for the Surface, but it almost never gets used as a tablet in our household. I held off on buying a "proper" tablet, but wasn't ready to commit until I found one that could replace my aging netbook. I still don't feel Android is suited for the task, but I'm looking thinking of the...

looks like 2023 is where price parity will occur, but hoepfully I'll replace my 64GB SSD in my laptop before then. Interesting that people worried so much about the number of writes to the flash, "wearing it out," etc but with the improvements in wear management software/firmware, people will...

if the LG G3 is anything like the LG G2x, it deserves to die in a fire. If I were to make a movie about my time with the G2X I'd call it "2 Years a G2X Owner."

launch the fire extinguisher app?

i haven't been following it recently, but am curious, how is steam os doing these days?

Good that someone's trying to do something with all that lingering brand awareness but betting on people buying more physical prints doesn't seem like the way forward.

It was always a risky model. these days it's seek forgiveness and not permission.

the leaks revealed that even sony's own staff thought it was terrible.

But didn't they in fact pay?