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Quick, easy, money-making solution for Microsoft: create a paid version of Win10, with a big red "Stop All Info Sharing" button, clearly visible during installation, i.e. not a handful of individual switches or buttons in different locations. One which actually works, I mean. I'll go back to my...

Sticking with dual-booting 64-bit versions of Linux Mint 17.2 (Cinnamon) & Windows 7, on most of my machines.

I think Digi-Key has to be at least mentioned in this thread. :D One project group in one of my EE classes a few years back received a shipment just before lecture, so they brought it in and unwrapped it to check it out. For a single SO-16 chip (measures about 10 x 5 mm) in an ESD bag, it was...

Better hurry and buy up your favorite episodes of MST3K before some Hollywood asshat decides to re-copyright one of the movies they riffed. I can just imagine the ghost of Burt I. Gordon furiously filling out the forms now....

I'm pretty sure this is the modus operandi for most American corporations. ;) I used to be one of the "OMG who would spend time or money on this shit" crowd. Then I started playing it, more often as time went by. There is something damn appealing about Angry Birds. Almost like an...

I'm gonna cry myself to sleep tonight. :( I've been waiting patiently for many years to see a true S.T.A.L.K.E.R. sequel; my absolutely favorite game has been Shadow of Chernobyl since 2008, which came with my 8800 GT. Everything up until now has hinted that the demand and development for...

Judging by the type of 'news' Yahoo runs on its home page, I wouldn't be surprised if another study found that those same people buy supermarket tabloids, lottery tickets, cigarettes, and regularly visit psychics. On a completely-unrelated note :D I use Comcast, Gmail, and keep all of my money...

You reminded me of the adage, 'a fool and his money are soon parted.' :D

Just looking at it makes my finger joints ache. I can't help but think that I'd chuck it out the window after an afternoon of coding or doing research. But, that's probably a consequence of letting 'artists' design things instead of engineers. No thank you, I'll stick to this fine IBM Model M...

If they offered channels à la carte AND cable internet access, I'd likely ditch Comcast ASAP.

Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll go after the patent trolls next, complete with S.W.A.T. assaults, tasers to the nutsacks, and full, no-lube cavity searches. At least Karma is pointing in that general direction.

I blame idiot brokers, but hey, I don't know a thing. It simply amazes me how an utterly worthless company (in terms of services or products) can raise or be worth billions of dollars. These 'investors' must be running a circle-jerk rumor mill and never poke their heads out the window.

I've had three nVidia cards die on me: two died slowly, one spontaneously. Add to that nVidia leaving me feeling completely abandoned on an nForce platform years ago (yes, an OLD grudge), and I just can't support such a company anymore. I've had ZERO ATi cards die. Not a single one, no matter...

Neat. The oven didn't work for my 8800GT, either. I'm going to try my propane torch. Your experiment has given me hope that it can be revived.

Same happened to me this past spring, but with an 8800GT. It just DIED, out of the blue; no recovering, either, even after attempting (several times) solder reflow. I went with a Powercolor 6950; first one had artifacts, even on the desktop with no load or changes to the BIOS. The sticker...

I'm in a similar position to the OP's, so I'll toss in my $0.02. The following snippet of an article summarizes my thoughts on the upgrade path(s) presenting themselves shortly: Now bear in mind, I have been using the same CPU & chipset since February of 2008 (yeah yeah, lol): a Wolfdale...

+1, although posting the letter on Fb was a great response in and of itself. I think it's a very piss-poor response on BB's behalf, responding with limp legal threats. I predict a significant Streissand Effect if Newegg decides to keep running with this (and Lord, I hope they do!). BB's...

Anyone else reminded of that Stallone movie, Judge Dredd? Some of the scenarios presented here are definitely getting my "what-if" gears turning. IIRC, Dredd was charged with murder, and the only real evidence against him was in the form of an electronic recording device that was considered...

Agreed. Although on the slip side, fear is to be expected with new technologies. Especially those that might 'intrude' on what we consider to be private, or at least trivial, information (not to degrade the importance of vehicle parameters post-crash). IMO, as long as there's no link between...

I'm still laughing, TBH.

I nominate...that guy! Dunt-dunt-DAH-dah-dunt-dunt-dunt-DAH!

Check out the list of U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee members: http://judiciary.senate.gov/about/members.cfm It reads like a "who's who" of the dirtiest motherf*ckers in the entire Senate.

Old news is old.

Such a thorough and valid argument you've presented. :rolleyes: FWIW, I quit during my super-senior year -- this past summer -- pursuing a BSEE degree. My only regret is that I didn't go out on my own and start my business many years ago. Now I've got a relatively small pile of debt, and...

This company's been one f*ck-up after another, without an end in sight. You'd have to be on (really good) drugs to stick any more cash into Sony at this point. Like others, I really used to enjoy their gear, but as of late its quality has sucked badly, and their political, legal, & financial...

Think I'll keep my Bronco for zombie-evading duties. Looks better, gets better fuel economy, and is definitely faster. Oh, and it's fully paid off. :D

Wow, a whole new vector for stealing Sony customer data! :D

I wonder how long it'll be before we see ads promoting the Taliban. "Tired of paying taxes? Don't like your government? Is your neighborhood full of infidels?" Oh and of course, there would be a monetary exchange, so there's no way Amazon would refuse.

Translation: I don't know what the fuck is going on, and it's more than likely nothing is going to happen, but I have to tell you something that doesn't make the company look like complete shit. Goddamn I fucking HATE bb. Nothing against the regular blue shirts on the floor having to deal...

Oh, and God protect me, I'm driving into Ohio this afternoon, a state with a Stop-and-Identify statute. :(

As a Michigander with VERY little trust in his state government -- my memories of Granholm and her bullshit promises are quite vivid -- and law enforcement in general, I almost hope to be pulled over and have my Incredible scanned. I wouldn't mind being the first case in this issue for the ACLU...

Let me guess: there were about sixteen 'free toolbars' in this machine's Internet Explorer too, right? :rolleyes:

Try an Intel SSD if you're able. It'll work right, as soon as it's installed (or at least your odds of success are much much better). Of my small group of computer dweebs, there have been nothing but problems for those with OCZ SSDs. Those of us that waited were jealous of the initial...

I haven't seen a movie in a theater since 2004-ish (whenever the last LOTR trilogy was out). The ridiculous prices, and wasting my time with ads at the scheduled movie time after I'd already paid to see a bloody movie and ONLY a bloody movie, are the primary reasons. Beyond that, there...

I've been holding fast to my X38 and E8400 since 2008. :D I'm glad I passed up the latest iteration of Sandy Bridge stuff, but with the addition of Win7x64, decent SSDs, and dealing with rather large files in some demanding applications, she's showing her age a bit. This was the first Intel...

Picked this up. Thanks, OP. :) BTW, the page says this is optimized for Intel Atom-based netbooks, so this works out GREAT for me! I'm using an Acer Aspire One AOA 150-1786 (from 2009!). This looks 1000x better than the version for my HTC Incredible, and most everything looks great on that...

Maybe to balance things out, one could develop an app to follow senators' and representatives' movements in real-time.

That's fairly slanted 'journalism,' calling this a police-evasion application. Of course, those of us that have had family members killed by drunks (me), or been hit by them ourselves (me again), may have a non-centrist point of view as well.

Great predictions, but the illustrations look like a PsD in a few ways. The MacGuyver-esque dude looks like he's been twisted about his own pelvis by his orange 'Hammer pants, and his right arm run over by the S.W.A.T. van. Then there's The Fonz, with...Lord only knows what's on his head. I...

I'm eagerly awaiting CS: Get Off My Lawn, and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Turn Down That Damn Noise. Of course, it will probably be a decade before we see Final Fantasy XXI -- I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up.