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The conversion happens instantly through BitPay so the BTC holder is the one taking the risk on price fluctuation.

Perfect incentive to pay your taxes early before Bitcoin drops further!

Since the ink cost itself is practically nothing, I wonder if the cartridges are actually half full or if the little memory chip is just set to show them as half full? Someone should weigh them and compare the difference.

It's gonna be weird once software gets so complex that the developers cannot figure out to fix problems like this.

People use the USPS less because of the internet. I don't have a source on that, but I grew up in the 90s and I think it's pretty obvious. I used to order books on Amazon and mail them a check and it took two weeks to arrive instead of days. As late as 2003, most people still didn't feel safe...

Using YouTube to archive other YouTube content is like making a backup of all your data on the same physical drive. I know that people do this, but it's not a good system. YouTube is probably just sick of buying a million hard drives a week to keep up with all the crap on there.

Seriously guys. You're falling for a viral campaign. The press release is written to make you think Samsung is doing something outrageous (like physically powering off the TV) when in fact they're just making an regular video ad that LOOKS like the TV is being turned off. Look closely (emphasis...

The real takeaway is that hard drives have gotten incredibly reliable. You really can't go wrong with any of the major players.

I imagine that at least half of old iPhones go straight into the trash so they need to provide some kind of incentive for owners if they want this to work.

I used to love watching the Windows 95 defragger as a kid. So satisfying to see all the bits get organized.

Will they also build a robot that can recycle Daisy once she wears out?

Since the discs were intercepted before he sold any of them, it's hard to know if he was intending to make a profit on the sales of the discs or if he was just planning to include them along with refurbished computers.

I baffled why he complains twice about the position of the x4 PCIE slot? Considering you can use an x4 card in any of the other x16 slots, why would this make any difference at all? Am I missing something? I already own this board, but I have a 290X and am not using any other PCIE slots anyways.

I use both 5 1/4" bays in mine and discovered an annoying rattle in the case as well. It turns out it was coming from the top cover where my Corsair H110 was mounted. Whenever the fans on the H110 spun up to a higher speed, the cover would rattle. I put a heavy candle on it for awhile, but later...

At my workplace about half of our PCs are still running Win XP and there is no plans to upgrade. They're even a Win 98 machine still although it's not networked and is just for looking up records in a specific database that lost mainstream support long ago.

As I said, it's kludgy, but it works. Took me nearly an hour to get setup the first time (software updates, network issues, etc). It takes about 5 seconds to switch between channels and the interface is pretty useless. I wouldn't buy it for the parents as it's somewhat painful for everyday use...

Solution: Simple.TV. It's a bit kludgy, but it lets me DVR from my antenna and stream through the Roku. They can be found on Woot from time to time for less than $100 with the full lifetime subscription.

Robstar: I'll offer you $85 towards one of the cards for a 640GB drive as long as it's SATA and less than a year old. wowsza: I can return the unopened one to Amazon and get a refund. The other two will go on eBay if I don't get what I want for them. I just figured I'd throw them up here first...

I purchased three of these cards from Amazon.com to mine Litecoins. Two of them have been mining at stock speeds and autofans to keep temps at 75C for a couple weeks and the last one is still BNIB (the pair mines at 695 Kh/s all day long). They all will include original box and manual packaged...

Hasn't Bitstrips already done this?

Denon's X-series are decent receivers that are primarily HDMI without the tons of legacy ports. Using HDMI for everything is nice because you'll run everything through one machine and be able to switch audio/video at the same time without changing TV input sources. A lot of reviews on Amazon...

I bought the Pioneer one and it works great. I think Pioneer and LG pretty much make all of the drives for the other brands anyways.

Pretty sure Godaddy offers 5 email account with their hosting plan (or at least they used to). I have my domains registered through Namecheap.com and email is included with the hosting package. Most domain registers give you email services along with their hosting plans.

The brands often spec the components to the individual OEM to meet a target audience/price point. So the design of the power supply may be mostly the same, but there might be different fans, wiring configurations, or capacitors (as larrymoencurly noted). It could be a better design or a cheaper...

I have two 256GB SDDs and two 4TB HDDs in mine plus a 5 1/4" mounted hot swap bay for bare drives. 8.5TBs is a lot of storage for most people. I know we enthusiasts use more hardware than average, but in my 10+ years of building PCs I can only think of one non-workstation computer that I had...

I'm glad they picked the Corsair 540 as the best case. I just built a new system in one and have never had such an easy case building experience in my life. There's so much room to work for it's size and the extra bay to hide cables means you'll have a beautiful interior to show off even if you...

I once deleted two partitions of different types (FAT32 and NTFS) on a drive and reinstalled Windows only to discover I didn't have a backup. I bought Ontrack's EasyRecovery software and it was able to recover about 70% of the files even though I had created a new partition on top of the drive...

I only mine during the winter and use the excess heat from the computer to warm my house. So tell me how that's wasting energy?

I have my 4771 on a Corsair H110 and love it. It's completely unnecessary for this proc (non-overlocked), but it keeps the heat up and away from the blazing hot overclocked Asus cards (which are presently on air). The case looks so much better too without a big honking fan combo in the middle...

I bought the Asus board with Thunderbolt 2 a couple months ago. I honestly have no need for it, but since I keep computer builds long-term (4-5 years), it's nice to know I'll have the functionality should I want it. Remember there isn't any real way to add Thunderbolt to existing computers right...

Willing to trade towards an R290/R290X with reference cooler (I'd be upgrading the cooler anyways).

Budget? For low $$$s it's hard to beat the little 3LCD Epson projectors (PowerLite is the business version/conference version). They can be had for around $500 and output about 3000 lumens which is enough to see computer images even with ambient room lighting. As long as you don't shine a light...

Asus DirectCU II GTX 660 2GB here. I month old. $150 shipped?

Corsair Vengeance Low Profile has plain black heatspreaders and look quite normal.

Updated to add Asus GTX 660 for sale.

I used to have an in-car computer back about 10 years ago that I would regularly boot up in very cold temperatures 0F and below (northern New York). The hard drive would sometimes get a bit noisy, but it worked just fine.

I'm okay with them asking for money since advertising isn't part of their principles. I've donated before as I find Wikipedia to be useful to me.

I bought one last month. Very noisy with lots of grinding sounds. It's big and fast though.

Bump. Still available. Make me an offer or trade me a 4TB HDD (any brand/model).

Bose doesn't make terrible speakers, they're just overpriced for what you get. Unless the tiny size is important, he might look at the M-Audio AV30 or AV40.