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I don't believe that any of these are worth pursuing. Self-driving cars will be here soon enough, and most will simply choose to press the button and go back to texting. I'm sure part of the liability trade-off the govt. will offer will be self-driving cars that constantly report their speed and...

It is, much lower than many of the other AV systems out there. Particularly if you avoid their holistic "Smart Security" product. But it still consumes resources (I don't know how it could do the job otherwise). And on systems that really should have been replaced ages ago (P4? AMD Athlon...

My understanding is that if you are a stickler for OSS-only installs, AMD is the better option. But if you are willing to hold your nose and install a non-OSS blob nVidia will give you the better experience.

Interesting. I'm trying to remember if any of the games I play semi-regularly use Games for Windows Live.

NOD32 is my AV of choice, but it doesn't play well on systems that are already behind the curve. Slow drives and a single-core CPU mean that NOD32 will delay system loading. Of course, you could say that systems that are already that far gone can expect delays (boot times in excess of a minute...

Worked. Thanks!

And what is up with the Plants vs. Zombies love? I just tried it out, and it is to tower defense as tic-tac-toe is to Sudoku.

I went back and replayed Skyrim. Now have a level-60 badass and not being challenged much. Stopped with the bow for the most part and just run around with a badass dagger and shouts. Fun. Pretty. Looking forward to the next one.

Still does. It took them a few beverages to be comfortable playing the game.

The Plex server installed on my Synology box worked perfectly, so long as you didn't ask it's poor CPU to do anything it couldn't. But now I want to transcode in realtime from HD to my phone. I installed the latest version of Plex Media Server on my workstation, and when I attempt to add a...

Some of the cards are quite crass. I really enjoyed playing with my parents and making them read some out loud. They got hammered ;)

This was just a $50 battery pack, but my Cards Against Humanity set shipped right on time.

Got an e-mail from Amazon: So something was shipping from Amazon and listed as Prime with no additional notes, and it won't be available for 5 weeks? Thanks, Amazon. I wouldn't be so annoyed, but this is the first time they've done this crap.

Awesome. Thanks!

All my systems are down at the moment, lost Work1 and Work2 is unstable even at stock everything.

This kid is getting big fast; less than 4 months old and 7kg (15.4lbs)

That is annoying.

Yup. DVI to HDMI or HDMI to Receiver to HDMI. Both worked, but had sync issues with cables longer than 3'. There were also scaling issues unless the refresh rate was specified as higher than 30Hz, which also caused sync issues even with shorter cables. Both were true with either the on-board...

Microsoft coming out with a series of phones that have hard keyboards would make sense I think. The people that are buying MS phones are the ones completely tied to MS products and services. Those people are also slow to adopt new technologies, or they wouldn't be there in the first place. So...

If it is that important, having two is clearly necessary. Once you have dozens, the actual number of spares on hand becomes a function of the time to get new parts vs. failure rate.

So next crazy workstation build should be a Xeon E5-2687W v2 looks like. That will be fun.

My current backup plan at work includes 3 Synology boxes. Two right next to each other on the same switch, and one 1km away on the other end of a 1Gbps fiber link. The production box syncs in near real-time with the one next to it, and that batches out to the remote a couple times a day. That...

For the record, Classic Shell is now good enough that I don't bother with Start8. It used to be, but I don't think Start8 is worth the premium anymore.

I agree with nearly everything Tannin said, but would argue that with some customization 8 with Classic Shell/Start8 is the best MS-based UI available. Making it look like XP/7 while running much faster is an obvious win. And this makes it even more embarrassing for them. There were places where...

They are only 180W peak anyway (each), but normally in the 15-20W range I'm sure. And normally they are 30" away, so not really a big deal.

Quite. When people get in the car I tell them what the car weighs and how much power it has, then do the launch control thing. They are amazed. One of the guys has spent the last decade and six figures building a 10-second car. When I started explaining how AWD and dual clutch could get him...

I'm sorry Doug, I can't imagine what you're going through.

The guy with the office next to mine looked at them and said "man, you're gonna get cancer or something..." 8" speakers 18" away is a bit nuts, but it sounds so good. Not sure the sub is really contributing anything.

The latest version of PartedMagic on Hiren's boot CD is amazing. It even has Firefox with the homepage set to Google search their support docs. Incredible.

If that RS6 Avant were available here I would find the money. Remortgaging if needed.

I have a Creative USB sound card below my monitor, mainly for the volume knob.

What sort of capacity requirements are you looking at? RAID1 is great, RAID5 not so much. SSD is awesome if you can afford it, particularly for things like Exchange. Two arrays probably will be the best option, SSDs in RAID1 for the OS, Exchange, BES, etc. and a RAID10 of 3-4TB drives for data...

I knew they were going to be larger, but this caught me a bit by surprise. That is a 30" monitor. Sounds amazing so far, I'll know more after 5pm when I can open them up a bit. I am completely shocked at how clear they are at very, very low listening levels.

Handled. Thanks for the many offers.

American is 911

Isn't it hard to hit the buttons when you have to reach through those holes? Not very ergonomic, IMHO.

Not of the right version, TPB was dry as well.

Ow.

All 0 of them? That is pretty awesome. I wonder if logging in to my Win8 machine using that account would automatically uninstall all the apps. That would be a very neat trick.

I'm afraid they are based on the 2009 version. Thanks for the thought, though.

I've been tempted to put Cyanogen 10.1 on my Galaxy S4 (Verizon) but have hesitated to make such major changes to such an expensive and necessary piece of my life without first knowing anyone else that has done it successfully. Anyone here take the plunge?

Specifically version 11 that shipped in the Vista era around 2007. It is the latest version supported by VMWare's vCenter Converter for P2V in situations where it can't pull from the live machine. Apparently VMWare also offers a boot CD that can do the conversion offline, but I can't get it...

1. DVI is too big a plug for a lot of stuff. 2. ? Does DVI handle full audio streams?

Not here. Not that I don't like the theory, but most of the options are commercial packages that end with "trust us...until there is a warrant" which frankly isn't good enough to bother with these days.

All my optical drives are USB at this point. Even the retail Lenovo boxes don't have one and offer a USB when ordered.

I hate the USB-based port replicators because they aren't port replicators. They have a completely separate NIC, sound card, video card, etc. This means that IP addresses, resolutions, and audio output preferences are not carried across.

Sorry, I should clarify. I've made Firefox my default browser. It was not like that from the factory.

It is my default browser on my phone. I like it because I can sync bookmarks and the like with my desktops (all of them sync using the built-in tool).

We are 50% Win8, 20% Win7, and the rest XP (with one '98 box off network). All XP machines but one will be Win8 by the end of the year.

Thanks for the tips, guys.