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I found tons just by doing a google search for: "Lunar Lander" Download

If you read the review (not the video) there is one thing that worries me: Rust! The last thing I want to have to worry about in a case are the unpainted screw holes rusting over time.

As long as Intel is straight with everyone, I don't see an ethical problem either. I just think it is a dumb move. If people are willing to hack a game and put it up on the internet, why on earth would you think that there isn't enough value there for people to do this to Intel?

$50 to enable hyper-threading and bigger cache Interesting concept that won't fly. How long do you think it will take for someone post it on the internet for everyone to get for free?

Have you looked at how much Microsoft charges for MS Surface? Last time I heard it was over $12,500 for the commercial model or $15,000 for the developer. A mighty expensive coffee table.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905888?

I'm busy trying to figure out which his best pal is -- His SCSI Cheetah's, his Xeons, His Supermicro Motherboard.

That really is insane.

Shift-click and Ctrl-click are useful in selecting lists. If you click on the first item, then Shift-click on the last item in a list then everything in between is also selected. Ctrl-Click allows you to selectively toggle individual items in that list.

I'm with you, I wouldn't expect a 100% increase either. I just reported what I read.

Backups!

I agree that the 5770 is the current cost effective optimum especially at $140. It is my understanding from the rumor mill that AMD will be releasing the next generation of cards in Oct/Nov time frame. The 6770 in Oct. and a 6870 in Nov. I saw some preliminary numbers for the 6870 claiming...

I PM'ed him with .iso links to two DVD's for 2005 SQL Server that I got from an old Action Pack. They don't explicitly specify x64 though. I'm assuming that you specify the version during the install. Can't remember ever installing it, so I don't know.

Sudden large price drops are a more reliable indicator of the next generation of video cards coming out shortly than even the rumor mill. No manufacturer, distributor or, very large retailer wants to be stuck with an inventory of cards that can no longer compete with the new generation and...

I believe that recent Seagate drives have reliability issues. So I wouldn't. Any other brand is better.

The prices are rather high at $7,000 and $11,000 for the 300/2.8L and 400/2.8L respectively. At that level the only ones that will be buying are big money professionals.

You are correct, Thanks. I had never seen that before. Learn something everyday!

Ethernet does not like multiple routes to the same computer/network. It create routing loops (and Ethernet does not like loops) which is why there is a spanning-tree protocol (to be used when path redundancy is required) which turns off duplicate ports until the preferred port has failed. I...

Seems to me that all this is just a prototype used to confirm their research. As such, it is no more likely to produce a FF sensor at 180MP than their previous 50MP prototype sensor created a commercial FF sensor at 75MP. In the long run, the research will produce improved commercial sensors...

Just imagining it on the interstate. Where do the Semi's go in that they are taller than 2m? What happens if when an inattentive driver hits the side of the bus or there is an accident a little ahead of it and a vehicular ends up on one of its tracks. I wonder if it is really that much better...

Raid 0 does not affect access time at all, only data transfer rates. The transfer rates increase because the data gets transfered in parallel.

With an SSD, the data transfer proportion of the speed equation is very much larger than with a HD so it is much easier to get a speed increase using raid. Lets look at 64k blocks transfering at 100MB/s so a transfer takes .64ms With an SSD the seek speed will be .1ms so a single drive file...

Very nice find.

I access the refrigerator the most, so it must be the most convenient. That means it should to be at eye-level (i.e. on the top). Further, since cold air is heavier than warm, putting the freezer on the bottom should be slightly more efficient energy wise. However, here are other factors that...

192mi (310km) -- According to the site, they burn up in a few months time.

TubeSat-1. I find this intriguing and surprisingly affordable. The concept of making my own satellite and sending it up into orbit is really neat. I would think that anyone here that was interested in making their own UAV might also find this interesting too. It is not something I would...

Those 1.5/2.0GB 5900 RPM Seagate's are very unreliable.

I sympathize, I got in an accident Fri. and the shop I towed it to won't even be open till Tues. to even look at it because of the July 4th holiday.

180W-200W is quite normal for a desktop machine without a high-performance video card. Since the backup machine is used intermittantly, power it off, except when you need it. You may find it worthwhile to set it up to automatically power up and down on a schedule. There's nothing wrong with...

Isn't this thread an effective duplicate of Internet Bandwidth Testing thread in the tools forum? They are both ndt servers, just different servers.

That reminds me of a Samsonite briefcase that my father owned. It was run over by a car, and showed cracks in the case but it still worked fine. I thought that Samsonite was way over-priced but a cheap briefcase would never have survived. To some extent, you do get what you pay for...

Spinrite?

I've had poor luck jury-rigging permanent fixes to a broken SATA connector. I'm happy, if I can get it to work long enough to get the data off.

You can normally get the Service packs for DL. If you right click Computer or "My Computer" and choose properties it will tell what SP level you are up to and for Windows XP you can get up to SP3

I truly had a chuckle when I read this: Unicorn meat It appears that the National Pork Board demands that ThinkGeek quit using the term "The Other White Meat" to describe their April Fool's Day product of Unicorn meat.

New Apple privacy policy I wouldn't normally think any company was powerful enough to do such coercion because sales numbers are normally king. Apparently Apple and Facebook have the power of being able to totally strip privacy from their customers. I wonder how long before it becomes the...

I haven't seen any slowdowns recently.

I don't see anything wrong with the Dir-655 even though now there are more recent models available that now cost more with a some improved feature sets like adding dual-banding, or VPN. As a general purpose router the Dir-655 is still an excellent choice, if you can get it for a reasonable price.

Fragmentation is to be avoided because of the cost of extra seeks; With SSD's that cost is much lower.

Watson (a computer) plays Jeopardy! I'm impressed, I would not have thought that this task would be accomplished by a computer, at least in my lifetime.

It really must have been a very bad joke that even after explaining it needs to be corrected as to how it does not match reality. Jokes are about absurdity, not reality. Bad joke! Sorry for inflicting upon you.

Size does matter! Take an arbitrary penis size in inches and take that same size in mm. Which number is bigger? bigger is equivalent to better in bed. QED. How good is a joke, if it has to be explained?

All I can say on this subject is that if a penis is measured using inches it certainly is much smaller than when measured in millimeters. I'm sure that that is why Canadians and Europeans are better in bed than Americans.

I thought that this was kinda interesting for those that are interested in UAV/RC: Parrot-A.R. drone

I have to admit, as little as I like it, that I agree, AMD motherboards tend to die much earlier than Intel. I suspect it has to do with the market choice that AMD choose of being the budget master. The result is that AMD motherboards tend to die earlier because they are made cheaper to...

I'm a big game fan, but I'm old-time and haven't heard of a single game you've been talking about. I like Chess, Checkers, Diplomacy, Risk, War-games, and lots of others.

I just tried Samsung's 3d TV while wearing glasses. The 3d glasses supplied fit quite comfortably around my standard glasses totally encapsulating them.

No, because Gigabytes is in the CEB form factor while the Asus was an ATX form factor. That was what made Asus's "Special". There are a several dual socket MB's in server form factors from Tyan and SuperMicro plus some other companies out there. To my knowledge, Asus is the first to be able...

Sorry, experience isn't the issue here. For a 16 year old, The brain is not developed enough to appropriately understand risk and consequences. A child does not have the impulse control that an adult has. Regardless of the experience level, bad decisions will be made because the brain has not...