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There's probably still a lot of money to be made in commoditizing analytics (and then turning it in to something an MBA can use the pivot table function in Excel to manipulate so they can feel like they contributed to the process). Machine Learning is something that's been "Any Day Now" probably...

Windows 8 needs to be able to start normally to get to safe mode. Yes, you're right, that is retarded (in the actual dictionary definition sense). With regard to OEM media, if you need it just let me know and I'll make an ISO and put it someplace where you can download it. It would behoove you...

General IT is weird in that area since the skills that make a person useful aren't easily developed from an academic curriculum . Which is why someone like dd can be a great IT guy with no academic background but tons of people with Master's degrees in IT management can barely do anything but...

Sounds like a bad digitizer to me. I think that's normally something that has to be replaced with the screen, or you might be able to get a screen that just doesn't have the touch capability. On a laptop I'd guess it's probably not essential functionality. Good news about it being an Acer: The...

I was a CS major also, but it doesn't sound like sed would want to be one. I liked the classroom work a lot more than I liked the reality of being a working developer myself. I put myself through a lot of misery for a degree that, while I appreciate it, I also don't use to any appreciable...

It's a bit of a wash, really. But ninite is definitely limited to the .exe files you might have for it. I happen to have some with the set of internet helpers, but I don't have the perfect combination for every environment I support. On the other hand, it was pretty trivial for me to whip up...

Truth.

Have I mentioned Chocolatey.org here? I don't think I have. It's a *nix style package manager for anything that's new enough to have Powershell and .NET 4 on it. Run this from an Administrative Command Prompt: @powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy unrestricted -Command "iex ((new-object...

I should also say that file copies in Windows 8 are different beasts from Windows 7. They're prioritized differently and they seem to be sort of universally faster on new Windows than older ones. It's probably not a reason to upgrade for most people but I do know this is a problem that will fix...

That's actually really interesting. I spent a lot of time a few years ago ensuring that my file paths didn't exceed MAX_PATH after having a ton of problems because of the way I organize music. I've never heard of that one. Thanks. With regard to performance differences for USB enclosures, I...

I've found that I'm better off copying tens of thousands of tiny files using Teracopy or even xcopy rather than Windows Explorer. Big files usually average to be about the same regardless of copy method, but if I'm copying 30,000,000 jpgs someplace, the differences can be enormous.

I'd suggest something like statistics or accounting that's applicable to a lot of roles. You can prove you're a qualified IT person with professional certifications if you feel the need and the tech they'll teach you at a four year school will probably be outdated and/or not relevant to the...

Android 5 was also a huge let down for my Nexus 7. I'm not sure if it's Lollipop in general or something specific to the devices where I've used it, but I've been extremely unimpressed in my contact with it.

I went to a comic convention over the weekend. I decided not to take any photos. It doesn't make any sense for me to bother when there are people running around with pro-grade gear and my own shots aren't in any way remarkable. Almost every photo I've taken in the last year was either a picture...

Let's just say my father had some anger management issues.

I'm sorry to hear that, sed. Especially that you've done the work in your college prep courses but that you won't be getting the credit for them. If there's any bright side to this, it's that you're nearly in a place where you can become independent anyway. You only have to put up with another...

I've been knocked out a few times and I've had a few good sized electrical shocks. I've even had diagnosed neurological problems. But my hands don't shake at all. Maybe your wife knows somebody to check with on that matter, dd?

Howdy Helldriver. It's nice to see you again.

I don't believe that enthusiast boards typically get many product refreshes. I don't think the volume is there to support it.

dd, I've had one Gigabyte and one Asus fail. Fortunately, I was able to send the Asus back to Amazon. The Asus would just intermittently not detect any installed RAM and was basically DOA from the moment I got it. I've got another Gigabyte and one Asrock mATX board in service now. I always tell...

If anyone would like to contribute some words, I'm probably going to mail something to P5's brother next week. I think it might be easier to print off comments.

Unfortunately, I think it's more likely the latter. I'm two for four on having to RMA X99 motherboards so far and I'd put good money that Lunar's PSU of choice cost as much as a low-end laptop. Those aren't the kinds of problems I associate with high end PSUs.

Is the BSOD message at all consistent?

Aren't you kind of heavily OC'd? Did you turn that down or off yet?

I'd like to know if the 8TB model has the same behavior as the 5TBs with regard to performance over long sustained writes. I'm not sure if that's visible from a benchmarking app, but I definitely notice it if I'm copying a lot of data to one.

I've long maintained that their only worthwhile purpose is as very expensive construction material.

All I can say is that it was fascinating. I got a unique peek behind the curtain. If you ever have the opportunity, it's a worthwhile experience.

Have you had an opportunity to check drive performance yet? I'm curious to know if it has the same issues as the 5TB models.

I participated in a Google usability study today. I can't discuss anything specific that I saw, but it was a fascinating process.

I want my messages displayed in simple chronological order by time received. I don't like messages moving around. I ALSO don't like accidentally deleting whole conversations because a cat stepped on my phone. Reply-after-quote is only a reasonable format if you expect all email conversations to...

Threaded messaging is an abomination, as is quote-after-reply messaging. These are things that should at the very least be controllable user preferences and platforms that get those things wrong or force one behavior (Gmail/Android handles BOTH incorrectly) are at best misfeatured.

Anything that does IMAP is at least viable, in my opinion. In this case, I'm specifically dealing with GMail the Android app rather than Gmail as a platform. Android/Gmail was recently updated to support non-Google mail services with the idea of replacing the admittedly rather crummy unbranded...

Seriously? No one else has this problem? Here's a step by step for demonstrating the problem: Open the Google Drive app. Open a File. Choose Send File. Choose Gmail. When I do this, I get an error. If I choose to "Attach Using Drive" from within Gmail, what's shared is a link rather than actual...

I really only use Chrome for stuff that gets broken by ABP/Noscript/Ghostery (e.g. Yahoo's new TV service) that I'm too lazy to fix. My opinion of Chrome is low enough that if IE's version of ABP had feature parity, I'd actually prefer IE.

I regularly have browsers using more than 3GB, but most of my other needs are wrapped up in VMs that I want running for one reason or other. One of my most frequently used VMs needs 16GB because modern Exchange and Sharepoint both run like ass unless they're given that much.

When I was growing up in very rural Illinois, everyone's cats were indoor/outdoor animals, but I suppose it's just like children these days: You want them indoors for their own safety because you never know what will happen. That is terrible news, mubs, but those kitties had better lives for...

I thought perhaps that we could write a message to P5's family. I have a mailing address for his brother.

Game Engine footage is crucially NOT in-game footage. That's gorgeous and I bet machinima folks will love it, but the actual game will probably be artificially limited to 720p with only four moving characters on the screen because consoles suck.

I once spent about $40 on adult magazine subscriptions sent to an office because they refused to pay for my services. I never got paid but the jerk who stiffed me also didn't get to keep his job.

Is anyone else having weirdness with attaching files via Gmail? I'm finding that everything is fine in K9 but not the most current version of Gmail on Android. I get a message that says " Permission denied for the attachment" when I share to Gmail from an external app on both my phone and on a...

I hate to say it but anything that doesn't have 4GB RAM is probably going to be too constrained to run a desktop browser in the near future. None of the major options are terribly respectful of low RAM configurations right now and I don't see that getting any better. If you're thinking of a...

If we're spreading blame between nVidia and Adobe let's just say I'm willing to call that a hole with no bottom. Also, I slightly misspoke. That Titan X is roughly equivalent to an early 2000s Supercomputer.

Does Kernel Space Teen Hunger Force somehow need more computing power than a mid-90s supercomputer when it's not the foreground application?

Turn off SLI when you aren't using it?

I have to say it's been beautiful so far and as somebody who spent all damned week looking for a random performance issue on a web server you have my sympathies.

Because there are still shit-tons of PS/2 keyboards out in the world and there's nothing wrong with them.

Chewie, We're Home.

It is probably not surprising that the number for his business is disconnected.

I spoke with the mortuary. The woman I spoke to indicated that he was known as an entrepreneurial person but also a free spirit, though she was not allowed to disclose any specifics about him or his circumstances to a non-family member. I was given a mailing address for his brother, whom I...

I'll make some calls this afternoon. I should have time today.