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Mechwarrior 2 was set in Clan Space in the lead up to the 3050 Clan Invasion of the Inner Sphere. The mechs involved were a mix of Clan Omnimechs and second line mechs that were re-imagined designs based on Archetypal mechs, e.g. Marauder IIc instead of the (illegal for them to use because some...

I buy stuff from Amazon. These days the only things I don't buy from Amazon are the things they sell at Newegg, and groceries.

I do remember seeing him on the CBS Evening News, though I was obviously not very old at the time. CBS had a whole stable of those quiet, dignified news men, completely at odds with the standards of shrill and acrimonious modern TV news presenters.

Dammit, uda posted a headline and I had to read it. Also, tl;dr version: Go learn English someplace else Longer version: Apostrophe S ('s) is a contraction for [it] is, or an indicator of singular possession. Most nouns in English can be made plural by adding an "s" to the end. When...

I wasn't aware that PCIe had been revised.

I think the Clippy gravestone was the biggest kick for me. Also, the plot of that video is less stupid than Die Hard 4 was.

No one liked Office 2010: the Movie? Snifff

For reference, attaining 750MB/sec data rates would require 24 total PCIe lanes. PCI-X tops out at IIRC 4Gb/sec. I've never even seen anything with an Infiniband interface. I know they exist, but that's the only thing I know that could keep up with a 6Gb/sec connection.

Generally speaking, if I'm motivated to buy a movie, I'd prefer to have the HD version. If I don't care enough to buy it on BD, I'm probably just going to get the disc from Netflix and if I think I might watch it again I'll just rip it.

The best of the Mechwarrior games were really the first two. And for what it's worth, I like the software rendering better than GLide or DirectX in the first one. One thing that struck me as I watched that video for Mechwarrior 5 was that the real-time graphics in that were better than the...

Jerry Bruckheimer

Office 2010 the Movie, ... by Jerry Bruckheimer.

I LOL'd

10 works on Win7

Here's my main thought on education in the USA: Secondary Schooling (high school) needs to be longer, with a second degree awarded for completion of a full six years of schooling. Associate's Degrees are largely not worth the paper they are printed on. Jobs that 20 years ago did not require a...

Goodbye random off topic thread in the Computers forum. Also, maybe this should be stapled to "Something Random." I have thoughts on topic but I shall post them at some time that isn't bedtime.

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Isn't St. Mary's of the Woods just Notre Dame for girls? I really don't think they have guys there. Though it certainly might've been a different St. Mary's.

Article on Slashdot: Youtube begins phasing out support for IE6. First post, from Anonymous Coward: I laughed so hard I almost pissed myself.

Slacker! Rose-Hulman is a total party school. ;)

Isn't standard SAS 3Gbps? Incidentally, 8x PCIe 8-port Dell Perc5 cards are VERY reasonably priced on Ebay these days.

I only applied to Indiana U and Purdue since my parents weren't helping me with tuition and I didn't think I could afford loan payments on private or out of state schools. I was also accepted to Rice and some Liberal Arts schools I never formally applied to. I remember looking at MIT's...

At least one company I work for mandates that I set all passwords for every user to the same thing. The guy who owns the business wants free reign to check in on anything his employees might be doing and that's more important to him than external security. Yes, he's nuts. In a non-psychotic...

Is he back to posting pictures of hot Asian chicks for no reason?

Is that 1540/2100 - the one with the essay, or 1540/1600, the old style test? 'Cause IIRC you're too young to have taken the test I took. 1480/1600, 3.8GPA.

I'm under the impression that ddrueding was a bit of a fuckhead when he was younger. ;) Getting in to those school requires either a great deal of talent or a lot of social pull. My oldest brother went to Northwestern as a C student from a poor-quality high school basically because my dad had...

Most high profile schools weight "legacy" applicants very, very heavily, since successful parents are also likely to be big donors once their kids get in. It's not entirely nepotism (the parents are not DIRECTLY responsible for admission, anyway) so much as helping to ensure that the endowment...

If it came down to it I'd probably slip in to a chain eyewear store and ask for help. I'd offer to pay or tip if necessary. Generally speaking the employees at those place are probably going to be apathetic enough that it's not an issue where the glasses came from.

Wow. This thread took an odd turn after I went to bed.

Dual Xeons have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with your storage setup. Given an X25E I could put together an Intel Atom-based system in a PC that's slightly larger than a pack of cigarettes that would smoke your dual Xeons + X15s. You're conflating CPU performance with storage subsystem performance...

You could run local copies of any mail client and download each user's mail someplace. Outlook Express, say. Or Thunderbird. There's a very simple *nix app called fetchmail that could deliver each of your users' E-mails to a local Linux mail server, if you know each user's Gmail password. You...

i7 + Gigabyte X58-UD5 + 3x Radeon 4890 x2s = maybe a $2500 computer all in. Other than the insane power consumption that's not as insane as buying something that will do modern Xeons in an SMP configuration + SCSI/SAS drives so you can rip DVDs faster. :rotfl: <-- Rare deliberate emoticon

If you were primarily folding, wouldn't you realistically be better off with some number of Playstation3s?

Oh how I wish. Cloud applications are a trend that has not made it to Northwest Indiana yet.

No, but if I'm being lazy I'll just clip the diagram into a PNG or something.

Also, Greg: NO ONE WHO POSTS AT SF - NOT ME, NOT DDRUEDING, NOT LUNARMIST OR HANDRUIN OR TIMWHIT, NEEDS A XEON-BASED SYSTEM AT HOME. I wouldn't mind having one just because 16-port SATA/SAS cards are much cheaper in PCI-X, but Xeons are for a sort of CPU workload that you as an individual are...

Greg, I'm going to tear my hair out. You were looking at different kinds of Xeons, with different underlying logic even down to the CPU core. EVERYONE in Intel-land went through some amount of "faster then (apparently) slower" when Intel moved from CPUs based on the Pentium 4 architecture to...

Acronis version 11 does indeed suck. Version 10 works great, though. I have yet to make a Sysprepped Image of Vista work with anything other than ImageX, though. LifeHacker had an article on Image-based backup tools a while back.

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I'm under the impression, and I might be wrong, that just about every business anyplace has some line of business app someplace that doesn't work with Vista for one reason or another. If you work for a Fortune 1000 company, no big deal: You spend hundreds of thousands of dollars replacing the...

STR is not normally a huge part of a typical user's workload. It makes a difference on OS load and for starting certain huge applications, but superfast seeks are really the reason to look at fast-spinning disks and SSDs. That 29x faster seek is a HELL of a lot more important in everyday disk...

Made by Adobe. Doesn't count. I know both my local papers (not Chicago) still work in Quark. My company has done Quark training as recently as the beginning of this year. So people still use Quark. I do about 90% of my word processing in Google Docs these days, but when I'm finishing a book or...

Other than, you know, mechanical breakdown from drive heads flying micrometers over the surfaces of a platter that's spinning at 15,000rpm.

I think every customer I have has at least one application that runs in DOS, 16-bit Windows or for one reason or another has compatibility issues with Vista. Every. Single. One. In a lot of cases these are vertical apps specific to the organization. I some cases there was custom development...

Companies are gonna skip Win7, too. That's actually troublesome on a couple of levels; deployments are normally good for hiring/contracting, and rollouts are good for spending on training. Basically businesses are looking at new Windows as a cost. Win7 doesn't do very much that's actually...

Personally, I blame nVidia.

This is orgasm in video game form. Well, OK. It will be when it's released, anyway. Note, among other things, the destructible environment, physics effects and the heat effects on the weapon barrels. Actually I just found out that the dozen screen, 100 individual control Battletech pods...

I thought the first episode of HBO's Hung was pretty amusing.

I got an OCZ Vertex 120GB drive yesterday. It's definitely faster for writes than my X25-Ms but read performance as measured by system startup seems to be about the same, with Server 2003 needing about 16 seconds on either drive. I can't quite bring myself to cough up for an SLC drive though.

For those things, there are symlinks and shortcuts.