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The first thing that comes to my mind is that they're buying relevance in future storage products. Sandforce clearly has found itself a nice market with huge growth potential and a commanding if not dominating presence. That's not a bad thing and it match up well with the other parts of LSI's...

I'm not even remotely interested in cars. They're right up there with sports as far as things I don't give a crap about.

I have a pair of Xeon E5320s, quad core 1.86GHz chips with a very reasonable TDP of 80W. They're meant to have passive heat sinks on them with cooling from massive 7k to 15k 80mm cube fans that are normally situated in the front of the case. I replaced my i7 with the original Supermicro board I...

Because beer. Or the devil's weed marijuana. Or perhaps black tar heroin.

I've not observed this issue. I have the same phone and carrier as Will. The only time I turn on 802.11 is when I need to do a site survey.

People give me cash all the time, so I always have tons of it. I never use it. It's not all that unusual for me to have several thousand dollars in my pants pocket. I go to the ATM to deposit it at the point where the pile of bills gets annoying.

unetbootin + bootable .ISO file = Bootable thumb drive.

I'm the opposite. I've never spoken to a teller inside a bank branch or at a drive up. I do everything through the machines.

I don't think you can discuss awful printers without mentioning Lexmark. I've had generally positive experiences with Samsung printers other than some difficulty sourcing toner cartridges. Brother has been my first choice for a while, though I normally try to convince businesses to look at...

'kay.

A little. But historically, prices go up in the fall and into the new year. I've always assumed that was due to demand on the supply chain leading up to the Xmas bonanza plus a lot of new annual technology budgets. Anyway, money has a time value and buying RAM that won't be used for six months...

I have an Amex. I use it for a lot of stuff. But a lot of places don't take them. And my Debit card is a Visa. Which everybody takes. So sometimes it gets used. Oddly enough, I accidentally threw my debit card away on Saturday. I knew I did it right away, but rather than dig through a trash...

I'm not clicking on a Fox News link to anything.

It does not.

That is an assload of work for a 10 year old motherboard.

WinSXS on the notebook I'm using at the moment is 12GB. This install is perhaps 15 months old. But I've seen Vista machines with 70GB WinSXS directories, which makes me think that the potential for massive directory bloat exists.

A Windows 7 install that is regularly updated will eventually grow larger than 50GB thanks to the WinSXS folder. It will certainly fit in that space initially, but over the course of a year or so, maybe not.

I have come to the conclusion that it's just not possible to get a 2U rack system to anything like quiet. I didn't mind so much when it was warm enough that I needed the fan in my bedroom running on high all night, but now that it's cooled off I can definitely hear that machine all the time in...

Personally I think SF is perfectly usable on my phone as it is, but if we're talking about improving the site, I can kick in some cash for that as well.

Yahoo answers is one of those things like Youtube or Digg comments sections that will just make you hate humanity the more you look at it. Best to avoid it except for the occasional laugh.

It's an incremental step to getting my array of punched card readers up and running. :P

At a guess, I'm going to say there might be a CSS fail going on there. The rest of the page is fine. There's clearly more text on the Nexus screen even in spite of the weirdness in that one part of the page.

I was unsure about a 4.3" screen when I got my Evo. I knew I wanted as much real estate as I could get, but I thought perhaps it might be awkward to hold or put it in my pocket. It's not. It's fine. 5" screens would probably also be just fine. 7", the size of my Galaxy Tablet, yeah, that's too...

Cough. Though I have to say that it would be a lot easier to put together a 72TB file server with 18GB drives than with 3TB ones.

The inconsistency in Android comes from the handset manufacturers and carriers trying to distinguish themselves from one another, just like the inconsistency in the PC experience comes from OEMs trying to distinguish their products from one another. Some products are more successful than others...

I remember being particularly annoyed at Samsung's Email program. For some reason, it doesn't guess or apparently try to guess the connection settings for non-Gmail mail services. I can't tell you how many times I've had to manually type in SSL ports so that someone can use their ISP's email...

As I understand things, there's a strained relationship between Samsung and Google right now. SenseUI on my HTC phone isn't horrible, but I can't stand Touchwiz. The Samsung versions of applications seem horribly unpolished to me.

I've seen people do some pretty slick looking stuff with a Windows customization tool called Rainmeter, but to me all that stuff just looks like extra cruft.

Do you think there's a filtration process for removing the Western Digitalness from it? That poor water. It wasn't hurting anybody and then WHAM, Western Digital all over it.

Hopefully, Western Digital hard drives make better sponges than they do storage devices.

Just a nifty video of the sky from Tannin's neck of the woods.

The *770 cards have been my go-to recommendation for a good long while. Those models seem to be the sweet spot of price and performance on the ATI side of things. Of course, the usual pattern is that shortly after the cards fall below $100, a new model is introduced and the previous generation...

One of the demo maps for the original UT, something you could play without even buying the game, was a level called Morpheus, a low gravity map set between three tall buildings with a narrow platform far, far below the main source of action. To play it, you had to be able to deal with threats in...

I was going to go with this one, but whatever.

More capacity is always welcome. I have to say that I approve.

I think I just didn't like the weapons and maps quite as much. UT3 with original UT's maps updated would be great fun.

They'll get you squared away. Just do what the doctors tell you, correct a few bad habits and completely totally change your lifestyle forever. Nothing to it. :)

Aren't Ferraris maintenance nightmares and Civics reliableworkhorses? That is perhaps a flawed analogy, 'cause I'd take a Civic every time.

I quite like Boxee in its Windows version. I figured it would just be a straight copy of XBMC with a Boxee-looking skin on it, but I like that it integrates with my browser so I can tag things for viewing in the app or the appliance. It found art for all the movies in my Movies folder (only...

I had a respectful moment of contemplation when I read that last night.

Perhaps because of the costs involved in getting a professional installation and calibration for the unit?

Well, you'll have to do a repair install of Windows if you're moving to such dissimilar hardware. And it's not like that board didn't have an unnaturally long life compared to all the other A7N8Xs I had. I'm shocked that it worked as long as it did. That's probably a pretty decent build for...

Do you really think there won't be a decent GPU integrated on the motherboard if there isn't one directly in the CPU? Actually moving CPU and GPU into one package is kind of a neat trick no matter what. It certainly keeps Intel on its toes. AD: You're not wrong, but the pattern with AMD is to...

At the end of the day I think the original Unreal Tournament was the best of the bunch. It's far and away my most-played first person shooter, though UT 2004 is probably a close second.

Intel has some rather steep manufacturing advantages, IIRC. One might say it's a amazing that a company a tenth the size of Intel can compete at all.

No but it's really easy to set of media streaming and never deal with a disc again. Unless you're playing BDs in your car or something.

The short answer is "I doubt it." Basically what we got was a mandate that every adult in the US purchase private insurance. Theoretically, means that I'll be lumped in some big group plan with a bunch of other currently uninsured people, but there's absolutely nothing stopping an insurance...

I try not to be unrealistic in my hopes and aspirations.

The thing is, we don't know how much potential is in the architecture yet. They might be specifying a modest part to keep yields high or costs down. "Cheaper than an i5 and with a decent integrated ATI GPU" is still a pretty appealing product if you ask me.

I fall in to too many high risk areas. I'm not going to even try to get coverage unless I can do it on a group plan tha1t there's no chance that I'll be forced out of. There's no longer any such thing as a "pre-existing condition", but it's still perfectly acceptable for an insurance company to...