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I know maybe two people who would be impacted by that. For the most part, when I explain what media center is for, people still say "Why would I want to hook my computer up to my TV?" and then look at me funny. And for everyone else, there's XMBC.

As far as I can tell, Apple's decision matrix for doing everything comes down to: 1. Can we make it with fewer buttons? 2. Can we put more brushed aluminum on it? 3. Can we make it so it doesn't work without itunes? I don't know where lack of proper LTE support fits into that. Maybe the chips...

Presumably because they're not using the radio spectrum Europe set aside for LTE?

You know, I used to think the same thing about Half Life.

Vanilla Android is vanilla Android. The UI extensions various manufacturers use are of dubious value. I'm not a huge fan of Touchwiz, at least the collection of stuff that makes up SenseUI is useful. Someone who just knew one interface or the other might have problems with a different...

New SimCity to be sold pre-fucked for your convenience. Translation: Wait for the warez release. It'll probably be less buggy and more functional anyway.

Craigslist or Freecycle, man. Of course, where I live, Freecycle is just people whining that they need free disposable diapers, but presumably in civilization it's different.

You can't expect consumers to know. And from the carriers' perspectives, they're used to consumers not caring. How long did Verizon get away with replacing the default UI on feature phones with whatever retarded Verizon UI (to the non-US people: our biggest carrier would actually ship modified...

Linking to this so Maxburn doesn't have to: Score card for device manufacturers and Android update availability. Basically, Acer and Asus are good (that is a string of characters I never thought I'd type), HTC is "not too bad" and everyone is kinda crappy at best. Apparently the reason my Xoom...

Just watch: someone will come up with a firmware hack in a few weeks to fix whatever is retarded about the new GPUs.

Hunger Games was good as a movie, but the books are written from a first-person present perspective, so the movie is missing a lot of the interior monologue of the main character; the movie depicts the possibility of a budding romance where the book focuses strictly on a pragmatic survivor. I...

Depends on the person and the activities involved. It actually sounds REALLY weird but I'm kind of acquainted with a BBW (i.e. "Big Beautiful Woman" - a 230lb. 23-year-old) camgirl. She actually has to work out and be careful with her food intake because her freaky genetics let her be...

I didn't really pay any attention to this but one thing you have to be very careful of if you're listing Xeons for sale is the processor series, which you don't specify in any easily identifiable way.

Have you tried mounting your shares via iSCSI? I believe those show up as local drives for all intents and purposes.

When I was a lowly user on a hugely multi-user system, I'd abuse the crap out of /tmp and /var, since I had permission to write there. I actually unpacked my home directory out of my mail spool and stored it on /tmp so I could bypass the 2MB disk quota on /home. I kept refining my script until...

That is not enough rocket launchers.

There are actually some pretty well known tools for looking at this stuff. I've used FileLight, which makes a lovely graphical display of usage. On the other hand, your script looks like it would work perfectly well.

Is the poron the indivisible element that makes up a porn?

This is the dust of not having a single damned use for the notebook.

Something I value enough to swear to, unlike invisible sky wizards.

I had no idea Xerox even made GDI printers. News to me. You clearly don't understand the application or need for workstation-class hardware. We've tried to communicate the implications of doing so for years. Your natural inclination appears to be to overspend. We are mostly trying to prevent...

You guys have always had the good fortune to have a number of different, viable parties. We basically don't. At this point I think there are several compelling arguments could be made that the US has only one national party.

If you're willing to spend about $40, you can get a little print server appliance that will work to keep your old printer working. I'd also bet any amount of money that printer works fine with CUPS on Linux.

My Macbook Pro has an actual, honest-to-tits layer of dust on it.

Do you back up on any of the other machines to that share?

Earlier in the week there was an article on Gizmodo or Engadget called "How do I select a laptop?" The only thing anyone from the site did was debate which Macbook Pro to get. This is really how people think now.

Usually not, in my experience.

Why would you boil your nuts in a plastic bags for a day and a half?

On the contrary, it will probably be retarded for PC gamers because their shit will have to run on Xboxes.

File ownership issue?

The problem I have with Seagate's RMA process is that it doesn't accept my shipping address and won't allow me to submit a return via the web form. Their address-validating doohickey says I'm either providing an incorrect ZIP code or street address. If I want to do a Seagate RMA, I have to phone...

You could use a G-series Pentium or an AMD Llano CPU and perhaps a passively cooled modern video card and have a perfectly satisfactory office machine that supports HD video decoding. My HTPC uses a Core 2 Duo E5300 and a Radeon 6450; it has plenty of horsepower to handle video playback.

Decoding VP8 or x.264 is something that's supported by every modern GPU from Intel and AMD. If you've got something that has a Radeon HD 3x00 or its equivalent (that's a ~4 year old chipset), it's baked in. Intel is in a little different boat, since the older and still common GMA3x00 series...

It's not an issue. I was doing that on lameass machines that came with Vista Basic years ago. Didn't even occur to me that people might not know it's an option.

Yes. I'd feed both CPUs a BluRay in Handbrake at the same encoding settings and see which finished first. Since that's the task that primarily concerns me, it's a completely valid real-world yardstick. The time it takes to re-encode that content is measured in hours and a 25% improvement in...

Usually I look at benchmark scores as wankery of a particular sort. I tax CPU cores by video encoding. If I genuinely care how fast a CPU is compared to another one, I'll encode some video. For the most part the only time I see subjectively meaningful differences is when I compare CPUs of...

It's not really something that needs to be benchmarked. Either your computer can handle modern compressions and resolutions or it can't. Video decoding in most cases is a matter of having hardware support in the GPU; the only edge cases are when you're dealing with something that doesn't support...

I'm trying to decide if I want to go to a midnight showing of the Hunger Games. The book is a fun, quick read. I really like going to the theater when there's something I want to see. Because of my viewing habits, almost everything I see is in a deserted theater anyway. Personally I feel that...

You do know you can do an Anytime upgrade and swap up Windows editions without having to reload, right?

MAC + presumably CPU ID or possibly disk volume ID.

There are different classes of licenses and different mechanisms for dealing with activation. Microsoft encourages companies that have the infrastructure to do so to use KMS licenses that provide an accurate count of licensing more-or-less all the time. It's in the company's best interest to do...

Nits once said that I'm charming.

Your copies of Windows are almost certainly using a volume license key and reporting to a Key Management Server. The process of dealing with activation is simply invisible to you in your current role.

I also have good personal hygiene and excellent penmanship.

I suspect the thing that normally trips product activation is that the VMs need to have a different MAC and changing the MAC address is something that pretty much always triggers product activation. I don't know if virtual CPUs have different virtual serial numbers but I do know that the way the...

In a big company you'd be using a local activation server to track your usage and I suppose you'd be billed according to what the activation server says you're doing.

Mark my words: Greg's war on proper English will one day kill us all. You could have stopped this, Handy. You could have stopped this.

An activated license with Hyper-V does count as a product activation, so it must need a license separately. The Microsoft Partnership agreement my company operates with gives me ridiculous numbers of volume-licensed server installs, even setting aside MSDN subscriptions. MSDN is by far the...

I bet you say that to all the boys. :P

How do you know I wasn't blowing my nose or, um, OK, we'll leave it at nose-blowing.