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Sol, Although this windshield is bigger, it doesn't include electronics of any kind; it's just a big piece of glass. How often do people around here replace windshields, anyway? I've replaced one in a decade, and it was my mother's fault.

Actually, I am running Raptors in RAID-0 ;) ...and I just got home from a mexican resteraunt with great margaritas. ;)

Good thinking/planning Bozo. I've been thinking of building a house for quite some time now (floor plans all over my desk for years) and have always thought of 2x6 walls and sound/thermal insulation as obvious value-added things. I was just wondering where such things were standard.

Sid Meier is awesome. Despite the subject, SimGolf was great fun.

Holy cow Bozo, that is a LOT of insulation. What longitude do you need to live in that houses were built like that 20 years ago?

I guess I trained myself too well in the days of limited RAM. I close everything when I'm not using it. Very rare is the time that my taskbar is full; I typically have about 2-3 programs open at any one time. Considering I now have 4GB of RAM, I know it's unnecessary, but such habits are hard to...

Record-setting in every way, cool.

And to go against the crowd even more, I'm already beginning to like Vista. On both my machines it seems faster, and runs smoother. Apps do launch faster (especially Firefox, which I am in and out of all day), and I haven't noticed any slower performance in gaming. Of course my computers aren't...

Does anyone else have a case of deja-vu? I recall feeling the same about XP; it does the same stuff a little differently, and the things that it is better at I can do without. Besides, why learn a different way of doing things when you don't have to. One of the things that made XP "worth it"...

Yes. Practically all things that use electricity and don't have moving parts convert nearly 100% of their energy into heat. Computers, light bulbs, resistive heaters, whatever.

I think this is the bigger point. Relying on things we can't make ourselves is a risk we shouldn't be taking. Global warming won't threaten the USA significantly for at least another 50-100 years, our dependence on foreign oil will make us vulnerable long before that.

Good to know, thanks Mark!

I like that idea Merc, god should fix global warming...he started it ;)

Or better yet, trap their gaseous emissions and use it as well....

No? It comes enabled by default...what version of Vista are you running?

Here in the temperate part of CA, where no one bothers installing A/C and a fireplace is enough for all but the coldest January, electicity bills are easily $500/mo. This winter was colder than most, and my parents (2 people, 3br/2ba house) exceeded $1,100 in January. They don't even have...

Rich people typically are. It's a goal most people in the rest of the world typically have ;)

JTR explains where he's been somewhere around here...

They will all have the correct dates, the worst-case scenario is that it will be off by one hour, for about a month. Most home users won't even notice or care.

I read an interview with the guy @ MS in charge of Readyboost (I forget where) that if the drive is assigned a letter even if there is no media in it that it is ineligible to be used for readyboost. It also must be over 250MB and under 64GB. The readyboost portion will never be over 4GB...

I used to be retail manager for the SF store, it sucked ;)

Broken link Merc?

Are you new here? Buying domain names based on projected future value is the same as buying property based on projected future value. He didn't buy nvidia.com, or microsoft.com; he bought names that he thought could be valuable. In the past, he hasn't sold the names at all, instead he rented...

Heh, a buddy of mine bought <company>classaction.org for all the fortune 500/tech companies years ago. I bet this is one of his ;)

I managed to disable it in Vista and save a bunch of RAM ;) I think that is all I'll try for a while.

Therestoftheworld? Languages? Pssh, I don't even need to change the time zone. ;)

For the record, no flash drive that is visible when empty can be used for readyboost. It needs to be a device that appears and disappears entirely. So my idea of using an IDE-mounted adapter for some fast compact flash won't work. Stupid, but this is Microsoft, and version 1.0 of the technology...

Depending on your motherboard, there should be a memory multiplier setting somewhere. But IIRC, you are an Intel fan, and I have no idea about Intel branded mobos.

Did it. I went to Vista. My new primary machine (see sig) is running Vista Ultimate 32-bit and Office 2007. Now I have no choice but to learn this crap. BTW Merc: The 32-bit only Vista driver for the Auzentech X-Plosion seems to be working fine in SPDIF mode.

I'm just afraid of how long the next release of keys will be. I already hate keying the damn things in. Besides, with activation, there should be a way to not require keys at all, no?

Thanks Merc, as soon as the results from the testing come back that should be enough.

Mark, I appreciate your input and you almost have it right. The target isn't particularly young (they typically don't have this kind of money), the customers that are currently interested are in their mid-20s to late-30s. They have been playing for years and feel that it makes/keeps them young...

Illegality won't necessarily slow this customer down. I was hoping for a more technical reason, their software being spyware or the like.

Generals is a really good RTS as far as balance, tactics, and level design go. But after playing Supreme Commander, I'm going to be really spoiled; this is the best UI I've seen in an RTS. There are a few small points of suckyness, but they are few and far between.

Merc, I'm currently running an "evil" 7950GT, driving a pair of VP2130b @ 1600x1200 each. Supreme Commander is not only multi-core, but multi-monitor as well ;) It also claims DX10, but I doubt that it's much of an implementation. I could seriously use some more graphics horsepower to handle...

http://www.agloco.com/r/BBCB9405 I know this is a bad idea, my geek sense tells me so. Can someone help me find proof that I can pass onto my client who thinks it's a good idea?

Supreme Commander has unlimited zooming, from a single unit to the entire (huge) theater.

Guys, you're using reason and logic...we are talking about gamers here ;) When I first talked to some potential clients, I talked about a 500GB drive and an iRAM or two for games. They didn't know what it was, and when I told them a RAID-0 array of them wouldn't help anything, they dismissed it.

Resurrecting this thread to recognize Coug @ 4000 posts! Woo!

I'm only on the second mission, but I see your point. What I'm doing is trying to optimize for time. If I were willing to make each mission last for hours, victory would be easy. I think they need to do something to "force" the game forward.

sechs, it's the video card and the number of drives that are going to really up the consumption I think. I would have put in an Antec NeoHE 550W, but bigger is better with this crowd. Sol, capacity is not important nor is reliability. Only speed. For gamers, only raptors will do shy of 15K SAS...

I've found modular cables in P180s to be a must. Theres simply too much opportunity for spare cables to foul the mid-mounted fan, or just obstruct airflow in the tunnel. The Antec 900 is a bit smaller and lighter than the P180, plus it has a window and a cup holder; very useful for LAN parties...

Sweet. Thanks Bozo.

That is an interesting approach. Thanks for the tip Merc.

Updated Spec: Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail GIGABYTE GA-965P-DQ6 LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 Allendale 1.8GHz LGA 775 Processor Model BX80557E4300 Scythe SCNJ-1100P 120mm CPU Cooling Fan 2x GeIL 2GB (2 x...

Selling Office CDs would be illegal, because it is an executable at that point. But if I sold you a disk with a zipped version of the software, then we would be cool ;)

I think there is more to the story than that. Because the E4300 is designed to use a lower FSB, it allows a higher multiplier value. Because of this higher multiplier value, turning the FSB up to the same as an E6300 gives you a healthy overclock while still keeping everything else within spec.

Good review. Summary: E4300 - 3.46Ghz E6300 - 3.5Ghz

We miss your perspective paugie, I hope you are enjoying your roof ;)