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I believe he simply owns enough shares in the company so that he gets to do whatever he wants. I don't understand why he continues to run the business. It's clearly not a rational decision. He's an investment guy, not a leader or manager, but his political/philosophical beliefs and ego seem to...

She's one of the girls I know from her particular job.

I have a new, different roommate. She just got away from the latest in a string of douchebag guys and brought everything she has into my spare bedroom. When I brought her in, she said "This is the nicest place I've ever lived. I can't believe how clean it is." She's sleeping in my spare...

I recall seeing an Asus DVD burner a few years ago with gearing that was actuated with rubber bands. The kind that go around newspapers. I do not find this shocking in the least. I will say that when I have posted truly negative but relatively objective reviews on Newegg I have usually gotten a...

That was extremely well put. Thank you Chewy.

I can't lend any credence to Newegg reviews for most products. The people making the comments generally don't have enough experience with the products they're reviewing, or the alternatives, to place any faith in their rating. This is especially true on Newegg, where people often rate up or down...

WD clogs the marketplace by deliberately crippling firmware and multiple SKUs for what are ultimately the same part. Plus there's the whole born to die thing and oh hey I'm 0 for 2 on WD Reds so far. Seagate's standard warranty is two years right now for consumer drives. It also has the most...

The last Gigabyte board I stuck an unsupported CPU on gave the same beep code as unseated RAM.

Not every SAS adapter will actually negotiate a connection to a standard SATA drive. Or at least I've found that SATA drives aren't detected on the SAS ports found on some Intel and SuperMicro motherboards.

Whedon loves winsome science nerds and by my count Agents of SHIELD has three of them. Which leads me to believe one of them is destined for a short life. Probably Fitz or Sky since there's at least some functional overlap between the two. After a second viewing, I think my biggest problem is...

SAS is also more likely to give you compatibility with expander cards, should you ever want to blow $200 on attaching 36 SATA ports to one HBA. That setup does create performance bottlenecks, but for my application it's hardly an issue.

It's kind-of movie related: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. premiered the other night. I loved all the call-backs to the movies and Clark Gregg and Colbie Smulders both being series regulars is obviously huge. PLUS it has a wet dream production team with Joss and Jeb Whedon and Bear McCreary doing the...

Don't get me wrong: You can have perfectly acceptable performance reading PDFs on Android. But layout-intensive stuff seems to be bad all the way around. Unfortunately, RPG rulebooks are ridiculously layout intensive. 50 pages of plain text with no image layer and everything is hunky-dory. 300...

Firefox for Android has a really interesting "Guest Mode" now, which lets you suspend your browsing entire browsing session (plus potentially sync'd tabs, bookmarks and passwords) so that someone else can use your mobile device in a clean and presumably non-incriminating environment. This is...

I'll see if I can modify it into something generally useful. The specific workflow the lady wanted was "Buy this song I heard on Pandora from Amazon" but I guess that little extra bit doesn't hurt, either. What I really want to do is add screen shots for doing it from Android as well.

I had to write up a document with a step by step explanation of how to buy a song from Amazon's MP3 store today. I made frequent use of the circle and arrow tools in paint.net and made sure that I used the same browser and screen resolution for my screenshot as the person who paid for my time...

As far as I can tell, PDF is just a lousy format on mobile. 150MB gaming rulebooks with multiple layers of images can take a couple seconds to page-turn even on the internal storage of my S4, even in Adobe's own native Acrobat app.

QuickOffice has returned as a free Android App after being locked away for just Google Apps customers. Also, if you log in to your Google Account through the app before September 26, 2013, they'll give you an extra 10GB of Google Drive storage for two years.

Is it possible that Autocad just sucks that much? Or, alternately, that it's time to begin some random mandatory drug testing that just happens to start in his office?

Accent isn't really a factor in choral singing ever. Proper vocal technique and decent direction general fix issues with diction and pronunciation. Classical ensembles sing in languages they don't speak all the damned time. It's not much of an issue.

Some (not a lot, but some) of them are using condensers, actually, though you can't see them in the cropped videos very often. Since they're essentially having every trick of pro audio production applied to the source videos, no, it wouldn't surprise me if there's some auto-tuning involved. It...

I don't bother with it on any of my systems but my main laptop and Surface Pro. I use Avast, but specifically the free version. The paid version is dildos.

I've been buying Seagate drives of late, though very few 2TB units. I'm not super-thrilled with them, but they're definitely the inexpensive 7200rpm option. Out of all the Samsung HD103UJs I had, five dozen or so, I believe only one failed, and that was after five and a half years of operation...

To return to the original question, time has, within the realm of human understanding, a start point (The Big Bang) and can be thought to have an end point as well; the heat death of the universe, when all all energy has been evenly distributed between all existing particles, at which point all...

Yes, and that hardware will be like Old Yeller needing a bullet to be put down BUT ANYWAY this thread is about Xeon E5s; they generally don't hand those out with a free cold cathode lamp and subscription to Maximum PC. :)

Sure. Either way. About the time a pair of 16GB DIMMs starts to sound like a good idea, you should probably stop and re-consider the life choices that go along with a $400 motherboard that has $.80 worth of extra heat sinks and a dragon screen-printed on the PCB to distinguish it from the $250...

Maybe. But honest, if you have a working set big enough to need more than 100GB RAM, you're not going to be working on flaky enthusiast hardware.

It's difficult to wrap your head fully around most theoretical physics because you very quickly wind up dealing with units with deeply unintuitive and possibly absolute properties. Also, if anyone who is NOT a physicist is talking to you about quantum mechanics, it's a safe bet that you can...

Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir: 1. Lux Aurumque - 185 voices http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7o7BrlbaDs 2. Sleep - 1752 voices http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WhWDCw3Mng 3. Water Night - 2945 voices http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3rRaL-Czxw 4. Bliss (Fly to Paradise) - 5905 voices (Note...

Let's be honest: unless running 3DMark or Cinebench gives you an erection, the real-world difference between having the extra features of Z87 over X79 probably amounts to a couple extra native USB3 ports.

I know you're joking but that works if you have a bluetooth keyboard, or at least it does on my little Android STB. It sounds occasionally useful. iOS does a lot of weird gesture-y things ("If you tap with four fingers and slide each of them in a different cardinal direction, you'll go...

It's device specific. No device I have access to supports it. On Android devices that do have that feature, it's the literal top edge of the device, not a part of the screen, that gets tapped.

In theory, you'd need to create a Google ID that matches the email address. Or you could PM me your proper address. Either way. :)

I believe this is apropos on this holiest of days.

I was just showing off Google Drive's collaborative features to a few people. As an example, I just shared a big collection of wallpapers with a few SF members. Feel free to ignore the message. If you didn't get in on the share and would like access to a nice repository of cool wallpapers, it's...

Is there any way to interpret BB firing almost half its employees as anything other than a suicide note?

It took me about 40 minutes of dremel, but after adding a couple 120mm fans to the left-hand side of the case, it's no longer crashy while the GPU is running. Of course, now the stupid thing actually makes noise, but then so do Xboxes.

As long as you're using native SATA ports, there's actually not TONS of variability in modern builds. If you have a driver base that includes Realtek, Intel, Marvel, Broadcom and Atheros Ethernet and Intel, Realtek, Broadcom, Atheros and RALink 802.11, plus maybe four USB3 drivers and up to date...

It's not vastly faster once applications and drivers are added in. Now, I have a custom install Image for Windows 7 that includes a crap ton of extra driver and the 100-odd post SP1 Windows Updates, but that's because I know how to make one. But the difference between installing from THAT and...

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Dude. PLEX MEDIA SERVER. Fuck reencoding. That Q6600 can handle at least two simultaneous real-time 1.5Mbit streams or deliver the original file to local, capable clients.

Either your images aren't Sysprepped or the person making them is not adding any drivers at all to the standard install, which defeats the purpose of making sysprep images in the first place.

For around $125, you could switch to a Pentium G2120 and an H61 motherboard. Performance would probably roughly double from that X2 215 and you'd have a reasonably modern platform if you ever felt like upgrading again.

Whomever is building your images isn't doing it right.

Maybe... $60 for my X4? The motherboard it was on is suspect and since I don't normally deal with AMD CPUs my plan was just to to buy the cheapest AM3 board I could find and make it in to a charity case desktop.

I have a 955 X4 sitting around. That's a step in the right direction.

They do. They can triangulate to a fairly accurate point based on the cell towers your phone is using; for smart devices there's probably a decent map of 802.11 networks nation wide that can correlate to a location as well. There are also traffic information systems and the regular habits of...

The maps-addresses link is kind of awesome. Maybe four times in the last couple months, I've gotten in my car and driven somewhere with no clue where I was going. I just tapped a button on my phone and drove clear across one or more states.

As long as you're using at least Server 2012, the native Windows backup tool allows backing up individual VMs without any special software or preparation. In Server 2008, you have to go through a bunch of extra crap to enable VSS through Hyper-V, but 2012 just says "Hey, which VMs did you want...

Not that it's anyone's favorite product, but Windows Defender is an OS component. So you'll have something to use until the AV vendors get around to validating on Windows 8.1.