There was always a way: hibernate. Same power use as being off. It's slower to come out of than standby, but still less than 10 seconds on my computer. I always leave my work computer hibernated for the reasons you specify above.
From what other people are saying, the CD isn't actually required and it says this in the manual. It's just a wizard which helps you input the username, password and network settings.
This is something I really envy, having never had a good CRT. My 1920x1200 LCD can only do 60hz, 85hz is much smoother looking. Increased refresh rate makes a big difference in the older games I play a lot whereas resolution doesn't add a great deal to the graphics.
DX10 does nothing in Crysis. All the features are DX9 compatible (as you know, having done the config editing), the only difference in DX10 mode is a 25% performance reduction.
People easily see things that aren't there. A week ago I showed a bunch of people two identical images and asked them which one was better looking. Most responded that there was a marked difference in colour or sharpness. That's what you're dealing with, so take it with a grain of salt.
I spent £1,600 [...] I bought high end named RAM (something I never usually do), I bought a high end gaming motherboard
What exactly did you buy? This isn't to be a bastard, but by the sounds of it you chose your parts very badly and wasted a huge amount of money because of it.
High end RAM is only useful for overclocking, conferring no inherent benefit. A moderately priced motherboard is all that's needed even for that purpose. On top of that, CPU performance isn't generally important in games so spending a large amount of money in that area is not useful.
Careful now. Punching a dentist class in the mouth is a bad move. An enraged dentist can heal a mouth injury in mere seconds. In response they may trick you with their mirrors, and if they roll a critical during this time you'll be drilled asunder!
For that matter, the kind of people likely to install something like this (it spreads either through Trojans or as scareware, not through system exploits) are probably statistically more likely to have Windows Update turned off entirely.
Out of curiousity, why do you think that? If there was a correlation I'd expect the opposite, because in my experience the kind of people who fall for this stuff aren't the ones who tinker with default OS settings. They just don't know any better.
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Correlation isn't causation. How do you know it did anything?
There was always a way: hibernate. Same power use as being off. It's slower to come out of than standby, but still less than 10 seconds on my computer. I always leave my work computer hibernated for the reasons you specify above.
The OEMs would probably just bundle Firefox. That's not a realistic problem for the vast majority of users, technically inclined or otherwise.
Ah yes. I forgot to disable that in the last universe I built for you cretins. This time I'm one step ahead of you!
I know Comcast has a thing (Powerboost) where it gives you double download speeds for the first x minutes of a download. Could that be at work here?
Didn't she order the PC online in the first place?
From what other people are saying, the CD isn't actually required and it says this in the manual. It's just a wizard which helps you input the username, password and network settings.
Ever heard of occam's razor? That isn't the most likely situation at all.
Obviously twitter was on the line..
Wrong. He was on every line.
That was a joke, silly. The word is pedantic, not pedantical.
Don't worry, it'll quickly become obsolete just like last time. Transfer speeds always seems to lag behind storage sizes.
1920x1440@85Hz
This is something I really envy, having never had a good CRT. My 1920x1200 LCD can only do 60hz, 85hz is much smoother looking. Increased refresh rate makes a big difference in the older games I play a lot whereas resolution doesn't add a great deal to the graphics.
DX10 does nothing in Crysis. All the features are DX9 compatible (as you know, having done the config editing), the only difference in DX10 mode is a 25% performance reduction.
People easily see things that aren't there. A week ago I showed a bunch of people two identical images and asked them which one was better looking. Most responded that there was a marked difference in colour or sharpness. That's what you're dealing with, so take it with a grain of salt.
Now you're just being pedantical.
I spent £1,600 [...] I bought high end named RAM (something I never usually do), I bought a high end gaming motherboard
What exactly did you buy? This isn't to be a bastard, but by the sounds of it you chose your parts very badly and wasted a huge amount of money because of it.
High end RAM is only useful for overclocking, conferring no inherent benefit. A moderately priced motherboard is all that's needed even for that purpose. On top of that, CPU performance isn't generally important in games so spending a large amount of money in that area is not useful.
Graphics cards are cheap. You can get one that plays every single available game nicely for 130 dollars (the 8800GT/9800GT for example).
Stop getting your ideas from stupid guides like this and check out a thread full of advice from people who aren't insane.
One more appeal to emotion, and it's +5 funny.
Yes. But you run the risk of being banned from the online service if the modification is detected, which costs money.
Careful now. Punching a dentist class in the mouth is a bad move. An enraged dentist can heal a mouth injury in mere seconds. In response they may trick you with their mirrors, and if they roll a critical during this time you'll be drilled asunder!
Oh wow. I knew I was born in the right time period.
The average number of games people buy for the console, it seems.
Considering how well it sells:
PS2: 140 million
Wii: 45 million
360: 27 million
PS3: 19 million
As of 2006, it was still the best selling console. I don't know about the last two years but I'm guessing it isn't doing too badly.
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For that matter, the kind of people likely to install something like this (it spreads either through Trojans or as scareware, not through system exploits) are probably statistically more likely to have Windows Update turned off entirely.
Out of curiousity, why do you think that? If there was a correlation I'd expect the opposite, because in my experience the kind of people who fall for this stuff aren't the ones who tinker with default OS settings. They just don't know any better.
There's something fundamentally wrong alright, and it's simply that people are completely thick. It's a trojan.