I had a Q6600 as well before my latest upgrade. I had SLI'd 9800GTX that I upgraded to a GTX480 and saw some improvements. But about a year later going to a Sandybridge i7 @4.4Ghz I saw framerates double across the board using the same single GTX480.
A new GPU will improve an older system, but new CPU, DDR2->DDR3 also gave a later performance boost.
If you haven't played it you might enjoy Star Wars: Republic Commando. It's a squad based FPS where you play a clone trooper and it has a squad command system like Rainbow 6 or SWAT. My only complaint is the ending was left open to allow a sequel that I doubt will ever be released.
He had an uneasy feeling and confirmed it. It's possible there was more to the infection that wasn't found. The only safe way to recover from a virus is a nuke from orbit and restore from backups.
You didn't mention that awesome fact that if it run into a situation where it needs to prompt the user such as overwriting a file with the same name, it will complete the operation on everything it can before waiting for user input.
No more starting a copy process and walking away from the computer for ten minutes and coming back to see it stalled almost immediately.
I never said he was a tech writer, just that he was an editor at Gizmodo which is a Gawker owned property. I wouldn't go so far to as call anyone who works at any of their properties a writer, much less any type of specialized field writer.
Are you thinking of the Matt Honan hack? He was previously a Gizmodo editor and his Apple.ME account was hacked via Amazon, which allowed the hackers to get to his Twitter account.
He also almost lost personal photos because he had all of these linked to his Apple account and not backed up elsewhere.
I'm not sure what the issue is with notepad, I see both Notepad and Notepad++. But Windows Update isn't a program. You'll find it under settings when you search.
Windows 7's start menu included every type of time in your search be it a program, setting, document, or email. Windows 8 will only search a specific type which I've found will speed up the search since it's not digging through email and file indexes when I'm looking for a program and vice versa.
Finding the non-Metro Windows Update can be tricky because the only item listed as "Windows Update" is the Metro version. But you should also see the view install history which will also open it. The problem is that Windows 8 tries to hide updates from the user and perform them in the background.
But when I see the start screen and start typing, it will start filtering through every application I have installed on my computer, not just Metro items. I actually don't see a way to only search for Metro apps from that list.
Try opening the charms menu, and choosing to search, then choose "Apps". Are you only seeing Metro apps?
Open the start screen. Right click with your mouse and choose "All Apps". This will list everything that was in the start menu.
Alternatively, open the start screen. Then just start typing on your keyboard and a filtered list of apps will appear just like they did with Vista and 7's start menu.
Two really handy shortcuts are: Win + D will drop you out of any Metro app and back to the standard desktop.
Win + X will pop up an Administrative menu that will give you access to most of non application things you'd dig around the start menu for.
I'd settle on on just having a standard for the connector of a dock to a car. Then we can get away from the weighted no-slip stands, or suction cup. A phone could have a manufacturer made dock that properly holds the phone, while easily mounting to the car. If the standard then supported MDL and USB ports a phone that supports pogo-pins would have wires from the dock connecting to the ports, and the phone would then just drop into the dock, or a older phone would need a short cable from the port to the phone itself.
They still make money even if you use cash. A business depositing cash pays around 1.5%-2% in fees due to handling. As a consumer the only logical thing is to only use a rewards cards where you draw some benefit from your purchases. The places you shop still take a hit for this, but that's the cost of doing business.
Yes there are. When the movies were released on DVD you could buy two disk sets of episodes IV-VI where it included the 1997 remaster and the original theatrical release.
They even released a box set of just the theatrical edition. Sadly the quality isn't great as the negatives where supposedly destroyed by the remaster process so they are from the Laserdisks. But they were officially released on DVD.
This is why the Wii U is interesting. It marries classic controls with a tablet. I doubt it will have the market saturation that the Wii had, but it should sell fairly well.
Sadly the same isn't happening with the Vita, which is currently some of the most impressive handheld hardware available and contrary to popular belief, it actually has a very good and varied library since it's been out for less than a year. The next few weeks have some heavy hitters for it coming out, I'm hopefully it will do well, but I'm not optimistic.
The current console generation has already gone one for a year too long, and it will be at least one more year before the new Xbox and Playstation come out. In games media people do seem to be switching to the PC, but as soon as the new consoles come out the unwashed masses will move to them.
As for the iPad and the like? Sure they will take the causal and non gamer markets, pretty much the people who purchased the Wii as their first and only console. Game console might not see as high of sales, but just like happens with every new console generation and the reports of PC gaming being dead, the death of consoles is high exaggerated.
I wouldn't say no one. My wife loves all of the touchscreen gestures since the upgrade on her HP Touchsmart TM2.
I'd be curious to see adoption rates to the new UI. I spend most of my time at the normal desktop, but I could see casual users switching over to doing the majority of their usage in the new UI.
Why it doesn't automatically give you a walk signal is beyond me.
At most intersections pedestrians aren't trying to cross the road. So the lights are shorter to keep traffic following. By pressing the button it extends the amount of time on that cycle to give pedestrians time to safely cross the street.
Enterprise SSDs are actually different from consumer SSDs though. Most Enterprise SSDs generally have higher IOP counts so you can get higher random access reads off them. The $15/GB drivers you saw were also likely SLC, SLC has a single bit per cell while MLC has two bits per cell. The cheaper OCZ is very likely an MLC drive.
240GB SSDs have repeatedly been down to $140-150 on Newegg for the last month. One of the best deals I saw as an Intel 330 240GB with $140 shipped, no rebate or coupon needed.
Yes they are still more expensive than an equal sized mechanical drive, but they are getting cheaper and there should be some really nice black Friday/cyber Monday deals in seven weeks. I'd be very surprised if 240GB drivers didn't get down to $99.
Don't the providers that piggie back like Boost and Virgin not do roaming? I'm currently on Sprint and took a trip to the Southwest last year. Sprint didn't have coverage but I had full bars out in the middle of no where roaming on Verizon. I would have been screwed if I couldn't roam.
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I had a Q6600 as well before my latest upgrade. I had SLI'd 9800GTX that I upgraded to a GTX480 and saw some improvements. But about a year later going to a Sandybridge i7 @4.4Ghz I saw framerates double across the board using the same single GTX480.
A new GPU will improve an older system, but new CPU, DDR2->DDR3 also gave a later performance boost.
If you haven't played it you might enjoy Star Wars: Republic Commando. It's a squad based FPS where you play a clone trooper and it has a squad command system like Rainbow 6 or SWAT. My only complaint is the ending was left open to allow a sequel that I doubt will ever be released.
He had an uneasy feeling and confirmed it. It's possible there was more to the infection that wasn't found. The only safe way to recover from a virus is a nuke from orbit and restore from backups.
You didn't mention that awesome fact that if it run into a situation where it needs to prompt the user such as overwriting a file with the same name, it will complete the operation on everything it can before waiting for user input.
No more starting a copy process and walking away from the computer for ten minutes and coming back to see it stalled almost immediately.
You forgot the perk of bohemian drums circles following you around as you code.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GpOfwbFRcs
I never said he was a tech writer, just that he was an editor at Gizmodo which is a Gawker owned property. I wouldn't go so far to as call anyone who works at any of their properties a writer, much less any type of specialized field writer.
Are you thinking of the Matt Honan hack? He was previously a Gizmodo editor and his Apple.ME account was hacked via Amazon, which allowed the hackers to get to his Twitter account.
He also almost lost personal photos because he had all of these linked to his Apple account and not backed up elsewhere.
I'm not sure what the issue is with notepad, I see both Notepad and Notepad++. But Windows Update isn't a program. You'll find it under settings when you search.
Windows 7's start menu included every type of time in your search be it a program, setting, document, or email. Windows 8 will only search a specific type which I've found will speed up the search since it's not digging through email and file indexes when I'm looking for a program and vice versa.
Finding the non-Metro Windows Update can be tricky because the only item listed as "Windows Update" is the Metro version. But you should also see the view install history which will also open it. The problem is that Windows 8 tries to hide updates from the user and perform them in the background.
But when I see the start screen and start typing, it will start filtering through every application I have installed on my computer, not just Metro items. I actually don't see a way to only search for Metro apps from that list.
Try opening the charms menu, and choosing to search, then choose "Apps". Are you only seeing Metro apps?
Open the start screen. Right click with your mouse and choose "All Apps". This will list everything that was in the start menu.
Alternatively, open the start screen. Then just start typing on your keyboard and a filtered list of apps will appear just like they did with Vista and 7's start menu.
Two really handy shortcuts are:
Win + D will drop you out of any Metro app and back to the standard desktop.
Win + X will pop up an Administrative menu that will give you access to most of non application things you'd dig around the start menu for.
No I didn't he's looking for a bundle from Blizzard (Activision) and Maxis (EA).
So Activision and EA then?
I'd settle on on just having a standard for the connector of a dock to a car. Then we can get away from the weighted no-slip stands, or suction cup. A phone could have a manufacturer made dock that properly holds the phone, while easily mounting to the car. If the standard then supported MDL and USB ports a phone that supports pogo-pins would have wires from the dock connecting to the ports, and the phone would then just drop into the dock, or a older phone would need a short cable from the port to the phone itself.
They still make money even if you use cash. A business depositing cash pays around 1.5%-2% in fees due to handling. As a consumer the only logical thing is to only use a rewards cards where you draw some benefit from your purchases. The places you shop still take a hit for this, but that's the cost of doing business.
Yes there are. When the movies were released on DVD you could buy two disk sets of episodes IV-VI where it included the 1997 remaster and the original theatrical release.
They even released a box set of just the theatrical edition. Sadly the quality isn't great as the negatives where supposedly destroyed by the remaster process so they are from the Laserdisks. But they were officially released on DVD.
http://www.amazon.com/Star-Trilogy-Widescreen-Theatrical-Edition/dp/B001EN71DG/
Microsoft released a 32bit version of Windows 8. I doubt they will be moving solely to ARM anytime soon.
This is why the Wii U is interesting. It marries classic controls with a tablet. I doubt it will have the market saturation that the Wii had, but it should sell fairly well.
Sadly the same isn't happening with the Vita, which is currently some of the most impressive handheld hardware available and contrary to popular belief, it actually has a very good and varied library since it's been out for less than a year. The next few weeks have some heavy hitters for it coming out, I'm hopefully it will do well, but I'm not optimistic.
The current console generation has already gone one for a year too long, and it will be at least one more year before the new Xbox and Playstation come out. In games media people do seem to be switching to the PC, but as soon as the new consoles come out the unwashed masses will move to them.
As for the iPad and the like? Sure they will take the causal and non gamer markets, pretty much the people who purchased the Wii as their first and only console. Game console might not see as high of sales, but just like happens with every new console generation and the reports of PC gaming being dead, the death of consoles is high exaggerated.
I wouldn't say no one. My wife loves all of the touchscreen gestures since the upgrade on her HP Touchsmart TM2.
I'd be curious to see adoption rates to the new UI. I spend most of my time at the normal desktop, but I could see casual users switching over to doing the majority of their usage in the new UI.
They can't but you aren't licensed to run it. You won't likely be caught if you were to do this unless your a corporation who is being audited.
I don't know what version you're playing. But 2.0 only has Anubis as having a special rule.
http://www.khet.com/
Why it doesn't automatically give you a walk signal is beyond me.
At most intersections pedestrians aren't trying to cross the road. So the lights are shorter to keep traffic following. By pressing the button it extends the amount of time on that cycle to give pedestrians time to safely cross the street.
Enterprise SSDs are actually different from consumer SSDs though. Most Enterprise SSDs generally have higher IOP counts so you can get higher random access reads off them. The $15/GB drivers you saw were also likely SLC, SLC has a single bit per cell while MLC has two bits per cell. The cheaper OCZ is very likely an MLC drive.
240GB SSDs have repeatedly been down to $140-150 on Newegg for the last month. One of the best deals I saw as an Intel 330 240GB with $140 shipped, no rebate or coupon needed.
Yes they are still more expensive than an equal sized mechanical drive, but they are getting cheaper and there should be some really nice black Friday/cyber Monday deals in seven weeks. I'd be very surprised if 240GB drivers didn't get down to $99.
Don't the providers that piggie back like Boost and Virgin not do roaming? I'm currently on Sprint and took a trip to the Southwest last year. Sprint didn't have coverage but I had full bars out in the middle of no where roaming on Verizon. I would have been screwed if I couldn't roam.
At least everyone is switching to using mainly iPhones and iPads. Ohh Sh....