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  1. Where are the EFI video cards and raid cards? on Intel's Single Thread Acceleration · · Score: 1

    As you will then them to boot a efi system as with a mac pro when you put in a non efi card you get no video until you boot windows.
    And an non EFI raid card may not be able to boot in a efi system.

  2. Blue-Ray and HD-DVD will force updates on users on New Sony DVDs Not Working In Some Players · · Score: 1

    if they want to view new disks.

  3. Re:The Mac Pro needs business or higher to use it' on MS Requiring More Expensive Vista if Running Mac · · Score: 1

    The mac pro is dual dual-core or dual-quad core

  4. The Mac Pro needs business or higher to use it's c on MS Requiring More Expensive Vista if Running Mac · · Score: 1

    cpu as it's 2 of them and home can only use 1 cpu.

  5. Re:What about a boogeyman attack? on Preparing for the Worst in IT · · Score: 1

    They did that in Ocean's Eleven (1960)

  6. WIndows XP SP2 delayed Vista on Why Apple Delayed Leopard for the iPhone · · Score: 1

    Maybe there deadlines for contracts with Cingular that needed to get done be fore ATT took them over?
    getting the software retry for FCC testing. The Soft is not 100% done yet but needed to get it to a state in where the FCC can test I-phone out.

  7. Re:Cancel/Allow on National Projects Aim to Reboot the Internet · · Score: 1, Funny

    Allow

    A file is in use aborting

  8. firetrucks don't have license plates on Police Objecting to Tickets From Red-Light Cameras · · Score: 1

    firetrucks don't have license plates and they don't need ETC tags ambulance do need the tags.

  9. apple should of used some of the amiga hardware on Top 10 'Most Influential' Amiga Games · · Score: 2, Interesting

    and may even took them over when Amiga when down.

  10. most PHB are clue less and make you do TPS Reports on The Fine Art of 'Boss Science' · · Score: 1

    Did you get that memo about the new TPS report cover letter?

  11. All the time or just when HD content is being play on AMD's New DRM · · Score: 1

    played?

    Any why there can still be Linux / debug / other drivers that let you read the frame buffer but won't play hd content

  12. Boot Camp needs frimware updatews to work and EFI on Best Way to Image and Deploy Dual-Boot Macintosh? · · Score: 1

    If you are useing a Image the system may think that is does not need a update when it does as apple sends out the firmware updates by the apple updater in OSX.
    Also they use the GUID Partition Table (GPT) and EFI there is also an EFI boot partition that is needed.
    Some times apple sends out systems with updated drivers / systems files that are newer then updates on apple update / apple website.

  13. Re:yay on Intel Reveals the Future of the CPU-GPU War · · Score: 1

    But not for vista users why can't intel have a on board video chip with it's own ram?

  14. hardware player revoking is unlikey as the retail. on DVD Security Group Says It Has Fixed AACS Flaws · · Score: 1

    retail stores like best buy, circuit city, walmart, and others their huge weight against havening to deal with returns, pissed off customers and so on.
    And havering a no return policy will not cut when people say I just payed for this and it does not work, I have to pay for the internet just to see a movie, It does not work with dial up internet, I can't get high speed internet so this HD-DVD / Blue-Ray player is useless to me, and so on, I tried to do a firmware update and it failed and now the player does not work at all,
    The player says I need a tv with HDMI / HDCP 1.3 and I just got a new HD tv not that long ago, What is a firmware update? The people at walmart likely will have no clue about that one.

  15. high voltage power transformers use Oil on Oil Soaked Servers Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    The ones at substations use Oil and some times they go up in flames.
    just Google substation fire

  16. M$ wants to have the same crap of games for win... on Epic, Microsoft Disagree On Gears Content · · Score: 2, Informative

    M$ wants to stop the free modes on the windows side as well how long be they force you pay for live gold just to be able to pay more for a mod / map on a pc game?

  17. turnitin clamming rights to student publications on Canadian University Students Taught To Protect IP · · Score: 2, Interesting

    turnitin is clamming rights to student publications and the eula makes the student work belong to them.

  18. turnitin.com on Canadian University Students Taught To Protect IP · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    what does it say about turnitin.com?
    Do the students need to use it as part of there classes?

  19. Re:.. but what if a hardware player is compromised on First AACS Blu-Ray/HD-DVD Key Revoked · · Score: 1

    But what about the people who can't get high speed internet and only have dial up?

  20. Re:Can't beat em, join em? on Vista Protected Processes Bypassed · · Score: 1

    I got it buy hackbay.com and put it up for sale.

  21. Re:APPLE HAS NO MID-RANGE HEAD LESS DESKTOPS! on Vista Taking a Nibble Out of Apple in OS Wars? · · Score: 1

    the mini has the POS GMA 950 and the i-macs use laptop parts.

  22. APPLE HAS NO MID-RANGE HEAD LESS DESKTOPS! on Vista Taking a Nibble Out of Apple in OS Wars? · · Score: 1

    That is killing some sales as well.
    Also mac osx likely will sell big if it where out for all hardware.
    hackers may even buy 10.5 and hack it to run all hardware as well.

  23. pinball games on An Easter (Egg) Holiday? · · Score: 1

    Are full of cows that are the same thing as eggs.

  24. Re:its a freaking game!!! on FBI Examines Second Life Casinos · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's one thing if you can win but when it is fixed so that you can't then it is not gambling.

  25. why did not talk about Visual Pinball? on 'Games 3.0' Is Nothing New · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.randydavis.com/vp/
    http://www.vpforums.com/forum/index.php
    VP + Vpinmame is real cool!
    VP lets build your own pinball games.