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Does that mean Skype actually works again? Did they finally fix those unexplainable issues that resulted in a small percentage of users getting a program crash when started, then being unable to connect to anything or anyone on their contact list for weeks on end? *tries Skype* Nope, I guess...

Oh wow, Synergy is great. I used to use it daily across my desktop and laptop, works great as a poor man's dual monitor setup! Nifty program and perhaps a bit amazed it hasn't really caught on more since I first tried it. Rob, if anything I'd imagine a KVM switch would simplify your life a...

Been traveling a hell of a lot lately (as Rob will be happy to complain-, er, verify!) so haven't had time to check the forums till now! ;) I got my current laptop with the assumption I could replace my desktop with it... that never panned out. Couldn't upgrade anything in the laptop (even...

Or SSD :D Glad you got the keyboard back to working! I just rinsed mine out in the sink and baked it for five minutes to dry it out... scared the hell out of me when I saw how much it'd bent from the heat, but it went back to perfectly flat after it cooled down. :rolleyes:

Okay guys, I have to give credit where credit is due. That has to be the newest, least flattering photo of Ballmer I've seen to date, and I've seen a few. :p The point of a stock is to make money, and for a small investor simply getting a 10-15 cent dividend per share isn't much of a return...

It was probably Crytek... I distinctly remember Crysis & Crysis Warhead opening a prompt and running a date check after the installer closed, which they still do to this day. This thread reminded of one issue of DRM... In 2007 I bought Prey for use in benchmarking, but when inserting the...

It's still surprising to think.... the original Kingston V+ drives that came out in 2009 using Toshiba controllers were rated at a random 4K write of just 84 IOPS. Yes, you read that correctly, it's even listed in their tech specs page. :p The 128GB model was 156 IOPS, at that. And to imagine...

Note to self, don't drink or eat while reading these threads. :techgage:

Hmm, and Paypal didn't even wait a day to sue Google over this. Should be interesting to watch that one go down. Pretty much. Except hardly anything here will work when waving our cell phone in front of it, but almost everything already relies on or incorporates such technology in several...

There's an argument to be made that it's very well the case... if you have a sound idea for a business, (Or make a start for yourself in the entertainment industry) then definitely. Paul Allen and Bill Gates are two easy examples of this... Ben Affleck and Steven Spielberg are two others...

I don't even play handheld games whatsoever anymore, but those screenshots would even sell me. Very impressive! Just imagine with those screenshots in mind, NVIDIA's replacement for Tegra 2 will be Kal-El and will come out this year... at 5x the performance. :eek:

I'll just preface by saying that my laptop is six years old, more like seven from purely a hardware standpoint. So I've begun eyeing laptops again and the usual deal websites to see what may come along, as I can't put off upgrading this thing any longer. I noticed the XPS 15z pretty quickly...

Man, I missed that news. That's totally bogus really, sounds like the lead engineer was replaced by the head guy from the marketing department. They're going to have to add zeros to the numbers before people pay them the same attention they used to, such as when switching from v2 to Firefox 3...

Hey Marfig, sounds like a nice Nook update! I don't know that much about the Nook... is it a free access reader? Does it allow all sorts of file formats, no restrictions on ebook / text doc types you can upload to it? Or is it more like iTunes where users have to circumvent the software to...

Hahaha, exactly! :D

I don't know... a few sites went as far as to call ExtremeTech dead in the water too when Ziff Davis Media filed for bankruptcy and they lost most of the entire staff! But seriously, that's a fair point. To date Thunderbolt seems like another USB vs Firewire situation. Firewire B offered...

I thought it was Dec 31st, 2011 at 11:59pm? :D But yeah seriously... doomsday cults have been getting ever more frequent. There have been dozens of larger cults predicting the end of the world since the 80's alone, none have been right so far. Let see... Harold Camping predicted the world...

Technically yes, but I'm simply lazy and I assume most people will understand "100watt equivalent" to mean in terms of luminosity. I use CFLs that are equivalent to 100 watt incandescents as I prefer the brightness, although it is possible now to get 150-300watt equivalent CFLs. In my case...

The only thing I can say about LEDs is that to remember they are a directional light emitter. Unlike fluorescents and incandescents which emit light in all directions, LEDs emit a focused light in a single direction. I can't find the ratio, but over half of the light from a LED source goes only...

Haha, you bet! If a first generation SandForce drive can deliver 18 seconds, I think I could get pretty darn close to 10 second cold boot times with one of those beauties... Just imagine... an instant power on Windows 7 system. It's going to happen very soon at the rate these things are going... ;)