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As much as I agree with Torvald's point of view here, the "reasonable resolution" bit is just silly. That's not a marketing term, and it's not even a specific term at all. A reasonable resolution means widely different things to different people. So in order for the general public to understand...

Yeah, the guy that lost it obviously didn't care about his responsibility if that's the case. I wonder if he tried to claim to Google that was stolen from him to cover his losing it? And yes the phone looks great, and so does the price for an unlocked model. The bad news is no 4G, no LTE, and...

For anyone that's interested here's some shift codes for Halloween themed skins, one per class. These codes are still good until Sunday Nov 4th: http://imgur.com/a/g0UeC#

Well I realized I didn't have a clear idea of what the difference in power consumption would mean, and lets face it... AMD's Vishera is competitive in all other respects. I got the math wrong about a dozen times, but I finally got the right results after finding a calculator that jived with my...

There might be. As long as they have projects left ready to go they'd be sending them.

Hence exactly why it should be discontinued. It doesn't compare to modern hardware. I can run F@H on a Pentium 4 and suck 150 watts out of the wall, but at best it would get the same PPD as the PS3. Comparing the PS3 to an E6700, a cheap dual core, no HT chip that hit the market before the...

You can also just set up a server box someplace and RDP into it via Wnidows 7... that's my preferred method for dorking around in Windows 8. As Rob said trying to use Win 8 inside a VM just makes a bad experience worse...

I dunno, in the FAQ while they state that it is more flexible, it can't run at the same speed as the PC calculations. "although not at the same speed increase relative to PC's". PPD performance of a PS3 was somewhere around 800-1,000 PPD, which doesn't come close to the 30,000-45,000 capable of...

Newegg was selling Windows 8 Pro upgrade for $30 (10 off) as early as two weeks ago. I didn't pre-order it then, so I certainly wouldn't buy it now. The price is attractive, but the OS certainly is not. Once the user installs the usual array of programs the start screen and program listings will...

While I would be quick to agree that there was probably significantly more optimizations Pande Group could have done (based on how their software is developed & updated on other platforms) I'm not so sure about the processor aspect. Cell only has a single actual "core", and eight SPE's...

I went and said that, but I just realized I completely mis-calculated the power consumption costs. There's a 20-25watt difference at idle, and a 75-95watt difference under load when comparing the FX-8350 to the 3770K depending on whose website you read. The US average kWh rate is 12 cents (CA...

I have to admit... I am surprised. Single-threaded performance still sucks out the wazoo, but taking into account its given price points AND heavy-threaded workloads... Vishera is actually competitive. Intel still has the fastest parts, but AMD finally has something price-competitive with the...

I'm obviously a folder (as if my sig wasn't enough of a hint), but honestly this isn't a big deal. The PS3 client has never been capable of much computational work... it's equivalent to running the SMP client on a Pentium D basically. Sure you get work done, but the power draw is high and the...

They can't, actually. The WSJ reported yesterday that Microsoft's profits dropped 22% last quarter. I also noticed they gave the revenues for the various departments.... Microsoft got over twice the revenue from Office sales than they did Windows. The Windows division was down 50% vs the...

Purely conjecture on my part, but I think last quarters bad performance (for the entire tech industry) was only a contributing factor, not a primary one. Here's why: AMD was forced to write down Llano because it has launched Trinity and made its stock obsolete overnight. Think about it for a...

Here's some evidence Llano/Trinity may have missed the target markets:

It depends on her position and what she does, here she just said she is a "systems manager". So likely she has no say in the decisions of the IT department, and especially doesn't have a say in purchases made by the IT department. So then she doesn't have any reason to mess with it. It was clear...

Are you kidding? Not every single IT person is going to be screwing around with beta versions of Windows 8. She said so herself she doesn't see her organization switching to Windows 8 anytime soon because they would have to retrain everyone... businesses and organizations may balk extremely hard...

He wore a pressurized suit for his freefall though! Also, he reached his maximum velocity while still outside most of the atmosphere, because that was the part of his fall with the least wind resistance. A normal skydiver in headfirst freefall can still breath then they reach terminal...

Those are some interesting counter-points. I admit it's always easier to criticize something than to find points to defend it with, so I enjoyed reading your article Brett. I'd like to make a few counter-points of my own however! When a company shuns a website for not playing along and...