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I believe the reason is self-preseration. As soon as they attempt to charge extra for higher bandwidth caps they'll get sued over it, it'll turn into a class action affair, and we both can guess which way that one will go judging by the FCC's stance. More than liklely the will lose, and not only...

First thought, "cool". Second thought... "what the heck, do people really want a tabletop or drawer full of tiny capacity MicroSD cards?" 2GB cards are worth pocket change, 4GB can be had for under $20... the entire point of digitizing is to avoid not only carrying around a pile or something but...

There's nothing wrong with OEM systems if they meet your needs... not everyone knows how to build a computer, or wants to learn the hard/expensive way to do so. Or simply doesn't have the time for it. Whatever you decide on, it sounds like you should have a 64bit OS with 4GB of RAM... Unless...

I always ask for clarification if I'm unsure about something, because it's usually the little details that get "assumed" that tend to be the issue or solution. Sorry if I was offending you. I should have just left most of that out of my last post. The main thing that I wanted to get across is...

Shorted pin 4 and 6 on what?? If you attempt to short the PSU to turn it on, the circuit must be kept closed otherwise the unit will not power on. If you short the motherboard on pins, it only takes a 1 second touch and the board would then normally stay on. It would be odd for PC Power &...

ISPs may be loving the idea of bandwidth caps, but as more and more users start to run into them they will eventually have to expand them. Gratefully I am not under any caps yet... I just downloaded 10GB in demo/benchmarking files today to burn and snail mail to a friend of mine that is stuck on...

If the PSU never turned on, then your fancy PSU tester will only show the +5FSB, which is always on even if the PSU is off. ;) So it sounds like you never turned the PSU on... When I was talking about shorting the motherboard's ON pins to turn it on, that is exactly what I meant. You do...

I do not mean the DVD drive firmware or drivers. I was talking about the software you use to read/open the files you are putting on the disc?

Someone posted a very interesting article about how much he was willing to endure to have Linux on his formerly Vista laptop. Or actually, it was OS X now that I think about it. He was willing to go so far as to buy a new wireless card for his laptop since there was no OS X driver for the built...

That would still mean they would need to host a patch to deactivate all the old DRM-enabled games though... I agree with ya, more than likely yeah they won't. They'd rather bend over backwards to stop 1% of all users from attempting >5 installs and make the other 99% endure the limitation.

That's the same article that mentions Intel is launching new chips in Q1 or Q2 of next year, IIRC. They have a second article mentioning price cuts in under two months. :) Link

I'd make DHL pay for the box... pisses me off to no end to find something bent completely in two stuffed inside our mailbox here by the USPS guys.

Reading into the quote, I do not believe that is what he said at all. After all, Laserdisc was significantly better quality than the VHS tapes it was attempting to replace... but it cost more to both produce and sell, and was more unwieldy for the end user to deal with. Blu-ray is the same in my...

Yeah, you won't get two items DOA like that, it tells your something else is the cause. First, make sure every single plug is connected... the CPU has a 4 or 6 pin plug, the motherboard has its own plug, the GPU likely has its own plug, etc. Make sure they're all fully seated too. Then...

I think I have just the answer to your cooling question... ;) http://www.dailytech.com/IBM+Scientists+Demonstrate+Liquid+Cooling+Process+for+3D+Stacked+Chips/article12009.htm With 3D chips the "length" signals must travel can be shortened considerably... which allows lower latencies and much...

I've had enough problems with Vista that I could write three pages of stuff, if I even remembered all of it and how to recreate some of it. I even started to, but it's just better to get over it than constantly bring up old complaints and issues they eventually, or mostly, solved. And NVIDIA...

What Merlin said, sounds like a driver or software issue. Have you uninstalled any drive or disc software recently? What sort of file types are they? ISOs? If you just installed SP3, I'd try uninstalling and reinstalling the software you usually use to read and work with the file types on...

I wonder how big they'll have to get before Microsoft gets serious about their competitor? It's amazing the limitations mac users have... expensive systems, can only install OS X on other Apple (or hacked) systems, and just about zero game support. And yet in a time where low-end notebooks...

From what I see you would need both the Xbox AV Pack and a optical audio cable. The z-5500 is even noted as supporting the Xbox, so ya should be good there. I own the Z-5300 speakers, very nice but they don't offer digital connectors unlike the z-5500. $183 is a pretty decent price on them...

I tried that idea with my first (and only) laptop, thinking I could get away with it. You'd still need a laptop that gets 3-4 hours battery life per charge though... best I could eek out of mine was 2:45 per battery with wifi and music or MS Word going. And honestly, the weight does start to...