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  1. marfig

    Wednesday's PS3 4.30 Firmware Update to Remove Folding@home Client

    Note that the PS3 client had the potential to be a whole more more efficient and powerful than the GPU client. The reason this hasn't happened was because it wasn't anywhere near mature. This is a F@H problem, not anything to do with the capabilities of a PS3 hardware. So, for all that matters...
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    Wednesday's PS3 4.30 Firmware Update to Remove Folding@home Client

    Or anything else for that matter. It's not easy to think of a device event remotely tied to the concept of technology that has become less feature rich, than more. It's become clear to anyone right now that the whole concept behind a multi-purpose console device is something that SONY regrets...
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    Wednesday's PS3 4.30 Firmware Update to Remove Folding@home Client

    They could remove the ability to play games too. That one won't be missed.
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    XCOM: Enemy Unknown Review - Tinfoil Hats Recommended

    That X-Com was redone in pretty much the same vein of the three games that made it a cult is a miracle. I suppose we have Firaxis to thank for. 2K not so much, considering their flagship product for the IP, and where the real money will go for, will be a FPS version. Still, as you remembered me...
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    Rumored: Google to Announce Android 4.2 & Nexus 10 Next Week

    Why not just Key Lime, or Lime Pie, or Key Pie, or Pie Key? Like with renowned assassins, technology codenames should only have first and last name. Android devices are extremely popular here in Africa. The ration between Android and everything else is huge. Also counterfeit hardware (mostly...
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    SysAdmin Corner: 7 Network Security F-Ups Small Offices Make

    The problem it's so well written and so final in the way it covers the topic (that is, considering is describes 7 common mistakes) that there is little else that can be said :) The biggest problem with small businesses approach to security is the lack of technical know-how. Big corporations...
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    When regular users give Windows 8 a go

    Microsoft risks eating the dust in this rapidly changing market. I wouldn't be surprised. Ironically enough the way to avoid it is to rapidly adapt to the consumer-grade application mentality set forth by Apple and others. That means pushing Metro forward. The problem, in my opinion, is that...
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    When regular users give Windows 8 a go

    What is at stake isn't whether they know what they are doing. I highly doubt they don't. They know very well what they are doing. If they didn't, this would be easy: Someone would get fired and the problems ended. The problem is what passes today for Microsoft set of beliefs and how they...
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    When regular users give Windows 8 a go

    (Chris Pirillo been around for a loong time. He used to run Lockergnome in the 90s, a Web Forum/Usenet combo where basically we discussed all tech stuff. He's a Microsoft-slash-Windows advocate for the most part and it's been impressive to see him hammer Windows 8 since the beginning). Windows...
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    Intel Says 'Compute Moves to Zero' by 2020

    It's fun to look at a trend and predict the future. However that's the only thing that Intel is doing here; Futurology. Like any good science fiction novel we expect the future to keep using today's technologies. I say however that the current computer technology cannot be stretched much...
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    AMD Reiterates Success of its HD 7000 Series

    And AMD is right of course. Just recently I had the opportunity to state this much on these forums. The problem isn't even exclusive to the 6xx series. The same thing happened and continues to happen with the GTX 590. As much as I'm a critic of AMD marketing strategies that haven't been able to...
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    Mind-boggling comment of the week

    You will understand, Rob, that with that quote I have no desire to read the full article, won't you mate? On the bright side, that's Sweeny, founder of Epic Games. There's nothing he has to say that should interest any of us. And I mean, PC and console players alike.
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    Portal 2 Gets 'Perpetual Testing Initiative' DLC; Goes on Sale for $6.79

    This.Is.Fantastic! I feel like being thrown a lemon to my face by J. Jonah Jameson: - Wake Up! Always felt a strong need to teach myself Hammer. But never quite managed to do it. Now Valve gives me a simplified alternative. One that may actually rekindle that need again to learn all about one...
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    The Elder Scrolls Online Revealed

    *hugs Doom* I knew I could count on you for a good sense of humor and a carefree attitude. Not for one moment I doubted it. :)
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    The Elder Scrolls Online Revealed

    :eek: I knew that you were all a bunch of infidels on that corner of the world!
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    Running Sega Dreamcast Games on Your PC with nullDC

    Nah, you don't ;) How could you have lived with computers up until ~10 years ago if you did? It's all a matter of technology in fact. Nothing to do with preferences of a CRT over an LCD. MAME even includes several different types of old monitor "effects" like scanlines, burnt screens, etc...
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    Running Sega Dreamcast Games on Your PC with nullDC

    I said earlier on another thread that Arcades, the ZXSpectrum and the PC were the extent of my gaming experience and consequently my sole emulation interests. That remains true for most purposes. But reading about emulation always puts a smile in my face. Technically, it is an area of software...
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    The Elder Scrolls Online Revealed

    The decision to use Zenimax own studio gives me hope this is just something I can safely ignore. You know, like a tree falling in some distant forest. Bethesda Game Studios is free to keep developing the Elder Scrolls series as we know it. I don't think this is a case of the series going MMO...
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    Who here uses game emulators?

    VMWare. Unfortunately VirtualBox only supports Windows NT versions. It does seem to run MSDOS, but to my knowledge it isn't officially supported and emulation is buggy. VMWare supports MSDOS 6.x officially. Only that. But I've ran successfully prior versions of it without any issue. I also ran...
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    EVGA's GeForce GTX 690 Signature Edition

    Is that the sticker from the "Captain Obvious" series?
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