I'm going to be nice, because I just re-read this thread and learned that H traffic is up while revenues are significantly down and I'm going to give H the benefit of the doubt and not say mean things to scare off noobs.
I find it interesting that you are challenging degrees of impact of the...
Let's go beyond the obvious, k?
1) Most games, and you can count on one hand the ones that are not, are adequately served by today's hardware...so there is much less pressure, if any, to upgrade.
2) Nvidia has nuked whatever reputation it had with the RoHS fiasco with their chip packaging...
And yet you bozos print this non-news.
I call for an embargo on any comment/post/story with JT in it.
Starting with this one, do not reply, I won't read it. It has to start somewhere.
In other words, there are freely available programs that can disable your PC or laptop on a whim?
Or even better: unique, non maskable codes that survive BIOS flashing?
Did you know 40-70% of all Intel NICs in the wild are counterfeit? Did you know NewEgg is also NOT an authorized Intel NIC reseller?
After picking up a simple PCI Intel NIC from good old reliable New Egg and having the physical RJ-45 connector separate from the card breaking it, I learned...
Thanks..I now have a name, John Smedley...to go with the company, Sony who will never get a dime of my money. I will also champion and support alternatives to any Sony gaming product.
I have a memory longer than that of a gypsy moth and Sony's rootkits and piss-poor PS3 introduction and...
What information is so potentially damaging to national security and of such a nature that it must be kept on a traditional device such as a laptop or cell phone and unable to be stored or transmitted in any other way?
Are they looking for a file, a picture? a movie?