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Yeah, if only I had known early on that Bitcoin would actually be worth something! I was mining on dozens of dual-socket Xeon servers as "burn-in testing" when we were ramping up a large order back in early 2010 when I worked at a computer assembly shop. Before Bitcoins were worth anything. (It...

I use Folding@Home for another team (one I've been with even longer than I've been here.) It's been dropping too - after being in the top 20 for many years. Lots of new teams getting new people, leaving the "old, stable" teams in the dust. That said, I did manage to get F@H on my kid's gaming...

Even if that were true (it isn't,) the request was "would a modern $250 video card work okay in this rig?" "Time for a new setup" would cost way more than $250. If I post asking if a $150 SSD would be a good upgrade for my old laptop, replying "you should buy a new $1000 laptop instead" is...

Well, the one positive thing is that any games you buy are DRM-free, so even if they go belly-up, you always have your games with no "check in server" crap to prevent you from playing it...

TFA and TLJ are the #3 and #11 top grossing movies of all time. TFA outdrew Avengers: Infinity War. Obviously a very large number of people found it entertaining and enjoyable enough to spend over $3 billion between them. This. I actually remember when Empire Strikes Back came out - and it...

I have the Lowes' home-brand 80v battery mower. Can do foot tall grass no problem, mows for about 45 minutes, takes about 30 minutes to charge, and comes with two batteries.

Exactly. If you want an EV that can go over 200 miles, you want it now, and you don't want to pay $80,000, the Bolt is the only option. (Disclaimer: I own an i3. Would have preferred a Mercedes B250e, but lack of quick-charge was a dealbreaker. My i3 also has the range extender, which makes it...

Shit, the 80186 is the only pre-Pentium Intel CPU I'm missing! I'll trade you something for it.

From a "using it as a CPU in a system the winner is building from scratch" the answer may be a no-brainer; but from a "upgrading an already-built low-end 8th-gen Intel system" it's less obvious. And from a "holding on to it as a collectible" (whether or not "to eBay later" is on the end or...

Sure, ultra-wide, me, baby! But I want at least 2160 vertical pixels. I want to be able to watch 4K content at native resolution - just add more pixels to the sides. Give me a 46" 7680x2160, 60 Hz full HDR display that uses two DispalyPort 1.4 connections, that can do 144 Hz with GSync or...

Hey, those three robot repairpeople will make a ton of money!

Gimme this with >60Hz, and I'll be happy.

It will have capacity - because it doesn't have a monstrous V12 hiding anywhere. It's a "2+2" which really means it's a 2 seater with room in the back for luggage. Plus it has a trunk (at least big enough to put the roof in to,) and presumably a small "frunk." This isn't meant to compete...

I want it to be the same size/form factor as the Game Boy Micro, but with original Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance games preloaded. Add in an HDMI port (even better if it's actually a small wireless adapter that connects to the TV, so you're not tethered to the TV by a wire,)...

Only gripe is: It isn't even a paper improvement, since most of AMD's are "USB 3.1" are Gen 1, as are Intel's. "USB 3.1 Gen 1" is just a rebranding of USB 3.0. There is no technical difference at all between USB 3.0 and "USB 3.1 Gen 1". Only "USB 3.1 Gen 2" are actually different. And both...

To me, the "yet another increment of the same architecture" isn't the news. The news is "2 more cores at the same price point" nearly across the board. For many workloads, that isn't a big deal at the i5 / i7 arena. But for the low-end, getting 4 cores instead of 2 on the i3 is huge. And for...

Almost certainly not - to upgrade to a newer OS on an encrypted drive, you have to first enter the password for the encrypted drive. Not to mention, as others have suggested, it is extremely likely that the security flaw is in the "store the password hint" stage, not in the actual "storing the...

That would be completely surprising considering Apple's history of *NOT* giving in an inch to government requests...

But if it's mostly going that fast above the atmosphere (as it would need to,) it won't generate sonic booms, except in a short span of time right after launch and right before landing. That doesn't negate many of the other problems... They show the launch and landing occurring fairly near...

It already is happening - the new "consumer" branch of Windows will be Windows-Store-apps-only.

I love Paint.NET. Haven't donated in quite a few years. Might very well buy it from the Windows Store just to help support them. (And hopefully help boost their ranking in the store and get them more paying customers.)

Happy to see that three of the first four comments make "sucks" puns...

My main theater TV is an old 72" 1080 rear-projection TV (one of the first generation of TVs with HDMI.) Annoyingly, it has proudly emblazoned "TI 1080p DLP!" on the front - but the HDMI inputs only accept 1080i max! My cable box and Blu-ray player both support 1080i output, but AppleTV...

My internet is plenty fast (Apple says 25 Mbps for 4K,) but I want to download it to iTunes on my computer for two reasons: 1. To keep a backup. I've had streaming content I purchased be removed from online stores before - I want a local copy to ensure I have what I purchased. (With iTunes I...

Damn you, Nikon. I bought in to your Nikon 1 series because improvements in technology had allows its small sensor to be nearly as good as Micro Four Thirds, while being far more compact, with insanely fast autofocusing. I have two Nikon 1 cameras, and most of the lenses that were made...

Wasn't this settled *DECADES* ago with other Breakout clones in the early '80s? They can't exactly copy it, but work-alikes should be 100% legal.

Off the record conversations with multiple pilots. They were basically all threatened with negative consequences if they said anything bad about Sully in public.

Why note sell it as soon as possible? Yeah, you may not be able to run it at full resolution with current CPU/GPU, but if I was in the market for a new display, I'd want one that I know would still be a *GREAT* display in 3-5 years. I don't have a 100+ Hz display now, and I was seriously...

And Sully is an asshole. Have a couple friends that worked at the same airline. Nobody could stand him. But he was a "hero," so publicly they had to compliment him at every opportunity.

I wonder if they realize that modern airliners are *ALREADY* fully automated? A modern 787/A380 can go from runway to runway without the pilot touching a single control.

What's funny is of the men and women I know at Google, they are all nearly exactly the opposite of this guy's claim. The women are the "tech people" and the men are the "people people." This guy is an idiot for over-generalizing everything and making his manifesto based on that overgeneralization.

I can also near-guarantee that if you reviewed the DX58SO, my hands were the last to touch it at Intel before it got sent out... (There were two of us doing pre-review validations, and I handled about 90% of the DX58SOs.) Edit: Searching, I can't find the [H] review of the DX58SO, only the...

Damn, my mom just lost hers (first year) to an accident. And aside from the paint being terrible (bad third party paint job a dozen years ago,) it was in great physical condition. Could have used a "factory restoration"...

Woo! Love the love for the Providence! I worked in Intel's "Enterprise Server Group" at the very end of Providence's support life, as the "only point of escalation" for it and a couple other similar-era boards. Odds are if you called Intel for support on the Providence in late 1999, early...

Because apparently all "gamers" are 12 year old boys...

Yeah, it got me in a way I didn't expect - there was one point where I thought "that prop looks awfully cheap..." then realized the scene was 100% CG. The CG was so good, it was able to convince me I was watching a B movie with cheap props.

And as much as people want to hate the iPhone, it really did change mobile phones forever. As evidenced by the fact that the first Android phone was meant to be more of a Blackberry design than an iPhone design - and Google delayed the release of Android after the launch of the iPhone...

You never *HAD* to use iTunes, except for the initial setup. It has always supported over-the-air syncing of calendar and contacts, with iCloud (or whatever it was called back then,) and Google. Exchange came soon after launch. There were third-party utilities to move music over pretty...

Are those the cables you use to access Twitter?

Installed it on my iPad Air (first-generation 64-bit iPad, oldest iPad supported by iOS 11.) I like the new iPad features, but it *DOES* have massive stuttering in various OS animations. I turned on "Reduce Motion" in the Accessibility settings, and it became perfectly smooth.