Recent content by plbyrd

There is no such thing as a user who only games with a machine. In this digital age everyone and their brother is using cameras, iPods, phones, and other equipment that have a high demand on storage performance and capacity. I think you guys should be allowed to go over budget, but you get...

bounty It can't really do flash stuff, but neither can Atom + intel chipset. Where do you get this from? I watch YouTube videos and Netflix (Silverlight) videos on my Atom platforms all the time (netbook and media PC).

I have a system at home that started life as a CarPC but was migrated to my bedroom as a media center (which it's extremely capable of, especially using the Centrafuse software suite which is meant for mobile media). This system is a 945GSE based system with the Atom 330 processor. The ONLY...

Where's the line? I am getting one of these ASAP.

Someone should fit this in the case of a dead Amiga 500 and have it boot to Amiga Forever. That would be cool.

This one is easy: Learning that RAID 0 sucks... the hard way. Picture this, I built a top-of-the line system with a pair of Raptor 10K 150GB drives in RAID 0, with another 740GB in a JBOD array. For six months I used this system for both work and play and had accumulated TONS of important...

Um, am I reading this correctly? When the backlight is off it's monochrome? If so, how is this a "stunning screen", unless you mean "stunningly useless?"

The speeds of a RAID 0 are only limited to the SATA standard if the said RAID is presented to the SATA controller as a single drive. If the SATA controller is in charge of the RAID, then the bandwidth available is the sum of the bandwidth for each channel the drives are on. The only reason we...

Napster obviously wants you to upgrade to the Napster-to-Go service (which I adore with all my heart) that allows you to download almost all of the tunes on their store (a few bands require some songs to only be available by stream ::ahem:: U2 ::ahem::). Plus, you get to sync that music to...

dark_lord69The people that were ripped off will never see a dime of that money. Of course not, nobody got ripped off. This EU will just use this money to further marginalize Capitalism.

@demonhorde665 Want to talk expensive? IBM Rational Suite, which is a set of software for developers that is analogous to AutoCad for designers, costs over $15,000 --- per person. And that's in addition to the costs of the server software that backs the $15,000 client software.

Dry that one out and fertilize the lawn with it. It's blatantly obvious that every one of these European lawsuits against Microsoft is just cover to further marginalize Capitalism in European society as Capitalism is the one true path to providing individual freedoms.

1a) M.U.L.E. (C64 & Atari 400/800) 1b) StarCraft: Brood War (picking between M.U.L.E. and SC is like picking your favorite child. I placed M.U.L.E. first out of deference to its seniority) 2) Civilization (all versions) 3) Colonization (original MS-DOS, new version is too "Quirky" to make this...

"We are not in any way, shape or form trying to pick on Microsoft, but the problems with this particular [operating] system are known nationwide," Hinojosa said. "And the XP operating system is working very well." Typical politician that knows nothing about what he speaks.

"Keeping Windows XP is definitely a good thing, " No, it is not. XP is far more likely to be hacked than Vista and doesn't include critical security features other than UAC such as user-mode drivers. It's disingenuous for any tech to try to prop up XP over Vista, it's really just a matter of...