Recent content by theoldgrumpybear

The end result should be that the US Patent Office realizes that they need to change patents and rules, it is broken today. The lifetime of a "Medical patent" (before anyone can make a copy without paying royalities) i think is 7 years. In the tech industry that moves a lot faster it is 30...

I have had to scrape off the ice from the windshield the last couple mornings... If I had these in my car they would be ice to more than name. Give me a hot CPU to warm my house. :-)

And how many "new" patents will be filed with this model as basis?

apache_livesSSD's permanently attached to the pcb/mobo - one more item to fail out of warranty and create a throw-away item - sad the world we live in, driven by the demand for slightly thinner, unserviceable units Being BGA a mobo manufacturer could just keep it in a "socket" and when/if it...

Fun to see peeps here talk about desktops in the enterprise. The near future of the enterprise should (can't use will since I do not control the future) go virtual. Clients being renderers of the OS run on servers (yes a new version of client server but so is the "cloud" actually). The desktops...

"Everything he mentions there, except companions, is already in WoW; but this is alright. Bioware's design focus was to create a polished and solid game similar to WoW, but with a few additions. There's nothing wrong with that, the FPS genre has been doing this small incremental improvements for...

Duh I thought I did not have an idea, the above are great ones and made me just now think of another. -- An PoE port (or two) Ahhh well maybe some other manufacturer will do this then. ;-)

I would not know, i am neither geek nor nerd (J/K)... I met my wife on EQ... We lived on different continents in RL but were together all time in EQ. So after a couple of years of that we changed to live in the same place in RL and EQ. I do know I did not select her nor did she select me...