Recent content by typicalGeek

So everyone is worried about the government spying on everything you're doing, but they would be willing to turn ALL of their (unencrypted) data usage over to a company in order to save a few bytes on their data plan? What does Opera do with all this data (besides compressing it)?

I can't wait to start seeing people wearing these. I'll take the opportunity to walk up to them and test out the voice circuits by saying, "glass, display nude pictures of Ernist Borgnine".

The games are provided as DIGITAL copies? Who'da thunk? How else would they be provided? Via VHS tapes? Pressed into vinyl albums? Perhaps you need to fire up an old TRS-80 cassette drive and feed it 321,213 tapes?

The point of a device like this is to be waterproof, not hold your entire collection. If playing reasonably high bit rate (256 Kbps) MP3, you're looking at about 2 MB per minute of music. So this player would hold about 30+ hours of music. Even at an hour a day's use at the gym or pool, you...

.tk domain = Tokelau. I'd never heard of it either. (It's a territory of New Zealand, 2011 census puts their population at just 1,411.)

re: Otacon's comment. How is the government to blame? The BANKS are the ones that have been resisting the switch to more secure chip embedded credit cards. While Target may shoulder some of the blame for this attack (very hard to determine due to lack of details thus far) the banks are the...

Gee - and when I was that age we though we were cool because we were into "The Smashing Pumpkins". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smashing_Pumpkins Hope you're $400 was worth a few youtube hits for you.

Without stating what AMD's current market share is, this article is pretty meaningless. If they are expected to move from 39% to 40% that's not much of a change is it? On the other hand if they currently only have only 20% of the market, moving to 40% would be quite an accomplishment.

"It packs a 4.95-inch 1920x1080p full HD display (though Google is calling this a 5-inch phone)..." Seriously, you're saying this as if the screen is noticeably short of being a full 5" diagonal measure. The 0.05" (less than 1.3 mm) that the author seems to have a problem with Google's rounding...

I'll be the first to admit that I didn't check the specifications of the Pro tablets, so perhaps you're getting something more than just more storage with the more expensive models. However, at least on first glance, it seems MS doesn't even think people can do SIMPLE math. If the models are as...

I wouldn't even consider an "upgrade" to Vista for a second. If necessary, you can re-install either XP or likely can upgrade to Windows 7. (You'd need to check to see if your hardware is compatible with Windows 7 or greater.) Most computers have a "recovery" partition built into them that will...

Most (all?) BIOSs have a setting to "load default values". That would be the place to start to make sure you're not feeding your CPU crazy voltage. If I'm understanding your description correctly, you are water cooling the CPU. If running at default settings the CPU shouldn't get much over room...

In the last paragraph, I'm quite sure that the cache size of the Seagate 1TB SSHD is NOT 64 GB. Without looking up the specifications myself, I'd assume that the cache size is much more likely 64 MB. (Only off by a factor of 1000. But who needs accuracy on a technology forum anyway?)

The screen width of 11.7" given by InvalidError is an Invalid Error. (Funny how that worked.) On a 16:9 screen the width is given by: diag measure / sqrt(16^2+9^2)*16 So substituting: w = 15.4 / sqrt(256+81) * 16 = 15.4 / sqrt(337) * 16 =...

Are you using the TV to display computer content? If so, try hitting CTRL-ALT-UP ARROW. On many (not all) computers you can rotate the output of the video card with CTRL-ALT-(any of the 4 arrow keys). The arrows (up, left, down, right) correspond to rotating the screen between normal output...