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I'm telling you guys...a jailbroken ipad is a totally different animal than a normal ipad.-superboyac (February 17, 2011, 12:37 PM)
FWIW, I don't have a problem with Apple's technologies. . .
I have a big problem with Apple's business, legal, and marketing practices. And I have an even bigger problem with their resident demigod, Mr. Jobs, who is the most significant single factor that's keeping Apple from becoming something truly great.-40hz (February 17, 2011, 12:53 PM)
So how did the Jeopardy match turn out? The first news article I read about it made it sound like it came in close 2nd place. This thread makes it sound like it won. Another article I read said it was a tie...-Deozaan (February 17, 2011, 12:00 PM)
It won!
77.147$ vs 24.000$ vs 21.600$.-Mark0 (February 17, 2011, 12:12 PM)
@40Hz - If only it were that simple...-Renegade (February 17, 2011, 07:35 AM)
It's as simple as you let it be.-40hz (February 17, 2011, 09:08 AM)
Damn Straight!
Guess how many Apple products I own... 0
Guess how many Apple products are own by my family members... 0
Guess how many I recommend to clients... 0
etc., etc., etc... It's just gotta start somewhere ... So who's with me?-Stoic Joker (February 17, 2011, 12:02 PM)
Because I think he's planning a subscription-based service, which, as I understand it, means that Apple will essentially take 30% each month (payment), rather than just the one-time "finders fee" type thing. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the implications of Apple's policy. Maybe he's in denial, still trying to figure out a way around it. Or maybe he's really Okay with the idea of letting Apple take 30% because of the huge market. I dunno. 
Once you're completely set up, create a disk image of your system drive and store it on the recovery partition.-40hz (February 17, 2011, 11:58 AM)
If you move all her personal stuff over to a separate partition, it makes her data backups a complete no-brainer. No need to fiddle with folder or subfolder selections. Just backup or sync the entire partition to an external drive (or cloud service) and be done with it.-40hz (February 17, 2011, 11:58 AM)
Or is until your pacemaker becomes dependent on your owning an iPad.I would totally jailbreak my pacemaker and have it do some cool shit.-40hz (February 17, 2011, 09:08 AM)-superboyac (February 17, 2011, 09:15 AM)
Is there a non-steam version or something else that you'd recommend that's similar?-Renegade (February 17, 2011, 05:27 AM)
We've been asked if the game contains any signficiant DRM, and the answer is, emphatically, no. We've got a simple license key (which turns the trial version into the full version), but that's it. No need to contact our servers during install, no hidden drivers, no encryption, or install limits.
We want to make it easy on our customers, and we've never really felt like DRM works, anyway. If you like our games, please buy them so that we can make more, but we're not about to start treating our real customers like thieves just to thwart the inevitable pirates.
Okay, all the parts arrived today, so if I made some poor choices with the PSU and the SSD, then too bad, so sad, my bad.Meh, does that include the A-DATA SSD? Did you read the review I posted a link to? You'd do yourself a favor to get that SSD swapped for a Vertex2.-Deozaan (February 16, 2011, 11:57 PM)-f0dder (February 17, 2011, 04:03 AM)
As for partitioning, think about this: What is the backup strategy going to be, (file/folder/partition/drive level), and where/what type of medium are backups going to performed to/on?-4wd (February 17, 2011, 02:48 AM)
You do realise you've now lumbered yourself with the maintenance contract?-4wd (February 16, 2011, 06:28 PM)
I don't want to overwhelm her with a bunch of different drive letters, but if there's a good reason for having 4 partitions (the max for a mechanical drive AFAIK) then I'd love to hear your reasons why and your suggested partition sizes.Slightly NSFW:
http://www.escapistm...ation/2680-Minecraft-Edvard (February 16, 2011, 06:21 PM)
There are two main problems
1) If you install W7 while the OS drive is connected in AHCI mode it will, literally, take hours for the installation. Both times I've done it, it took 4-5 hours.-4wd (January 19, 2011, 05:45 PM)
That would most likely take multiple bytes ... But I like the way you're thinking.-Stoic Joker (February 16, 2011, 04:54 PM)
I took this picture yesterday while visiting Madison Square Garden in NYC.
(see attachment in previous post)
Maybe it's just me, but this sign struck me as being unintentionally hilarious.-40hz (February 16, 2011, 02:40 PM)
Also, for the PSU: I've never heard of Rosewill. But one thing about PSUs: stable voltages are craploads more important than wattage. Even my quadcore/8gig/GF460/2x10k-rpm-raptor drives doesn't go above ~275W under full CPU+GPU load.-f0dder (February 16, 2011, 03:23 AM)
Hm, never heard of A-DATA SSDs before - but iirc the controller used (JMF616) isn't überhot. What's the price diff between the A-DATA and an OCZ Vertex2? If you go SSD, you gotta pick a proper one, or you might as well stick with a mechanical drive.-f0dder (February 16, 2011, 03:04 AM)
120MB/s on the A-DATA vs 275MB/s on the OCZ Vertex2.It takes longer to start up from Hibernate on my netbook than doing a fresh boot. :-/Ugh. HOW slow is the harddrive?-Deozaan (February 16, 2011, 12:01 AM)-f0dder (February 16, 2011, 02:23 AM)
Wanna share those final specs?-Ath (February 16, 2011, 01:38 AM)
