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Comment Re:Drives obsolete by the time the test completes (Score 2) 125

It's good that the Samsung 840 Pro is holding up so well (its predecessor the 830 was also ridiculously durable) but it's now replaced by the 850 Pro which uses radical new technology (stacked chips).

I suspect the 10 year warranty for the 850 Pro is a good indicator of how long Samsung expects it to last compared to the 840 Pro (which has a 5 year warranty).

Comment Re:Even power users don't have much to worry about (Score 2) 125

It really has to be used for something like database access or a file server or the like before endurance becomes an issue.

Even that isn't enough, because the drives in the test are being written essentially 24/7 (with just a little time off for the retention tests), and the drives remaining have been at it for 15 months.

You have to have an insanely busy database or file server to never have any time off from writes.

Comment Re:Support the developers! (Score 1) 91

Since EA started bundling their games with Origin, I have consistently chosen option (i) and will continue to do so in the future.

Same for me an Ubisoft. I liked Far Cry 1 and 2, but still haven't bought 3 because it requires Uplay and that you always be online to play.

I have plenty of other games to play (and spend my money on) that don't require painful DRM. Until enough people vote with their wallets, DRM is here to stay, despite not really stopping copying of software.

Comment Re:Works but it's CPU hungry (Score 1) 92

Define "CPU-intensive". How many execution units are we talking about here? It's pretty easy today to have a quad core with HT, and I haven't seen any game use more than 4 of the available 8 execution units on that setup. As long as streaming only needs a couple, you should be fine.

On the other hand, the network card might kill the CPU with interrupts when playing plus sending out the stream (especially an online game), but that would be a network driver issue, not really CPU.

Comment Re:Dual monitors and recompiling the kernel .. (Score 1) 488

See these people who managed to get dual screen working ..

...but are too lazy too write up a step-by-step guide that you can print out to use because you can't get your monitor working enough to watch a YouTube video.

Any time a search for "how to" for a computer task returns a YouTube video, I give up and figure it out myself. I don't want to waste time watching 20 minutes of "uh, well, see here we..." just to get to the "edit config.ini and add 'foo=1'" to the end.

Comment Re:Do not keep addresses in your car (Score 1) 375

In the US, at least, you're required to keep your car's current registration card in the vehicle; that has your address on it.

There is no US federal government law that says this. You might have a state law that says this, but it doesn't really mean it.

What it means is that the registration has to be in the car while it is being driven on a public road. I keep my vehicle registration in my wallet, and my wife has a copy in her purse. Since we are never without those when driving, our cars are legal.

And as for TFA and reducing what's in your wallet, I hope the writer never has to do anything involving health insurance, as without that card, you are generally out of luck.

Comment Re:The solution (Score 1) 224

You likely don't have to write to the game's installation directory for many hacks.

Most games support add-ons that can be installed per-user, so that means someplace the user can write to. Whether that level of hack would be enough to "cheat", I don't know. I do know that it can give you an advantage, though, by causing unimportant things to not be drawn on screen.

Comment Re:Spinning media can't go beyond 7200 rpm (Score 1) 438

You can only get 15K rpm drives at most at 600GB in size. At about $280 for those disks ($0.47/GB), SSDs are a complete win.

You can get a very solid 1TB SSD for $450, which is cheaper per GB ($0.45) and much, much faster. You can get a serious enterprise 1TB SSD (10-year warranty) for $550. You may have racks of 15K rpm drives, but they are truly outdated dinosaurs: slow and plodding, and expensive to feed and care for.

Comment Re:Did you really think?? (Score 1) 224

That all those triple flip, spinning, no look, cross map headshots were actually people NOT using a hack.. ROFLOL...

All of them, no, I don't, as I watched someone repeatedly do something very similar using the stock Xbox controller.

I saw his character jump from one platform, spin and kill with a rocket launcher, then keep spinning and land on the platform across the gap.

Comment Re:The solution (Score 2) 224

I don't know anything about this so-called "sport", but it sounds to me as if people bring their own machines to these events. This is a very curable problem. Get Alienware to sponsor the event with hardware which gets sent back to them at the end.

This isn't a bad idea, but you still have to allow peripherals to be brought in, since part of the player skill is likely their mouse and keyboard.

Then, you have to give the player time to config the game to their liking (mouse sensitivity, hotkeys, etc.). With all that going on, it might be pretty easy to slip in a hack of some kind.

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