Crazy hacks? Its just firefox and wine. Geez, you add one repo and install a package and it just works 99% of the time.

What more could you want?

What?

Are you telling me the manager is faulty? Well, whats wrong with him!?

Given that the most read sectors probably contain parts of your OS and pagefile, and considering the size of a modern OS and the size of a modern game, you really expect there its likely with only 8GB that the sectors containing your game will end up on it? Its not impossible, but I know several games that have more than 8GB of content in and of themselves.

The write cache is probably a good thing, but I wouldn't expect gamers to see much performance on the read side of things with one of these. Much better off going with a discrete SSD or a more traditional hybrid setup.

Spoken like someone who hasn't actually used a latest gen SSD yet. I used to be on your bandwagon, thinking my striped raid was good enough.

There is just no getting around the fact that essentially zero seek times and 400MB+ reads and writes are just so much better than platters can manage.

I will never build another computer without at least a small SSD for the OS and related software.

Its unlikely that many of your games will end up on the cache seeing as its only 8 GB.

I'm fairly certain she didn't purchase them to defend herself from her own son. Nice try though.

Seriously dude?

Most 60" LED LCD tvs can be run 24/7 for less than $75 a year. That is practically nothing.

Your office could easily save an order of magnitude more by turning the thermostat up 1 degree.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there going to be some sort of legislature dictating that cell phone makers use a universal charging standard by this point? Everyone else has managed micro usb, why is it so hard for apple?

Yeah, but for the android device, its as simple as selecting "skip" when asked to log into google, then installing an alternative app market of your choice through the web browser. Oh, you might have to enable installing apps from other sources, a simple tick in the settings.

Hardly the same thing.

Honestly, being a licensed contractor in my state and dealing with residential construction for almost 15 years now, licensing means almost nothing. All it says is you payed your monetary dues and are bonded IF the county the work performed in requires it. Most states have no requirements that you be licensed and it is not illegal to operate without the license. Additionally, if you are in a county that requires bonding, you are still required to have that insurance if you are not licensed.

All contractors should be researched and you should ask for references. Being licensed doesn't make them any less likely to be incompetent or rip you off in my experience.

Mine doesn't either. For instance, instead of a 1 inch box end wrench, I have a 25.4mm box end wrench.

I believe it does, its just hidden away in the advanced section of the settings as I recall. I could be wrong though, been awhile since I was using gingerbread.

I dont know that i would consider that trend significant given the stock history over the last 5 years.

Beg to differ, On my last two devices, display usually ranked 2nd or 3rd to cell standby and phone calls. Only on occasions where I had an extended game session or a movie did it ever break 30% usage.

Pretty much every android device out there is now rated above 7 hours talk time. I don't know what planet you come from, but that is easily double what smart phones did 4 years ago when they weren't dominant of the cell market.

Motorola actually did what you are suggesting in their Droid Razr model, offering one with a 2.5x capacity battery called 'Maxx" or some such. Very few people sprang the extra money for the extra battery because 8 hours talk time was already sufficient. Most people aren't power users like we are.