Yes carrots are sweet, especially right from the garden. The carrots that most grocery stores have are pretty much crap. You want to know what else is sweet raw and right from the ground, potatoes. You wouldn't think so, but they are.

Except for one problem, a recent study (highlighted on 60 minutes) found that older people live longer if they have a bit of extra body fat. One of the reasons posited by the researchers was that their systems have extra energy stores to get them through being sick, etc.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wa...

Colleges are stating to create drone piloting programs. There is going to be a huge demand for them over the next 5 to 10 years.

What's interesting is that the networking piece includes open sourcing the ASIC firmware. ASICs improve network performance by implementing hardware switching, routing, etc.

I forgot to add that one of my goals for this system was to make it as quiet as possible while still using air cooling. I can barely hear it running when sitting next to it. Of course, the GTX 970 sounds like an airplane taking off, in comparison, when it gets warm while gaming. Then again, I'm usually too distracted to notice... (grin)

- CORSAIR HX Series HX850 is really quiet
- Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO - CPU Cooler with 120mm PWM Fan (RR-212E-20PK-R2)
- 50PCS Flexible Silikon Anti Vibration Mount Screw Pins Rivet For PC Case Fans from ebay to replace case fan screws
- COUGAR CF-V12HB Vortex Hydro-Dynamic-Bearing (Fluid) 300,000 Hours 12CM Silent Cooling Fan (Black) for in front and behind the drive bays
- XIGMATEK eXTREME SILENT Series XSF-F1252 120mm Case Fan

Thanks!! I do prefer the 16:10 format. Going to a 16:9 monitor would require going up to a 27".

Acer just came out with their 27" 144Hz IPS G-SYNC 16:9 monitors at CES. Much more expensive, but may be a better monitor covering both color gamut and video gaming.

My current computer was built in Dec 2012, with some updates since (i.e. video card). I'm usually on a 3 year refresh rate. I'm thinking that I'll be building my next one when Skylake comes out.

I use mine for photo editing, video editing, gaming, GNS3 (Network simulation), etc. It was built primarily for gaming with the thought that anything else thrown at it would work just fine. The weak point in my system are the displays, its past time for new monitors. For gaming I use my 52" Samsung Plasma but I plan on moving to a 3 monitor setup, which is why I have the 970.

System:

  ASUS P8Z77-V PRO LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
  Intel Core i7-3770K Quad-Core Processor 3.5 GHz 8 MB Cache LGA 1155
  G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 2133 (PC3 17000)
  MSI GTX 970 GAMING 4G GeForce GTX 970 4GB
  Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 3GB DDR5 HDMI / DVI-I
  Creative Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS Platinum 7.1 Channels 24-bit 192KHz PCI
  2x Samsung 840 Series 250GB SSD (System, Programs)
  5x Seagate 2TB 7200RPM SATA III drives (single drives for data, no RAID)
  2x SATA drive bay with 2.5" and 3.5" hot swap SATA slots
  2x BH14NS40 14x Blu-ray Disc Rewriter
  CORSAIR HX Series HX850 850W ATX12V Power Supply
  Antec P280 Black ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

Displays:

  Dell 2405FPW 24" 16:10 monitor
  Acer 24" 16:9 monitor

You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have satellites with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads!!!

If Space-X can't win on merits alone, lasers....

Not only that, but the majority of the content is upscaled from 6K (whether using upscaling or stitching). It's cool and all that he spent the time and effort to do this, but, in my opinion, it's not true 8K until it's native video. Red has a 6K camera that can be upgraded with an 8K sensor.

Work with your exchange admin to give your replacement permissions to your inbox. They can then open it as a second mailbox. Make sure that you delete any personal stuff first.

Another option is to have your Exchange admin create a public folder and only give permissions to you and your replacement. You can then move the email into the public folder and have shared access until you leave.

Those are the only two methods that I can think of where the information would not leave the Exchange system. Typically, this is done by exporting email from the old mailbox and importing it into the new using a PST file, but the email is temporarily outside of the system during this process.

But first you have to print the hen, rooster, chicken, then the duck... mmm, chicken....

Yeah, it's amusing that people still think of Slashdot as a startup even though it has been sold 3 to 4 times over as a division of one company or another.

Most owners of a successful startup want to either become rich, by growing the business or getting rich by selling it to someone else. In that sense, Slashdot was a successful startup as it was originally bought by Andover for $1.5 mill + $7 mill in stock. Once it was sold, that was it, the startup days were over.

Personally, any upgrade would be for a motherboard with USB 3.1, PCIe 4.0, and DDR4. Basically, faster I/O. I wouldn't be upgrading for more processing power as the I7-3770 works perfectly fine for just about everything that I throw at.

If you take a chocolate bar and make it 10% smaller but charge the same price then your margins and profits go up. That's what the hard-drive manufacturers did by simply changing the definition of MB. Granted, it was a one time thing. But they did get a nice surge in profits around the time that they made the changeover.

And historical meanings shouldn't be changed simply so that marketing speak can be used to sell less at the same price.

I love how 1 MB of RAM is 1048576 bytes but 1 MB of storage is now 1000000 bytes of storage, simply because the hard-drive industry decided that they could make more money by using the same term, change the historical meaning in the computing industry from base-2 to base-10 (essentially downsizing the actual storage), and charging the same amount.

Either convert totally to GiB, MiB, etc. for everything computer related or stick with the old convention. It's when you are mixing the two in a particular context (i.e. computers) where you run into problems.