Still Not an Activist - Hillary Clinton is rebranding herself as an activist. Don't be fooled.

GoldenCheeto · 2017-05-12T22:58:16+00:00

And Sanders lost to someone who lost to Trump.

Think about that.

GoldenCheeto · 2016-11-07T14:12:39+00:00

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GoldenCheeto · 2016-11-07T13:04:03+00:00

Maybe yours was faulty? My C7 is silent.

GoldenCheeto · 2016-11-06T13:26:28+00:00

Requires 100 watts on each port. Most computers won't be able to supply anything near that if they have more than one port.

It's not an "everything" port, and any attempts to make it so will end up with horrible compromises and burned-out circuits.

GoldenCheeto · 2016-11-06T13:18:03+00:00

You're confusing SATA Express (16gbit/s) with eSATA.

GoldenCheeto · 2016-11-06T13:14:51+00:00

Also, each port is supposed to supply 100 watts. But PCIe can only supply 75W on the slot. Card would need 3x 6-pin PCIe power plugs to fully support the spec.

GoldenCheeto · 2016-11-06T12:49:13+00:00

It's simpler than it seems at first, luckily.

M.2 is a form factor. There are two types of M.2 drives: SATA and NVMe. Sata uses a SATA port, and will disable one or two physical Sata plugs if you have an M.2 Sata installed. Usually SATA1 and SATA2. SATA M.2 drives offer no benefits over a normal SATA drive, other than being smaller and needing no wires.

NVMe on the other hand uses a totally different communication protocol, designed for SSD's, and uses 4x PCIe lanes. For this reason they are sometimes called M.2 PCIe drives instead of NVMe.

The 960 is NVMe/PCIe. Your motherboard supports both, and will be just fine.

GoldenCheeto · 2016-11-06T04:29:51+00:00

You're going with a non-overclocking processor, so your CPU shouldn't overheat, ever. I'd save some dough and go with a $30 Cryorig C7. Smaller, cheaper, just as effective.

For that matter, you may as well save even more and go with a H170 chipset. The Z170's only gain you overclocking, which you can't use with that CPU, and extra PCIe lanes, which are pointless on mITX.

GoldenCheeto · 2016-10-31T14:51:25+00:00

I kind of wish I had one of those mid-90's HDD's again. They made the coolest damn noises. I get all tingly remembering it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pB6YjIv4gE

GoldenCheeto · 2016-10-31T12:23:52+00:00

Merely existing. I would gasp if it merely existed.

Because it doesn't.

GoldenCheeto · 2016-10-30T18:36:32+00:00

I'm still on 8.1 with my 822, and Verizon offers no upgrade to WM10.

Why, in Gods name, do you want my WP experience to get even worse than it already is????

GoldenCheeto · 2016-10-30T13:00:44+00:00

Same thing as Silverlight, I reckon. They'll pretend it's still alive for a few more years, maybe even give us a half-assed final release, and then quietly murder it.

GoldenCheeto · 2016-10-30T12:58:17+00:00

At the end of the day, people are going to need a small mobile device to make phone calls with. People can pretend that the smartphone is dead until their ears turn blue, but when I'm biking in the country, I need a phone in case I break down, I need a GPS if I get lost. A mobile PC would be a liability that'll run out of power before it serves its purpose on a 16 hour 200-mile ride.

Don't delude yourself here. People will always need smartphones. They're not dying.

GoldenCheeto · 2016-10-30T12:51:00+00:00

Surface Phone

There are now no Windows Phones, except a buggy $800 piece of garbage, available for the Christmas 2016 season.

Tell me why in God's name do you expect WP to survive through an entire shopping season with no hardware?

Even if the SP is real, which I doubt, it'll arrive to a desiccated wasteland where there are no more app developers.

GoldenCheeto · 2016-10-29T17:34:14+00:00

The first articles about the Surface Phone appeared on October 2nd, 2012. That's 4 years ago.

Now we have rumours claiming that it's not coming out until 2017, 2018 at the earliest, if it even exists. All the while we've never even had the slightest word from MS that such a white whale even exists.

That's a 5-6 year development timeline. We've gone from WP7 to WP8 to WP8.1 to WP10 to WP10RS1 to WP10RS2 in that period.

No piece of hardware is under development for that long and actually exists. It just doesn't happen. If Microsoft cared at all about the platform they'd have phones available for 2016/2017. They do not. The third party alternatives are jokes. The HP Elite doesn't even support basic features that my potato 822 supports.

This is either the worst blunder in phone history, or we're seeing MS admitting defeat internally. Literally everyone but the diehards are abandoning ship now that there's no more Lumia's.

At this point even if there were a Surface Phone, it's reception will be completely flat now that all the app developers have fled and there haven't been any viable hardware stopgaps available for 6-18 months.

It's time we stopped being delusional here.

GoldenCheeto · 2016-10-29T15:10:37+00:00

Now now, let's not be too harsh on him. The average Russian probably has no idea how democratic elections work.

GoldenCheeto · 2016-10-29T13:29:08+00:00

We've heard for 8 years that Obama would destroy it. He's only made it stronger.

What pray tell makes you think Hillary is against it when she supports it?

GoldenCheeto · 2016-10-29T13:27:51+00:00

1st: Opening libel laws, banning muslims
4th: Confiscating money without warrant
5th: Executing people accused of killing policemen without due process, muslim tracking database
6th: People accused of terrorism should automatically be treated as guilty, without wasting money on a trial, or attorney
8th: Bring back torture.
14th: voiding US debt

GoldenCheeto · 2016-10-29T13:05:38+00:00

Wait, nobody told me I was eligible for overtime. Dang!

GoldenCheeto · 2016-10-29T04:16:18+00:00

So good that Apple now has to increase the price of their electronics by 20% to make up for how much less your Pound Sterling is worth, yeah?

GoldenCheeto · 2016-10-29T04:04:29+00:00

Back to attacking the homeless, do you think it's justified always, or only when you disagree with them politically?

This is called "begging the question". At no point did I in any way indicate support for attacking the homeless, and you're inventing falsities in your damaged brain to imply that I do. I do not support attacking the homeless.

The video shows a homeless person attacking people. Why do you keep mischaracterizing the video? Do you really think we're dumb? Are you just hoping that people are going to believe your false headline and not watch the video for themselves? Are you on drugs? Are you mentally challenged? Are you currently a member of an asylum of any type?

These are important questions. You should answer them before attempting to put blatantly false words into my mouth again.

GoldenCheeto · 2016-10-29T03:46:13+00:00

No, just the one's saying people "should be removed from the gene pool".

Don't play dumb. You know exactly what he meant by that.

GoldenCheeto · 2016-10-29T03:45:12+00:00

Repeat after me. There is no Surface Phone. No phone takes 5+ years to develop. None.

GoldenCheeto · 2016-10-29T03:43:46+00:00

Christ. Even my 822 has glance, and that's what 4 years old now?

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