Posted 11/01/2009 at 03:17:13am

I was just wondering if you have to use the command line to format the drive.

Is there any reason you can't just use "right-click->format"?

I'm doing it your way (just to be safe), but the other way would be much easier to remember. 

Posted 10/28/2009 at 03:15:00pm

The 5870 seems like an awesome card from a performance and power consumption standpoint.  However, this thing looks like the Red October and, from what I've heard, is almost as large.  Is this thing going to fit in most cases?  My current case is struggling to accomodate a 9.5" card!

Posted 10/10/2009 at 01:15:56pm

Np, Nate.  These things happen.
I'm just surprised nobody else pointed it out.
Just out of curiousity, what were those other benchmarks from?  They were pretty impressive. 

Posted 10/05/2009 at 10:08:52pm

Is it just me, or are those the totally wrong benchmarks for this review?  They don't correspond with the narrative part of the review at all.

I mean, 205/175MB sustained read/write and 0.11ms random access?  That would challenge a top-of-the-heap SSD!

And 945MB/s burst for the WD drive?!  What are you guys smoking?

Posted 12/17/2008 at 05:03:16am

Way to go with the process-shrink, nVidia!  Now do a board shrink.  Maybe if you designed a card that was less than a foot long, it would fit in my case.

And no, I don't want to replace my Antec Solo.  I like it.  Please make a card that will not hit the hard drive cage.  Thanks.

Posted 10/24/2008 at 12:23:06pm

Ok, I'm probably not saying anything new, but I'm going to chime in anyway.

 Publishers/Distributers have several misconceptions about piracy:

1)  They assume that every copy of a game downloaded is a lost sale.  Not true.  While some pirates may have otherwise purchased the game, many are simply pirates and would look for other games to download if product "X" was not readily available.  The real trick is to weigh the number of piracies prevented by DRM against the number of paying customers driven off.  Typically, the results aren't favorable.

2)  PC gaming is the sole realm of pirates.  Not true.  While cracked console games are marginally harder to get working, they are just as simple to download. If PC gaming dries up, pirates will not go away.  They'll simply turn all their attention on consoles.

 Manufacturers assume a percentage of their product will be duds.  Retailers assume a certain amount of shoplifting will take place.  Now publishers/distributers will have to accept that a certain amount of their games will be pirated.  No matter what.

 P.S.  Lines and paragraphs do not break automatically!

Posted 09/14/2008 at 04:01:11pm

This is why I don't click on random links to stupid Youtube videos.

Posted 09/14/2008 at 03:56:56pm

You mean those children who don't know where to place an apostrophe in their contractions?  Just a thought.

Posted 09/14/2008 at 03:47:35pm

What about the USB receiver that connects to your PC?  How big is it?  Please tell me it's not built into that huge, charging-station frisbee.

Posted 09/12/2008 at 10:32:44pm

Loss #1: We pirate the game in protest -- we prove EA's point that piracy is rampant.

Loss #2: We cease complaining and buy the game in its current form -- EA gets the impression that we'll stomach anything.

Loss#3: DRM only hinders legitimate customers since pirate copies come with cracks -- EA loses business, we lose future content

Upshot: Everybody loses.