Tech: Open thread

2012-02-07 11:10:57

#9926

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5604|London, England

Ilocano wrote:
Jay wrote:
Finray wrote:
You're saying Blackberrys are for poor people?
Yes. They're so ridiculously outdated that even businesses are abandoning them and it takes a massive shift for them to even consider changing platforms. BB's are given away for like $10 with a data plan here.
Corporate hasn't moved away from Blackberry because of the phones, but because of the huge infrastructure and costs. Corporate BB requires a dedicated BB Exchange Server, plus unlimited Enterprise data plans. Instead, many Corporates are moving to decentralized phone plans. Basically, some reimbursement scheme, allowing employees to purchase their own plans, and utilize a secure email app like TouchDown. I know this because I was part of the phone conversion initiative group.. I get reimbursed $100/month, adding my corporate phone to my family plan. You'd think $100 is a lot, but the BB plan was insanely more expensive.

Locally, it had more to do with the 4 days the BB network was down this past year. Everyone seems to be switching over to company iPhones.

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2012-02-07 16:30:16

#9927

Camm: Feeding the Cats.; +761|5214|Dundee, Scotland.

going for this one

http://www.ebuyer.com/271789-gigabyte-a … 990fxa-ud3

Last edited by Camm (2012-02-07 16:47:01)

for a fatty you're a serious intellectual lightweight.

2012-02-08 18:04:25

#9928

Camm: Feeding the Cats.; +761|5214|Dundee, Scotland.

just spilled half a glass of milk on my keyboard D: D: D:

for a fatty you're a serious intellectual lightweight.

2012-02-08 18:09:43

#9929

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,979|6878|949

Jay wrote:
Ilocano wrote:
Jay wrote:

Yes. They're so ridiculously outdated that even businesses are abandoning them and it takes a massive shift for them to even consider changing platforms. BB's are given away for like $10 with a data plan here.
Corporate hasn't moved away from Blackberry because of the phones, but because of the huge infrastructure and costs. Corporate BB requires a dedicated BB Exchange Server, plus unlimited Enterprise data plans. Instead, many Corporates are moving to decentralized phone plans. Basically, some reimbursement scheme, allowing employees to purchase their own plans, and utilize a secure email app like TouchDown. I know this because I was part of the phone conversion initiative group.. I get reimbursed $100/month, adding my corporate phone to my family plan. You'd think $100 is a lot, but the BB plan was insanely more expensive.
Locally, it had more to do with the 4 days the BB network was down this past year. Everyone seems to be switching over to company iPhones.

With the global iPhone available, it's made it much more desirable.

2012-02-09 07:31:14

#9930

GC_PaNzerFIN: Work and study @ Technical Uni; +528|6660|Finland

Moar power, new PSU is freezing cold and needs to warm up a bit before I use it or expect explosions and smoke.

3930K | H100i | RIVF | 16GB DDR3 | GTX 480 | AX750 | 800D | 512GB SSD | 3TB HDD | Xonar DX | W8

2012-02-09 08:11:33

#9931

Camm: Feeding the Cats.; +761|5214|Dundee, Scotland.

GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:
Moar power, new PSU is freezing cold and needs to warm up a bit before I use it or expect explosions and smoke.

Two psus?

for a fatty you're a serious intellectual lightweight.

2012-02-09 15:56:40

#9932

Camm: Feeding the Cats.; +761|5214|Dundee, Scotland.

YAS

Got nVidia surround set up!

will post a BF3 ss at some point

Thanks to panzer

for a fatty you're a serious intellectual lightweight.

2012-02-09 16:38:41

#9933

Finray: Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro; +2,629|6034|Catherine Black

ech hem

2012-02-09 17:05:07

#9934

Camm: Feeding the Cats.; +761|5214|Dundee, Scotland.

Finray wrote:
ech hem

you and phil got your thanks at mine. pizza suffices

for a fatty you're a serious intellectual lightweight.

2012-02-09 17:23:12

#9935

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5604|London, England

Getting really fucking annoying all these companies trying to cash in. Every time I turn around something that used to be free has a 'join here if you'd like to use this feature' attached to it now. Fuck off! You want to convert a .pdf to .doc format? Oh, sign up here first. Fuck you Adobe. As if you don't already make more money than god from photoshop.

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2012-02-09 17:32:32

#9936

m3thod: All kiiiiiiiiinds of gainz; +2,197|6917|UK

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-fr … writer.htm

Blackbelts are just whitebelts who have never quit.

2012-02-09 17:41:31

#9937

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5604|London, England

m3thod wrote:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-pdf-writer.htm

I know there are free writers out there. That's not the point though. The service used to be free and now they have a price tag attached to it. Bait and switch I say!

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2012-02-09 19:06:57

#9938

SplinterStrike: Roamer; +250|6657|Eskimo land. AKA Canada.

So, my 8800 GT just kicked the bucket as I was gaming, Would anyone have a suggestion for an upgrade in the 100-200$ price range?

Preferably an NVIDIA card, this is to play things like BF3, TF2, LoL among others.

2012-02-09 19:11:05

#9939

Miggle: FUCK UBISOFT; +1,411|6988|FUCK UBISOFT

SplinterStrike wrote:
So, my 8800 GT just kicked the bucket as I was gaming, Would anyone have a suggestion for an upgrade in the 100-200$ price range?

Preferably an NVIDIA card, this is to play things like BF3, TF2, LoL among others.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/GTX-260-896MB-G … 1e6b028e45

2012-02-09 19:11:52

#9940

RTHKI: mmmf mmmf mmmf; +1,741|6983|Cinncinatti

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6814130623

560ti

2012-02-09 19:12:46

#9941

bugz: Fission Mailed; +3,311|6558

get the one with the serial number ending in AR (lifetime warranty vs 2 year)

Last edited by bugz (2012-02-09 19:13:18)

Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/id/ebug122

2012-02-09 19:25:02

#9942

Mutantbear: Semi Constructive Criticism; +1,431|6211|London, England

SplinterStrike wrote:
So, my 8800 GT just kicked the bucket as I was gaming, Would anyone have a suggestion for an upgrade in the 100-200$ price range?

Preferably an NVIDIA card, this is to play things like BF3, TF2, LoL among others.

racist

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2012-02-09 21:09:11

#9943

Shahter: Zee Ruskie; +295|7021|Moscow, Russia

SplinterStrike wrote:
So, my 8800 GT just kicked the bucket as I was gaming, Would anyone have a suggestion for an upgrade in the 100-200$ price range?

Preferably an NVIDIA card, this is to play things like BF3, TF2, LoL among others.

560ti

if you open your mind too much your brain will fall out.

2012-02-10 06:34:25

#9944

Finray: Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro; +2,629|6034|Catherine Black

RTHKI wrote:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130623

560ti

it may be over the top end of your budget but that is a really really good card.

2012-02-10 06:45:58

#9945

Camm: Feeding the Cats.; +761|5214|Dundee, Scotland.

yep 560ti is THE price/performance card of the generation

for a fatty you're a serious intellectual lightweight.

2012-02-10 18:27:15

#9946

Zimmer: Un Moderador; +1,688|7002|Scotland

Jay wrote:
There's no reason not to use the built in browser on a mobile phone.

After reading about 5 posts of your utter drivel, I wanted to correct you on this ridiculously stupid and ignorant statement.

Both Android and Blackberry's native browsers are actually crap. Poor web standards, poor rendering, slow rendering and generally poor at everything. Opera Mobile (unless it's Opera Mini) has shown to be a much more efficient and effective browser on Android, as has Opera Mini on Blackberry. Both Dolphin and Opera Mobile are streaks ahead of the Android browser that it uses, and if you think otherwise then you are just talking out of your ass. I deal with mobile rendering issues every day now that I'm developing mobile apps and sites, and I can tell you that Android fucking sucks balls.

The only 2 browsers that have a rendering engine far superior to the rest are Opera Mobile and Safari on iOs. I would also add IE8/9 on WP7 does a good job, but probably not on par with certain rendering (especially javascript).

So let me recap:

Superior Mind is being a perfectly reasonable, smart person and using a browser system that is known to be good on every platform. You are being stupid and dogmatic.

SM - If it's Opera Mini, then I know the issue: Basically what happens is that your pages are not actually rendered, they are snapshots (images) of what they should look like. Opera's servers render the site for you, compress it, make it an image with links and send it to your phone. So essentially you don't see dynamic content. If this is the case then when you hit submit there can be some fuck ups on the processing from the server when you post something. I've had it happen to me before when I used it on my old Nokia.

2012-02-10 18:44:02

#9947

SplinterStrike: Roamer; +250|6657|Eskimo land. AKA Canada.

Brand new 560ti (RA) coming on Tuesday, thanks guys

2012-02-10 19:00:15

#9948

Finray: Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro; +2,629|6034|Catherine Black

2012-02-11 05:16:42

#9949

Camm: Feeding the Cats.; +761|5214|Dundee, Scotland.

omg teracopy. teracopy omg.

for a fatty you're a serious intellectual lightweight.

2012-02-11 05:52:44

#9950

Benzin: Member; +576|6244

Camm wrote:
omg teracopy. teracopy omg.

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Ilocano wrote:

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Finray wrote:

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Ilocano wrote:

Jay wrote:

GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:

Finray wrote:

m3thod wrote:

SplinterStrike wrote:

SplinterStrike wrote:

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RTHKI wrote:

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