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You've had more than your share of sorrow and stress, Angel. I know it's hard, but stay as strong as you can. Not to minimize your situation, but I've had decades of poor luck, heartache, and disappointment. I only say that as a kindred spirit who gets where you are in this process of hanging on by a thread while the universe seems to be wielding a butane torch. You've got my prayers, as do the afflicted members of your family.

Nope, that's just wrong. These cards and processors have so much engineering safety overhead that it's totally safe to overclock them. Especially when done at the factory. With the overclock they dial in, there's still a solid 20% safety margin. They typically use a higher performance VRAM, too, so they can clock up without being choked by lower performance memory. Price point is typically quite advantageous and benchmarks often rival the next step up. In my case, the overclocked 660Ti in my system is performing at a level nearly on par with a stock 670. Yes, you can blow a GPU or CPU if you don't know what you're doing. That said, my CPU is running about 27% above rated speed - 4.07GHz overclocked to 4.2GHz. It's been doing that since I built in in 2009. Stable as a psychiatrist and purrs like a kitten. Does the quarter mile in a millisecond or two. It really is all that an a bag of chips. Super-sized. Whatever.

Amazing images. A whole other world, it seems. Way different from day-to-day life here in Wisconsin.

Clearly Idiot inspired...

LMAO

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Fat chance I've got of THAT ever happening Thank you.

OMFG !! Thank you. I'm so touched! Really. And not just because I was dropped on my head when I was a baby. All this and the Fonz, too? Wow. I'm having such an awesome day!

Happy Birthday, 7

Dean, it's all explained here (by my least favorite physicist.) E=mc2 wherein we realize that no dollars were created or destroyed in the making of this joke. And the BIG takeaway from the video is clearly when Michio states, "The faster you move, the heavier you get." And from this we deduce that you, Dean, weigh a TON.

Whack.

Welcome Idiot. Cool name. Brick. I like it. Something you can throw with authority!

To be honest @@Shamu, seeing this (http://www.htc.com/us/smartphones/htc-one/) makes me want to look at HTC stock. But the market is a crapshoot, so you gotta make that call based on the indicators that trip your fancy. As for Apple stock? Well, all the money I've put into Apple stock has seen some pretty solid gains. Unfortunately, the death of Steve Jobs and the iPhone 5 debacle has left the stock beaten pretty badly. But I still think they can pull it out. Personally, I'm not a fan of the way they do business, but there's an entire universe that seems smitten by it. That's all I need - a starving crowd.

Don't count out HTC. I own an HTC One X+ and it fairly rocks. Samsung and HTC are constantly volleying for position. I know Samsung typically gets the glory, but HTC has some pretty solid devices. Holding the HTC One X+ in one hand and the Samsung Galaxy S III in the other, the HTC just feels so right. Guess the S IV will take over for a while 'till HTC's next offering, though. The Android OS is built on Linux, too. I agree on the iTunes rant, but (for now at least) my internet radio station (Girls Rock Radio) is listed under the Alternative section of ITunes Radio. But as a music service beyond that, yeah, piece of CRAP. Google Music is the best now, at least if you're trying to source music for purchase. That's because Google has constant bitrate 320k MP3s where iTunes and Amazon have variable bitrate (~256k) MP3s. Rhapsody has 256k constant bitrate MP3 files, but their catalog has huge holes. Spotify is AWESOME if you don't want to buy music, but their premium service is $9.99/mo. Their library is as good or better than Google's and is probably the largest. Im ignorant... I dont even know who HTC is. hahahahha Dosent Samsung make all the LCD's for all devices.. i heard that but was not sure if true. and yep.. everything is now linux. I remember die hard Unix fucks claiming Linux will never make it. SCO will or BSD will... fucking Unix. If only they had a penis they could look beyond their computer screen. Don't want you to be ignorant. Idiot, sure. Ignorant, no. So here: http://www.slashgear.com/htc-one-x-official-we-go-hands-on-02249834/ And a review of the Samsung vs HTC: http://www.slashgear.com/htc-one-x-vs-samsung-galaxy-s-iii-battle-royale-02250090/ And I just saw this... OMG, I want one !!! http://www.htc.com/us/smartphones/htc-one/ Linux is very quietly, and sometimes not so quietly, getting it's foot into everyone's door. The little OS that could. lol. BUT... We wouldn't have all the great PC games without MS, and Windows, and the DX line of graphics software subsystems. If they would just make a graphics standard for Linux, and if it were easy enough to re-tool the gaming shops over to that standard, it would be another HUGE nail in MS's coffin. I just installed Ubuntu on a old Pentium 4HT box (single core, looks like 2 cores with hyper-threading, runs at 3GHz, but is actually slow as snot) and I was TOTALLY IMPRESSED !!! The disk partition manager is cool, and with Firefox and LibreOffice included and installed with the distro, it goes a long way toward replacing my desktop right out of the box ('er, download.) .

Don't count out HTC. I own an HTC One X+ and it fairly rocks. Samsung and HTC are constantly volleying for position. I know Samsung typically gets the glory, but HTC has some pretty solid devices. Holding the HTC One X+ in one hand and the Samsung Galaxy S III in the other, the HTC just feels so right. Guess the S IV will take over for a while 'till HTC's next offering, though. The Android OS is built on Linux, too. I agree on the iTunes rant, but (for now at least) my internet radio station (Girls Rock Radio) is listed under the Alternative section of ITunes Radio. But as a music service beyond that, yeah, piece of CRAP. Google Music is the best now, at least if you're trying to source music for purchase. That's because Google has constant bitrate 320k MP3s where iTunes and Amazon have variable bitrate (~256k) MP3s. Rhapsody has 256k constant bitrate MP3 files, but their catalog has huge holes. Spotify is AWESOME if you don't want to buy music, but their premium service is $9.99/mo. Their library is as good or better than Google's and is probably the largest.

Yeah, *sigh* As a former Novell NetWare Administrator, I long for the days of NetWare Servers. They rocked! Windows and MS Word fucked up WordPerfect. They just couldn't compete when the desktop went graphical. It was dead before Novell picked it up. Who has it now? Corel, I think. Still going nowhere.

Not sure what your point is. Mine's already been around the world and played several matches in COD5 Breakfast Club this morning. Windows memory management is good at keeping things sorted out, and by and large, most systems loaf around doing nothing a lot of the time no matter now many processes you have loaded up.

Most of us will plod along uneventfully 'till one fateful day when... BAM !!! ...we get hit. That "plodding along" can literally go on for years before the "BAM." And the "BAM" can happen even when we are the most savvy computer user. It's just a fact of life. Again, with no performance hit for UAC, I don't get the reluctance to use it. And with malware lurking out there hell bent on being stealthy on your system so as not to arouse your suspicion, but rather to very quietly rape your address book, send spam, perform denial of service attacks, and other crap you're totally unaware of, to run topless (without UAC) or Full Monty (no protection at all) seems far riskier than I'm prepared to use a computer. IMHO.

Not so fast there, PingLo... http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2013/03/23/security-flaws-could-undermine-trust-in-apples-mobile-payment-ambitions/ http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/new-mac-malware-epidemic-exploits-weaknesses-in-apple-ecosystem/4726 And here's a database of 21,557 Mac exploits. You're not as safe as you think. http://www.exploit-db.com/platform/?p=osX (btw, why is the @mention feature not available on your profile?)

@@JohnnyQuest - how is it that something that pops up so rarely annoys you so greatly? I just really do not get that. It exacts no toll whatsoever on performance and does not inhibit anything from running - other than ask you to confirm an installer's request to run, or to allow something to modify a typically protected area. Again, under day to day operations, you never even see a UAC confirmation message. Why disable a protection method that barely ever farts, let alone takes a dump?

There has been some discussion on the COD5 servers where I play about not using UAC. I guess people just think it's more of an annoyance than it's worth. Fact is, it's one of the primary lines of defense for our computers against malware. I hear a lot of stuff about how UAC interferes with the "normal" operation of the machine. It does not. It only springs into action when a process tries to do something that could put the system at risk, and at that moment in time, it dims the screen and pops up the familiar (and apparently annoying to many) request for confirmation to continue. It makes me shudder that so many think this protection service is borking up their computer when, in fact, it's there to help. But why take my word for it, right? I've only been a career-long IT guy, so what do I know, lol. I'm not a security analyst, however; it's just that I've seen enough writing on the wall to be able to detect what's wheat and what's chaff. So here's an article you should read from Windows Secrets, and an excerpt from the article is pasted in below that. Please don't short-change your security, people. The malware wars: How you can fight it "If you are still using XP, I'd advise upgrading to Win7 or Win8 as soon as possible — XP is wide open to malware intrusions. Vista and Windows 7 [mostly] fixed this open door with the User Account Control; it pops up every time there is an attempt to make changes to your system, legitimate or not (such as when a new app tries to install). Most people just click Okay and continue, but this is one point when there's a chance of stopping an infection from entering."

Aw heck... How in the world did I miss this one? Soooo Sorry. HAPPY (belated) BIRTHDAY, Belted !!! :fun: :fun: :fun: Hope it was the best one ever. Now, back to work...

Thanks for the heads up. I have the GeForce Experience installed, but you alerted me faster than it did! lol.

Welcome. I only shower naked. A few other things, too. Play online naked? Not so much. I respect your choice, though. Especially if you're a woman. If you're a guy, there are a few women here who'd like a word with you. If you are a women ALL of the guys would like a word with you.