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Honestly, that one looks bland and rather toyish. Much prefer the 5 and 5S

it's like a normal watch
i don't even know that is a smartwatch

I like how they get all pissy "we are the police, whats so funny?" All while making themselfs look the fool.

You should be good to go regardless of the type of key you have. I for whatever reason your key doesn't work, just go get a generic key from the pirate bay or something. As for the drivers, if you have the disk for your OS, you can do a repair/upgrade install on your new HDD. It pretty much reinstall everything pertaining to the OS, so old drivers and crap will be cleaned out and replaced with the generic versions till you install the vendor specific versions. If your new pc wont even load windows (unlikely however), you'll need to do a couple things. 
 
First thing is you'll need to get the AHCI/SATA drivers for your new motherboard. Copy them to a flash drive or something. 
On the new PC with the old hdd with windows, try booting to recovery (tap F8 before the windows logo appears). 
Once there, do the following: 
Repair your Computer -> Startup repair . Let this run and if it finds something it will attempt to fix and reboot. If problem persists, you'll need to go one step further. 
Load the recovery console (Repair your Computer -> Command Prompt
Plug in your USB device that you copied your drivers to earlier. 
Once loaded, type the following:
bcdedit | find "osdevice" to find the driver letter your OS is on. (may not be C when using recovery console). Then this:
dism /Image:X:\ /Add-Driver /Driver:Y:\path-to-drivers\ /Recurse Replace "X" with the driver letter returned by bcdedit , and "Y" with the drive letter of your USB device and folder pointing to your mobo drivers. If you're not sure, just cd to different driver letters (likely it is D) and type "dir" until the files you're looking for show up. 
it will take sometime to get the drivers installed and updated, but after it should boot as long as your motherboard is configured correctly. 

Really? We're going there? 
 
COD fits a demographic quite well. Its one of the few FPSs that is truly pick up and play. Anyone and anything can do it. It serves its place. Are we now mocking people based on what they chose to buy? and what they genuinely like? Hell, COD is one of the few games my dad doesn't have trouble playing, should I go tell him he should be ashamed for that choice in what he likes to play? 
 
Can I mock you for buying a 4GB version of a low end card? How the hell does that make sense? You should feel ashamed. 
 
Oh wait, that makes me sound like a pompous ass, doesn't it? So maybe keep your rhetoric in check next time. 

so is there going to be a fake ram requirement that will keep the game from running again?

I'm stealing Kotaku's headline because the level of snark is just perfect. 
 
I know the defacto stance on this forum is to shit on COD because well, its COD. Not EA, thats a different kind of shitting. But COD shitting a new kind of shitting. Either way, shit away. 
 
This is maybe the first release since Black Ops where the story seems pretty compelling (and before BO, Modern Warfare 1), so I have some hope that the injection of Frank Underwood trying to become President leads to some good campaign action. 
 

 
 
So have some lulz, its the same crap as Ghosts. And Ghosts was an embarrassment of a game on a campaign, multiplayer and technical level. Here's to hoping that AW has some thought put into how it abuses system resources. 
 
http://kotaku.com/your-pc-must-be-this-advanced-to-run-call-of-duty-adva-1618525485/all

Straight from the article. "The losses are just an estimate because Microsoft never posted the cost of revenue for the Surface over the two year period, so it's effectively educated guesswork based on various reports." Pretty much just more sensational doom and gloom about Microsoft.

I disagree whole heartedly. The Surface Pro kicks ass. The Surface RT, however, should be axed. If they want to make a surface Tablet (Or better yet a Phablet, but the Lumia 1520 borders Phablet territory) then it should be branded Windows Phone 8 to avoid confusion.
 
The biggest problem with Surface Tablets, is product confusion. People buy them assuming you can run any old x86 Windows program on it - with the Surface RT, obviously you cannot do this.
 
The other confusion is people looking at the Surface Pro and comparing it to $300 or even $500 Android tablets. They completely ignore the badass specs and interesting form factor. Granted that form factor isn't for everyone, but if I personally was looking at an Ultrabook, I'd seriously consider the Surface Pro instead. The only form factor I would also consider is the "convertible" flip form factor of like the XPS12 that Linus uses (The screen is hinged and can flip around into Tablet mode).
 
To reiterate my thoughts, I think MS should kill the RT lineup, or rebrand it as Windows Phone. Then it should focus on the Surface Pro, aiming for even better battery life, while keeping the specs at Top of the Line Ultrabook like they currently are.

If you get a retail version of windows you can just follow the steps every one else has been linking, but if you happen upon an OEM version, you're going to have to jump through some hoops as the microsoft software that downloads and mounts the ISO will not accept an OEM key. First of all your going to need to get your hands on a windows 8.1 iso. You can either get this off the installation disk or torrent it from a third party (such as the MyDigitalLife forums). Next you need to mount the iso to your usb, I use Rufus to do this. Now all that's left is to change the boot order in your BIOS, boot to the USB and install windows.
 
PS: At some point during the installation processes it will ask you for your product key. If it doesn't accept your OEM key try to skip the step or use a generic key (you can find this through google, ie: 'windows 8.1 professional generic key'), then continue with the installation. Once finished you can activate windows with your OEM key by using the following command in cmd: 'slui 3'. Make sure you run cmd as administrator for this to work. 

Here the actual reason why they want this law.

Holy ballsack that looks like Portal 2 and the international space station's bastard lovechild.
 
 


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It is free, that is what I am saying!
It is online, and works with any modern web browser, be it: Chrome, Firefox, IE, or even Safari (if you are desperate).
 
Google Drive compresses image, reduces colors, breaks formatting...
OneDrive also has multiple user sharing (http://office.microsoft.com/en-ca/office-online-help/work-together-on-office-documents-in-onedrive-HA102625039.aspx), and if you want to edit a document in full office that you have offline installed on your computer, you don't need to download it, open it, when done, save, and upload. Nope. From a click of a button, it will open your offline software, and as you save, it syncs online.
 
Microsoft is very very aggressive. Good for us!

Today, Microsoft is overhauling its OneDrive storage options with a serious upgrade for all.

Free users passes from 7GB to 15GB of storage.
Office 365 subscribers passes from 20GB to 1TB
Office 365 Home subscribers passes from 20GB per user to 1TB per user (a 9.99$ per month service).
Office 365 Personal subscribers passes from 20GB to 1TB. (a $6.99 per month service)
For paid plan for additional storage:
-> 100GB is now $1.99 a month (previously $7.49)
-> 200GB is now $3.99 a month (previously $11.49)
If you need 1TB of cloud storage, clearly the Office 365 Personal is the best option. Not only you get your 1TB of stage, but you also have full Office 2013 for your system.
If you are a current user of OneDrive paid or not, you are automatically upgraded to the larger storage.
Source: http://www.theverge.com/2014/6/23/5833808/onedrive-free-storage-increase-pricing-productivity-war

Unfortunately, whether you consider it a sport or not, it does fit the de facto definition.
 
While the definition does vary depending on the particular sport, the accepted definition, coming from SportAccord, which is the association of all the largest international sports federations (Football, hockey, etc etc), is as follows:
 
have an element of competition be in no way harmful to any living creature not rely on equipment provided by a single supplier (excluding proprietary games such as arena football) not rely on any "luck" element specifically designed into the sport They also recognise that sport can be primarily physical (such as rugby or athletics), primarily mind (such as chess or go), predominantly motorised (such as Formula 1 or powerboating), primarily co-ordination (such as billiard sports), or primarily animal-supported (such as equestrian sport).[1]
 
So just because you disagree with the definition, which is industry accepted, doesn't change that definition. It's like me saying "I don't think sub-compacts should be considered cars because they're small". Doesn't change anything.
 
Anyway, this is potentially great news for eSports, which needs every bit of help it can get for mainstream acceptance. As noted, even here we have those who don't consider it a sport, despite it fitting the accepted official definition.
 
I do wish they would put a different eSport on ESPN though, like SC2 or CS:GO. The reason is that DOTA 2, like any MOBA, suffers from the problem that if you don't know how the game works, then seeing a game can be extremely confusing. At least in CS:GO, if someone dies, you know that's bad. And in SC2, if an army gets destroyed, you instantly can comprehend what's going on.
 
Whereas with any MOBA, lets say you die, well that happens and isn't always a horrible thing, or your minions die. But it's not clear to those who don't understand the game, exactly what is going on. Hell, there are a LOT of people, who even after playing the game, don't fully understand the way it works or why you do certain things. This isn't because those people are stupid, but rather because the game genre is just very complicated and not necessarily straight forward.

For those people who are not a fan of Dota, Valve has already considering a TI like event for CSGO

ESPN covers a hot dog eating contest every year...they also cover World Series of Poker. Basically DOTA prizes are getting so big they have to cover it. You have advertisers like the hardware vendors who will happily pay for advertising, as well as the console vendors who will probably spam it with advertising. You have a prize pool. Expect it to get covered.
 
I would rather watch World Series of Poker than Lebron James coverage on ESPN and I love and played a lot of basketball when I was younger.
 
Anything that can you can compete for, for money is a sport. E-sports isn't going away because most people aren't born world class NFL/NBA players. Same reason soccer is big in the world. I mean imagine Calvin Johnson playing soccer, or if Hakeem Olajuwon  played goalie and having someone like Lebron James sitting in front of a goal for headers on set pieces. 
 
Many of the soccer athletes look pedestrian as athletes compared to the big sport leagues we have in the U.S. Soccer is still far and away the worlds biggest sport though, and no I am not a big fan of the game.

I still don't know how Dota works.

In recent news, someone whos opinion nobody cares about disagrees with something...

The "master race" term arguably goes further back to Nietzsche and his Übermensch concept. The fact that what started as a joke at the expense of PC gamers got adopted as a tongue in cheek joke should tell you a lot about it: Yes Yahtzee used it as a joke to make fun of what he perceives as overly complicated game mechanics but it's not without merit: There's a very long history of RPGs, Strategy games and so on that did tried/try to have a higher level of complexity. There's also a lot of truth to the fact that Console games are often a lot more streamlined and have virtually no access to mods and such. 

But overall it's an in joke within a community that's constantly under open attack by the very people that try to make money off them: game publishers and their "Resolution it's just a number" "I challenge you to tell the difference" "We prefer a filmic look at 30 FPS" and "Your vastly superior machine will have to play intentionally nerfed games so the console versions don't look TOO dated"

Honestly even if you do find the PC Master Race stuff offensive, what the fuck do you expect? To have all of just just sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up and watch our hobby being relevated to second class citizens when sales numbers proves it's exactly the opposite?

It doesn't have a negative impact, people shouldn't be so sensitive about what gaming platform they play on. If someone says Xbox sucks, deal with it. You aren't being personally insulted they are insulting a product, not you. People are too sensitive these days.

Nothing's protected by the fourth amendment besides privacy of corporations, apperently.

I think you guys hate on TN a little too much. The newer panels have been improved and if you ARE NOT a professional, you likely will not notice unless someone points it out.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/intel-enthusiasts-devils-canyon-pc-cpu/#!8Yh47
 
Earlier this year, Intel made waves with PC enthusiasts by announcing the arrival of new “Devil’s Canyon” chips. Aside from a cool code name, these processors were said to provide vastly improved overclocking potential, thanks to re-worked power management, and a thermal interface polymer that conducts heat more efficiently. Now that they’ve arrived, however, enthusiasts are wondering if they were duped.
Fool me onceBefore talking about Devil’s Canyon, though, let’s first remember what led up to it. The release of Haswell last year was expected to provide a modest, but noticeable bump in performance over the previous generation.
Once reviewers laid their hands on Haswell chips, however, it became clear that something had gone wrong. The new 4th-gen desktop processors were only 10 percent quicker than their predecessors, at most, and they were priced slightly higher than their 3rd-gen equivalents, which meant their value was questionable.

Worse, the 4th-gen chips switched to a less effective thermal material, which made them less suitable for overclocking. Reviewers noted that the new processors often peaked at a lower overclock speed than those that came before. The Tech Report, for example, managed to achieve 4.9 GHz with an Ivy Bridge chip, but only hit 4.7 GHz with the Core i7-4770K. Tom’s Hardware, meanwhile, only hit 4.6 GHz with a single 4770K; most maxed out at 4.4 GHz.
This development is only the latest in a long line of decisions that has put Intel at odds with die-hard PC fans. In 2010, the company eliminated the ability to overclock most chips by tying the speed of every chipset bus to a sole internal clock. Intel then poured salt on the wound by introducing expensive “K-series” processors that do have an unlocked multiplier, but also cost more than their locked siblings.

Fool me twice
Intel’s execution of its anti-overclocking campaign was made with few excuses. Enthusiasts often felt ignored, but they also had little choice but to stick with Intel. AMD’s latest processors simply aren’t quick enough to compete.
So it’s no wonder the community perked up when Intel’s VP of the PC Client Group, Lisa Graff, began hyping the new Devil’s Canyon hardware. Marketed from the beginning as an answer to enthusiasts who felt ignored, the unlocked chips promised maximum speeds of up to 5 GHz on air cooling, a truly outstanding figure. Enthusiasts went starry-eyed and light-headed as they dreamed of what might be possible. Overclocking quotes from manufacturers are usually conservative, after all; if Intel says 5 GHz, then what’s really possible?

Less than 5GHz, as it turns out. Numerous reviewers have found that the new Devil’s Canyon chips are barely better than the Core i7-4770K. HardOCP, PC Perspective and The Tech Report all maxed it out to 4.7 GHz, and even that figure did not come easily. The Tech Report even noticed the new Devil’s Canyon 4790K CPU required more voltage than the 4770K to achieve the same clock speed. A few extreme overclockers have managed better results (the record is 7 GHz), but only by disabling two cores and using liquid nitrogen for cooling. That, of course, isn’t practical for 99.9999999 percent of owners.
Even the new unlocked Pentium processor should be viewed with skepticism. Yes, it’s a $75 processor that some reviewers have overclocked as high as 4.5 GHz, but it’s also a dual-core without hyperthreading, and you’ll want a Z87 or Z97 motherboard to make the most of its potential. In short, you’ll be spending $175 to $200 on a processor and motherboard combination that stumbles whenever it’s asked to handle a workload with more than two threads – and many demanding applications, including the latest games, will ask for more than that