Coelocanth

Hey Brad, I see BlacX has one now with two HDD slots.

Basic in elementary school? MY 'back in the day' means taking Basic, Fortran, and Cobol as first year university courses...

[quote who="Raven X" reply="24" id="2389324"] Quoting Coelocanth, reply 20 EA had little say in the matter. ...this likely is not. EA owns BioWare and you can be sure they have a lot of say in the matter. But I suspect BioWare did put a lot of pressure on EA about it, after the uproar caused by Mass Effect's DRM scheme. I've had my eye on Dragon Age for almost 2 years now. I've read just about every article and forum post I could get my hands on. The BioW

[quote who="Raven X" reply="18" id="2389237"] You can thank the Devs from Bioware for that one.[/quote] While this is likely true... [quote]EA had little say in the matter.[/quote] ...this likely is not. EA owns BioWare and you can be sure they have a lot of say in the matter. But I suspect BioWare did put a lot of pressure on EA about it, after the uproar caused by Mass Effect's DRM scheme.

As Strand noted, they're not even in the list of games on sale. If that's how it's supposed to work, it seems counter-productive. If it doesn't show on the sale page, and you only check for sales, how would you ever see it? I would be interested in the East India Company, but if I'd just logged onto Impulse and checked the sale page, I'd have never seen it was on sale. I on;y found out because I stumbled across it here. *edit* I see it does show in the banner, but... I

If you're upgrading from XP to Win7, you must do a fresh install. You cannot go with an upgrade from the XP install. The Win7 install will ask for your XP key. This is the information I've seen about it, anyway.

Allegiance86, this is a mistake many people make, and you too are mistaken about how a theory is applied to science if you still think it's an 'idea' or hypothesis. A scientific theory, as SyDaemon pointed out, is not a hypothesis. In order for it to be elevated to the status of Theory (in the scientific community), it must be backed up by a preponderance of fact and evidence and withstand the rigorous testing and review of the scientific community. Disputing evolution because it's 'just a th

GAH! Triple post. Apologies again.

Bloody double posts. Apologies.

[quote who="starkers" reply="37" id="2383184"] While this is technically true, particularly with HP/Dell/Acer OEM's, a Systems Builders OEM is a little more flexible. For example, my copy of Vista Ultimate is a System Builders OEM, and it technically is on a new machine from the one it was originally installed, due to mobo, CPU, RAM and GPU upgrades. While the OS is on the same physical HDD, everything including the case has been changed since the original installation, and M

[quote who="Coelocanth" reply="34" id="2382926"]My copy exists on only one machine.[/quote]

[quote who="kona0197" reply="31" id="2382901"]Last time I checked you have to buy a new copy of Windows for every new PC. So basically you pirated Windows?[/quote] I'm not going to get into an argument with you. All I'm saying is you can transfer an OEM copy to a new build. Call it pirating if you want. I don't. My copy exists on only one machine.

[quote who="Resist_The_Dawn" reply="29" id="2382814"] And how exactly do you reuse OEM's over and over? Clarify please. [/quote] You can load it onto a new system and activate without issue as long as you don't do it many times in a short period. I can't recall, but I believe it's a 6 month period before Microsoft 'resets' your activation allowance. (I'm probably not explaining this very well).i.e if you don't have to activate again for a period of six months (mayb

[quote who="kona0197" reply="23" id="2382216"]On Newegg: Vista Home Premium OEM - $109.99 Best Buy: Vista Home Preminum Upgrade - $119.99 Not much of a price difference there. Who cares if one is the full blown version and one is an upgrade? They both work the same.[/quote] Difference being in the first case you can buy that puppy and slap it on a new system. In the second case you must already have a valid l

You should double check that. Retail is always more expensive because you get Microsoft Tech Support with it. OEM gets no support from Microsoft. For example, Windows Vista Home Premium - retail is listed at $224.99, while the OEM version is $99.99.

[quote who="o0SHUUMI0o" reply="19" id="2382135"] by the way...what exactly is a double lifetime warranty? lifetime is lifetime. evga's warranty will rma it for the life of the product, and evga makes the best enthusiast products hands down [/quote] Double lifetime means the original buyer gets a lifetime warranty on the product and if he sells it to someone else, that person also gets a lifetime warranty on it. This is different than (for example) EVGA'

[quote who="Allegiance86" reply="50" id="2380689"]SyDaemon, A THEORY IS A HYPOTHISIS. If your gonna throw around science to argue God doesnt exist atleast get it right. A Theory made by scientists doesnt make it RIGHT just makes it a LOGICAL GUESS. Usually they are proven very wrong because they only have ideas of how things could have happened. NOT ACTUAL EVIDENCE. That makes it a theory. If you want to ramble on about your ANTI God rheteric then take it else where.[/quote] <

[quote who="AtkingTornado" reply="37" id="2380500"] And where is the evolutionary proccess in the fossil record? there isnt any! [/quote] You're kidding, right?

[quote who="Kodiak888" reply="18" id="2379972"] This thread can now be focused on ideas for payback against him. 8)[/quote] Use something like TrueCrypt on his machine and encrypt all his files/partitions/whatever you feel like.

EVGA does not offer double lifetime warranty. Their warranty is limited lifetime (you must register the card wthitin 30 days of purchase. Failure to do so will result in only a 1 year warranty). Products purchased second hand do not carry any warranty at all.

Frm what I gather, even though you may get both flavors on your disc (both for retail and OEM), you won't be able to switch between them.

[quote who="JSW_Ballz" reply="108" id="2373447"] However, I don't think Mass Effect has the dreaded SecuROM on it when distributed through Steam (just the normal Steam DRM). [/quote] It doesn't. Only the Steam DRM affects it. Mass Effect was my test game for Steam. After reading so many posts on various forums about how great Steam was, I figured instead of just saying it's not something I'm interested in and I don't like it, I'd give it a shot. Result: I don't li

Annatar actually buys his karma on the NYSE. He's a clever investor though, so he gets a lot of karma points for his investment. And, he also has a cloning lab in his basement. If you look closely, you'll see that many of his karma points are identical to each other. A clever ploy, Annatar, but we've found you out! [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

I think our military can use some upgrading, absolutely. Does it need to be bigger? I don't really think so, but better outfitted and more funding? Hell, yes. And for those of you that want to bash the American military: as noted, it's the politicians deciding where they go and what they do. The people serving in the armed forces are some of the finest people you can ask for. The same applies for our Canadian forces as well. So let's stop talking smack about each other and realize we'

[quote who="uglyspirit" reply="64" id="2370248"]The amount of criticism EA have received over Securom is totally unjustified... Have any of you used it or do you just moan about it and distort the FACTS.... When EA uses Securom on its games you can install the game an unlimited amount of times on up to 5 different PCs. YES-i said unlimited-and okay u might reinstall your system but that will not use up an activation. Some people may upgrade their Mo