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Steve's video mentioned this. I kind of wonder why they didn't buy a bunch of CNC machines and laser cutters. You'd think they could build a lot of their own parts JIT that way. I'll grant I have no idea how many they'd need, but you'd think it'd relax the 3rd-party MOQ dependencies.

LOL. Poor timing.

Heh, he mentioned [H]ardforum around 1:30.

I used a 12600K for a year and a half or so, switched to a 14700K in January. Haven't seen any bending issues so far, and never got around to using a support thing, FWIW.

This is the kind of thing that puts CEOs in jail...or causes them to flee the country and disappear after looting the bank accounts.

In case anyone is interested in an update, I applied the latest, 3401, update this morning. Took a 16GB USB 2 flash drive, formatted it as FAT32, unzipped the bios download into it (2 files--the bios itself and the biosrenamer.exe), ran the renamer and then deleted that so there was only one...

*Windows 10 has entered the chat*

My last like 3 computers at my last job were all Dells and I always underspecced the RAM and then bought some to install myself exactly because Dell's prices were a ripoff.

XBox One 2.

Here's a better example: Apple and Google (and Valve) charging 30% is like getting a table at a flea market and whoever runs the show demands 30% of everything you sell, instead of $10/table or whatever.

The free speech-hating loons at Arse Technica love the idea of bringing it back.

No. Absolutely not.

I had a customer that had an old unix-of-some-type system that they used as a database server for a couple of applications, including ours, and they were proud of the fact that they hadn't run an update in a decade. They were paranoid about an update breaking something. They got mad one day...

I read an article about this yesterday that mentioned that there have been two main contributers for the last few years--one guy who was a long-term primary dev, and a newish person who got commit privileges about a year or two ago. Odds are it was the second one. Edit: post #11 update 2...

The meat of the email is that Intel's apparently going to finally start reporting new CPUs as something other than Family 6 at some point, and the discussion was about not duplicating the mess of various processor features, as code using Family 6 does. The email itself is actually kind of...