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SSDs are all limited by the SATA interface at this point, so read/write speed is a fairly meaningless comparison because they're all equally bottlenecked. Saying that, performance difference in the architecture is irrelevant when they're all equally bottlenecked... 850 Pro has higher random IOPS - 100k/90k across the board where the 840 EVO doesn't really ramp up until higher capacities. Also a good deal: 256GB MX100 for £75.

Is this @VeryPC branching out into case mods?

If you don't have fast user switching enable, try remoting into the machine (mstsc) and if someone is logged in, it prompts you with "Do you want to log them out?"

Good work! Reminds me of the Manchester transport logo, of three locked cogs...

Why can you never have it removed? Doesn't that breach DPA, or have they written a specific exception for these clowns? Will opt the family out now though, cheers for the heads up.

RAM: MemTest86+, burnt to a bootable CD. HDD: CrystalDiskMark, use it on a healthy HDD to get a benchmark then run it on a suspicious HDD. Performance will be low it if's broken. You can see SMART data with SpeedFan, for what that's worth (won't always tell you if a HDD is faulty, though if it claims something is wrong it usually is). CPU: Prime95. System Info: CPU-Z. All free.

BBC Sport - F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone: I was 'a bit of an idiot' for settling case

Paying your way out of a bribery case is a particularly piquant flavour of hypocrisy, is it not?

I think I read the same article, or a similar one (seems there were a few of them). Further to all the above was the question: would you car choose to kill you? Imagine your front farside tyre blew on a bridge, steering you towards oncoming traffic. You, in your big modern robot SUV might survive, but the two occupants of the car you'd hit would be killed. Would your car instead choose to steer you off the bridge, certainly killing you but saving two other lives? Mathematically the latter is sounder but it's morally thorny. It's a twist on the Trolley Problem that some poor software engineer is going to have to decide on. Other articles on the topic: The Robot Car of Tomorrow May Just Be Programmed to Hit You | Autopia | WIRED Google and the Trolley Problem | Owen abroad When Should Your Driverless Car From Google Be Allowed To Kill You? - Forbes

Not flawless, still - we had a few grand of projectors left in the lobby of the college round the corner (different road, different postcode), out of sight of their reception staff but in full view of anyone who walked in, without anyone there being told. It would seem he just pulled up wherever his GPS told him too, dumped the parcels just inside the door, signed the delivery himself and drove off. I do love the detail you get when you order from Scan, though.

Another random mention: To The Moon. Gamewise, it's something thrown together in RPG Maker with a single, linear plot and no challenge. Story wise, it's structured in a way that needs you to think things through and doesn't treat you like an idiot, and has an incredibly poignant and traumatic kick to it. It pops up on sale every couple of months somewhere - Steam or GOG - and is well worth the four hours it'll take to go through it. If you liked Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, you'll like To The Moon, I reckon.

I've read a couple of articles pointing out that Mercedes cocked Lewis' strategy up - when he pitted midway, he should have gone onto softs not mediums and made a second stop later. He'd have made more time up in that middle stint from the better tyre, Nico would never have caught him and there'd have been no need for any orders, and he'd have had a better chance of the victory. Nico had caught up to that lead group on two soft stints, after all, and he was further down the field than Lewis; if Hamilton had been on two sets of softs he'd likely have won, and potentially been within a point of Rosberg in the championship.

Ah, you're A3, we're A2, that's why you're ENTERPRISE and I'm STANDARDWOFFPACK by default it assigns all the options, and I've been happy to leave it at that. Others disable certain options, which you can do with another flag that I can't recall off the top of my head - there are other posts round abouts here that will mention it though.

The standard set of licences - Outlook, Sharepoint etc. - are schoolname:STANDARDWOFFPACK_FACULTY for staff and schoolname:STANDARDWOFFPACK_STUDENT for students.

Find a laptop with the key. Export the reg key (as if you wanted to import the setting onto another laptop). Open the .reg file in Notepad and add a dash in front of the offending key e.g. -HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID{86F80216-5DD6-4F43-953B-35EF40A35AEE} Run that reg file wherever you want to remove the key. More info: How to add, modify, or delete registry subkeys and values by using a .reg file Without it being on a domain, though, I have no idea how you can push it out without physically visiting each laptop, I'm afraid.

So, halfway mark, and all those naysayers at the start of the year saying these new rules would result in boring racing, everyone conserving fuel, no real fighting, well... they look pretty stupid now, don't they some of the most exciting races I've ever seen have come this year, and on some of the most boring circuits as well (Bahrain, yesterday's Hungaroring). Bottas and Ricciardo are looking like future world champions; I'd suspected Bottas would have it in him but DanRic has been a very pleasant surprise. Does make you wonder what Webber could have achieved with the car this year though, now that the rules suit his driving style more than Seb's. Everyone else having fun?

I see your Final Fantasies and I raise you Skies of Arcadia God rest the Dreamcast. Oh, and The Witcher games. 1 is a bit creaky gameplay wise now, but the setting and the world are incredible. Witcher 3 is the only game I'm looking forward to right now, tbh.

I hope it was an attractive shade of blue, reminiscent of death.

The controls are a bit weird, but they're essential to the way the story works later on. The game never gets particularly challenging, so you'll not get stuck repeating a bit because of their oddness.

I'm going to go with Mass Effect as my favourite; ME1 had a great plotline, full of twists and reveals and lines like "You exist because we allow it; you will end because we demand it." ME2 had a wonderful cast, and a great plot structure to develop them, even if the actual main plot is thin on the ground. ME3 is perhaps the weakest, but gets a carry because you're already so invested. Enslaved: Odyssey to the West is also a great story game, a sci-fi retelling of Monkey, with great characters (helped by having Andy Serkis as the main character). But my favourite story-game of all time is Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, because of the way the story and the game are tied so intimately. Either without the other would be a passing, flighty thing, but the way they're intertwined is so powerful and emotional it will - genuinely - reduce you to tears. Probably more than once. It's a few quid, it takes three hours to play, sit down and do it in one sitting with a bottle of wine/whiskey and be glad such remarkable people exist to create these wonderful things.

Is this all that's come of their grand promise to implement open source software throughout and break down the hegemony of big government suppliers? It's taken four years to manage this?

It is laughable how incompetent I was before I had this place. I've learnt a great deal of long and technical sounding words to help me hide that incompetency, even if I dun understand them. Cheers!

Well, what else is there to do in Lincolnshire? It's either start drinking or stare at a cabbage.

i3 and i5 are the same number of threads, just that the i3 is faking it. Given that you're not rendering/compiling though, the lack of power shouldn't be an issue. i3 and 8GB I'd say. (And SSD. Always SSD.)

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