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    As indicated by Derr Bear, grumm and TooSlick 30, solid state drives read and write data much, much faster than a mechanical hard drive. What's difficult to convey is exactly how much of an improvement this is to the user experience. When your computer starts up in 10 seconds flat, it's less of a chore when you need…

    Thanks for clarifying. Wasn't that easier to type than some nigh-impenetrable, vaguely hostile rumination on the proper use of quotation marks? It was certainly easier to understand.

    While playing with language can be fun, doing so is impolite when the other party to the conversation is more interested in precision of communication than delving into meanings and ambiguity. In such cases, the polite thing to do add further explanation of what you meant, rather than enter a discourse on the correct…

    And yet Senator Gillibrand's effort to take the prosecution of sexual assault cases out of the hands of the conflict-of-interest-ridden chain of command was just filibustered by a fellow Democrat. (Well - blocked despite having 55/100 votes, if not technically filibustered.)

    I'm in the "wait for the reviews" camp. I plan to buy Inquisition IF reliable sources indicate that it's a quality Bioware game that hasn't been damaged by a rush release, exploitative DLC policies, etc. Yes, that's a big "IF" given Bioware/EA's recent track record, but if they skip the shenanigans and put out a…

    My apologies. My joke was INTENDED for a poster who was complaining that Bungie had been "pretending" to be a PC development house in exile while it was under Microsoft's banner. The joke being that, prior to Microsoft, Bungie was a Mac-first developer with only one game released on Windows.

    So what I'm hearing is: You want Bungie to go back to being a Mac gaming house. Am I right? ;-)

    I'd say the "right place" would be where women's armor hits roughly the same realism/titillation balance as men's armor.

    Have you played the game? Did you encounter any bugs while doing so? The relevant measures is how many bugs ended up in the finished project, not how many bugs were generated during coding and then caught in development.

    It's not so much the lack of tact, as the fact that there's no way to say "Look at this rope, everybody. LOOK AT IT." without coming across as humorously obsessive.

    Origin has certainly improved from the buggy mess it was when they first rebranded the "EA Download Manager." It's pretty stable and easy to use these days. That said, it still suffers from two problems:

    I'm aware of the statutory language. The reason I am not interested in debating whether the law applies to the fact pattern at hand - is that merely reading the statutory text, without reading the key cases interpreting the key language of the law, generally results in an incomplete understanding of the law in…

    If you are recording someone without their knowledge in a public or semi-public place like a street or restaurant, the person whom you're recording may or may not have "an objectively reasonable expectation that no one is listening in or overhearing the conversation," and the reasonableness of the expectation would…

    Firstly: Whatever the exact language - and invasion of privacy is indeed a term of art in the law, so it was a poor turn of phrase for me to use - recording others against their will is at minimum highly offensive, and in many cases, is entirely illegal. (I'm not going to get into a discussion of whether California's…

    Legally, your statement is correct. Recording someone without their consent is not a generally acceptable grounds for them to assault you, any more than wearing a skimpy outfit is grounds for them to assault you.

    Per the Amazon page, it's a standard base game + expansion + all DLC and updates pack.