I really think that OEM licenses should only be available to OEM certified organisations. To be fair, it's even a minefield for me and I'm supposed to have expertise in this field and as I said earlier, it's a minefield for MS as even their top guys don't know which hardware can constitute a 'new PC'.
I like work where we're a University and have a simple campus agreement whereby XP Pro can be installed on all PCs. Also, we're allowed Office Pro on staff home machines legally. First legal copy of Office I've had since Office 95 incidentally :)
---
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
Personally, I object to Serg's suggestion, as this is POST 100, and if we strip out the unnecessary posts it will no longer be able to make that auspicious claim
They are blithering idiots who seem to believe that an API should do everything for them, including enforcing business logic specific to their project. Not that it matters. The world's ending soon anyway.
Heh. This week I've been moved onto a new high-priority project, and seem to be in a similar situation of people not having a clue how to do an API. Or structure a simple CMS-integrated webapp. Or use source control properly. Or write useful specs. And so on. :(
If you feel like advancing your career and learning CFML, there's a couple of open spaces on the team - would be good to have a second person with functioning brain cells... :)
(that's probably a bit harsh; it's more likely the fault of it being stupidly rushed that it's badly setup/etc, but it's still awfully frustrating)
I kinda accidentally upgraded my PC the other day, second hand bits. 16GB of 2400 Mhz DDR3. i7-4770k, Asus Maximus VI Formula motherboard. It all looks like spaceship technology, don't really know what I'm doing anymore
Probably need to upgrade the graphics card now, a 560Ti seems a bit Fiesta-in-a-Ferrari. And sort out a better cooler than the stock one for the CPU so I can try clocking it up a bit perhaps.
Yeah, that's a bit unbalanced.. hope you have an SSD in there, at least as the system drive - it's by far the best upgrade you can do to almost any system.
I also need to "accidentally" upgrade my stuff, (un?)fortunately nothing in there is anywhere near dying, and I can't fully justify it otherwise. Bah!
Bragging rights... Plus, it can make a difference if you game on three display or 4K resolution or something, depending on what's limiting performance (CPU or GPU). Other than that, there really isn't much point - even the Intel G3258 system I built for my parents about a month ago has plenty of juice for most things, and it'd keep up with most games too if it had a decent graphics card.
It's got an SSD already for the system drive, yup.
For overclocking, it's more or less 'because I can', that processor and board is designed to make it very easy. I think I'd see how far I could take it without bothering to up the voltage though, no real desire to eat all the electricity here. I just want it to make Elite look pretty I think, and the new IL-2 game probably. This thing's also driving a 30" 2560x1600 display and I have half an idea about Oculus Rift one day.