alaknebs

alaknebs

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Reply to You should use cash to pay for things when possible. in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

except unless everyone and dog pays by cash, the merchant will still be forking out for the card fees. they ain't going to be lowering the "increases" due to cards. i believe there are court cases against the likes of visa on the fees they charge (at least in europe). whilst i don't know how much they charge the merchants, whether it's a percentage or flat fee per transaction (on top of any periodic subscription) it would make sense that the lower the price

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Reply to Wasteland 2 key giveaway in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

don't want it.... but thought i'd just say.... seeing as you are doing this in the forum.. just click on the lucky person's user name and i imagine you can send them the key via private message or email that way... (if they enabled email..)

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Reply to How Long Has Your Current Gaming PC Lasted? in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

don't know about gaming pc as i only have 1 pc.. fairly modest thing.... 7 years old i think... e6750. think i'm on my 3rd gfx card (or is it 4th? they keep dying on me XD).. replaced and added more ram. had to get a new psu too... and replaced vista with fresh install of win 7 a few years back. had a new keyboard (logitech solar) and has gone through a bunch of mice.. the dvd drive (not that i use it much) bites. literally. open it and it'll close pretty much before you c

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Reply to Sans Lincoln in Everything Else Elemental Forums

read some of harry turtledove's alternative timeline novels? not that i've read much of his stuff on civil war bits (he writes tons...) or his stuff in general in years..

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Reply to Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Pro Lifetime 1 PC License OEM + AVG Internet Security in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

if i remember correctly, pro applied to pre 2.0 versions... when you paid back then you get a life time license (your life, not the machine.. you can move it to a new machine with some fiddling https://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?/topic/151201-moving-malware-pro-to-new-computer/#entry844870 ) when they did 2.0, they don't do new life time license any more and do subscription instead. see: <a href="https://helpdesk.malwarebytes.org/entries

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Reply to Steam Summer Sale 2014 in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

weird stuff, early access stuff on sale. not just the odd 1 or 2 either [quote who="TheBirthdayParty" reply="18" id="3474312"] What is the benefit of steam wallet besides an extra minute taken out of purchasing games/dlc/etc.?[/quote] gift cards? that steam market stuff?

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Reply to URGENT: STEAM SALE PROTOCOL ACTIVATED in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

"up to 75% off ALL stardock titles" utterly true. though looking at that flame fest on the early access over in steam forum... next time you might want to put something like published in the sentence. that said... does early access count as published? XD

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Reply to Your Antivirus Is Watching You in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote]If your “free AV” requires you to submit data, you really might want to rethink it, especially if data collecting third party ‘Toolbars’ are included[/quote] as i said. your emphasis on free av. by definition, using a cloud url scanner is submitting data, for example. you have to agree to eula on basically any and all software. they are all at it.

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Reply to Your Antivirus Is Watching You in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

funny you emphasise the "free av" when half the list up there ain't free (not literal half.. if you are actually counting) all products do it to various degree. even the ones you paid for. in fact, i would suggest the ones that you pay for... by virtue of having more features (url screening with their cloud, for example) will send more stuff.

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Reply to China Bans Windows 8 on Government PCs in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

there's security issue in someone hacking your xp, and there's security issue in having your stuff plastered into some foreign cloud service baked into the os (skydrive/whatever it's called now). and some stuff about source code not disclosed to chinese gov, some stuff about ms controlling 3rd party software that can be installed in win 8 (eh? driver signing? app store only?) or at least that's what the newspaper article i read claims to be the "security

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