It sounds like there are several problems here, one his computer is to loud. This is a problem that is solved with better equipment. Liquid cooling modern video cards and CPU you can make a computer near silent. If you do not have the money to build a new computer with noise reduction in mind you can always move the computer and desk to another room all together. Now the other problem may have nothing to do with the "noise" of the computer at all. In this case you need to look at the number of hours you play games and weather you are meeting your relationship obligations. Are your chores around the house getting done by you without being told/yelled at/hounded, are you spending enough time with your wife/kids/(non-online) friends? She may not be wrong but going on-line and asking a loaded question like this with only 1 side of the story makes it impossible for a group of people to diagnose YOUR problem. My suggestion is you talk to your wife find out what is really bothering her and possibly seen professional help.

In my opinion raids are good overall, I use them at work and at home. They offer performance and data integrity, in all configuration except raid 0. Most people i meet that bash on raids on raids either had a bad experience with early raid controllers or don't understand what a raid has to offer let alone how to configure one properly. Modern raid controllers from reputable manufactures are extremely reliable, fast and can offer large disk space with extreme I/O rates. I regularly parse network/application data in to databases that grow in excess of 500GB for a single day of testing there is no single Drive/SSD solution that will work for us. This problem is also compounded by the fact that we may need as many as 20-30 of these databases on-line for the duration of the event. The only solution out there is large disk arrays that allow us to read/write large volumes of data quickly and handle it till we are done. After 8 years of working with raids mainly 5/6/10/50/60 i have yet to lose a single MB of data to do raid failure. This is not to say I haven't had hardware failures but if your mindful of your equipment and keep it cooled and maintained properly most disk array solutions will outlast its usefulness by a good while.

I live in Arizona since we do not suffer from extreme forms of weather like floods/heavy rains, hurricanes, tornadoes (normally), earth quakes and extreme high winds it makes little to no sense to bury the power lines. Maybe we have 1 outages every few years and that normally do to just routine maintenance. People need to take in to account all the weather conditions that exists in an area before you say "just bury the lines it will be better, it works in some other place that is completely different it works there" Placing lines underground in a seismically active area like California would be less than ideal. Placing lines underground were you have highly acidic soil with high perspiration would mean your going to have to replace your entire infrastructure every decade or two. Other things that people don't take in to account is the local utilities that run your local power grid may not have invested in to the redundancy that is necessary for the reliability that you expect. They are required to meed certain regulatory standards however one of those standards only requires vary minor redundancy in the local grids. It was said earlier but keep in mind that above ground power-lines are less prone to fault grounding if a cracks develops in the protective casein, this will happen regardless to being above or below ground.

The problem is when a game reviewer receives a "game review code" they agree to the "review embargo" when they use that code. If they brake the embargo they are subject to legal action that could cost them significantly both personally and professionally. Braking an "Review Embargo" can get a reviewer blacklisted from review copies of games entirely from developer/publishing houses and even dropped by the magazines/websites they post their content. They are trying to make a living, the problem is that the consumer base will pre-order/buy sight unseen then get upset when they get burned and blame the reviewers for not telling them it was a steaming pile of crap. Ultimately it is the consumer to blame for this problem.

You should ask Com-cast what network monitoring/content inspection will get them? In America most (not all) of the ISP monitor the network for "network characterization only" they have to understand the type of traffic that it being used but do not/should not inspect actual traffic content. Inspecting traffic/monitoring protocols (P2P/VoIP) has become a big no-no for ISP's in America since Com-cast (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hart_v._Comcast), Time Warner and few smaller ISP got smacked with huge fines and litigation. As a network engineer I view packets the same way I view people personal time. I don't know what you do in your personal time and I really don't care. I will treat your personal time with the same respect I expect you to give my personal time. So I will move your packet equally as fast and reliably as anyone else's. Sadly I feel that i am in a minority in this opinion, I am constantly in debates with co-workers on what we should prioritize or even block. Sadly there are legitimate arguments for prioritizing or blocking traffic, but an ISP should be upfront about it practices.

I like you I have an opinion. But unlike you I took the time to back up my opinion with supporting information. When it comes to the micro transaction market style many players feel that offering anything that boosts a players power in any way is taboo. They arbitrarily write this off as Pay-2-Win, my argument is that it is not so "black and white" that you need to look at the implementation of the market and how it effects the players and game. Does it give players an edge? Does it hold back players? Are the same items available to everyone for reasonable effort/time? Some games have done a great job at balance of monetization and game play, PlanetSide2 being one of the best examples were 8 of the 12 empire class starting weapons are in the top 3 weapons for that class and upgrading really offers little to no benefit. Warframe has a low level pay-2-win component but really who cares about lower levels when games like Call of Duty or Battlefield offer weapons for BestBuy/Games top pre-orders people don't cry it's pay-2-win. Sorry but If your going to accuse me of not knowing what pay-2-win is, your going to have to share your vast gaming knowledge and insight.

I think your definition of Pay-To-Win is really exaggerated, in fact i would go as far as to say you really do not know what Pay-To-Win really is. But why am i not surprised most players don't know what Pay-to-Win is. Pay-To-Win (P2W) : Is when a game is designed in such a way that you must spent real money on a game to be competitive. Now some games claim that they are not P2W by offering an in game way to collect the same items but the curve to get such items take an excessive amount of time/effort to obtain that really spending money is the only logical option. Offering weapons in your store doesn't make it automatically P2W like a lot of player will claim. It is only when that power is in-excessable to the majority of the player base or it is literally the best items in the game. PlanetSide 2 (PS2) for example has a micro transaction market but for the most part best weapons are the default starting weapons. Yes you can spend money on the weapons but reality is that you earn the in game currency (Certifications) so fast that spending money is a waste of time. Most of the weapons offered in the in-game store are side/down grades from the one you started with, with the exception of a few weapons your paying for weapon skins or customization options that may or may not help you. But really spending money in PS2 will not make you better or help you kill any foe you would not have been able to kill otherwise. Warframe isn't really an MMO but thats another argument all together. Warframe starts out slow, and has an in your face micro transaction system but reality is that most everything in the market can be crafted in-game and the best warframes (armor) and weapons in game are crafted from really rare drops. But you can pay to make you life hell of a lot easer at the start but the reality is that wont help you at all of your going to be part of the end-game community. Neverwiner does have a minor component of Pay-to-win only because at the end game most companions are worthless and the best companion is only available for real money or buy it from another player off the auction house.

When they send your ISP a complaint they will check their DHCP records and find out the account on the IP at that time and simply let you know that a complaint was lodged. This happened to me a few years ago when I downloaded a few missed episodes of True blood (prior to HBO on-demand in my area), I contacted the people and the complaint was dropped when I pointed out that I am subscriber HBO. Many of this stuff can be cleared up with a simple conversation.

Just One Version, Could you tell Microsoft that please? http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/default.mspx XP Home/Pro (Thay acculy list Home and Pro as diff versions) XP Media (Home) XP Tablet XP Pro (x64) And Windows Vista Rumor has it that Vista is gonna have 6 flavors. I would assume the current 5 versions and a Mobil Version to Replace Windows CE All listed as Seprate versions of Windows on the Microsoft Website...