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Wow, nice going Rob! Hope Zlao spots this.

Actually this one is much better! Not only do you get chances to win games off your wishlist, but each entry gives you a "ticket" as well. 3 tickets will get you DLC content for free for one of a dozen games. I'll be getting a few map packs for free even if I don't win any prizes. :) As...

That might be spot on.... or they took the traditional "box" design, gave it to UPS, and used it as a reference model when they got it back...

That's nuts. Some programs just don't work with keyboard toggling and don't even show what option is highlighted when tabbing around the interface. I'm pretty sure I could endure it, but that'd slow down productivity by a huge amount... and I wouldn't last a week. :D It's far more common for...

SSD's don't play a huge factor in battery life. :D Although they can help in many cases, it's a bad idea to upgrade to one just for battery life improvements as the benefits won't be anything near the investment cost. Those 5400RPM laptop drives are pretty light on power, and the...

As long as he manages it right and gets some decent game support, that guy should see some great success. :)

It is just you. ;) J/K! I have to totally agree with ya... It never ceases to impress me what new ideas game devs can conjure up in the name of money-grabbing. Piracy doesn't even have a thing to do with this decision... if I did own a 360 this would be one game (and studio) I'd make...

Occasionally a good one would come along, but overall the trend has been for installers to get worse... More overt & disguised attempts to install additional unwanted apps, extra steps that weren't needed, "advanced" installation menus that didn't differ from the quick install option except in...

Some really great tunes in this thread! :) I'll add one that's bouncing around my head for the week, no vocals. Sounds better when it's crystal clear, it's a bit muffed from the compression: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfYdqsnevKs&hd=1 There's also a 5 minute chill version of it...

Hey Gsouthee. I've seen some impressive results on a few laptops... the best is probably the Macbook Air, which is about to be refreshed. However, any dual-core Sandy Bridge laptop, 14-15" in size, with an 8 or 9-cell battery should be able to hit six hours with moderate usage. Larger 17"...

(I cut and and moved the specific part of my post on religion to below given the huge freaking wall of text I wrote on a much more pleasant topic above. Feel free to skip over this if religious discussion isn't something you want to get into. Again these are my personal thoughts, opinions, and...

What an intriguing thread, thanks for starting it GFreeman! I had to wait until I had some time to actually sit down and read through, then write a respectable reply. History Channel's The Universe was the start of my fascination with Cosmology and Astronomy... it took things out of the...

Aw, you guys are disapointing me!! :p I'm not a big fan of multiplayer FPS games, so maybe that's why I like TF2. :D Bought the Orange Box for Episode Two and Portal, but TF2 grew on me. It's a great game to just hop into and relax for a bit, and there are enough classes and weapons to...

Then how would you be able to compare scores generated from one PC to another, if the weighting factors were different? I understand your meaning, but nobody designs a program that analyzes a computer but doesn't publish any results. It's a novel idea but it would drastically change how 99% of...

Maybe, but I think that's too simple of an explanation. And Opera never did play the numbers game. The only time they change the number is when something drastically changes the browser in a very visible or functional way to the end user. Even then they primarily do incremental .01 style updates...

Optix, it's people like you that scare me sometimes... that sounds like fun. :D Most NON-grocery stores in the US offer online ordering and in-store pickup, but not even Walmart offers it for groceries. The only stores I know of that allow online ordering for food are Costco and Sam's Club...

That's an extremely good point to make. I used to be extremely interested in tweaking Windows since Win 98se (which required it just to even work half the time) to Vista. Seven is the first version of Windows I just didn't see enough results from to bother mucking around under the hood with...

That's really unusual... a SSD shouldn't boost FPS. It will let the game start much more quickly (so everyone can stop and wait at all the corporate logos) and will make levels load significantly faster, but not FPS. Unless the game is really paging the disk reading/writing, but games are...

It is always great to see more fibre deployments, but as is usually the case they are very limited in availability. They support around a half-dozen cities in New Brunswrick only.

Interesting... Thanks for the link, that one is definitely going in my bookmarks for reference!