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I'm sure that most of us have heard the old adage, "It's okay to lie, sometimes", but how well does that same mentality carry over to piracy? Is it okay to pirate sometimes? Personally, I'm not quite sure the "sometimes" idea works, because if it's wrong to do something, can it ever be right? It...

Thanks for the nice comments! Yes, a Blu-ray drive (reader or writer) is required for ripping the movies. I should have mentioned that in the article but it didn't come to mind as I figured it'd be more of a common knowledge. For ripping, any reader at all will do, but the faster the read...

Have you ever said, "If I were a billionaire, I'd give a lot of money to charity"? Well, it seems like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet have joined forces to help persuade the world's billionaires to do just that, and as it stands, there are FORTY of them willing to donate up to half of their wealth...

So, I loaded up SCII last night and I think I found the perfect place to benchmark - the main menu. Would anyone have a problem if I just started FRAPS and let it run there for 30 seconds for the sake of benchmarking? :D I heard from NVIDIA yesterday and I was told that the problem doesn't only...

StarCraft II might be causing grief for some gamers, with overheating graphics cards, but that has done little to throttle the initial success of the game, with over 1,000,000 copies sold on launch day. As Blizzard notes in its press release, the game sold 1 million in the first 24 hours, and...

Yes, Dog Eat Toe. It seems that some dude had a wicked infection in one of his toes, and his faithful canine friend noticed it. So, the owner ends up getting drunk and passing out, and the dog ends up EATING HIS TOE. It's a good thing, though, because the owner was pretty much forced to go to...

I wasn't thinking when I took those screenshots... because they simply came out at my monitor's resolution, not the native movie resolution. All of the film's are actually 1920x1080 or close to it, bars included. I should have changed my monitor's resolution to 1080p, but didn't even clue in at...

Yesterday, we mentioned in our news that Windows 7 has finally surpassed Vista in overall usage, so on a somewhat related note, how about we take a look at browser shares today? As hard as it is for some of us to believe (myself included), Internet Explorer has changed what was a continuous...

Last month, Seagate unveiled the world's first 3TB consumer hard drive - albeit an external one. The launch was rather impressive, though, because months earlier, it sounded like it was going to be quite a while before a 2TB+ drive would become a reality. But thanks to Seagate's clever thinking...

Do you think that getting a Blu-ray movie off of its disc and onto your PC is complicated? It once was an arduous chore, but today, it's easier and more accessible than ever. We take a look at one of the simplest ways to both rip a movie onto to your PC, and then encode it into a variety of...

For KDE users like me who can never wait to get a hold of the latest version, tomorrow will be the day to celebrate, as the developers will be releasing the final version of KDE 4.5. This latest version follows up to February's launch of 4.4, and rather than unveil a bunch of new enhancements...

I just received my copy of SCII this morning, and now I'm scared to install it! Once I do, I'll keep good track of temperatures and the like. Curious if I am even going to run into the issue or not... Andy, you just need to go ahead and do it. Pretend you won it was a prize or something ;-)

A couple of months ago, we talked about a report that divvied up our time online and gave us a basic understanding of where it's all spent. Well, there's a new take on this same question, and this time it's from one of the most reputable sources around: Nielsen. The firm best known for measuring...

In case it isn't that obvious, downloadable content is becoming big business, and it's not surprising to see new companies jumping on the bandwagon all the time. It makes perfect sense, too. What company wouldn't want to sell a $50 game and then release $30 or more worth of downloadable content...

No kidding! "Would you like ketchup?" "OMG YES!"

Well, it's happened. Windows 7 has finally passed Vista in terms of overall usage, and it took a just under ten months to accomplish. That's far more impressive than Vista's first ten months, that's for sure. Since its launch, 7 has been on a clean incline, and if it keeps up the rate it's...

I'd have a feeling that the higher-tier Blu-ray players wouldn't include an HDMI cable, because for the most part, people who purchase high-end home theatre equipment have certain likes and dislikes, and they like to build the entire setup piece by piece. So, they'd probably want to buy the HDMI...

So am I :D It might take a couple of weeks though, because we're needing to receive a replacement unit. There's a bug in the current version that can't be fixed with a firmware update it seems, but the replacement won't change the performance at all. So, once we receive this replacement, it...

For desktop Linux, no, I'll stick with Gentoo. For the notebook though, openSUSE -might- replace Ubuntu. I plan on doing some testing soon to see if that'll be the case. I think it has a good chance to do that. I might move from Gentoo at some point, but I can't see it happening soon to be...

There are few things I enjoy doing more than gaming, but despite that, I sometimes have a difficult time buckling down to give a new game a try. It doesn't matter how well-received it is by others... I am for some reason, insanely stubborn. Just how stubborn? Well, I still haven't played more...