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I'm with Glider on the power management issue... I've had better luck with Linux in that regard than Windows. It's faster, and more reliable. At least this was the case when I used Ubuntu 8.04, I believe it was, last summer on a typical Intel GPU-based notebook. I think in general, the newer...

I also recommend purchasing from somewhere else if able... at least from a company that actually warrants the products they sell. I'm also not gung-ho on recommending Acer, although it's been a while since I tested out their products. Many friends of mind who've bought Acer products in the past...

Haha, glad this is still getting some attention. I looked at it again, and it's still mind-boggling. From our perspective, Earth is huge, but man, it's not even close to being "huge". The sun is massive compared to Earth, but even that pales in comparison to the biggest stars in the galaxy.

He's an idiot for simply pointing that out? I really need to watch what I say around here, then. Of course it's lossy, he's not that naive and doesn't realize that. He used it as an example because it's extremely typical for readers of that site to use it, since a vast number of them use iTunes...

For those interested, here's a current picture of the 3DR team, soon to be ceased: SITTING/KNEELING L-R: Chris Cummings, Randy Forsyth, David Riegel, Pat Jones, Pete Knepley, Jay Brushwood, Dave Ratti, George Broussard, Allen Blum, Chris DeSimone, Brian Hook (pink tie), Scott MacLean, Rob...

The problem with earbuds though, is that they all sound like shit. Every, single, pair. I've used $100 ear buds and still disliked the quality, so I'm hard pressed to believe any pair would impress me. They all sound like tin cans. As for testing the sound quality, that's a given. If I wasn't...

Hi all: When I was on a plane a few weeks ago, listening to music and trying to get work done, an idea hit me like a ton of bricks... noise-cancelling headphones. I own a pair of closed-back cans, so I already have a lot of noise drowned out, except for a few things that are absolutely...

It's not that simple :P How are we supposed to fill up all of the whitespace that's inevitably going to appear? No site that I visit currently does a loose-width scheme, and I'm not sure how one could be properly done. If we allowed people to run whatever width they'd want, then our article...

Running a web browser full-screen on any resolution above 1680x1050 looks silly in my opinion. I remember the first time I tried out a 30"... I loaded up MSN (which was 1000px at the time), and it was truly hilarious. Most sites now stick to 1280x across though, so it's pretty much a standard...

I missed the part about it sucking bandwidth from the USB bus. Things might change in USB 3.0 though... the total bandwidth should be much, much higher. Although, I still wouldn't care to have some generic flash chip on the motherboard. We have so much RAM nowadays, Intel should just use it...

You're right, this one is indeed bootable. Hopefully this will be a huge hit for workstation users, so the prices can come down, hah.

It can sometimes be tough to tell the difference, that's for sure, but I've found it's more so obvious on some genres over another. Trance music, for example, usually fares better at a lower bit rate than rock. At 320 Kbit/s, the quality is good, but there's still compression going on, so...

Sounds good 2Tired2Tango, I'm looking forward to seeing a finished product! You must be one heck of a coder to get all that done. Sounds great to me though... it would be cool to see something like that spread from a notebook to something even smaller, like an LCD touchscreen. Not everyone wants...

Good ideas guys... I like the subscription model. As much as I hate to see the demise of newspapers, it seems rather inevitable, so really, these guys have no choice but to expand their horizons and look for ways to deliver their words to their customers. The Kindle and other e-Book readers have...

If I had to predict, I'd say that 2K Games will purchase the rights to the game, and probably hire some of the current DNF devs, and then their parent company, Take-Two (who exclusively own the publishing rights), will put it out to market. I wouldn't feel comfortable with any developer taking...