After some very extensive research, I settled upon the Asus Eee 1000HA, mainly because of the 10" screen over the 8.9" and the large HDD. I am impressed with the quality. Acer prices are a little...

Thats encouraging news.
Still, I have to wonder; $19 billion spent on Black Friday 2006, $20 billion in 2007. Does that actually translate in to more people buying more products, or does that...

I think most Americans are eschewing some "de facto" definition and simply looking at their paychecks and comparing them against their buying power.
If Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Warren Buffet...

I think it's a good idea long term, resulting in even more job satisfaction, which should (and I think it would) keep productivity at high levels. In order to keep performance up, all a company would...

Google, at least right now, is making money hand-over-fist. Given that, and assuming they don't think they have any reason to believe they won't continue to dramatically increase their profits over...

It would seem that, by calling it an "entertainment launch", it would qualify to be compared against movies and books (particularly fictional books), which are also classified as entertainment. In...

There is nothing more comfortable than warm sand packed in around one's ears. So, repeat after me...

There. Are. No. Mobile. Phone. Viruses.
There. Are No. Mobile. Phone. Viruses.
There. Are....

Some (not all, of course) of this kind of thing would be eliminated, or at least minimized, if companies put as much effort and sincerity into treating their employees fairly and right as they do...

Ah, but Chaky, it's not necessarily about Microsoft making the money; they have a vested interest in Vista CATCHING ON. What they are saying isn't as much about making money as it is about Vista...

Microsoft is simply doing the exact same thing IBM did back in mid-1995 (and I am surprised and taken aback that they would stoop to this). In order to try to convince a wary public that the...

An astute observation by "robgmills"; given the details, I think "hacks the UK Parliament" it a bit too strongly stated. Now if this precocious young lady had sat across the street in a drug store...

So, in a sense, it seems that a powerful tool for protecting the intellectual property of developers is also a potent weapon being used by malefactors. Talk about the old "rock-and-the-hard-place"!

Where have you been? I've been paying less than $6 for domain names for about 4 years now, privacy-protected and very reliable. I think Google will succeed on name, but not price.

I Know, I know, big screen TV's are all the rage and just about everybody wants one. I want one myself, but I'll be a fat man if I let a store, like one of these huge chains is doing, buy me one....

This is highly personal, but I always recommend that you spend as much money as you can reasonably afford on a computer. This doesn't mean just throwing away your money, because you of course want to...

Great article! This makes it a little difficult to keep on not liking Dell ;)
That 690 is a pricey system, but I guess it's giving out a lot of power for that money. The best news to me is that they...

Thanks for some very helpful information. What I think I am hearing is that since I already have my teeth partially sunken into C#, there's no advantage in trying to either switch to Delphi or try to...

It seems rather fitting, that a movie no one wanted to see is the first to be released for a player no one has. LOL.

I'm speaking for myself; Adam Sandler, his popularity notwithstanding, is in my...

No, in all honesty, I don't see how this recommendation can do more harm than good, unless you have some hypothetical situation in mind, which I'd like to hear.
Your responses to this point indicate...

I don't see the controversy either. Personally, I think this person is trying to prove a point that doesn't exist.

No, you haven't really struck a nerve, I'm just explaining that your assumption that I was trying to promote Microsoft's products was wrong. I do like the product, and that's the only thing driving...

Visual C# 2005 Step By Step (John Sharp) has been really helpful to me so far.

Microsoft doesn't pay me anything. I have to pay the same for their products as anyone else.
The purpose of this forum is to HELP others who have similar interests, and to get help if it is needed...

HappyGeek:

It amazes me sometimes how people trained to do sales (there IS a difference between "people trained to do sales" and actual salespeople) are always tripping over themselves. It's...

An elderly woman in Ohio has been pretty much beaten to a pulp by AT&T (not physically, of course, but it almost might well have been). Here's the story:
Mandatory phone rentals went out in the 80's...

Borland has released some "Turbo Explorer" editions of it's development tools. I am wondering if anyone here can tell me (as objectively as possible) if the Delphi language is

-"Better"
-More...

Well, it seems Microsoft has finally weighed in with some "official" pricing. It really doesn't look as bad as I would have thought. Not that it will make it any more likely that I'll be buying any...

Congratulations, mikeandike22!

Although losing is a disappointment, I can at least find consolation in that I was beaten by a very good blog. Looking forward to "next season"!

I'm kind of leaning against buying it too. I just don't see the advantage (yet). I'm pretty excited about the Aero interface, but that's not worth two hundred bucks to me. The biggest thing I was...

It was just a rumor. I said it was just a rumor. I reported it as a rumor. I had heard a few months ago that a rumor had surfaced about the pricing for Windows Vista. I had heard that the Home...

Sadly, I too have noticed that Sony has been slipping over the last few years. It used to be they were always my first choice for anything electronic. I now tend to avoid them unless they have a...

Well, well, well. Just as I got done ratting out the mobile phone companies for various beat-downs, guess what I found out? Well, actually, I found out two things: one, I found out that I should be...

Dark Omen;
Yep, I'm agreeing that the numbers do have a purpose. Point is it would be nice if there was a standard method of determining versions. I download tons of software (no kidding) and a lot...

Omen;
I agree, but developers can have the version numbers internal to the program, no need to confuse the users. The version numbers do matter to the consumer; for example you may be asked, if you...

What is up with software version numbering systems? Why no standard? How is it that some fly-by-night app, obviously obscure until the author managed to scrape together enough savvy to get it listed...

I agree too; when I see something from a business, and the email address is given as an AOL address, or worse yet, Hotmail or Yahoo (both of which are fine for personal use), I take a step back.

You know, I'm not at all surprised by this. Considering that these thudheads that run these sites are willing to pay-per-click (or per whatever) to get the gullible to their sites, I find this to be...

It scares me that, even if I do the duty to protect my personal information, some IT "professional" might be asleep at the switch and be the leak that sinks my ship. So, just when I thought I was...

Well, Symantec (one of my favorite whipping-boy software companies) is at it again. I mean they have taken hold of the crank with a death grip and are trying their best to give that bad boy one heck...

Man! What a tight race! This is both exciting and nerve-wrecking at the same time. One thing I have figured out: All those Oscar -nominated actors who make all that ballyhoo aout how "It's an honor...