I'm honestly not much of a gamer, but this doesn't seem all bad to me. Microsoft has a bad habbit of maintaining backwards compatiblity when it shouldn't. They claim to innovate but usually their...

I believe you mean formerly Lindows.

i must say I won't be taking them up on this offer. If I want to use windows I'll use windows, not their windows clone. Let's get real. Linux is not for...

I think the the medium is the determining factor in whether abbreviations and other such things should be used. I spend (well used to spend) alot of time on IRC. On IRC it is normal to ignore...

Actually, netscape, and later AOL, brought us netscape. The newest version does use firefox, but your statement is misleading. Netscape created the mozilla foundation, not the other way around.

I realize they aren't forced to get a new area code, but if people in their area are going to call them and not get charged for long distance they would need to. My assumption is that most people...

I see nothing wrong with cutting the customers off. I would bet any customer who loses phone service will immediatly contact (call?) their VoIP provider and at that time they can acknoledge the new...

Personally I'd be surprised if the FCC would permit something that would cause such widespread interference. I know they do stupid things, but I've always figured they at least kept interference to...

This sounds like an interesting technology. On the surface (I haven't read anything about this but your post), it seems simlar to dual layer DVD technology, except with magnetic charges. This...

My old Dell Inspiron lasts at least 6 hours, perhaps longer, when I put both batteries in (at least it did until one of the batteries decided it didn't want to charge anymore). My dad's laptop on...

The fact is they are still at least initially releasing Vista without WinFS. This will mean that Vista really won't have any major new technologies besides interface changes. It really makes me...

I'm not disputing that. You just made it sound like a digital broadcast was the same as a webcast.

Well it seems that the worst case scenario for New Orleans at least has not come to fruition. The levies which keep the water our of the city were not breached. That said, the rainfall alone has...

First of all, as someone in the US, I wish they would let me use it, though i know it wouldn't be fair, since I don't pay for it with my taxes. I used to watch BBC World using a proxy but they no...

jwenting you are dead wrong. I have myself attempted to read entire books on google and it just didn't work. It stopped me from reading after a few pages. I was able to read most of the book on...

Or previous step as the case may be.

I must say I am growing a bit tired of all the google stories but I feel obligated to reply.

This is really stupid on the magazines part. Google images is great advertising for them. Few if any...

I tried installing google desktop a few days ago but gave up and unistalled it. The indexing stalled at 12% for some unknown reason and I just didn't care enough to try to troubleshoot it. The...

I broke down and downloaded google talk and google desktop last night out of curiousity. I believe I downloaded it hours before 8:10am CDT. You are right, when Google Desktop is in sidebar mode,...

Well some would probobly say that the company has a right to fire its employees under some implied principle of freedom of contract (something I can't find in the constitution, but which supposed...

I tend to agree with you, I don't like the idea of all this information about me being so easily accessible. I know the information doesn't really leave my computer, but it still sorta freaks me...

Another thing people should not do online is capitalize words unnecessarily. This is annoying, and is like yelling. "Blog" does not need to be in all caps.

I think you are confusing government...

I don't so much disagree with you as think you are being a bit alarmist about all of this. It's true, dual-core processors are a reletivly new technology, and most people don't know how to utilize...

People will use this to say windows is better than Mac, or at least not as insecure as people say, but the truth is all operating systems have security holes, and they always will. There are...

I don't really want to get into an argument about marxism in general, thought suffice it to say that Marx himself never held such a view, just many of those that have tried to put his ideas into...

But Google isn't putting them online for free. You are only allowed to read a very limited number of pages. This is not a replacement for buying the (e)book. And really, I would think any large...

I don't think this is really gonna go anywhere. Why would anyone want to pay for games that they could easily download emulators for? I wouldn't even pay $10.

Looking at the trailer, I only saw...

Marx was not an anti-semite. This is a myth. Marx came from a Jewish family, though his father converted to lutheranism for professional reasons before Karl's birth. While it is true that Marx was...

As a communist sympathizer this seems silly to me. Marx would never have supported such a policy. This strikes me more as stalinist than commnist propper.

Anyway, this .xxx domain thing will...

This is nonsense. Sure, CPUs are being surpassed by GPUs, but I don't see how this is a cause for "concern." Is there really any problem with having more processing power than game developers know...

Months ago? Try a days ago.

Proacted isn't a word.

These all look sorta cool at first but I would bet anyone who would waste money on one would forget about it within a week. After that they would forget it isn't just a regular keyboard. My two...

I've used firefox for years now and have never had any serious issues. Once in a long while a site won't display properly and I will open it in IE but that is very rare.

It seems unclear whether the worm infecting CNN and others is Rbot or Zotob. Someone from trendmicro was on CNN earlier saying it was probobly Rbot, but CNN was saying Zotob before that.

It seems...

My favorite part was early on in CNN's coverage when wolf blitzer was interviewing CNN's business correspondent about his computer not working and said to him, "What happens if you press control alt...

Actually, IE is the browser with poor web compliance. Because IE doesn't follow the standards alot of web developers don't either, and therefore firefox doesn't work on some sites.

This number is almost completly meaningless. I am growing tired of spreadfirefox putting out a press release every 5,000,000 downloads. They should be focusing on what makes firefox a better...

Jwenting, while you may be technically correct that it is illegal, you seem to be ignoring the fact that google does allow publisher's to opt their books out. What big publisher would waste money on...

I think postponing the scanning is a smart move by google. This gives the publishers plenty of time to opt-out their books. Whatever your view as to whether this is technically copyright...

This is not only offensive, but ****ing stupid as an advertising campaign. I wonder what this guy was smoking when he came up with this. Probobly watched "Bumb Fights" one to many times.

First,...