Posted 10/03/2009 at 04:23:46pm
More than doubling the transistor count to 2.15 billion is amazing. Of course, I'm going to wait to see if NVIDIA can beat AMD's offering...and see who has better Linux support! ...
Posted 09/23/2009 at 05:52:20am
Hopefully, the latest video drivers from ATI will work on Linux and distros like Ubuntu will support it! ...
Posted 08/25/2009 at 12:03:29pm
I don't understand why no one has brought up the new jersey lawsuit over hotchickswithdouchebags.com. The court basically held that calling someone a douchebag wasn't defamatory. ...
Posted 06/01/2009 at 01:20:23pm
Twitter is marketed towards older people (think of all the exposure on CNN) while Facebook is marketed primarily towards students.I get the best of both worlds by having Twitter update my Facebook fee ...
Posted 04/22/2009 at 03:25:12pm
I never owned a laptop before. There were way too many compromises. Too big, too expensive, too underpowered. The Asus EeePC got the price/feature/weight ratio right for me. ...
The original Eee PCs can be found in the $100-$200 range on Is the Netbook Hysteria Starting to Wind Down?
Posted 04/21/2009 at 02:35:01pm
Eee PCs can be found in the $100-$200 range refurbished. If you don't care about portability and size and price, splurge on an old notebook. ...
Posted 04/21/2009 at 02:33:00pm
I own an Asus EeePC. I love it. It is hackable. You can install Ubuntu on it. It is a handy dandy device. Its great for commuting since its light or checking your e-mail or surfing the web a ...
Forget Open Source, Game Rules Are Not Copyrightable on Wizards Pulls D&D PDFs, Forgets Its Own Open-Source Equivalent
Posted 04/12/2009 at 09:58:11am
Game rules are not copyrightable. The idea for a game is not
protected by copyright. The same is true of the name or title given to
the game and of the method or methods for playing it....Copyrigh ...
The Internet Wont Kill The Justice System on Will Google, Facebook, and Twitter Kill The Justice System?
Posted 03/29/2009 at 02:26:51pm
All that judges have to do is make it clear to jurors not to read the newspaper or research the internet at home. If the stakes are so high for a particular case, the jurors could be sequestored at ...
Posted 02/19/2009 at 01:41:32pm
@skywyze: I beg to differ. Our constitution is what makes this country great. And nowhere in our constitution does it establish capitalism as the way to run our country's commerce. That being ...
Posted 01/26/2009 at 03:13:35pm
....if you make edits using an account, your revisions should show up immediately, right? If you value your anonymity more than a quick edit, then you can go ahead and post as anonymous. ...
Posted 01/25/2009 at 08:39:11am
Before partitioning and dual-booting, just try it out on your current Windows setup using VirtualBox. Just go ahead and download and install VirtualBox: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/DownloadsIf yo ...
Posted 01/18/2009 at 09:05:47am
I've used Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and a few flavors of Linux over the last 4 months, and I am impressed with how advanced they all have become. Installing Vista or 7 is as easy as inst ...
Posted 01/16/2009 at 05:16:22pm
"You cannot possibly know IRS law well enough to determine how and when a foreign national can be taxed."It is clear beyond any doubt that foreign nationals who work or do business in the US ...
Posted 01/13/2009 at 05:22:20pm
If you are curious about the rules that the IRS uses to tax nonresident aliens (that means foreign citizens), check out http://www.irs.gov/publications/p519/index.html. Of course, a nonresident alie ...
Posted 01/13/2009 at 12:22:39pm
LOL, please cite the section of the IRS tax code that says that "unsanctioned transactions"are not taxable. You can't, because there are none. Using your logic (or rather lack thereof) all ...
Posted 01/13/2009 at 12:14:50pm
Of course the government taxes illegal income. The government can and does tax people on any form of income, including income earned in violation of a contract or in violation of criminal law. In fa ...
Posted 01/12/2009 at 07:57:44pm
...but on actual real world income. Gross income is any income, from whatever source derived. However, in order for gross income to be taxed, it must be "realized". So, when your 100 s ...
Posted 01/10/2009 at 11:17:13pm
Don't bother with these instructions. Microsoft changed the downloading process. All you have to do is open up Internet Explorer, since you need ActiveX, and navigate to http://www.microsoft.com/w ...
Posted 01/09/2009 at 12:03:10pm
...there is nothing wrong with using apt-get. New users should only being installing packages from trusted repositories anyhow, using add/remove programs or synaptic. If a new user really needs to ...
Posted 01/09/2009 at 11:53:12am
There is absolutely no harm for anyone, including linux n00bs, from trying to install another OS onto their netbook. Getting a distro like ubuntu-eee or plain ole' ubuntu to work is not usually an i ...
Posted 11/15/2008 at 07:10:22am
Because of the absolutely unfair and idiotic way US law treats software consumers in the USA, every time you "buy" a piece of software, you are really only buying a license which gives you a ...
Posted 11/15/2008 at 07:00:09am
Bzzzt...sorry...software has a finite useful life as well...I just tried to run a floppy disk of an old game I bought years ago, and it didn't work on my machine at all, since the media had failed. ...
Posted 11/15/2008 at 06:41:30am
It is only 100 bucks more than a comparable Asus Netbook of the same size...and its a Dell, which means something to corporate type people. I've been asked by people about my Eee and support is alwa ...
Posted 11/15/2008 at 06:35:34am
There is a simple solution to this problem: Don't click on any ads. Period. Educate your family and friends about computer virus' and safe computing practices. Use Firefox with AdBlock Plus an ...
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