Posted 11/06/2009 at 07:26:18pm

PC vendors need to relax a bit. Win7 has been out for what, 16 days now? Did they really expect sales to increase that much in 2 weeks?  I think with the holidays coming soon, new PC's will begin to move off of shelves. I know I'm buying my son a laptop with Win7 on it for Christmas.  Maybe the sales won't quite be what the vendors are hoping for, but most of us are still in belt tightening mode.  I would be surprised if new PC sales are not up in Q1/Q2 of 2010.

Posted 09/14/2009 at 07:13:31pm

I disable auto-run for pretty much everything all ready.

Posted 09/06/2009 at 01:16:49am

I got my 7 year old son into SW a few years ago, and he prefers the prequels over the original trilogy. He LOVED the Clone Wars movie, and we made it a father/son thing to watch the 1/2 hour CW episodes on TV every week (we have every episode saved on the DVR EXCEPT the Jar-Jar episode). He is always asking me to go to some web site or another to play games on, which I generally don't allow him to do because of the crap ware the sites try to install. He wants to be a gamer.  He wants to use a computer over the x-box & Wii.

I recently started to replay SW:KOTR II and he loves watching me play the game.  I guess the point of all this is that for younger kids who did not grow up with the original trilogy, Clone Wars is a big deal to them. It IS Star Wars to them. Sure they know about the movies, but a 1/2 hour cartoon show is better suited for them than a 2+ hour long movie.

I really get the idea behind this game, if it is really in development. Lucas is smart, he needs new fans to keep the money rolling in, and the CW is a big part of how he is going to continue to make money on his franchise.  Honestly I think a CW MMO could be a lot of fun.  My son could play by himself, or we could play the game together.  As long as it's not a total POS, I'd be more than happy to drop some money on a game that my son and I would enjoy playing.  

Posted 08/11/2009 at 05:39:48pm

I second the motion for adding Adblock Plus to the list. Top 5 in my book.

Posted 02/22/2009 at 07:52:39pm

Does anyone still use Adobe?  I've used Foxit for years and reccomend it to everyone I can.

Posted 02/05/2009 at 09:35:51pm

I have always said the only thing that could be more fun than killing zombies would be killing nazi zombies!!  Way to read my mind.

Posted 11/26/2008 at 08:02:37pm

I am looking forward to Chrome getting extensions.  I use FF3 most of the time, but every once in a while I will use Chrome.  Inevitibly when I'm surfing something irritates me and I think "why is my extension not working to stop that?".  Then I remember I'm surfing in Chrome and I can't hide ads, digg with a click, or grab an image as easily as I can in FF3.

Extensions make me more productive, and doing stuff with the content you are viewing is the name of the game these days, is it not?

Posted 09/29/2008 at 05:35:26pm

I've tried to get the episode through iTunes for a couple of days now and no luck.  I try again today to get the ep directly from iTunes and there are no episodes of MPC listed.  Trying the MP3 dl now.

Posted 06/28/2008 at 09:41:16am

More pictures of inside the case would be nice.

Posted 11/19/2007 at 08:46:36pm

I, like the Murf love to look at stats like these and compare my rig to other PC's that are out there (although I did drop Statistical Methods of Psychology shortly after the semester started!). I have participated in previous Valve hardware surveys but did not participate in this survey. I built my rig almost 2 years ago and based it on an AMD socket 939 architecture. I have 2GB of RAM in my machine so I'm in the minority there (0.43%) but I'm squarely with the majority of AMD users because I'm running a single core (75.36%) 3700+ San Diego Core at 2.29GHz (20.77%). So I'm above average in RAM but in the proc area I'm not sure if I made a good choice or not. For the money the chip I have is great, but I do wish I had gotten that FX-60 when I had the chance. I do have a dual core chip that I could put in my machine but I never felt it was an improvement over my old processor. I think the most surprising stat for me was the video card breakdown. I could not believe how fragmented this area was! I don't see how video card manufacturer's make money when the pie looks to be cut so small. There is basically 2.5% difference in the top 5 video cards that a majority of the users out there are running (on valve games anyway). Something else that stood out in my mind as I browsed the stats was the breakdown of the bus types. It looks like PCIe x16 is the majority with 51.75% of the PC's out there but AGP 8x systems are still out there chugging along at 28.67% (sadly I'm in this group). I would have thought newer systems would have more RAM, but I guess 1GB is still the sweet spot for most. To wrap this up I guess in my mind the evaluation of my machine is like this: considering what I paid over 2 years to keep the PC running (aprox $700.00), the cost/performance I get is pretty darn good. I know it could be beter, but my rig can hold it's own in most of this Valve pack. Sure this is just my comparison of the sampling from Valve servers vs. my specs, but isn't that why stats can be fun? In this case they helped me to tale stock of my choices in relation to others who share a common interest. I feel pretty good about my PC in general, but man, I really do wish I had picked up the FX-60 and bought a PCIe 16x motherboard!