Posted 03/04/2008 at 09:23:34am

They're great, but if that were the entire podcast, I'd probably stop listening. IMO the reader questions are the weakest segment because the rest of the content is on average a whole lot stronger and more interesting. The Rant is, of course the pièce de résistance of any tech head's week and I know you wouldn't ever cut that. The news and lab report segments might seem dry on paper but they routinely serve as launching points for the most interesting discussions on the podcast: riffs about behind-the-scenes tech biz stuff, upcoming gear, MaxPC gossip, etc etc.

Posted 01/12/2008 at 10:31:14pm

I have to say I was really surprised by the comment about being more likely to ignore a future emergency because last week's turned out to be a (relatively) false alarm. The reason you haul ass out of there when the call goes out is, in a real emergency, the difference between life and death can literally be a matter of seconds. Unless you have a crystal ball, when an evacuation is taking place you have NO WAY OF KNOWING whether or not it is real. The next one might be. Seriously, I thought you guys were smarter than that.