Posted 11/05/2009 at 09:26:09pm

i bet the trackpad on the macbook has drivers that actually work though. 

Posted 11/02/2009 at 10:49:01am

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/02/technology/02mbox.html

the above link explains the methodolgy used in the survey and gives you the margin of error.  To be honest I'm inclined to believe the results of this one,  can you honestly say that texting while driving is safe?

Posted 10/28/2009 at 12:09:01am

VOD will probably kill the rental market in a few years but when it comes to sales there are people like myself who will continue to prefer actually owning a physical copy of a movie for several reasons.  As long as the physical disc is not damaged I dont have to worry about the movie not playing because the license key expired or the company is having server problem, and I can play it when i dont have internet access.  That actually brings me to another point,  the 25-50GB needed to store 1080P content with uncompressed 7.1 channel audio is a lot of data, to give you an idea a 1TB hard drive will only let you store between 20 and 40 discs of content which can easily be taken up by some movies and a few seasons of a TV show.  The other thing you need to remember about streaming that much data is that its going to require a VERY fast connection to deliver the same audio and picture quality, and you had better hope your ISP doesnt have a cap on how much you can download in a month because even with comcasts 250GB limit you'll still only be able to watch 5 movies per month.  

Posted 10/27/2009 at 08:59:19pm

I'm not sure if compiz will work but you can always download the trial and see for yourself.

Edit:

It seems as though the demand for free trials of both vmware fusion 3 and VMware Workstation 7 has been greater than anticpated and has lead to some problems with the licensing system.  You can DL the trial with no problem but you'll need to go to http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/planet/vmware/ to get a trial serial number if you want to power on the virtual machine.  

Posted 10/18/2009 at 02:21:09pm

Gamestop should also get some of the blame for this, there cant be that many GS locations in this guys area so he must have been selling them to the same shops.  Didnt the employees at GS start to wonder when this guy brought in 2,200 games that didnt have the original packaging?

Posted 10/13/2009 at 12:32:23pm

I read the article, checked out the link and then went and had another look at the app privacy settings on my FB account.  Thats when i noticed the app for this "study" had been added to my account without my knowledge.

Posted 10/12/2009 at 10:39:31pm

Thanks for the article, if it were not for MPC I would not have been aware that this app had been added to my profile without my knowledge.

Posted 08/26/2009 at 08:34:02am

It probably goes without saying, but the above post is spam and you should not download the software it is advertising.

Posted 06/09/2009 at 03:55:39am

Yes of course the Germans should ban "violent" video games, after all before video games were invented Germany was a peace loving country that never made an agressive act in its entire history.

Posted 05/16/2009 at 10:56:39pm

With more and more people buying DSLR's it would be nice if windows would natively support the various RAW formats, instead of requiring the user to go out and find the correct codec for their camera and the version of windows that they are using.  Well that's assuming a RAW codec actually exists for the windows version they are using (I'm talking about you Nikon...how about supporting 64 bit OS's for a change?)