Posted 11/21/2009 at 03:57:03am

  Diablo2, Starcraft, Age of Empires, Heroes of Might and Magic, Warcraft, the list goes on and on. I have played all of these and finished all the single player campaigns. Even with WOW, I never group and the only guild I belong to is one I created just for my own players. They has been a lot of games that I never bought because of a lame or non existant single player campaign.

 Why? three good reasons. One is the frustration of waiting around to find someone to play with and then having the person just bail for no good reason. Another is that I enjoy my games set at my own pace. Having to frantically mash buttons just to try to keep up sucks. Finally, having a player who is clueless or even worse, much better than me.

I avoid chess and Monoloply for the same reson. Stratego and batgammon are fine.

Posted 11/21/2009 at 03:40:59am

 When he accidentally deleted the data on the MS exchange server for his entire company by the equivalent of a del *.* command. Took two days to bring it back online.

Posted 11/21/2009 at 03:27:32am

 Heh. Anyone hear "Dang, bro! My modded console lets me play copied games and cheat online. Microsoft does not do a damn thing about it. This is unacceptable!"  You had a good run and you KNEW the possible consequences of a modded console. Hell, you even paid money to mod the box so its not like "WTF just happened? I can suddenly play backup disks.". MS found a way to ban you? Live with it.

Posted 11/21/2009 at 03:13:19am

 Sorry bro, not in stock.

Posted 11/21/2009 at 03:12:25am

  Well, this is a surprise. I have been looking for a month for stock for the Radeon 5870 with no luck. Do I expect a card that has 2 of the low yeild GPUs to be in stock. I think not.

Posted 11/19/2009 at 06:45:48pm

 This was a blast to watch, especially the watch! I never thought about personally projecting my computer wherever I am. What an idea!

Posted 11/19/2009 at 06:38:29pm

 This sounds more like a phone operating system than a computer operating system. Does this thing even support  a hard wired network? Web apps only? And if it does not play games, forget about it. If you are out of range of WiFi, what exactly does this nice operating system DO? Does it do anything at all? Does not sound like it. Boy, this sounds even bad for a phone operating system let alone a netbook or tablet.

45 seconds to boot up? OMG, that is about the same amount of time as a traffic light. Google, ever heard of... SLEEP? And if folks think that there will be no upgrades, HAH! 

So what does this have over Win7 on a netbook? Well, its cheaper and, uhh, its cheaper, but best of all, it's a lot cheaper!

Posted 11/19/2009 at 06:19:39pm

  Look at Amazon, Newegg, and ZipzoomFly. No one has a ATI Radeon 5870 to ship. Yields are low and cards are nowhere to be found. Give NVidia a few more months and ATI will rue the day they announced a graphics card before there were enough chips to MAKE the damn thing.

Posted 11/19/2009 at 12:01:33pm

  I wanted a tablet PC to read PDFs in bed. I figured the Apple Tablet would be a good choice. With that kind of price and that long a wait, I think I will just buy a cheap monitor with long cords and a wireless mouse (take the stand off natch).

Posted 11/17/2009 at 04:22:37pm

  Who cares what the specs are or the clock speeds or the O/C speeds? Intel has a more effecient chip and in real world performance handily beats out AMD CPUs. If you hate Intel fine go with AMD. But do not expect the rest of us to ignore the reality that Intel for now has superior products.

  And I am with someone else who mentioned having issues with ATI boards in the past. I too am very wary of buying an ATI GPU because of flaky cards and drivers over the years. I especially am wary of the 5870 with its low yields. Who knows how many flaky cards are getting shipped because it just barely passes inspection and testing?