Posted 11/19/2009 at 06:06:58pm

I still don't get how this device is popular with anyone.
Kindle books are just as expensive as paper books.  Moreso, if you consider that I can pick up used copies from thrift stores for a couple bucks.  One cannot do this with virtual books.  Yes, there are 2-dollar titles in Amazon's library, but I wouldn't buy any of them.  I frequently hit the used book stores and thrift shops and can walk out with a half-dozen books for under 20 bucks.  Most of the books on kindle.com seem to be in the $9.99 sweet-spot that retailers love so much.
Technology is great and I'm all for new things, but consider the following:
USB thumb-drives are a vast improvement over floppy disks.  CD's and DVD's are a great improvement over cassettes (audio and VHS alike).  LCD monitors are better than CRT's.  The kindle has its uses, but it's just not a significant improvement over traditional books.  Even in the school, where you'd think it would be advantageous, the kindle receives only a lukewarm reception.
I don't get why MPC is lauding these things so much.  You must own stock, or something.
-Jox 

Posted 11/12/2009 at 06:38:39pm

I'd love to see a market resurgence of Matrox cards for gaming.  They were always decent, but never quite bar-raising.  They had some good ideas (the Parhelia) and some poorly executed ones (the Parhelia), and a 3-way battle for market share was always good for consumers.  Sadly, they made themselves largely redundant to home users.  Hopefully this is a sign of their return to a position of competent competition.

-Jox

Posted 11/10/2009 at 07:57:52pm

If AOL goes under, what will I put my drinks on?

-Jox

Posted 10/29/2009 at 09:57:35pm

"PayPhrase solves the headache of trying to keep track of all the
different usernames and passwords people use to shop on various sites
across the Web"
 
Firefox already does this for me.  Please explain how this is an improvement.
-Jox 

Posted 10/26/2009 at 05:54:19pm

I'm willing to bet than not to many of the Maximum PC readership make regular use of the Geek Squad

Does this include going to the store to intentionally mess with them?

-Jox

Posted 10/26/2009 at 05:49:35pm

If my son is pirating software without my knowledge (hypothetically - he's only 2), and he gets cut off for a year, does that mean that I can't have internet in my home any more?

- Jox

Posted 10/26/2009 at 05:41:32pm

Geocities might have sucked less (and perhaps even turned a profit) if everything hosted there wasn't dirt-slow to load and didn't have those wretched floating adverts that impaired one's ability to read the damn page.

This is long overdue.

-Jox

Posted 10/26/2009 at 05:36:30pm

qù tāmāde!

-Jox

Posted 10/19/2009 at 09:16:19pm

Onlive

-Jox 

Posted 10/19/2009 at 08:28:30pm

*yawn*