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*

Posted 10/17/2009 at 03:44:45pm

I'm objectifying you... =)

Geez, guys are creepy

-Jox 

Posted 10/17/2009 at 11:07:04am

I (successfully) installed Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex on a seperate partition of my main machine.  Install wasn't too hard (though ensuring I"d selected the correct HDD to install to was tricky), and everything ran smoothly.  I was browsing the web in no time and playing around with some of the programs that came with the distro.  I would still be using it today were it not for 3 things:

1)  No sound.  My Soundblaster Xtreme Gamer card had no Linux drivers (at the time, at least).

2)  Gaming in Linux is dodgy.  WINE works with many games, but many more simply do not function.

3)  Shortly after installation, a popup window  asked if I'd like to run an auto-update to patch my system.  I figured "updates are good" and clicked ok.  All the downloads were completed and I restarted (as instructed) and the system would not boot.  Auto-update bricked my install.

I was a DOS user back in the day, and a windows user today.  I'd LIKE to be a Linux user, but the number of hoops I have to jump through to play games on it, plus sketchy driver support plus the general difficulty involved in learning a new OS means I'll stick with windows for now.

-Jox

Posted 10/10/2009 at 09:54:50pm

Luddite?  Hardly.

You seem a bit confused, Tekzel, as you are apparently suggesting that ebook readers would be a more environmentally friendly alternative to books.  What you fail to take into account is:

1) Trees are a renewable resource.
2) Making paper isn't anywhere near as damaging to the environment as making the plastic and metal that would go into an ebook reader.
3) Paper biodegrades - plastic takes 10s of thousands of years to break down and releases all kinds of toxic chemicals in the process.

The problem (from an environmental perspective) with these devices is that people THINK they will "save the trees" and they MIGHT, if everyone who ever bought one kept it for 40 years and handed it down to their kids, but that won't happen.  Technology will continue to advance and people will buy new readers (some will buy new readers every year) and the old ones will end up in a landfill in China or India where homeless kids will pick through the piles of garbage for the few micro-ounces of platinum, gold, silver and copper used to make these things so that they can sell it.

The irony is that paper books are actually better for the environment.