Posted 02/08/2010 at 03:21:58pm

Uhhh... so he's sueing for something that happened ("early 2009") before Symantec was told to pay the original suit amount (June 2009)??  That doesn't make sense.  So basically he is having a pity party for because he didn't get a part of the original suit.

Posted 12/03/2009 at 03:59:17pm

I was thinking the exact same thing about the NYT.  If you seriously read the NYT to get reliable news, then I will rely a whole let less on what I read in your posts on MaxPC.

ps. I do like the picture though 

Posted 11/20/2009 at 10:03:49am

Uh... the "(000)" means the numbers are in thousands.  So according to nielson, hulu has 13MM (that's million).  Nielson is counting video's where they are viewed, while comScore counts who served the stream.  In reality, Hulu has 38 million viewers including affiliates (which is why Hulu prefers comscore #'s), and youbube serves over 10 billion views.

http://comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2009/10/TV_Season_Premieres_Spur_Continued_Gains_in_Online_Video_Viewing_as_September_Attracts_Record_Viewership 

Posted 03/17/2009 at 03:35:31pm

sorry, but you don't know what you're talking about.  Have you ever tried converting a 3 gig HDTV show (+8GB for 2hr movie) on something less than a quad core?  Apparelently not.  

TV tuners use some CPU cycles (although most have built in hardward mpg2 decoders), then there is processing the show for commercial skip (while the next show is recording), ripping/archiving dvd's, converting shows/movies for your ipod or for more reasonable file size...

Also, if you use an xbox or other media center extender, each one acts as another user connected to your pc with additional process running which can use up double digit cpu cycles when serving up HD content to my extenders even on my x4 9850.  

Quite & efficient has its place, but HTPC's aren't just sitting there reading a Blu-ray disc. Guess I'm kind of annoyed at so many commenters "overkill" mentality, and even MaxPC with their how stripped down of hardward can you put into your livingroom... wrong, wrong wrong.

In fact, I would argue the opposite.  Core i7 is overkill for gaming.  The frame rate incrase you get going from a Core 2 to i7 doesn't even compare to the increase in fps you get when encoding content to h264!!!

Posted 09/29/2008 at 03:26:58pm

A 25 year timeline is more realistic.  MS isn't even close to being #2.

 http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=2476