Posted 07/05/2009 at 10:15:51am

Their whole marketing campaign has been built around saying Bing cuts through the crap on the Internet to find you useful results. How likely is it to find something useful in the bazillions of inane and insipid comments of a mere 140 characters or less that is twitter. If there is a more concentrated collection of useless crap on this planet than twitter, I have yet to hear of it.

Posted 06/24/2009 at 10:23:51pm

I hope Alan "spam King" Ralsky makes some new friends, who cram his box full of things he doesn't want.

 Too bad it is more about wire fraud than spamming, but hell they had to get Capone on Tax evasion charges.

Posted 04/11/2009 at 10:17:24am

TSR and now WotC have repeatly made inexplicable business decisions that manage to piss off their fans. They don't understand that if you treat a hobby as strictly a business you are gonna inflame your audience.

The good news is that D&D has always survived despite the business practices of the companies.

Posted 04/01/2009 at 12:41:43am

Just goes to show you can only make technology idiot-resistant, not idiot-proof.

Posted 04/01/2009 at 12:12:17am

The problem is two-fold. We all know that the Internet is full of "facts" that have absolutely no regard for the truth. Second, the limitation is so that only evidence that has been legally obtained is admissable.

How often do we a trial judged in the media long before it sees the inside of a courtroom. You want your jurors getting their "facts" from these sources.

Yes, lawyers should know what information is available and if they care about their client they will make sure that information gets to the juror the way it is supposed to--in a courtroom where cross examination and rebuttal are handled fairly.

For the record, I am not a lawyer. In fact, I believe this country has about fifty times too many lawyers. But I for one wouldn't want some Yahoo! using The Google to find answers (i.e. what some sensationalist media outlet, or prejudiced blogger wrote).

I would be massive ticked if some twit twittered away my weeks of jury service. I just spent three days on a jury and I know our judge continually admonished the jurors what not to do. I mean he repeated anytime we left the courtroom. 

Posted 03/21/2009 at 12:16:30pm

That is why marketing advertising people like words like 'best.' He didn't say provides the coldest solution only the 'best.' It certainly depends on how you define best. I don't want arcticles filled with esoteric things most people will never use ($10,000 custom paint jobs come to mind). When I think of best of the best I don't want the most outlandish thing available but rather the best of mainstream hardware.

Sure, 'better' (as in colder) methods are out there. Liquid Nitrogen is OK, but let's go for immersion in Liquid Helium if you really want cold (2.7 Kelvin, baby!).

Seriously, what is the point of running a CPU at -35C? Most CPUs aren't even designed to be stored at the low of temperature. Other than bragging in forum posts, what does it get you? If a cooler keeps the CPU cool enough to overclock it to the limit of the motherboard or some other bottleneck without overheating it has served its purpose.

Idea for an arcticle: compare maximum stable clock vs. temperature. Just how cold does the CPU need to be to get maximum overclocking.

Posted 11/12/2008 at 10:01:12pm

I installed AVG after reading about it in a no less prestigious journal than MaximumPC. My faith was shaken after a false positive in the Open Office 2.4 Installer. This pretty much makes me think it is worthless. I've never had a virus screw up my machine so I couldn't at least boot, I would expect any reasonable anti-virus software not to kill my machine. What does every machine they tested it on not have a user.dll? I know that no scanner will be perfect, but Open Office is hardly obscure and finding a false positive in the operating system is just plain lame.

Now what gang. I'm deleting AVG right now.

Posted 11/12/2008 at 09:58:43pm

I installed AVG after reading about it in a no less prestigious journal than MaximumPC. My faith was shaken after a false positive in the Open Office 2.4 Installer. This pretty much makes me think it is worthless. I've never had a virus screw up my machine so I couldn't at least boot, I would expect any reasonable anti-virus software not to kill my machine. What does every machine they tested it on not have a user.dll? I know that no scanner will be perfect, but Open Office is hardly obscure and finding a false positive in the operating system is just plain lame.

Now what gang.

Posted 11/12/2008 at 09:39:45pm

Three branches of the military?! They must not be counting the Air Force. :-)

Because if they ain't counting the Marines, R. Lee Ermey is gonna come over and set their undisciplined civilian asses straight. 

It seems like even the Department of Defense can't get it right. There are FIVE branches of military of the United States: Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and the Coast Guard. Give the coasties a break! they've served their time too.

Next year for Veteran's Day, instead of playing WoW, I suggest the staff of MaximumPC spend the day sending copies of the mag to our service men and women.

Semper Fi.

Posted 05/23/2008 at 03:39:45pm

The article you link to says he got $100K over 15 months not 15 minutes. The NY Times quotes him as saying he got $1050/day. Still not a bad payday. I'm guessing that the programmers and graphic artists weren't making $1K a day, Mr. Hollick.