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I understand where this guy is going, but let's be honest here. Value itself is incredibly subjective. The channel sellers and consultant networks that Cisco and IBM have? They have a pretty hefty education and federal sales/partners division, not to mention their 30 year lockdown on the...

It sounds like the phone was registered to the person in question, but it seems like they paperwork shortcut-ed the process and didn't check a driver's license before giving the person the new or replacement phone. The fact that she received an email indicates that she registered it. It'd be...

It's funny how we get ourselves lost on the entire subject matter when targeting an individual company. This is taken from a BBC documentary called "Secrets of the Superbrands" which looks at how all companies use brands to influence us. The religious fanaticism of the average Apple user is no...

TBH I've always appreciated the fact that the HardOCP ads are at least far more relevant to my interests than the average (insert website type here). I'm not surprised about the photo by the way, or the attempt to block it. There are good techs inside Best Buy- they just haven't found a way...

A loss in the short 3-5 year term, even a large one, isn't necessarily to be interpreted as a bad sign. Everyone remember Net 1.0? A lot of unprofitable companies fell through, but even companies which incurred large initial losses managed to become household brands today. The ability to...

She's one of a very, very small group of people to get into NYU's Tisch School of the Arts at her age. The woman turned down Juilliard. I might not like her music, but I'm not willing to reject notions of "talent" based on my personal taste.

Reading the thread is good ;) As far as for why the Commerce Clause is getting a "workout", a bit of history on the Articles of Confederation is a pretty easy explanation. "Lately" is also relative, because it's been exercised pretty consistently over the past two centuries, increasing...

And again, not to scare the anti-government crowd too much here, but: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/04/fcc-next/

It's pretty hilarious that no one has read the opinion or cares about the commerce clause, it seems. :D The only thing the FCC needs to do is turn the internet into a Title 2 entity and they have far more liberty to regulate it, and yes, that power is granted to the Legislative Branch under...

Also, not that it matters, but yes, I intend to enter law school shortly. My bachelor's candidacy is in Communications with a focus on rhetoric and public policy.

To be fair, the internet is an interstate body and a growing vehicle for commerce. The commerce clause of the Constitution (article 1, section 8, clause 3) gives the US Government the following: I'd advise you read the article and give yourself a pretty thorough rereading of the Constitution...

To clarify (because this board doesn't allow editing)- the [H] community isn't necessarily able to create a new broadband startup provider to compete with Comcast. Ignoring local policies, the challenges in establishing an infrastructure from a cost perspective is simply too great to allow for...

With all due respect, I think you need to broaden your own viewing/reading habits as well. Capitalism has been pretty much the single greatest enabler of social mobility over the past three centuries. Read "Commanding Heights" (or watch the PBS special of the same title for a bit more balanced...

The best place for this power is obviously in the hands of those who stand to profit most from the exercise thereof, obviously ;) I agree that government regulation of many things is less-than-ideal, but I really am not sure that this is the case here.

I've been having a problem that I recently was concerned about (and posted about on the Intel boards with no responses). My computer would turn on, monitor would initialize, then I'd get a non-blinking _ on screen for a period of 1-2 minutes before the bios post screen would pop up, and...

Oh, and other and most important point- support those who give you good support. Enforce change by putting your money places which give you that support. I mean, these aren't new concepts, but people tend to treat them like they're crazy.

I would agree to the previous point about people being respectful, but I would disagree that the loss of respect and feeling of entitlement is exclusive to the person behind the counter. In my experience on both sides of the counter, watching from customer service lines, working behind a...

I've got a DX58SO that's having a hang issue at bootup. I'm getting no beeps, no flashing light indicators or anything of the sort. Prior to the standard Intel logo screen I'm getting a single white underscore on black in the top left corner of the screen. It's not flashing. After an...

To be honest, last time we gave the telcos billions of dollars to do this they took the money, didn't do anything with it, and here we are today.

Yes, it is. You ideally should have some sort of bias lighting behind the monitor if you do so in order to reduce the amount of strain put on them.

True, but from a strict argument, it still fits the requirements of HD. It's just crappy "ESPN broadcast in standard def, resized, with ESPNHD bars to get the aspect ratio right" HD. Both are just as crappy enough that you wish you could slam them for it, but in reality you can't because it...

While the upsides are getting better, I think I'd still much rather wait a few years for SSDs to mature and go for larger capacities on HDDs. There are simply too many variables in buying them for me still (price, performance scaling poorly with space used, overall capacity, etc). I'd love to...

I was thinking about getting a CP-850 and a P-183 fairly soon. Here's to hoping I get cut a break on the power supply. :)

I like this kind of fight. The enthusiast wins :D

I think this is an "lol WHAT" moment.

To be fair though, Apple still makes a killing on the hardware so they can afford to price the software a bit more aggressively. Still, looking at Microsoft's margins you can't help but wish they priced their home product lineup a bit lower.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg83c-tC274 Bleh, there we go.

I really don't wanna be the mac guy in this argument, but it looks like it's headed in that direction. ;) For the record all of my posts thus far have been on my Windows 7 gaming system. :D Again, if you look at any Mac user they're far more likely to use Expose as opposed to CMD+Tab. For...

True, but it didn't pull automatically from quite as extensive a library as you see on the Apple side. 7 is the first one I've been able to plug in an HP Photosmart and get full functionality without having to feed a disk or head to HP for. I'm going to just do O.o to the customization...

I was one of Vista's most ardent defenders when it came out on these boards (in a "it's not so bad" sort of way), buuutttt... Aero gestures are great, but for every "big new feature" in 7 I can liken it to something already present in Leopard. In my opinion Expose is far less annoying than...

You'll never, ever, see one of the server techs inside a Best Buy store. The only time they're in is to drop off money, to give recognition to people who brought them contracts, or to remind people that they exist. I can't go into specifics, but I think most people on these boards would be...

This isn't true- some managers are getting cut entirely in some locations (find a job from JOS or collect severance.) At our store 70% of our Magnolia employees are seeing a pay cut, every customer service senior is getting dropped down or gets to fight over one spot, every customer assistant...

Ooof, but yeah, I'll grant there are a lot of stores out there that are inconsistent with service to customers and more people (as [H] found when they did the retail review years back) who probably shouldn't be working where I work. I'm in a leadership position, and with one exception...

I'm typing this from a Windows 7 machine. 7 will, and rightfully so, receive a ton of praise as a solid operating system. Those who are looking to upgrade from XP or replace XP machines are in for a system shock if they think that 7 is going to be magically "more like XP". I explain to the...

After looking over his portfolio- specifically the web design stuff there's some fairly iconic stuff in there (lycos, blogger, Hotbot). The stuff he's done outside of Elgoog is pretty substantial in terms of high profile, so I'm going to go out on a limb and say he's likely to find employment...

Typically I would do the VGA cooler installation myself, but over the years I've either grown lazy or unwilling to deal with the fallout if/when a card burns up. So are there any thoughts on a stock 4800 series processor that won't sound like a buzz saw or jet engine?

Nintendo. :D

Throw me into the pot!

The answer is no, I'm not using a blocking plugin beyond what is built into Firefox. Chrome's Task Manager matches the Windows Task Manager, so I have no reason to believe that it's not telling me the truth as to how much memory is being used.

In addition, I've taken a look at task manager regarding memory management of the program: I seems to work fast, but I'm wondering if this is just a placebo.