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My justification for overclocking is simple: It's mine, I bought it, I can do what I want with it.

Yes: just like the best way to deal with sick people is quarantine them so they can't go to the doctor.

I'd just like everyone and their dog to sue them: get the sue-happy idiots in DC to spend all their resources defending themselves.

I like this better than the iPad - the ability to get content on the device the way I want to rather than how Apple thinks I should is a big positive for me.

The real problem with DST is not so much the amount of sleep as the waking up what your body thinks is an hour early. Your body is attuned to being asleep at that time and it responds poorly to being woken up. You're slow and groggy until you re-adjust. Going to bed an hour early will help...

Invalidating software patents would make sense. It would also make less money for lawyers - so it's never going to happen.

And yet another reason why software patents are a BAD idea rears its ugly head.

School provides a laptop - step one - whiteout over the integrated webcam. I don't mind them tracking what's done on the laptop so much if the school retains ownership - but peeping at the user's a definite Hell No!

According to Neil Gaiman (via Twitter) if you follow an expletive with "dot com" the Nexus One will transcribe it.

One thing I've noticed on my Vista laptop (a basic dual-core Vaio) is that Firefox runs about 50% CPU when I have Gmail open. Other sites are fine, but Gmail really thrashes my CPU.

Happy Birthday and many thanks! The [H] has been a part of my life for a decade.

AT&T - before the whole Cingular Merger - used to have free incoming SMS. I personally have huge issues about being charged for incoming SMS - it gives other people the ability to run up my bill without my permission. That bugs me even more than the pay to send and receive thing - which...

I read books and ebooks. I own a Sony Reader, but we still spent $100 on paper books at Borders last week. The Reader isn't like a conventional screen - and the battery usually lasts me about a week and a half (I'm a heavy reader) so in that regard I don't think it's a bad option. What I...

The moral of the story is don't ever buy an extended warranty from Best Buy. If they didn't have the warranty all they would have touched was the optical drive.

I was more curious than excited - it's been over a decade since I played Duke Nukem 3D. It's not a surprise though.

Copyright infringement is illegal, and whether it's strictly theft or not is irrelevant. Copyright itself exists as a temporary monopoly that was specifically created as an inducement to creators to continue creating. It was created as an artificial exception to the general rule that...

DRM is preternaturally stupid. It's beyond idiotic. Every human culture, going back to the old stone age, has divided people into two basic groups: us and them; or the 'in-group' and the 'out-group.' One trusted the in-group (friends) and not the out-group (enemies). The presence of DRM...

That's much better than shipping - though of course it's not all the costs They still have license fees to deal with as well as infrastructure.

Chrome is nice - I have it on both my Windows and (through Crossover) Linux boxes. I still fall back to Firefox and it is because of the extensions. Foxmarks lets me keep one set of passwords and bookmarks across all my machines. I like that. I don't have the same capability on Chrome, so...

Like many I think the current administration is doing some good things and some not good things: par for the course. I certainly expected this because of the number of RIAA lawyers now in the Justice Department (in my opinion one of the biggest strikes against this administration). The...

I run Linux primarily, but on my Windows partition I have Firefox, IE, Opera, Chrome, and formerly Safari installed. I am a browser junkie. I used Opera as my primary browser back around 2000. That was almost ten years ago. Now I use Firefox because I like its customization options - I never...

And then Google falls apart as the Open-Sourcers insist on using GIMP.

I don't know much about the columnist - but Apple's corporate culture is the reason I've never liked their products.

Holding off chipsets makes economic sense in a way that holding back the process shrink doesn't. They've already sunk the money in the research - and the cost-cutting from the process shrink is a real bonus in these economic times.

It's simple: IBM is the only hardware winner from this console generation.

I thought it was funny - I'm running nVidia but that doesn't affect the humor value.

I don't like MIRs for a number of reasons: They skate too close to the edge of false advertising to me. When I compare prices I want to know the hit on my credit card because that's what determines if I can afford something. If something costs $100 after $50 MIR and has a big sign saying...

I hope they don't vanish - we don't have any alternatives near here.

Thanks much

I'd like one too Thanks.

I have to agree with putting DRM at the top of the list. As a consumer it's a huge annoyance. DRM means I can only buy some ebooks but not others because if restrictions regarding what device I can read it on. As has been said before, DRM does sustain piracy, especially in conjunction...

Comcast doesn't touch applications on your computer, it's not the application they're blocking, it's the packets that carry the data. The application is responding correctly to the packets it's receiving. It's just that Comcast is interfering with the data. Nice bit of weasel wording there.

I'm actually surprised they haven't done this earlier. After all the newsgroups have always been about the free and open exchange of information, the very thing the RIAA most wants to eliminate.

I would check the PSU myself. A PC Power and Cooling 610W unit should be more than enough for the card. However, something isn't working. Given that this is your third card I'd look elsewhere as well. The first thing to do is check the card in another system. If it's good then the problem...

Yes I own the 640MB card, which I bought in full awareness of the 320MB variant. The reason I bought the 640MB card was simple: I knew it would be a while before I would be able to replace it and I wanted the most future-proof card in my price range. The problem with smaller framebuffers...

I'm curious about how the triple core Phenom will play out, myself. I think it will either be a brilliant success or an utter wash, but can't for the life of me figure out which at this point. My thoughts on AMD vs. Intel is simple. What you do is take your budget and proposed use for the...

Part of the problem is that the statutory penalties were laid down for people running pirate CD operations, not file sharers, and they're two different things. First, pirate CD operations are run with the expectation of profit, and second it's a lot easier for the music industry to prove lost...

I don't see anything LG as competition for the iPhone. I used to work cell phone tech support and LG phones had the worst reliability of anything we sold. When customers wanted to order new phones we all tried to steer them toward any brand but LG. I like their computer stuff-- but their...

This reminds me of when the 9700 came out. That card was such a success not because of its DX9 performance (which was all speculative at the time) but because it was far and away the fastest thing for the then currently available DX8 games. I don't care if the HD2900XT turns out faster in...

The 320GTS is a really good card for right now. If future-proofing is your aim the 640 is probably a better bet. My own concern is that some older games may be set to treat any card with over 256MB VRAM as having 512MB. If that's the case the 320 may have issues. I know that after thinking...