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New i7s, including an i7-2700k and a couple six core versions, were released this morning. They are of course completely ridiculous. That might go without saying.

It's definitely a louder when the fans are running full bore. It's low pitched white noise though. Not really disagreeable and easily covered by music.

So far I'd actually call it louder, but that's because I really haven't had the machine at anything like idle since I powered it back on.

Using a Prolimatech HSF didn't give me any more overclocking headroom on my game machine, but I've got all 8 cores redlined and the motherboard sensors are reporting temperatures that are around 33C lower. So that's probably a good thing.

The Galaxy and iPad have by far the best screens. I've barely touched the ipad but subjectively the Xoom is the worst of the lot, which is kind of disappointing given the rest of its specs.

I have a 7" Galaxy, an 8.9" Galaxy, a Nook Color, a 10" Xoom, an iPad 2 in my office and I should have a Kindle Fire by the end of the year

The Harry Potter series is supposed to grow with the reader. The stories get more interesting and serious with each new entry into the series. The first book really has more to do with introducing the setting and its rules than anything else. Harry has whatever his wizarding challenges are but...

Also, just to kind-of sort-of relate the ranting about comic books back to movies of a sort, the people who make the Super Hero movie parody porns are really shockingly faithful to the source material, at least as far as things like casting for looks, costuming and back story. I just got Iron...

I'd suggest HBO dramas. Boardwalk Empire and Game of Thones are both fantastic for completely different reasons.

I've never been comfortable in one either. I think it's basically just a status thing. Of course, I spend most of my time at home in a couple non-adjustable conference table chairs I stole out of my dad's office and I'd swear in court they're the most comfortable seating in my apartment, so...

Coug, if you ask me real nice I bet I can arrange for all sorts of international copyright violations on your behalf.

It is done. DC has at times killed and brought back different characters as the Flash, for example. The problem is, the three characters are entirely interchangeable and there's an important contingent of writers there who refuse to accept anything but the versions of the characters from their...

I really thought Quake got progressively weaker. Original Quake had a solid single player game and interesting weapon balance (ran out of ammo under water? Hope your next weapon wasn't the lightning gun.). Quake 2 was sillier and I didn't like the weapons as well and Quake 3 just felt like UT...

They've had 75 years to correct the problem and haven't done it.

Oh look. Steam was hacked. Awesome.

I don't see it in IE9 either.

Sounds like malware to me, though it's in the Firefox and Chrome addon sites which suggests that it's at least that legitimate. Anyway no that should be something in your browser and I'm not seeing it.

Ever seen multiple LAN parties ruined because of Steam outages? 'Cause I have. In the end, there's no way I'm going to find Steam acceptable until I can keep and play the games I pay for without the involvement of that software. Something that's happening to Valve software someplace else in the...

I have a general disagreement with the idea that everything needs to be an app, which is apparently part of the iOS user mindset. iThing people apparently want and like having an icon on their screen that represents a single-purpose viewer for one particular web site or service, which is largely...

Steam makes it easy to hate. On the other hand, I'm absolutely positive that I could install Quake from original circa 1997 media and it would be completely playable since as I recall it ran fine on NT4 and Windows 2000. Quake isn't a problem child as far as ancient games go. The bad things...

Counterpoint: Why should the automatic reaction to wanting some bit of internet functionality be to go look for it in Apple's store, rather than a generic tool that works with pretty much every other computer?

I am not a positive person. You should know that by now.

They don't, but there's a very obvious bias in the selection. According to the people who made that album, the greatest music used in games is found in 25 year old Nintendo games and very recent first person shooters.

I'm listening to better music this morning. 14 of the 24 titles listed are console only. Maybe two on the list are PC exclusive. I'm more than willing to stand by my assessment. My objection is specifically to the fact that the producers of the album have chosen an unwarranted superlative. And...

Does anyone not hate Flash? I've hated it since forever. But part of hating it is wrapped up in the fact that other people expect to be able to use it for whatever reason. Including web developers and end users.

Yes. Opti says they're UL/cUL (1X0V), CE, and GOST-R (2X0v) certified. I don't know what any of that crap means besides UL.

I think the people who are saying "it doesn't matter" are also people who don't have to support other users. I had to go to three different meetings to explain to one of my customers that the reason they couldn't "just get ipads" for all their students was that there was zero chance of getting...

Tablets in particular are made for content consumption, but someone who uses smaller streaming video sites will often find that they're locked out from viewing content on their ithing because the sites were constructed to use flash. Someone used to playing Flash games will likewise have a...

Adobe Creative Suite is either the first or second most pirated software on the internet. If you can't trip and fall over a decent copy on a torrent site I do not know what is wrong with you. While I do not condone use of Adobe software for anything, I will say that I would rather people steal...

The simple rule is this: Anything based on DC Comics characters that is not Batman is going to flat-out suck. Batman sucks about half the time. A big part of that is the fact that DC is owned by Warner Bros. and the comic book people are allowed very little say in movie treatments of the...

Unfortunately, half the phones in the US are CMDA and no one else uses that but some carriers in the US. There's no arguing that it's a better option, but if my choices for using one are Tmobile or AT&T, that's not really much of a choice, is it?

Quake's music isn't exactly my style, but there's no arguing that it was anything other than atmospheric and groundbreaking. I think it could be argued that Wendy Carlos's work on Tron (I'm thinking of the arcade machine here, though it also showed up on Intellivision titles at the time) and...

I went ahead and bought one. I'll see what it can do sometime next week. Assuming it doesn't explode when I plug it in, I'm sure it will be OK.

Some of the HP Probooks are fairly reasonable.

A bunch of console crap is the "greatest" video game music? No Mechwarrior 2? No Quake?

It's essentially a Sprint phone that would be locked to Sprint's CDMA network. You could presumably take it to Virgin or Cricket.

I have an X100. It's not quite the same thing as a netbook, though mostly in ways that skirt the edges of technical definitions. Mine shipped with Windows 7 Professional and 4GB RAM for example, and neither of those things are what Microsoft and Intel say Netbooks are supposed to be like, and as...

Start with the $100 one because it will probably do everything you need.

Anyone ever bought or used an Opti-UPS TS2250B? That's a huge battery for the price, but I haven't used or run across an Opti-UPS in at least a decade.

Actually, to the best of my knowledge, no one I know who bought a netbook three years ago is still using it. I don't think the problem is unique to MSI.

On the other hand, a nubile 18 year old girl telling me how wonderful a razor is would be just fine.

Republic Wireless offers $20/month "unlimited everything" service with purchase of their phone and the catch that they expect you to use 802.11 as much as humanly possible. And yes, they use Sprint's network.

Dammit, my quest for getting the purchase price out of all those drives that haven't been turned off in three years might be thwarted.

Sometime in the next month I should be retiring around 60 1TB drives. Given the number of power on hours they have, I was thinking I'd use them for non-critical functions but at this point I bet they'd fetch a ridiculous price on Ebay.

Supposedly, one of the contributing factors to blade wear is oxidation. Immersion in an anaerobic environment would indeed help with that. Makes sense to me.

I bought quite a few MSI U100s when those were the new thing. They have a cheap feel but they distinguished themselves by offering 3, 6 or 9-cell battery options at the same price. The original U100 could also run be made into a Hackintosh with ridiculous ease. That said, I don't think anyone I...

I've heard that storing your razor in mineral oil can also prolong its life.

I've encountered both in the wild. Usually on Netbooks that were purchased in South America. It should be pointed out that you can always do an Anytime Upgrade to move to a less retarded version of Windows later on. Anytime Upgrades are completely painless. I'm not sure there's even any change...

Or maybe it is too early and I have one confused one for the other. Whatevs.

IIRC, you're confusing Windows 7 Starter Edition with Home Basic. Home Basic is in fact sold in the USA on some netbook systems. Big issues: Limited support for RAM (2GB) and multitasking. Issues that will actually make people want to upgrade: Users cannot change the default wallpaper.