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Dell laying off 10% of its workforce {Engadget}
May 31st 2007 9:33PM Man, I bought some 30" monitors from Dell Outlet (refurbs) and they SUCKED. I had to return all but one for replacements. The replacements are more refurbs. If you buy a new monitor and you send it back, you get a refurb. Their refurbs are JUNK. But what pissed me off more was the fact that their customer support was so terrible, I had to spend LITERALLY over five HOURS on the phone with them (over several calls) to get it straightened out. I finally asked for them to just send me NEW monitors for my trouble. They refused. I returned all of them and got a refund. Screw Dell. Their service is horrible.
World of Warcraft credit card, chaaaaaaarge! {Joystiq}
May 5th 2007 9:09PM I plan on getting one and then buying gold with it and getting free game time as a result :)
Nvidia's affordable DirectX 10 cards benchmarked {Joystiq}
Apr 21st 2007 4:59AM AMD/ATI has such AWFUL open source drivers. Nvidia is not much better but at least Nvidia supports linux much better. As much as I hate to kick AMD/ATI while they are down - Nvidia gets my dollars and will continue to do so until AMD/ATI is able to put out decent linux drivers.
ATI does not even have 3d stereo drivers - in fact I am not even sure they have any at all. Nvidias is not much better but still - it far exceeds what ATI has.
DX10 on the cheap: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 and 8500 {Joystiq}
Apr 11th 2007 12:27AM I will not buy another AMD/ATI product given their non existent linux support and complete lack of 3D Stereo drivers.
If they remedy those two things then I will think about it.
Ultima marathon: the employed need not apply {Joystiq}
Mar 29th 2007 9:34AM Good luck trying to beat Ultima Online. The last boss is really hard.
Motion Computing's Core 2 Duo-powered LE1700 Tablet PC {Engadget}
Mar 24th 2007 4:29AM I have a Motion LE1600 and it is SUPERB. It has a few minor quirks but all in all it is one of the best tablet PCs made to date. Carbon fiber / magnesium case.... 2 batteries so you can switch without powering down... I don't do extensive photoshopping or crazy CAD work on it but thats not the point. I have a desktop for that. These things are well worth the money - even Bill Gates uses one.
Every NES game ever on eBay {Engadget}
Jan 28th 2007 7:10PM This is no where close to "ALL" nes games ever made. Unlicensed ones alone - where are the Japanese games? Where are the Euro only games? Where are the 200 in 1 Dizzy games? Many carts actually had several versions made for various reasons. In total there are actually several thousand total NES roms and this does not even count the hundreds if not more homebrew games. This is a "fairly complete" listing of US based NES games in playable form. This is not "EVERY NES GAME EVER FRICKING MADE OMG LOOK!!!!11111 @@@@@@.
Preserving the culture of games {Joystiq}
Jan 19th 2007 10:47AM Keep in mind that including every cart version and region - there are something like 8,000 NES carts (not games) released. I would have to say that of those MAYBE 200-250 GAMES were actually decent and of those maybe 75-100 were actually what most would consider GOOD games. Those are the ones that will show up on VC and other places. Games like Zelda I and II, Metroid, Final Fantasy. The good news is that you don't have to wade through the junk. The bad news is that the "junk" games - some of which you just want to play sometime are harder to find. The silver lining though is that all 9000 or so NES games only take up about 2 gigs and are able to be (illegally) downloaded and preserved. I sincerely doubt that 100 years down the road these games will be lost to history. They may not be the games people play on their Wii XI but something tells me that if you really, really enjoyed your old games (meaning that they were "worth" preserving - that it is not too difficult to find a proper emulator and rom and play. Even if you wind up emulating it in "Hyper Linux" running Windows XP in VMWare6 100 years from now.
I think people forget the fact that "modern" (digital) console games are a whole different medium than games of yore and are able to be copied millions of times over and as such are much, much, much harder to be "lost" in time.
My only question is that once everybody who grew up playing those early games has died - will nostalgia still exist? Will people still want to play them?
Probably. Atleast the good ones.
JoyTech announces Wii PowerStation to keep your Wiimotes juiced {Engadget}
Dec 19th 2006 4:03PM Engergizers?
You'll kry when Krowbar kwits {Joystiq}
Mar 10th 2006 1:40AM Ethereal Mist - Plane of Hate - Purple.
