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Everyone I know who had a BB has some other non-BB thing now. I'm sure it will be around for some segment of business users for years to come but I suspect it's on a downward path now that will lead to it repeating the cautionary tale of Palm.

Yes. Once the numbers have been issued I think they're just treated like regular retail keys in most cases.

Live Mesh promises a lot more than it delivers. It's cool in theory but I couldn't get it to function reliably. Crashplan.com's basic plan might be what you're describing. It's "unlimited" free backup to other computers that happen to be on the same LAN.

If I'm enough of a fan, I certainly will listen to commentaries. It's rarely the focus of my viewing at that point, but it can make a nice distraction while I do something else.

At the moment, I have Hulu Plus, Amazon Prime and Netflix, though I'll drop Hulu as soon as work stops paying for it. I look at what I can get from streaming and then compare it to what 12.5 years of Netflix rentals + an enormous amount of hard disk space have given me, and I have to say there's...

IIRC, the license to stream Showtime-produced content came from from a deal that allowed Netflix to show content carried concurrently on Starz, which included Showtime shows after their initial airdate. Or something like that.

How about a 512MB Radeon 4870 for $75?

To further elaborate, rather than lowering prices on existing CPUs, Intel has added a new product line to better compete with low end AMD offerings. Rather than lower the price on the i3, we now have Pentium-branded CPUs that seem to occupy the same position as the older Celeron line. Though...

Thinkgeek has free shipping on everything today.

I believe the Starz deal that let Netflix stream a lot of Showtime content either just expired or is about to.

Is there a difference between one variety of electronic overproduced pop crap and the other?

I have absolutely no problem denigrating your political ideals at every opportunity and have no plans to stop doing so.

How about the uncle pigfucker's own web site, or at least the google cache of it?

Fascist Wingnut relatives.

But that's your buddy Rush Limbaugh's favorite!

The phone sales people say you get new keys but that has not been my experience. I alternate between renewing on two different IDs. The sales people never have a problem with that and they always apply my renewal discount regardless.

On the other hand some people really like overtime and holiday pay.

Battlestar Galactica was a SciFi show, so you shut your whore mouth.

Having spent the weekend with it, battery life on the MBP is atrocious. The Mac's sleep mode seems to equate to Standby on a PC; it's essentially instant-on, but it appears that there's very little power savings as a result of using sleep. Anyway, I can run the machine for perhaps 2:15 with the...

The fact that unit is on sale at that very reasonable price is a good sign that prices on those things are dropping generally. I don't want to buy another $500 SSD.

As an unrepenitent pirate, I have no idea which of the shows I watch are still airing, what channel they're on or their schedule. I just have a list of stuff I want to watch in sequential order. I'm probably going to start Stargate soon. I'm told that I'll particularly like Stargate Universe.

It's amusing, especially if you actually manage to get a fortress to thrive for a while.

Once your internet is ridiculously fast, you become acutely aware of the limitations of everyone else's servers.

No functional differences that I could see based on use of a trial copy.

No, you'd just need the one. Just because it doesn't use 3D graphics doesn't mean it isn't insanely complicated.

True Story: There are more people on Facebook who report their location as either Afghanistan or Zimbabwe than actually reside in those countries.

Given Seagate's current web-based RMA service, I have to phone in my RMAs because my postal code doesn't align with what their address auto-correct thinks it should be. Their phone service is fast and easy, which I guess is a good point. Though it has been my general experience that the better...

You clearly haven't ever tried Dwarf Fortress.

The units need to process in a time-critical fashion. If he reboots to use the other OS, he loses the time his system needed to work.

The thing to say abut Sucker Punch is that it exists at the intersection of strippers and cosplay and that is awesome. I saw probably a dozen hot chicks walking around in Sucker Punch inspired outfits at Comic Con this year and I was thankful for every one of them.

It's a Dell. You buy it from Dell. Dell will send it to you in a box that says Dell on it. And then you can head over to Crucial.com to pick out the right RAM. They have a tool to pick out the right kind. The RAM will come in a little box that says Crucial.com on it. You take it out of the...

Is RAID1 even an issue here? In theory RAID1 means doing the same thing to both drives regardless. There's no splitting data or parity calculations, so I'm thinking there isn't a complicating factor.

Not even all of Intel's SSDs are Intel SSDs, remember?

A couple good deals on things I noticed things from today's Newegg email: 1. 4-bay eSATA enclosure for $90. 2. S*ny DLNA client. Looks just like the LG Smart TV guy that I like. $50.

Onboard graphics are good enough for HTPCs no matter which way you go, as long as you have a modern platform. If your buddy is going to be ripping discs, he's going to be better off with an Intel chip, and other than that, all the current graphics packages, be they on-chip, onboard or discrete...

Or Costco. I don't know what Buzkashi is. Do hot chicks play it in skimpy outfits?

I rip too many DVDs. Granted it's a lot better now than it used to be, but a door is still an annoyance.

Good sports: Rhythmic Gymnastics (but only when grown-up looking chicks do it) Beach Volleyball (but only when chicks do it) Pole Dancing (but only when chicks do it) Honorable mention: Caber tossing; "World's Strongest" contests where they juggle tractor tires or some other weird crap...

Link aggregation is awfully handy when you're copying 11TB of video files between two systems.

Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?

Intel NICs support things like teaming for bandwidth aggregation and failover. I can't recall a weirdo compatibility issue with an Intel NIC. I've seen weird issues with non-Intel adapters, like Realtek 8111s that occasionally negotiate half-duplex connections to switched networks.

fb, do you work for Linn? :) From what I've seen, the 1st gen, un-updated PS3s are actually selling for $500+ on Ebay. I can't imagine that's because of demand from SACD-ripping nerds.

One of the nice things about the Android Platform is that there are other options available. iPads can cost more than $700 and external storage on those is beyond the wildest Steve Jobs necrophile wet dream of iStuff people.

32GB is as big as microSD gets anyway. Many devices that have slots don't have much internal memory, so if you need tons of data you wind up with 32GB either way. I have three 32GB microSD cards in my laptop bag but who the hell swaps out those cards on anything like a regular basis anyway?

A new case that I am very impressed with is the NZXT Source 220. They're $60, made of decent quality steel, have a good number of drive bays, front USB 3 and nice cable management. I've never used an NZXT case before but I have to say I was seriously impressed.

I'll have to look to see if that's more economical than buying some off the wall prosumer sound card. I've seen SACD rips online. I assumed they were recorded via analog somehow.

OK the lack of Insert and a proper Delete key is maddening.

SACDs, for those who don't know, are two, four or six channel high definition recordings with a normal CD layer and a second DVD-like layer that typically contains 96 or 192kbps audio. The HD Audio doesn't play in anything but devices specifically made to handle SACDs. There is no...

Google Music's store component launched sometime in the last couple days. Google didn't manage to get to Warner's recording division signed on, so they're missing whatever musicians are signed to Warner labels. The classical section has a bunch of New Age-y Mannheim Steamroller and faux-Irish...

Everything should have Intel Pro NICs. Especially on motherboards that cost north of $200.