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I have sixth nerve palsy. I'm told that if I go to the neurologist, he's going to order as much medical imaging as I will pay for and do an extended test to confirm that I do or don't have any other nerve damage. The wiser thing to do is go to a GP first, but that means that I actually have to...

Nope. I sideloaded it off my phone. If you do that it'll show up in the "All Apps" screen under settings. Sideloaded apps don't show up on the home screen.

Today I saw an Opthamologist. Tomorrow I see a neurologist. Awesome.

I tried that once and found that it hosed my ability to uninstall or repair software installations on that machine.

As I was driving to work this morning, I realized that I was seeing double. Closing my right eye fixed it. I called around, hoping to use my shiny new medical insurance to get in to see a GP and found no one could see me on less than two weeks of lead time. I walked in the vision clinic at my...

Well, other than the fact that having expensive electronics in a room that's regularly at 100% humidity probably isn't the best thing for those electronics.

Thor is in Asgard. Iron Man's operation was trashed at the end of Iron Man 3. The Hulk could've smashed, but then someone would have to deal with a hulk rampage in Washington D.C. That pretty much just leaves Hawkeye, whose particular skills might not have been very helpful.

I've seen Vista machines with 90GB WinSXS folders. 25GB doesn't even sound that bad to me, but of course that's more data than either OSX or Linux uses in a complete install.

The WD TV Live would work, but it's sort of slow. Also, you don't want to leave it connected to a giant shared folder using Windows file sharing, because it will reindex stuff all the damned time. The TV Live is definitely happiest when it's connected directly to a disk drive. The thing about...

As far as I can tell from observation, Red Bull + Vodka leads to feeling no pain.

There's no DLNA client without sideloading. I got Amazon MP3 working on mine using APK Share from my phone. I don't think Twonky would be a big deal, but sideloaded apps don't get put on the home screen, which of course reduces the wife acceptance factor.

Ok actually the only places to get multichannel audio are Netflix and Amazon instant Video. Plex is entirely stereo. There is no supported access to Amazon cloud music. The music features are really pretty lacking. You have Pandora and Plex and some video services like Vevo. That's a little...

It's definitely very responsive. There's no "pushing the button and waiting to see if it does anything"-crap like on a Roku. The on-screen keyboard is an abomination, but that's given from the fact that it's an on-screen keyboard. There are a total of about a dozen FireTV-approved apps for it...

You can get Twonky for Android, and Plex media server presents as DLNA if you have one plus doing all the other cool stuff that Plex does, but Fire TV is an Android device so even if it's not in Amazon's app store you're going to have DLNA as an option somehow. I just got mine today and I'll...

Only in the most wholesome way possible.

The FireTV is sideloading-friendly and is already running XBMC. That's an especially big deal given how much of a hassle it is to get it going on random Android hardware.

There's a bluetooth receiver in my bathroom that's connected to a set of Klipsch Promedia 2.1s. I stuck the subwoofer for it in the cabinet under my vanity. The bathroom tablet is a controllable Plex client so I can actually send an audio stream to it, and it's running Google Voice and Vonage so...

Winter Soldier takes itself much more seriously than Iron Man 3 or Thor: The Dark World. Tonally, it's more like a spy thriller out of the 70s or one of the Bourne movies. The Black Widow has nearly as much screen time as Captain America and the whole thing is extremely SHIELD-centric...

Here's the thing about the Fire HDX 8.9: It's really nice. Ridiculously nice. It weighs less than some 7" tablets. It's really fast. The 2560x1600 screen is gorgeous. The speakers, not traditionally a strong point on a flat computer-like object, are loud and clear. The Amazon media-based...

FireTV. $100. Tentatively I'll say that it looks really interesting. It has the fully checklist of streaming services support. Plex is a launch partner. It DOES have a full Youtube client (this is an issue on Fire tablets and Microsoft devices). Amazon says it's going to add screen mirroring...

I found 133 of the Google Maps Pokemons before I gave up and looked at spoilers and this is my favorite April Fool's stupid internet thing.

I got a Netgear PTV3000 Miracast adapter today for classroom-type use. It's pretty sweet. There's a Bluetooth-like pairing process but it seems to work with my Thinkpad (Windows 8.1 with Intel WiDi) and with both my Kindle Fire HDX and my Galaxy S4. It is definitely not as easy as Airplay and it...

Teamviewer Quick Support allows for an RDP-like remote connection to an Android device. I'm fusing it now, typing on my laptop but posting from my phone. Neat.

Over the weekend, Samsung announced a $700, 28" 4k display that will be shipping April 18th. dd might've bought too soon.

I sent out an email to my Thinkpad users and no one has any battery affected by this recall. Too bad. I was momentarily excited that I might get a free new battery.

Demonoid is back up.

I think the Nook HD and Nook HD+ are kind of the under-appreciated bargains of the moment. With stock firmware, they're about 80% retarded, but even at that they can load apps from Google Play. But they can be made to boot third party ROMs and can be found used for under $100. I know you don't...

... and 'round about 2020, when the next generation of consoles comes out, there may finally be a consumer need to push that many pixels.

To be fair it was kind of hypnotic. :)

I work for a company with five employees. All of them are women. All of them have insurance through their husband's job. I make too much money to qualify for any discount on coverage but not enough to think that the monthly cost represents a reasonable expenditure. I also live in a state with a...

I think my town's motto is "If you aren't stopped by a train every time you try to make a north-south trip, we have failed as a community."

I maintained a catastrophic plan for a few years that had a $20,000 deductible, but it only cost me $110/month. I'm every bit as unlikely to spend $6300 on health care in a single year as $20,000 and if I did wind up spending $6300 I'm fairly certain that the total would exceed $20,000 as well...

$270/month to have a $6300 deductible. It's just exactly like not having health insurance at all, except that it costs as much as a car payment. Hurray!

I don't know what's wrong with Windows Easy Transfer, which works just fine to transfer data from XP to Windows Vista+, but Microsoft's Windows XP Site presently includes a 90MB data and settings transfer appllication from Laplink called PC Mover Express which will apparently be offered free as...

Thanks for looking, mubs. It entered my mind as a "game" in the sense that the people writing those articles are somewhat competitive about it. I really like the idea that it's a kind of new media for fiction and storytelling, just by the nature of being a wiki, and the article length tends to...

XP SP3 can be packaged using the same container that newer versions of Windows use, a .WIM file. The Windows Automated Install Toolkit can make one for XP SP3.

I'm entirely unconvinced of the argument that we should pay extra to get a slower drive with uncrippled firmware when we could just buy proper desktop drives in the first place for pretty much the same amount of money. Also (and I am forced by secret documents in the SF charter to remind...

That black border is just normal behavior for some monitors. Some monitors scale everything to full screen, which looks like ass in a lot of cases because of misalignment between pixel density and the resolution one is attempting to display, so some screens just display the requested pixels in a...

I'm a huge, huge fan of the stuff on the SCP Foundation wiki. The basis for the site is the idea that the contributors are part of an organization devoted to keeping the paranormal segregated from the world that the rest of humanity knows. Each file is a different paranormal phenomenon or...

Remote Flash rendering is somewhat interesting, but it's primarily only going to help for video streaming and not interactive applications. Unfortunately, that also means that everyplace where you will want to use it (sites that don't have decent mobile experiences already, like Hulu) probably...

Possibly. I'm sure I've purchased multiples of all of the above over the last few months but they're all back at my office.

I always think it's delightful when we can bring back a five year old thread and continue posting on topic. I really do have to say I love those Asus VS247 IPS displays. I've seen them as cheap as $130. There's something to be said for being able to build a $400 5760 pixel-wide wall of screen.

One of my former students does IT Support for PCs someplace really big and really recognizable. He has to account for his time in SIX MINUTE increments and has a mandatory incident productivity requirement that does not vary. When he started there were 20 guys on staff in his role. Now there are...

Mrs. Brown's Boys is pretty damned funny on general principle.

Other than no-name Korean brands, is there another option besides Sharp that's actually shipping?

I have an i7 920 in my office that I don't think has been powered on in two years, sed. Make me an offer.

The oldest i7s, the 920s and 860s, are five years old now. They're emphatically NOT slow CPUs, but at the same time a newer i5 is something like 50% faster on a per-core basis. I don't know what Santilli is doing with that machine that he would call it slow, but I can see a huge difference in...

As it turns out, "Chet Manhammer" is not considered a funny name for an internal reporting e-mail address even if only two people could potentially see it and one of them does not have a sense of humor.

It shouldn't matter. 1% while expanding probably means bad media or a marginal DVD drive since at that point in the install Windows is running with more or less the same state as in safe mode. When I was about your age I remember being super-excited to be the first one on the block to have...