Re: new Xbox One liveblog at ars - Today

Beware anything EA. "Unprecedented partnership" with Nintendo ended after EA calling their partners's hardware crap. EA stinks.

Re: new Xbox One liveblog at ars - Today

Quotedecay Bungie... Mac... now Xbox/Microsoft. Bungie is making Halo games again?

Re: Why are UI designers so infatuated with… - Yesterday

QuoteZoidberg One thing I miss about the old OmniWeb browser was its ability to, on a site-by-site (or even page-by-page) basis, I could turn off style sheets (?) and force a "standard" appearance (i.e., black text on a white background). Some browsers still have per site preferences. If you are on Mac OS, try Opera or iCab, possibly Firefox as well, but Firefox might require an exten

Re: Why are UI designers so infatuated with… - Yesterday

QuoteArticle Accelerator QuoteZoidberg I get bad retina burn from white-on-black text. According to one webmaster I mentioned it to, I "am the only person in the world wit that problem". So do I. Let that webmaster know. Daring Fireball? It is pretty close anyway. Dark grey with white text.

Re: Why are UI designers so infatuated with… - 2 days ago

Quotegabester Silly rabbit, don't you know dark background light text interfaces are less energy intensive and therefor more environmentally sustainable? g= Isn't this true on OLED screens? Yes, I know, you were just being funny.

Re: I'm Primed.... Amazon Instant video primed - 4 days ago

I read the press release as coming to Prime at a later date.

Re: Geez does Windows crawl... - 4 days ago

I thought this was a reference to

Re: Anyone else use the new Chrome browser for iPad? - 4 days ago

QuoteZoidberg Not yet, but will certainly try it out. Apple needs some competition on the iPad in the browser arena. I forget; why did they disallow Firefox for iPad? Apple disallows all third party browsers unless they use a custom markup like Opera mini or if they are simply another wrapper around Webkit, minus Nitro of course. Browsers can compete on features, but not effectively on perf

Re: Upgrade old iPhone 3GS to IOS5 - 4 days ago

Quotesekker 3GS works fine on ios5 How about iOS 6? iTunes will only serve up iOS 6 at this point.

Re: It Wasn't the Graphics Card: MP Crashes - 5 days ago

Firmware update?

Re: I'm Primed.... Amazon Instant video primed - 5 days ago

While I'm glad there are more shows available to Amazon Prime, I'd prefer for such content to not be exclusive to one service.

Re: Upgrade old iPhone 3GS to IOS5 - 5 days ago

ztirffritz, iOS 4. Dog of an update for the older devices, even on my second gen touch. My Apple support waned when both of my iPod touches were reduced to "sort of works okay" devices.

Re: I'm Primed.... Amazon Instant video primed - 5 days ago

QuoteBillybob The show looks like it has potential. Now does this announcement mean that future episodes will be free for Prime members? I would think so. Sole rights to the pilot doesn't seem like much of a headliner. ;)

Re: Newegg slays another "corporate troll" - 5 days ago

Yep. I appreciate his recognition that yes, big corporations do in fact act as patent trolls, it isn't only non practicing entities. What does this mean for the people who agreed to license a bogus patent? Can they sue for breach of contract or something similar? Nathan

Re: Google I/O Keynote is live... - 6 days ago

Quotesekker Wow. What a yawner! If Apple's WWDC next month is this boring, Apple's stock will drop below $400. And google's stock went up. Go figure. Again, huh? Why was the keynote boring? You want boring, check out the original dual USB iBook introduction.

Re: Google I/O Keynote is live... - 6 days ago

Quotedecay well, the iPhone 5 is the same price, unlocked. that's all. remember, Apple is overpriced, not Android. Huh? Try again. I can get a brand new Android phone for less than $100. The problem with Apple is the older phones are overpriced. Comparable Android phones to the iPhone 4 are not $450. The 4S is probably a bit overpriced at $550. The beauty of multi vendor platforms is th

Re: Google I/O Keynote is live... - 6 days ago

Quotedecay ooh, a $650 unlocked smartphone! /sarcasm "stock Android running Samsung Galaxy S4: Google Edition, coming in June" Why the hate for the S4's price? Have you seen the prices on the two year old iPhone 4? $450!

Re: "Disney Pulls Sexy Merida Makeover After Public Backlash" - 6 days ago

Didn't bug me in the slightest. There's a bunch of Disney as "Evil Empire" stuff to kvetch about, this was not one of them.

Re: Prospective Kings buyer and Seattle owner Steve Ballmer is reportedly frustrating the NBA - 6 days ago

Re: Prospective Kings buyer and Seattle owner Steve Ballmer is reportedly frustrating the NBA - 6 days ago

Quoteztirffritz They shouldn't have stolen the Sonics in the first place. Having said that, I hate basketball. It is an incredibly boring sport in my mind. When the scores of both teams are exceeding 100 each and they are tallied in 2-3 point increments it tells me that the sport isn't very challenging. It is essentially an aerobics exhibition with a ball involved. Wow! Never played basketball

Re: I predict an iPad mini upgrade in October - 7 days ago

Hey, a new Nexus 7 must likewise be imminent as my mom just got a 32GB WiFi model from work.

Re: I predict an iPad mini upgrade in October - 7 days ago

Quotejdc Interface is no iOS, but fine for the basics -- now that it runs Google Play it uses Chrome and has access to the Play store. 9" screen, 1920 x 1080, 16 GB + has a microSD slot. You made a good choice, in my opinion. I actually find the Nook HD/HD+ interface to be more sophisticated than iOS. The iOS row of icons with poorly bolted on app switcher and notifications doesn't do i

Re: Freedom Pop arrived, speed test - 7 days ago

QuoteHarbourmaster seems that you DO get what you pay for..... Could you clarify? Thanks.

Re: Freedom Pop arrived, speed test - 8 days ago

Seems pretty fast for Sprint 3G. Depending on the area and carrier using Sprint's 3G, I've seen stuff like 128kbs down.

Re: The ONE THING I like about Ubuntu OS - 11 days ago

Quotekap OS updates have not outdated my 6 year old Lenovo ThinkPad R61 laptop which came with the stock Windows Vista Home Ed. Now it is happily running Ubuntu 13.04 :) I agree. Open Source/Free software can do wonders for extending the life of PCs.

Re: The ONE THING I like about Ubuntu OS - 11 days ago

Unity on the latest Ubuntu releases (12.04 and newer) can be a bit too heavy for lower specced PCs, such as my single core N270 Atom, Intel GMA950, 2 GB RAM, 16GB SSD Eee PC 901. Consequently, I found Bodhi Linux to be a better fit on my system. Bodhi 2.3.0 is built on top of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, but includes the Enlightenment desktop environment instead of the heavier Gnome, KDE, Unity, etc. I also

Re: The ONE THING I like about Ubuntu OS - 11 days ago

Quoteztirffritz QuoteJEBB The real problem I've found with Ubuntu is the lack of good applications. Must be something about what you're trying to do. I have the opposite problem. Too much good software. Yeah there's a load of crap out there too but there is some amazing software available for Linux, and the Debian repos have thousands of pre compiled software apps that are just a mouse click aw

Re: The ONE THING I like about Ubuntu OS - 11 days ago

QuoteJEBB The real problem I've found with Ubuntu is the lack of good applications. There's plenty of good apps, just depends on your needs. Web browsers, email, office suites, chat, PDF, media center software, video trancoding, etc.

Re: Wireless keyboard recommendations? - 13 days ago

Quotesekker Love our Logitech wireless solar keyboard. Me too. I don't have a Bluetooth model, just the older USB dongle "Windows" model. Still love it.

Re: So, the thread under this one has been closed. - 13 days ago

Quotedeckeda Thanks, Larry for assist. Likely an error and easily fixed. Respectfully, I disagree that it was an error. The evidence lately just doesn't support that assertion. Links? I hadn't seen any closed threads.