Recent content by talon_262

"You fucked up...you trusted us!" /Otter, Animal House

Nashville is on Google's newest list of prospective expansion cities; even if we do make the cut and my particular "fiberhood" doesn't get enough people to light it up right away during the buildout, maybe it'll light a huge fire under Comcast to give my better service and prices.

OK, we get that you really, really HATE Win8, but not everyone does. Could MS improve it? Sure. Under the hood, where it counts, is it all bad? No. Get over yourself, you sanctimonious douchebag.

Wow, this is funny...I could have sworn for a moment that I landed at Free Republic by accident when this comment thread loaded up. /fire up the Black Helicopters, boys...

OK, what would you suggest? Tomato?

I won't buy a router that's not DDWRT-capable and haven't in years. I know that takes some worthy contenders out of the field, but most factory firmwares suck ass; few manufacturers put decent GUIs on their routers with good configurability (Linksys used to be an exception to this, but I don't...

No, they have trademarks and trade dress/trade secret protections; that can get just as nasty.

Nothing's wrong with reusing boxes (and packing materials, like air bags and foam), as long as it's in good condition and previous shipping labels/marks are obscured. Why waste something that's perfectly functional and that can be reused?

I wonder how long it'll take for some pot grower to use these in their indoor grow room?

I buy AMD/ATI and have since the Slot A Athlon and Radeon 7000; as long as they have products with good performance that I can work with at a good price, I'll continue to buy from them. Everything else is just gravy.

"The" Wendy of Wendy's is very much alive (and has been featured in one of the latest marketing campaigns for the company, but Dave Thomas (founder of the company and father of the company's namesake) has been dead for 10 years today. Harland Sanders (the Colonel) has been dead for almost 30...

If true, I think that Verizon might want Netflix to counter Comcast.

Who knew R. Kelly was a computer tech working for HP? ;)

Mo' money, mo' money, mo' money!

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