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Agreed. Texas has 3 of the top 10 most populous cities in the US. Most Texans live in big cities, even if they aren't as dense as New York (most dense Urban living) or LA (most dense suburban living). Your dollar doesn't go as far in places that are considered more desirable to live by...

That's exactly what I was expecting when I read about the steamtroller. I think it might be pretty cool. I read an article by the Super Meat Boy creator (Tommy Refenes) and he had largely positive things to say about it. The only reason he said he might not switch is the familiarity of the...

I understand that they don't offer exactly what you're asking, but you can setup filters to do this. Which is what I do. They're just implementing what most of us already do. I actually have 3 major labels filtering exactly like they're proposing (financial stuff, social stuff, and email...

After reading the article, it's unclear why they did this ban. I don't live too far from Tesla and it was discussed on NPR yesterday. I thought this 'unfair competition' was about over 10% of Tesla's revenue coming from carbon credits it sells that are granted to it by CA for producing...

Yep. It's noteworthy just to say that there are Android phones that are just as good as the iphone now. Also, from a consumer perspective it's now becoming a question of: "Is it worth the extra $150-$200 just to be within the apple ecosystem?" For many Apple users the answer is yes. I...

You may have to put your TV into a 'game mode' or turn off whatever image processing or other fun stuff it's doing. I know this was a problem early on for consoles when people started gaming on flatscreens. Many TVs now have an option to disable their own processing that causes lag. With...

I was really disagreeing with the idea that controllers are the worst. They have plenty of limitations and faults, but succeed as decent general input devices. I concede that the modern controller is a compromise made for the sake of comfort and big screen gaming. But they're still...

Yeah, I'm disagreeing with him too. At least the part about the controller being inherently inferior to a KBAM configuration all the time. (I agree that using a controller for CSGO would be handicapping yourself) Modern dual analog stick + dual analog trigger (plus buttons) have earned a...

Actually, it might play on that. Especially at console resolutions (Halo 4 will supposedly be done at 1280x720 then unconverted). I've been running console games at higher than console resolutions on much weaker hardware for a while now. Remember that these are Xbox 360 games, and while...

I finally got everything together and running last night and I misunderstood what you meant when I read this initially. But yeah, the covered slot is not one of the ones to use for dual channel. I had feared in reading the review that I'd have to take the heat sink off to install additional...

Thanks for this review, I have an i30 coming in the mail for my new build right now. This is the memory I have right now for the build waiting for this cooler. I've only got two sticks now but I should be able to fit four in later if I want to. I'll probably populate the blocked slot with...

To my knowledge nobody playing PC has had this problem. I don't know many BL2 Xbox players, but at least one I know mentioned something like this happening. The PC issue many were having was with connecting to other player's games. That was supposedly fixed in a patch this morning.

Yeah, I know quite a few people using a large range of hardware with no issues at all. It sucks not being able to play a game you want and we've all been there, but it's hardly a widespread issue. (People I know on Steam have just the usual stuff like physix being enabled on cards that...

Nice prices and quality product.

The big difference between the Nexus7 and 7" Kindle Fire HD is the GPS. Well, outside of android stuff, but on the old Fire, if I could get the android install file then I'd mail it to the Fire and install it that way. The reason that Gizmodo article linked earlier is confusing is that the...

It would fit perfectly into the new rig I'm building. For me, it would be the first time I'd have access to PhysiX on a card that could actually handle it, and Borderlands 2 is the next game in my sights. Because I tend to operate on a very long upgrade cycle, the DIGI+ VRM with Super Alloy...

I think this is a fantastic story and use of the technology. But the part that make me think about The Future, is that this girl will grow up with a prosthetic exoskeleton as part of her. It's a thing that she wears now, but it's becoming integral to her motor skill development. I have a...

In terms of market share and overall revenue, I don't think Apple is any larger. Well, certainly in terms of mobile hardware... but not overall computing. In terms of earnings, Apple is FREAKING HUGE because they have massive profit margins. Premium electronics is good business these days...

I know! Unless this was taken in Australia or some other sane country where sales tax is included in the listed price and they don't use pennies because they're worthless. Canadia maybe? Are there Walmarts there?

Does this mean that the Japanese will be able to wear shoes indoors now? :p

Yeah $7B is less than half California's state budget *deficit*. Chump change. The $2M/mi estimate is based on a 'local system', and still seems low. The cost would be significantly higher for crossing the Atlantic. There are some big (solvable) engineering issues that would need to be...

While those are all great games. But there's a more recent one: Republic Commando, that was a pretty good game in its own right without having to rely on god-king Jedi main characters. It hasn't aged the best as it was pretty early on in the squad-based tactical cover shooters line of games...

It's actually brilliant. Retail needs to start incorporating more online/social media features to attract shoppers from just ordering it online. While it's not necessarily about fashion, it mostly is (particularly since we're talking Brazil here). There are many items that someone can't...

I really enjoyed Halo 1. And I played it on PC. Did alot of multiplayer, but it clearly wasn't balanced too well for KBaM because the pistol was godly with good headshotting. Made the multiplayer a little silly at times (still fun though). I think I played halo 3 single player at a...

600 people is A LOT. That's more than all of Valve. Granted, Blizzard has WoW which is pretty customer service intensive. And I don't have the numbers in front of me, but I no longer personally know IRL anyone who plays WoW (maybe 1, out of 18+ two years ago) so there could be a lot of...

The Mass Effect 1 that downloads from amazon isn't patched. The ones from Origin and Steam are. I can't find teh link from here right now, but I think it's the 1.02 patch that will allow it to run on Windows 7. edit: I was able to get my Steam ME1 activated on my Origin account, but I...

I really thought this was satire. Honestly, I expected the end to be full of slides like: "house to play games in", "car to drive to store and buy snacks to eat while gaming" (supposedly one with an expensive after-marked HUD to allow you to game while driving), and "medical bills to pay for...

I have to agree, this is a great bundle. I bought it just for Cave Story+ and the Jamestown soundtrack as I already had everything else. Given that I already own all but one game, I gave mostly to charity. Aside from Gratuitous Space Battles (which I genuinely enjoy form a strategy...

It depends on their backlog. I just bought a vehicle here in LA late in August and it took 4-5 weeks to get the non-vanity plates - I was actually starting to wonder if the dealer failed to send in the paperwork but they said in some cases it can take 2 months. And like you said, there are no...

$10 for the game and $31 more for just the plot related DLC! Not that I'm dissing the deal, I think it's a great game for $10. I just wish they'd release a DLC package or put the DLC on sale sometime.

Wait. I'm sure there's an app for this.

Netflix really isn't interested if you protect your shit or pay for your own wifi. They're interested in limiting the number of streams to a function of the number of accounts. Some sort of IP-limiting scheme would also likely be harder for them to implement, and doesn't really even make sense...

Despite being the 'little guy', AMD pushed CPU technology adoption at the consumer level - multi-core 64-bit consumer CPUs in particular.

Well, there's Sam Odio's own take on the experiment where he'd siphon money off into his own gift card once the balance got to a certain amount. As he said: "Since I don't find the idea of yuppies buying yuppies coffees very interesting I decided to mix things up a bit." (note: he's a...

I've said it elsewhere, but if BL2 has the same breadth and depth simply as a shooter. I'll be shooting guys in the game. Aside from the game-breaking weapons that anyone who plays Borderlands knows about, the shooting is just so great. It would be nice to have a few more meaningful stats...

They did the same over average thing with the HIB #2 to get the #1 games. Pretty much everyone who got HIB#2 probably expected it... but didn't care because they already have HIB#2 and #1. I've always participated when I can despite already owning many of the games. This time it was harder...

Yes, but only over HDMI. It was always fixable via cycling the power, but in that particular case, I think driver updates eventually did the trick as I haven't seen that problem with that setup in a long while.

Not the largest by number of modders but rated based on activity and amount of added content, I'd have to +1 the Simcity 4 mention above, and add Freespace 2. The Freespace 2 source code project continues to surprise me every couple of years in that it's still going. Those guys have rebuilt...

They announced the list of games given out today. The winners will likely be notified individually rather than posted publicly. I got 40 tickets, but 100 accounts out of all of them... I never expected to win. On another comment about the if the Holiday sale will beat out the Summer sale...

This was my thought. In the event of a 'Steam going under' scenario that doesn't involve an apocalypse or Red Dawn, someone would probably pick it up and either roll it into their own service or try and migrate the users. This may not be the best scenario though, and a 'permanent offline mode'...