Recent content by achoo2

Meanwhile every 320x200 stream buffers and pops up a blue bar offering to explain the interruptions: your ISP sucks.

Why is it that every time some DRM scheme is under fire, some Valve fanboy shows up and starts praising Steam? Dude, Steam is the worst of all. There are games available from the Steam store right this minute that will not operate properly on modern computers (eg, any MS-supported OS). Buy...

Amazon also has a history of holding features back, eg being able to use the USB port on this device or the microphone on the first-gen Kindle Fire HD. If Google TV ever becomes a draw, you can bank on it being present on Roku but not on Amazon. Chances are, any device that can run Plex...

It's too bad the story doesn't describe how the blocking actually works. Is it a distributed blacklist, or does the browser phone home requesting a green light for every site visited? It's bad enough that Google wants every single website owner to register with them - enough is enough.

I don't really follow cellular tech., so please excuse me if this is a dumb question... but, cellular calls aren't generally end-to-end encrypted, are they? That is, who cares if the government can decode the signal between your handset and the tower - they already have direct access at the...

I open my computer case as infrequently as possible, so I couldn't possibly care less what color the internal components are.

These are important issues that our government is very late in addressing. I do wish that the language in the consumer bill of rights was stronger, though. Specifically, I'd like to see non-essential data collection be restricted to an opt-in format. In ten years, when every device in your...

With all the "though this feature is not described on the website" items and my unfamiliarity with the brand, I'd be reluctant to buy this monitor for fear that my device wouldn't match the review sample.

Maybe I'm biased because TES has been a friend since the Arena days, but I'm surprised there isn't more outright hate for turning our cherished hallmark of single-player games into a MMO. Everything that made the older games great is diametrically opposed to multiplayer gaming. If the...

I truly wish that browsers wouldn't try to integrate every technology under the sun. If I want to play a game, it's enough to download it through the browser and launch it as a separate process. Same for VR (especially if it requires libraries from a Facebook-owned company) and pretty much...

A game that was released on other platforms in 2013 needs until March 2015 for additional polish? Clearly, PC isn't a priority for Rockstar. I'm going to return the favor by waiting for a deep discount. And if the game requires multiple logins just to play offline single-player (ala Rock Star...

This series very badly needs to be reformatted. It's exceedingly difficult to infer the best drive at any given price point.

Agreed 100%. This game runs like a dog on my system, and I can't determine an upgrade path from any of the benchmarks I've been able to find. Please show us the effect of moving from 4GB->8GB->16GB as well as adding a much broader range of graphics cards.

As long as they keep successfully using die shrinks to either drive costs and power consumption down or increase speeds without increasing cost, it's a win. I'm not going to jump on the naysayer bandwagon because a new chip is "only" 15% faster at the same price. Meanwhile, if and when the...

silvermorphhow about about an upgrade marathon: give them a baseline of X platform (working system with all components, maybe 6 months old) and then give them $300, $500, $700 budgets to upgrade whatever they think will get them the best performance/value boost. I think an upgrade marathon kind...