Recent content by AndrewMD

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    Acer's Beefs Up 11.6-, 15.6-Inch Chromebooks For Careless Students

    @canadianvice - seriously STFU! I don't care how poor someone is, there are payment plans that can be arranged to help anyone in school. Also, there are other programs in place to ensure that truly piss-poor people can get things for free so they will never appreciate the cost of anything...
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    Verizon's 'Secure' Voice Cypher App Comes With Pre-Installed Government Backdoor

    fimbulvinter - at what point does it make since that the government shouldn't have access to monitor it's citizens or (non-citizens). We live in a world where too many people want to see all we created destroyed and return everything back to the stone age. At the end of the day, the government...
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    Verizon's 'Secure' Voice Cypher App Comes With Pre-Installed Government Backdoor

    People are blowing this completely out of proportion, why would you think Verizon or any company would allow end-to-end direct secure connection without a backdoor for government use? What are you talking about that you do not want the government knowing? Are you a terrorist? Are you planning...
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    Is This What The Windows Start Menu Will Look Like?

    There are a ton of assholes here.. This start menu is nice.
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    Apple Finally Spices Up iPod Touch Line

    It would be interesting if apple redesigned the next version to include a ear piece and microphone. It will not eat away at iPhone sales but make way for VOIP devices :)
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    That $200-Cheaper iMac's RAM is Not Upgradeable

    The comments about Apple on this site is just unbelievable. Oh no they soldered the memory to the logic board... Like that doesn't happen on the PC side? There is a reason why this is an entry level system. HP, Lenovo, and others are not immune to doing this either. Most Apple customers...
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    Microsoft 'Thinking Through' 360 Emulator for Xbox One

    Considering that most gamecube games and wii games are low resolution type games, there should be no problem. Now enter in that the 360 had games that were much higher detailed, contained much more information, and needs a lot more computing power to run "consumer" friendly. Definition for...
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    Mozilla Scraps Firefox Metro Over Flat Adoption Rate

    most people using metro apps are not going to download another browser to surf the web... Firefox in general is not in the same place it was back in the day. Chrome browser has taken care of the marketshare that Firefox once had....
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    Asus Kills Dual-boot Notebook to Please Microsoft, Google

    The problem with dual booting OSes is that most consumers would not benefit from it. Windows is a better desktop OS and Android is just better with being a tablet or phone
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    Gaida Launches New Haswell Barebones Mini PC

    Buy something else... WTH!
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    What is the Oculus Rift?

    This is something that has taken and is taking too long to release. What is the point of announcing this vaporware a couple years ago when it was no where from being complete. For all I know it is that idiot Carmack that is destroying this device just like he did with ID software...
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    Why Windows 8 Has New Start Screen and Metro Apps

    Because we all know your mother and grandparents make up the major of what many others have said is a good OS.
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    Microsoft: Windows XP Users Are Missing Out

    Why? Microsoft is a business. It is not their problem that companies are not willing to update their legacy software to work with modern OSes. If companies are not updating their internal software, what types of other issues are they offloading to their own customers.Poor planning by...
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    Microsoft Dismisses Talk of Cheaper Xbox One

    If you want a ps4 go buy it... if someone wants an xbox one, leave them alone. If it bothers you so much go buy them a ps4 with your own money or STFU.
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    Why Microsoft's $100 Xbox Rebate is Not a Great Deal

    Microsoft should pull an advertisement based model similar to Amazon's Kindle and market the price around $250.00. Most of the revenue from these consoles come from games no matter if it is a rental or store purchased game or content.