Recent content by techtre2003

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    Giant Day-1 Wii U Update Will Ship with Consoles in Spring

    I'll take a big update over a RROD any day.
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    Tell Tom's Your Opinions to Earn Cash and Other Rewards

    Not worth the time but it does actually work. It took me about 2 hours and I don't know how many rejected surveys but I finally got 1000 points and was able to get an instant deposit of $10 in my Paypal account.
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    Tell Tom's Your Opinions to Earn Cash and Other Rewards

    I just got a 300 point survey on search engines that wasn't too bad; took about 10 minutes. I'm really just trying to get to the 1000 points because I'm curious to see if I'll actually receive payment.
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    Designers Create Angry Birds Slingshot Controller

    nieurwaste of time posting negative comments on someone's clever work is a MUCH better use of time.
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    Average Internet Connection Speeds on a Decline

    I don't know if our speeds have decreased, but we've had a lot of outages lately. Every time I call Mediacom about this they say one of their DNS servers are down. Overloading the servers maybe?
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    WD, Seagate Recover From HDD Shipment Shortage

    dtgfghhjhi can order as many as i want from my supplier so what is taking them so long to put drives back to normal prices i smell collusion here won't be surprised to find wd and seagate working on a price fixing scheme. Exactly, I don't constantly monitor hard drive availability but I don't...
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    Apple Unveils 4G iPad with Retina Display, Quad-core Graphics

    Wonder what they will call it when next year's model comes out.
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    Olympics to Be Broadcast in Super Hi-Vision in Some Cities

    alidanhigher than 1080p wont be hitting home market for 10 ish years (aside from computers) just wondering, if you are to view the tv this will be brodcasted on, would it realistically be any better than 1080p? because im guessing you will be 30-40 feet away at best. They are already shipping...
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    We Could Run Out of Hard Drives Soon, Says Analyst

    Just built a HTPC three months ago loaded with 2&3 TB drives. What cost me $1000 in drives then would run me $2,400 today!
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    We Could Run Out of Hard Drives Soon, Says Analyst

    wardlerNewegg: 3TB = ~500 bones. Are you somewhere besides the US? I'm seeing $270-$430 for 3TB drives at Newegg.
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    EA Defends Cop Killing in Battlefield 3

    I love EA's response, it cracks me up!
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    Toshiba Glasses-Free 3D Laptop Priced, Dated for NA

    a-nano-mooseI want to know how well the 3d works with 2 or more people watching at the same time. Unless they made some major changes since CES, it won't. When I saw it there, the 3D didn't work at all until the camera was "locked on" to the user's face. I will say it worked quite well once the...
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    Crysis 2's 3D is ''the Same as Avatar''

    wintelforeverif we must wear glasses why not incorporate the screen inside the glasses? i would love to sit on a plane with a 720P stereoscopic oled headset. They had this exact thing at CES this year. It was more like 3D goggles rather than glasses, but they worked really well. They were just...
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    Win a Trip to CES Las Vegas with MSI

    Can't wait to go to CES!
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    Zalman's Thanksgiving SSD Giveaway!

    Thanks for the contests Tom's!