Comment

Phone: Note II
Tablet: Nexus 7 (may get a gen 2 depending on what’s announced, but I’d still keep the 7)
Laptops: Thinkpad X31 dualbooting Win 7, Ubuntu (never use Ubuntu anymore), Thinkpad T400 (Win 7)
Desktop workstation: homebuilt about 6 months ago running an i7 3770k, 32GB RAM, dual 256GB SSDs with plenty of spinning iron storage space, 670FTW, Win 8
Old desktop: homebuilt Q9450 running at 3.2GHz, 8GB RAM (the main reason I built a new one), 560Ti, Win 7

Future plans: replace a laptop, waiting on Haswell to settle in to see what comes out, not looking for anything fancy this time, probably an inexpensive 12 or 13 inch unless I decide to get a Surface Pro (again waiting on Haswell)

1 day ago on What's your phone/tablet/pc combo? What's next?

Comment

I don’t mind the price, I can even accept the policies if they’re going the direction I think/hope they’re going. But they couldn’t be responding to the criticisms any worse, these guys need to be canned.

2 days ago on Microsoft's Don Mattrick defends Xbox pricing: 'We're delivering thousands of dollars of value' 1 reply 2 recommends

Comment

What on earth does a lawyer need with that kind of processing power? I think this packaging could make sense with an i5 or i7 desktop chip inside, but not as a workstation. It wouldn’t be my preference in form factor but at least it would make more sense to me.

9 days ago on Apple previews radically redesigned Mac Pro: 'Can't innovate anymore, my ass'

Comment

Those were good times.

9 days ago on Sean Parker responds to his wedding critics: 'everything we did was an homage to nature'

Comment

Maybe it’s just me, but who buys a 12 core workstation and wants it to come in garbage can that requires external storage for anything beyond the built in SSD? How about the rest of the internals, what’s the situation for expansion and upgradeability? Admittedly I don’t have a 12 core processor but my homebuilt 3770K workstation has 32GB RAM, two 256GB SSDs and four hard drives, all internal, with room for more.

9 days ago on Apple previews radically redesigned Mac Pro: 'Can't innovate anymore, my ass' 4 recommends

Comment

It isn’t asking for much if Google is offering gig each way for $70.

13 days ago on Comcast says Americans don't need superfast gigabit internet service 1 reply

Comment

I had in fact used Napster back in the day, but that’s such ancient history that apparently I’ve forgotten who made it.

13 days ago on Sean Parker responds to his wedding critics: 'everything we did was an homage to nature' 1 reply

Comment

Am I supposed to know who this twit is?

Oh wait, now I remember.

13 days ago on Sean Parker responds to his wedding critics: 'everything we did was an homage to nature' 3 replies 1 recommend

Comment

I’ll be honest, I don’t really need gigabit. I’d like more than my 30 down, 5 up for less than the almost $60 I pay for it with TW though.

Reasonably price gigabit is now the benchmark, the goal we want to see ISPs work towards. I don’t care if I got 100mbs both ways for $25 or 30, it would at least be a step in the right direction.

13 days ago on Comcast says Americans don't need superfast gigabit internet service 1 reply 3 recommends

Comment

I pick up news occasionally through social media but very little of what interests me. RSS can encapsulate everything I care about from tech, to cars to entertainment to webcomics to general news. I have found nothing that replicates its utility and I use it more at a computer than I do on mobile, I can consume it all faster on a proper computer.

Programs like Currents are interesting, I think there’s utility in having broader scoped news sources than just what I have in my RSS reader so I might catch popular/trending/significant events that the sources I usually follow might not cover. But no RSS would mean I lose track of a lot of things I am interested in or enjoy without going through a lot more effort to follow them.

13 days ago on Google: Reader is dying because smartphone users consume news 'in bits and bites' 1 recommend

Comment

I did, the app situation isn’t good and search on it is still weak.

16 days ago on Feedly emerges as key Google Reader replacement with support from Reeder, Press, and more

Comment

Feedly isn’t bad, I like it best of the alternatives I’ve tried but it’s still crippled for me without a viable search function. Feedly had search, then they hid it and then it went away, now they say it’s on their roadmap but that “search is hard.” What?

Bring search Feedly and I’ll be happy, it’s the one important thing that I find you are missing.

16 days ago on Feedly emerges as key Google Reader replacement with support from Reeder, Press, and more 1 reply 1 recommend

Comment

This is certainly true, just like it’s hard to say if the DDR3 vs GDDR5 will ever materialize in to a significant factor.

29 days ago on With Xbox One and PlayStation 4, Microsoft and Sony rekindle the war for your TV 1 recommend

Comment

I don’t care about how well it integrates with pay TV. It would be nice to plug my OTA antenna in and have it record the shows I want to watch. It would also be nice if it knows what I watch across Netflix, Hulu, AmazonOD and the like and shows me my favorites or when new episodes of shows I want come out in that recommended/trending (whatever it was page) thing and take me directly to the video without having to go through the individual apps menus. If it manages to centralize and smooth the experience of using different streaming VOD services then they’ll have done something magnificent.

29 days ago on Live TV on the Xbox One: Microsoft learns nothing from Google TV's mistakes

Comment

Agreed, I didn’t realize the architecture on the Xbox One had been confirmed to be 12 Compute Units. It’s interesting they’re cutting it back that much compared to the PS4. Either way, I get the sense that MS has the right course regardless as a home entertainment hub, games are important still and it will do those fine, but it’s the other things that are going to continue to grow in importance.

Neither console will likely provide to be hugely capable at 4K and I honestly don’t care much about 4K anyway, the bigger thing people will likely see a difference in is full 1080p 3D (if 3D actually takes off in games).

29 days ago on With Xbox One and PlayStation 4, Microsoft and Sony rekindle the war for your TV 1 reply