Thick client companies have been touting this for years, but there is no universal thick client outside the browser to use, and no one wants to make a universal thick client, so you are stuck with embeddable thick clients, such as flash, that will be used...

The internet needs to be split... straight info vs multimedia thick clients... then make a big thick client that's universal for all of them to use and everyone is willing to adopt to and use.

... but by saying they elected an openly gay man, I can pretty much guess the political association...

... share the wealth!

Seriously, though, if you ask a Cuban what he thinks about his government, he'll say he enjoys it because it works. Scary, eh?

As a kid, I remember it... I also remember the ending for being ultra-lameo, not realistic, can't even suspend my disbelief...

That being said, I don't watch BSG (I'm going to get the DVDs and go through the whole series, shortly).

You mean Mike Tomlin, right? Not LaDanian Tomlinson ;)

If it helps, Mike Tomlin also goes by Omar Epps, or Dr. Foreman (you'll get it if you are a fan of House).

With the ridiculous fines being handed down on censorship, I'd like to know where our new FCC chief stands. Are we to continue being the ass backwards country when it comes to censorship (nudity is bad, but violence is ok!), or will he take steps to allow parents to determine what their kids can and cannot see?

If the Cardinals went to Philly, I'd say the same thing... but its an indoor track on the Cards own turf... that makes it a very different game.

The Cards will have the offense to put up more points than the Eagles, but the Eagles have the right defense to come after Warner. If the Eagles can perforate that quietly impressive Cardinal o-line, they'll win. If they can't, they'll lose.

Go back to the first matchup. Arizona had Carolina pretty much beat and hurt themselves in the 4th quarter. Arizona matches up well against the Carolina Defense... it all depends on how the Arizona defense can handle the Carolina run offense...

Laurianitis is a great LB prospect. #1 overall? Don't think so... he's #12 at the highest. 1st pick is either Sam Bradford or Stafford from GA. If you want Laurianitis, then trade down for him.

SW: What the hell, man? The Chargers put up 31 points against the best defense in the league? Last game, Rivers couldn't do anything, and neither cold their run game. Sproles is a cutback runner that's going to be playing on a sludgy, snow filled Heinz Field on Sunday... and they are traveling across country. If they put up more than 10 points, I'll be surprised.

This game will be decided by defense and special teams, and Pittsburgh is better in both regards.

This isn't the Indy run defense they are playing...

I don't mean to sound so matter-of-fact, but no job should require more than 40 hour weeks except for the rare exception. To require someone over 40 hour weeks for five months means I'm either a director or higher, being paid like a director or higher, or not having to work the remaining 7 months.

Work should be giving you a day off during the week or much less hours during the week if they intend on you being in on saturdays.

Just my thoughts...

well, as the title of the article says, this is a gaming box. Quad isn't used in gaming, so you can get a duo with a higher clock speed at that price. They are spending like $200 on an AMD quad. With that price, you can get a top of the line intel at 2.4 or 2.6GHz that you can overclock the crap out of. For games, you need 2 cores and major clock speed, not a quad core and mediocre clock speed.

Budget machine has a quad core? And is almost a grand?

Tom's Hardware does these, and the budget is usually closer to the $600 mark, with the mid range around $1200.

And the fact that they put two optical BD burners on the extreme one (one on each page) makes me think that this article was slapped together instead of fully investigated. Where's the benchmarks? The proof that you built a good machine?

Looks like a buncha kids opened up newegg and built themselves machines in their head...

I was going to say 'parasite', myself...

Believe it or not, Al Davis and the Raiders always try the run and verticle pass offense. It worked wonders in the 80s, and should work now-a-days, but there isn't that many OC's that run the offense, anymore. Norv Turner and Scott Linehan run this type of offense...