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Comment Re:Kevin Butler (Score 1) 351

Do you people realize that Kevin Butler isn't even a real person? (At least, not at Sony.) He's a fictional character played by an actor. This twitter account is probably manned by dozens of employees in the marketing department paid to do just that. Any one of them could have been tricked or compromised. citation

QFT

The actor is Jerry Lambert (at least in the commercials, could be anyone managing the Twitter account). He's done lots of bit work many sitcoms and used to do several humorous commercials for GEICO as the "bland insurance agent".

Comment Re:A $250 dollar video card ... (Score 1) 369

However, with the console, however, you don't need a computer with a $250 video card then. The only time I use my work-issued laptop is for work (software development) and basic web-browsing. I don't use a lot of desktop-applications any more. If I game, usually it is on my phone or a PS3. If I web browse, it's on my work machine or my phone. My gaming computer died over 6 months ago and I have had ZERO motivation to fix it or upgrade (just grabbed the HD and hooked it up with an external enclosure).

I do have a computer hooked up to the network I can run terminal services into to do personal development, however, again, mostly for programming, has no monitor and no real video card in it (just whatever was integrated)

I have no plans for a computer purchase next, i'd be happy with a low end web-browsing notebook IF I had to buy one and use as a dumb terminal. However, I can actually use any HTML5 based web-browser for that if I use TinyVNC.

Comment Re:Good but great? (Score 1) 385

Not trying to troll a primarily Firefox (but will come off that way anyways, sorry!)... however, if extensions are stopping you from using Chrome, there are "gazillions" of them now (via the Chrome Web Store). I am not sure if there are equivalents to the one you use in FF now, but probably good alternatives are available. Note, Chrome *will* use more memory as each tab, extension and plug-in usually runs sand-boxed in separate processes, but it does have decent performance.

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