i hate the planned obsolescence of apps myself. there was a new update to an app that my kids use for watching streaming stuff, all of a sudden it doesn't work, and it says to update to the new version, but i can't because the hardware doesn't support the new iOS...but nothing is different about the app. we just use it to watch shows, if it worked yesterday, why wouldn't it work today?

an office full of people talking to their computers sounds just great

I just want a plain monitor, i love my sony tv, but had the android/tv OS that is built-in. i mainly use a roku and gaming consoles, it's dumb that i sometimes have to "reboot" my TV.

the link to Humanity Forward in the summary is incorrect, it's this: https://movehumanityforward.co...

My favorite music related documentaries are: Scratch - About the birth and evolution of record scratching DJs and Buena Vista Social Club - Great documentary about cuban music, as well as an amazing soundtrack another great documentary is Dishonest - about the justifications of why people cheat (on each other, exams, etc)

mostly listen to The Dad Bros Show. it's about 2 brothers, that are dads. one with 2 girls, the other with 3 boys. just talk about every day dad stuff, with a mix of current events, and current favorite alcoholic beverages, they try a new one every show. http://dadbrosshow.com/

Here are some pretty cool ones that someone made from Street Fighter 4, took a lot of timing/coordination to get correct. http://sonichurricane.com/?cat=7&paged=3

i wouldn't say that there's always private servers. at least not on consoles. for example, i've been playing a lot of SF4 on PS3 on PSN. i'm not even sure who runs those servers, sony, capcom...some combination of the two? what happens when the numbers dwindle down and they don't want to keep the matchup servers running? hopefully they would say something like, "hey, we're not supporting these servers anymore, but we'll patch the game to look for public servers, and here's the server code that you can run on your own." that would be nice, but i don't see it happening.

i basically did the same thing, and agree, it works great. i have a Win7 Premium (comes w/ media center) and the hauppage HD dual tuner card (about $130). i got a refurb dell (dual core 2.8) for about $230. downstairs, i have the computer hooked up to the TV to watch it directly, or i can stream to the xbox 360 upstairs. it does netflix, and any other show that is available on the web :) right now i have a "broadcast" cable subscription, basically because i didn't have much luck with OTA antennas. my cable bill went down from $60 to $12, so it'll pay for itself in no time. i mostly watch network TV and DVDs anyway. i will miss adult swim though

i don't see why this would happen. I run Firefox and Chrome on a P4 3.0 (no multi core) and Chrome's speed blows away FF. My chrome starts almost immediately after I press the icon button in the quick launch tray. FF takes forever to load, I hope they fix that soon (and no, I don't have that many plugins installed)

i've met a lot of people by joining a pool league. i wasn't out to meet new people really, i just wanted to learn to play pool better. the bar i go to has a non-smoking league, so that was bonus! meeting people is a side effect of being on a team with different people, and playing against other people, and it's fun. you'd be amazed at how many good pool players there are out there (or you can pick something else, i've seen dodgeball leagues, kickball leagues, softball leagues, etc...)

i wonder if those stats take into account the install base of opera on Wiis. http://my.opera.com/community/wii/features/ a lot of people got the browser for free, i think it's about $5 now (or however many wii points that is).

I picked up a scratch & dent computer, dual core 2.6, 3 GB of RAM, 320GB hard drive for $220 from the dell outlet.
http://www.dell.com/outlet
Considering it came with a licensed OS, it was cheaper than me building one.
just keep an eye on there, because they go quick. if it turns out that you can buy a better computer than what you have, just keep the new one and give her the old one...win-win?

they must have some kind of white list of phrases with special symbols. If you type in something related to c#, the suggest drop-down removes the # sign, but the results return the proper c# query.

no doubt...i was just saying that "balance" doesn't really come into play since you download whatever characters you want in the first place. if you think a character is too powerful, kick them out :)