Wait wait wait. A statistical bell curve from a poll on lifehacker? Bull honkey.

@jonny6pak: I'll second your suggestion. Using a cast iron grill to cook my steaks has won me over as THE way to cook steaks. It's turned out perfect every time I've used it and I've never had to worry about grease spreading all over the place. Just a little cleaning of the grill and let the rest flavor the pan and…

May I second this tribute. My <3 goes out to all the girls kicking their game up a notch by wearing those glasses. mmm mmm mmm

I use Chrome only when I need to do something right quick and firefox isn't already loaded. Like for instance I need to download a driver for a friend right now.

@kgaines72001: I'm not sure the process will take a shorter amount of time as all Makemkv is doing is taking the decoded video raw into a mkv container with the raw audio stream(s).

The best reason to have MakeMKV though is (for me anyways) is that you don't have to rip it at all. I use it in linux where MakeMKV can stream the decrypted bluray movie to XBMC.

@wjglenn: I couldn't agree more.

I have a macbook and a dell xps(plus my server and htpc). And both of them are on and near me all the time. But if I had to qualify which one was my "main" computer I'd have to say the xps. Probably only because it has a very nice 24" screen and a Core i7 processor. I'm just able to do more at the same time than I can…

@vlatro: Don't even really need 8 GB. I "only" have 6GB and I'm running without virtual memory. So far the max I've used is about 50% which means the 3GB I'm not using is absolutely going to waste.

I've been using it in beta form since it came out in beta oh so long ago. And its really really good. I've kept it side by side with my regular OS and haven't made the full switch only because it was a beta product and I didn't want to be screwed if it went down(which I kinda expected it to happen, it is beta after…

I use it almost never but I do come to it every once in a while. Most of the time I just ctrl-k, but there are times where I don't know exactly what I'm going to use as search words and I don't want what I'm currently looking at on the web to get in the way of my thinking.

About 6 months ago my macbook's battery started to "grow" a bit on the underside. Concerned I went to a "genius" to get them to tell me what's wrong with it and to please replace what looked to be a hazard.

Yeah I'm not of the milk with my tea crowd. Although I'm no snob and have had some black tea(with appropriate milk) that was pretty darn good, but I don't usually drink it.

One acronym for ya. HTPC. Sure you can hook up your HDTV to your laptop, but it wouldn't be much of a laptop if it was constantly hooked up to the TV. Instead build a reliable constantly connected HTPC to it and be very very happy.

Just read the comments on slashdot. The article was crap, written by an unprofessional alarmist. It's been thoroughly dissected and proven to be nothing more than some guy who doesn't like microsoft and just wants to make things up to make them look bad.

VOTE: XBMC

I've been using a Logitech diNovo Edge for quite some time now, and I really love the feel of the scissor keys that they use. It's the perfect tactile feel those with a soft but quick touch. I used to love my IBM Model M, but I lost it in a transition somewhere and I just couldn't justify holding out on the new…

oh and screw Super(c). Sure it can decode and encode anything under the sun, but the quality is so bad that I can't watch anything encoded by it, I notice artifacts all over the place and by the first minute I'm just watching the errors instead of actual material.

Vote: AutoMKV(video)

MX Revolution is my best mouse. I've used a lot of mice, usually from clients who either use the stock mice that comes from their HP/Dell computers, or ones they got like trackballs or ones they thought were just "cute."