From November (2010) to January (2011) of last year I lost about 40 pounds (250 to 210) simply by cutting down my portion sizes, and eating more snacks between meals. Instead of eating two or even three serving at meals I started eating just one to one and a half, and then grabbing snacks when I get hungry between…

Higher resolution textures doesn't really translate over to desktop resolution. Essentially texture resolution controls how "nice" and detailed a texture is. The lower the texture resolution the blockier any surface showing that texture will look (the walls of Halo 1 vs Halo 3), and the higher the more realistic it…

Yep, I purchased a Toshiba Qosmio that while it is still a quite awesome laptop (I'm using it now in fact) if I had been truly thinking and/or done real research I would have seen that gaming laptops below around the $2000 mark are pretty much useless for real gaming over any real period of time (2-3 years). I've…

The initial cost is higher, but at the same time a computer is a multi-purpose machine. This means you can spend $500 on a decent desktop to do all your normal computer tasks and then an additional $300 on a console to game on, or you can spend a bit more to have a superior gaming experience as well as a superior…

From what I've read it shouldn't make a huge difference at the resolutions you're going to be using on a laptop. Pretty much the only times I've heard its advantageous to have lots of RAM on the video card is when you're pushing high resolutions or multiple monitors.

Freenote. Seems to work fairly well overall, and allows you multiple different methods of handwritten entries, painting, and typing with an easy to access menu option to switch between the different handwriting modes (typing is always on except for possibly in paint mode, I haven't checked that).

To big for a 15" laptop screen eh? Luckily I don't got no stinking 15" screen! I've got a full 18.4" and whole massive 2 hour battery life!

Ah, so it's okay if I cuss at, annoy, and offend someone in person, but as soon as I send them a text I'm breaking the law? That makes perfect sense. The only part of this that I can agree with is the threats of physical harm, which correct me if I'm wrong but that should be covered under normal assault laws that…

Without having anything to scale it with its hard to tell how effective it would be. I can see it working well if it's more to the scale of a hatchet (in which case they should have called it a hatchet!) where inertia has a smaller role to play in its effectiveness. If it is to the scale of a full blown axe though…

Hah, I wonder if he knows about that. I shall make him aware!

Yep, hard drives are the same no matter what system they are put into whether it be a game console, a computer, or a simple gadget. Unless the operating system is set up to overwrite the data multiple times when it is "erased" then its most likely going to be recoverable. This is also why if you ever want to…

Yep, it actually works pretty well. I used it to mod my Borderlands save (for single player use) to give me unlimited backpack space... and skill points.

I stand corrected, and now I shall drive to my only class of the day blaring metal played by Vikings in my luxury sedan!

But, but... there are meme playing cards!

While returning from my last camping trip I was blaring this while stuck in traffic in Toronto on the 401. Got some funny looks... I can't imagine why. After all I was just a bearded white guy blaring viking metal while sitting in a minivan that was pulling a 15' boat behind it.

How are handhelds a different concept? A system is a system whether it's small enough to be held in your hand or big enough to need a suitcase to lug it around. Nintendo never had to make all of their handhelds backwards compatible with the previous generations but they did.

Nintendo has done it for years? The only times Nintendo hasn't made their systems backwards compatible was back in the days where it would have required another physical slot to be added to the console, or the media format changed entirely (N64->Gamecube). Gameboy to Gameboy Pocket to Gameboy Color to Gameboy…

And there have been plenty of people who have been screwed out of everything they've purchased for various reasons. Sure the majority of Steam users are happy (me), but no system is perfect. The only way to avoid fucking over at least some of your customers with a system like this is to not create the system in the…

When you want an object that is burning hot to cool down which is faster? Leaving it sitting out to air cool, or dropping it in a bucket of water?

Yeah, I was about to say that this is most definitely not the direction we want to go for any true notebooks. It works just fine for desktop replacement systems, but the amount of extra space it takes up can't be worth it for smaller notebooks. For smaller notebooks I feel that the direction we're going with the…