Shockingly small amounts of real work. An hour or less a day, some weeks. It makes you feel guilty sometimes. And the boredom creates depression because there is nothing to give you a sense of accomplishment or self worth.

I have 5 7.2k 4TB HGST disks in a NAS that is pretty much always doing something and they have been rock solid. Long live those people and that factory.

There was a simmering anger about people like me — "Social Justice Warriors", as they call us — who are asking for change in the game industry: a better, broader representation of characters, among other things. We're "the cancer that's killing games", and Kotaku is seen as the key enemy site, with Polygon a close…

We've been able to identify ambient music using the Google voice search for awhile now...

Vote: Newegg

'Cause every girl's crazy 'bout a sharp dressed plant.

Every time I hear "ficus" I think of the scene with Stifler and Finch.

Whatever you do, if you're younger than 30, know the difference between "your", "you're", and "you". :)

Yes, this is all anecdotal, but it is hard data on the experience of the one test subject that matters- me! Your experience WILL differ.

I, too, react to MSG consumption with a migraine. Just one of many additives that will do it to me. Potassium Lactate (added to some pork) is another one. Freshly cooked potatoes are fine; day-old baked potatoes result in a migraine.

Thanks for the article; glad you think it's useful! I was after a Chromebook recently and couldn't find an easy way to see all models that met my criteria (4GB RAM, 1080p screen, UK availability) so started compiling the table. Putting it online was a nice little distraction from other stuff I was working on; it's…

That is incorrect. As TechCrunch's article states:

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If you stand a mango up in it's stem end (not the pointy end) and look at it from the side, cut down from the pointy end about 1/3 in from the side. Rotate 180 and cut the other 1/3. The remaining 1/3 has the pit in it. To get the flesh off the pit, lay the pit section down flat and pare (trim) the flesh off at an…

My 70 dollar Happauge USB HDTV Tuner has worked beautifully for me for well over 3 years now. Ran an antenna out to my fire escape and it's pretty goddamn sweet. I get PBS and any sporting event important enough to be on network TV in glorious HD.

Use Hauppage WinTV to stream broadcast tv to your computer (or cable or satellite if you subscribe). I installed a 2250 in my desktop computer and I use Windows Media Center to watch tv, but you can also use the included WinTV7 to watch.

To be honest, my main issue with Windows 8 never had anything to do with what it was and more what it wasn't. If you think Windows 8 "ruined" Windows, you're just exaggerating and getting carried away. I used Win8 since day one and it worked exactly like it did before (minus a couple upgrade bugs that happen with…