If you have any interest in any kind of sporting event, it's next to impossible to dump cable. I'd have done it a long time ago if I could find even a borderline easy workaround to watch Premier League and NFL games.

Any news on whether or not it can be used as a HTPC, to either stream content or allow it to be stored on the device and played back? That's mostly what I use my X-Box for right now.

Let's say I wanted to turn certain devices off at a specified time (kid's laptops and an iPod touch of my daughter's), but wanted to leave everything else on; would this allow for that?

There are things that I, ah, "obtain outside of standard distribution channels", but games have never been one of those things; I downloaded one once, and it didn't play right and it was way more of a pain than it was worth. That's just me, though.

The pistol isn't BAD, at least; it reminds me maybe a little too much of Han Solo's blaster, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

I work for a rep of about ten different lines, so we have the best of both worlds; we get the lucrative part replacement money without any of the nagging "having to actually go fix the problem" issues (granted, our margins are slimmer than a contractors, but we also work primarily through distribution, so we always…

Right now I'm in sales (I do inside sales support for HVAC equipment, as well as run our network; since we're a small company, there's a lot of "other responsibilities as assigned"). I'd like to...NOT be in sales. ;-) In actuality, I'm not sure what else I'd do, as it hasn't really been realistic to explore schooling…

Okay, let's ask a version of this question. About a year and a half into my college education, me and my girlfriend (now wife) were in a really bad car accident, and I took a semester off. That semester became like 12 years. I have no debt from my time in school, and make an average salary now, plus really good…

There had damn well better be a fantastic Stefon sketch on this Saturday; he's barely been on all season!

That's actually good to know, because this is literally the only game that's been totally unplayable (Bioshock: Infinite had to be dialed WAY down, but it ran fine once I did that). Maybe I'll look into previous gen cards like the 6670, and worry about putting money aside for a better overall system instead.

Those were about the ones I came up with, too; I don't need it to play maxed out, just to run, but I'll probably go for the nVidia one. It's actually kind of amazing that I've never run into a completely unplayable game before this one, to be honest.

Let's say my computer is capable of running "Witcher 2", except for the huge bottleneck that is my HD 6450 video card. What card could I get for around $100 that would run this behemoth smoothly enough to play, and is this game actually good enough to warrant that kind of an upgrade?

The Dave Ramsey class isn't really that expensive, and if you have no idea where to start it does provide some solid fundamentals to go forward with. It's got WAY more to it than just avoiding debt, and if you're drawn to the class than there's also several good ideas that you probably should've been implementing but…

I don't think so; as recently as last season, Birmingham was in the Europa League for their League Cup win over Arsenal, in spite of being relegated. I'm pretty sure UEFA leaves qualification up to the leagues.

Vaguely off the subject, but the Indigo Girls were how I taught myself how to play guitar; they have a good mix of big, easy, open chord songs (pretty much anything by Amy, especially back in 1997 when I was starting off) and more advanced stuff, and it's really satisfying early on to be able to replicate a sound that…

I may just have to swing by Best Buy and pick up a joystick tonight; I'll let you know how it goes!

I think I have the re-issued "Collector's Edition" of X-Wing, TIE Fighter, and X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter; I wonder if that was tweaked at all to make it compatible? I know it played fine under Windows XP; I can't remember if I ever played it under 64-bit XP, though.

Plus, I learned how to do the "Wotan Weave" through them!

Agree on the "shaving against the grain" thing; it's the only way I can get a smooth shave on my neck.

No worries, I was THRILLED when I found it; I've always been a little sad how high up the Google search results my name appears, there should be more Joe Dever's Magnakai and less Magnakai Haaskivi stuff.