By my math though, that's $100 deductible (for an SII) and $11/mo. so you've paid $166 each time you've broken your phone for a total of $664 in 2 years, correct?

I don't know about the other carriers but with Sprint's $11 insurance you still pay the deductible and you're only going to get a refurbished/used phone. I'm not OK with that.

As an owner of one of those Homeplug/Powerline adapters, I have to say that I'm not overly impressed. They're OK, but nothing to write home about. I purchased a pair of 500 Mbps units and in actuality, they get about 80 Mbps throughput. Not terrible, but not the same as having a wired gigabit home. In my…

This sucks, because out of all games I've seen in the past 2 years, WD was the one I most eagerly anticipated. But I'd rather them put out a solid game than throw digital shit on a disc and say "here you go!" with a shrug.

Phone accessory prices really have gotten out of hand. My wife and I just bought new cell phones at Best Buy (they actually had the best deals I could find on the phones themselves) and they didn't have a single case under $25. They also sold my wife on a screen protector with a lifetime warranty that normally sells…

Uh this video is only available in 480p? Who does that in this day and age?!

I own two of the Seagate 3 TB expansion drives and I bought them for $100 a piece last November. Kind of strange that they're still the same price, no?

Sure. I know they're not all bad, but my experience has been soured with them after eMachines and Dell going with such crappy capacitors that if I'm spending my own money on anything, it's going to have solid caps. :)

When I was in a band, we used the overhead knot method for a lot of our cabling because it was the quickest way of tying your cables back up, throwing them in your bag and getting off the stage. I definitely ended up ruining some cables with this method though.

+10000

I would contest not just gaming, but anything that's graphics- and/or processor-intensive. If you're editing videos, doing CAD work, or graphic design you really should think about building a machine geared for that.

I inherited an eMachine from a former employer after the company disbanded and it only took 4 months for the capacitors to go bad. Never again will I put money towards a system that doesn't have solid caps.

Ah gotcha. Thanks for the info.

I also saved space on my SSD by disabling hibernation and moving the pagefile to a spinning rust HDD. The way to disable hibernation in Windows 7 is:

After throwing Cyanogenmod 10 onto my Epic 4G Touch, I was very impressed and everything appeared to be an improvement to the standard Touchwiz interface, except the Camera. On the old Touchwiz interface, I'd load the Camera up to browse old photos because it was so easy to get to the Gallery. After I switched, I…

I was given a dv9000 by a coworker of mine for free. After I got it, I did some research to find that those laptops are notorious for GPU issues and it's not hard to see why. Looking at the internals, that laptop is one of the most terribly designed monstrosities I've ever seen. Some genius decided to use one pipe…

If this is on a university connection, which it appears to be, then sure there would be a lot of bottlenecks that could inhibit speeds. You could have overhead from encryption, other users eating into that bandwidth by printing/surfing/downloading of their own, plus you could have potential external servers along the…

Ultra 105/10 business-class cable internet through Mediacom.

Take Mbps / 8 = MB/s (8 bits in a byte). In this case it's 115.75 MB/s, so you were close. :)