Another +1 for FFMPEG for video encoding. Love it.

It's 2 miles here. I'm 1.9 miles from them. They used to deliver to me, but now will only deliver across the street from me (I'm not kidding). It's a nice, suburban neighborhood that gets deliveries on one side of the street but not the other. Sometimes if they're slow, I can talk them into delivering me their…

I've had 14 of my 16 3 TB drives in my Seagate-driven NAS fail within 2 years (they RMA'd them all for me and of those, 1 was DOA and another has failed already). It's now 2.5 years later and I'm seeing more failures, so I'm replacing with Toshiba drives. The drives are protected from vibration, humidity, and heat —…

Thank you.. I was about to post the same thing. Go go gadget internet irresponsible writing!

Thank you, I got a good LOL out of this.

Wow, you mean we can manipulate people by being deceitful? Why hasn't everyone thought of this?? The advice some people give...

I've got three sitting on my desk. I've tried RaspBMC and several other builds. You aren't going to be happy or impressed with its performance, no matter how much tweaking you do (and yes, I'm overclocking... you really have to if you expect HD content to play at all). Also, getting WiFi to work on the RaspBMC…

I agree... this is probably the first time I didn't automatically just skip past this kind of headline in my reader. They will undoubtedly defend why they post this kind of stuff, but they should check if their readership actually cares.

The obvious solution is the one you aren't willing to accept: if you can't find a legitimate means to acquire it, then you can't acquire it. Piracy is still illegal regardless of how difficult it is to obtain a legitimate copy of a piece of software. I think it's been mentioned before: if you lose your original…

Of course, this is all a matter of personal preference, but based on most people's need to be able to comfortably take in the entire scene, your screen size is WAY too big for the distance you're viewing it.

I'm with you — I'm actually interested in the story's contents, but don't want it on the Gizmodo/tech blog I read. I don't mean to be critical of Gizmodo (and it wouldn't help), but there's more than enough off-topic posting in here these days.

That was my first thought. We have a fridge out in the garage just for soda and we only fill it with 24 packs to be frugal.

I am right there with you. Why the hell is there bamboo in this article?

A simple [SATIRE] tag like you folks usually put in the subject may have avoided a backlash when we audience read that this came from The Onion. I'd like to think the majority of us would get that this was supposed to be comedic, but.....

Doesn't work here either — same OS/Browser. Delete, Shift+Delete, nada. Tried Ctrl+Delete... tried highlighting up/down. Tried using the mouse. More nada.

I've never had any success with OnLive either — not over WiFi (in the same house, no less) nor 4G LTE... have tried a number of devices (several phones and two tablets) but the latency was just awful when it would ever work. Gave up on it too.

I still juggle a plethora of IM screen names and use them all pretty heavily and regularly.

Horrible software — wolf in sheep's skin designed with more of a malicious attempt than helpful one. Shame on David for recommending this one without giving it a close look.

Most people who say this forget to cost in a legitimate Windows license, which is typically included with a pre-built retail system. ;)

... great, but that really has nothing to do with the poor shopping decisions people make as a result of social conditioning.