At the time of my review, the company was clearly offering horrible, unacceptable, sub-standard service. No harm in pointing that out, it was easily verifiable, and where I live there is no separation of product from support of same. They should and do go hand-in-hand. N-control, unfortunately, paid cash-monies…

This piece reminded me to go to amazon.com and delete my 1-star "review" of the 360 Avenger controller ("Mission Accomplished!"), and I urge other who may have left similar "reviews" to do the same...

I'm 53, and I've gotten games and such anually for Christmas.

I whole-heartedly agree with any and all criticism of the new dashboard, but as far as any purchases/code-redemptions/etc for the 360, there's a much easier way. I've been doing them on my PC at live.xbox.com for months now (in fact your post reminded me that I had a 12-month Gold card on the shelf since October,…

How about it? The thing that's most annoying to me about that awful song is the central conceit of the singer holding a grudge for so long, and still making a point to show his (or her, version depending) sorry ass. The song is, ostensibly, about moving on, so quit'cher whinging and move on already! GEEZ!

The first car I ever legally owned, back in 1977, was a '70 914. I learned to drive stick in it, and it tried to kill me on two separate occasions. It had been modded- flared fenders courtesy of tin snips and bondo, and we later discovered it was shod with some one-off Jaguar-spec wheels/tires. I endured its…

Well naturally I absolutely don't "know" anything of the sort. But in my opinion- and I'm pretty sure that it was implied that my former comment consisted of solely that- it makes more sense for them to have something similar, than not. They are a private business tasked to generate profits for their shareholders,…

As I wrote up-thread, of couse Microsoft would'nt have CarrierIQ- they'll have simply written a similar binary in-house...

I don't think you're being too cynical, not at all. As I read down the list, I saw "All Windows Phones", and the first thing I thought was, "Well of course *they* don't have CarrierIQ, they'd have written an analouge in-house".

This is nothing new with Bethesda- 14 years ago, as a member of a very popular Daggerfall mailing list, I spearheaded a round of fan-fiction specifically about a character named "Patch", who, at the bidding of the all-powerful Bethesda ("S/H/IT Who Must Be Obeyed") did nothing but mess up Tamriel (and Daggerfall),…

Dyn-O-MITE!!1 (with some squirrel love for the holidays...)

My Pet Rock lol'ed.

I'm so on this bandwagon, and I've got factory HIDs on my Jeep Overland. The problem with the DIY kits is that so many people do a half-measure.

I've been with Virgin for 11 years now, and was on an Audiovox flip phone for 8 of them. Never saw the need for a "smart", but realized that 25$ for unlimited data can't be beat (I only talk about 4-5 hours a month, just with immediate family, so minutes is "nothing"). I'm suprised that the plan's not more popular,…

I think Samsung (whose TVs I adore) is the emperor of crap android phones. I paid 249 for an Intercept (Virgin no-contract) when it was released, and it's horrible. Simply way underpowered for what it tries to do, and I imagine that the hojillion other cheap Samsung phones on every single carrier are much the same.…

Yes, it helps in cases like this...

Seriously, this was *exactly* my first thought!

Let me just play devil's advocate here for a sec; I work in downtown Chicago, at night (12-8am), and have a 24 mi, one-way commute. I can run 75-80mph inbound for the expressway portion (the infamous "Ike"), but I can spot a Crown Vic from a mile behind and then must "creep" up to it to ensure it's not an ISP…

A late response, but I just found this article; speaking only for myself, I have two "fantasies" I will fullfill when I finally get rich. First, I will build a private race track on a large parcel of land (though likely in a warmer, dryer state).

Oh my gosh, that's actually sort of delightfully brilliant, to imagine such a contextually appropriate definition to a simple misunderstanding. Was the student a writer by any chance, because there's a novel in there? Or at the very least, an "After School Special".