The pre- here isn't grammatically speaking of when the customer pays, it is describing the relationship between payment and service. The traditional plan is to sign up for service and pay at then end of each month for the month of service for which you signed a contract. The 'pre' in pre-paid describes the…

The rental fee isn't the only financial consideration.

For some reason, the code in the playercorefactory was interpreted as code by the site. (That is the reason for the true false none nonsense above. What I put in that file can be seen here on the xbmc wiki:

Not true. While it is true that XBMC has to close and your bluray player has to open, XBMC can be configured to handle that transition and return to XBMC.

The reason I don't recommend IE to family members, friends, or best buy customers (I am a geek squad agent) is because of its add-ons. Many of its add-ons are fine fare, just like with Mozilla and Chrome. But most of its add-ons I encounter when someone brings their computer to me to fix it is because IE crash loops…

I would shift from piracy if the US went to the TV license system like the UK. I would still be using torrents and sickbeard nzb's, but it wouldn't be piracy anymore. The problem is not piracy, it is the way the entertainment industry makes its money. It doesn't just cause the problem of piracy. There has never…

When I was studying for the MCAT a few years ago, I was told by an instructor to practice writing. When I asked her what I should write about, she told me that it didn't matter; I should just spend as much time writing as possible before the test to improve my score. Well, I made a similar to this on a blog that I…

"Some consider it a violation [...]; others argue[...] it's justified"

I don't think you could say that the relationship between a christian and non-theist would fail. My wife quoted that yoke line to me a dozen times while we dated, but I have been married happily to a christian woman who I can't spend enough time with for almost 8 years. I have never been vague with her about my…

@Deprong Mori: How do you do number 4 without the internet?

@urban bohemian: It would be worse at a flea market, those people are desperate.

In the Avid section, you mention third parties. If a company produces a platform and creates partnerships with other companies, the companies that don't have exclusive partnerships are 'third parties' when they produce content or 'widgets' for that platform. The companies that have these partnerships are not…

@maztec: Or, you sit on a sharp surface and *bang*... soiled pants.

Anyone else find the irony of a productivity blog posting that reads MIT's (Most Important Things)? Where was the time saved in that?

I think it has a lot to do with what they watch. If I didn't have tivo and the internet to enhance my ability to choose programing and was stuck watching the crap most stations run throughout the day, I would be very depressed.

@AlanR: I use vista, but I have my beef with it. I have been known to MS bash, but the thing I really don't like about vista is their need to change everything from version to version. The file manager got a MAJOR overhaul. Vista made it 'easier to use' so that the majority of vista users could understand it. …

This is ok, but I have already put in the time to configure default core affinity for all my apps in Process Lasso.

Will this work with BBC's iplayer or Channel4's equivalent to watch from the US?

I love it, I use it to play checkers in XP that was left off of Vista for some reason since no online version of the game is worth approaching. (iGoogle has some version which allows non-king checkers to jump backwards!?) The only beef I have with it, is that I can't play some of my older PC adventure games (TM…