This is interesting. My "widescreen" DVD of Patriot Games is actually a full frame movie with bars on the top & bottom. Point is, I can't watch it at the full width of my widescreen laptop's screen. It still shows in 4:3 -- but now i have black bars on the left & right (from viewing the full-frame movie on the wide screen) and on the top & ( Read more... )

Here is a good, though poorly written, response to last weeks' PC Magazine article by Lance Ulanoff.

Speaking of political correctness...

Boy, the Dems must have nothing much to talk about right now if they're complaining about Halliburton and $61M. That's right kids, less than 25 cents per citizen. I'd send em two quarters and tell em to keep the change -- just to get em to shut up!

Swiped from all over. I'm posting this because it's interested. And I want to know ( Read more... )

If it didn't mean that I could shop nowhere, I would gladly boycott stores that advertise using the phrases "Happy Holidays" and "for the holidays," instead choosing to support those that bid customers a "Merry Christmas."

It's a Fireman, Policeman, or Chairman, not Firefighter, Police officer, or Chair. Note that it's not Firepenis, Policepenis ( Read more... )

You know what I want to know ( Read more... )

You know, I really wonder why some people hate Macs so much as to spread this disinformation.

The vulnerability about which he speaks is a DHCP issue that has been around since NeXTSTEP. It has to do with the computer getting information from a malicious DHCP server and trusting that information. Now, while this is obviously a security issue ( Read more... )

From André & Wally B. to The Incredibles - my how far we have come in 20 years.

A stock broker, on his way home from work in New York City, came to a dead halt in traffic and thought to himself, "Wow, this seems much worse than usual ( Read more... )