The case against OnLive.

April 8, 2009

It’s foolish to deny that the cloud will dominate PC use in the future; dumb terminals made sense when raw computing power was unnecessary, and we’ll come full-circle as soon as broadband is ubiquitous. For nearly all applications, all an end-user needs is a browser with an internet connection; there’s an easy case to be [...]

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For the Boleyn story, watch Tudors.

February 10, 2009

After slowly making our way through the available episodes of Showtimes’s Tudors, and nearing the end of the second season, we decided to take a brief break and watch The Other Boleyn Girl. How could a movie starring both Natalie Portman and Scarlet Johansson fail? Well, epically. At least compared to the story told in [...]

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The Mac Mini needs to eat the AppleTV, and shoot up with TiVo.

January 17, 2009

At the end of an article at TUAW talking about the possibility of the Mac Mini and AppleTV both transitioning over to Nvidia’s Ion platform, Robert Palmer asks the same question we’ve been musing over: But what if the next-generation Apple TV and Mac mini were one in the same? Since the AppleTV is considered [...]

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Comcast’s DVR is unbelievable shit.

January 7, 2009

It’s bloody amazing that though TiVo has been around for almost a decade, no one else has managed to duplicate TiVo’s experience. This leads us to many more questions, such as how, not long ago, was TiVo considered a company that almost went under? Let’s ignore that historical anecdote, however, and instead focus on the [...]

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Adam Sessler gets upgraded. Still lame.

December 20, 2008

X-Play’s co-host Adam Sessler’s success is clearly linked to Morgan Webb’s assets, and though that magical power, the little nerd-who’s-not managed to develop some sort of strange nerd-mutant following. Well, Sessler’s now editor-in-chief at X-Play, and gets to call the shots regarding all gaming-related content at the respective network. To us, this simply reaffirms that [...]

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The King of the Hill is dead.

November 4, 2008

In what can only be blamed on the retardation that is FOX, King of the Hill somehow managed to last 13 seasons. The sad little animated comedy about a sad little Texan family did little for us aside from point out how ridiculous the country we live in is. And if that’s the point of [...]

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