CharlesCS

Reply to With or without CD/DVD drive, what type of laptop do you prefer? in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

LOL, yea, these days games don't even need CDs. I can't remember the last time I went to a store to get a game. No wait, I can, I bought Call Of Duty Black Ops on CD, for nothing because after I registered it with Steam I was able to reinstall it right from the Steam program. If I happen to need a CD I use vertual drives and mount the ISO versions. I have back ups of all my previous software I had bought before cloud computer became the norm for software installation. I still play some

Reply to How to properly lock an article to prevent “pesky, annoying, ignorant” comments in Blogging JoeUser Forums

[quote who="BoobzTwo" reply="29" id="2938599"]No - Fact, the spelling is mostly correct. Fact, there is much name calling above. Fact, there are many claims about facts, but there aren't any real facts. Fact, there is little if any intelligence for this whole whiney article. How about getting serious for a change?[/quote] LOL, figured you couldn't answer the question without insulting someone. Fact, no one gives a dam about your spell check abilities. Fact, you are the queen o

Reply to How to properly lock an article to prevent “pesky, annoying, ignorant” comments in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Fact: "You simply need to uncheck the “Allow users to comment” box as seen above and the result is a msg on the article that states “ This article has been locked and is not accepting comments ” as seen on my article here so that way you can keep those pesky, annoying, ignorant members of Joeuser.com from contradicting your opinions." <p

With or without CD/DVD drive, what type of laptop do you prefer? in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

You know, I have never considered this idea before. The last time I bought a laptop a few years ago I had gaming in mind so I bought a fast, powerful laptop with a 17” screen. I was excited that it came with a blue-ray drive but to be honest I only bought one movie just because I had the drive. Never used it from there on except to install software once in a while or burn a CD/DVD. Well, that laptop is no more as I, apparently, pushed the limits of it’s gaming abilities and eventuall

Reply to Is your job THIS bad? in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

So, I have to wonder if the people complaining about jobs going over seas actually take the price of a US made ipad in to consideration when they do. Not that I am in favor of them going over seas, but unles they can justify a $14,000 price tag I have to wonder how these people will keep their jobs making products that obviously will not sell at such prices.

Reply to New TV's and other tech toys running applications in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

I have been considering a 55" Vizio for quite some time now but have always debated one particular thing about this Tv and thats the Internet apps feature one of the models comes with. They have the model that does not have these apps for about $200 less. The reason for my debate is that I also planned on getting a device like the Boxee Box which also comes with apps, most the same as the ones the TV comes with so i figured I could save some money and avoid the Tv with the apps. Besides, it s

Reply to “Bins” - On Sale Today - $0.99 WOW!!!! in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

[quote who="kku" reply="14" id="2936964"]Downloaded, installed and I am immediately in love with Bins! I have used Object Dock 1 and 2 as well as Fences. OD* looks pretty, but I found it more intrusive than usable. Fences was just plain annoying. Bins, however, is just what I have been looking for without knowing it.[/quote] I agree. I like OD too but every time the screen changes after every game the dock shifts to the sides or it kinda gets stuck in the middle of the desktop on

Reply to Stuff Like This Happens to Me All the Time in Misc Stardock Forums

Wow, talk about a tense moment. Glad it was the engine that blew and not an accident that hurt everyone.

Reply to Six things to mess up your wifi in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

You can always use bit.ly to shorten you urls like this: http://yhoo.it/k3yrqe It's the same link as yours only shorter. The article is pretty good. I do want to upgrade to a dual band one of these days. But I wonder, besides the not so used part of the 5 Ghz network, what else is good about it? Just wondering.

Reply to PSN Restoration Begins! in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Wow, never thought people would drop the PS3 just because of this. How interesting. But why not keep it as an alternative blue ray with the occasional game play? I wish I had a PS2 just to play GTA Vice City and San Andreas every once in a while. I mean, you already have it, why not just keep it?

Reply to Name the game game in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

I thought this was gonna be a forum game where we guess the game then we throw a description of another game and keep on playing. I already had a game on my mind to trow out there to see if anyone could guess it. darn.

Reply to White House Issues Cyber Security Plan in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="16" id="2935874"]RogueCaptain, we're growing an obese lot of kids... who stuff their faces with unhealthy food, don't go out and play and who are becoming diabetic. Care to guess what that costs? Why should everyone end up with higher health costs because of that?[/quote] When you say we're, do you mean everyone as a whole or do you mean the parents that don't bother with ensuring their children are not stuffing themselves with McDonalds, BKs

Reply to So Long, Xbox 360…. in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote]Funny, when I was younger, I had both Atari and Coleco, and played it quite a lot, but never burned anything into my TV. I suppose if you left the game running without actually playing it for hours, it would burn into the screen.[/quote] I remember seeing some burned in numbers and icons on the TV we had at home when I was little. My sister played a lot of pac-man back then on our atari 5200 and she was so good she would get to the last level which was a key and from them get in

Reply to White House Issues Cyber Security Plan in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

The only thing I have ever seen from the Gov'ts definition of "to protect the people" is to find ways to restrict them and control them. It just seems that we have put ourselves in a position where we apparently don't have any say in just how our lives are protected by those we elect to protect us. The moment a person like the president says "it's for the people" and the solution requires we give up some of our liberties to be able to implement the solution in order to achieve the "it's for t

Reply to Obama Praises Hitler in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote] he takes us for fools[/quote] I have to admit, I am amazed he still trying to pull that wool over our eyes. The man is nothing if adamant about his "transparency". Perhaps he truly believes he is being transparent in accordance with his understanding of the word. Maybe?

Reply to So Long, Xbox 360…. in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

It's interesting to see how often these consoles get messed up on people. The red ring of death stories I have seen seem waaaay to common for my taste. Did the Atari's and Coleco's have these many problems back then? I can't remember. Hope you did what LightStar said and good luck.

Reply to Obama Praises Hitler in Politics Stardock Forums

The only thing I can complain about here is that this just proves that Obama is just another politician. Nothing different, fresh, new or better about him as some here believed when they voted for him. Just like everyone other politician, they always line themselves with people who have sketchy pasts, conflicting opinions and very little character.

Reply to Just bought StarCraft 2.... in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Gazz_" reply="8" id="2934984"]It's when the single player campaign plays like an online rush-fest. That killed it for me. You're always rushed to do this, run from that, relocate all your buildings before they get roasted... That's twitch gaming. It has nothing to do with tactics and definitely not with strategy. Maybe the online players like that but so what? They don't care about the campaign anyway.[/quote] Interesting take. I

Reply to Just bought StarCraft 2.... in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

SC2 is a fast game, but there is plenty of strategy involved. For a noob, the fast play is basically learning the hard way how to play the game. If you don't understand the possible strategies that can be used within the first few minutes of the game with each race you will be susceptible to early rushes (the few than 10 units complaint the writer has) or cheeses the game has. But lets be realistic here, although even pros get cheesed from time to time it's not that easy to cheese som

Reply to Website to PDF, what’s the best solution? in Internet JoeUser Forums

I have tried snagit before, didn't know about the pdf feature. $50 is a bit much for my current budget but I will keep it in mind. Instapaper seems to require Internet in most cases. I am kinda Internet-less at home for the moment. Thanks for the suggestions though.

Website to PDF, what’s the best solution? in Internet JoeUser Forums

I have used the PrintPDF add-on for Firefox in order to save websites as PDF for offline reading, the problem is the PDF file created does not maintain the look of the page on the site which in turn creates extra unnecessary pages on the PDF file, instead it moves many of the icons, images and text around I’m assuming to accommodate the size of the page. I was hoping there was a way to get the PDF to look as much as the website page does when converting it. Any suggestions? I can ins

Reply to “The” Internet? No. “Your” Internet? in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Kodiak888" reply="14" id="2933797"]Having ads and websites pandered to you has been around in quite awhile, and is probably as old as AOL itself. Firefox deletes my internet content, as well as makes most of my web browser incognito. If I was especially paranoid that Google was going to learn how much I like video game websites and send me idiotic ads (what idiot every bought something from an ad directly off of google or similar?) I could just use one of the many proxy services a

Reply to Security Roundup in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Well, inthebloodofeden is very persistent about Kaspersky and has given a lot of details and links so I will give it a try when i get a chance. I have been using MSE for a while and has worked fine but it doesn't hurt to change things up a bit. thanks for all the finding. The Red Robins thing is interesting but I also find that Direct TV and other companies with similar systems use ones phone number to access account #s and I find this disturbing because my mother-in-laws husband wante

Reply to How to properly lock an article to prevent “pesky, annoying, ignorant” comments in Blogging JoeUser Forums

[quote who="BoobzTwo" reply="19" id="2933013"]CharlesCS/Dr Guy - Blah, blah, blah ... can you two do anything besides blow each other ... other’s horn. Sounds like a Love Story to me, hehehe.[/quote] Wow, if this is the best you got, I think my job is done with you. The real you has finally been revealed. Lame, lousy and lacking of any real discussion abilities.

Reply to Fahrenheit 9/11 in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote who="wbino" reply="20" id="2932917"] America has become a pro corporate, slightly fascist government. Anyone who thinks we went into Afghanistan or Iraq to "bring the fight to them" is a fool. btw ..."if you don't love it leave it" comments that will surely follow only prove my point.[/quote] How come is it that people like you, and BoozToo, always throw in a "if you don't like it" comment in your replies? Why do you even bother commenting if you know you gonna get a re