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Comment on Gamemon USB Converter Review & Drivers by DJ Nintendo

DJ Nintendo — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:23:55 +0000

I bought this little gadget, and it works wonders whenever using controllers, although I have updated and updated the bitch to work for my ddr pad in stepmania, and it still suffers from the axes problem, I can jump at the same time now after installing the driver, but the buttons switch sides on me. It’ll work right for a while and then switch to the other side. i.e. left becomes right, right left, up becomes down, down up, and it does it off and on, its driving me insane because its impossible to play like that!!!

Comment on Hurricanes Without Rain … A Storm Only The Midwest Could Love by sav2880

sav2880 — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:07:53 +0000

My parents said that at the height of the storm, about 90% of Cincy had no power, but somehow my dad’s place was one of the lucky ones who was still doing okay. Probably because the place is in the downhill slope of the Devou Park area, it was shielded.

Comment on Gamemon USB Converter Review & Drivers by mikedenney

mikedenney — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:35:52 +0000

I bought one of these last year at our local Wal-mart, and decided to do a little ‘Googling’ around the web to see what other people were saying about this little unit, before posting it on my site as a fun little gadget.

Mine has been reliable and fun, and yes, perfect Vista install. First thing I tried to do with it was use my NYKO wireless PS2 controllers with it, and it worked fine. Next I plan on trying my Logitech PS2 wireless controllers, and maybe eventually a Gamecube one or two.

Thanks for this review site–it made for good reading, and others should find it informative and helpful.

Comment on Hurricanes Without Rain … A Storm Only The Midwest Could Love by Doug

Doug — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:59:03 +0000

My experience with the windstorm started at 2:15 on Sunday. My cousin and I decided to hit up BK by wal-mart on colerain for food. On our way there we saw a few downed trees but nothing major. We get to BK. All the employees are standing outside saying there’s no power. Great. Decide to roll over to the one on Pleasant ave in Fairfield. Same thing. Tried the one near the Theaters on RT 4. Same deal. By this time traffic was starting to get a little chaotic at major intersections. Took a chance and ended up at Tri-county mall which appeared to be the only place that had power. With the crazy traffic and power outages we didn’t get to eat until 4ish. Getting back home wasn’t a big deal. My cousin stayed till the winds died down which was about 8ish. Didn’t really get any damage to my house but neighbors had large tree branches breaking and roofing shingles coming off of theirs. Our power outage lasted from 2:30pm Sunday until 6:15pm Monday. My work has a backup generator so they didn’t call off work. There were major retail areas that didn’t have power until Wednesday or later.

Comment on Gamemon USB Converter Review & Drivers by lolcats

lolcats — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:11:34 +0000

same here BLASTER2K6 Ive installed before maybe its the new updates screwing me over

Comment on Acer Aspire One: As Good As $350 Gets by Teh Bagder

Teh Bagder — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:22:35 +0000

Once my current laptop bites the dust, I might look at an ultraportable like this for school, seeing as I’m going to be there for another 3-5 years at least. It’d make it easier than lugging a 17″ screen around all the time. Of course, gaming in-between classes might not be that enjoyable

Comment on The end (and beginning) of Street Dates. by Teh Bagder

Teh Bagder — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:20:52 +0000

I managed to get a game pre-street a while back, but the difference was by a day.

Last week I got a call from our friendly neighbordhood store telling me that my copy of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed was in pre-street and that I should come pick it up. I then got a second call the next day from the store saying that LucasArts had called them and threatened them with a cease and desist notice for selling pre-street. Turns out someone bought the 360 version and got it pre-street, and went online. Microsoft flagged it, lock out the user from their live account and then contacted then to find out who sold it. They then passed the name onto Lucasarts’ legal team who contacted the store. The store was given a warning, and would be fined the next time. Mind you, I’ve got the Wii version in bound, so I’ll be picking it up on Tuesday.

Although I understand the idea behind street dates (unified launch, retail control, review control), I think it’s a bit crazy to see it enforced the way it is. I’m not sure of the contract language between distributors and retailers and whether there’s anything in the contract that stipulates honoring street dates. If there is, then there’s legal ground for controlling street dates, but if not… It’s the same deal with books and movies I guess.

Like yourself I’m not used to buying new anyway, as you know, but I had trade-in credit and wanted to use it to get some newer games.

Comment on Acer Aspire One: As Good As $350 Gets by sav2880

sav2880 — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 03:08:04 +0000

For Nate: 2.19 pounds is the final tally. I stopped at the Apple Store on my vacation week awhile back and put it next to a Macbook Air to see what I thought of one over the other. The Macbook Air screen does circles around the Aspire One’s (even though it’s nice), but from a usability sense, I think I’d have to go with the Aspire One for $350 over a Macbook Air (which might be a tinge lighter) for $1,750. You need to get up here to see it!

For Jiang: I’m with you, the touchpad is annoying because I find myself having two fingers on it causing the browser fonts to grow and shrink. It is very responsive, but far from perfect. I agree on Bluetooth, having it built in WOULD make the machine more killer, but I do use a dongle that I had from previous machines (that’s a piece of shit, it’s been in the washer before), but works well enough for tethering with a GoPhone plan (cheap mobile broadband, I will clarify later)

For Doug: Heh, I have to live in both worlds for work soon, but there are only about five or six Macs left (all Intel now), and the G3 just got too old due to Leopard, so it got sold. I hope to get a Powerbook G4 soon from work as they’re now at end of life, and we have an extra Macbook Pro (initial run) to play with. I am toting around an iPhone 3G too, and love it!

I am curious to see too how all of these machines go for XMas. While I love the tablet concept and used one for a year at work, these netbook prices are so good that I can live without that touch screen, and if they go down to $299, or God forbid, $249, that’s your eBook reader right there with XP built on top of it!

What is your take on the Kindle?

Comment on Acer Aspire One: As Good As $350 Gets by Doug

Doug — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:21:07 +0000

Can it be? Scooter has defected from the Mac world? ;] Actually I have a 1st gen Iphone and im pretty happy with just using that for email and the intarwebs. I do like the idea of getting a netbook to read ebooks on but i’m waiting to see what tablet pcs are going to be priced at this Christmas. I did look at the kindle and Sony offerings but the price is too much. If the ebook readers were priced at 199 or less i’d be all over it.

Comment on Acer Aspire One: As Good As $350 Gets by Jiang

Jiang — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:46:52 +0000

It’s a nice machine. I am surprised how fast it runs. I installed visual studio 2008 and it runs great. The touchpad is the one to hate. I wish it had some special keys for prev and next browsing and scrolling down pages when I am reading pdf ebooks.

The price is amazingly low at $349.99 with 1g memory and 120 g hard drive.

I am looking to buy a $40 leather case that fit the AA1 like a dream, but kind of pricey, but it’s on my wish list.

A bluetooth dongle to comm with my GPS receiver. I have Garmin nRoute installed.