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If you get paid 1099 -- then keep 30% in the bank, to be ready for taxes. Get someone to do your taxes (if you aren't a pro in that area). Get incorporated - llc/s or whatever they recommend for your situation, for a number of reasons. If you are going from salary to hourly -- multiply the...

Define 'smaller'. The PS3 has a big core that hands off orders to 6 dumbed down little cores. The 360 has 3 'big' cores. Next gen consoles will all model the 360 (x fully capable cores). It's that part about 'hands off orders' that will make the PS3 impossible to emulate, along with...

The PS3 was originally backwards compatible, because they put the WHOLE PS2 CHIPSET into the PS3. The PS3 only survived by burning brand -- the system went from first to last place because of the outrageous price on launch day. The PS4 will be DOA if it has to ship with a Cell chip just for...

Part of the reason PS3 games will sell for cheaper, is because they aren't going to have a very long lifetime. The PS4 will NOT be backwards compatible (for PS3 games). The Cell Processor is a one generation and done technology, and while the PS3 games might be emulated someday -- it's not...

Does COD Black Ops use a 'online pass' system? $15 is a good price, but not if you have to pay another $10 to play online.

Vita is heading for fail. Nintendo and Sony are still playing like the IPad/Smartphone world doesn't exist. It's a new world now, and they aren't living in it. Single purpose device? Proprietary memory format? $50 a game? Forget it.

Bunch of Heroes = a bunch of suck

My kids and I play with (big, cumbersome) Duplo blocks regularly and the oldest is ready for Lego's. So, I want to build up the start of what will be a sizable Lego collection. Can anyone recommend the best way to spend $100 to 200? Note that I'm not really interested in branded/character...

I can't imagine this is a PR stunt. This is a business (download games) that's biggest weakness is credibility/longevity -- people fear that even Steam (however unlikely) is going to shut down overnight. Many people still prefer games in a box. This would be like Toyota making their slogan...

What's the world coming to when a teen girl in short shorts, spreading her legs for a cameraman can't get privacy in Times Square?

Yea, that's what I thought it looked like too. That clip is actually from Return of the Jedi, and it's not the Emperor - it's Luke. It shows him building his lightsaber then loading it into R2D2 (before sending the robots to Jabba's palace).

SecondSpin.com is good -- especially if you use the site during one of their better sales. What I can say about it, as a regular customer, is the quality (for used stuff) is always like new. Everything they have ever shipped me has been in excellent condition. The lowest priced shipping takes...

Everything. (I'm an epistemological skeptic.)

My recommendation would be none. There simply is no science that puts gaming or TV into a positive light at that age. Gaming has been proven to expand memory in certain ways, but it also makes violent behavior, diminished social skills and learning difficulties significantly more likely...

I just put it out for the trash a few days early, and it's usually gone within the hour. One time I just put a box of various computer cables & wires out and it was gone in under 2 hours. (You should probably take out the hard drive first, and disassemble it with a hammer....if you know what...