Want to make Skyrim look awesome? Best GFX mod yet.

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/18935#content

Everybody should install this except for 2+2.
Want to make Skyrim look awesome? Best GFX mod yet.

OT - Epic Rap Battle Bill Gates vs Steve Jobs

I think these videos are hysterical.

+ YouTube Video ERROR: If you can see this, then YouTube is down or you don't have Flash installed.
OT - Epic Rap Battle Bill Gates vs Steve Jobs

Dish 002 Partial Signal Loss errors

A year or two ago I posted a thread on the 002 error I was getting.
http://www.highdefforum.com/dish-net...rebooting.html
It is happening again on both my VIP722K and VIP222K, and I was wondering if anyone has come up with a solution. The problem is intermittent and unrelated to the weather. The Partial Signal Loss error pops up, but I can always immediately get it back by just pressing the Guide button. Dish replaced the VIP722 a year or so ago, and that seemed to help for a while. But now it's back on both receivers. The Dish technician came out a couple of days ago and changed the LNB. He had previously changed all the connectors. I did a search for "Error 002," and several others have reported the same issue. One thing I have in common with some of the others is that I do have OTA adapters in both receivers. That's about the only component they have not replaced, and I am wondering if that might be the problem.

One other problem I have noticed is that sometimes (I think always when watching an OTA channel), I notice that the receiver is locked up. It is still receiving the local channel, but I cannot change channels or get the remote to do anything at all. Sometimes it will reboot on its own, but usually I have to do a manual reboot.

I'm an old retired I.T. director, and I'm pretty tolerant about intermittent problems. But this one has been going on for a couple of years on three different receivers.
Dish 002 Partial Signal Loss errors

Activision Shuts Down Radical Entertainment

Aye another dev bites the dust. This industry is imploding due to lack of originality, high dev costs and slumping sales.

Quote: Activision issued the following statement:

"Although we made a substantial investment in the Prototype IP, it did not find a broad commercial audience. Radical is a very talented team of developers, however, we have explored various options for the studio, including a potential sale of the business, and have made a difficult conclusion through the consultation process that the only remaining option is a significant reduction in staff. As such, some employees will remain working for Radical Entertainment supporting other existing Activision Publishing projects, but the studio will cease development of its own games going forward."
Activision Shuts Down Radical Entertainment

Buying Help - Which home speakers would you get?

Hey everyone! I have been out of the home audio game for about 9 years now, so this is all new to me again...

I was looking to pick up a nice 5.1 surround speaker set for my living room cinema/music area. It's a big space, with 15 foot ceiling, and the entire area is a "great room" that is open to the dining room and kitchen.

I'm torn because I have the chance to pick up a front L/R Floor Pair of speakers that I ready great reviews on:

Revel Concerta F-12's

...I can buy these new from a seller for $600 for the pair, which I thought was really good.

The flip side is that I would have to piece together other speakers, and I'm not sure I could afford more from the Concerta series.

Or, I have the chance to pick up a set of 5.1 Klipsch speakers:
(2 SF 2's, 1 RC 25 center, 2 RS 7 rears) for $300 total

...any thoughts on what to go for? Is it bad to mix front/center/rear speaker brands?

Thanks for your help!

(also, any thoughts on decent speaker sets under 1k total would be great to know...or even decent brands to track...I'm out of the game!) :)
Buying Help - Which home speakers would you get?