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  1. Re:Not 12 euros... by nospam007 · · Score: 1 · on Europe Now Has Its Own "Most Wanted Fugitives" Web Page (eumostwanted.eu)

    "Where can I buy garden furniture for €12? Count me in. My check won't even bounce."

    The simple white injection mold chairs are currently available for $8.09

    http://www.kmart.com/gracious-...

  2. Re:sexist? pah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Is Computer Science Education Racist and Sexist?

    Oddly, my AC CAPTCHA for this post is "quagmire"...

    As it happens, it was also a C64 for me; (My daddy did not drive me to the store. I went and picked it up myself). Perhaps there is " white male privledge", I suppose there is also what might be called "professional victimhood"... ya know, ***Bleep*** this!

        EVERYBODY has challenges.

    There are various viewpoints from which 'reality' can be interpreted. I happen to think that (grandparent) is more correct than (parent)".

    Suppose I say that I find the profanity and (from my perspective) ad hominem aspects of BOTH posts to be un-needed and offputting?

        Am I 'objectively' right? wrong? according to WHOM? (and what are WHOM's own biases). A definable phenomenon may be 'perfectly obvious' to one observer while invisible to another.

    Maybe there is no (objective) truth here, what may be more important is for ALL participants in the discussion to acknowledge that their own viewpoint is not the only one, and that even someone who appears to be utterly wrong has reasons for the opinions they hold.

    Oh and btw KMART still sells computers today http://www.kmart.com/search=computer?catalogId=10104&storeId=10151&levels=Computers_Desktops&autoRedirect=true&viewItems=50&redirectType=CAT_REC&prop17=computer [kmart.com]

  3. Re:I know most of you don't live where I do... by evilviper · · Score: 1 · on US Electrical Grid On the Edge of Failure

    My point is, the northeast blackout proved just how unprepared most Americans are for a power outage. I understand the technical challenges of living on the 30th story of a building are much greater than for my house in the middle of no where, but there are some basic things you can do to function for a few days without power if need be.

    IMHO, too few people know about CAMPING gear. Just think of it... crazy people VOLUNTARILY go off-grid, in extremely harsh conditions, yet get along quite well.

    They have:
    * good food ($100),
    * plenty of clean water ($40),
    * get hot showers ($10),
    * have an ample supply of power $10,
    * lots of light ($10),
    * plenty of news and entertainment. ($20),
    * modern conveniences ($30),

    etc., etc.

    They even sleep comfortably in -30F degree weather (if you don't mind lugging around a punching bag).

  4. Re:thermoplastic construction by c0lo · · Score: 4, Interesting · on "Anti-Gravity" 3D Printer Sculpts Shapes On Any Surface

    With traditional manufacturing it makes sense to make things in bulk because you need specialized equipment for everything but if you have a general-purpose printer you can just print what you need.

    All well and good until you realize that, for a whole keyboard, you pay $6 (or, how about about $0.09 for keyboard switch - electrical stuff included) and for a single 3D printed key cap you pay about $10.
    Well, we can ignore the case of exquisitely unique keyboards, can we?

  5. Re:Sometimes Apple is cheaper by cmdr_tofu · · Score: 2, Informative · on India's $35 7-Inch Android Tablet To Hit In January

    KMart is still advertising these as having full access to Android market:
    http://www.kmart.com/shc/s/p_10151_10104_020W023705190001P?keyword=tablet&prdNo=1&blockNo=1&blockType=G1

    And other reviews say 2-3 hours video playback:
    http://www.kmart.com/shc/s/p_10151_10104_020W023705190001P?keyword=tablet&prdNo=1&blockNo=1&blockType=G1#reviewsWrap

    I'm not saying you're wrong. Some javascript can be wasteful of CPU and power (although not less than bad Flash!). But if they took away Android Market, KMART should stop advertising it a device which has Android Market access.

  6. Re:Sometimes Apple is cheaper by cmdr_tofu · · Score: 2, Informative · on India's $35 7-Inch Android Tablet To Hit In January

    KMart is still advertising these as having full access to Android market:
    http://www.kmart.com/shc/s/p_10151_10104_020W023705190001P?keyword=tablet&prdNo=1&blockNo=1&blockType=G1

    And other reviews say 2-3 hours video playback:
    http://www.kmart.com/shc/s/p_10151_10104_020W023705190001P?keyword=tablet&prdNo=1&blockNo=1&blockType=G1#reviewsWrap

    I'm not saying you're wrong. Some javascript can be wasteful of CPU and power (although not less than bad Flash!). But if they took away Android Market, KMART should stop advertising it a device which has Android Market access.

  7. The cheap laptops are available by Charbax · · Score: 1 · on Video Review of Hivision's $100 ARM-Based Android Laptop

    I've seen them at Buy.com (2), at Amazon.com, at Kmart.com and plenty other places for even cheaper.

    The point of this video is to show that Android and the much faster Android web browser can make all these cheap laptops much more usable when it comes to browsing the web. The Android browser is 100x better than the one in Windows CE or the previous Mozilla-based one they would integrate in those $100 Laptops. More usable means more people will want to buy it, which means even cheaper prices.

  8. Re:Where's the source? by RoboRay · · Score: 1 · on Kmart Drops Blu-Ray Players

    It's total fabrication. The HD-DVD camp is apparantly getting quite desperate, to the point where now they're just making stuff up in the hopes that gullible people won't bother trying to verify their lies. Here's the real deal:

    "Kmart Not Exclusively Supporting HD-DVD Format

    Statement from Jonathan Magasanik, Vice President and General Merchandise Manager, Home Electronics, Sears Holdings

    HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill., Nov. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- There have been numerous statements in the media today, attributed to Toshiba, indicating exclusive support for the HD-DVD format in Kmart stores. These statements are false. Kmart intends to support both the HD-DVD and Blu-ray platforms, and has no plans to support either platform exclusively.

    About Kmart

    Kmart, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sears Holdings Corporation (Nasdaq: SHLD), is a mass merchandising company that offers customers quality products through a portfolio of exclusive brands that include Jaclyn Smith, Joe Boxer, Martha Stewart Everyday and Route 66. For more information visit the company's website at http://www.kmart.com/ or the Sears Holdings Corporation website at http://www.searsholdings.com./"

    http://prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/11-02-2007/0004696858&EDATE=

  9. Re:What about the 100 worst places? by Richard+Steiner · · Score: 1 · on Google Tops 100 Best Places To Work
    K-Mart -- doesn't even exist anymore
    You might want to tell them that. :-)

    We also have two K-Marts within 10 miles of our house which seem very much alive.

  10. Re:Where can I get me a Dell with Ubuntu? by petard · · Score: 1 · on FOSS Is Not Free if It's Not Free From Complexity
    The point is that you can pay a nationally recognized company to build you a computer and install Windows XP on it. It's much harder to find a national OEM vendor that sells machines that have been preloaded with Ubuntu.
    .

    True. "OSes like Ubuntu" are indeed possible though. Dell doesn't do Ubuntu. They do Red Hat. You can get thinkpads with Ubuntu rather easily. Sears sells boxes with Linspire, as do others.

    Only if their time is worth nothing. If the time to learn how to get Linux working is worth more than the price of a copy of Windows XP and its successor, then the masses will choose Windows XP and its successor.


    IMO, you commit the same fallacy he does. Your time only needs to be worth nothing for this to work out if you assume that the skills you learn in the process are worth nothing. I'd argue that, depending on your local market, a solid understanding of "what's going on under the hood" is worth substantially more than nothing and more than pays back the value of the time you invest. And if the hood is welded shut (to steal an overused analogy) it's much harder to pick up those skills, whereas on an open system you have more freedom to do so.
  11. Re:BLU-RAY AND HD-DVD have denial of service issue by evilviper · · Score: 1 · on In Sony's Stumble, the Ghost of Betamax
    Here in the UK I've never seen an HDTV CRT --- the push for HiDef came after the LCD/Plasma thing. I didn't realise there were such beasts as HiDef CRT TVs! ian

    I see.

    Yes, here, CRT-based HDTVs are far, far more popular than the alternatives. Plasmas were rather hyped, but people very quickly realized they were slow, low-res, susceptible to image burn-in, extremely expensive, and only last perhaps 3 years of heavy use. They've been completely removed from store shelves at major retailers, and replaced by LCDs (with the occasional DLP set).

    Still, due to price, as well as image quality, CRTs are vastly out-pacing the alternatives. Both direct-view and projection sets.

    27" CRT HDTVs are going for well under $500, and 50+" CRT-based projection HDTVs for under $1,000. Let's see... that's approx €420 and €840 respectively. And the alternatives, at similar sizes, costing at least twice as much. Plus, it's the only option if you want a set that can display both 720 and 1080 natively, without scaling, and probably the only option if you want to really see the 60fps refresh rate.

    If you want to see for yourself, you can visit http://bestbuy.com/ , http//circuitcity.com , http://sears.com/ , http://kmart.com/ , http://target.com/ , http://walmart.com/ , etc, etc. Their online stores reflect their physical stores pretty closely.