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Tom's Holiday Buying Guide
Thoreau writes "With the holidays just around the corner, it's nice to have some help in finding just the right gift for your gadget hungry friends and family. Tom's Hardware seems to think they have the answers for this year's holiday season. Everything from Swiss Army memory sticks, to monitors that Bill Gates couldn't even afford!"
All I want for Christmas are my two front teeth.
Two freaks, no foes. It takes absolutely nothing to make some people angry.
FTFA: Sex And The Sidekick ???WTF??? How blatant is that????
Christmas buying guides are nothing but adverts anyway, and this article is nothing but a slash-ad. GRRRR. Did you see the boobs on that model holding the side kick? She could sell me SCO stock, if she was holding it like that, petting it gently! (*passes out*)
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
Wow! Mrs Claus is skankier than I had imagined, but for some reason, I just have to buy a T-Mobile Sidekick II.
Larry Ellison is definitely putting his name down for one.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
Why, oh why, does that fat-bellied-white-bearded guy get all the sexy chicks? *sniff*
Ahhh...the great dumpster continuum. Many a free computer will be found there. -- sowth (748135)
I bought all this stuff last Christmas.
They don't list a price for the one thing I'd really want...
Hang on, we have "friends" that we need to buy for?
MOD PARENT DOWN
Nothing for you to see here, Please move along.
...but how do I buy the chick in the santa costume?
"Capital punishment makes the state into a murderer. Imprisonment makes the state into a gay dungeon-master"
Kind of hard to read this article at work with dumbass geekboy-Mrs. Claus fantasy pictures plastered everywhere.
can't also be afforded to be built, especially if the US govt expects to award it to the lowest bidder.
Does the T-Mobile Sidekick II come with a fully licensed copy of Mrs. Claus? 8-)
Most of the things are quite expensive for my range, but a good summary (and a even better model) though. I was hoping they also included a "moded xbox" in it ;).
There is a girl in the picture. She's wearing a Santa Costume.
Or the Thrustmaster Enzo Ferrari Force Feedback Wheel And Pedals. "Hehe, he said Thrustmaster. Hehe."
I need to buy a christmas ornament for a couple who work in the IT industry. So I was wondering if anyone knew of any good geeky christmas ornaments I can buy out there. gracias!
Tom's Hardware is being stuffed with so much Micro$oft $$ to promote MS stuff and Tom doesn't work on his site anymore..
I'm still imagining picking feathers from between my teeth.
Mrs. Claus likes to drive fast: in real-life and on her PC.
/. -ing the server is now receiving, maybe they don't need to. Gotta sell those massive displays SOMEHOW...
I know what the target audience is for these sorts of things, but wow, I had really hoped that Tom's Hardware could do better than that.
Of course, considering the
More seriously, I gotta say that I'd love to put in my order for one of those Swiss Army knives with the 128MB USB drives in it. That, for me anyway, would be a great place to keep day-to-day info (Quicken data, Palm Desktop, etc...) that I tend to always wish I hadn't left on the home PC, or the work PC, or the latop, or.... you get the idea.
I hope the land around you yields, a crop like all the other fields, and then your waiting might make sense...
I see the usual Tom's Hardware hyperbole is now corrupting Slashdot's tradition of journalistic integrity.
"Monitors that Bill Gates can't even afford?" Bill Gates can afford anything. Entire WALLS of his 9000 sq ft. house are comprised of monitors. Tom's is a consumer whore site that used to publish half-decent articles. Now all they do is hype and shill products.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
Looks like Tom's Hardware has closed early for the holidays this year...
That Santa helper chick picture on the page. I didn't know German chicks look so feminine and sexy? Unless she's not German..
... "NOT SAFE FOR WORK".
If Tom has all the answers about PC HW, including performance, how come they can't handle a run of the mill slashdotting after all these years, when Slashdot itself can handle it?
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make install -not war
looks like the site is already slashdotted...
"Doing what i can, with what i have." ~ Burt Gummer
Read on for more pics of the young woman... at the "Thrustmaster" and the "Playseat"...
Apart from that, she looks familiar... I think I've seen her on VW.
Link goes to here: http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=3&q=http://ny ud.info, and I assume that redirects to http://nyud.info, whatever the hell *that* is.
Damn, those aren't even well disguised URLs. Didn't even use that URL spoofing trick that works in IE. Pathetic.
"Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you."
I checked the first three, and they were used. I knew not to click on the links, as mousing over revealed that they were an I'm Feeling Lucky search for nyud.info, AKA the Last Measure.
I didn't bother checking all of them, as I already have GMail.
...to running web servers on a palmtop.
You're a mindless drone? I'm an anti-gmail censorship nazi - maybe we can team up and fight crime...
You are right. Those links DO work. Now that I click them a second time, they DO go to Gmail and ask me to sign up for an account. Damn! Glad I got one. It's not like I have 5 Gmail accounts already and use them as web storage with a shell extention and WinRAR to divide containers into 10 MB sections.
I am a groupthink following, fake link posting whore.
Two freaks, no foes. It takes absolutely nothing to make some people angry.
Didn't realize anyone considered a $94 widget that won't be allowed through the security check at U.S. airports a "stocking stuffer." (I'm talking about the Swiss Army Knife + USB)
In my household, items of that size and price are wrapped in progressively larger boxes to draw attention to their, well, size and price. (Still talking about the Swiss Army Knife + USB here.)
If Mrs. Clause is the gamer, I'll be the seat... I even come with a stick shift for those really intense.... games
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K.E.G. Party Chairman
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Finally, I am glad someone here is acting rationally for a change. I wish everyone else would get some common sense and just click the fucking link to see its not a troll.
... is to sit down with my friends and family and some good ales and enjoy life and share some experiences with them. I try to do it all year around, but people seem to make a bigger effort at Christmas (a.k.a euphemistically in a large fundamentalist Christian superpower as "the holidays") that results in better and more cherished memories. All this materialistic crap can be damned: I spent all my present money on airline tickets to the UK (where my family lives) because seeing people is better than a quick chat on the phone or sending presents with that missplaced expectation that the recipients are then beholden to you in some stupid way.
About your sig, it should be "Give a man a fish, he owe's you a fish plus interest".
"...to monitors that Bill Gates couldn't even afford!"
Umm, if Bill can't afford it, no one can.
Hrrm... I usually just sign my name.
Maximum PC has their Gear Of The Year on newsstands now and a lot of the items listed on Tom's aren't rated too highly. Many of the things they are pimping here are either overpriced or underperformers.
That said, I REALLY would have enjoyed some shots from the Aibo's webcam during that shoot.
[insert sig file here]
And of course you can see more of the girl at: http://www.musecube.com/donnafeldman/index.htm. But, judging from the general slowness of the site, most of the Slashdot is already there.
Blatant OSDN plug.
This story's an Ad, people... it's just a particularly insidious one, because it's impossible to block.
I'm not complaining either....though searching thru the article would be faster if I didn't have to go back to mrs. claus each time.
It'd be nice if the link pointed to the FIRST page of the holiday buyer's guide rather than the page where the submitter was spanking his monkey while submitting the /. story.
In Soviet Russia, I ruled you
I like the look of the cold soldering iron. I don't do very much electronics, so I only own a cheap soldering iron, which is very inconvenient (slow to heat up, corded). This thing isn't terribly expensive ($20) and sounds useful.
Anybody ever tried it? Does it really work?
Since we have access to the Mainframe.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
"I call it the Commander Data kill switch, as the dog immediately goes slack and crumples to the ground when you push the switch. [an error occurred while processing this directive]"
Flourescent (adj): smelling like ground wheat.
The article would have been more helpful if it listed other products besides the one in each category. In each instance, it looked like they were trying to choose the glitziest product, but not usually the best.
What are you smoking? Whatever it is, can I have some?
Its called the truth. Enjoy your fantasy playland.
Seriously, there should be a warning in the post about this.
A little warning is always nice, but if your job will react poorly to a scantly dressed woman, you'd better just stay FAR away from the internet in general, as I can't seem to find a site that doesn't feature a half dressed woman, either within it's content or in ads on the site.
The T-Mo version has no synchronization sw. I have almost 1000 contacts. No way am I entering each one manually on that dinky kybd.
The batter life is horrid and you cannot (easily)remove the battery and swap in a fresh one. Plan on charging this sucker nightly if you use it much.
On the bright side, there is an ssh client.
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
the slashdot link sends you to page 13 of the holiday buying guide, be sure to check page 1 - 12 (click on toys for boys) for more pics for the hot brunette! http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&client=f irefox-a&q=+site:www.laclubber.com+Donna+Feldm an+
Try the contact page at http://www.musecube.com/donnafeldman/index.htm.
You may reconsider using the term "buy", though...
Where do you work? A nunnery? *strewth*!
"Donna" is far, far prettier than the girl in the red and white fuzzy belt (or is that a skirt).
CmdrTaco,
How much did you get paid to submit that story......
I'll take one of those 7 gigawatts processors!
Christmas gift guides with overpriced techo-junk? Call me nuts, but most people I know are like me: saving up to be able to take a day off from work, or saving up to get some dental work done. This isn't the dot-com boom late 90's, any more, so I predict that most of this crap will just sit on store shelves and collect dust, which is where it belongs. I agree completely. Christmas for me will be just another day that I can use to catch up on work, and if I'm lucky (very lucky), spend some time with friends. I don't know who these people are who are still obsessed with buying pointless, overpriced crap, but I'm glad that I don't know any of them.
I don't respond to AC's.
just go to click on the link above on the /. page. ThinkGeek There's all your geek gifts in one convenient place!
But does he have sushi usb drives?
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I can find much better-looking, much more naked, much more involved with other much better-looking and much more naked girls very easily on the internet. Why is everyone creaming their pants over this over-the-hill dog-faced broad holding out-of-date toys?
Sex sells, yes. But only if better sex isn't immediately available.
It never hit you that it was Mrs Santa? Some people can't be bought... for everyone else... there's Master Card.
An AMD Opteron (64-bit) 4 CPU system with a LinuxBIOS and silent cooling please.
No kidding! My boss walked by while I was looking at the page with the $1,999 OQO, and damned near fired me on the spot for using company resources to view obscene material.
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
> She could sell me SCO stock, if she was holding it
> like that, petting it gently!
Now I gotta go back and look at the sidekick review... *grumble*
she's already married. To the fat guy.
She has a hot body, but maybe its the picture but her face looks a bit manly to me....anyone else think this?
Other then that - sex sells!!! I like it
I mod down so you can mod up. Your welcome.
Bill can't afford one huh.... exactly who's left after that...
California?...
Japan?...
the U.S. Government?...
the big G.O.D.?
What I want for Christmas is some HeroScape expansion packs!
NukeProof PCs is now offering a line of high-perf gaming machines with 64-bit AMD procs, Koolance water-cooling cases, nVidia 6800 series graphics, etc, as a new competitor to Alienware, etc. Sure you can build your own using all the same parts, but for those who want a ready-assembled system, check 'em out.
I think they also make LED snowmen.
;)
Look them up yourself though, I'm not your Google girl.
i can see why santa likes to empty his sack everywhere
When will you folks realise that the rest of the world doesn't give a fuck about your Thanksgiving Holidays?
Maybe with all the ad revenue coming in from the marketting tricks, they'll be able to afford the bandwidth charges by being slashdotted before hitting 200 comments.
Damnit! What are they doing sticking real pr0n into our gadget pr0n! Get out of the way, Mrs. Clause, I'm trying to see the gadgets. Besides, I don't go for married women.
--GrouchoMarx
Card-carrying member of the EFF, FSF, and ACLU. Are you?
Tom recommends buying a computer with Intel Inside.
Are you kidding me? The most expensive display I saw on the site was $7,999.. not only could he buy as many of those as they sell, but he can buy the company that makes them, the companies that make the components, and the companies that make the toilet paper that go in the bathrooms of all said companies.
It's been almost a month now, and my balls are big and blue...
When will you realize your browsing an American based site? I don't browse British or Chinese portals and complain....
"Thanks to the remote control I have the attention span of a gerbil."
"Do you come with the car?"
"Oh you!"
"Do you come with the car?"
"Oh you!"
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
I think that applies to all of shashdot, eh?
And yeah, that was a little dodgey for my PC office!
... grumble, grumble, grumble, mutter, mutter, Millenium... Hand... Shrimp, I tol' 'em, I tol' 'em.
You know, playboy.com, wetsluts.com, that kind of thing. ;0]
somehow i was transported to a site i would never visit, i was looking at products i had no interest in, and i didn't want to leave...
Get your torrents...
"Mrs. Claus loves the flip-out screen and built-in keyboard."
Screw the flip-out screen and built-in keyboard... I want Mrs Claus! (the one in that photo that is)
...that there are significantly more replies about the woman than the tech gear? Maybe it's because I'm on a site for nerds...would that have anything to do about it?
There are other pictures of her on the two left monitors. Now, what are the chances of finding *all* the other pictures of her at this time?
If you can stay calm, while all around you is chaos... then you probably haven't completely understood the question.
In a convent?
Al Quaeda HQ?
The Whitehouse?
Honestly. Where in the civilized world do you work?
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
New Scientist (a British science weekly) has a great online gift guide.
It is primarily suggestions from readers (and a few from the editors), so it's probably a lot more honest. Many of the items are only available in England, but many are available in the US or worldwide.
More sugar!
What do you mean just around the corner? Ramadan just ended!
Not so much for its gaming capacity, but because it's a damnned good (and sturdy) keyboard.
After seeing it, now my mom wants one, I'll give you one guess on what my Xmas gift will be.
Just because you can mod me down, doesn't mean you're right. Shoes for industry!
What, no-one has made anything of the "hard" in hardware? Shame on you!