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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!"
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*)
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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.
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What truth?
There is no dupe
Why, oh why, does that fat-bellied-white-bearded guy get all the sexy chicks? *sniff*
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They don't list a price for the one thing I'd really want...
...but how do I buy the chick in the santa costume?
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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.
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!
I'm still imagining picking feathers from between my teeth.
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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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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... 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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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?
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.
Seriously, there should be a warning in the post about this.
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.
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she's already married. To the fat guy.
When will you realize your browsing an American based site? I don't browse British or Chinese portals and complain....
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