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The Ten Worst Products of the Year
WaZiX writes "Not sure what you want to buy for christmas? Well me neither, but PCMag has an interesting article on what they consider to be the 10 worst products of the year, so at least you know what not to buy. Helpful article that picked out products from different categories such as PDA's, Notebooks and MP3 players."
Slashdot subscription?
Would be funny if they put PC Magazine on that list.
so that cheap £9.99 webcam i bought for parents is no good :/ awww
...surely you can wait until Friday evening.
Yeah, right.
SCO "Linux license".
we need more "helpfull" things here. it's always good when things are "helpfull".
Actually he said "this fall's hot Mac games," so that probably means Myth 2 and Marathon Infinity.
(i kid, i kid.)
Another iPod owner who has to tell us he/she has an iPod...
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
Hmmm. I'd have figured the SCO license would have surely made that list. $699 and you don't even get a pet rock out of the deal.
"Cowboy Neal's 'Thongs for Geeks'", which includes graphic instructions.....
Shudders
Monstar L
1. Find worst product in catagory. Mention it.
2. Post a link to the "PC Mag guide" for that catagory with the tex "for better options in (name of catagory) see PC Mag's guide
3.Profit!
I have blog like everyone else
But we know the important question is really, will it run Emacs?
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GIGO (Good In, Garbage Out)
Way to show your tech credentials! Coming soon, to a PCMag article near you, the newest and hottest acronyms:
Could the article be anymore GigaLame?
Hmmm.
"...with a total of 1.3 Terabytes of digital photos."
Man that is a lot of pr0n, you sir are my hero.
I laughed at the weak who considered themselves good because they lacked claws.
Je fume. Tu fumes. Nous fûmes!
Well that's just rubbish. I own and iPod but I don't feel the need to tell the world.
Bad analogies are like waxing a monkey with a rainbow.
...10 worst Slashdot articles of the year?
Oh crap, here comes the "I can buy/build an AMD powered uber-monster PC running XYZ for the price of a Mac" comments.
For the past 7 years, every time there's been an article that mentions the price of an Apple computer, these people come out of the woodwork and go batsh!t trying to show us how frugal/industrious they can be without ever understanding the market dynamic.
Please, we all understand that you can build a "Most Excellent" PC with glowing neon lights and water cooling that SPECmarks the h3ll out of a dual processor G5 for $.75 Canadian and it will run Slackware and GiMP and MAME and dual boot into Windows XP Super Home edition and play Halo 7 and Duke Nuke 'em at the same time in separate windows because you're driving 18 LCDs with the Radeon super-nuclear video card that you can get at the local computer superhaus for $1.95 and two packs of bubblegum.
Mac users just don't care, Ok? We really, really, don't care.
"oohhh... I didn't know Schopenhauer was a philosopher!"
While anybody who trashes John C. Dvorak is OK in my book, I would disagree with this author's assessment of the eMac and I would agree as well. Underpowered? For A/V editing or number crunching, I would agree but for it's primary target market of education, I think that it's fine--or used to be. Word processing and web surfing don't require that much snap and pop. It's pretty much the same machine as an iBookG4. However, I would say that it's past time for Apple to update or jetison this model--the G4 processor is old news. I would expect to see Apple announce an update to this product to the G5 class at January's Macworld Expo or it will die a quiet little death.
I might know what I'm talkin' about, but then again, this is Slashdot...
My faith in PC Magazines normally excellent journalism has been shattered. The missed the worst gift of the year...
an SCO Intellectual Property license for the Linux lover in your life.
Don't forget Breakout and Super Breakout.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
The worst digital slr of the year is the Pentax K1000. I mean it doesn't even have USB! See our review here.
The worst desktop computer of the year is the super nintendo. I can't seem to get it to run Open Office and I have to fold my CD's in half just to get them in the ROM drive. See our review here.
The worst spread sheet application of the year is Windows Calculator. I see that you can congifure it to use Radians, but you can't even plot y=mx+b. How am I supposed to get my paper published in Science using diagrams created with a tool like that? See our review here.
Cisco makes these terific and robust managed routers, but the Netgear FS108 is a piece of junk in comparison. It only has 8 100MB ports. It doesn't have any built-in firewall. And, to top it all off, I still have to use cat5 ethernet cables. Can you image what the designers could have been thinking when they came up with that? See our review here.
Maybe I'm being too critical of this article.
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He's really pissed about how he got ripped off. Truth hurts, sometimes.
That's because the editors who tested that last year were unavailable for comment this year.
Gadget A sucks. Now let us show you what products our sponsors have asked us to shill... er... products we've reviewed and consider to be of the highest quality.
I agree completely! Give me a name brand Sorny, Magnetbox, or Panaphonics any day!
What part of "shall not be infringed" is so hard to understand?
"glacially slow processor and anemic memory"
"designed by orangutans without opposable thumbs"
"longer than it took the Minnow's crew to escape Gilligan's Island"
"it's slower than a 330-pound defensive tackle with two bad knees on a muddy field"
"like watching the neighbor's TV with a periscope"
"look worse than an ancient Philco"
"control more twitchy than Jennifer Tilly in Seed of Chucky"
"this twisted offspring of a Norelco shaver"
"you'd be GigaWrong. Buy this one and you'll end up GigaSad"
"doesn't matter a NanoBit."
There are enough programs for both Windows and Macintosh that any one individual could not possibly try all of them in her lifetime.
Unless you want software specifically targeted at some obscure niche, like an accounting system geared towards left-handed people who work in the trout farming industry, you'll find plenty of Mac software available.
Well, or unless you want ten million ways to wander around rooms and kill off robotic monsters, instead of only one million. Then I can't help you.
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For someone who "really, really" doesn't care...you sure went off on an emotionally charged rant. ;)
I'm not picking on you, I just think "Sciencetific" is a seriously funky word. I plan on using it wherever possible in future!
;)
"Blah, blah, blah, cold fusion, perpetual motion, time travel."
"You must be pretty clever, that all sounds very Sciencetific!"
People that believe in their opinions don't post AC.
whoa...talk about postmodern.
The Braying and Neighing of Barnyard Animals Follows.
It should have read:
...and the Radeon 9200 graphics card won't even run this fall's hot Mac game.
Now, for everyone else, it is still the perfect platform. Put a "Power User" on a Mac and they can fly with it.
Ah, but you miss the point grasshopper.
True, the mac is good for a novice.
True the mac is good for the expert.
But what over the great ocean of mediocrity? Embracing mediocrity to generate extraordinary profits, that is the way of the enlightened business plan.
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That is priceless.
You're an idiot.
George Bush.
Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!
And I'm a trout, you even more insensitive clod!