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  1. Re:Idiotic Design on DRM Shuts Down PC Version of Gears of War · · Score: 1

    How does Firefox know you turned the clock back? Why should it even care that you did at all?

  2. Re:Macbook pro 17" on Photog Rob Galbraith Rates MacBook Pro Display "Not Acceptable" · · Score: 1

    Why would the price be "far higher"? LCD screens are typically matte in the first place and it is really just a matter of changing the panel in front.

  3. Re:Macbook pro 17" on Photog Rob Galbraith Rates MacBook Pro Display "Not Acceptable" · · Score: 1

    Just because it wasn't specifically mentioned doesn't mean it was ignored. Anybody that knows anything about manufacturing knows everything you just stated, dumbass.

  4. Re:Macbook pro 17" on Photog Rob Galbraith Rates MacBook Pro Display "Not Acceptable" · · Score: 1

    You lost me. The curreebt price difference probably isn't much different and the added cost of changing the production run seems to already be factored in because they already cost more to buy in the first place..

  5. Re:Macbook pro 17" on Photog Rob Galbraith Rates MacBook Pro Display "Not Acceptable" · · Score: 1

    That $5,000 per 100,000 displays really adds up!

  6. Re:Who frigging knows? on Microsoft Lays Off Entire Flight Sim Team · · Score: 1

    Why can't Flight Simulator run on Windows 7?

  7. Re:Something lost on The Presidential Portrait Goes Digital · · Score: 1

    Isn't the dynamic range of a digital sensor highly comparable to that of slide film?

  8. Re:Really that big deal? on Obama Recommends Delay In Digital TV Switch · · Score: 1

    My Insignia box explained that it gets its time from the station currently tuned and that time often varied as you've seen with your box.

  9. Re:Well on Ballmer Sets Loose Windows 7 Public Beta At CES · · Score: 1

    That's exactly what many people do! They download and run random programs hoping for good results. UAC forces them to stop and possibly think about whether they really want to install the program.

  10. Re:Eh? on Ballmer Sets Loose Windows 7 Public Beta At CES · · Score: 1

    What UAC is designed to do is turn actions like reading an email or visiting a website into an action you made by forcing you to choose between "Cancel" or "Allow" and/or typing an Admin level password when a malware situation is encountered. Now it really is your decision whether or not to install something. I've always been telling people that if they don't like UAC, they better not try Linux because it does basically the same thing.

  11. Re:The thing about these machines is on The Best Gaming PC Money Can Buy · · Score: 1

    I bet my i7 with 12GB RAM might actually be faster than yours. Why? Support for 3 channels. You're going to have a bottleneck between half of your RAM.

  12. Re:Why so serious? on AT&T 3G Upgrades Degrade 2G Signal Strength · · Score: 1

    Once they stop production, everyone's tapes will stop working as a direct result?

  13. Re:Why so serious? on AT&T 3G Upgrades Degrade 2G Signal Strength · · Score: 1

    And unlike EDGE, when my VCR breaks, it breaks on its own and not because the corporation that built it told it to break.

    Your little analogy with analog tv doesn't work. That was announced years ago and TVs don't require contracts as opposed to AT&T quietly messing with things and affecting those who have contracts.

  14. Re:Why so serious? on AT&T 3G Upgrades Degrade 2G Signal Strength · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Edge users are equivalent to VHS users. The technology has moved on, you need to move on or deal with slightly degraded service.

    Except my tapes don't stop working in my VCR just because the VCR company started phasing out VCRs.

  15. Re:No players on the market on Last Major Supplier Calls It Quits For VHS · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There's nothing wrong with ripping DVDs except when they are rentals and you don't delete the rip when you return the disc. It seems to me that would actually be called "theft of services".

  16. Re:Attacking the short poll in the tent on Will People Really Boycott Apple Over DRM? · · Score: 1

    That's sweet! Why didn't anyone tell me sooner?

  17. Re:Simple? on iPhone Tops Windows Mobile Share; MS Releases iPhone App · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure you can, but no one is forcing you to use the "Menu" button.

  18. Re:Upgrading must be for a reason on The Myth of Upgrade Inevitability Is Dead · · Score: 1

    It isn't completely compatible. Inter-sheet references in Excel break in OO. Printing 3-slide handouts is a manual job. Templates in Write are a huge pain and sometimes seem to disappear. Once you stray beyond the defaults, problems pop up left and right.

  19. Re:And the worst timing ever award goes to... on NVIDIA's $10K Tesla GPU-Based Personal Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    There is a big difference between needing to fold proteins and allowing your computer to be told to fold proteins. How many of those 250,000 people know what proteins they are folding and why?

  20. Re:This is an excellent example on How To Make Money With Free Software · · Score: 1

    How dos photoshop constrain me in a meaningful way that gimp doesn't? It sounds to me like the last part of your statement doesn't agree with the first part. First you said it wasn't the software then you said it was the software.

  21. Re:Do UK ISPs advertise using true total price? on In UK, Broadband Limits Confuse Nine In Ten Users · · Score: 1

    I was looking at a time warner ad the other day and noticed some interesting things in the fine print. The "free movies on demand" wasn't actually free and there is a $5/month charge for the cable box on top of the advertised price. How this is legal is completely beyond me.

  22. Re:Actually, having RTFA, I stand corrected on Evolutionary Scientists Test-Drive Spore, Gripe · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You are overgeneralizing. It isn't just a game, it is a game about evolution thus the arguement of evolution vs ID.

  23. Re:Yeah right. on Economic Crisis Will Eliminate Open Source · · Score: 1

    We do have a need to feel needed but not until after our needs to have food and shelter are met.

  24. Re: Why? on Why the Kill Switch Makes Sense For Android · · Score: 1

    Yes, we should take away some control. People are stupid and can't control themselves, much less their equipment. Taking control out of peoples' hands has been shown time and time again to reduce problems.

  25. Re: Why? on Why the Kill Switch Makes Sense For Android · · Score: 1

    These phones belong to their owners and it is the owners who should have control over their own equipment

    You are absolutely right. The problem is people often lose control of their electronics. Spam and malware wouldn't be a problem if people controlled their equipment like they should.