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  1. Dude, how'd we get here? on Online Co-Op For Halo 3 Launch Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Let us know when RoosterTeeth does an intro video for H3.

  2. Re:Trackpoint? on Mouse or Trackball? · · Score: 1

    There are Trackpoint keyboards, but I have also seen separate mouse-sized isometric joysticks. In both cases you don't need to move your hand to move the pointer; this is even more true on a Trackpoint keyboard where you keep your hands on the keyboard while you move the pointer.

  3. Re:$450 gets you a decent laptop on In Search of the Cheap Linux Laptop · · Score: 1

    I'm going to have to fine you for that.
    Takes out grammar ticket book and begins writing a rough draft...

  4. Re:An NT$10 coin on In Search of the Cheap Linux Laptop · · Score: 1

    A half-dollar is about as wide as a laptop is thick. If you need one, for $3.48 postage and handling, I can mail one to you.

  5. Politics vs Development on Can Space Nerds Get Along? · · Score: 1
    Space Politics is a zero-sum game as long as the politics controls the budget.
    Space Development is not a zero-sum game. There are resources to be used which will create wealth and goods. And there's plenty of work to be done by both humans and robots. I hear space is big, really big.

    And humans have to get into space anyway. If we humans stay in our nest at the bottom of this gravity well, it's a zero-result game. Eventually something will stomp on our nest.

  6. Re:I suspect the figures on Microsoft Claims a Billion Windows Installs by End of 2008 · · Score: 1
    "Does that include reinstalls?"

    Of course. That's why they didn't mention it is a billion installations on only a million omputers.

  7. Re:Linus on the Beach on Get Ready For the High-tech Beach · · Score: 1
    Sand and water is what created the WiFi device. It's its natural environment. You just have keep it under control so it doesn't return to the wild.

    Ahh... Sun, silicon, and a beach umbrella with a dark underside to stop reflections off the screen...

  8. Re:It may be fraud on $150 Linux Laptop for the Masses · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Wish it had more details on $150 Linux Laptop for the Masses · · Score: 1
    "Looks like they selected the cheapest parts -- 256 meg DDR SO-DIMM and 40 gig IDE drive, except for the CD/DVD combo drive."

    If they're scammers, they are smart enough to be offering stuff that costs little rather than claiming you get 2560 M RAM and a 400 G disk drive.

  10. Still looking on $150 Linux Laptop for the Masses · · Score: 1
    Looks like you found the plastic they're wrapping their gear in. Good thing they don't have to make their own molds.
    They don't say they manufacture in Sweden. They say they're a Swedish company which spins off companies. Their press releases say their manufacturer in Brazil has been busy for months.

    They claim United Keys is one of their spinoffs, a key-shaped display device. http://www.unitedkeys.com/index.html
    Medison's Intelligentia spinoff claims the iBoard, a keyboard with displays in the keys. http://engvall.org/intelligentia/index.html

    The Medison history also claims a relationship with several companies around the world. Anyone in Silicon Valley want to visit to confirm that? http://www.medison.se/history.htm

  11. Re:Smells fishy... on $150 Linux Laptop for the Masses · · Score: 1

    Did that fellow in Sweden try to go to one of their locations? Are there some /. readers in Sweden? Their history page says "Medison was founded 1996 in Jönköping, Sweden. The company grew fast and soon there were 15 employees in 4 cities in Sweden."

  12. 2checkout.com on $150 Linux Laptop for the Masses · · Score: 1
    Turn on Javascript on the 2checkout.com "BUY NOW" page and you'll be able to click on the credit card images.

    Doesn't 2checkout.com handle credit card sales for a lot of other companies?

  13. Re:Fedora Red Hat on $150 Linux Laptop for the Masses · · Score: 1

    Mentos?

  14. Re:I hope graphene is expensive... on Replacing Copper With Pencil Graphite · · Score: 1

    Now we can look for news about people electrocuting themselves while stealing pencils.