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  1. Re:Upgrade on Nintendo Announces Wii Successor for 2012 · · Score: 1

    That must have been a trick question.

  2. Re:Whoooops on Driver Sued For Updating Facebook In Fatal Crash · · Score: 1

    Easy. Sequence of events:

    1. Write Facebook update while driving.
    2. Hit Submit.
    3. Hit old guy while looking up from finishing 2.

  3. Re:Just don't need one. on Why Dumbphones Still Dominate, For Now · · Score: 1

    My last two dumb phones have had cameras, and I go a long time between phones.

  4. Re:no they don't on Can NetBooks & Tablets Co-Exist? · · Score: 1

    Oh! Oh! I know this one!

    Marketing.

  5. Re:Enlighten me please on Dual-Core CPU Opens Door To 1080p On Smartphones · · Score: 1

    You're absolutely right, I can't wait to play back last night's drunken escapades on my big screen TV.

  6. Paper polls on Wired Youths In China & Japan Forget Character Forms · · Score: 1

    '...(although there's no indication if that was an online poll or not)...'

    I should hope so, or else the subjects might have had trouble writing down their responses on paper.

  7. Re:Give Me A Break! on Facebook Says It Owns 'Book' · · Score: 1

    What you did there. I see it.

  8. Re:Give Me A Break! on Facebook Says It Owns 'Book' · · Score: 1

    I'm not that terribly old, and I remember being told to go xerox things in primary school.

  9. Re:Make them cheaper, not smaller on Sandisk Debuts World's Smallest SSD Yet · · Score: 1

    Only when you're running Time Machine.

  10. Ant not only that... on Most US Students Think Beethoven Is a Dog · · Score: 1

    ... but Apple and Blackberry turn out to originally be kinds of fruit. Jeez, who'd have thought.

  11. Re:When on How the Internet Is Changing Language · · Score: 1

    The CEO needs to not only change with the times but adapt these changes to his situation.

    So you might hear him say 'All their base are belong to us!' as a motivational sales meeting closer.

  12. Re:Authentic Klingon? on 'u' — the First Authentic Klingon Opera On Earth · · Score: 1

    It's already been said, I don't think many people are going back down and crying.

    Besides, the word 'authentic' has no meaning anymore. I bought some 'authentic' charcoal this morning for the barbecue. I'm glad someone was thoughtful enough to add to the label that it was real and genuine charcoal, and I wasn't buying some crap imitation charcoal. That would have just ruined my barbecue, if I hadn't got real authentic lumps of burnt wood.

  13. Re:They just need to treat it like it's a privileg on Some LA Coffee Shops Are Taking Wi-Fi Off the Menu · · Score: 1

    At least if you leave your seat to refresh your beverage you have a good chance of being able to see your kit from the line. If you're worried about theft you're taking a rather larger risk by going off to evacuate all that coffee from your bladder.

    I've only had my kit disappear once on me, and that was because it was packed up by a friend while I was in the can because he'd arbitrarily decided I'd had enough beer and we were now leaving.

  14. Re:It's down to the cost of one disk? on The Recovery Disc Rip-Off · · Score: 1

    Ahh, because on an emachine an SSD won't affect the cost at all.

    Might as well just give them a thumb drive with the image and say good luck.

  15. Re:More magic? on Apple Launches New Magical Trackpad, 12 Core Macs · · Score: 1

    Should this device be filed under iMagic Trackpad or Magic iTrackpad?

  16. Re:I tend choose Skype side in this one on Fring Calls Skype 'Cowards'; Skype Responds · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ahh, where's a mod point when you need it? +1 funny.

  17. Re:Oh good! The trolls are out in full force! on iOS 4 Releases Today · · Score: 1

    Is the software you're trying to sell only written to work on the Super BBPC 9000, which only Best Buy sells? Then maybe you have an issue. If not, well, not so much.

  18. Re:Misleading title on Microsoft Refuses To Patch Rootkit-Compromised XP Machines · · Score: 1

    What, did BSODing someone's machine somehow suddenly cut all their ties to the net for life? They'll find other machines, admittedly with newer OSes, but they'll still be in the same old habits.

  19. Re:The right thing to do on Microsoft Refuses To Patch Rootkit-Compromised XP Machines · · Score: 1

    Ahhh, you crazy trend-bucker you. You should use Haiku, it has an even smaller market share!

  20. Re:Great work! on OpenTTD 1.0.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I don't think cloning is the word you're looking for. I'm pretty sure I couldn't play TTD with all the crazy cool things that are in it now, back in 1995. (Wooo, Canset + ECS, I can make a day vanish in an instant =D)

  21. Re:Why not do this for desktop OSs? on The 1-Second Linux Boot · · Score: 1

    That still doesn't solve the problem of system changes. Core system program updates, new drivers, whoops, gotta make a new boot image.

    I'm all for hibernation but this restore-from-image booting could only work for people who won't mind constantly making new images.

  22. Re:System tuning... on Best Buy $39.95 "Optimization" At Best a Waste of Money · · Score: 1

    If I'm not mistaken, you can just make Windows use no page file, smoke the page file if it leaves it there, defrag the drive and re-enable paging. It's been a while since I've done that though, so who knows. =)

  23. Re:These statements seem at odds with each other. on Technology Changes To Kill Netbooks? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't understand statement 2. Are we going to have a Twitter gadget and a Facebook gadget?

    These guys didn't fail consumers. Consumers have choice. They would have failed if every laptop being produced was a netbook and every other old laptop instantly turned to ash. If buddy bought a netbook and cries cos it can't play Crysis, well, that's his own fault for not doing basic research.

    This author hails, I think, from the same school of thought as Sony, where they market their Vaio W models (which are kickass little netbooks if you don't mind apparently not being able to install Linux on them) as half-assed computers that should mainly be used while you're slumming around the house watching TV and need spot internet access. What the fuck kind of thinking is that?

  24. Re:12" netbooks? on First Look At Latest Ion-Infused Asus Eee PC · · Score: 2, Funny

    Whoosh.

  25. Re:Never Liked Consoles on Is Console Gaming Dying? · · Score: 1

    Sight first four TICs, BTMUX.

    That's all I ever use F7 for. What button do I press for that on a joypad, prioritised out of the 25 other hotkeys I have set?