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  1. Re:interesting guess... on Xbox 360 Wins Through 2009? · · Score: 1

    It depends how the average consumer looks at the product, with game consoles you go into the shop expecting the console to be in a certain price range as well as the games, if something seems too cheap you start to think "Whats wrong with this? Is it crap?

    my 2.2cents

  2. Re:I know someone who works... on Microsoft Releases IE7 Beta 3 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sometimes when you use a product so much you get used to its quirks and forget that its broken. The first moment he uses IE he should be able to immediatly see problems that over developers have forgotten that are there.

  3. Re:Damn US-centric website on IT Meets the World Cup · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The only way companies in the US would let soccer take off in the US if the rules were changed to allow timeouts every minute to fit a million commericals in.

  4. Re:Bzzzzzzzzzt! on iPod More Popular Than Beer? · · Score: 4, Funny

    As it goes...

    American beer is like sex in a canoe, its fucking close to water.

  5. Yes, but..... on Notebook with Huge 20 Inch Screen Reviewed · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... can it run windows vista?

  6. Re:Spying on Valve Talks Episode One · · Score: 1

    I would assume that its all stated in the EULA, not that anyone has read it.

  7. Re:This is excellent on MS to Launch Paid Security Subscription Service · · Score: 1

    I love this.

    Everytime MS does something some twit on slashdot comes along and says something like "This will help Linux" or some other crap.

    Time to be bitchslapped back to reality. Linux is not ready for the masses just because you can use it.

  8. Re:Just A Phone on Consumers Look For More Utilitarian Cellphones · · Score: 1

    I have a mobile phone which its primary purpurse is to communicate via phone and sms. I also have fm tuner and mp3 player built-in not because I was feature hungry but because it saves pocket space - I don't want to carry another media player such as an ipod around.

    Although my phone also has a camera, I rarely use it except for when I see something interesting but other then that it is useless.

  9. Re:Content on Pirates Promise Improved Version of DaVinci Code · · Score: 1

    A lot of a rippers arent all that concerned with quality, just being first to be released. Even with TV shows they still do rush jobs and release rips with out of sync audio etc and therefore you have to wait for the repack.

  10. Re:in other words on Microsoft Launches First Shared Source Contest · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Other companies such as Google have done the same.

  11. Re:Genuinely interested on ODF Plugins and a Microsoft Promise of Cooperation · · Score: 1

    Prepared to be flooded with "Office is full of bloat" posts.

    But I would say most if not all features in MS office are there because someone, somewhere needs those features on a regular basis. You might not know of any of these people but there are probably people out there who would kiss Bill Gates personally for the inclusion of this feature that makes their task so much easier.

  12. Re:What's in name.... on Developers React To 'Wii' · · Score: 1

    Yes but 360 sounds "cool", as in to do a "360" on your bike etc

    Wii just makes you think: wtf?

  13. Re:Marshmallow Peeps came to rule the world? on The History of Easter Candy · · Score: 1

    No, Fosters is Australian for shit, we give that crap to the tourists.

  14. /. April Fools Jokes on Wikipedia Covers April Fool's Hoaxes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Get worse every year and get taken to far to the point where the site is unuable for a day. Have one good joke and thats it, don't screw up the user experience.

  15. Re:Real Simulation? on Draft Rules for X Prize Lunar Lander Challenge · · Score: 1

    Planes arrive and depart every minute from airports... i bet ya the passengers stay a bit longer longer then a minute at their destination. If you understand what I am getting at.

  16. Re:Is it really worth the hassle? on Microsoft Anti-Spyware Removes Norton Anti-Virus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who ever rolled out a beta product in a business environment deserves be publically flogged, shamed, tarred and feathered. And then they should lose their jobs and never be able to do anything more then service a commodore 64.

  17. What problem? on Microsoft Anti-Spyware Removes Norton Anti-Virus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Probably the best thing any user can have happen. The removal or norton anti-virus.

  18. Re:Apple will lose if not careful on Jobs' Invitation To Microsoft a Trap? · · Score: 1

    Thats my thoughts too, The two biggest things I have in my pockets are my wallet and mobile phone. I don't need a third such as a separate media player.

  19. Re:Myth TV is the way to go for HTPC on The Year of the HTPC · · Score: 1

    MythTV is just to much work to watch TV.

    I want something I install and works. I don't want to install 10 different other bits of software and nor do I want to edit the kernel for my HDTV card. MythTV has a long way to go before it deserves a place on my Hard disk.

  20. Re:Worth the investment? on US Senate Allows NASA To Buy Soyuz Vehicles · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Both countries have old and due to be replaced space crafts. Difference is Russia's crafts have provened to be more realiable and cheaper.

  21. Re:Fun times for all. on Aussie Speed Cameras in Doubt Because of MD5 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If the kids are on the road they deserve to die, espically the ones too lazy to use the crossing area usually made availible in school zones.

    Darwin applies everywhere.

  22. Re:Reality check! on Google Urged to Drop Images · · Score: 1

    Yeah, these people move into an area with a nuclear reactor which is clearly visible to everyone and then they complain the reactor is there. Idiots.

  23. Cures and money. on Possible Breakthroughs in Cancer and AIDS Research · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Cures for a lot of diseases probably already exist but there is no money in curering people, just treating their symptoms. You really think drug companies care about your health?

  24. Re:Why would linux users care? on BBC Launches Linux Powered Weather Format · · Score: 1

    72 degrees, I hope thats not celcius ;) Although it would explain the smell.

  25. -1 Troll. on Windows Nearly Ready For Desktop Use · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is just a sad and failed attempt at parady.