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  1. Re:And people say the U.S. isn't socialist. on UK ISPs To Make Voluntary Net-Neutrality Commitment · · Score: 1

    The UK is stereotypically socialist? In which universe?

  2. Re:Consoles need to invest more on hardware. on How the PC Is Making Consoles Look Out of Date · · Score: 1

    I sit corrected. It's ridiculously hard to find a monitor above 1920x1080 at a sane price.

  3. Re:Consoles need to invest more on hardware. on How the PC Is Making Consoles Look Out of Date · · Score: 1

    CRT monitors had much higher resolutions.

    But the reinforced desk to hold such a monster would be expensive too.

    Toshiba has a 52" at 3840x2160. I can't remember if there were any CRTs at that resolution and a quick Google search doesn't turn anything up.

  4. Re:Opportunities on Taiwanese OEMs Consider ARM Products For Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    I did however I couldn't see the relevance of them since the quotes would normally imply an exaggeration whereas your following sentences sort of contradicted that impression. But I sit corrected in any case.

  5. Re:ARM Windows on Taiwanese OEMs Consider ARM Products For Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    So there was no need for a consumer to get 64-bit Office because 32-bit Office would work fine in 64-bit Windows.

    No version of Office before 2010 was 64 bit was my point *sigh*

  6. Yarrrr on Turkey Bans Google's Blogger Over Soccer Piracy · · Score: 0

    It be haaard to be playin' ye olde soccerrrrrrr on account o' me wooden leg an' eyepatch an' the goalie be keepin' bustin' the ball wi' 'is hook me hearties!

  7. Re:ARM Windows on Taiwanese OEMs Consider ARM Products For Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    The lack of a 64 bit version of Office was probably an issue too. Although Office 2010 is now 64 bit none of the previous ones were.

  8. Re:Opportunities on Taiwanese OEMs Consider ARM Products For Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Who is "everyone"? Not me or most of the people I know.

  9. Re:Here's an idea.... on Canadian Songwriters Propose $10/mo Internet Fee · · Score: 1

    You mean like this?

  10. Brrrrrr on Canadian Songwriters Propose $10/mo Internet Fee · · Score: 1

    "Damn it's cold today" - Satan

  11. Re:SOCAN can go fuck itself. on Canadian Songwriters Propose $10/mo Internet Fee · · Score: 1

    I don't know if this is the same in Canada but in the UK shops that sell musical instruments have to pay a levy to the PRS because someone, while testing their potential purchase, might play a copyrighted song with it which to them is a public performance. What a bunch of utter wankers.

  12. Re:Project Gutenberg with DRM on eBook Lending Library Launched · · Score: 1

    The number of decent authors is a very scarce resource. Having to work for nothing would make them scarcer.

  13. Re:Sun's identity platform on Oracle's Open Source Identity Reborn At ForgeRock · · Score: 1

    You were doing so well and then you had to type "take it to the next level" :-(

  14. Re:It was OK on How Watchmen Killed 'R'-rated Fantasy Movies · · Score: 1

    The original ending would've been much harder to film and even harder to explain to anyone who hadn't read the book.

  15. Re:Nokia may be hosed on After MS-Nokia Pact, Many Nokia Workers Walk Out In Protest · · Score: 1

    Yes yes it's always the other guy's fault. Microsoft have been convicted in the two biggest markets in the world of all sorts of market abuse. Now either all the judiciary are stupid (which I know you're going to argue) or else they're guilty as charged (which is obvious to anyone with even a casual acquaintance with Microsoft's long and dodgy history).

  16. Re:this is commonly debated on Leaked Cables Reveal US Thinks Saudi Oil Reserves May Be Overstated · · Score: 1

    Sticking your neck out in Saudi Arabia is a pretty bad idea. What lovely allies we have.

  17. Re:What's MS up to? on Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 9 RC · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a bit of overkill needing SQL Server, ASP.NET and IIS on a client machine. What applications are these?

  18. Re:1st Amendment on Sarah Palin Seeks To Trademark Her Name · · Score: 4, Informative

    That'll be the Fox News that argued successfully that it had the constitutional right to lie to its viewers.

  19. Re:I bought my PS3 dammit! on New PS3 Firmware Contains Backdoor · · Score: 1

    Errr you do realise that games also insist on a specific firmware version as well so unless you never want to play any new games ever again on your expensive console you don't have a lot of choice about upgrading.

  20. Re:What I would like to know... on PlentyofFish Hacked, Founder Emails Hacker's Mom · · Score: 1

    Emailing your users their passwords in plain text suggests that someone needs to learn some basic things about security, since he doesn't seem to me to be taking reasonable steps to comply with data protection laws.

  21. Re:What about government hindering innovation? on Stem Cell Research Running Into IP Brick Walls · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Yawn. Another post about how the market solves everything, despite having zero evidence that this is the case.

  22. Re:What will never work, at least for me: on 3D Cinema Doesn't Work and Never Will · · Score: 1

    That was happening long before 3D came to the fore.

  23. Re:News flash on America Losing Its Edge In Innovation · · Score: 1

    Which of those two optjions doesn't have that.

  24. Re:We are the super-wealthy on IRS Nails CPA For Copying Steve Jobs, Google Execs · · Score: 1

    You don't say. $2.50 a day is less of fuck all than it would be in the developed world but it's still fuck all.

  25. Re:Ha ha! on Biotech Company Making Fossil Fuels With a 'Library' of Bacteria · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Be smug when Middle Eastern oil is irrelevant to world prosperity, not now when the technology could well be snake oil.