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  1. Re:Android devices before and after the iPhone/iPa on Samsung Halts Galaxy Tablet Promotion In Germany · · Score: 1

    And those "before iPad" tablets were obviously superior, having functionality put before design.

    Of course, that's why they sold so well.

  2. Re:Escorts in Delhi on Google's Real Name Policy, Why You Are the Product · · Score: 1

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    Wog whores? I think not. I've seen what those harpies are like with Indian men, I can't imagine paying for that kind of abuse.

  3. Re:For some reason I am reminded of the Prisoner on Google's Real Name Policy, Why You Are the Product · · Score: 1

    Yeah, except that on the Prisoner, everyone went around with an alias, Number 6.

  4. Re:Failure on 'Cosmo' — a C#-Based Operating System · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's not dead; it's resting.

  5. Re:Mostly Dead. on 'Cosmo' — a C#-Based Operating System · · Score: 4, Funny

    How can you possibly call it dead without a netcraft citation?

  6. Re:He can just rephase it on Do Celebrity Endorsements on Google+ Require Disclosure? · · Score: 1

    I think Victor Kiam has prior art.

  7. Re:Sergey Brin on Do Celebrity Endorsements on Google+ Require Disclosure? · · Score: 1

    We're talking slashdot celebrieties.

    So, like a Physics Club formal, it's sad and demented, but sorta social?

  8. Re:A cheapo tablet is going to be a compromise on Lenovo To Offer $200 Budget Tablet · · Score: 1

    I couldn't tell you. What I can tell you is that it is not insignificant. If it were, there would be some healthy competition in the marketplace.

  9. Re:A cheapo tablet is going to be a compromise on Lenovo To Offer $200 Budget Tablet · · Score: 1

    Every one of those insignificant costs adds up. Fifty cents here, a dollar there, and pretty soon you are talking about real money.

    The question of hardware and software combined is relevant, as the discussion was not limited to production costs. There is rather a jumble of topics, all related: production costs, price consumers will pay, profit margins.

  10. Re:A cheapo tablet is going to be a compromise on Lenovo To Offer $200 Budget Tablet · · Score: 1

    You cannot separate out hardware and software costs. I do not buy them separately (nor do most other consumers). I buy a system. Many people who complain about the iPad and other Apple products do so on the basis of some form of cost-plus accounting, not factoring the cost of assembly, design, operating system, etc, etc. These things cost not insignificant amounts of money. Even for Android tablets, there will necessarily be some amount spent to customize the free OS to work with a particular device.

  11. Re:Wrong! None. on Court Renders $3 Judgment Against Spamhaus · · Score: 1

    You know, I really wasn't expecting a Spanish Inquistion over this.

  12. Re:I'm gonna summarize this one for everyone on Weak Typing — the Lost Art of the Keyboard · · Score: 1

    a vagrant on amphetamines.

    Oh, cool, I was wondering where Cmdr. Taco was these days.

  13. Re:Hague Treaty on Akamai Employee Tried To Sell Secrets To Israel · · Score: 1

    You have obviously done little reading on the topic. Given that he has a penis, odds are entirely random whether or not the child was legally living abroad.

  14. Re:I don't get what the deal is here. on Android Tricorder Killed By CBS · · Score: 1

    So, where does CBS get the balls to get this app taken down?

    Joe Pesci works for CBS legal department.

    That's funny.

  15. Re:wasn't aware of that term on Lenovo Claims Samsung Galaxy Tab Sold Just 20,000 · · Score: 1

    Anyone with any sense could have foreseen how weak BlueRay demand would be. This wasn't a massive paradigm shift like VHS->DVD. In the eyes of consumers, BR is a minor bump up from DVD. At the time, I would argue it was less than that given the minuscule inroads HDTV had made into living rooms. Only fanboys and AV nerds cared.

  16. Hague Treaty on Akamai Employee Tried To Sell Secrets To Israel · · Score: 1

    And once again, the Hague Treaty on abduction is ignored. Is it because the absconding parent is the mother? Or is it to avoid ruffling the feathers of Israel? Do I fucking care which it is?

    Men, please, take the red pill.

  17. Re:No I don't on A Look Back At the Career of Steve Jobs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, this is the web we are talking about, invented by Tim Berners-Lee on a NeXT machine...

  18. Re:An Eigenvalue Too Far on Only Idiots Don't Give Back To Free Software · · Score: 1

    More like adding an extra turd to an outhouse.

  19. Re:Maybe they should just make them on One Final Manufacturing Run of Touchpads · · Score: 1

    This is all a plan.. Like the Hudsucker Proxy!

    So the Touchpad is for, you know, kids?

  20. Re:Maybe they should just make them on One Final Manufacturing Run of Touchpads · · Score: 1

    This is why Apple hyped the hell out of the first iPhones and iPads and why Microsoft licensed DOS (and, later, Windows) to anyone who wanted it for a relatively low price.

    No, it's not. The first iPhones were supposed to use only webapps. Only after much nerdrage and gnashing of teeth did they relent and open up the API, create the appstore, etc.

    Now, your analysis of the iPad may be correct. By then apps were expected.

  21. Re:Possessing stolen goods == crime on Publicly Shaming Laptop Thieves Catches Bystanders in the Crossfire · · Score: 1

    Here's an analogy: Drinking is legal. Driving is legal. Doing both simultaneously is not, because it's explicitly legislated against; the which fact does not invalidate the legality of drinking or driving generally.

    You should have gone George Carlin with your analogy: "Selling is legal. Fucking is legal..."

  22. Re:Accepting applications? on Ex-Board Member Says HP Is Committing 'Corporate Suicide' · · Score: 1

    Not really. They print those options on their inkjet printers.

    Given the price of HP refills, that might be more expensive that the Apple stock.

  23. Re:Oooo.. check in deals! Binspam! on Facebook Kills Places, Deals Products · · Score: 1

    What, is Slashdot gonna print every press release from these people on the front page? I mean really, who gives a fuck about facebook, except the damn teeny boppers? What can't you people do a writeup on Redhat 5.2 running on a Mac Performa, or something?

    You misspelled Yellow Dog. And you better have an FPU (pisses me off, I only had a Mac with a 68LC040)

  24. Re:Unbelievable on Apple's A6 Details and Timeline Emerge · · Score: 1

    A single wafer is far thinner than any practical phone thickness, and a few of them stacked is still super-thin.

    Just try telling that to Mr. Creosote.

  25. Re:Missed one... on Mass. Court Says Constitution Protects Filming On-Duty Police · · Score: 1

    Which is all bullshit. Go see what Larry Flynn has to say about the 1st amendment. Basically "if it protects my filth it certainly protects regular folks."