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  1. Dell still offers Windows 7 on HP Brings Back Windows 7 'By Popular Demand' As Buyers Shun Windows 8 · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can still buy pre-installed Windows 7 on a Dell (business section).

    If Microsoft are determined to shoot themselves in the foot, by failing to let people have what they want then so be it.

    Philip

  2. In the UK too please! on Apple Bans Online Sales In Japan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh please Applie extend this to the UK too.

    My other half desperately wants a new expensive Macbook and I'd rather spend the money on beer. Do this and it would make it impossible for us to get one as there isn't an Apple store near here.

    Bottoms Up!

    Philip

  3. Re:SCO on The Magic 8-Ball's Take on Tech in 2008 · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, the article writer was just checking his email whilst shaking the 8-ball and it got a bit confused.

  4. Re:USB 3.0? on USB 3 in 2008, 10 Times as Fast · · Score: 1

    Because USB is a cooler buzzword than SATA ;)

    Both Firewire and ESATA (with hot plugging drivers that actually work) completely outclass USB2

  5. Re:Wow! on NASA Purchases $19M Russian Space Toilet · · Score: 3, Funny

    So if you buy this the shit will hit the fan routinely?

  6. Link on Gates to join Simonyi in Space? · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    [ Space ] [ Microsoft ]
    gadgetopia writes "On Russian state television, cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin tells journalists in a live video interview from the ISS that "Charles said that a href="http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/11258/ 1066/">Bill Gates is also preparing to visit space"." Gotta wonder what that insurance premium is going to look like.

    You expect me to copy and paste the link? You expect me to fix your broken post. Sorry I'm too lazy.

  7. Re:50 Best Tech Products of All Time on PC World's 50 Best Tech Products of All Time · · Score: 1

    How about you RTFA.

  8. Re:Now listen here on Linux Makes For Greener Computing · · Score: 1

    You're happy for Big Brotherish council officials to go snooping through your rubbish Mein Fuhrer? You're not worried that someone walking along your street might pop something in your bin which breaches the rules, you would be held accountable for it. Your happy for rotting meat to sit in your bin for two weeks in the sun until it is full of aquirming Maggots?

  9. Re:Relevance? on New York To Ban iPods While Crossing Street? · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't worry. If you hit anyone with your plasticy hairdressers car they'll most likely just bounce off.

  10. Re:At $500,000... How long to pay back the cost? on Solar Power Eliminates Utility Bills in U.S. Home · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You're just jealous cos you couldn't the state and a bunch of companies to stump up $400,000 for your leccy.

    Philip

  11. Re:New cell phones are made for trendloving losers on Old Mobiles — the Bad and the Ugly · · Score: 1

    It's a damned useful feature if you are concerned about how many minutes you have used this month and therefore how many you have remaining. I've just never bothered resetting the counter since I got the phone.

  12. Re:New cell phones are made for trendloving losers on Old Mobiles — the Bad and the Ugly · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I know what you mean, my Nokia 6310 has every feature I want, and none of the features I don't. Sadly its' showing it's age. I can't see any modern phone surviving the years of abuse it has suffered - Its battery life is like new despite over 1000 hours talk time on the clock.

  13. Supprise Supprise on The Wii Disassembled · · Score: 1

    A circuit board and an optical drive. Wop de do.

  14. Re:Kosher food on Radioactive Snails Crawl Up From Beneath · · Score: 1

    After a nuclear war you would be eating any food you could get your hands on. Starvation would be the long term killer after society breaks down. You would probably be initially eating a lot of meat as it wouldbe hard to feed livestock, then anything you could get your hands on.

  15. Coins on Top Ten Geek Wallets · · Score: 1

    Hows about a wallet that can actually hold more than a couple of coins? If you put coins in your pocket they just make holes and fall out.

  16. Auto Flush on Ladies and Gentlemen, the Electronic Toilet · · Score: 1

    The only enhancement I want to toilets is an autoflush for public conviences. How many times have you entered a cubicle in a service station / mall / train station etc. and not been confronted with a jinormous log deposited by a previous tennant. Really it speaks volumes about the general public that they are too lazy / stupid to pull a lever. No wonder they struggle to turn a PC on. Even better would be a system, something like the gunge tank from Noels House Party that deposits the contents of the bowl on their head if they try to leave without doing the right thing. Is it a new sexual fetish? You get turned on by confronting other people with your jobbies?

    Oh and the other thing we can do without are the daft water saving flush / cistern bags that reduce the volume of the water delivered. They don't work and you end up having to flush multiple times. I think the people who design them don't have an arsehole.

  17. I was going to post on The Boot Loader Showdown · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was going to post but computer says LIL-

  18. Kate Bush on Pirates Thwarted by Sonic Weapon · · Score: 1

    I didn't know Kate Bush was ding cruises now. Thought she was busy on her new album.

  19. Re:Kill the storm? on Wilma the Capacitor and Particle Accelerator · · Score: 1

    Even if you could would you really want to. You mess with nature at your peril, who knows what long term effects dissipating storms would have. There are enough nutjobs around claiming that cloud seeding is the cause of some historical floods as it is.

  20. Re:How about "Petrel"? Or "Vin Diesel"? on Ladies and Gentlemen Allow Me to Introduce the Cat Car · · Score: 1

    I know what you mean. "Delivered straight through your letter box" Bye Bye House.

  21. Use a Scanner on Old Floppy Drive Becomes New Turntable · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not as impressive as the LP Ripper using a scanner.

  22. Drug Interactions on Reminding Customers Patented by Amazon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "which also covers warning customers about drug interactions" I just can't wait for the first fatality if anyone implements this. You just know what would happen "But the system usually warns me" followed by "I'm taking you to court" soon after something isn't flagged up or an unusual conflict occurs.

  23. Patch Patch Patch Patch Bake Beans and Patch on Flurry of Security Patches · · Score: 1

    Patch Patch Patch Patch. Lovely Patch! Wonderful Patch!

  24. The only thing to do in a situation like this on Hacking the Motorola v265 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The only thing to do in a situation like this is to use another company to provide your cell phone service. If everyone who cared did, they would soon change their minds. Its all about the bottom line.

  25. Re:But how will the world survive.. on BBC to Cull the Cult TV Repository · · Score: 1

    Kenny Everett, now there was a genius eh! That picture might become my wallpaper for a while...