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  1. Re:Big questions on Samsung Launches SSD 830 Drive · · Score: 1
    Are video games "applications" or "media"?

    No. Next question please.

  2. Re:What will happen when they die? on Samsung Launches SSD 830 Drive · · Score: 1

    Unlike HDDs which, in my experience, generally go strait to hell! (I know this because: there is often an earsplitting scream of pain as they go!)

  3. Re:MySQL is SO much easier to maintain on Newb-Friendly Linux Flavor For LAMP Server? · · Score: 1
    If you think MySql is easier and more consistant than pgsql, it may be evidence of drinking or poetry skills, but not of actual esperience of administering pgsql.

    Maybe MySql "just works", but pgsql "works properly"

  4. Re:Sad on SMK Toughens Up Those Tiny Micro-USB Connections · · Score: 1
    embossed logo on the "up" side

    If that is true, its too damn small for us over 50's to see or feel. Why can't they make the plastic reflect the shame of the metal?

  5. Re:Old ideas live again on "Subconscious Mode" Could Boost Phone Battery Life · · Score: 3

    I am pretty sure I worked for AT&T on digital pagers that did this well before 1990. We used a 4-bit micro and a modem that was mostly software. The entire protocol was designed to allow the pagers to "sniff" in time slots based on the pager address. I went on to work on "selective call radios" (cellphones) for Motorola which did the same thing in about 1988.

  6. Re:Market fragmentation on The (Big) Problem With RIM · · Score: 1

    Can you thnik of another reason my people would use it?

  7. Re:Market fragmentation on The (Big) Problem With RIM · · Score: 2

    And most of the hardware schematics were readily available.

  8. Re:Market fragmentation on The (Big) Problem With RIM · · Score: 1
    1983 was way different - then IBM _was_ computing. We all knew that whatever IBM came up with, it was the winner, no matter how botched (and most of us cried when we saw the interrupt controler circuit). Those were the days when "no one got fired for specifying IBM"!

    We are approaching a "no one gets fired for buying Apple" culture, but will not get there. I cant say for sure, no one will get fired for buying a Windows 8 tablet, but they may well get clubbed to death for suggesting it to our management team, because they had WinMobile 5, 5.5 and 6, and the cursing has not stopped!

    Sure they moan about Android, but they moan about everything.

    Here in the UK, BB has the teenage girl market totally sewn up - if you dont have BBM, the other girls wont speak to you! BB need to bring out a "Hello Kitty" model, a "Barbie" model, and a "My Little Pony" model (autographed by Justin Bleiber) and forget the business market.

  9. Re:i must be missing something on Maine School District Gives iPad To Every Kindergartner · · Score: 1

    you forgot dope and hos!

  10. Re:Washoe is amazing on Wild Parrots Learning To Talk From Escaped Pet Birds · · Score: 1

    SchrÃdinger, is that you?

  11. Re:I'm not a parrot... I'm a unicorn on Wild Parrots Learning To Talk From Escaped Pet Birds · · Score: 0
    similar to most Republicans I've met

    Republicans pass the Turing test? Evidence please!

  12. Re:They should forget about money on Hotfile Sues Warner Bros Over Abuse of Takedown Tool · · Score: 1

    I fully expect them to allow Bugs Bunny to serve the sentence on their behalf!

  13. Re:under penalty of perjury on Hotfile Sues Warner Bros Over Abuse of Takedown Tool · · Score: 1

    I fully expect Warner Brothers to plead "not guilty by reason of corporate insanity" - they have strong supporting evidence!

  14. Re:Battery vrs capacitor on Polymer Gel Shows Promise For Smaller, Cheaper Batteries · · Score: 1
    it might as well be promising to produce gold out of a turd

    I think the bankers have a monopoly of that technology (or maybe it is producing turds from gold?)

  15. Re:What's cool about a run of the mill Stella Arto on Boost Your Wi-Fi Signal Using Only a Beer Can · · Score: 2

    I thnk you might be confusing teh American Budweiser with the stuff that actually comes from the river Budweis in the Czech Replublic. The American stuff is in the same league with Carling.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budweiser_trademark_dispute

  16. Re:do computers identify people? on IP Addresses Not Enough To ID Users · · Score: 1

    It must have been my neighbour's cat that downloaded all those movies! (But the dog ate the evidence) W00t!

  17. PDP11 on Heathkit DIY Kits Are Coming Back · · Score: 1

    I always wanted to make the PDP11 kit, but could not afford it! Maybe I can now!

  18. Re:It's for signatures on Why the Fax Machine Refuses To Die · · Score: 1
    Then write your signature once and scan it. You can then paste it into the word documents before you print them ready to fax!

    ;-*

  19. Re:It's for signatures on Why the Fax Machine Refuses To Die · · Score: 1

    Mod parent +9 captain sensible!

  20. Re:It's convenience and security. on Why the Fax Machine Refuses To Die · · Score: 1

    And you would buy a Lexmark product? Have you no shame?

  21. Re:what is all the fuss about on Porn-Industry Outsiders Fear 'Shakedown' In .XXX TLD · · Score: 1
    neither I nor nobody I know know anybody who ever actually watched pr0n.

    Are you sure you actually know anybody?

  22. Re:His is this any different from other TLDs? on Porn-Industry Outsiders Fear 'Shakedown' In .XXX TLD · · Score: 2

    I dont know about .felon, but just imagine the fun of trying to sell .scam to a Nigerian prince or two! (and registering .scum domains for a few banks as well)

  23. Re:Compromised on Lenovo To Offer $200 Budget Tablet · · Score: 1
    Except it's a 7 inch tablet

    Did you expect it to be A1 size at that price?

    http://www.papersizes.org/a-paper-sizes.htm

  24. Re:welcome to 1988 on Windows 8 Desktop 'Just Another App'? · · Score: 1

    Ubuntu+wine?

  25. Re:Choose GUI on Windows 8 Desktop 'Just Another App'? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you should use unix!