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  1. Re:Obvious reason on Closed Digital Cameras - Does Anyone Care? · · Score: 1

    If they start pissing me off by wanting my phone, yes!

    For getting caught with it: just pretend the call was confidential, you have to be alone in the room to answer it. .mil guys must understand this. :-)

    And yes, if I could have gotten the T610 without that shitty excuse for a camera, I'd gladly have taken it.

  2. Re:Import printers? on HP to Region-code Cartridges · · Score: 1

    Nope, but it knows where you bought it :)

    Which can be virtually everywhere. Or how do you define the "where" when it comes to online shopping, is it my place or the shop's?

    The CD/DVD tray is only supplied in Europe for some reason.

    You're sure that there is nothing in the model name making the distinction (e. g. i3500 and i3500d)?

    OTOH, who would accept such a crippeled product? I'd give it back immediately and think about if I'll sue the seller.

  3. Re:Comsumers lose on HP to Region-code Cartridges · · Score: 1

    The price will be set by supply and demand.

    Where is your time machine, dude? It's been a long, long time since this was true!

  4. Re:Import printers? on HP to Region-code Cartridges · · Score: 1

    if you live in Europe, also has a CD/DVD printer builtin.

    The printer can't know where I live.

  5. Re:Why are they doing it? - What to get instead? on HP to Region-code Cartridges · · Score: 1

    Canon seems to be the least evil one, and they also win very often now when it comes to printing costs.

  6. Re:Movie reference on Xanadu: The Forgotten Hypertext · · Score: 1

    Yes, like she's looking nowadays.

  7. Re:Obvious reason on Closed Digital Cameras - Does Anyone Care? · · Score: 1

    It is a massive pain to have to leave my cell phone at the front desk.

    Then leave it in your pocket.

  8. And then let Roddenberry's dreams rest for good! on 'Star Trek: Enterprise' Cancelled? · · Score: 1

    At least, if they can't do better than ENT, which is by far the worst of all five ST series. The awful US-patriotic opening credits, the many discontinuities, the weak stories and the often lame acting make it really not my cup of tea.

    In the case of acting, I must admit that the bar hangs high with Patrick Stewart as Picard, but you can't excuse extreme mistakes like the "look and feel", which looks like it could be in the time between TOS and TNG, not before TOS.

  9. Re:Good to hear on RunUO Ultima Online Emulator Goes Opensource · · Score: 1

    check out www.phantasya.org ... just to read that it is in a closed alpha state.

    Anyone to recommend one you can play on?

  10. Re:Early adopters on Are Nanotube Monitors In Your Future? · · Score: 1

    don't mind paying a premium for cool stuff, and they don't expect things to run perfectly.

    Nope. Paying a premium price is one more reason that one can expect a well done product.

  11. Re:In Britain, I'll believe it when I see it ... : on Why Microsoft Should Fear Bandwidth · · Score: 1

    Regrettably, these are getting fewer in number.

    OK, that is bad. Here you can get 3072/384 for 40,- and And I always nag about the situation here in Germany, looking to the lucky people in Sweden or Japan. :-)

  12. Re:In Britain, I'll believe it when I see it ... : on Why Microsoft Should Fear Bandwidth · · Score: 1

    If I sign a contract for an Internet connection, this contract is valid for both sides. One side can't change it without consent of the other side. So, if your ISP wants to "unflatten the flatrate", simply switch the ISP.

  13. Re:In Britain, I'll believe it when I see it ... : on Why Microsoft Should Fear Bandwidth · · Score: 1

    The introduction of caps on broadband

    What's the problem? If you don't want it volume-based, then get yourself a flatrate.

  14. Re:Fair and Balanced! on Microsoft Compares Windows And Linux · · Score: 1

    I bet that will be about as fair and balanced as a typical Al-Jazeera broadcast.

    No, it won't be anywhere near Al-Jazeera. Fox is certainly better suited to compare the MS FUD with.

  15. Re:"Linux consultants"? on Microsoft Compares Windows And Linux · · Score: 1

    customers understand the benefits of the Microsoft platform

    Why should one care about the benefits MS has when he buys their crap?

  16. Re:Same old, same old... on Microsoft Compares Windows And Linux · · Score: 1

    but do they provide more value to the customer,

    Maybe like in "the price was higher", but not like in "it does the better job for the same or a lower price".

  17. Re:Perhaps they should have played Wolf3D! on Whippersnappers Bad-Mouth Old Games · · Score: 1

    I don't see why this is funny, it is very insightful! In fact, this is a really very great idea. Sure, there must be games like this somewhere, but who has heard of them? They should be marketed like every other of the violent FPS, so the kids would be eager to have it.

  18. Re:Price qualifies for a big NO on Using The Gyration Media Center Remote With Linux · · Score: 1

    "However, all of the Bluetooth remote controls and remote mice available today are Class 3, and only have about 30 feet range"

    I must admit that this is correct, as the 100 meter solution I had in mind to prove this false is in fact using a kind of repeater, it's not "native".

    OK, but $180 is still expensive just for Class 1.

  19. Re:Price qualifies for a big NO on Using The Gyration Media Center Remote With Linux · · Score: 1

    yes I do have that on a wireless screen

    OK, then it is really useful. But how many others have a wireless screen, too?

    Tell me again that's not worth $175.

    Not if I take the prices for a keyboard and a gyro-mouse and add a sensible extra charge for the BT interface.

  20. Re:Price qualifies for a big NO on Using The Gyration Media Center Remote With Linux · · Score: 1

    This remote has a 100ft, through the walls, range

    As every class I bluetooth device. Nothing special about it.

    That makes it the only way to work on a PC in the other room as far as I know.

    If you like to "work" on a PC without being able to look on the screen, I won't object. But I like to see what I'm doing. :-) So, unless you also have a cordless display, the "through walls" aspect is pretty useless.

    OTOH, all those BT cordless keyboard and mouse sets I have seen so far are horribly overpriced, just replacing the cord with a BT device should not push the price by more than 10,-!

  21. Price qualifies for a big NO on Using The Gyration Media Center Remote With Linux · · Score: 4, Interesting

    $ 180.- is very overpriced for a cordless keyboard and mouse, even with this fancy mouse-in-the-air.

  22. Re:MOD PARENT UP, NOT DOWN! on Operation Fastlink Nets 1000s in Pirate Sting · · Score: 1

    LOL, modding me flamebait for this. The truth hurts, isn't it? :-)

  23. Re:yeah the American people on Operation Fastlink Nets 1000s in Pirate Sting · · Score: 1

    This is the country that is supposed to be the world leader in freedom and democracy?

    No, this is the country that once was the world leader in freedom and democracy. Nowadays they are only leading in pollution, aggression and plutocracy.

  24. Re:Amen to that! on Operation Fastlink Nets 1000s in Pirate Sting · · Score: 1

    These idiots are stealing other peoples/companies stuff

    You did not even have to RTFA to know that it is about copyright infringement, not theft! Maybe you are the idiot?

  25. MOD PARENT UP, NOT DOWN! on Operation Fastlink Nets 1000s in Pirate Sting · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why on earth is the parent modded "flamebait"? Just look at all the 9/11 lies of the GWB regime!