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  1. Re:For some it's not just a game console. on Sony's Favorite Gadget Is Kinect · · Score: 1

    Interesting, as I am in the targeted demographic. I'm below 45 years of age. (Step-Grandkids) As far as how many games I own for the console, at the moment I own all but 3. I am not really into FPS games on console (PC still wins that market in my eyes), yet I will be getting Titanfall on it.

  2. For some it's not just a game console. on Sony's Favorite Gadget Is Kinect · · Score: 2

    I use the Kinect rather heavily. As I use my XBox One as a media center more than a game system, the Kinect plays a large role in my usage. I like not needing to find a remote control to do anything with my setup. Also, with Skype I am able to see my grand children, as they have an XBox One as well. The ease of use is such that even my wife, who is not a geek, is able to utilize the system. Now, could they have sold it as an add-on, or as a bundle option. Yup.

  3. Get a room already... on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 1

    I actually spent the time to read most of the thread. Clicked through for some time reading the back and forth.. I have come to a simple conclusion.. Linus and Sarah would be amazing in bed together. Because the crazy is just amazing.

  4. Que bad 80s synth pop on World's Newest, Most Powerful Laser Comes Online · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    He's Howard The Duck!

  5. Re:Cool, but useless IRL on Trolltech Woos Developers with 'Open' Linux Phone · · Score: 1

    Do what I do with T-Mobile.

    TMobile - What kind of phone do you have?
    Me - I-Mate SP3
    TMobile - We don't support that phone.
    Me - oh, sorry. It's a TMobile SDA.
    TMobile - You just said it was a...
    Me - I know I know. Close enough, anyways.

    If the SIM card works in the phone, they can't stop you from using it.

  6. Re:I want this! on Test Drive Your Dream Job · · Score: 1

    Actually, bush pilots (if you truely mean the alaskan bush pilot and not some sexual referance) make alot of money doing what they do.

  7. Re:For the uninitiated on Serenity Opens Today · · Score: 1

    I thought firefly was some From Beyond aliens flick with a x-files bend?

    I don't own a TV, so no real clue.

  8. Only a block away... on PAX05 Writeup · · Score: 1

    from where I live.. and I missed my chance too run the Taco over..

  9. Microsoft's right to sue. on MS Gets $7 Million From Spammer · · Score: 1
    It is really fairly simple.

    Microsoft runs at least three different email systems.

    1. Corp. Email

    2. Hotmail

    3. MSN

    So just because they create Windows, wich is known for spam zombies, you will see from a service provider view point, they are just as harmed by this as any other Email Service.

    I for one, and glad that this happened, for it could open doors for other ISPs and Email Services to stand up and sue spammers.

    Yes, yes, it is the end user who has to suffer. Those spams use resources and cost your ISP money also. If the ISPs start cracking down on this, then it may actually end with a solution that will at least let us all actually use our email.

    Just my two cents.

  10. Re:nice, wish I could afford it on Fanless Media Center Box · · Score: 1

    From my own knowledge of running a recording studio, in my home, build sound rooms, that the computer is not in. They also have panels that you can use for this, and in the long run, it is cheaper then that hush system.

  11. Re:Bark Translater on Japanese Cell Phones Offer a Glimpse of the Future · · Score: 1
    I just relized how pathic this troll has made me become. Some one who has the power, please delete my responses to him. I withdraw, let him win in his little mind.

    sin

  12. Re:Bark Translater on Japanese Cell Phones Offer a Glimpse of the Future · · Score: 1
    What I don't understand, is how you feel the need to insult people when you can't even do it with out posting anonymously.

    Guess that's what happens online with alot of people, they lose their balls and have to hide.

    By the way, come to Seattle, meet my current girlfriend, so she can kick your ass.

    Good day.

    sin

  13. Re:Bark Translater on Japanese Cell Phones Offer a Glimpse of the Future · · Score: 1
    Ohh sorry, did my comment about evening having a girlfriend insult the lack of ability you have in finding one?

    Bark a little louder, I don't think my phone caught that fully.

    Sin

    Yes, I know, don't feed the troll

  14. Bark Translater on Japanese Cell Phones Offer a Glimpse of the Future · · Score: 2, Funny
    Wait a momemnt. Does this mean I can finally understand what the heck my ex was saying?!

    (( Yes, this was a poor attempt at humour. ))

    Sin

  15. Re:Im sure some folks here can do this one on U of Chicago Scavenger Hunt List - 2004 · · Score: 1
    I know they exsisted.. I still have one. I use it as my TV, since it is after all just a componant video input like a, well.. TV.

    sin

  16. Re:Im sure some folks here can do this one on U of Chicago Scavenger Hunt List - 2004 · · Score: 1
    Commodore 64s used your TV set for a monitor. But what your thinking can be done on a normal computer even today.

    Just set the refresh rate so high that your monitor will pop. But, this is still not the *computer*.

    Thanks to the new BIOS's we have though, I don't think it would be to hard to write something that can control fan speed. Or how about something that will park the heads on the platter of the hard drive, yet still keep it spinning. Or turn on the write portion of a CD Burner with out spinning the disc.

    Idea's for virii I have had in the past, but refuse to write.

    sin

  17. Re:Yes, yes, yes... on Perfect Digital Skin · · Score: 1
    Do you mean Leather Goddesses of Frobose??

    I think I spelt that wrong, but it should be close enough for you to find it if you are truely that desperate.

    sin

  18. Re:Such a discovery! on NYT Discovers Internet's Wild Side: IRC · · Score: 5, Informative
    It is actually older then 12 years. 1989 was when Eris Free Network was started in hopes of getting rid of eris.edu.

    I think I just have proven that I am either old, or a geek. Probably both.

    sin

  19. Re:And this is new how? on Microsoft Assembles Patent Arsenal for Longhorn · · Score: 1

    Really. Remember Rockefeller? Even after conviction, the company was filing patents. Again, nothing new.

  20. And this is new how? on Microsoft Assembles Patent Arsenal for Longhorn · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This has been a tactic of many companies over the years, the only thing different about this is the fact that some of the patents that MS is getting approved have prior art conflicts.

    sin

  21. Re:fetch from 0xfffffff0? on In-Depth Look At LinuxBIOS · · Score: 1

    From my understanding, with lack of sleep on top of it, 4gb is the theoretical max the current line of consumer motherboards can have.

  22. Re:Want a awsome sound system on Expensive Geek Toys Roundup · · Score: 1

    way over priced even.. Thats what I get for drooling and not paying attention to what I am typeing.
    sin

  23. Want a awsome sound system on Expensive Geek Toys Roundup · · Score: 1
    Thats why over priced?

    http://www.nakamichi.com/

    I have used Nakamichi devices before, and they are worth every penny, if you have pennys to toss across the ocean.
    sin

  24. Common practice on Have You Personally Used an Honest Head Hunter? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Thanks to the market being swamped, the head hunters have started to turn against not only the possable employee, but against the company looking for the recruit. I have seen, and been on the recieving end many times of a head hunter saying that I had a job, just to find out they gave it to some one else. Once, I even got a call from the company I was going to be working for, and they asked why *I* turned them down. Don't trust a head hunter, there is a reason they are called that. sin

  25. Re:7 inches long! on Ocean Sponge May Be Best for Fiber Optics · · Score: 1
    How to put this with out being offensive. ;)

    Longer then most?

    Hey, I don't have karma to kill.