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  1. Re:Lets talk legality on Court Bars Apple From Making Industry-Wide E-book Deals · · Score: 1

    Simple selling below cost is NOT illegal, if you see cheap prices in the store, a lot of times they will below wholesale prices too. I remember buying a printer, at a Wholesale club, I saw the price, and emailed my nephew who sells computers, he said to buy the one from the store, since it was around 10% below the wholesale cost, and my nephew company get really good prices, since they sell a lot stuff. It's a way for the retailer to get into the Store, so they can sell higher margin items at the same time. I believe is called it a "doorbuster" or something like that, it been a few years.

  2. Re:Wrong pond on 'Space Vikings' Spark (Unfounded) NASA Waste Inquiry · · Score: 1

    Republicans only know how to do witch hunts or they ignore it when they have the power of the white house behind them. Some of the biggest spenders/wasters are Republicans, if you check the facts.

  3. Re:Most confusing headline ever on 'Space Vikings' Spark (Unfounded) NASA Waste Inquiry · · Score: 1

    Most headlines not matter where it is, are very rarely complete sentences. It would be like bitch about a title to a book because it is not a complete sentence.

  4. Re:Most confusing headline ever on 'Space Vikings' Spark (Unfounded) NASA Waste Inquiry · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I know what you mean, I guessed it was a Republican who was complaining about waste. The only time Republicans complain about waste is when a Democrat has the Office of President, otherwise they are the largest wasters if money around.

  5. Re:Already happening on Door-To-Door Mail Delivery To End Under New Plan · · Score: 1

    My house was built in 1966, and we have Never had the mail delivered to the house, it always be curbside delivery.

  6. Re:This kid's a hero of the Free World. on FBI Paid Informant Inside WikiLeaks · · Score: 2

    That BraveS not Brave, you know a S make all the difference.

  7. Re:Cheap on FBI Paid Informant Inside WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    The next payment of twinkies is next month?

  8. Re:Prior art on Apple Files Patent For New Proprietary Port · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So patents given to company who move around wires at the end now?

  9. Re:at an OPTIMISITC writing speed of 1GB/sec on New Technique For Optical Storage Claims 1 Petabyte On a Single DVD · · Score: 1

    I know what you mean, if the media is cheap. I would buy one. My first floppy drive on my C64, disks cost me 2 bucks each, it was 2 buck when I got a 3.5 inch drive, it was 2 bucks a blank when I got my CD burner the first time, it was just under 2 bux a disk when I got my DVD burner and I will wait and see what the price for blanks when they sell this drive, if they ever do that is.

  10. Re:Wait, there were royalties? on Apogee Suing Gearbox Over Unpaid Royalties For Duke Nukem Forever · · Score: 3, Funny

    I got mine for FREE and it was a rip off.

  11. quote on UK Police Launch Campaign To Shut Down Torrent Sites · · Score: 2

    The more Hollywood tightens their grip the more torrents sites will slip through their fingers.

  12. Re:The textbook market is just as bad on DRM: How Book Publishers Failed To Learn From the Music Industry · · Score: 1

    I don't know about kickbacks, but I had teachers in the past that wrote the book that they would use in class. I know one teacher who got very mad when the class use a pirated version of the program need for a class, I wasn't taking the class but I know so one who was taking the class.

  13. Re:Gutenberg wasn't first either on For Jane's, Gustav Weißkopf's 1901 Liftoff Displaces Wright Bros. · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When the Wright Flyer was shown in Paris, they took off towards a line of trees, when they changed course in mid-flight, the French had to admit they had won the race. Getting a fix wing aircraft off the ground wasn't that hard, getting it to turn was.

  14. Re:Gutenberg wasn't first either on For Jane's, Gustav Weißkopf's 1901 Liftoff Displaces Wright Bros. · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Wright Bros could bank and turn in there aircraft, there had been fixed wing aircraft before them but there was no way of turning it. That's is the difference getting off the ground and controlling once you were airborne. Unless one of the others can prove you could do more that go up and down in a straight line, I have to say Wright Brothers invented the airplane. Wing warping gave it to the Wright Brothers more than anything else.

  15. Re:Slow? on 30 Years of the Apple Lisa and the Apple IIe · · Score: 1

    The 1541 (C64 disk drive) was backwards compatibly with the 1540. If they had dumped backward compatibly it would have been almost as fast as the 1571. Also the programming on I/O for the drive and C64 wasn't that great. Compare JiffyDos (ROM replacement) on the C64/1541 to see what the drive could really do. I remember load time of one program was 4 minute on a stock 1541, with Jiffy Dos it was around 20 or less.

  16. Re:Looks like the AG actually read the law on Texas Attorney General Warns International Election Observers · · Score: 1

    If I get lied to, at least I want a job. When Democrats are presidents, the economy makes twice the number of jobs than a Republican as president.

  17. Re:Here's an idea on Ask Slashdot: Teaching Typing With Limited Electricity, Computers? · · Score: 1

    How old you? QWERTY keyboards were invented in 1870s.

  18. Re:It will certainly succeed on Nintendo WiiU Price and Release Date Announced · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Who ever leads in the console market gets all the shovelware, it been the same since the Atari 2600.

  19. Re:flamebait? on Why Juries Have No Place In the Patent System · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's easy when the jury doesn't follow the Judge's instructions.

  20. Re:Ah, the good old days... on New eBay EULA Prohibits Class Action Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    The last class action suit I was involved in, I got a whole $5 check out of it, I can't even buy a pizza with that amount.

  21. Re:Consider this. on Jury In Apple v. Samsung Case May Have to Agree on 700 Points · · Score: 1

    It $8 a day for the county, as of 11 months ago, when I was call for jury duty. $8 will cover parking and lunch. Both times I have called for jury duty, I didn't get the chance to serve on a jury, just watch the judge question the people that may have serve on the jury. So I had to be there only one day.

  22. Re:Other examples on Is Windows 8 Microsoft's Riskiest Bet? · · Score: 1

    You have a smart Uncle, after New Coke and they went back to the old formula, I tasted the difference right away, and I used to drink about 12-18 bottles (16oz glass bottles) a week, after the switch, I started to drink other brands or cherry coke, since I didn't like the taste anymore. If 'Mexican Coca-Cola' was about a dollar a bottle, I would go back to drinking that, a nice glass bottle and cane sugar instead of HFCS. It tastes like it should, there are other premium colas that use cane sugar that are just as good, but those even cost more per ounce.

  23. Re:Just buy new hardware! (NOT) on OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) Won't Support Some 64-bit Macs With Older GPUs · · Score: 1

    6 years old? How often do you use it, once a month? The oldest one that my friends have is 3 years old.

  24. Stone? on Holy iPad Slayer! Company Releases World's First Christian Tablet · · Score: 1

    Unless it come in Stone, then it not worth it.

  25. Re:Post PC on Preparing For Life After the PC · · Score: 1

    I know people who have paperless offices, but most of the people I know produce more paper than they did 10 years ago. It really depends on what your office does and needs.