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  1. Re:Why? on Starbucks Gets Mobile Payment System · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure why I'm defending Starbucks, but I highly doubt you'd have any trouble ordering a small coffee. Why do you feel like you need to find where it is on the menu before ordering? And I'd assume whatever the clerk mumbled was something like "room for cream?".

    Their size names are pretty stupid, but it is good marketing. The fact that people talk about the difference between tall and venti means they are discussing Starbucks, which is good for business. It has become cool to bash Starbucks and how smug their customers are, but it is just a coffee house that mostly serves milkshakes. A black coffee may be a bit more than other places, but the environment is (usually) pretty nice for reading or talking or whatever. You can't lounge around in a comfy chair with a book at most places. And in my experience locally owned coffee shops, while they have better coffee, always close way too early.

  2. Re:Nokia n900 on Smartphones For Text SSH Use Re-Revisited · · Score: 1

    Not that there is anything wrong with only wanting a mobile to make calls, but it is pretty easy to find the value in having a smart phone. In my pocket I have access to the entire internet. I can research anything at any time. For an inquisitive person (or anyone that likes to argue) it is a great tool and helps you learn. I can hold my phone up to a speaker and learn what a song is. I can listen to music, read a book, play a game, make a shopping list that I probably won't lose or leave at home. At work, my little radio won't pick up NPR at times, so I stream the local station through my phone.

    It is expensive, but it is rather life changing to have access to the internet at any given time. Being able to do that on the same device as my phone is just a plus. My emails come to my phone as well, but I don't have to look at them right away. It is what you make of it.

  3. Re:Obviously.... on MS Confirms Six Different Versions of Windows 7 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But it's not so cut and dry with that. For some time PPC WAS great...then Intel became the better choice for them. Apple moved on with the times. Microsoft just doesn't get what people want, and that is definitely not 6 different versions of Windows.

  4. Re:into a different game... Re:IBM PC on Apple Suit Demands That Psystar Recall OpenMacs · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't think Apple could whether a storm...

    "Weather". I know, I could of left it alone, but I'm sure that its bothering alot of people.

    I know, I could "have" left it alone, but I'm sure that "it's" bothering "a lot" of people. You should have left it alone.

  5. Longer URL on .mobi Websites Now Available to Register · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So, in order to use this TLD, which is designed for mobile devices with generally akward methods of input...you have to type a longer URL than normal. If this is supposed to be useful why not: "website.m". Google has it right with http://m.gmail.com/

  6. Re:RAID 0? on Notebook with Huge 20 Inch Screen Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Then you aren't who Acer is targetting with this monster. I can't even fathom the idea of wanting to own this thing, but I can totally see why they'd stick 2 drives in there with RAID 0. The elite hardcore gamer LAN party-goer would eat it up for the perfomance and bragging rights.

  7. Re:DS Lite & Metroid Prime Hunters on DS Design = Nintendo Profits · · Score: 1

    I can't imagine playing the Metroid game with a stylus, it could be nothing but painful. Have you tried using the little plastic thumb slider thing that is on the wrist strap? I only have the Kirby game and Mario Kart so I haven't really had an oppurtunity to try the thing. It does seem like it would work well for that game though.

  8. WPA Support on DS Web Browser in June · · Score: 1

    This is great, but will we still be forced to use WEP encryption?

  9. Happy little.........more trees! on Bob Ross And The Joy of Painting · · Score: 3, Funny

    As a kid I watched his show and enjoyed it, but did he ever really paint anything other than happy little trees? And maybe a mountain or a lake to compliment them. Isn't he the AC/DC of the painting world?

  10. Re:Video? on New iPods on the Horizon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    well, if you are watching the video from the iPod on a tv are you really worried about battery life? The tv itself has a source of power right? Just plug the iPod into that.

  11. Re:Close boxes in individual tabs - a bad idea on Hyatt Discusses Tabs · · Score: 1

    in phoenix just middle click the tab and it will close. this is much better than an X imo because you dont even have to aim.