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  1. Re:In other words... on Microsoft: No Tablets Until It's Distinctive · · Score: 1

    Only if the latest update did not brick your phone. Congratulations if it is working for you and but the other windows phone 7 owner must have been the one complaining about that issue then. Soon you might have some apps to use it in.

  2. Re:In other words... on Microsoft: No Tablets Until It's Distinctive · · Score: 2

    So other than nationalism got anything to offer?
    Cross development is nothing new.

    "online-capabilities in an offline world"
    What does that nonsense even mean? Online PC gaming was quite popular when the xbox came out. The PS2 had online games as well.

  3. Re:In other words... on Microsoft: No Tablets Until It's Distinctive · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Different size controllers?
    Those things were unusable for all but sasquatch. I would not call killing off online play for Halo2 robust and stable. I and many others still play the original counterstrike online for a timeline comparison. DLC has existed in computer gaming for a lot longer than the xbox existsed same with online market places and online play. Microsoft copied from the pc gaming market and brought that to consoles.

  4. Re:Derp on IPv6 Traffic Remains Minuscule · · Score: 1

    Fantastically expensive?
    I get 25/25 for $43 after taxes and fees. That is less than I was paying TWC for 15/5, and I actually get 25/25. With the cable company I got about 10/1.

  5. Re:Yep... on Apple vs. Microsoft, By the Numbers · · Score: 1

    Good.

  6. Re:Wow, way to move the goalposts... on Why Has Blu-ray Failed To Catch Hold? · · Score: 1

    Optical discs I totally agree with, magnetic not so much. SSDs have a very high cost per GB and it is not going to reach magnetic spinning disk levels this decade.

  7. Re:Kinect. on Apple vs. Microsoft, By the Numbers · · Score: 1

    They have been profitable on the quarter and year level, not on the project as a whole.

  8. Re:waste of money on Michigan Police Could Search Cell Phones During Traffic Stops · · Score: 1

    In their what?
    What part of the police officer exactly are you reaching into and does it get you out of tickets?

  9. Re:Kinect. on Apple vs. Microsoft, By the Numbers · · Score: 1

    It sure did, but did it pay for the debt the xbox project has?
    That debt goes back all the way to the first one.

  10. Re:Yep... on Apple vs. Microsoft, By the Numbers · · Score: 1

    Revenue is pointless to look at, MS charges way more and Centos is on many servers. Units is more interesting, and I now am wondering where they get their units figures. Not saying anything is wrong with them, just 3 times the units does not match what I see on a day to day basis in server rooms. Maybe other parts of the earth are not like my little area.

  11. Re:Yep... on Apple vs. Microsoft, By the Numbers · · Score: 1

    I buy from HP and DELL, we alway buy bare boxes so that surprises the heck out of me.

  12. Re:Yep... on Apple vs. Microsoft, By the Numbers · · Score: 1

    And how many servers are shipped bare?
    I bet most of those end up as linux boxes.

  13. Re:Not bothered on Why Has Blu-ray Failed To Catch Hold? · · Score: 1

    Some of that price is the DRM. Also ask the average viewer about the fun of upgrading a bluray player.

  14. Re:Wow, way to move the goalposts... on Why Has Blu-ray Failed To Catch Hold? · · Score: 1

    Blu ray is nothing. My tapes are 1.5 TB uncompressed.
    In 10-15 years maybe, in 5 no way.

  15. Re:Not bothered on Why Has Blu-ray Failed To Catch Hold? · · Score: 1

    Please do provide some information on this CRT at 1080p. My understanding was that this was not possible. That the gun could not scan the screen fast enough. Sure they can display a source that is 1080p, but they only display at 1080i.

    CRT monitors got around this in two ways. The first was that they were much smalled than a TV. Typically monitors were hard to find over 22". The second was very expensive electronics and multiple guns, something out of the price range of consumer TVs. Also being smaller they had far less geometry problems to deal with.

    I would really like to see some information on this supposed 1080p CRT tv as I really do like crt technology.

  16. Re:really? on Don't Expect an OpenOffice/LibreOffice Merger · · Score: 1

    Had they released the brand when asked it would be fine. This is Oracle again playing games, they cannot be trusted.

  17. Re:Not bothered on Why Has Blu-ray Failed To Catch Hold? · · Score: 1

    No they do not. CRTs are interlaced display devices, that is a huge downside. They only thing they excel at is color reproduction, plasma comes quite close. Both of course use glass fronts meaning they have glare like nothing else.

  18. Re:Not bothered on Why Has Blu-ray Failed To Catch Hold? · · Score: 1

    Thief sees neither, you put all that crap in the trunk, or under a seat or hidden some place. You then use cheap hang on the seatback lcds, that your common thief will not even know what do to with.

  19. Re:Not bothered on Why Has Blu-ray Failed To Catch Hold? · · Score: 1

    Even the $80 special I linked is a 10x. How about you get with the times, grandpa?

  20. Re:Not bothered on Why Has Blu-ray Failed To Catch Hold? · · Score: 1

    Rip it. Then you can play it on the linux box just fine.

  21. Re:Not bothered on Why Has Blu-ray Failed To Catch Hold? · · Score: 1

    The data layer in Bluray is closer to the disc surface. They have a coating to minimize scratches but it can only do so much. This is a design flaw, plain and simple.

  22. Re:Not bothered on Why Has Blu-ray Failed To Catch Hold? · · Score: 1

    No, that crap does not work on all kinds of things. I always laugh when I see "Digital Copy", it is fucking dvd the whole thing is a digital copy.

  23. Re:Not bothered on Why Has Blu-ray Failed To Catch Hold? · · Score: 1

    Huh?
    Making DVD backups is easy as hell, and ArCoss (the bad data DRM) has been broken for ages. Playing in a wrong region is also dead easy, just get a region free player or rip the dvd.

  24. Re:Not bothered on Why Has Blu-ray Failed To Catch Hold? · · Score: 1
  25. Re:here's my reasoning on Why Has Blu-ray Failed To Catch Hold? · · Score: 1

    720p sets give a clear computer screen image. I know, I use one for that purpose. Since hulu and many others refuse to play on anything that they think is plugged into a TV, I have a computer plugged into a TV.