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  1. Re:I don't let my kids have earbuds. on Do Headphones Help Or Hurt Productivity? · · Score: 2

    After a few hours of Napalm Death or Cannibal Corpse, you probably would have bought me a pair of headphones yourself.

    As opposed to minutes if you where playing Katy Perry or Lady Gaga.

  2. Re:Face Palm on Technicolor Takes Aim At Apple, Samsung, Others for Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Same reason that there is a music download service called napster. Brands are worth something as long as you don't plaster it on some crap product.

  3. Re:A lot of words on Apple Fires Back At DoJ Over eBook Price Fixing · · Score: 1

    I could just decrypt the books purchased from B&N and put them on a thumb drive. No need to worry about if B&N is around in 20 years.

  4. Re:Going by AnythingButiPod & Rockbox forums.. on Higher Hard Drive Prices Are the New Normal · · Score: 1

    I'm sure that a few people are using them. It seems like on rapid transit, most of the riders with attached earbuds are plugged into either a tiny flash based player or their cell phone. HDs are mostly for a niche that has a really large music collection.

  5. Re:New solid state storage on Higher Hard Drive Prices Are the New Normal · · Score: 1

    So somebody is still making them. Does that prove anything?

  6. Re:New solid state storage on Higher Hard Drive Prices Are the New Normal · · Score: 1

    Except this time it's actually happening. When is that last time you saw someone using an mp3 player with a spinning disc?

  7. Re:New solid state storage on Higher Hard Drive Prices Are the New Normal · · Score: 1

    Laptops value capacity over anything else because that's the easiest to market.

  8. Re:How does it taste? on Kim Dotcom Demands Access To Seized Property To Defend Himself · · Score: 1

    If Martha Stewart was a psychopath.

  9. Re:It'll take 20 years to download 60TB from Comca on 60TB Disk Drives Could Be a Reality In 2016 · · Score: 1

    God forbid someone owns a camera and wishes to create their own content.!

  10. Re:If Julian Assange gets elected on Assange Stands 'Real Chance' of Election In Australia · · Score: 1

    The joke was that Australia is upside down because it lies south of the equator.

  11. Re:If Julian Assange gets elected on Assange Stands 'Real Chance' of Election In Australia · · Score: 1

    Uh, here your supposed to wait until after getting elected to start your misdemeanor spree. I guess you guys live in upsidedown land.

  12. Re:Simplified on The Mathematics of Obesity · · Score: 1

    Fine if your trying to make garbage out the same thing as garbage in, then maybe you should try:
    $garbageOut = $garbageIn;

  13. Re:HFCS is POISON (FTFY) on The Mathematics of Obesity · · Score: 1

    Bah, that's a lot of FUD, it doesn't directly cause any of those things. Over consumption of sugars in general causes those things, it's just a little bit easier with the high fructose corn syrup.

    I'm trying to figure out the logic of how something being analogous to another compound makes it's effects indirect. It's kind of like saying that heroin isn't a direct cause of addiction because morphine is just as addictive.

  14. Re:HFCS is POISON (FTFY) on The Mathematics of Obesity · · Score: 1

    Ironically, (at least in the US) Most soft drinks and other "sugary" foods don't actually have any sugar in them. Instead they use a far more dangerous substance, High Fructose Corn Syrup, or HFCS.

    Huh, what? HFCS is like 45:55 glucose to fructose. Both are sugars.

  15. Re:Simplified on The Mathematics of Obesity · · Score: 1

    Um no. He was writing to a file named output.

  16. Re:Consumers need to do some research too ... on Apple Gives In, Drops iPad '4G' Tag To Avoid Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    No, he said that there was no way those purchasing the device will never ever be able to connect to a 4G network. Which is simply untrue.

  17. Re:Consumers need to do some research too ... on Apple Gives In, Drops iPad '4G' Tag To Avoid Lawsuits · · Score: 0

    Well if an Australian where to hop on a plane to Toronto, then yes they could get 4G. This probably only matters to a small percentage of Australians, but you can't say, "but it doesn't work, and never will."

  18. Re:Educate the public? on DVDs, Blu-Rays To Show 20-Second Unskippable Govt. Warnings · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's because that's what they sell at best buy?

  19. Re:*That's* considered the "hard way"?!? on Unblocking The Pirate Bay the Hard Way Is Fun · · Score: 1

    I remember babelfish was blocked on my HS's computers. Not so fun when I wanted to read a page in another language.

  20. Re:It's the hypocricy on Leave Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson Alone! · · Score: 2

    Hence lying about a degree disqualifies you as a member of decent society, must get you ass fired and your career to be over.

    Being a decent member of society is not a prerequisite to being a CEO.

  21. Re:Could this be good for, eg, VLC & other OSS on Windows 8 Won't Play DVDs Unless You Pay For the Media Center Pack · · Score: 1

    Some distros purposefully exclude software that is covered by a patent. Users of Fedora or openSUSE have to go to a third party repo if they want to play MP3s or DVDs. Canonical and Debian maintain non-US repos for those in countries where software can't be patented. The small players tend to ignore this stuff, but there are so many of them that the legal fees of going after them would be staggering.

    This is also a good reason to compress your media with free codecs, less mess with patents.

  22. Re:Splitting product lines? on Apple Quietly Updates iPad 2's Processor · · Score: 1

    Well this is not a new model. This is just a die shrinkage. Maybe Samsung wanted to shut down it's 45nm fab to make way for an even more advanced fab?

    But yes, this is in line with what apple has done with the iPhone. The previous model is sold as the bargain model. I wouldn't call it a different line. After the 4th generation iPod comes out, the 3rd generation iPad will take it's place as the value tablet.

  23. Re:Bad enough I pay for microtransactions in MMO's on Windows 8 Won't Play DVDs Unless You Pay For the Media Center Pack · · Score: 1

    Mmm, bleu cheese.

  24. Re:Correlation is not causation on Growing Evidence of Football Causing Brain Damage · · Score: 1

    Has anyone conducted any prospective studies on these athletes? (Like to see what kind of personality they have before getting involved in sports and seeing how it changes after a few bumps to their noggin.)

  25. Re:Correlation is not causation on Growing Evidence of Football Causing Brain Damage · · Score: 1

    Could being in the public spotlight cause these types of behavioral problems? I'm not doubting that neurological damage can cause psychological problems, I remember that enlarged ventricles are associated with schizophrenia.