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  1. Re:Video cards? on Intel, Micron Boost Flash Memory Speed by Five Times · · Score: 2, Funny

    1. Make videocard which uses Flash
    2. Advertize the hell out of it
    3. People buy videocards that last about a month at most
    4. Profit!

  2. Re:Very odd on Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion For Yahoo · · Score: 1

    Note to self: never post anything related to statistics before coffee.

  3. Re:First mover disadvantage on President Bush Releases US Broadband Policy · · Score: 1

    20Mb/s is still a lot faster than the 5Mb/s I have right here in Canada.

  4. Re:Very odd on Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion For Yahoo · · Score: 1

    You can BOTH have a rising marketshare for Firefox AND an increase in MSN pageviews.

    The total number of computer users is not static, people buy computers every day. This isn't the 90's where mostly technical people used the 'net. That MSN default webpage in Windows/IE is still pointing people to MSN, and Windows/IE is still what sells the most, especially to those entering a store and just asking "I want a computer" (thinking that Macs aren't for them and not ever having heard the word "linux", except from geeks).

  5. Re:Definitions on Fox News / EA Spar Over Mass Effect 'Controversy' · · Score: 3, Funny

    If the argument is to make Mass Effect accessible only to 17 & 18 year old people, then I don't see a problem with this argument.
    I'm 35, you insensitive clod!
  6. Re:Oy vey on Vinyl Gets Its Groove Back · · Score: 1

    The problem is there has not been a properly mastered CD released for nearly a decade so most of you dont have a clue as to what a good one sounds like.
    I think Lumpy may be referring to the death of dynamic range.
  7. Re:Teh REAL Lunix customer on Shuttle's $200 Linux PC Part of a Trend? · · Score: 1

    Godamn "submit on change" drop-down menus.... I wanted to mod "insightful" not "redundant".

    Posting this comment about how "submit on change" drop-drops are crap in order to remove the redundant mod I just did by mistake.

  8. Re:Looking forward to the teleporter on BUG - "The LEGO of Gadgets" · · Score: 1

    The classic/pocket/color Gameboy's CPU seems to be a custom Z80, that makes it the cheapest Z80+LCD display computer around (in 2008 anyway).

  9. Re:Well... on The 10 Worst PC Keyboards of All Time · · Score: 1

    Actually, the Radio Shack Tandy CGP-115 did output extremely decent output, but that's because it was a small 4-color paper-roll plotter. Can't remember which year, but it was in the era of dot matrix printers.

  10. Re:Well... on The 10 Worst PC Keyboards of All Time · · Score: 1

    System preferences, Keyboard and Mouse, Keyboard tab, check "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys."

    Simple enough, and a must-have when playing, say, D2LOD.

  11. Re:My first computer was there on The 10 Worst PC Keyboards of All Time · · Score: 1

    I do have to say that you really need to just use the new flat Apple keyboard in order to become any good with it.

    After that, the keys on a model M (or almost anything else) just seems way too tall and the travel excessive. Not to mention noisy.

    FWIW it took me about 2 weeks before I was comfortable with the new Apple flat keyboard.

  12. Re:Windows 98SE on Boot Record Rootkit Threatens Vista, XP, NT · · Score: 1

    Yes, I know, it IS vulnerable to this particular kind of problems. I was talking about more recent viruses and trojans. :D

  13. Windows 98SE on Boot Record Rootkit Threatens Vista, XP, NT · · Score: 1

    Say what you want about Windows 98SE, but it still runs quite a number of games and is immune to Windows 2000/XP/Vista crapware.

  14. Re:I'm surprised that number isn't higher. on Vista Shipped On 39% of PCs In 2007 · · Score: 1

    Shipped > sold > used.

  15. Re:Seems like HD-DVD is dead on Paramount to Drop HD DVD? · · Score: 1

    And here I thought the discs content (i.e. Hollywood movies) was already brain-damaging enough.

  16. Re:Tons of Potential on Just What is this ASUS Eee Thing Anyway? · · Score: 1

    At 200$ it would even begin to eat into Nintendo DS sales, for a lot of buyers.

  17. Re:Media outlet repeats rumor from media sources on Apple and Fox Set to Announce Movie Rental Deal · · Score: 1

    Torrent of the film at ten.

  18. Re:PDF created on a Mac, hosted by nytimes.com on Microsoft Complains About Google's Monopoly Abuse · · Score: 1

    Exactly. There's no way in hell a recent Apple program would generate something as butt-ugly as that diagram.

  19. Re:to pay for what? on Wisconsin Mulls an Earmarked Video Game Tax · · Score: 2, Funny

    How the hell are people supposed to commit crimes when they spend 60 hours a week playing World of Warcraft?

  20. Say what? on Wisconsin Mulls an Earmarked Video Game Tax · · Score: 3, Insightful

    [...] add an additional tax on video games and equipment in order to help cover the costs of moving 17-year-old criminals back into the juvenile system.
    Also planned is a tax on orange juice in order to help cover the costs of people getting sick from smoking and a tax on computer monitors in order to cover the costs of people recovering from sexual harassment at work.

  21. Re:$208,569 on Afterlife Will Be Costly For Digital Films · · Score: 2, Funny

    How the hell they came up with $208k
    Their system is for three backups with a cost of only 2666.67$ per backup, but since their two other backups are illegal copies of the first one, they added a 100 000$ fine on each of them.
  22. Re:Not sure how "secure" this scheme is... on 'Extreme Security' Web Browsing · · Score: 1

    I've seen this show on TV where they added a wireless keylogger directly inside a keyboard. Then, someone dressed like someone from the cleaning crew replaced the keyboard of one employee with their hacked keyboard (same exact keyboard model, let's not be stupid here).

    How the hell can you trust your workplace keyboard after seeing a report like this?

  23. Re:Coddling on IE 8 Passes Acid2 Test · · Score: 1

    Users don't switch IE into standards mode, the doctype does. It's up to web coders to make compliant websites, and IE8 seems to aim for better standards compatibility.

  24. Thanks to Microsoft for their conditional comments on IE 8 Passes Acid2 Test · · Score: 1

    I might not like IE (any version), but at least Microsoft did a really neat move when they added their IE conditional comments. It keeps the code valid, other browsers ignore them because they're valid comments, and it allows us to target specific versions of IE.

    So, while Microsoft does have problems with IE, at least they gave us a clean and solid way of making special code for it, especially given the "cascading" in CSS.

  25. Re:And free content....well, sort of. on Which eBook Reader is the Best? · · Score: 1

    There's also the fact that younger people grew up with computers. I sometimes think about pressing command+F to search a piece of printed paper... then realize it's not a computer I'm looking at.

    Those eBook devices are for us.