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  1. If your package arrives outside of the 2 day window talk to Customer Service and they'll typically give you some sort of credit; either an additional month or so of Prime or a monetary credit for your purchase.

  2. Re:math on Tesla To Produce 'a Few Million' Electric Cars a Year By 2025 · · Score: 3, Informative

    It should read that the Model X (SUV.. not yet available) presales have been exceeded for 2015 and future purchases wont be fulfilled until 2016. The Model S (Sedan) is the model with the 1-4 month wait time.

  3. Re:A new programming language on Apple WWDC 2014: Tim Cook Unveils Yosemite · · Score: 4, Informative
  4. Re:How About Frigging Drive Kit Plus on Siri To Power Mercedes-Benz Car Systems · · Score: 1

    Are you talking about when they shifted from using the firewire pin on cables for charging on iPods and iPhones? That's not really DRM.

  5. Re:Raise money by giving up a couple of lattes on Netflix CEO Comments On Recent Decisions · · Score: 2

    Pay for Hulu and still see commercials? No thanks.

  6. yes/no on Is the Apple App Store a Casino? · · Score: 2

    Some people make apps for the same purpose of going to a Casino.
    "Fun" :)

  7. Re:Sometimes it pays to invest on One Final Manufacturing Run of Touchpads · · Score: 1

    Game consoles are a little different as companies are willing to take a loss on hardware due to making up a percentage on each game sold on the console.
    I don't believe HP or any of these other tablet makes make enough from their App stores to keep them afloat.

  8. Re:Remember, not illegal! on Verizon iPhone Is Now Jailbreakable · · Score: 2

    I always wonder who these folks are that want to jailbreak for purposes other than unlocking.

    I can't speak for anyone else, but I would jb for two major reasons.

    • 1. BiteSMS - Ability to send/receive SMS within another application. Not having iOS exit my current application in order to just read an incoming messages makes me wonder why this isn't a part of the core OS yet.
    • 2. 3G Unrestrictor - It is nice to be able to download or use various applications without having to be near a WiFi spot.
  9. Wii Emulator on Wii 2 Delay Is Hurting Nintendo · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised no one has mentioned Dolphin, the Wii Emulator for PC ( http://www.dolphin-emu.com/ ) which allows for users to play games at higher resolutions (720p/1080p) . Most games look jaw droppingly amazing using the textures already available on Wii discs. I wouldn't mind the successor to the Wii having tighter controls and HD games.

  10. Re:Emulation on Piracy and the PSP · · Score: 1

    It's godly for music games.

    Ouendan - Elite Beat Agents - Rhythm Heaven > Same genre games on the PSP

  11. oh noes on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    dammit /sigh

  12. Re:And it's a statistics game... on US Adults Fail Basic Science Literacy · · Score: 1

    Is this some psychological experiment where you can see how much karma you can horde while pretending to be an editor here?

  13. Re:Dupe, on Is the Gaming PC Dead? · · Score: 1

    I think the problem is not just higher production costs, but that the games themselves cannot take advantage of having 3 or more GPUs. The diminishing returns of having more than 1 GPU fall off harshly after adding the 2nd GPU.

    So true... unfortunately the e-peen potential is limitless.

  14. Re:glaring ambiguity in your post on Review: Wrath of the Lich King · · Score: 1

    I actually like this change, it encourages people to pick professions based on fun or profit as opposed to pigeon holing them to pick a profession based on the gear that can be made.

  15. Re:That's okay on The London Stock Exchange Goes Down For Whole Day · · Score: 1

    in a row?

  16. hmm on Slashdot Announces Idle Section · · Score: 1

    Same content as Digg. Idle Slashdot CSS. Lame.

  17. Re:At the White House on What Examples of Security Theater Have You Encountered? · · Score: 1

    So you saw the White House Ninjas ... but did you see the pirates?

  18. Re:My favorite photo on Slashdot 10-Year Anniversary Party Grand Prize Winner · · Score: 1

    "The cake is a lie" is in reference to a game called Portal in which the main character is promised cake at the end of a series of tests. (Hopefully this was a real question and my sarcasm detector is not broken)

  19. is 2.0 automatically secure? on Google Begins "Gmail 2.0" Rollout · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Ie: Can I stop changing the URL to "https" after logging into my account?

  20. Re:Ebay All Day on Why Can't I Buy A CableCARD Ready Set-Top Box? · · Score: 1

    How many cards do you use? The first one should have been free Comcast Cablecard FAQ additional ones do carry a fee but I didn't think it would be as much as $5 per card.

  21. Re:Interesting to note on Tabula Rasa Delayed Two Weeks · · Score: 1

    It means "Clean Slate" in latin, so i'm assuming the main plot line will be something to that effect.

  22. Too little too late? on PSP To Refocus on Teen Market · · Score: 1

    The new price is certainly enticing to people that were on the fence, however, I can't shake the feeling that this move is to preemptively combat one of the biggest releases for the DS in a while. Two versions of Pokemon are going to be released on April 22nd. I feel like this is the game that will sell the DS for that people that are still picking up the older GBA SP models.

    It'll be very interesting to see the NPD sales for this month.

    That being said, i'll wait for the next price drop to get one, can't wait to play older PS releases on it.

  23. Re:While quite rudely put on Spore Dev Down On the Wii · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure it's a good idea to make the assumption that developers have already reached the console's limitation based on the first generation of games.

  24. Re:Most people use cable or satellite on Where Are All of the HDTV Tuners? · · Score: 1

    Define "Cheap", my current cable bill is $12/month. It's basic, and only includes local programming (NBC, ABC, FOX, WB and CW), PBS, 2 Spanish channels and some other various channels.

    I can't justify signing up for any other services to make my bill (relatively sky rocket). Luckily, my Tv has a built in QAM and ATSC Tuner so i'm able to catch whatever signals are being sent OTA and unencrypted.

  25. Re:First game is here on Where the PS3 Stands Now · · Score: 1

    I think the most compelling reason as a VF fan to buy the PS3 version over the Xbox 360 is that he has the game now :)