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  1. Re:Release should be fine on Zune HD Unveiled, Set For Fall Release · · Score: 1

    Congratulations, you have found the tool for you. You do realise that people like other things than you, or will this be news to you?

    There are reasons to prefer your device, just as there are reasons to prefer iPhone. I had an ipaq, albeit with a smaller screen resolution. The browser was so shit, it was actually painful to use. It was also hard develop for, compared to the iPhone.

    I see nothing wrong with your post, except the tone that you take, that the Ipaq is good for everybody. You realise it is not the developers who made the iPhone popular, it is everyone else, who enjoyed a device that is easy to use.

  2. Re:It Just Works on Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Released · · Score: 1

    I hate hearing this shit, nobody said this about XP, because XP was just windows 2000 with a few updates. Maybe your know a few people that said this, but that doesn't make it right for a couple of idiots to bring this up everytime someone has something bad to say about Vista, which is a major update compared to XP. And Windows 7, is not a major update to Vista, notice you haven't seen SO MANY PEOPLE complaining about going from Vista to W7??? Except for the voices in your head, of course.

  3. Re:It Just Works on Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Released · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I know, that is fucking amazing. You installed it and it worked like it is supposed to work. Bloody brilliant. It like whenever I but a sandwich and it doesn't kill me, that is damn amazing as well. And when I get a coffee and they don't accidentally put boiling hot lava in it, that is absolutely brilliant as well.

  4. Re:Vista in the enterprise on Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Released · · Score: 1

    This has nothing to do with following standards, way to go showing your ignorance. It was never a standard on Windows 95 to save the BX register, but when NT came out it was a standard for NT. And when the two merged in Windows 2000/XP, the NT standard was carried across, so anything that didn't save the BX register failed.

    So do fuck yourself, the standards keep changing with every release.

  5. Re:You Joke, but... on Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Released · · Score: 1

    ...and generally not being a lazy geezer.

    This is hilarious, so driving a manual car is not being a lazy geezer, other than actually getting of your arse and walking or cycling somewhere? Bloody genius!

  6. Re:Sure will on Build an $800 Gaming PC · · Score: 4, Informative

    Exactly, it is called segmenting the market.

    You might as well complain that Microsoft sell different versions of Windows, they all cost the same. They all have the same media, box, it doesn't cost any extra to burn a different image.

  7. Re:You see chaos, I see a level playing field on Sony CEO Proposes "Guardrails For the Internet" · · Score: 1

    Well, seriously, if you are still buying any Sony products after the stuff they have pulled, then there is something wrong with you. If installing rootkit malware on their cds, restricting access for mini-disc player to get digital content from them that they recorded themselves, putting DRM on memorysticks, etc....

  8. Re:I don't buy it on Sony CEO Proposes "Guardrails For the Internet" · · Score: 1

    If 007 is the only one that interests you, then you should be ashamed. The international is actually a good movie, and quite relevant to the subject at hand. It is about a huge company manipulating events, and killing people to keep themselves at the top, and their terrible secret hidden. Sound familiar??

    Of course, the other movies are all rubbish.

  9. Re:Tax breaks for the rich? on Apple Plans $1 Billion iDataCenter · · Score: 1

    It comes from the fact that these companies generate jobs, so we get states competing for them. A bunch of states will offer rewards to the companies, to establish their plants there. It works out ok for the state, but would be better if no state offered these tax breaks.

  10. Re:Is our stuff that important? on Nanotech Memory Could Hold Data For 1 Billion Years · · Score: 1

    If only there was someway of having no data, and too much data, like the every bit of minute info from the builders of the pyramids. If only there was some way of, if you will, "selecting" which data to store, and which data to throw away. I guess we will never have such an advance, it is even beyond us to think of such a thing!

  11. Re:So what's the news? Something subtle. on Creating a New Yorker Cover On the iPhone · · Score: 1

    Feel free to just ignore Apple, the stories and the people who like them. Really. Nobody is asking for your comment. Lots of people don't like their devices, fine, I am not sure why so many of these people feel the need to comment. I have no interest in game consoles, maybe I should have a whinge that people shouldn't be playing games and wasting their lives, everytime there is a story about that... or maybe I should just go to the next story.

  12. Re:So what's the news? on Creating a New Yorker Cover On the iPhone · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I agree 100%. Also, they have been making new CPUs for a long time, that is not news. And new OS have been coming out for years, that is not news. Rights have been violated since humanity left the trees, that is not news.

    I think we are safe to say shut the site down, there is no news anymore, apparently.

  13. Re:RIP on Microsoft's Bulk Deal With New Zealand Collapses · · Score: 1

    It is sort of laziness, but in some ways it isn't. Most people hate computers, and just want to get their work done. They learn the bear minimum, usually exact keystrokes and button pushes. They have no idea what they are doing, they just now press this button, then press return, then copy the text.

    Learning a whole new system is not a small task for these people, and they have real work to do as well.

  14. Re:"I'm not making this up, you know." on Ridiculous Software Bug Workarounds? · · Score: 1

    Microsoft: When copying from Excel directly into SQL Server Enterprise manager, one of the older version, you have to include a blank cell at the beginning of the data. Or maybe it was at the end, for it to paste directly into the database.

    Adobe: photoshop started into computability mode, so sometimes when you saves an image, it would automatically shorten the name, to be compatible with some completely different OS. Brilliant feature.

  15. Re:Home econ even... on The Case For Working With Your Hands · · Score: 1

    Some things you have to do for yourself. If you are really interested in cooking, you will learn to cook. I hate cooking, but really likes eating, so I can cook the basics. It is not particularly hard. Might as well complain about not being able to tie your shoelaces.

  16. Re:Combined with Phyto-Estrogens from Soy Formula on BPA Leaches From Polycarbonate Bottles Into Humans · · Score: 1

    Well, he could have just accepted the frogs tits the size they are, like the rest of us.

  17. Re:Doh! on US Army Will Upgrade To Windows Vista · · Score: 0, Troll

    What is the difference between 7 and Vista? Not a lot.

  18. Re:No plug in support on Google Releases Chrome V2.0 · · Score: 1

    Ok, so needs to have a Adblock function, or installed on every windows machine, before it is accepted by the masses.

  19. Re:i doubt it on Investigators Replicate Nokia 1100 Banking Hack · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the probably use the phone to withdraw 25,000 euro, to pay the next person to get the phone, continuing the fun cycle for everybody!

  20. Re:Medidative and complex ? on Sarah Connor Chronicles — Why It Died · · Score: 1

    The show was dumb, sure, but that has to be the dumbest reasons I ever heard of for calling it dumb.

    A fucking poker program rather than a chess program? A chess program is better because it is not possible to map out all possible moves, so a chess program has to think smarter no harder. You don't know what you are talking about.

  21. Re:HAHA NO on G1 Google Phone Could End Up the Most Popular Console Ever · · Score: 0, Troll

    OK genius, there have been 45 million iPhones/ ipod Touches sold in the less than 2 years. If that is not a tour-de-fucking-force, then what the fuck is?

  22. Re:It's our fault... on The Hard Drive Is Inside the Computer · · Score: 1

    Used to call it the computer myself, since it was...you know... the computer. The monitor was not the computer, the keyboard was not the computer. What else could you call the computer?

  23. Re:Talk about jargon on The Hard Drive Is Inside the Computer · · Score: 1

    4 years in the UK, never heard ANYONE ever use that term. And there are many british colloquialisms that deserve to never be spoken (brill).

  24. Re:magic box, good enough for most on The Hard Drive Is Inside the Computer · · Score: 1

    Exactly, so what is a user says the engine is broken because it won't turn on, but there is no problem with the engine, the problem is with the electrics or the key.

  25. Re:If you ask.. on Surveying the World of the Biggest Server Farms · · Score: 1

    I am sorry, I can't answer that Dave.