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  1. Well, about time! on Bethesda Announces Elder Scrolls MMO · · Score: 0

    I'm tired of playing with myself all the time!

  2. Video industry is clueless on Hulu To Require Viewers To Have Cable Subscriptions · · Score: 0

    If it were like amazon mp3, high quality (HD) and when i buy it its into the cloud storage it goes, for a FAIR price (hosting cost + amount of viewers / advert revenue) then I'd be buying digital versions of all of my shows. I could download as many times as I want, but uploading it back to my friends cloud would take eons and would be quicker to just have them buy a copy.
    Hurr durr but lets piss off our customer instead!

  3. 42U and Plan for the future on Ask Slashdot: Building A Server Rack Into a New Home? · · Score: 0

    What I've seen and liked the most is a closet style closet. Make it look like its a closet, but not in a place where people will open the door and try to hang their coats.

    In my apartment we chose the utility room. I put a 42U rack in and the apartment came with Cat5E and coax to every room.

    Some advise is when you build your own, Always over-do it. Put twice the cable in you'd want to. Why not - it will only get more expensive to do this later. What if you put Cat6 on the east wall in the bedroom, but want to put a smart tv on the west wall, or south?

    Smart Home conduits or just regular pvc conduits with pull strings and face plates for future cabling are definetly recommended. We did that in my parents home when the electriction left angry because we were already doing 4 Ethernet, coax, and speaker to each room and thought we were crazy to want more.

  4. This wont end badly, I swear! on US Carriers Finally Doing Something About Cellphone Theft · · Score: 0

    A list to keep a carriers phones off a competitors network? That'll never be abused...

  5. The fix? on Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn Resigns After $1.7 Billion Loss · · Score: 0

    As someone above pointed out that I, along with others head over to BB to have a look at things that I am interested in buying. I end up finding that A. they are not on display (usually expensive, high margin things) surrounded by cheap no-name things or B. they are far overpriced or out of stock, so online usually helps.

    A few times I went to the store and they had them in stock, the sales people said they were in stock but they'd have to open a box so I told his manager that I would just go somewhere that wants to actually sell something.

    Though, the one time they did help me they price-matched closer to local stores, on a sunday, for something I needed ASAP. I ended up grabbing some extra things since I had money left over and felt I was getting a good deal -- though that was the only time in the years of BB I have ever felt that; they have a great way of leaving you feeling like you're getting screwed by everyone from the sales floor to the security guy watching the door.

  6. Re:Haven't had bad luck lately... on Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn Resigns After $1.7 Billion Loss · · Score: 0

    Cheap prices? I can get things with shipping costs from any online retailer -- including Best Buy itself for less than I can in the store.

    This is usually on items that are not stocked, however but they will not make any attempt to match prices or compete even if I am making a big sale.

  7. I wonder how often they dont get caught on Samsung Employees Conspired To Sell AMOLED Tech; 11 Arrested · · Score: 0

    If this happens often and the people stealing the technology aren't getting caught, that's a pretty cheap way to "research" new technologies

  8. Re:OneNote on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Note-Taking Device For Conferences? · · Score: 1

    Not on android or iPad - you cant draw into the one notes using these "tablets" which is a huge deal breaker since I dont see any windows tablets littering store shelves

  9. Hoover, really? on Hoover Dams For Lilliput: Does Small Hydroelectric Power Have a Future? · · Score: 0

    I totally agree, they'd never build anything that small these days!

    We just finished building one far greater in china, and I suspect this is the new age of Super Dams

  10. Re:Quite the opposite the opposite on U.S. Missile Defense Against Iran Makes China/Russia Mad, Might Not Even Work · · Score: 0

    This is unhelpful. Who is dying where or was it something unrelated. Always quote your sources when trying to plead your side -- unlike the website you posted.

  11. This is a joke on The Numbers Behind the Copyright Math · · Score: 0

    Blame canada since they clearly pirate the most, since they are not patriotic Americans!

    http://xkcd.com/552/

    I as well have not purchased flimsy, breakable, huge CDs for years. I do however buy music on Amazon and later am using spotify mobile.

  12. Tards on AMD Says It's 'Ambidextrous,' Hints It May Offer ARM Chips · · Score: 0

    I think if anything, they would be commenting on their OpenCL and x86-64 arch's that are in their pipe ie x86+GPU processing, but I guess that goes over everyone's heads. Bobcat was geared towards going into phones and low-compute devices that are anything but gaming and server level applications.

  13. Sony Has some P/S For Newbs on Ask Slashdot: Mirrorless, Interchangeable Lens Camera Advice? · · Score: 0

    I fully reccomend the HX9V at less than $300 new for under-experienced.

    You lose the interchangeable lenses and the fruity other stuff, but it fits in your pants pocket and helps you learn to frame and shoot awesome pictures and not try to compensate with a camera to do it all.

  14. RDP/VNC savior on Essential Open Source Tools For Windows Admins · · Score: 0

    http://terminals.codeplex.com/

    Portable, open sources tool

  15. Re:Sandy Bridge-E on AMD Starts Shipping First Bulldozer CPU · · Score: 0

    I'd like to know what you're smoking.

    $1200 for the 6-Core Xeons still, best I could find.

  16. Worthless Article on AMD Starts Shipping First Bulldozer CPU · · Score: -1

    Look! A news article that links to another news article!

  17. Re:No rage, just a lost customer. on Netflix Deflects Rage Over Price Increase · · Score: 0

    Always wondered why they didnt partner with redbox to return dvds and have some of your stuff moved to your local redbox for local pickup

  18. Re:Boot Disc on Rootkit Infection Requires Windows Reinstall · · Score: 0

    sfc /scannow was the function I was refering to. However as others have pointed out, it bounces off of an install disk, so that has to match what you have installed (patches, service packs)

  19. Re:Boot Disc on Rootkit Infection Requires Windows Reinstall · · Score: 0

    Last I checked windows keeps a checksum of all known files. There is a utility (though its name eludes me) that you can run to process all of the systems files. However if the hash store is corrupt, good luck with that.

  20. ASUS and Intel on Who Killed the Netbook? · · Score: 0

    When they kept releasing crappy clone-ware machines with broken linux interfaces.

    Sure, I loved the linux that came on my 900A, but it was so broken I was forced to remove it and finally toss the thing when its solid state kept seizing up.

  21. Re:A CPU benchmark absolutely should on AMD Rejects SYSmark Benchmark · · Score: 0

    Obviously disregard AMD Fusion(TM) or intels iCores with HD Graphics, since these obviously do not exist and no one needs a GPU to run flash, adobe reader, web browsers with html5, play dvds, run winodws 7 (or KDE if you're a linoox person) ....

  22. Re:Pay-you-go on Verizon To Drop Unlimited Data Plans In Two Weeks · · Score: 0

    I didnt like verizon before, but got drug with alltel to them. Alltel had great things like unlimited 3G modems for laptops and unlocked phones (basically oem fresh) with maybe a logo or some minor branding installed.

    Verizon steps in and wipes out the only company doing this, and takes everything away from the users. I dont need a phone that bad, I guess.

  23. Re:Actual Story on Netflix's New Web Interface Gets Thumbs Down From Users · · Score: 0

    The windows 7 mce interface "update" that they did a while back sucks.

    Before, instant was broken into "season 1" then episodes related, like every other thing on earth.

    Now its all 250 episodes in a list. Granted, this isnt bad either, as its easier to find the next episode, but wait:

    After watching an episode, it resets back to the main page, forgets what episode you're on, and you get to dig forever for it.

    The wii interface remembers, however. We use that more now...

  24. Re:Limited number of simultaneous connections? on Tennessee Makes it Illegal To Share Your Netflix Password · · Score: 0

    "You may watch instantly on up to 6 unique devices"

  25. Re:Limited number of simultaneous connections? on Tennessee Makes it Illegal To Share Your Netflix Password · · Score: 0

    Mod parent up to ubertroll.

    If they had any clue how netflix works, they'd know that they have a list of all devices you've streamed from in the past period of time. Quite easy to track, actually.

    Netflix.com > your account > manage netflix ready devices