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  1. Re:Many with family plans on Verizon are waiting . on Verizon iPhone Rumored For Early Next Year · · Score: 1

    According to what I read earlier today. This is supposed to coincide with Verizon's 4G roll out in January.
    And from what I understand Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T are all going to use LTE instead of WiMax for their 4G networks.

    Now I would think it would still have to have CDMA as a fall back when 4G is unavailable. So would still have to have a separate set of guts for the different providers.

  2. Re:Off Topic but related, sorta on 'Telecommuting' In Formula 1 · · Score: 1

    While I agree about oval track racing. You're way off WRT the road courses NASCAR runs on.
    One of them hosts the Canadian Gran Prix, another was where the US Gran Prix was run before it was moved to Indy, and the other two host some of the best sportscar racing around.

  3. Re:Off Topic but related, sorta on 'Telecommuting' In Formula 1 · · Score: 1

    Canada and this weeks Euoprian Gran Prix are on Fox here in the states.
    Which sucks because they do it on delay. And I like to use the F1 app on my iPad to watch live timing and scoring.

  4. Re:DONATE on Creative Commons Responds To ASCAP Letter · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A local singer that I play bass for on occasion was scheduled to play his own music at an antique store around Christmas last year.

    The gig was advertised in local media, and websites. Two weeks prior the antique store was shaken down by BMI/ASCAP for a ridiculous amount. I don't recall how much at present, but seem to recall it being in the neighborhood of $1000.

    This is a small shop in the square of the county seat in a rural area, and they want all this money for one of their own members to play his own music in a friends store.

    Asshats!

  5. Re:Draconian? on Google Remotely Nukes Apps From Android Phones · · Score: 1

    If they know enough about your phone to wipe an app. They know enough to send you a text.

  6. Re:Apple also needs to open osx to all pc's apple on Developers Expect iOS and MacOS To Merge · · Score: 1

    I'm no spelling, or grammar Nazi.
    But damn! You've got to be close enough to understand without having to read it more than twice.

  7. Re:The RIAA are not people on Court Takes Away Some of the Public Domain · · Score: 1

    No that would be a kimono dragoon.
    Can you imagine a regiment of Eddie Izard impersonators charging into battle on their mightiy steads?

  8. Re:The RIAA are not people on Court Takes Away Some of the Public Domain · · Score: 1

    What the hell is a kimono dragon?

  9. The more things change... on HP and Yahoo To Spam Your Printer · · Score: 1

    Thias seems to harken back to the days of "Toner phoners" and ads being sent to random fax machines.

  10. Re:The first planned spam... on HP and Yahoo To Spam Your Printer · · Score: 1

    Yesterday I was preparing a CD of recordings of practice sessions of a band I was playing with last year. I had been promising to send this to a friend, who had moved from the area, for a while.

    I started to write a letter to go with the disc in long hand. Didn't get beyond the salutation and half of the first line before typing it up, and printing it out. I've become too accustomed to editing as I go to write that way anymore. Besides nobody wants to read my strange mix of cursive and block printing.

  11. Re:It's not just a bad patent system on USPTO Lets Amazon Patent the "Social Networking System" · · Score: 1

    Leave my mother out of this!

  12. Re:The Internet is this magazine. on Modern Day Equivalent of Byte/Compute! Magazine? · · Score: 1

    I had almost purged the tool named Dvorak from my mind until. You, fiend! Brought that unholy name back to my recollection. I damn thee, and all your spawn!

  13. Re:Good question! on Modern Day Equivalent of Byte/Compute! Magazine? · · Score: 1

    The first class I ever had with computers was in '86 Egr101 after I got out of the Corps. We met twice a week, one night was drafting, the other was Fortran77 programming on Epson Equity computers. Used Edlin to write the source code, and IIRC called the compiler from the command line.
    This was my first exposure to computers and didn't know the OS, from the text editor, from the compiler, from my own executables. I soon found back issues of Byte, and books that were compilations of related articles from the mag. I think that I still have one of those books around with "basic math functions for programming."

  14. Re:Kudos on Video Games Linked To Reckless Driving · · Score: 1

    And one day you'll be a greasy spot on the road. I just hope you don't take anyone out with you.

  15. Re:Kudos on Video Games Linked To Reckless Driving · · Score: 1

    When I'm playing GT4 I'm the exact kind of race driver that I complain about while watching LMS, or F1 racing. Which is to say "very aggressive."
    While in real life I'm a good driver who can get down the twisties, and hit the apexes pretty well in any vehicle. But haven't have a single accident after 30 years on the road.

  16. Re:bad apple policies on Australian Buyers Say They Were Told "No iPad Without Accessories" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you're not trying to be threatening why are you exposing your firearm to the clerk?
    it's people like you that give gun owners a bad rep. Why don't you go get a penis enlargement, and put your gun away until you grow up. Dousche.

  17. Re:Wrong or right on For Normals, Jobs' "Retina Display" Claim May Be Fair After All · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think you're taking it too far with this statement.

    The big benefit of "being able to run the software you want rather than what Steve Jobs says you can run" seems to speak to people

    I'd say it's more of case of letting people know that Android phones do apps too. Joe or Jane Average could care less that the apps aren't "curated" in the "walled garden." They just want to know if the phone does apps, and how easy is it to get them.

  18. Re:Eyestrain on iPhone 4's "Retina Display" Claims Challenged · · Score: 1

    The older you get, the closer you'll have to hold those Warhammer figures.

  19. Re:I was asked to join this .. on British Computer Society Is Officially At Civil War · · Score: 1

    BCS? What does college football have to do with IT?

  20. Re:Pico and Sepulveda on The End of the Dr. Demento Show On Radio · · Score: 1

    Doh! I've been in So. Maryland instead of So. Cal for the last 24 years.

  21. Re:I'm ignorant on The End of the Dr. Demento Show On Radio · · Score: 1

    Ahhh, "The Mighty Met!"

    With Patrick "Paraquat" Kelley talking about 'face saddles', and 'belly stirrups', Dr. D, and a bunch of other good on air talent.

    Also played great album rock. I was very disappointed the first time I heard them play a Flock of Seagulls song. They were dead to me after that.

    Appears I'm old too.

  22. Re:Pico and Sepulveda on The End of the Dr. Demento Show On Radio · · Score: 1

    Lahoya

  23. Re:fishheads, fishheads,... on The End of the Dr. Demento Show On Radio · · Score: 1

    I remember when he played Frank Zappa's "Titties & Beer" unedited.
    Alas someone complained and it became "Bleepies & Beer."

  24. Re:Last byte? on Mixed Reception To AT&T's New Data Pricing Scheme · · Score: 1

    Under AT&T's new plan 2Gb is $25 with a $10/Gb overage. So you're 7Gb would be (25 + (5*10)) or $75.

  25. Re:Statler and Waldorf on The Muppets' 1967 IBM Sales Films · · Score: 1

    Actually I think the first coffee break bit was a prototype for them.