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  1. Re:Mini Blues on Price Drops For Mac mini Upgrades · · Score: 1

    A user can keep their mobile in their drawer

    Your mobile consistently works inside a drawer?

    You must be in Europe or something...

  2. Re:Advantages in nanoseconds? on Think Secret's Nick dePlume Revealed · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Tell me, Apple (or rather article author even). You're worried about market advantage 'being measured in nanoseconds'.

    Everyone knows that if Microsoft finds out about a Mac OS X Tiger feature they will have a legion of flat-food-only-eating coders implement it in Longhorn within nanoseconds.

  3. Re:This should be SUBSTANTIALLY more interesting.. on Ken Jennings Gets a New Challenge · · Score: 1

    I went there last week. It's insane. My girlfriend said I was taking pix like I was on an anthropological expedition.

    You haven't lived until you've seen the musical spectacular "Christmas in the Smokies".

  4. Re:Not Just TiVos on Network Scheduling to Mess with Tivo · · Score: 1

    Nah, it was all just a Ted Turner ego thing.

  5. Another tax on the working class on California Considers Tracking Your Car · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Who has to drive the furthest? People who can't afford to live in the houses they clean. People who run small businesses and have to deliver product themselves. People who deliver pizzas.

    This really won't bother your Hummer drivers. They are already getting hit with gas-guzzler taxes.

  6. Re:Games... on A Dual Monitor Experiment · · Score: 4, Funny

    I guess when you use two monitors, the spellchecker always pops up on the one you're not looking at...

  7. Re:piracy encouraged! on Apple Introduces New G5 iMac · · Score: 1

    Maybe that special someone is your car which, like mine, has no way of attaching an iPod to it.

  8. cathedral vs Bizarre on Interview - Jim White of the Darwine project · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's really the whole cathedral vs Bizarre issue. 'Gee, should there only be one true way of getting things done?

    I, for one, will always take the Bizarre approach.

  9. Re:could be worse... on PowerBook G4 Battery Recall · · Score: 1

    Here in San Francisco, you have to go to a scarification studio to get a brand that cool.

    In NYC you can get them free from ConEd.

  10. The DaVinci Code on What's the Worst Movie You've Ever Seen? · · Score: 1

    I'm putting this one in in advance.

    The book is already written like a crappy movie, so they'll just film it straight up.

  11. Re:comparison Athlon64, G5 on Apple Previewing New Power Mac? · · Score: 1

    All the Mac users I know (me included) drive stick.

  12. Re:Wow what a POS on Apple Rolls Out AirPort Express, AirTunes · · Score: 1

    Since it doesn't have a UI for playing the music on the stereo, you could use the printer to display the cover art and tracks now playing.

  13. Re:Cool! on Apple Rolls Out AirPort Express, AirTunes · · Score: 1

    If I'd ssh'ed into your flatmate's box at 3AM, she would have raised the volume.

  14. Re:Here's a tidbit they buried in the docs on Sony Connect Online Music Download Store Launches · · Score: 1

    Is that you Cerebus? Quit buying music and GET BACK TO WORK!

  15. Re:Java/Oracle developer's 10 on First Ten Programs on New Install? · · Score: 1

    I like "PL/SQL Developer" better.

  16. Java/Oracle developer's 10 on First Ten Programs on New Install? · · Score: 1

    On a PC (not in order):
    1. Flash Desktops
    2. Eclipse
    3. Oracle Client (maybe Server)
    4. PL/SQL Developer
    5. Cygwin (and Cygwin Here)
    6. XEmacs
    7. PuTTY/psftp/pscp
    8. JDK (latest)
    9. Weblogic 8.1
    10. Perforce/cvs/subversion

  17. Re:Kent... this is Jesus on Factory Testing of Airborne Laser Cannon Completed · · Score: 1

    I must be prohpetic; I just Netflixed 'Real Genius' last week to show my girlfriend.

    You all better be careful if she wants to see 'Dr. Strangelove'...

  18. Re:Just be careful... on What's Geekier Than a Ferengi Bridesmaid? · · Score: 1

    You read my mind.

  19. Re:Making a joke of it on What's Geekier Than a Ferengi Bridesmaid? · · Score: 1

    No one is saying that star trek should be involved in everyone's wedding.

    Actually, I am saying that.
    And I've just submitted a petition to Governator Schwarzenegger to that effect.

  20. Re:Shit. on WirelessCabin: Use Your Mobile Phone on Airplanes · · Score: 1

    I have these things I take on an airplane, called headphones. Perhaps you've heard of them?

    I find they do quite nicely at blocking out conversations, screaming babies, etc., while cocooning me in my own choice of music, not the crap the plane provides.

    Get yourself a nice pair of closed-ear or in-ear phones. (Sony EX71SL is good blocker of amient noise)

    They also work very well with this other thing I take on a plane, called an iPod.

  21. Obligatory on Dual User Windows PC · · Score: 1

    "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of this!"

    (Not "these", in this case)

  22. Re:IBM also says Screw you to intel on A History of PowerPC · · Score: 1

    Think Macs running Windows on a virtual processor.

  23. Oogly on Wal-Mart Sells PCs Preloaded With Sun's Linux · · Score: 1

    Great idea, but MAN is that an oogly looking box.

    Walmart shoppers are middle America, buying censored CDs of the latest MTV pseudo-punk band. You need to give them something Carson Daly would use.

  24. Obligatory American Pie Quote on Mice Get Human Breasts · · Score: 1

    "You mean to say you've never double-clicked your own mouse?"

  25. HDTV back in '06 on Fifty Years of Color Television · · Score: 1

    Ironically, for such a high tech nation, there hasn't been a major quality improvement in TV broadcast images for a half-century until the 2006 changeover to HDTV.

    Unless your sysclock is really fast, this is still 2004. So there "hasn't been" 2006 yet.