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  1. Re:as the MIT $100 laptop on Google Launches Online Spreadsheet System · · Score: 1

    Because I suppose the cellphone infrastructure is the same in Africa as it is in Asia, right? People in different parts of the world live differently than you do.
    Anyway, I assume the $100 laptops will have some sort of office suite installed, right?

  2. Re:Last Sentence Incomplete? on DVD Burner Comparison · · Score: 1

    It's an idiom, at least in US English. It means also.

  3. Re:How things change on Wii Graphics 'Better Than At E3' · · Score: 1

    But what about the people who haven't heard the name yet? Like, say, parents who will be buying one for their kids.

  4. Re:benefit? on Movie Burning Kiosks Coming To Retailers · · Score: 1

    How about getting rare DVDs that the store doesn't stock? It would need to be at a discounted price.
    It might be nice if they sold high quality DivX files of TV episodes burned onto DVD for cheap. Of course, they would never do that

  5. Re:Watch out for referrer checking on Tom's Overly Detailed Vista Review · · Score: 1

    Just curious, where is the link to the printer friendly version on the main article page? I can't find it.

  6. Re:For the kids. on Captain Copyright Targets Kids · · Score: 1

    Do you have a link to said "funniest...Photoshop parodies ever"?

  7. Re:Brilliant on Memoirs of a Videogame Music Composer · · Score: 1

    You have to mention Koji Kondo when it comes to video game music. By the way, is Koji Kondo working on the music for Super Smash Bros. Brawl? Is Nobuo Uematsu doing more music for the game, or just the title track? I'm hoping the game's music is awesome. Fully orchestrated, and with a Latin chorus.

  8. Re: the Lead "Program Manager" on Details on Refining Vista's User Control · · Score: 1

    Nope. %WinDir%\system32\PROGMAN.EXE Apparently, they broke it in XP SP2 though. I hear it was working in earlier versions of XP.

  9. Re:In other words.. on Microsoft Dismisses Xbox Backwards Compatibility · · Score: 1

    Plus, many of the Xboxes came with Thompson DVD drives, which are horrible and have stopped working right.

  10. Re:Just wondering... on Extortion Virus Code Cracked · · Score: 1

    I do. I never saw a reason not to. And using a network share would be just silly on a laptop. And even for a desktop, what's wrong with it?

  11. Re:We're talking big chains, not little otaku shop on Japan Revamps Game Rating System · · Score: 1

    There are Fry's stores in Japan?

  12. Re:MSN Video!? on Yahoo! Launches YouTube Competitor · · Score: 2, Informative

    First, it's IE/WiMP10 only. It doesn't allow upload, so it doesn't really belong. I'm guessing almost all of those hits are from people watching video from MSNBC.com. I'd imagine CNN would have more video views than MSNBC though.

  13. Re:download on Yahoo! Launches YouTube Competitor · · Score: 1

    These are flash files streaming .flv video though. Can you use mplayer to download those? The thing about Google is that it lets you download the higher quality AVI or whatever format it is.

  14. Re:Keyboard + mouse? on Sony Rep Denies Need For PC, PS3 Better · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing USB keyboards and mice will be supported while running Linux, but not for controlling actual PS3 games. Or maybe the decision will be left to the developer. Who knows?

  15. The installation takes up 10 GB? on Tom's Hardware Looks at Microsoft Vista Beta · · Score: 1

    That is the ultimate edition. I wonder how much space other editions will take up? And I don't suppose the installer lets you choose which components you want to install? Also, are Windows Server versions usable as desktop operating systems?

  16. 40 pages on Tom's Hardware Looks at Microsoft Vista Beta · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yippee....

  17. Virtualization support on DirectX 10 Only On Vista · · Score: 1

    It's called a "hypervisor". It won't be shipped with Vista. The articles I've looked at say it will be shipped after Longhorn Server. So I'm not sure if it will even work with the consumer versions of Vista.

  18. Re:if this happens... on Another Google Tool To Take On PayPal? · · Score: 1

    What in the world are you talking about? Log in, click profile, click close account, follow the instructions. I just closed one. (Although, I thought I closed it a while ago. I guess not. It's gone now though.)

  19. Re:This could only be a good thing on Another Google Tool To Take On PayPal? · · Score: 1

    It would be nice if Google had a service where you could send small ammounts of money as well. Say, a quarter or 75 cents or something. I've tried to transfer that much to someone through paypal because they needed just a little bit more to pay for an auction. Of course, they took enough of it so that the recipient didn't receive enough.

  20. Re:PS3 is $500 on How the PS3 Hit $600 · · Score: 1

    It's also missing wifi and memory card support, although those are less important. I'd say the $500 version isn't that bad as well. Especially for people without HDTVs. It's not like the $300 Xbox 360, which is severely hurt by missing a hard drive.

    I want to know if the PS3 will still run Linux.

  21. Re:Cool. on Xbox Live's First Big Update · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it mess with some offline games as well then? I believe it's required that games reserve some power for the in-game dashboard thing. I'd imagine that's what does the downloading. Also, it can only do one download at once, they're just queued.

  22. Re:From tfa... on How Cheaters Cheat at Halo 2 · · Score: 1

    There were 298,647 matches played in the last 24 hours. There are 69,159 people online now. How much would running servers for everyone cost? And what do you mean by using servers to connect the clients? Does anyone know how much cheating there was in Halo 1? Since the network code in that game was designed for LAN play, I believe it is less susceptible to cheating. I do know it ends the game if one person is using a modified map while another is using a regular one. Halo 2 tries to minimize the impact of lag, which is why it sends the positions of things rather than move forward and move backward commands.

  23. Re:job hunting on Intern? Bloggers Need Not Apply · · Score: 1

    Are you sure it was him and not someone with the same name? I have a relatively uncommon last name, but I know there's at least one person with the same name as me who lives in the same general area.

  24. Impersonation on IL School District to Monitor Student Blogs · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What if someone didn't like a particular student, created a blog claiming to be them, and posted illegal or inappropriate material? The same thing goes for employers checking out potential employees. There's no way to verify people are who they say they are on these sites.

  25. Re:"Not so bad" isn't good enough on Windows Vista - Not So Bad? · · Score: 1

    Of course there was no reason to switch from 98 to ME (as ME performed worse). But, isn't XP quite a bit better than 98? Like being more stable? I do agree that I don't see much of a reason to switch to Vista from XP. Vista makes it easier to run as non-admin. That seems to be it's biggest non-eye candy improvement. I'm wondering if you can not install all the bloat. I don't want it if it needs to use over 4GB just for the OS.