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  1. Re:too big on Why Everyone Has High Hopes For Apple Tablet · · Score: 1

    Netbooks are still too big to fit in a lot of women's purses, but a tablet might be the perfect size.

  2. Re:They don't have hookers on every corner on The US Rural Broadband Crisis · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Would you say the same if this were about phone service? How about water? Electricity? Many rural residences don't have water service either. They install their own wells with electric pumps for their water needs. My parents who live in rural Minnesota only recently received cable and broadband internet and will likely never have "town" water.
  3. Re:And we are supposed to be...Surprised? on Microsoft Wanted To Drop Mac Office To Hurt Apple · · Score: 1

    make sure that office for mac doesnt correctly read and write the office for windows file formats. Little formatting bugs, problems including pictures, Office for the Mac quickly becomes known as being ineffective, and Macs gain a reputation for being incompatible with windows PC's. I work in an office with both Macs and PCs, and this is definitely already true. Mac Word (X, Word 2004, etc) is terrible in how it displays PC Word documents (Word 2000, XP 2003, etc), and vice versa PC Word displays Mac Word files poorly. This is somewhat do to the inherent differences in the platforms, but also due to some specific Word issues. Adobe product files don't have as starkly different issues if opened on the other platform.
  4. Re:Platform-independent, I hope on Photoshop Online Within Six Months · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Quicktime which runs on both Mac OS X and Windows will view .PSD files.

  5. Re:How about just letting me buy what I want? on Learning to Love the Cable Guy · · Score: 1

    I've got basic analog cable, but the filters that they use are not good. The way basic cable is in my area is it's the first 13 stations, stations 24-30 and stations 60-66. Since the filters are crude analog filters, stations 14, 23, 31, 32, 59, and 67 come in great. There are a couple of stations that come in poorly (22 and 58), too. The cable companies equipment is crude, and with an a la carte system would give away 1000s of channels free to the base of subscribers.

  6. Re:This doesn't solve the original problem on Ad-supported Textbooks Are Here · · Score: 1

    Sure, quite a few of the textbooks I used were hard cover. However, many courses had books that were soft cover at my American university, too. These were just as outrageously expensive. This coming semester, my significant other is returning to take another course. The soft-cover text for this course is almost $100.00. The parent is claiming that the company (s)he works for is selling paperback textbooks for less, but I bet they are still over priced.

  7. Re:Yabut on Turning Garbage into Gold · · Score: 1
    Remember that Mother Nature tends to use forest fires as part of her tool kit. Modern pulp mills aren't particularly polluting.

    I'm not sure you get the idea that the natural cycle of forest fires compares to the dioxin and other pollutants released by modern paper mills. Even though forest fires appear destructive, they have there place in the natural cycle of death and regrowth of forests. However, pulp mills release chemicals that have no place in the natural environmental cycles.

  8. Re:This makes absolutely no sense on CEO Calls For AOL Paradigm Shift · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't buy it that one is stuck with his or her first e-mail address forever. I've used the same username for years, but changed domains several times (i.e. joeuser@anydomain.com). I simply send out several mass e-mails to my contacts in my address telling them and reminding them that my email address is changing. I've lost a few contacts along the way, but generally they weren't close contacts anyways.

  9. Re:That Tru-Coat... on Microsoft Customers Balk at Hard Sell · · Score: 1

    Ahhh, Fargo. Such a great movie.

  10. Re:Dual Discs on Sony Doing An End Run Around Its Own DRM · · Score: 1

    I just tried using a DualDisc on a iMac today (fiona apple). It wouldn't read/play the CD side of the disc. It tried to read the disc for about 30 seconds and then promptly spit it out (it's a slot loading CD-R/DVD player). Dualdiscs are different than the DRM mechanism talked about on Sony's website, but just as much of a problem. Does the marker trick work with these type of discs, too?

  11. Re:Sony is also working on ways to copy DVDs on Sony Doing An End Run Around Its Own DRM · · Score: 1

    Today I just tried to play one of these "DualDisc" thingies on an iMac. The iMac completely refused to play the CD side of the disc. It would just spit the disc back out after 30 seconds of attempting to read the disc. It did play the DVD side just fine. So no ripping the files to iTunes for DualDiscs. I found in some forums that older tray loading computers have been able to load the CD side and rip to iTunes successfully, just not computers with "slot-loading" CD-DVD players/burners.