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Comment Re:What a surprise (Score 3, Informative) 268

Yes you can:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030514035516436

It's just Mac & Linux users can, on occasion, manage to do something without a GUI. I'm not saying all Windows users can't, but that huge slice of market share Windows users brag about all the time includes a lot of really dumb people.

Comment Re:What a surprise (Score 3, Insightful) 268

Something just bothers me about the "decision engine" thing. I'd like to think people are smart enough to make their own decisions and not follow whatever their search engine tells them to do, but for some reason I doubt that is the case. I think the major reason people click on more adds when using Bing is that those of us who Google already have some idea of what we are looking for, those of us who use Bing are looking for someone or something to make those choices for us. As for me, even if Bing was the best search engine ever invented, it gives me a bloody headache to look at it.

Comment Re:Halfway Competent (Score 1) 665

You sound like Dell Tech Support there. Tell them the laptop won't even post, they say reinstall windows. Tell them not only does my computer not have windows on it, but if it won't get past post it isn't going to boot form the CD. Tell them exactly what is wrong with it and ask them if it will void my warranty to fix it myself, get transferred three times before I just hang up and fix it. I swear, if they weren't so good about replacing parts when you buy ADP....

Comment Re:Don't expect to see this in mainstream news (Score 1) 314

Have you never spoken to anyone's customer service? They hardly ever know anything about anything, and if something is as rare as this I doubt it's going to be something on a post-it tacked to their monitors. Amazon CSRs have no clue why people's eBooks won't download after a kindle upgrade, Dell CSRs have no clue about anything, and Microsoft CSRs are only there to tell you it's your fault and you should buy another one. Why is it so shocking that Apple CSRs don't know about the fraction of a percent of iPods that have caught fire?

Comment Re:Do we really need GPS to track mileage ? (Score 3, Interesting) 891

Tax breaks for the hummer drivers, extra tax for the people in hybrids, and that's not even taking in to account the invasion of privacy that takes us one more step towards 1984. I wonder what they will do to the people who outright refuse to allow one of these devices to be installed in their vehicles. Probably have them installed in all new cars, but I won't drive anything newer than mid '70s anyway, so they have to force me to install it in my vehicles. Though with the CJ-5, Nova & F-350 I'd be getting a great tax break paying by the mile rather than the gallon.

Comment Re:Too simple. (Score 1) 52

The "World's End" Facebook App. Can't say it's one of my favorites, but it allows you to send invitations to other players without "friending" them, which is absolutely necessary if you want to keep all but the most shameless of friend-whores occupied for an extended period of time.

Comment Re:I wonder how Symantec, Norton, et will react (Score 1) 318

Well, MS will only offer this for free until they've killed their competition, then they'll take over that subscription market and get all the money Norton & Symantec were raking in before they decided to smother their competition. Is there any other reason MS does a decent job of something? Once they've killed off their competitors it's back to the joke these types of products once were, after all, why try when you're the only game in town?

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