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Comment No... (Score 1) 737

...the obvious reason is the enterprise market. Another reason is everyone that uses Windows based tools for their hobbies and projects of all kinds. Touch screen laptops will become a lot more popular eventually, I think... However Windows is far from dead. People just already have Windows PCs that work for them.

I have a few other reasons that their market dominance isn't threatened by their not so stellar wWindows release... They are Vista, ME, '95, etc...

Comment Re:tell me again (Score 1) 1105

You both have it wrong. If it does end up being an american, it will be all over the media with stories about how they were suffering from PTSD, or autism, or aspergers, or whatever, and how they aren't being treated correctly, and about how our society is (somehow) causing our good god fearing children to become sick. If it's a "furriner," they'll be an agent of evil that hates our freedom and has no cause to do what they did other than being an inherently violent and evil terrorist, and how the new Mosque being built in Boston is disrespectful.

Comment Re:Still not good enough! (Score 0) 301

72 fps is the maximum rate that enhances user experience, above the eyes and brain don't feel there's a difference

I love how some people tout little 'facts' like these (some people say it's 30, some people say it's 60), yet I and almost everyone I know can clearly tell the difference between 72 and 120. Don't try to bring the rest of the world down just because your eyes are slow.

Comment Re:Déjà vu all over again... (Score 1) 301

You can experience Déjà vu twice... As in, "Driving through that town an hour ago I felt like I'd seen it before, and now I have that feeling again driving through this other one. It's Déjà vu all over again." It's not redundant because you're actually referring to two separate bouts of Déjà vu.

But yes, the way he used it up there, it should have been just "Déjà vu."

Comment Re:Good enough for what they are designed for... (Score 2) 344

No, you can't just print out a working gun. Only certain parts are printable, and there's still a good amount of other parts made of metal needed (barrels, bolts, trigger groups, firing pins, gas blocks, etc) not to mention the assembly required, and the money for a 3D printer and spools of plastic, etc. It's a far cry from the 'script kiddie' operation you think it is.

Comment Re:The logs don't lie (Score 1) 841

Consumer reports has in fact, NOT TESTED IT YET.

They haven't? In fact there are two articles giving it noting but praise, and no mention of problems.

http://news.consumerreports.org/cars/2012/11/video-tesla-model-s-drive---the-electric-car-that-shatters-every-myth.html

This one is even close to taking the same route the NYT guy took:
http://news.consumerreports.org/cars/2013/01/rapid-charging-at-a-tesla-ev-supercharge-station.html

Comment Re:Compatibility (Score 1) 284

So PS4, XBoxXXX... going to wait and see if they obsolete my game library, and if they do, pffft....Really not very happy with these companies.....I have an XBox, XBox 360, PS3, and a Wii on the system. The pre/pro is at its max number of inputs (six HDMI, three component.....Without external switch boxes (component switches suck, and HDMI switches, at least so far, have been unreliable and difficult to integrate.)...blah blah blah

I agree, the video game industry should grind to a halt because fyngyrz isn't "very happy with these companies" for using all his TV's inputs.

To hell with forward progress, fyngyrz still plays Mechassault and can't be bothered to figure out HDMI switches. HOLD THE PRODUCTION LINES!

BTW I own in excess of 30 systems, and will continue to buy more until I'm dead. Never had a problem integrating anything.

Comment Re:I imagine.... (Score 1) 272

Apple essentially paid for a one-time visit where Jobs and some engineers got to walk around a Xerox facility getting demos and taking notes. That's not enough to, ahem, xerox an OS.

...but it was long enough to see something like a glass storefront and some oblong tables with stools.

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