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Comment Re:Ad-Free OS vs App (Score 2) 255

I got one of those FreePCs. It was actually a decent computer for the time. Before a year was up the company went bankrupt or something and they sent information on how to remove the ads. I was a poor student at the time and never could have afforded a computer of that quality at the time.

Comment Re:Fine, except... (Score 1) 113

With a physical newspaper I can pull out the comics section, the sports section, the lifestyle section and give them all to different people while I continue to read the front page at the same time as them. We can rotate sections later but no one has to go without reading at any given time. Do you see why I can't do that with a single e-reader?

Comment Re:how? (Score 1) 2

Well the article says he had assaulted her more than once. Before she reported to her mom but apparently nothing was done about it?. The next time he tried she was ready. Maybe she had it near her and grabbed it as he was pulling her pants down? The article doesn't give many details but it's not hard to imagine various circumstances in which she might get a shot if she already knew what was coming.

Comment Re:BUT YOU NEED TO BE READY FOR 3D (Score 2) 324

Before I read the comments I was guessing reasons to buy now might include things like, "Get 3D now before it's got twice the DRM packed in with it." or 'Ideally you should get a new TV before June because that is when they are releasing the TVs with hidden cameras that send data back to 3rd parties." Instead it sounds like he's simply saying buy 3d now so I get a larger bonus.

I can believe there are sometimes reasons to buy early even if later prices will come down but it doesn't sound like this guy has any legitimate ones.

Comment Bing wins on many little details (Score 1) 405

I actually like a number of little things Bing does that make it useful to me.

For instance, when I search "movies" on both bing and google, I find bing gives me more relevant results on the first page. If I then click the Movies tab at the top it shows info laid out better (IMHO) than if you click on google's "Showtimes for..."

Bing lists movies and their showtimes by theater (with contact info and movie ratings) with a map at the side in a very clean layout.

Google lists by movies instead of theater. It adds a blurb about the movie, lists the director and top cast, and then lists the showtimes at each nearby theater. While it does give more info, I find it more difficult to find what I want. I can get the additional info google lists on bing by clicking on a particular movie. Most times I prefer to see the clean layout with the most important info listed only by theater.

This may just be a personal preference but I find that there are dozens of instances like this where bing happens to match how I'd like it and google may cram a bit more on the page but it's less relevant to me.

The one exception is that I prefer google's news layout over bing's. However, when I'm searching news I tend to go to multiple sites anyway so even though I prefer google's I still use bing's as well.

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