Comment Re:it's not a good deal (Score 1) 169
okay, comic book store guy.
Comment greedy bastards (Score 1) 703
greedy bastards stay greedy bastards...
as if everyone is instantly going to pay for news without the bbc...
greed must also make you incredibly prone to being a complete and utter idiot bastard of another idiot bastard, who was on his own an idiot bastard of yet another idiot bastard!
Comment Re:it's not a good deal (Score 1) 169
except there are no good games on the wii.
not any gamer would ever want.
Comment Re:it's not a good deal (Score 1) 169
you don't that's why he has an xbox, basically he is admitting he has no friends (hence xbox live).
SingstarRus!
seriously!
Submission + - Is the iPhone moisture sensor a scam? (blogspot.com)
JD writes: "I bought an iPhone 3G S on launch day. The other day, it died. Apple refused my warranty because a "moisture sensor" has tripped in the dock connector. The only problem is the phone has never been near liquid. Googling revealed many other users with the same issue. What can I do to fight this?"
Comment it's not a good deal (Score 1, Interesting) 169
1: media capability's are poor
2: dvd plaback is worse than a PS2
3: game will require 4 disks this year
4: no blu-ray.
5: $50 more and u have a blu-ray
6: $50 and you yourself can upgrade the HDD to a 500GB in the future.
7: $50 more and you have xbox live gold, or a PS3
so all-in all it's a pretty bad deal vs the competition.
and unlike others i am not an anonymous coward! so if you feel like i am a troll, just think what of what u are first ;)
Comment Re:wealth generation by industry (Score 1) 362
not just 5% of the world but 40% of the world...
that's a whole lot more than just America, as europe is a whole lot more than America.
Comment Re:wealth generation by industry (Score 0, Flamebait) 362
luckily for you the rest of the world doesn't want cheap...
nowhere in europe you will see products as cheaply made as in America.
motherboards and electronics which don't even comply with EU law is being dumped in the US, so there is a big fat market out there for quality products and apple proves it.
Microsoft Poland Photoshops Black Guy To White One 964
wanted writes "If you look at Microsoft's Poland business solutions Web site, you will probably not notice anything odd about the main picture. However, when you compare it with the original English version, you can see that someone decided that showing black people in Poland is probably not going to be convincing to business. They just Photoshopped the head of a white guy in for the black one, in an amateurish way, leaving his hand unchanged. (Here's a mirror in case something should happen to the original.)" We noted a few months back that the city of Toronto had done something similar.
Comment Re:funnly enough most the tech (Score 1) 318
Comment funnly enough most the tech (Score -1) 318
funnily enough most the tech used in the first american rockets, were designed by Russians living in America.
NASA To Team Up With Russia For Future Mars Flight 318
xp65 writes "NASA has invited Russia to carry out a joint manned flight to Mars, the head of NASA's Moscow office said on Tuesday. Russia is currently planning to send its own expedition to Mars some time in the future. Marc Bowman told an international aviation and space conference in Moscow that the Mars mission should take advantage of the achievements made by the International Space Station and use a multinational crew."
DOJ Gives Oracle Approval To Buy Sun 162
k33l0r writes "The BBC is reporting that the US Justice Department has approved Oracle's takeover of Sun Microsystems. The acquisition gives Oracle control over (or a leading role in), among other things, Java, MySQL, (Open)Solaris, ZFS, OpenOffice, and the NetBeans IDE. 'The European Commission has still to rule on the deal, a step that will be required before it can close. That body has indicated it will issue an initial opinion on Sept. 3, according to the Wall Street Journal. It may OK the deal at that time or launch a four-month probe of it. ... The Justice Department ruling came earlier than expected, a possible response to Sun's declining revenues and precarious business position in a steep recession, as the required reviews proceeded.' We first discussed the deal back when it was announced in April."
Comment Re:US 1.3 trillion exports/demographic advantage (Score 1) 812
the EU is a country: you just don't know about it yet...
Submission + - RIAA Loses Case Against Launch Media (blogspot.com)
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "The RIAA's claim that personalized internet radio stations were 'interactive services' was flatly rejected 'as a matter of law' by the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in Arista Records v. Launch Media. In affirming the jury's verdict in favor of the defendant, Launch Media — acquired during the lawsuit by Yahoo! — the Court said it did not even need to concern itself with possible errors in the jury instructions, since the trial judge should have directed a verdict for defendant 'as a matter of law' on the question of whether the radio stations were 'interactive services'. At pages 23-42 of its 42-page opinion (PDF), the appeals court carefully analyzed how Launch Media's personalized internet radio stations worked, and noted that the users could neither obtain and play on demand a particular song, nor obtain the transmission of a particular program, thus rendering the RIAA's claim of 'interactivity' meritless."
