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Comment Re:iTunes + Airport Express (Score 1) 438

I can second this - I have three Apple TV's and four Airport Expresses in the house and can easily mix & match speakers across the whole property from the back yard to the garage, bedrooms and bathrooms. Controllable from any computer, iPhone, iPod Touch or Apple TV in the house (including guests' iPhones).

Comment Re:Pleased DX Owner (Score 1) 263

I received my DX a week ago now and am extremely pleased with it. PDF support is just fine - no zooming, no linking, no embedded video or HAL 9000 conversations either. It's fine for the PDFs you think it's gonna be fine for and likely not as fine for the ones you're suspicious about. Yes, symbolic stuff like math notation displays just fine - just not at microfilm resolution.

No, it won't zoom much - get a notebook if you want that. It's essentially a sheet-of-paper-emulator that the media has mistaken for a notebook. So if you'd expect to have to squint or hold the paper closer to your face on an economy-mode print of that PDF, expect the DX to struggle with it. All very common sense IMO.

This is a book reader that was made in the year 2009, not a holographic tricorder from 2020. It's primarily aimed at people who are satisfied with the written word in quantities exceeding the size of your typical AP story and who can sit quietly and just read for more than 30 minutes at a shot. Every dissatisfied Kindle review I've read tries to interpret the device in terms of the writer's politics (looking at you, DRM nuts) or some flashier gadget category, which has just reinforced my suspicion that reviewers are ADD children who just don't do much reading.

Comment No surprise to the married ... (Score 2, Insightful) 347

Seriously, in your brain your wife is a very complicated entity that's backed with a serious amount of information. Where you sat on your first date? That (hopefully) subtle look on her face when she can't stand her friend's conversation matter?

Might be more interesting to see how much you 'love' someone you actually despise but know very, very well.

Unless you have a horrible marriage or are a child, your marriage is a unique thing to your brain. Comparing it to your feelings for Angelina Anybody is just a little different than comparing it to your feelings for your driveway pavement (unless you're delusional ... another result I'd love to see).

Feel free to tell me to RTFA, I skimmed :p

Databases

Submission + - Government databases, so what?

makisupa writes: "Sorry folks, I've lost my firm grasp of what it is exactly we're all knee-jerking in fear about when governments start databases of this or that lately. Okay we wake up tomorrow and the government has a comprehensive database of our children ... or a database of video from a huge network of CCTV records from public places. I know this is inviting the tinfoil hat people out of their hillside caves, but what's the big deal? What are the scenarios we fear? What threats to they pose? Can they be ranked by potential threat?"

Comment Re:Still... (Score 1) 859

My anecdotal experience is that the Home Depot specials simply suck. I've purchased 6 over time and have seen each of them burn out faster than the plain ol' 100-watters.

And don't get me started on the outdoor ones ... I live in a moderate climate that rarely dips below freezing and I've seen the 2 outdoor CF's I've tried fail in less than a year.

I'll also be sticking with 100-watt bulbs.

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