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Comment Re:Screw you, anonymous! (Score 1) 239

Wow. You have all this anger for Anonymous, but nothing for Sony? This is TWICE this has happened. Recently. Given Sony's track record, it will probably happen two or three more times before they even assign someone to form a committee to select members for a another committee to start hashing out plans (pun intended) to see if there might be a problem with account security.

I can totally picture this happening to you: You give a security guard a bag of money and ask him to watch it. He sets it beside the chair he is sitting in and takes a nap. While napping, someone steals your money. You wake the guard up when you come back for it, and find out it is no longer there. You then rant and rave about the 'petulant children stealing stuff', then thank him and pay him for keeping it 'safe'. After all, it isn't his fault, right? It's those pesky petulant children!

Comment Re:Whatever you've got plus pelican case (Score 1) 126

How well does the screen/font sizes work? I imagine that if I had the text at a font that was readable without holding the phone 4 inches from my face, I would have to change pages every 30 seconds.

I have a Droid RAZR (4.3" display I think?). The text formatting has a few options. You can raise/lower the font size, choose how it is displayed on the screen (width), and also choose spacing (3 different modes). You do, even with tight spacing/wide screen/small font, have to turn the page often, but it only takes a tap on the screen of the direction you want to go, or you can set it to use volume controls to turn pages. I prefer small text, so I enjoy reading from the phone, and the page turning isn't noticable really once you use it a while.

How much power does the phone app use? For a 2-3 hour reading session, will I need to be tethered to a wall to keep my phone from dying?

Not much power at all. I usually read an hour or two before bed at night, and with the RAZR of all phones, it doesn't wear the battery much at all. This is in combination with using the Smart Actions app to turn things off I am currently not using (4G, etc).

How well does outdoor reading work? Is the text legible on a bright, sunny day?

I can't speak too much to this, as any 'outdoor' reading I do is either on my back covered patio, or sitting in a car. You can control the brightness of the screen, as well as use one of three different color schemes: white background and black text, beige backgroupd with slightly darker text, or black background and white text.

Comment Re:Streaming video (Score 1) 411

It wasn't the commentator that bothered me. It was the "alec baldwin" look-alike that kept interrupting and pacing back and forth. Surely he was the useless manager pretending to know what was happening. (and accepting praise for success)

Are you referring to Adam Sleltzner? Engineers.

If it was me, I'd be pacing back and forth until the touchdown message well.

Comment Re:Powershell? (Score 1) 477

PowerShell is pretty much all I use now. All of my old VBScript files have been converted. It is also not has hard as it looks; the first time I installed Exchange 2007 and saw all of the scripting fly by, I thought I was in trouble. The language is very easy to pick up if you have any sort of scripting background.

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