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Comment TI BASIC (Score 1) 763

Started immediately, press any key and then 2 and your game starts immediately. Solid state cartridges were so fast. I'd love to see them make a comeback more than TI BASIC itself though. Windows and CD-ROM games, it might take 5 minutes before I'm playing. Consoles are not much better at this either.

Comment Depends who I'm going with (Score 1) 561

With only a group of good looking women:
We make a 90% chance of making it there and a 1% chance of lasting more than 10 days

With just one good looking woman:
We make a 90% chance of making it there and a 1% chance of lasting more than 10 years

With a mixed group:
We make a 90% chance of making it there and a 1% chance of lasting more than 25 years

Alone:
No way, I'm sure I'd go hopelessly insane if I did survive the trip, let alone living on a planet by myself.

With a bunch of guys:
I have less than 90% chance of making it there because I'm already dying of some incurable disease or very old and well past my life expectancy...

Comment Why did they give up the low end market so easy? (Score 1) 289

I used to have a Nokia 6 years ago or so. Was a really nice phone. Did the actual phone thing way better than any phone I've had since. Just about everyone who had a cell phone back then had a Nokia, mainly because that was the cheapest one you could get when you went to a cell phone store. These days, it's some other brand. You can still get a Nokia, but it's some expensive smartphone Nokia that no one wants. If someone wants a smartphone they'll buy a Blackberry or an iPhone. If they actually want a phone, they would buy a Nokia, but they don't seem to offer cheap Nokia's anymore...that was their market, they should have embraced it, rather than go after Blackberry and iPhone's....

Comment Re:That Analogy Falls Apart (Score 1) 917

A Mars colony would seem to me that it would be more likely to work if it was tried first on the Moon. With supply lines being so much shorter, eventually a fairly decent size colony could be built, in a much shorter time frame. It really seems far less complicated than building the ISS. Supply ships wouldn't have to dock and all that, just land somewhere fairly close.

All the supplies to build it either place could be sent beforehand. I can see support for a one way trip to Mars being a lot higher if there was already plenty of food, water, and oxygen there. We already have sent a bunch of other crap there. Why not send a ship or two with some bottled water, and food just in case? Or maybe some fine wine? Or some whiskey or vodka or something?

Comment Re:So NT, 2000, XP, and Vista can die, not IE6? (Score 1) 374

Then what happens when one needs to reformat and start from scratch? Most people reading this here would use IE6 to download Firefox, or at least IE7 or IE8, but the general public would probably get the SuperCoolUnsupportedBrowserVirus from that site they went to that made them have to reformat in the first place.

Comment Seems like they aren't collecting enough fines (Score 1, Troll) 301

As much as I hate tickets, I think they and all these other states with budget problems need to tell their cops to step it up a notch and give a lot more speeding tickets and such...

I know an ex-cop who claims there's no such thing as quotas...in these tough times, there need to be, and they need to be way, way up there...

Comment Re:Utterly stupid (Score 1) 438

I'm pretty sure SuperSpywareBrowser2009 isn't named that, but it surely exists...but one in the top X amount is if you let X get big enough. Is Microsoft really supposed to add SuperSpywareBrowser2009 to their list. Then they'd be the ones getting sued, rather than SuperSpywareBrowser2009. It might very well be the #6 browser in the market...

They went the wrong way with this though, I wonder if they could have gotten around all of this by installing Firefox, and Safari, etc but not given a desktop shortcut...or something...or even given them one, most people would still click on the blue e...

Comment There was someone who thought Smart Appliances... (Score 1) 347

There was someone who thought Smart Appliances were a smart idea? They've only been talking about this for over a decade...it's just now people are figuring out it's a dumb idea? Why would anyone want to subject their appliances, of all things, to omething that's completely unnecessary, and will cost a lot of money to fix when it glitches, which it most likely will, like they did with their cars? I'm sure anyone who's had to pay for an expensive repair for a car problem, due to a computer problem, will never buy one of these appliances, that is until, like cars, they are the only models offered...

Comment Laptop batteries (Score 1) 291

Less than 20 minutes...when I first bought it two years ago still less than two hours, and yet they advertised wide screen for viewing movies...most of them are 2 hours at least...it seems like this most important feature is much harder to find out compared to things which are comparatively rather unimportant on a laptop these days like hard drive size, amount of memory, etc...

Comment Why? (Score 1) 628

Why is the presumption is that they cannot experience pain? I always assumed they did until I was told otherwise by some "expert." Was this always the presumption, or only after they were dissected, and studied and compared to mammals? I'd presume they do feel pain as they seem to avoid it in pretty much the same way mammals do. Or do only humans feel pain, is that what we are presuming now?

Comment Re:Apple earbuds suck (Score 1) 379

They don't stay in my ears. I don't see how anyone can walk or jog with them, and yet I see people doing it all the time. They fall out at least once a song with me just sitting in a chair. I used to have an older set of earbuds back in the 90's, they were a bit bigger, and had little foam things on them like regular headphones do, they didn't fall out nearly as much...did I permanently stretch out my ears?

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