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Comment Re:Oh really? (Score 1) 385

You beat me to the punch. I wish the RSS feed showed the good comments instead of whatever they're using to determine it. Though, I think you were more polite than I would have been. I was envisioning something more along the lines of: "What color is the sky in the SysAdmin world you live in that an iPad could fix a poorly designed network with incorrectly configured routes while interfacing with an archaic PBX system?" If I had mod points, you'd have been modded up.

Comment Re:Give that man a new job (Score 1) 266

That's OK, believe what you want. There were two crackfixes posted, and the second one actually did fix the issues and make the game 100% playable, though you caught me! It didn't come out until 2 days after the game was released. I'm not sure where you're getting your information from but apparently it's out of date.

See my first response. Thanks!

Comment Re:Give that man a new job (Score 2, Interesting) 266

For example you still cant download Assassins Creed II and it has been out for almost an month already.

Yes you can. And you could the day it was released. Matter of fact, I think it may even have been cracked and on the internet the day before Ubisoft released it. Research first, post second. It'll help you a lot in the future.

Open Source

Linux Kernel 2.6.32 Released 195

diegocg writes "Linus Torvalds has officially released the version 2.6.32 of the Linux kernel. New features include virtualization memory de-duplication, a rewrite of the writeback code faster and more scalable, many important Btrfs improvements and speedups, ATI R600/R700 3D and KMS support and other graphic improvements, a CFQ low latency mode, tracing improvements including a 'perf timechart' tool that tries to be a better bootchart, soft limits in the memory controller, support for the S+Core architecture, support for Intel Moorestown and its new firmware interface, run-time power management support, and many other improvements and new drivers. See the full changelog for more details."

Comment Re:never should have given the retro price cut (Score 1) 789

FYI, while your reasoning and rationale are 100% correct and I'm in absolute agreement, you're incorrect about the numbers.

The real price for the iPhone is as follows (for the device only, no contract, at all, period, direct from apple's store website 30 seconds ago on a non-upgrade eligible AT&T account)

$499.00 - 8GB iPhone 3Gb
$599.00 - 16GB iPhone 3G S
$699.00 - 32GB iPhone 3G S

That said, the real numbers prove your point better anyways. Just thought I'd point that out.

Comment Re:BooHoo (Score 3, Informative) 789

Exactly -- I worked this out with my fiancee. She was about to buy a new iPhone anyways so we signed her up for a new plan and I paid for the phone. She gets my 16GB iPhone 3G when the new one comes in and I get the shiny new 32GB iPhone 3G S and only paid $299 for it.

On a side note, all you clowns complaining about $499 for an upgrade price, for some reason my account didn't even qualify for that upgrade -- they wanted $699 from me, claiming I wasn't eligible for upgrade pricing until Dec 2009. $322 and change later and I've got a shiny new iPhone 3G S. It's not impossible. One of my co-workers got AT&T to provide him the $299 upgrade pricing just by calling, complaining, and threatening to cancel and pay the ETF. They sent him over to 'customer retention', who asked why he was cancelling and when he told them they offered him the upgrade at the $299 price...

Of course, he started at $499 -- not $699. I figured since my account was already screwed for some reason, I'd leave it be. Plus, if in December they reset my contract entirely for some reason (as the site shows it will), I'll have a free upgrade just in time for the next upgrade next year :P.

Comment Re:Useless Information (Score 2, Informative) 336

I don't know about that -- telecines are done from the film itself, in the back room or projector room. The audio in those cases is either a direct pull from the soundtrack CDs that are loaded into the projector or are direct rips from the projector's output ports -- there is no reason to use a microphone to pick up the audio for a telecine if you already have access to the film itself, as it's likely you'd have access to a pure digital or at least direct analog copy of the audio.

This looks like they're trying to get cammers, but like the GGGGGGGP or whoever posted, after the fact is too late ...
Music

Submission + - TMBG Techy Interview (gearlog.com)

Brian Heater writes: "Hey Slashdot, I did a two-part interview with They Might Be Giant's John Flansburgh. Might be of interest to you folks, as we discussed the role of technology both in terms of their recording and distribution, from Dial-a-Song, to podcasts, to Myspace. Also, Flansburg tearfully admits that he does indeed own an iPhone."

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