Comment Re:Minneapolis all over again: it was the snow! (Score 1) 407
Professional troll, is my guess.
Comment Re:is the world ready for another Star Trek series (Score 1) 829
Yup, I don't remember a single long episode arc in Enterprise...
Oh wait, the entire bloody third season!!
(which all sucked, btw) The 4th season two-parters were much better.
Comment Re:Umm (Score 1) 371
Who are you, and what have you done with the real geekoid? This is the worst typing I've ever seen from you here... are you typing under duress? is the BSA at your company right now? Do we need to call 911 on your behalf?
Comment Re:Kindle Not Ready for Textbooks... (Score 1) 116
Points 2 and 3 are valid, and yes, hilighting and navigating are slower than a paper book. Point one, however, you're way off base about. "Locations" in Kindle books are absolute, down to the word. It doesn't matter what text size you're looking at, location 500 will be the same on each device. So rather than Page 20, the Kindle-enabled teacher would say navigate to location 232... the students would hit menu, go to location, and type 232... just as fast, if not faster, than trying to flip to a new page in a textbook.
And the new DX is a native pdf reader, where each page is a separate item. If the book is in pdf format, the teacher can say "Go to page 20" and it will be meaningful. The screenshots on amazon.com show page numbers at the bottom of the screen where it describes pdf reading.
Hope that helps.
(owner of a K2)
Comment Re:It is a US conspiracy to eliminate Mexicans... (Score 1) 383
True, but have any Europeans died from it? Forgetting for the moment that the GP was a troll, he might actually be on to something. Create a disease that anyone can catch and then show symptoms and spread, but only kills one particular population set. It would rapidly spread globally, infecting nearly everyone, but only wipe out one population...
Time Warner Pulls Plug On Metered Billing Tests 112
fudreporter is one of many who writes to tell us that Time Warner is not planning to continue their tiered consumption tests at this time. The company is not completely admitting defeat, stating that they "may return to the idea in the future," but for now the test has been shut down. "The plan would have established several tiers based on how much consumers use the Internet. Time Warner Cable had said at the time that it believed that consumers who download the most content need to pay more to cover infrastructure upgrades. The plan was first announced two weeks ago, then modified with higher download caps last week. In a news release yesterday, Glenn Britt, the chief executive of Time Warner Cable, said, 'We will not proceed with implementation of additional tests until further consultation with our customers and other interested parties, ensuring that community needs are being met.'"
Comment Re:Pronounciation (Score 1) 383
Oh you mean the Advanced Combined Replacing Object Name Yearly Methodology? Nope, that doesn't exist. Now, look into this little flashing light....
Comment Re:Amazing? (Score 1) 80
UFO hoaxers don't generally claim to find things that are in orbit.
Comment Re:Game controllers (Score 1) 619
I predict a "real" keyboard will show up too, to help people who don't like typing on the soft keyboard.
Yours for only.... 70 dollars?
Comment Re:Spelling??? (Score 1) 67
Guess not.
Comment Re:"I'm gonna stick my head into this" PUSA (Score 1) 155
Sorry, I'll stop. Now, I'll go Ess-Cee-You-Bee-Ay diving, and use my El-Ay-Ess-Eee-Arr to point out neat formations. Before that, though, I think the En-Eye-Cee card in my computer is broke. Can you come fix it?
Thanks for helping me not sound like a douchebag by pronouncing "scuba", "laser", and "nic" as words.
Comment Sandsecurity (Score 1, Informative) 93
This is one of the things that SandSecurity does for its clients. Try them out!
Full disclosure: friend of the owner
New Final Fantasy XIII Details, Website Launched 78
Square Enix has launched an official website for Final Fantasy XIII. At the moment, it contains screenshots, game music, and brief character bios written in Japanese. Square also launched a site for Final Fantasy Versus XIII, though it doesn't have any content on it yet. A fan site has translated new details about the game from Weekly Famitsu, including information on the battle system. "Players select the 'Action' (the five buttons near the bottom left of the screen) they would like to use, which is then moved to the Command Stock slots (three slots above the Action buttons) to be executed in turn. Some 'Action' buttons seem to have several layers behind them, which means you'll have more than five actions to choose from. Each of the 'Actions' has a number attached to them; this is the 'Cost' or the number of slots that particular 'Action' will take in the Command Stock. For example, you can have three Fire commands in the list since its 'Cost' is only 1, but you can only use Firaga, which costs 3, if you have three empty slots in the Command Stock."
The RIAA's Rocky Road Ahead 542
The RIAA's new plan to enlist ISPs in its war on file sharing, once it announced it was calling a halt to new consumer lawsuits, is running into rough sledding. Wired reports on the continuing legal murkiness of the RIAA's interpretation of copyright law. And one small ISP in Louisiana asks the recording organization, "You want me to police your intellectual property? What's your billing address?"
Comment Re:Why is Linux more expensive than Windows? (Score 1) 907
Ever notice how much crap is also installed on Dells straight from the factory? There are trials of this, trials of that, ad-ware on the next thing... Dell doesn't put that junk on for free. They probably make more on add-on stuff than the copy of Windows costs them. When you buy a Dell with Linux installed, they don't get the kickback from all the trial garbage. Thus, it costs more to the end user.
