For many many reasons but I post for one you'd be surprised at.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/c...

People continue to do this stupid shit to perfectly good hardware, sure it's symbolic in this case to prove a point, none the less any of us here with a fucking grain of common sense realise it's a load of complete shit.

That data could've been copied 10,000 times over from that machine by now (obviously)

I'm only glancing at the article here but that seems to be indicating those are the DSL, not mobile data prices, is that right? Those prices are completely insane and I live in Australia. I can get around 300gb per month for $80 or so on ADSL2.

Is there literally 0 competition available in this region? Those prices are ...utterly appalling, virtually making the internet unusable for anything but casual browsing in that region.

What's a good PLAYER?
I use XBMC on a fairly basic HTPC I love it but what's the best solution to buy friends and family so they can have XBMC? I don't want to administer a HTPC.

The Apple TV2 I tried, it's got NO balls, it runs XBMC like shit, the remote is garbage and it's laggy with an even remotely decent sized collection. Hell there's 8gb of flash on there and if you've got a mammoth collection you may actually end up filling the disk with the thumbnails.

Those WDTV devices aren't bad for the price but it's no XBMC.

People responding with "Rasberry Pi" are tinkerers and not actual extensive XBMC users. You're going to see the same problems as the Apple TV2 (only worse)

Colour me stupid guys but where and what is this slashdot beta? I've been posting a heck of a long time and I don't think I see it?

I've gone in to the options long ago to keep the site looking "normal" - I've got no idea what this place looks like without my cookie but much like IMDB* I'm very happy with the existing look, I didn't like the change to be honest.

* IMDB - IMDB is a "service" now - as is Gmail - a lot of things on the web should no longer be goddamn fiddled with. I still login and have the old IMDB and god help them if they ever remove the option to keep the old look for registered members.

I'll wager $400 on the newcomers.

They are "worth" nothing. The bitcoins however are currently valued at X amount.
Mind you, I'm not implying cash is "worth" anything either.

On topic, the Winklevoss Bros are predicting up to $40,000 per coin
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/17/winklevoss_predicts_400bn_bull_market_for_bitcoin/
Who knows what will happen? I just wish I'd made some money from it myself :/

I got into a debate about super cars vs sports cars (I admit, it's a bit of an empty debate) but it seems there's no such thing as a supercar, only sportscars. So I can confirm some pretty dumb shit is debated.

What's significantly more frustrating, is I made a comedy edit to a womans profile who basically belittiles men who play games, quite harshly. (I admit, a comedy edit isn't cool) The edit was rightly removed, a moderator responded to me and said don't do it again. I said fine, I'd already posted the link on a gaming discussion board, someone else makes a similar edit, moderator bans me for editing the page. No idea what an IP address is or username but someones US cable IP does not match my Australian ADSL IP in the slightest.
After that ban, I vowed never to donate to the site again, I've heard many reports about the moderation there, some real power mongering going on and king of the internet syndrome. Fuck em.

My bank pincode is 145766412139
(I couldn't fit the 52 at the end)

Methodology is all that matters, those 3 were the best I found by far. StorageReview is not really applicable anymore - my SSD reviews are at TR and AT now.

If I'm interested in a particular part I'll google a HEAP more places - but those are the definitive ones for me. Dislike HardOCP for their awful, terrible benchmark graphs they introduced 5 or so years back and the owner can be an ass to people too.

Pedantic but this is not the definition of a troll at all. Steven King would be trolling in his grave if he'd heard this.

We're not talking about a tree of text items - I agree with you that text only trees are messy.
We want BOTH, you know? What we had earlier!?

An icon for edit with a silly pencil and it says "edit" underneath it.
An icon with the GPS bubble, with "GPS" underneath it.

I put Cyanogenmod on my Galaxy S4 recently and the stock google camera is a _fucking disgrace_ stuff is completely unlabelled and utterly meaningless icons, just put the god damned text below the icon so I can understand what the hell is going on.

You know, like this relentless drive to make things flat, single shaded and without borders / lines or dividers making information / data easier to identify. It's all mashed together.

Furthermore the tabletification of web pages, the urge to push Google+ on their customers, really importantly also is the move to remove the menu (context) button on Android devices instead for a multi-task button. One of the _primary_ reasons, literally one of the biggest factors in me moving to Android from Apple was this genius concept of the options / settings / context "other" menu button ALWAYS being in a consistent spot and not fucking floating around on the screen randomly like it does on an iphone! (Yes, I know Blackberry did it first and credit to them too)
But nope, let's change that idea for a multi-task button, what the hell? No thanks - I'd rather just do a double tap of home for multi-task.

Then there's the removal of the text on icons - yes, I get this allows them to be able to regionalise things MUCH MUCH faster, can't deny that benefit to THEM but to me? To identify these ambiguous looking icons? Sure some are consistent, like a green telephone icon at a diagonal angle for call and flat 'hanging up' red phone for hanging up but some of the other stuff is not so clear (and even if you figure it out it takes time to process) It took me at least 30 seconds to figure out how to edit a draft email in the new gmail app about 6 months ago, because they removed the fucking text 'edit' - there's a small pencil icon instead, tucked in a corner.

So yes, a poor UI design program is bloody essential, if not the fucking firing of developers when a project is complete. STOP fiddling, STOP justifying your jobs somehow. Some internet websites / apps are services now. They are like water, it's like a toaster, does it REALLY need to actually change?
Do I really need multiple inboxes? I LIKE the priority inbox, now already the damn thing is 'grandfathered' for their new design, how long until that multi-inbox thing is forced on me as the old one is finally terminated / not supported?

Sorry to rant but Google for the past 18 months is NOT the google of previous times, they are driving me frankly, fucking bonkers. Get your shit together.

http://i.imgur.com/h7Mpdq4.gif
See also:
http://techreport.com/blog/25657/google-i-love-you-but-youre-bringing-me-down

For sale: Used, slightly wet MQ-9 reaper drone, responds to the name Fido.

(Which is quite over rated)

I would give them both about a 6/10.
Second one has a very slow start but ultimately, not too bad. I saw it in 2D and honestly I expected much worse, it's not a shabby movie to be honest - not entirely deep or great but not bad.

I'm not into the whole comic book thing, so I look at them as regular action movies, I don't care if they "fucked up" a character or any of that. I think the best comic book movie in the last few years was probably Iron Man 1, it's just done fairly well - good story, decent effects, it's not bad.

It's worse, people are cottoning on to this, it's fucking addictive poison which wreaks havok on the body in a biochemical sense.

Transfats certainly aren't "the good fats" but people aren't getting as fat from fat than they are sugar.
Dumbasses