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Comment "netbook" (Score 2, Insightful) 323

I have a 12,1 computer, bought it two years ago, it's notthing new, it's not a netbook it's a LAPTOP.

I thought the whole point of the "netbook" fad was portability... I guess now everyone's so hooked on the new name they don't give a shit anymore. If it quacks like a duck it's a duck not a fucking goose.

Comment Re:Synergy (Score 1) 628

Synergy rocks. I have a PC as my main workstation with dual screen + a Mac for DTP work and I can seamlessly go and copy/paste corrections and stuff directly from Outlook/Word to InDesign instead of having to find a way to transfer the data to the Mac as before. Workflow improved dramatically since we installed it. Plus I only need a single K+M now. Awesome. :D

Comment Re:Nature has hard more time (Score 2, Interesting) 92

The one serious advantage of intelligent entities is that we can look at the solutions used elsewhere and adopt them to our purposes. Nature doesn't have that option.

That's the basis behind Primer:

No one would say that what they were doing was complicated. It wouldn't even be considered new, except for maybe in the geological sense. They took from their surroundings what was needed and made of it something more.

:)

Comment Re:Optical drive didn't make sense (Score 2, Informative) 261

UMDs could easily be scratched because some genius at SONY R&D decided it would be a good idea to remove the protective sliding cover for whatever reason. Minidiscs have the same form-factor (with slightly cosmetic differences) and a protection over the opening for when the disc is not in use. Just like floppies. They are extremely robust and can last for years without any issue. My first MDs from 12 years ago still work like new.

Now loading time and battery issues, that's another story. :)

Comment UMD and Minidisc (Score 2, Insightful) 261

Their major blunder with the PSP/UMD was to redesign an existing concepot (the Minidisc) as the UMD to differentiate between the new shiny better one and the old.

Thing is, the Minidisc had a minor but loyal following, and in 2004 got a major upgrade with the Hi-MD format that allowed data and video to be trasnferred on top of music. And the major advantage of the format compared to the newfangled UMD was that it was rewritable.

If they had released the PSP with Minidisc games, videos and whatnot, I'm sure the console's story would have been completely different. Even with the Memory stick slot on the side. Both rewritable formats, and they'd have been SONY so presumably they wouldn't have lost anything. Of course that would have meant trusting the customers with an relatively open media, and that's something they're allergic to.

Instead they created the UMDs, closed and crippled them, and tried to sell them at the same price as full blown DVDs. No wonder it didn't take off. Meh.

Comment not for my anyway (Score 1) 350

Can't say about others, but personally I'm incapable of reading anything else than a tech manuals on a screen. If it's big and lengthy, I go for the dead tree style. There's been a few books I've started reading on a PC but I ended buying it and reading it, dare I say, "for real".

How much physical space they occupy is irrelevant, there's just no replacement to the flexibility real books offer.

Comment Seriously (Score 2, Insightful) 454

After a little research, it became clear that the product in question was indeed terrible.

That's your first and most important mistake here. Never ever trust a single source, especially if they're the ones getting your moneys. I always check several sites and try to have feedback from actual users before making any tech purchase. That shit's usually expensive enough, if it also blows up in my face two days after I buy I'll be pretty pissed...

Comment Hell of a skydive! :D (Score 3, Insightful) 205

Dupe or not, I don't care, I missed it the first time and I'm glad I didn't this one.

In the beginning it reminded me of how cool it is to fly, and I don't mean airliner, I mean small plane, ideally old-school open cockpit. It's not only all kinds of fun, it always detaches you from the world below and its petty concerns, in a way. Up there, you're literally free as a bird, it's magic.

Second half of the vid was one hell of a skydive! :D

Awesome flight, kudos guys!

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