Comment Re:Seriously? (Score 1) 105
Welcome to 1999.
Comment Re:Men and Boys (Score 1) 105
I heard that some folks live on the other half of Earth.
Comment Re:only 50% - must not have been on 128 at rush ho (Score 1) 155
I love Wolfram Alpha:
Comment Re:First toast (Score 1) 366
This reminds me of the time where I had lizards in my case. I started smelling something funny and pinpointed the smell at my computer case. I opened her up and found 6 dead lizards. I have no idea how they got in there. They were not pet lizards but they kind you see sunning themselves on the sides of brick homes. I guess they got in the house and found a warm spot and couldn't get back out. I wish I had pics.
Comment Re:How do you type the funny e? (Score 1) 591
You have to remember the sequence for all accented characters. Plus, how many laptops have numpads?
Comment Re:How do you type the funny e? (Score 1) 591
hold Alt and then tap 0233 on the number pad (then release Alt).
There has to be a better way. It's usually faster for me to go to google and type a french word that I know has an accent in it (without the accent of course) and then paste the accented e that is presented in the search results.
What do French speakers/typists do on Windows? On a mac it's option+e, e.
Comment Re:WHY would you do this? (Score 1) 507
15 D cell batteries
Comment Re:Android 256MB App Storage Limit (Score 1) 347
This one is over 1 GB.
Comment Re:The easiest solution (Score 1) 438
Thuraya is $2500/month for unlimited usage. 144 kbps. All you need to do is couple 10 or so of these together and you'll have a nice connection (albeit, with fairly high latency). I think it only works in Europe, Western Asia, and Africa.
Comment Re:Silverlight a good thing? (Score 1) 228
As for the required Flash plugin, so what? It's already everywhere.
Cough.. iPhone... cough.
Mozilla Jetpack, an API For Standards-Based Add-Ons 42
revealingheart writes "Mozilla Labs have released a prototype extension called Jetpack: An API for allowing you to write Firefox add-ons using existing web technologies to enhance the browser (e.g. HTML, CSS and Javascript), with the goal of allowing anyone who can build a Web site to participate in making the Web a better place to work, communicate and play. Example add-ons are included on the Jetpack website. While currently only a prototype, this could lead to a simpler and easier to develop add-on system, which all browsers could potentially implement."
Guitar Hero: Metallica Setlist Released 82
An anonymous reader writes "Metallica has announced the setlist for their upcoming Guitar Hero game. They have a wide variety of songs from their different albums. There are 28 Metallica songs and 21 from other artists. They have also confirmed the release date of March 29th. The list includes Enter Sandman, The Unforgiven, One, and For Whom the Bell Tolls. Fans who pre-order the game will have an opportunity to get an extra bass drum pedal to keep up with Lars Ulrich's beats."
Comment MDM (Score 1) 526
Best Buy is a pro at MDM, and have been for a few years now. They have a record of everyone's purchases and actions at Best Buy who hasn't paid for a purchase in cash. Even those cash purchases are tracked if the person uses a rewards zone card. They know which credit cards you have used at each location, they know if you are a sucker for warranties, and they know if you have a tendency to bring stuff back after a few weeks. They digest every piece of identifiable information that you have so they can target you, the consumer, in a more profitable manner.
Comment The Spongebob Channel? (Score 1) 75
Why hasn't Viacom produced a 24 hour Spongebob channel? At any given moment, there is a very high probability that Spongebob is on one of the Nick channels. Why not give people some consistency and let them find Spongebob at his very own channel?
