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Comment SNARK (Score 1) 417

What, are they prepping for an app store too? I still have an old TI-85 I used in high school and collage for Calculus it feels like a brick in your hand compared to todays modern electronics, but it still works well if you don't mind waiting a few seconds for it to compute a complex calc function.

Comment Re:No Mistake (Score 1) 561

Sure that's how it starts, but the next thing you know kids are mixing illicit beats trying to come up with the next designer beat to get whacked out on. Next thing you know someone will find the brown note and everyone will be tripping and pooping their pants. I've seen this time and time again... Reminds me of when I was a kid my mother went through a short lived Christianity faze where she watched TBN all the time. One of the shows (in the early 80's) had a preacher who would play heavy metal backwords and exorcise the demons from the music. I was only like 8 at the time and I remember watching it and wondering why they were so 'effing stupid.

Comment Re:Hyperbole much? (Score 1) 604

Can anyone here name a computer manufacturer with a 97% failure rate of a computer line and then try to cover it up and continue to sell them? Sure there's the margins where every company will have some (hopefully small) percentage bad hardware and turn out a few crap products, but Dell has been circling the drain for the better part of the last decade when it comes to most people's opinion of them. Mainly due to the poor build quality and cheap parts that keep causing problems. I worked for a state agency where we had to replace nearly every single motherboard on our GX620's over the course of about 18 months as the originals kept failing like clockwork.

Comment Re:Let me Google that for you (Score 1) 327

Sweet another lmgtfy.com user. I work in IT, and I have used LMGTFY.com a lot in the last year or so after discovering it. People constantly ask how did you find that out!? Well, now I send them the lmgtfy.com link. It's called google people, ya know the entire world of information at your fingertips? Learn how to do some basic research and be inquisitive.

Comment Re:Kinect Is Exciting? LOL, You Have To Be Joking. (Score 2, Insightful) 277

Awww come on now! Look at the history of overpriced peripherals and how well they take off. I'm sure this one will do just as good as all the others have in the past. The SEGA CD was a huge success (don't look it up, just trust me) The 32x breathed new life (**cough**) into cartridge games. Sony's EyeToy (a.k.a. a freaking web cam) changed the world with it's "interactive, you're in the game" fun, at least Sony and the 15 people that bought it did. overpriced peripherals do one thing, and one thing only. Fracture a market. Is it sad to say I'm more excited to see what the hacking community comes up with once they've got drivers for the Kinect running on a PC.

Comment .will be canceled in front of a cancellation squad (Score 1) 197

The way the synopsis read before RTFA, it sounded like they had confiscated his passport, after reading the article it's not nearly as crazy, they just canceled his passport and gave it back to him after about 15 minutes... The canceling of Assange in front of a cancellation squad will be later in the week, unless it too is canceled.

Comment Re:interesting concept (Score 2, Funny) 123

Yeah, it would be a little disconcerting if during the meeting where they were trying to figure out an impartial way to decide who gets that job of burning the mice and the new lab tech jumps up furiously waving his hands saying "oh, me, me, choose me, pretty pretty please, choose me!" If that ever does happen I'd have a 2 part questionnaire for him to fill out. Question 1, do you like horribly violent movies like Saw or Hostel? (Y or N) Question 2, do you like musicals? (Y or N) if he says yes to both... serial killer. thank you venn diagrams.

Comment Re:Don't like it? Too bad (Score 1) 582

Extortion, blackmail I live in Alaska and the solution we always joke about is dumping someone overboard in a crab pot as crab bait. I used to think it was funny until a couple years back they busted some dude in Anchorage for doing just that to people that didn't see eye to eye with him. Moral of the story is... don't blackmail your boss, or even ask for time off if he has the crazy eyes.

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