I wouldn't be surprised if lenovo paid something low as in $5 per license of windows when everything was said and done, and then recouped the cost of the license with bloatware. This guy would be miffed to get a $5 check and microsoft would be miffed to have their B2B cost revealed to be a tiny tiny fraction of what they gut consumers for.

Yeah, pretty much, you can spend $40 for a 6' hdmi cable at radio shack, or you can pay $2 on amazon.com, ditto for most or all other A/V type cables. Jameco and digikey, as well as smaller mom-and-pop electronic component stores (they still exist, they're just tricky to find, simply because you don't know where it is doesn't mean that you don't have one hiding in an indstrial park somewhere) were pretty much where i went to after RS moved all of their components to the a cabinet at the back of the store and only refilled it once a year or so.

Yeah, I was expecting the more recent pierce brosnan bond type cell phone remote, not this "Oh, my car has finished charging, I can leave this god-awful mall" type app. At least give me something that will use gps that I can log into and use as a lo-jack so my iphone can point me to my car in a big big parking lot.

aliens attack, everybody dies.

Yeah, but they'd all run windows ME

reminds me of quinine. They tried that once upon a time, it worked when it was being taken and it is still around in some tonic waters (but not enough to actually DO anything about malaria nowadays, that would be too bitter), but since malaria is still a problem, one can conclude that "stopping malaria after being bitten" is not the most effective preventative measure.

The definition of insanity comes to mind.

I dunno, ask this guy what being blue does to his vision. He used colloidal silver (i.e. silver dissolved in water) as a folk medical treatment for so long that it tinted him blue.

The guy reports no side effects beyond an urge to hold concerts based on performance art. /humor...

But have you been injecting them intravenously?

some day, in the far off future of October 1st, 1993, 'people' will understand computers and all of this tomfoolery will cease to be a problem. The internet will revert to civilized discourse for the propagation of knowledge and ideas.

*Checks watch* Any day now...

Its wierd because if you pointed to an individual letter written in cursive and asked me which one it was, I couldn't tell you with more than a 1-in-26 certainty, yet I can read cursive writing, not very fast, but it is understandable to me.

Is it just me or does the tear look a little like an anus... Does this mean that Jupiter just got tore a new one?

at&t and most other carriers are pretty much required to allow you to switch phone numbers. You have to complain about it though.

One thing you can do is if your phone allows it, you can assign unknown/blocked a ring tone, but make it ring silent (this varies from phone to phone, google is your friend, I did it on my Razr). Include something in your voicemail message that if they are calling from an unknown/blocked number, leave a message and you'll get back to them.

I'm all for having 96 flavors of firefox, such as iceweasel and icecat.

That way you can sell people with clip art, flying headlines, and indecipherable diagrams that will cause people to want what you've got, but have no clue what it is and how it can help them!