WillAffleckUW - Slashdot User

+ - When Twitter Went Down I (poll)-> 0

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WillAffleckUW

on Thursday June 21, 2012 @02:46PM

WillAffleckUW writes "(Poll)

When Twitter Went Down I:

(a) Fell into a pit of despair
(b) Laughed at our successful hack
(c) High fived the guys in my NSA team who did it
(d) Had a meal with my Chinese counterparts who took it down
(e) What's Twitter"
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+ - Worldwide LCD price investigation of LG Phillips

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WillAffleckUW

on Tuesday December 12, 2006 @05:09PM

WillAffleckUW writes "According to InfoWorld, there has been a subpeona of L.G. Phillips over possible anti-competitive practices by them about LCD pricing. This would involve not just LCD monitors, but also their HDTV lines. First they were visited by the Korean Fair Trade Commission, then the Japanese Fair Trade Commission issued a notice to their offices in Tokyo, and now the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has issued a subpoena to their offices in San Jose, California.

Not only that, but apparently, in addition to the recent investigations of chip manufacturers and suppliers, this LCD investigation may spread to other companies."

+ - We need a Wii poll (noone wants the PS3)

Submitted by WillAffleckUW on Friday November 17, 2006 @02:37PM

WillAffleckUW writes "I think Slashdot needs to wake up and smell the fact that most of us here want to buy a Wii, not a PS3.

To acknowledge that, they need to can the lame PS3 poll - dude, look at the stats, we ain't buyin it till it's less than $300 retail - and post a new post-PS3-rollout pre-Wii-rollout POLL:

Wii?
Got Mine Preordered
Launch Day
Christmas
Bought a PS3
Bought an xBox360, playing it!
When Spore comes out on the Wii
Never"

+ - Is it just me or can noone reply on Slashdot?

Submitted by WillAffleckUW on Thursday November 09, 2006 @08:24PM

WillAffleckUW writes "Just wondering."

+ - Verizon Imposes Restrictions on Unlimited Wireless

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WillAffleckUW

on Tuesday October 17, 2006 @02:53PM

WillAffleckUW writes "Infoworld has a blog article on Verizon limiting Unlimited Wireless for Verizon residential customers who were promised unlimited wireless usage. Turns out they are imposing a 10 Gig cap on the service, which would mean you can't send the home movies of your trip to New Orleans without suddenly finding your wireless service cut off."

+ - Gamestop and EBX to take Wii preorders Oct 13

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WillAffleckUW

on Thursday October 12, 2006 @05:13PM

WillAffleckUW writes "According to a cNet story, GameStop and EBX will be taking Nintendo Wii preorders for $50 down on Friday, Oct. 13. However, they also said "Due to extremely limited supply, we expect to reach our limit very quickly, most likely in minutes. We will not accept additional preorders at that time," in an email.

On Tuesday they sold out of preorders for Sony new PlayStation 3 video game console, which is in tighter supply constraints. Severe shortages are expected for both the Wii and PS3 until the new year.

Nintendo said it will supply 4 million Wii units to US stores by year end, with Sony shipping 2 million PS3s, but a number of articles in the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) and Fortune seem to indicate Sony will have a hard time shipping that many due to supply parts constraints."