Comment Re:It may happen via LG (Score 1) 42
Too bad coming from lg it will manage to have dead pixels even on the eink.
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Comment Re:I like Ubuntu's idea better (Score 1) 109
So, wine for Android.
Comment Re:Before somebody asks . . . (Score 1) 84
you guy are killing each other over analogies... why not make a car one everyone can agree?
Comment So, what now? (Score 1) 652
Where do we gather with the protests signs?
Or we just wait our turn?
Comment Re:yes it can (Score 2) 317
> android is samsung
yeah, because that does not change... as it wasn't HTC a year ago, until samsung showed up with slighter less bad quality phones.
Nokia can totally show up tomorrow with slighter less bad quality phones than samsung and became synonymous with android.
Comment Re:How about idle?? (Score 1) 259
> noise
that's because you put your $3000 parts into a $15 case that you've been reusing for 27 years...
i did that too. until 3 years ago i got an antec case for almost 200, a massive cooler and several high end larger fans, all obscenely priced --- and moved to raid0 instead of 6
it's now totally silent. and i live in a place where it makes 80F and i don't like A/C
Comment Re:Catch-22 (Score 1) 700
as usual, great book. avoid the movie like the plague.
Comment Re:Not the Bible. (Score 1) 700
> not for the religious content, but because there are an enormous number of literary references to it.
the devil's way are full of lies. or something like that. whatever.
Comment snake oil department (Score 1) 144
Not even a snake oil salesman... a snake oil department!
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Comment wtf is a digital archery contest? (Score 1) 84
clicked all the article links and they all talk like everyone know what it means. Also google search only link to articles saying icann is not using whatever it is. probably the very same article that must have came here trhu reuters or some other.
The only link that does not appear to be that same article is this one http://www.digitalarcheryexperts.com/
but it appears to be the destination of clicks on those 'hit the monkey' banners from the 90s so i will not take it seriously.
Comment Re:Yeah but... (Score 1) 402
you missed the point entirely. you'd need a heat map NOT of gas prices, but of price delta.
I'm still trying to find one...
Comment Re:Heat. (Score 1) 249
mine was promised to arrive in 1.5months. took 3 and a half!
s america to n america.
had lots of fragile stuff. only damage was a solid wood table.
Comment Re:Keeping up to date (Score 1) 197
I doubt most of what you told us.
car lane "cameras" are dumb sensors last time I checked (long time ago I confess)
Comment no you can't (Score 1) 197
google maps only allow offline maps in certain locations.
useless when you are in said locations because they all have coverage.
go overseas or to desert places and you get a nice warning about offline maps not being available.
