They didn't NEED to sensor all that (the end speech, the word muhammed, etc). They censored it as part of the humor. They said, we can't show this because of fundamentalist muslim threats so let's censor it in such a way as we are satirizing our own censorship! If the creators originally created the show this way, it would be a funny and clever irony, but because comedy central made the choice, it is now heresy to the free speech crowd.

The same argument you use for the bible can be used for Koran. Actually any religious text MUST have some human intervention in it's development by logical analysis. However, many christians DO believe the Bible is the True Word of God and the text of the Bible itself confirms this in many instances. Yet for some reason, christians have a more reasonable approach at the moment to practicing their beliefs (although in the past Christians were equally violent and fundamentalist).

Anyway, I'm not sure where this conversation is going. I guess the GP was making the point that muslims are so unreasonable in their beliefs because they believe that the Koran is true word of god. However, That cannot be true because other faiths especially christians believe the same with thier own holy books.

You know what haggling leads to? Overblown prices to begin with! Case Study: Enter a Chinese marketplace and observe asking price for any item on the shelf. Then compare actual paid price after haggling. Something like 30% right? Well, if retailers know they will be haggled to 30% of asking price, then they'll raise asking price by 230%! You want me to spend $100 for that cheap bronze statue? I'm expected to haggle down the price. I tell you it is MUCH better if the retailer simply asks for the lowest reasonable price to begin with. This doesn't always happen, but with good competition, and expectation of firm pricing, the asking price does tend to remain reasonable. I'll haggle for big dollar items, but save $2 on a piece of candy? I'd rather not.

Ummm, you realize that the software was giving a replacement warning for a YEAR. In other words, there was not a significant problem. A warning should not be given "all the time" unless death of the device is imminent and certain. Warn once, twice, or thrice and let it be until a more critical threshold is met. A good model is the battery monitor (not battery health but battery charge). It will warn once at 10% or whatever that you had better save or face a shutdown on low battery. It will then take a more drastic action either with a stricter warning or an auto-standby to protect the system from creating errors.

Harddrive warning 1 = "Harddrive has failures. Performance is decreased. Consider backing up data"

Harddrive warning 2 = "Harddrive is significantly damaged. Consider immediate replacement"

Harddrive warning 3 = "Harddrive WILL FAIL TOMORROW!"

Agreed that this is a good use, but I already do that with my iphone. All the things you just mentioned can be done with it. As such, the device becomes redundant. Maybe if my eyesight was poor I would need the bigger screen, but I'm quite happy with doing some basic browsing on the iphone.

I haven't used the basic search much, but I've been much happier with the maps tool. I used to use google maps, but bing has been much more accurate and up-to-date with maps for some locations. I'm tired of searching for an address I know exists, but get no results because it was built in the last 2 years. So bing increases their market share not just with search, but with their other services as well.

Random sample here. I would like a casual game for 360. Something like Wii fit. Maybe a yoga training game. Buying something on my existing 360 sure beats buying a whole Wii and wii fit package.

"one bloated FX crap-test" - That statement is pretty strongly worded. This type of language may trigger a defensive response to someone who thinks it was a good movie. If someone stated that my dog was an ugly son of a bitch then I would take offense and respond with a verbal attack of equal or greater magnitude. However, if someone said "I would prefer a larger dog such as a lab over a toy dog like a pug", then the response would be different.

Only if it is modded +5 Insightful.

Sure, I'll yell Heil Hitler next time I walk into a German Bar.

Then, I'll yell America is a sub-par country the next time I walk into a US bar.

i'll get back to you with the results.

Oh man when I saw that picture it sure brought a spike of memory back. My brother and I used to love playing that game. The 9 LEDs on the home plate would blink representing the type of pitch. You'd have to press swing at the right time. The game would then use an announcer type voice to dictate what happened and various LED's would light up. I think there was some sort of cartridge that you placed in the "outfield bleachers" area. Anyway, good times, good times...

I have XP and had a similar issue. I tried installing updates, but they never installed correctly. One day "poof" everything began working again. Oh well, at least it works now.

Recently I've been trying Ubuntu. After spending days attempting and failing with Kubuntu and trying to get my video card set up correctly, I switched to an Ubuntu install. With a little less headache I got the install working fine with my graphics card. The OS said I had updates available. I went ahead and installed the updates. It updated to a version that no longer boots. I have to choose the previous version from the boot menu every time I start up (haven't figured out yet how to roll back the update or find out which specific update caused the error).

As sad as both these scenarios are, a failure to update that fixes itself is a bit more convenient than an update that kills the OS.

There's still hope. Maybe Travis Hafner will develope a technologically superior workout regimen or install some bionic implants to improve his baseball performance. Then, another pronk article will be worthy of the Slashdot front page and the now available tag.