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Comment Re:Possible Viral Link (Score 1) 289

Any excuse not to hit the gym (or put any effort to stay in shape). "I can't help it, it's in the genes", "I can't help it, I'm sick"!

Maybe so, but eating two large pizzas for lunch isn't actually going to help.

Like they say on the net; if you're fat, don't try to sugarcoat it - because you'll just end up eating that too.

Comment Re:To boost auto sales... (Score 1) 594

I'm a Finn, so naturally my surroundings differ largely from yours - but don't apartment buildings have a special storage area just for bikes (and baby strollers)? Now that I have said that aloud, it occurs to me that for those to exist, you would need the architect to consider such things and the inhabitants to have suitable trust for each other to store their bikes in a common room. It may well be that neither of these happen in New York, but what would I know?

I was not sure if you said what you did in jest.. I read it more like "biking is all very well, but it does not have any use other than as a hobby". I bike to work (when it's reasonably warm) few times a week, but on the other hand the bike road is well marked and I only have to stay in the traffic for only few kilometres. What I know of NYC, this would not, of course, be the case for you.

But everything was to be taken in good spirits. I'm sorry if I came across as rude.

Comment Re:A cat IS fine... (Score 1) 9

Accoarding to wikipedia

Horse meat is the culinary name for meat cut from a horse. It is slightly sweet, tender, low in fat, and high in protein.

Sauce.

That article also mentions that Horse meat oversells lamb and mutton in Sweden and is called hamburger meat, which makes you wonder if McD is going along with the plot..

Comment Re:Fine (Score 1) 548

MacBook Pro costs 1149 in Germany, Finland and France - probably in the whole euro-area, but can't be bothered to check. MacBook Pro costs 12 495 crowns (1156,94) in Sweden MacBook Pro costs 1199$ (856,42) in the United States. At some point, Mac Mini cost hundred euros more in Sweden than in the monetary union, and there it cost hundred euros more than in the States.

Comment Re:This just cracks me up... (Score 1) 464

The XP-N proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the PEOPLE of the EU, the ones that the courts are supposed to be serving? Yeah, they don't want Windows without WMP.

In case this comes out as a surprise; if the stores don't order XP-N, people will never get it. And why should stores order lesser product, particularly as it was priced the same as "better" version of the same OS? Sure, you can request it to be ordered, but Microsoft never went out of the way to mention that the whole version even existed. So the demand wasn't really there. Please don't draw EU citizens into this. We didn't go around shouting that Americans hate Bush and want him out of power. Please offer us the same courtesy, particularly as the courts here do ok job.

You seem awfully exited of some foreign court order from five years ago. I suggest you go around and check what your local judges are up to, and let us Europeans work with our legal system, all right? After all, you seem to be raging because Microsoft gets fined and asked to do some stuff that ended up not working. You seem to mistake that just because Slashdot only reports EU/Microsoft court news, there are no other news. I can assure you that most of the "milking" comes from local companies.

Movies

Submission + - Why is Hollywood spoiling its own movies? (denofgeek.com)

johnpilgersmith writes: From the article:
"[Trailers] give away the tent poles of the plot in a two-minute spoiler and frequently show you an inordinate amount of the movie's ending (this being because so many films pour half of their budget into the ending). In wanting to assure me that all the things I like are in the movie, they show them ALL to me; and, I think, half-hope that I will assume that what they're showing me is just 'the tip of the iceberg' in terms of spectacle.

"But any cinema-goer over the age of fifteen knows that if Hollywood pays for an iceberg, the whole iceberg will be in the trailer. Therefore just enjoy the irony that the greatest proponents of anti-piracy on the planet are giving the movie away for nothing, and go and see the flick for some other reason — if you have one."

Cellphones

Submission + - Rumors about Nokia Linux phone increase

An anonymous reader writes: A credible leak describing the "Nokia N900" suggests that the launch of a truly mainstream (36.2% worldwide market share) Linux phone is imminent. It will supposedly run version 5 of Nokia's own Linux distribution. Important updates include upstart replacing sysv init, Linux 2.6.28, gtk 2.12, glib 2.18, gcc 4.2, PulseAudio, Matchbox WM 2, and more.
Input Devices

Submission + - Bellus Pen Scanner in action (elmit.com)

Ronald Wiplinger writes: "Bellus pen scanner is useful for school, selfstudy or offices.
Students, teachers can use the pen scanner to prepare the exam paper. They can scan in parts of a text book. After the text is scanned in they can copy and paste the text to any other document. They can translate the scanned text to/from Chinese or they can convert the text to mp3 and listen to the text.

Secretaries, managers, sales persons and inventory controllers can scan in data in the field into their data collection program."

Microsoft

Submission + - Bada Bing! Microsoft rolling out new search (pcworld.com) 3

An anonymous reader writes: PC World reports that Microsoft's new search engine, code-named Kumo, has tentatively been rebranded as "Bing" and will be rolled out shortly, backed by a US$80-$100 million ad campaign. The new engine will try to out-do Google with photos and links to related categories returned for popular searches. As the article suggests, perhaps Microsoft is hoping users will talk about "binging" this or that, instead of googling for everything.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft's ad campaign proves unsuccessful

Afforess writes: "For the past several months, Microsoft has geared up it's advertising with the addition of the quirky Seinfeld ad's and the newer "Laptop Hunter" ads. The "Laptop Hunter" ads feature a mother and child comparing cheaper PC branded laptops against their more expensive Mac counterparts. Although these new Microsoft ads offer ammunition against Apple's more aggressive and open attacks of the Windows platform, they seem to be unsuccessful. Net Applications Inc data on operating systems market share shows that Windows overall market share has dropped 2.94% in the past 10 months, while Apple has gained 1.79% in the same time. Also interesting to note that Linux's market share grew the fastest relative to it's size, even though it lacked a marketing campaign; approximately 27.5% larger, equivalent to a .22% gain in market share during the same time period."

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