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Comment Re:Wish Apple put some work on OSX (Score 1) 453

by chainz on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @12:22PM (#33883680) Attached to: The Hackintosh Guide

Your wish has been granted: OS X 10.7 Lion will be announced on October 20th!

http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/13/apple-to-hold-media-event-october-20th-well-be-there-live/

Comment Re:Depends on what's on. (Score 1) 510

by chainz on Monday September 20, 2010 @05:58AM (#33633616) Attached to: The best day of the week, generally:

Living your life recording using a DVR is so 2000's.

Join us here in 2010 and get yourself a HTPC, then you can stream (locally or externally) without having to record the show first.

(:

Comment Re:And another thing (Score 1) 406

by chainz on Friday January 15, 2010 @02:41PM (#30781932) Attached to: Bing Gaining Market Share Faster

Do you really think the search queries of a tiny group of professionals while on a single website is going to make any difference at all?

Let's see...
Programmers as a fraction of professions in the world
x Windows Programmers as a fraction of Overall Programmers
x Users of MSDN as a fraction of Windows Programmers
x searches on MSDN as a fraction of their daily searches
= No boost at all to the market share of Bing

Comment Re:Not ready? No, and never will be. (Score 1) 391

by chainz on Friday December 18, 2009 @07:02AM (#30485270) Attached to: The Social Difficulty of Saving Earth From an Asteroid

politics would never function to the point where a decision could have been reached, let alone acted upon.

I agree with you on global warming, but that is because it requires a concerted effort from everyone, or the majority of people on the planet, to have an effect. However, the recolonising example you gave could feasibly be achieved privately, by a small (in terms of the earth) group of people. It would not need governments or nations to agree on a strategy or approach. A group with sufficient wealth and knowledge could just go ahead and do it themselves.

Comment Re:The trouble with... (Score 1) 266

by chainz on Wednesday October 14, 2009 @09:08AM (#29743449) Attached to: Yet Another Premature Declaration of Email's Death

I just cannot see them accepting the loss of control of their data by moving to Google Wave.

I think you have missed one of the features of Google Wave, the protocol is a Federation Protocol. Which means it is not a cloud based system (although it can be, just as email can be), it is housed on your own servers just as email is.

Comment Re:Use it for casual gaming gift it, or sell it (Score 2, Insightful) 416

by chainz on Thursday October 08, 2009 @04:50AM (#29678447) Attached to: What To Do With a Free Xbox 360 Pro?

One of the least interesting things you can do is to waste time forcing a machine to do something it's not designed for.

If everyone thought the same way as you do we wouldn't have XBMC, the best media centre software around. Hacking and Modding is all about using things for purposes they were not designed for and in doing so has brought about some really innovative stuff.

Comment Re:Unscaled photo link (Score 1) 229

by chainz on Tuesday September 15, 2009 @11:19AM (#29426809) Attached to: Most Detailed Photos of an Atom Yet

Is arrangement b a photograph or a is it photocopy of the atoms ass?

Comment Get the facts (Score 1) 61

by chainz on Friday June 19, 2009 @06:24PM (#28396755) Attached to: Google Chrome Developers On Browser Security

Microsoft say that Internet Explorer 8 is the secure browser!?! Plus much more: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/get-the-facts/browser-comparison.aspx

Comment Re:[PASTE] / The stupidity of a slideshow w/ icons (Score 2, Insightful) 72

by chainz on Tuesday April 21, 2009 @11:50AM (#27661565) Attached to: Highlights From the 2009 Google Summer of Code

It's more than that, it's also because of SEO & PageRank. The more links you have, to and from other relevant pages, the better.

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