Comment Re:ME (Score 5, Funny) 875

by orb_nsc on Thursday September 17, 2009 @03:20PM (#29457581) Attached to: Old Operating Systems Never Die

Your friend is adorable.

Comment Self Smarted (Score 1) 1345

by orb_nsc on Friday September 04, 2009 @01:58PM (#29313973) Attached to: Schooling, Homeschooling, and Now, "Unschooling"

With Unschooling you can make the claim that you're self-smarted, just like this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB0u9crejUw

Comment TI Sidecars (Score 3, Interesting) 806

by orb_nsc on Monday June 15, 2009 @11:48AM (#28336029) Attached to: Fifteen Classic PC Design Mistakes

I'm glad they mentioned the TI 99/4A sidecars. I had a couple of these before getting the P-box. With all the engineers working at Texas Instruments, had none of them heard of "cables"? With a memory expansion and a floppy drive (which still needed it's own sidecar for the controller) your TI was already taking up the entire desk. And god forbid you nudge anything accidentally, and cause the whole thing to crash.

Comment Re:12? You're paying too much (Score 1) 308

by orb_nsc on Wednesday August 06, 2008 @05:42PM (#24503425) Attached to: $12 MIT Computer Based On NES, Not Apple II

Whoa, I just saw the Picassa images and that is the EXACT famiclone that I bought, though the light gun was different. Same software on the cart as well. If you're ever at Gaisano Mall in Davao City, Philippines, you can pick one up for yourself. (They're probably available at many more dodgy retailers across Asia though)

Perpetual Energy Machine Getting Lots of Attention 965

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday July 04, 2007 @02:46PM from the swimming-in-snake-oil dept.

Many users have written to tell us about a magnetic machine promising "infinite clean energy". Engadget has the first picture of the device and is reporting that the announcement (along with a short video) of this supposed device will be released later tonight. "CEO Sean McCarthy tells SilconRepublic how it works. Namely, the time variance in magnetic fields allows the Orbo platform to 'consistently produce power, going against the law of conservation of energy which states that energy cannot be created or destroyed.' He goes on to say 'It's too good to be true but it is true. It will have such an impact on everything we do. The only analogy I can give is if you had absolute proof that God wasn't real.'" In my experience if something seems too good to be true it generally is. I wouldn't get your hopes up.

Ubuntu Dell $50 Cheaper Than Vista Dell 389

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday July 03, 2007 @11:21PM from the all-that-and-a-better-os-too dept.

rhinokitty writes "Dell recently announced that their Ubuntu systems will be $50 cheaper than similar systems running Vista (Home Basic Edition). This will be a good fork in the road for those people who need a little extra push to take hold of their dreams and run Linux."