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Customers Gleefully Mock Best Buy's $1,095.99 HDMI 369

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 26, 2011 @10:34AM from the king-of-cables dept.

First time accepted submitter Forthan Red writes "It may be a pricing bot run amok, or a ridiculously over-inflated sense of worth, but Best Buy has been offering an HDMI cable for a whopping $1,095.99 (currently sold out!). While Best Buy seems to be oblivious to the absurdity of this price for a digital cable, those posting customer reviews are not. Enjoy the mockery!" One of my favorites is: "saved a ton of money on a new TV on black Friday and decided to use the extra cash to get the best cable available. At a whopping 3.3 feet in length, this cable is no joke. When all my friends come over to watch football, they always say 'WOW what kind of HDMI cable do you have?' I proudly tell them about my audioquest diamond and its advanced features such as its Dark Gray/Black finish. It is a great conversation piece! Not to mention it fits into my dvd player and tv perfectly."

RIP, SunSolve 100

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 09, 2010 @09:56PM from the to-the-moon-instead dept.

Kymermosst writes "Today marks the last day that SunSolve will be available. Oracle sent the final pre-deployment details today for the retirement of SunSolve and the transition to its replacement, My Oracle Support Release 5.2, which begins tomorrow. People who work with Sun's hardware and software have long used SunSolve as a central location for specifications, patches, and documentation."

Comment Re:Be Real (Score 1) 944

by osc_steve on Thursday April 29, 2010 @04:04PM (#32035998) Attached to: Steve Jobs Publishes Some "Thoughts On Flash"

There are many things to criticize about Flash and ActionScript. However, your blanket statement about Flash being a CPU hog on *any* platform is patently wrong. I'm running Windows 7. In IE 8 with Flash 8 while watching YouTube video CPU usage peaks at about 2%. Most of the time, Flash (plus IE 8) cruise along under 1%. I've used Flash to create numerous art installations involving video manipulation and they actually work pretty well. CPU power is rarely a problem. I think like most of the posters that Job's is off the mark on his criticism of Flash as closed source (pot/kettle etc.) but you bolster his position by making exaggerated claims.

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