Posted 10/26/2009 at 06:51:19pm
Nunc est bibendum!Since 2000 I had relied on eBay for the bulk of my income. I'd watched eBay wage a war against its sellers while doing absolutely nothing to prevent some of sellers' biggest issues ( ...
Posted 08/01/2009 at 08:22:25pm
Nunc est bibendum!IMO every copy of Mac OS is crippled. If it won't run the software I want it to run it's crippled. There are millions of gamers and businesspeople who would agree with me, I'm sure.. ...
Posted 07/26/2009 at 06:05:45pm
Nunc est bibendum! I think I may be the only person on Earth who was unimpressed with 7. I was running RC1 from the day it was released until last Tuesday. It may have been the fact that I was ru ...
Posted 07/26/2009 at 05:46:19pm
Nunc est bibendum!I'm planning on buying a new midrange laptop (in the $800-$1000 CDN range) this fall to replace this ancient Gateway, and I'll probably go with an Intel chip this time around (the Ga ...
Posted 07/20/2009 at 07:54:22pm
Nunc est bibendum!I think you're confusing "DRM" with "DMCA".DRM = Digital Rights Management, a bunch of schemes the RIAA (and MPAA, and game and software companies - Windows Activ ...
Posted 06/30/2009 at 12:33:28pm
Nunc est bibendum!I hope the print version never dies. Can't take the online version into the bathtub with you (unless you're willing to risk a thousand dollar laptop and/or electrocution). It'd be to ...
Posted 06/05/2009 at 08:22:14am
Nunc est bibendum!For an idea of what that hardware cost back in the day, I've got the entire 1983 Tandy computer catalog scanned and stored online. Simply go to http://www.foxthundercats.net/images/r ...
Posted 06/04/2009 at 10:51:41am
Nunc est bibendum! Great, now all I have to do is hope this four-year-old POS Gateway laptop can stay in one piece until then. I bought it at the worst possible time - just before dual core CPU's ...
Posted 05/20/2009 at 08:40:55pm
Nunc est bibendum!I'd call the LS-120 drive a bigger failure than the Zip. At least the Zip made it into the mainstream and stayed there several years. ...
Posted 05/20/2009 at 02:54:53pm
Nunc est bibendum! Insert "Microsoft's been crippling PC's for years" comments here ...
Posted 04/27/2009 at 02:33:41pm
Nunc est bibendum!The only problem I can see with such high density optical storage would be the amount of information that could be wiped out with a tiny scratch. Could this be the return of caddies? ...
Posted 04/22/2009 at 07:05:26pm
Nunc est bibendum! I know the point of this article was to build a brand new PC from the ground up for under $500, but it could have been even cheaper, or a higher spec'd system could have been b ...
Posted 04/17/2009 at 09:24:25pm
Nunc est bibendum!"Customer education process"... Is that anything like "Re-Neducation"? Has a certain Orwellian ring to it... ...
Posted 04/17/2009 at 02:48:38pm
Nunc est bibendum!I rather think the cockiness of TPB's owners/founders/whatever did not do them any favours, either. Their cockiness showed their contempt for the law, and the lawmakers surely had th ...
Posted 04/17/2009 at 02:46:38pm
Nunc est bibendum!Here's your first (if nobody hits "submit" before I) coherent response: You are 100% correct. Downloading something for free because you don't like the price or conditio ...
Posted 04/08/2009 at 07:51:42am
Nunc est bibendum! There was a PETA anti-sealing protest in Halifax, NS, Canada recently that got quite funny. A Metro Transit bus driver was going by the scene of the protest with a busload of passe ...
Posted 04/07/2009 at 12:44:29pm
Nunc est bibendum! I'll admit it, I've gotten way behind in processors, chipsets, etc. I used to build my own systems but now I wouldn't even know what socket a Core2 Duo fits in, much less the ...
Posted 04/02/2009 at 07:57:56am
Nunc est bibendum!Being priced like a new car wouldn't surprise me. I've got a 1983 Tandy Computer catalogue that features a 4 megabyte extrenal hard drive (it's as big as a modern desktop computer) f ...
Nunc est bibendum!
Yes, some on Microsoft's New Ad Campaign: Owning a Mac in a Recession is Totally Uncool
Posted 03/30/2009 at 08:23:18pm
Nunc est bibendum!Yes, some PC manufacturers use cheaper parts, but the fact is that you, I, or anyone else could build a PC using identical parts that Apple uses, from the same manufacturers, with th ...
Nunc est bibendum!
I'll tell on Microsoft's New Ad Campaign: Owning a Mac in a Recession is Totally Uncool
Posted 03/30/2009 at 02:57:15pm
Nunc est bibendum!I'll tell you exactly how a software company is taking credit for the cheaper price of third party hardware: Because Microsoft allows its software to be run on third party hardware. ...
Posted 03/08/2009 at 09:33:06am
Nunc est bibendum!Netbook.Netbooknetbooknetbooknetbooknetbook. There. According to Psion (http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/psion_files_12_billion_countersuit_against_intel_netbook_case), I've jus ...
Posted 03/04/2009 at 08:22:08am
Nunc est bibendum! Excellent article. I love stuff like this. I think you killed the 5.25" floppy a bit early though (in use up to 1982). We still used 'em on Mac IIE's and 8086's in high sc ...
Posted 02/28/2009 at 05:43:37pm
Nunc est bibendum!...Or, instead of carrying extra items about and having a bunch of wires hanging off a computer that is supposed to be ultraportable (items that would not be free, I might add), I co ...
Posted 02/27/2009 at 03:46:53pm
Nunc est bibendum!What can you fit on 4GB? Let's see. Figure at least a gig for XP (I think my last XP Home installation was actually a gig and a half, but I'll give Dell the benefit of the doubt - is ...
Posted 02/27/2009 at 10:28:02am
Nunc est bibendum!Right. Now ditch the SSD, put a cheaper, higher capacity HDD in, and knock another $50 off. 4GB? LOLZ! My $30 Chinese MP3 player has twice that much capacity and still wouldn't hold ...
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