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Amazon PayPhrase Will Help You Part with Your Money Even Faster
Posted 10/29/2009 at 09:57:35pm
Wal-Mart Takes on the Geek Squad
Posted 10/26/2009 at 05:54:19pm
European Union: It's Okay to Cut Off Pirates' Internet, After All
Posted 10/26/2009 at 05:49:35pm
If my son is pirating software without my knowledge (hypothetically - he's only 2), and he gets cut off for a year, does that mean that I can't have internet in my home any more?
- Jox
Geocities Finally Shuts the Gates
Posted 10/26/2009 at 05:41:32pm
Geocities might have sucked less (and perhaps even turned a profit) if everything hosted there wasn't dirt-slow to load and didn't have those wretched floating adverts that impaired one's ability to read the damn page.
This is long overdue.
-Jox
Internet Gearing for Non-English URLs
Posted 10/26/2009 at 05:36:30pm
Analyst: Prepare to Pay More (A Lot More) for Xbox Live
Posted 10/19/2009 at 09:16:19pm
Barnes and Noble eReader Being Announced Tuesday, Priced at $259
Posted 10/19/2009 at 08:28:30pm
*yawn*
Trending Topics: Single-Serving Websites
Posted 10/17/2009 at 03:44:45pm
Is Linux Its Own Worst Enemy?
Posted 10/17/2009 at 11:07:04am
I (successfully) installed Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex on a seperate partition of my main machine. Install wasn't too hard (though ensuring I"d selected the correct HDD to install to was tricky), and everything ran smoothly. I was browsing the web in no time and playing around with some of the programs that came with the distro. I would still be using it today were it not for 3 things:
1) No sound. My Soundblaster Xtreme Gamer card had no Linux drivers (at the time, at least).
2) Gaming in Linux is dodgy. WINE works with many games, but many more simply do not function.
3) Shortly after installation, a popup window asked if I'd like to run an auto-update to patch my system. I figured "updates are good" and clicked ok. All the downloads were completed and I restarted (as instructed) and the system would not boot. Auto-update bricked my install.
I was a DOS user back in the day, and a windows user today. I'd LIKE to be a Linux user, but the number of hoops I have to jump through to play games on it, plus sketchy driver support plus the general difficulty involved in learning a new OS means I'll stick with windows for now.
-Jox
This Holiday, Put an Ebook on your Wishlist--Everyone Else Will
Posted 10/10/2009 at 09:54:50pm
Luddite? Hardly.
You seem a bit confused, Tekzel, as you are apparently suggesting that ebook readers would be a more environmentally friendly alternative to books. What you fail to take into account is:
1) Trees are a renewable resource.
2) Making paper isn't anywhere near as damaging to the environment as making the plastic and metal that would go into an ebook reader.
3) Paper biodegrades - plastic takes 10s of thousands of years to break down and releases all kinds of toxic chemicals in the process.
The problem (from an environmental perspective) with these devices is that people THINK they will "save the trees" and they MIGHT, if everyone who ever bought one kept it for 40 years and handed it down to their kids, but that won't happen. Technology will continue to advance and people will buy new readers (some will buy new readers every year) and the old ones will end up in a landfill in China or India where homeless kids will pick through the piles of garbage for the few micro-ounces of platinum, gold, silver and copper used to make these things so that they can sell it.
The irony is that paper books are actually better for the environment.