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• Commented on Games Workshop declares war on best customers. Again.
  That's why I've been a fan of Palladium Books since grammar school (TMNT FTW!). They actively engage with their fans and have had a liberal policy on using their stuff for years (http://www.palladiumbooks.com/policies.html). That and their games are super fun!...
• Commented on Do you understand my first-grade child's homework?
  I'm sorry, but I have to completely disagree with what you said. Research and literature? Care to provide some, because without providing links to any relevant papers that have been published in recognized journals, then you're full of it. If...
• Commented on What MP3 player should I buy?
  The device limitation in iTunes has to do with the number of computers you can link to an iTunes account. You can sync an unlimited number of ipods with any version of itunes on any computer. The only DRM on...
• Commented on Why ad-blockers, ad-skippers and other user-control technologies are legal
  I stopped using ad blockers as soon as I installed Click to Flash. Ads don't bother me nearly as much as Flash, which makes me sad, since apparently BB uses Flash for its ads. Although I might go down the...
• Commented on Phone audio quality sucks
  Call audio sounds just great on my iphone... when I use Skype!...
• Commented on AT&T unable to fix broken iPhone voicemail
  I have to agree that these stories are blown way out of proportion. Granted, I only have a sample size of 6 (3 original iphones, two of which recently got replaced by 3GS's and a 3G) and none of us...
• Commented on Greenpeace Declares Nokia Super-Green, Nintendo Not-So-Much
  Greenpeace is a disreputable company that does NOTHING for the environment. All they do is collect donations and make noises so they can collect more donations. They didn't even bother sending the Esmerelda down to the Antarctic last whaling season...
• Commented on Follow us at GDGT
  Still trying to dedicate enough time to really get into it (it'll be awesome if/when they get an iphone-friendly version up) http://user.gdgt.com/dssstrkl/...
• Commented on Abstinence doesn't work for IT or for teens
  Sorry, Cory, but you are so wrong it hurts. Computers don't just connect to the internet on their own. Someone has to either plug it in or enter a wifi password (please show me a mission-critical machine in range of...
• Commented on Behold! OSX finally on Vaio P
  A kext is an OS X kernel extension. Its one of those things that you shouldn't mess with unless you REALLY know what you're doing, since a screwup can hose your system....
• Commented on Why is in-car Bluetooth and iPod/audio support still a "premium"?
  Scions come with an iPod connector, a 3.5mm audio input and at least my tC has two power ports. No bluetooth, but that's fine with me since I don't like to blast my conversations out of the stereo for everyone...
• Commented on Loop of Disney video that rips off other Disney video
  Wow, that's really terrible. I wonder if that's easier or harder to pull off with CGI movies......
• Favorited I Was A Pre-Teen Christian Supercomputer! on Boing Boing Gadgets
• Commented on Slate: How to Annoy Your Audience
  Adblock FTW! Seriously, if ads weren't so intrusive and incredibly annoying, there would be no need for Adblock or flashblock. That and the fact that ads can inject malicious javascript, force cross-site scripting or add third-party tracking cookie, that is....
• Commented on World's most flushingest toilet
  Oh. My. God. My house desperately needs one of those. Like right the fuck now!...
• Commented on Shocker: we aren't buying as many expensive Macs
  @tensegrity What, we can't save up for large purchases? For those of us without thousands of dollars lying around, there's always the option of saving enough to make your purchases. I consider the $2500 I spent on my PowerBook in...
• Commented on Shocker: we aren't buying as many expensive Macs
  How about we consider the fact that MacBook sales went up in January, and it's Mac desktop sales that are down. Big surprise there. The current iMac is over 10 months old, the mac pro is over a year old...
• Commented on Just compare Windows Mobile 6.5 to iPhone, says Microsoft
  @CROSSWIREDMIND They use hexes because WinMo doesn't support capacitive touchscreens. At all. So to make it finger-usable, the icons have to be big and separate enough to register. For me, no capacitive is the real loser. I seriously doubt anyone...
• Commented on Adobe CEO: iPhone Flash "ball in our court"
  Are you really that excited over the prospect of having your battery annihilated by some website with a bunch of flash animations? Considering the damage that flash does to my Macbook Pro's battery when some stupid ad (that usually coincides...
• Commented on The gadget tribes of technology
  Guess I'm closest to blogger?...
• Commented on Change Back: The Post-CES Guide to de-Appleification
  Palm Pre runs linux like the iPhone runs Darwin: as the kernel, so who cares? Its not like you can get to the Linux-y parts when you're running AJAX applets. Windows 7 is far better than Vista in terms of...
• Commented on It's not racist to prefer the iPhone
  What's funny to me is that the very groups that I saw using Sidekicks in years past are now using, *shock* iPhones, Blackberries (all kinds) and cheap WinMo smartphones. Fact is, nowadays people, kids included, care about more than IM,...
• Commented on How the Great Firewall of Britain works
  @ARJENKAMPHUIS: Dude, don't you know? That data must always be secret to protect us from the terrists! Us lowly peons are too stupid and huddled mass-like to think for ourselves. That, and its too easy to criticize the government now......
• Commented on Defective By Design's Xmas DRM boycott -- 35 days and 35 products that don't deserve your money
  I got that email earlier and once again, FSF has their cables crossed. They *should* be calling for a boycott on itunes downloads that have HDCP enabled, not the hardware that supports it. Otherwise, that means we should boycott every...
• Commented on The first Macs to offer Blu-Ray are made by... Psystar?
  Its just a BDR drive that you can already buy for a Mac Pro (or a Macbook Pro + skillz) from fastmac.com. If you *really* want a BluRay burner on your Mac, you've been able to do so for over...
• Commented on Google Earth inexplicably launches first on iPhone, not Android
  Here's your explanation: Again, Android is competition for Windows Mobile, and to a lesser extent, the Blackberry, not the iPhone. The whole point of Android is to get Google's services on mobile devices. Considering that the iPhone comes with Google...
• Commented on New York Times says search engines detecting unannounced Apple device
  FYI, hackintoshes generally report themselves as Mac Pros, so its likely not a Wind that's got everyone excited....
• Commented on Does Apple think iTunes is threatened by Blu-Ray?
  I'm surprised that BoingBoing forgot this, but one of the reasons why there's no blu-ray on Macs is because of the end-to-end DRM that's required by AACS. That means that Apple would have to booger up OS X with worthless...
• Commented on A couple of weeks with V-Moda's upgraded Vibe Duo headphones
  After going through two sets of those in five months, I decided to go with the Ultimate Ears iphone buds. They sound better and the clicker is a nicely big button placed farther down in the cord, so its a...
• Commented on <em>Gadget Lab</em> installs OS X on the Wind, says it runs better than XP
  You might be doing it wrong: 10.5 runs like butter on my RevA macbook pro....