I think BMW's trying to expand into the customized auto market that is current dominated by Japanese modeles, especially the Lexus IS. It's a good move. - LANjackal
"Sony HAS to drop the PS3's price to $299 at the least, probably $269 if it wants to make any headway against MS or Nintendo. As good as the PS3 is, it's painfully expensive by comparison." - LANjackal
"I find it ironic that people who rail for NN legislation seem to forget that this is the same government that has given us the DMCA and PRO-IP acts. It would be better for all if the government kept its hands off technological matters. Also, net neutrality isn't nearly as much an issue as bandwidth caps, which ISPs are using to unfairly protect their own video offerings from competition with 3rd party streaming services." - LANjackal
"FAST may not have to worry about software piracy for much longer - piracy of paid products is getting killed by the widespread availability of free "good enough" software." - LANjackal
"It's always been my opinion that the whole netbook concept is pretty pointless anyway. What use is a device that's not nearly powerful enough for serious computing yet not portable enough to be carried around with you? Not to mention the usability issues brought up in the article. For the record, the same can be said for MS' UMPC products, which suffer from the same not-powerful-enough-BUT-not-portable-enough-either issues." - LANjackal
"I don't know where you're from dude, but 20% return rate is horrific. That means 20% LESS sales revenue. If the whole netbook concept were a traded company, it's stock would be underwater." - LANjackal
This has to be a joke. I was in a BB earlier *today* browsing the HDTV section and not a single soul came to offer me assistance (not that I needed any, but still) ... - LANjackal
I've installed 2 pre-Vista drivers with no problems. In addition, Vista often reports that software that installed correctly didn't. It's annoying. - LANjackal
What a lot of people don't realize is that the high fuel prices forced the airlines to cut a lot of capacity. As such, even if they lowered their fares, market equilibrium would force them upwards anyway. - LANjackal
Ummm "looking at" does != "planning to purchase". I've "looked at" Apple products for a while, but never actually pulled the trigger. Ditto with "considering", another meaningless survey term. - LANjackal
"Other things that know where you are: Your cellphone - the records for which can easily be subpoenaed, that rental you just picked up from the airport, and your car - if it is equipped with a remote assistance feature. Note to Cnet: Windows + privacy in the same sentence != good article. Buried." - LANjackal
"Ummm I rarely use UPS in the first place to send any of my packages because the USPS offers the same service for much less. As for receiving packages, apparently the genius who wrote this forgot that you often have no control over which shipping company an e-tailer uses ..." - LANjackal
"10 million is SUCH A BIG NUMBER. What's the population of NYC? LOL. 10 million is nothing dude. There are more installed Xbox 360s than that even, and probably more iPhones. Don't get me wrong, I run Linux on my PS3 and on another laptop, but unlike most fanatics I don't deceive myself into thinking that it'll be mainstream at any point in the future, barring a major disaster with either Windows or OS X. And no, Vista was not that disaster." - LANjackal
"I've been secure since I set up my network. Bottom line: use the most secure protocol/encryption your devices ALL support. WPA2 + AES for me :)" - LANjackal
"I think it's hilarious (pathetic, actually) that an OS that makes up barely 0.71% of the market (down from 0.91% the previous month) is being touted a mainstream contender? Excuse me, but that's like saying cough medicine has a chance of overtaking orange juice as a breakfast staple, because some people happen to take their dose of the former in the morning. The funnier part is that I can count the number of Linux users I've met in the wild on ONE hand. Buried." - LANjackal
"Excellent and exciting development. There are many times I've wanted to calculate something but had to resort to Excel because the existing Calculator is crap." - LANjackal
