notfred commented on What It's Like Working Under Bill Gates

"Yup."

notfred commented on The Flaik Armband Tracks Your Airtime on the Ski Slopes

"(just read the flaik site) They don't claim to measure airtime - the title of this article is misleading, and the first poster'll be disappointed."

notfred commented on The Flaik Armband Tracks Your Airtime on the Ski Slopes

"yeah, not."

notfred commented on Wet X-Light Surround Basin: The World's First "Musical" Washbasin

"riiiight. Because transparent acrylic polymer cleans itself and never scratches. And is really strong in the thinness used in this picture. Great idea until it hits the real world."

notfred commented on My MacBook Cable Replacement Tip at Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools

"You get a different cable in many countries."

notfred commented on Canvas Laptop Computer Concept for Creative Types

"it looks completely unusable."

notfred commented on Helios Odyssey Media Hub Gets BitTorrent, Emule Downloading

"Uh, $169 gets you the empty gadget - no hard disk."

notfred commented on Be a Walking Wikipedia With the Handheld Looking Glass Computer

"I agree with all the other comments."

notfred commented on 7-in-1 Card Reader Includes Floppy Disk for Those People Trapped in 1987

"I read all my floppy disks into images a few years ago."

notfred commented on Hype Sheet: HD DVD's Plight in a Nutshell

"Except the Vectrex was awesome."

notfred commented on Peruvian Anti-Riot Police Uniforms Look Like Judge Dredd Meets Batman

"Hey, you riot in Canada, our previous PM would get you in a choke hold."

notfred commented on Matsushita Becoming Just Panasonic on Oct. 1

"@firesign: I was wondering about "National", too."

notfred commented on Aigopen Reads Books So You Don't Have to

"This is no more complicated than scanning a Q-code, then going out to a URL, or reading from a ROM chip."

notfred commented on Lord of the Rings HD vs. DVD Screen Captures: Get Ready to Buy a Blu-ray Player

"It's old news, sure, but it's still depressing."

notfred commented on Toshiba Builds Personal-Sized Micro Nuclear Reactor? Huh?

"There was something like this announced a few years ago, for towns in the arctic. [en.wikipedia.org] [en.wikipedia.org]"

notfred commented on The Secret of the Time Machine-Assisted Hard Drive Swap

"@sqeakytoy of the apocalypse: Snow! Lucky bastard."

notfred commented on Nuutbook 6-Inch Portable e-Book Has Great Looks, Even Greater Name

"@darex: Don't look at what it's made of, look at what it does."

notfred commented on PSP Firmware 3.80 Brings Pocket DVR

"@arkowi: The trouble is battery life."