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    Image of Maxichamp Maxichamp
    11/01/09

    In reply to Japan Welcomes Windows 7 with Seven Layer Whopper Burger
    What do they call it in France? Don't they use the metric system? #7
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    10/22/09

    In reply to Japan Welcomes Windows 7 with Seven Layer Whopper Burger

    "Ever wonder what makes special sauce, special? Yo!" #7
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    Image of Griffehpoo Griffehpoo
    10/22/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Bright Idea®: Listen, after you eat this Whopper you're going to have one hell of a bowel movement, after which you'll be lucky to have any bones left.
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    Jrsy Devil's Bright Idea® promoted this comment Edited by Griffehpoo at 10/22/09 1:49 PM Griffehpoo was starred Griffehpoo was unstarred
    Image of se7a7n7 se7a7n7
    10/22/09

    In reply to Japan Welcomes Windows 7 with Seven Layer Whopper Burger
    I'll have the Windows 7 Whopper combo with cheese. I get cheese on each burger patty right? Because just 1 slice of cheese will not do it. I will definitely need 7 slices of cheese.
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    Edited by se7a7n7 at 10/22/09 12:48 PM se7a7n7 was starred se7a7n7 was unstarred
    Image of NeoAkira NeoAkira
    10/22/09

    In reply to Japan Welcomes Windows 7 with Seven Layer Whopper Burger
    Awww man, Japan-only? #7
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    Image of ReynaldoRiv ReynaldoRiv
    10/22/09

    @NeoAkira: If this was offered in America the BMI would double in a week!! #7
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    NeoAkira promoted this comment ReynaldoRiv was starred ReynaldoRiv was unstarred
    Image of NeoAkira NeoAkira
    10/22/09

    @ReynaldoRiv:

    It'd be worth it! #7
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    Image of UnderLoK UnderLoK
    10/22/09

    In reply to Japan Welcomes Windows 7 with Seven Layer Whopper Burger
    I'd buy that for a dollar. #7
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    10/22/09

    In reply to Japan Welcomes Windows 7 with Seven Layer Whopper Burger
    The problem is that it tries to pack in too many features that ordinary committee-think has determined to be desirable while overlooking key aspects that many consumers would desire. It's not about packing more in. It's about making sure what's in there is good.

    Take the key feature: 7 patties. What kind of beef? How are the patties made? How are they prepared? Plus, there are the power-user questions. What is the lean:fat ratio? Instead of just piling a ton of low-grade beef one on another, I would go with two decent-sized patties made of hand-ground dry-aged sirloin from grass-fed cattle, with a 81/19 lean/fat composition, cooked to medium-rare on a cast-iron griddle. This would be on artisinal sourdough, sliced to have a middle separator between the patties. Less meat, better quality.

    Next, the tomatoes. Those look like generic beefsteak tomatoes, a symbol of technological excess. Pretty much any tomato you find in a store nowadays is bland, flavorless mush - and I include the vine tomatoes too. These tomatoes put too much emphasis on looks and not enough of their central function - tasting good. Really that tomato should be an heirloom tomato. They are not as pretty or photogenic but while they're not easy on the eyes, sophisticated users know that they're the way to go.

    Lettuce, especially of the greenleaf and iceberg varieties, offers a bit of texture difference but not much else. Again, unnecessary to the burger's central mission. Because this product is being rushed to market to appeal to a wide userbase, better alternatives are not contemplated. Replace the lettuce with a bit of mustard greens, some radicchio, and some endive.

    Undoubtedly, those pickles are mushy cloying bread-and-butter slices from a jar. This widget-approach to condiments is designed to make the consumer feel like there's some value. Remove the pickle slices and replace them with one lengthwise garlic dill slice and one half-sour, with a bit of chili paste for heat.

    There should also be two major add-ons to this release: cheese and bacon. The cheese should be one slice of aged Cheddar (from Cheddar, England) and for the other patty, something to add some afterbite, possibly a good Wensleydale. The bacon should be a hickory cold-smoked thick-cut variety from either Virginia or one of the Carolinas. Applewood is a bit overplayed now and you want something that will be able to be tasted with all of the rest. That the cheese and bacon didn't make it out of committee shows how badly this project was implemented.

    Underneath the hood, there should still be a bit of the classic Heinz 57 ketchup, but instead of generic yellow mustard, a very coarse brown mustard that has whole seeds still in it.

    On the bottom, there should be two hand-cut slices of Bermuda onion to add texture, flavor and protection to the base bun.

    Does all of this add cost? Of course it does. But a quality-engineered product is more capable of delivering value in spite of price than a cheaper system that is engineering to be implemented across all platforms. I'll take a hand-compiled burger over this thing any day. #7
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    Image of Dezerus Richardson Dezerus Richardson
    10/22/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: That, my friend, is why I take the Apple Burger over this monstrosity. #7
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    Image of Danny Allen Danny Allen
    10/22/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: wow. just. wow. #7
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    10/22/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: you, my friend, are welcome in my kitchen any day. #7
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    10/22/09


    @OMG! Ponies!: #7
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    10/22/09

    @Dezerus Richardson: Apple Burger is what we used to call a Wish Sandwich. You just get two slices of bread and wish you had something between them.... #7
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/22/09

    In reply to Japan Welcomes Windows 7 with Seven Layer Whopper Burger
    But when I eat it, do I reenact a scene out of Requiem for a Dream? #7
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    Image of Curves Curves
    10/22/09

    In reply to Japan Welcomes Windows 7 with Seven Layer Whopper Burger
    This kinda looks like the crabby patty that Squidward made the day Spongebob had the register. Its also the same day they switched back. #7
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    Image of joe.glass joe.glass
    10/22/09

    In reply to Japan Welcomes Windows 7 with Seven Layer Whopper Burger
    Sure sure, "It's Gross!" "It's a heart attack waiting to happen!" "My children will get rickets!" etc etc blah blah...

    All this useless complaining yet no one has shed light on the real travesty: 7 patties, plus bun, lettuce, tomato, onions, and pickles only measure 5" tall?! Talk about cheap, flat patties. #7
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    Image of RainyDayInterns RainyDayInterns
    10/22/09

    In reply to Japan Welcomes Windows 7 with Seven Layer Whopper Burger
    Are they trying to say...that both will give you an instant heart attack? #7
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    Image of DssTrainer DssTrainer
    08/19/09

    In reply to Touch Screen Netbooks With Windows 7 On The Way From Acer, MSI?
    As long as you make them swivel based so they can fold over the keyboard they will. Touchscreen on a screen where the keyboard is in the way is no bueno. Even with the normal Aspire One, when I'm watching a movie or something the keyboard is often in the way.

    ALL LAPTOPS SHOULD BE SWIVEL COLLAPSIBLE... STANDARD

    There, I said it.
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    Bigbadbikernerd promoted this comment DssTrainer was starred DssTrainer was unstarred
    Image of Bigbadbikernerd Bigbadbikernerd
    08/19/09

    @DssTrainer: I think that would make them too fragile.
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    Image of Xeno Xeno
    08/19/09

    @DssTrainer: Those are called tablet PC's. They are great. Not all laptops need to be tablets though.
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    Image of Nekrik Nekrik
    08/10/09

    In reply to Sony Laptops Have Hardware Virtualization Disabled, Can't Run Windows 7's XP Mode
    This shouldn't be too big of a deal, if it works as I remember you simply need to enable VT in the BIOS or EFI, pretty easy stuff. Basicaly what Sony is saying is "we won't admit to knowing much about this, we didn't test it, and we're not going to offer Sony support for the feature". The compatibility of the chips in question with XP mode has already been tested, just not by them.
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    AnalysisDialysis (Countering the Zombie Invasion!) promoted this comment Edited by Nekrik at 08/10/09 4:40 AM Nekrik was starred Nekrik was unstarred
    Image of LessthanZach LessthanZach
    08/06/09

    In reply to Windows 7 Has an Obscure OS-Crashing Memory Bug
    I have gotten the BSOD probably 15 times since downloading the RC1 2 weeks after it launched. I get it especially when turning the computer on with media in the card reader (ie w/ a SD card inserted in the card slot) and other times seemingly with no constant. It has made me hesitate from purchasing the final release, though I am sure they will fix a ton of bugs shortly after the public release. Also, now when I turn the computer on, it tries to perform a consistency check on the C: but always fails. Plus I seem to be getting very inaccurate memory reporting. I dunno, I LOVE the interface though!
    BTW, I use a BRAND NEW HP pavillion, and 4 gb ram, so it isn't a hardware limitation that I can think of.
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    Edited by LessthanZach at 08/06/09 1:38 AM LessthanZach was starred LessthanZach was unstarred
    Image of DirtyDogg DirtyDogg
    08/06/09

    @LessthanZach: Might be a good idea to run a mem test. That could easily be a faulty RAM stick.
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    Image of LessthanZach LessthanZach
    08/06/09

    @DirtyDogg: Sounds great, and thanks. But I can't understand why it would have anything to do with the Disk Consistency check failing (freezes at the last second of the countdown) or the inaccurate hard drive reading. But I appreciate your helpfulness so, thanks.
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    Edited by LessthanZach at 08/06/09 6:51 AM LessthanZach was starred LessthanZach was unstarred
    Image of Michai Michai
    08/05/09

    In reply to Windows 7 Has an Obscure OS-Crashing Memory Bug
    Whats so obscure about it, its Windows.
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    Image of Paradise Paradise
    08/05/09

    @Michai: ORIGINAL COMMENT FAIL.
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    whiteknight89 still plays DiabloII promoted this comment Paradise was starred Paradise was unstarred
    Image of dnheller dnheller
    08/05/09

    In reply to Windows 7 Has an Obscure OS-Crashing Memory Bug
    Thank goodness for Microsoft's backwards compatibility! I was afraid that W7 wouldn't be able to support Blue Screens of Death.
    In my 20+ years of working with Unix/Linux and derivatives, I've had only two PANIC messages (the Unix equivalent of a BSOD) and one was from truly defective hardware.
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    Image of Paradise Paradise
    08/05/09

    @dnheller: that's nice. do you think it's fair to speak for everyone when you tout Unix/Linux and slam Windows? I know Firefox works well for me but I certainly wouldn't proclaim that IE sucks because it's crashed more for me personally.
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    Image of DemanRisu DemanRisu
    08/06/09

    @Paradise: But mate, the thing is, IE does suck.
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