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    Image of jriga jriga
    09/25/09

    In reply to Steve Ballmer Up Close, Sipping Coffee, Talkin' Bout Phones and Stuff
    His voice, his appearance... just everything about him creeps to the deepest level. HE IS A PC.
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    Image of Xeno Xeno
    09/25/09

    @jriga: I hope so. A hipster haircut and snarky t-shirt wouldn't look good on him,
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    Image of jriga jriga
    09/25/09

    @Xeno: So true...

    Did we just find Giz's next Photoshop contest!? Dress Ballmer as a "mac"!!
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    09/25/09

    In reply to Steve Ballmer Up Close, Sipping Coffee, Talkin' Bout Phones and Stuff
    Nope, not something bigger like "the fucking cellphone industry" or better yet the niche market of "smartphones".

    That guy is a blithering IDIOT!
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    Image of Xeno Xeno
    09/25/09

    @beekerstudios: you are inane and stupid: By every modern measure of intelligence and success he is not. When you run a multinational company that has products in every country in the world I'm sure he'll care what you think.
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    Image of MTBVibe MTBVibe
    09/25/09

    In reply to Steve Ballmer Up Close, Sipping Coffee, Talkin' Bout Phones and Stuff
    Media players is a niche category? Doubtful. I don't think I know a single person of any age now who doesn't own a PMP of some stripe...and a good half of the people I know own at least two.
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    09/25/09

    @MTBVibe: I don't own one. You now know someone. I can introduce you to numerous more people too, if necessary.

    Media players is a dying market, with the integration into smart phones, especially as online streaming of music (last.fm, pandora) gains popularity.
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    Image of dogcow dogcow
    09/25/09

    @ester: crap, what about this Zune HD I just ordered?
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    Xeno promoted this comment dogcow was starred dogcow was unstarred
    Image of Xeno Xeno
    09/25/09

    @dogcow: Acording to Balmer it would be a niche product. It's not a bad term. It just means it is focused on you.
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    Image of snathanb snathanb
    09/25/09

    In reply to Steve Ballmer Up Close, Sipping Coffee, Talkin' Bout Phones and Stuff
    And just what exactly does his drinking a giant iced coffee from Starbucks explain?
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    09/25/09

    @snathanb: That he has lousy taste when it comes to coffee..
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    09/25/09

    @snathanb: I was thinking maybe how hyper, ADHD, and spaztic he is.
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    09/25/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Bright Idea®: It was nothing more than a low class passive aggressive swipe at a man, who like him or not, has achieved more in his career than Matt Buchanan could ever aspire to.
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    09/25/09

    @snathanb: I see. And you've never made a smarmy comment about anyone, in your entire life? Oh wait, I think you just did. I guess you're no better than Matt. Welcome to the low class land of snark and make-believe..
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    Image of Daniel Grinton Daniel Grinton
    09/25/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Bright Idea®: Except that his comment was hardly passive-aggressive and really leans more toward the aggressive front.
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    09/25/09

    @Daniel Grinton: You think Matt's statement was aggressive because he posited that Ballmer's coffee consumption might account for his displays of hyperactive behavior?
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    Image of Daniel Grinton Daniel Grinton
    09/25/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Bright Idea®: I... I was talking about snathanb's comment
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    09/26/09

    @Daniel Grinton: Ah, ok.
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    Image of danielsmi danielsmi
    09/25/09

    In reply to Steve Ballmer Up Close, Sipping Coffee, Talkin' Bout Phones and Stuff
    Good interview. I think he's got a point in regards to smart phones. Currently they are a niche market but they won't be soon. I don't see a single company selling hundreds of millions of one device each year. Let's just hope for their sake that Winmo 7 is as good as Win7, otherwise it's gonna be android that will be the big software provider for all those phones.
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    09/25/09

    @danielsmi: Agreed. Microsoft is actually playing an 'underdog' role these days, and doing it quite well. Having great success with Windows 7, Microsoft Office 2010 looks great, Zune HD is an excellent product - who is to say where Windows Mobile will be in a year from now.

    I do find it interesting that Ballmer can be drinking coffee and not jumping off of the walls. Maybe it has the opposite effect on him that it does on the rest of us.

    Great interview, though - and your points, danielsmi, are good ones.
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    Image of Xeno Xeno
    09/25/09

    @danielsmi: I don't think the scale of what he said is sinking in. Non-niche is 300+ mill a year. That's almost the entire US population. The trends you are seeing in the richest country in the world aren't exactly telling on the world scale.
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    07/21/09

    In reply to The Cloud Project Would Theoretically Make Ice Cream Fall Like Snow
    The problem is when everyone's contact list and documents come out of the cloud.
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    Image of branchclarke branchclarke
    07/20/09

    In reply to The Cloud Project Would Theoretically Make Ice Cream Fall Like Snow
    The mall by my house does something like this. At Christmas time, the giant fake tree they set up shoots mint flavored "snow" from it's top.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    07/20/09

    @branchclarke: That's really just finely shaved urinal cake providing the fresh minty er... taste.
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    Image of dimsum4u dimsum4u
    07/20/09

    In reply to The Cloud Project Would Theoretically Make Ice Cream Fall Like Snow
    Very interesting, can we have an adult version of this and have it rain alcohol? Oh how glorious that would be.
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    07/20/09

    @dimsum4u:
    imagine every living creature becoming intoxicated after a light rain? chaos my friend, complete girl on girl chaos.
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    07/20/09

    In reply to The Cloud Project Would Theoretically Make Ice Cream Fall Like Snow
    Cloudy with a chance of meatballs.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    07/20/09

    In reply to The Cloud Project Would Theoretically Make Ice Cream Fall Like Snow
    Yes, because I really want to be cleaning all of that sticky shit off of my car...

    I already had to take it to have the interior detailed after NPH stole it that night I was trying to get to White Castle.
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    Image of rusty rusty
    07/20/09

    @Lite: is on a boat.: get your wife to lick it off ;p
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    07/20/09

    @ra2daj: Yes, because having my wife lick my car is really a great use for her tongue...

    You can do better than that.
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    07/20/09

    @Lite: is on a boat.: Clean the car off with your body, THEN have your wife lick it off
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    07/20/09

    @Itspeat!: And these are the posts that get to the front of the line with the new comment system.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    07/20/09

    @Bustout: Ironic, doncha think?
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    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    07/20/09

    In reply to The New Pirate Bay: Fees Subsidized By Your Computing Power
    Let's just forget about it like we did with Napster and just move on? It is dead deadetty dead you know?

    So, what's the largest non-sold out torrent service nowadays?
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    Image of kylenalepa kylenalepa
    07/17/09

    In reply to The New Pirate Bay: Fees Subsidized By Your Computing Power
    If I could legally download content from TPB in exchange for letting them use my computer during its idle time (like Folding@Home), I would be all over that.
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    07/17/09

    In reply to The New Pirate Bay: Fees Subsidized By Your Computing Power
    PirateBay was my favorite site followed by Mininova and ISOhunt. The best piratebay feature was the Top 100 feature which I will dearly miss because neither Mininova nor ISOhunt have anything close.
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    07/17/09

    @Purple Monkey Dishwasher: I also used Torrentreactor before it's highjacking but never went back.

    Top Torrent Sites
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    07/17/09

    In reply to The New Pirate Bay: Fees Subsidized By Your Computing Power
    TPB, i hate to see you go. But we both know it's over. I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to move on, it’s just so devastating, sometimes I – holy shit look at her! She’s hot! What’s your name baby? Mininova? Well, Mini, let’s get to fuckin’! What? Who, TPB? Nah, I was never really that into her. Come on. Just touch it.
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    Image of Invisiblemoose Invisiblemoose
    07/17/09

    @nutbastard: Mininova isn't a tracker -- it's only a search engine for torrents.
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    07/17/09

    @Invisiblemoose:

    I don’t know if you noticed, by my comment wasn’t exactly intended to be straight out of Encyclopedia Britannica.
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    07/17/09

    @nutbastard:

    :'(
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    07/17/09

    @nutbastard: I literally LMAO. "Come on. Just touch it" "Encycopedia Britannica" LOL
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    07/17/09

    @Invisiblemoose:

    don't take it personally, i'm a snarky ass to EVERYONE.
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    Image of qbrad qbrad
    07/17/09

    @nutbastard: Zing!
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    Image of Whytookay - Pro Skub Whytookay - Pro Skub
    07/17/09

    In reply to The New Pirate Bay: Fees Subsidized By Your Computing Power
    And with that, isohunt is now my favourite torrenting website.
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