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jayhawk11 is not a fan of smallpox.
11/20/09

In reply to Worry Not, Fight Club Has Not Turned Into a Horrible Romantic Comedy
Something tells me the irony of Fight Club being released on perhaps the most consumer unfriendly format ever devised is not lost on Chuck Palahniuk.
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11/20/09

@jayhawk11 loves sammiches: Im sorry why is it consumer unfriendly? more so than a dvd?
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jayhawk11 is not a fan of smallpox.
11/20/09

@oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...: ICT? HDMI? HDCP?

Should I continue throwing out acronyms or is that good enough?

#tips
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11/20/09

@jayhawk11 loves sammiches: hrmm I guess I never thought of it that way. If you have an HDTV, why would you not use HDMI. If you have an HD TV why would it not be HDCP compliant.. I have never heard of any one having consumer unfriendly issues with bluray. If you the hardware, there are no problems. RTFM

#tips
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Chimaera
11/21/09

@oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...: HDTV's and HD displays pre-date both HDMI and HDCP. You have sets with only component video. You have thousands of sets with DVI connections that won't pass HDCP. You have thousands of sets with HDCP compliant DVI connections, but using a HDMI-to-DVI converter breaks the HDCP chain.

It's an additional hassle that didn't need to be.

[www.avrev.com]
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Laughin_Caulk
11/21/09

@jayhawk11 loves sammiches: Whining about "Consumer Friendliness" on a blog post about Fight Club gives Palahnuik a nice chubby. Next up: a commenter on Martha Stewart's blog bringing up "Eco-Friendliness"
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jayhawk11 is not a fan of smallpox.
11/21/09

@Laughin_Caulk: Perhaps you misunderstood. Being "consumer unfriendly" generally means "Corporate-friendly". Something which Jack's id most certainly does not approve of.
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Edited by jayhawk11 is not a fan of smallpox. at 11/21/09 3:11 AM

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11/21/09

@Chimaera: Im sorry but if you're buying a bluray player RTFM dont assume your 500lb projection HD TV that supports 720i is going to be up to snuff.

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Chimaera
11/23/09

@oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...: It's not about reading the manual. It's about companies creating environment where every customer is looked upon as if they were a thief.

#tips
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
11/20/09

In reply to Worry Not, Fight Club Has Not Turned Into a Horrible Romantic Comedy
Gahhh!! Kill it!!
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OMG! Ponies!
06/22/09

In reply to Probably the Smallest Cubicle In the World
Donny and Jonny: Screw up and not only will I not give you another penis word, Jesus will make sure that's your cubicle. As in for the both of you.
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Curves
06/22/09

In reply to Probably the Smallest Cubicle In the World
I worked for a start up. The first few days my desk was a cardboard box flipped over on the floor and a phone. A coffee pot was the first thing I got. What good is a desk with no coffee?
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daqman
06/22/09

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That's nothin' we I wuz a lad we ad nowt but a box in th' middle o' th' road...
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brobot - Beboptimus Prime
06/22/09

@daqman: you half disemvoweled yourself there.... hmm.. well I guess you half disconsonanted yourself too.

+1?
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JC Whitless
06/23/09

@daqman: You 'ere lucky. I dreamed of 'avin me a box. I used to work fifteen odd hours a day in a back of a loo stall wit a RGB monitor and a Tandy 286 and had to use a ball mouse on my desk, but my desk was also a litter box filled with sand from the office kitty.
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brandeis1
06/22/09

In reply to Probably the Smallest Cubicle In the World
I'd probably fit quite comfortably in there. Though I may end up providing my own stool. One of those camping ones would fit nicely.
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lolgreg
06/22/09

@brandeis1: It would be quite awkward if you provided someone elses stool.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
05/15/09

In reply to IBM PC With Windows 3.11, 486/33MHz Processor for $500: Get It While It's Hot!
"Ether that, or we are talking to a time traveler from 20 years ago."

Was that ad placed by John Titor?? I guess he doesn't need that IBM computer any more...
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snoop-blog
05/14/09

In reply to IBM PC With Windows 3.11, 486/33MHz Processor for $500: Get It While It's Hot!
Darn and to think I just finished my i7 build...
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OMG! Ponies!
05/14/09

In reply to IBM PC With Windows 3.11, 486/33MHz Processor for $500: Get It While It's Hot!
So, uh, yeah. You might want to add a prank tag to it. I was a little bored at work today and decided to abuse the internet.

Note to self: don't spoil your own pranks.

Thanks to all who got the joke and to those genuinely wondering if it's real, ridiculous shit is not real!
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Rain-man
05/14/09

@OMG! Ponies!: Pretty funny. But there are already so many people abusing CL. Is this really helping?
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OMG! Ponies!
05/14/09

@Rain-man:

"I will not try to break the internet."

"I will not try to break the internet."

"I will not try to break the internet."

"I will not try to break the internet."

"I will not try to break the internet."

"I will not try to break the internet."

"I will not try to break the internet."

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"I will not try to break the internet."

And now I have detention too.
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themikebrown
05/14/09

In reply to IBM PC With Windows 3.11, 486/33MHz Processor for $500: Get It While It's Hot!
Aww flagged for removal... anyone have a cached page link? I never got to see the Original post.
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OMG! Ponies!
05/14/09

@Mikebrown: I took a screenshot of it.
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CelfDestruk
05/14/09

In reply to IBM PC With Windows 3.11, 486/33MHz Processor for $500: Get It While It's Hot!
If it was Windows 3.11 Windows for Workgroups, I may actually consider it. . . or, if it was a PC made by Digital Equipment Co. (DEC)...well, I may take this seriously...
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OMG! Ponies!
05/14/09

@CelfDestruk: Would you be surprised to know that I did have a Digital 486 computer?
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Homerjay is utterly alone.
05/14/09

In reply to IBM PC With Windows 3.11, 486/33MHz Processor for $500: Get It While It's Hot!
WOOT KILLER.
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flapjacks
05/14/09

In reply to IBM PC With Windows 3.11, 486/33MHz Processor for $500: Get It While It's Hot!
After reading the ram article a few minutes ago, I see that OMG Ponies! is suspiciously silent...
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OMG! Ponies!
05/14/09

@flapjacks: Always go with the gut instinct. It's usually right.
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OMG! Ponies!
05/14/09

In reply to IBM PC With Windows 3.11, 486/33MHz Processor for $500: Get It While It's Hot!
I just got a response from the guy:

"Is real sale. I need money to buy new Pentium computer that will run the new Windows 95 program. Is supposed to be better than Windows 3 but I don't know. Am too used to finding things in Program Manager. The modem is real fast (by US Robotics) and is much faster than 9600 baud. Even though is 14.4, I got it to run at 28.8 with a program i downloaded.

Am willint to lower ask to $300 for if you have a Apple Mackintosh Quadra (850 preferable).

Also, I have the Netscape Communicator Gold although I just use the browser on it because it reads GIF images and JPG images."
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Jimmy Iovino
05/14/09

In reply to IBM PC With Windows 3.11, 486/33MHz Processor for $500: Get It While It's Hot!
This has to be a joke for a few reasons. The biggest one is the fact that he's talking about "K"s of RAM and a 486 DX 33Mhz would be looking at roughly 4mb. Cost of the RAM of course at the time running roughly $150/meg. Two other reasons, one, it would likely be running DOS 6.x seeing as it's running Windows 3.11 "For Workgroups" and lastly, 80mb is less than half of what most drives were at the time of the 486 DX 33 launch, WD's most popular drive at the time if I remember correctly was the 212mb.

I swear I'm not that big of a nerd.

Also, it just sounds like a joke. I think Giz just got trolled.
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PridgNYC
05/14/09

@Jimmy Iovino:

Actually the specs look to be pretty accurate. My first pc which I built in 1992 was a 486DX2/66Mhz and it had pretty similar specs. Of course mine cost abotu $2500 to build back then although I went with the 19" Idek iiyama monitor which added $800 to the bill
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Jimmy Iovino
05/14/09

@PridgNYC:

Accurate minus the points I brought up. Trust me, I'm pretty sure they didn't even make RAM chips that low for those motherboards. Windows 3.11 for Workgroups was released around DOS 6.0, 6.1 time and 80mb was definitely more of a high end 386 HD / very low end 486 DX 25Mhz HD.

There is no way in hell you had less than a meg of ram and only an 80mb HD on a 486 DX2 66.
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Jimmy Iovino
05/14/09

@Jimmy Iovino: @PridgNYC:

Also, let me add that he makes no mention of a CD-Rom drive or a sound card which would've likely been something a long the lines of a Sound Blaster Card or a 2x CD-Rom. Both which are important specs for this era of computing and would've been worth mentioning.
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OMG! Ponies!
05/14/09

@Jimmy Iovino: Are you sure it's not this guy selling his old Gateway 2000?

[justinsomnia.org]
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OMG! Ponies!
05/14/09

@Jimmy Iovino: And yes he does. He notes that there is an open bay to install a CD-ROM drive.
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