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jepzilla
03:18 PM

In reply to The Killed Windows 7 Family Guy Special Even More Horrible Than I Imagined
They made the right choice in killing the Family Guy special.

On the other hand, those would make fairly amusing stand-alone ads. A nice change from the nauseatingly sterile advertising that we're all used to.
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tande04
03:26 PM

@jepzilla: These were stand alone ads. I don't watch hardly any TV and I've seen all of them.

I don't think the special would have in any way shape or form resembled these.
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phunnyballs
03:16 PM

In reply to The Killed Windows 7 Family Guy Special Even More Horrible Than I Imagined
The killed?

Does that even make sense? Shouldn't it be "The dead"? or am I imagining things?
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blash
11:40 AM

In reply to You Don't Need a TiVo Anymore
Adapt or die. TiVo had a good product and then decided to do nothing while the cash rolled in and the good times rolled away.

The industry is moving from time-shifting to on-demand: being able to effectively circumvent what time a specific show aired by recording it has been replaced by not caring at all what the original show time was, since you can just get it on-demand. TiVo should have got itself into the on-demand business while its profits were high - imagine if Hulu was originally created by TiVo or if TiVo had made a deal to somehow get (over the TV line or the internet line) on-demand for it's service, i.e. "missed the show AND forgot to record? We still got it for you!"

But TiVo decided that the industry wasn't going to fundamentally change with the Internet so they decided to just refine their product - and now they're suffering for it.
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Noobs-R-Us
11:58 AM

@blash: The sad part of it is that it's still not too late for them but the idiots running the place are so dumb that they are impotent.
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dragon:ONE
11/26/09

In reply to You Don't Need a TiVo Anymore
Jason, what if you're in a family that absolutely refuses to get more than one box, and also refuses to get DVR service?

I've always considered picking up an older Series 2 Tivo and trying to 'emulate' the service like the Australians and Canadians did before the 'official' release of Tivo. It's hard to find the scripts and emulators they used to use (since they kept it all password protected and made you verify that you were an official citizen - after all, an American with the software just has the intent to steal service), but from what I've seen, a few simple Google searches gets the goods ;)
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pwheeler
11/26/09

@dragon:ONE: While I don't refuse more than one box what I'm really hoping for is a tuner card for satellite (Bell Expressvu). Then I can actually have one box for everything.
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dragon:ONE
11/26/09

@pwheeler: They make cards for those. Although they are more for the FTA market, I do know it'd be easy to hack ExpressVu into the equation...
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k-napped
11/25/09

In reply to Windows 7 Passes Mac OS X Install Base
For a long time (at least 6 years) I've always envied the Macs I had to work on as a designer. Stuff was just too expensive to justify getting one (plus I used stuff that was Windows only).

But, working on both everyday, I greatly prefer Windows 7. I work twice as fast on it than OSX.

Finally I feel like I'm using a windows operating system that was built this decade... and it only took the whole decade to make!
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SysRq
11/25/09

In reply to Windows 7 Passes Mac OS X Install Base
Resident Apple fanboy reporting: Windows 7 is alright with me.

Still like OS X better, and Windows 7 is still Windows when it comes down to it, but there's some neat stuff in 7 and it's great that people are upgrading. You don't have to be happy with XP anymore.
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delphinus87
11/25/09

@SysRq: Thank you. People need to be more civil about this stuff. All of this fanboy garbage "MAC SUXX WINDOWS FTFW!!!" needs to go. Microsoft users need to concede that Macs are not just style over substance and Mac users have to admit that Windows products are no longer the BSODing virus happy machines they used to be.
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imTheKing
11/25/09

@SysRq: Completely agree. Still think OSX is better as well but Windows 7 is worth the install.
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dagamer34
11/25/09

@SysRq: Especially the media stuff. Windows Media Center is something Apple would never bother doing because they get no money out of it. They'd rather you pay for all your TV content from iTunes.
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(Starman) Starman
11/25/09

@dagamer34: I wouldn't be so sure about that last part (about iTunes, but hey, I'm no expert), but yeah, I agree that WMC is much much better than Front Row.
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gabriele.rizzetto
11/25/09

@SysRq: Right on, brother. I love my Mac, but I finally feel like I can leave XP behind on my Windows boxes and my Boot Camp partition now. It really is a breath of fresh air.
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macpatrik
11/25/09

@SysRq: From one fanboy to another, well said.
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SysRq
11/25/09

@(Starman) Starman: I'm not a fan of either, to be honest. I never saw the appeal of a full screen media application. Fullscreen iTunes if you want music, or fullscreeen Quicktime if you want movies, or fullscreen iPhoto if you want pictures.

#tips
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PotentChr0nic
11/25/09

@SysRq: and how would you fullscreen live tv? I guess you're only considering front row.
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SysRq
11/25/09

@PotentChr0nic: I suppose I am. Then again, I rarely watch live TV anyways, and not just because I'm on a Mac. Hulu is fine for me.

#tips
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PotentChr0nic
11/26/09

@SysRq: You lucky yanks!
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SysRq
11/26/09

@PotentChr0nic: Not all Americans are yanks, my friend, I'm from Texas so I take offense. ;)
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EBone
11/25/09

In reply to The PC Lounge at Saks Fifth Avenue Looks Uncomfortable
The Husband Chair version 2.0.
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Gann
11/25/09

In reply to The PC Lounge at Saks Fifth Avenue Looks Uncomfortable
It would look so much comfier if the chairs just had arms.
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Odin
11/25/09

In reply to The PC Lounge at Saks Fifth Avenue Looks Uncomfortable
If it contains the words Windows or Microsoft you can guarantee there'll be a queue of moronic* Mac fanboys queueing up to troll it.

*Disclaimer: Does not apply to all Mac users. Just the overzealous trolls that think Macs are superior to anything else and that Windows users are idiots.
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zeroprime
11/25/09

@Odin: Looking at the twitter feed it seems Mac twitter users feel the need to prove something. But are they trying to prove it to others or to themselves?
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Bmthuat
11/25/09

@Odin: Yeah, I was thinking the same. Typing this from Macbook, feeling bored of Mac idiots. Yes, they are the minority, but they got mouths as big as the majority summed.
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Clancycoop
11/25/09

@Odin: Are you implying that they are incorrect in the assertion that the lounge looks uncomfortable, or just making an unrelated declaration?
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Kaiser-Machead
11/25/09

@Odin: I have trouble recognizing it without the blue field of garbled computer code saying something went wrong.
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Odin
11/26/09

@Clancycoop:

I was talking about the screenshot twitter feed full of Mactards*, not so much the lounge.

*Read previous disclaimer.
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Odin
11/26/09

@Kaiser-Machead:

It's amazing. You point out a group of people acting like idiots and you always get one person running up jumping about and proclaiming they belong to that group. It's like setting up a bear trap, announcing with a megaphone its position, putting up a big flashing neon sign over it and paying a guy to point at it all day long and then just watching someone stroll right into it.
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Kaiser-Machead
11/26/09

@Odin: Oh it was a joke. Lighten up
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Odin
11/26/09

@Kaiser-Machead:
Jokes don't travel great on the Internet. Lack of tone, body language, etc. makes it often hard to tell if someone is just joking around or being a genuine idiot.

Sorry if I offended you at any rate, my general outlook is to bite first and apologize later.
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Aetius
11/25/09

In reply to The PC Lounge at Saks Fifth Avenue Looks Uncomfortable
So this look uncomfy but the rows of wooden tables, glass windows and concrete at Apple stores does not?

Ohkay then
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lostarchitect
11/25/09

@Aetius: look at the photo. see how low the chairs are compared to the tables? yes, that looks uncomfortable. at the Apple store (and probably the MS store, too) the tables are standing height and work well.
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Aetius
11/25/09

@lostarchitect: This whole thing is silly. It's a f-ing chair and table. If it's too low, don't sit on it. Atleast it's got a warmer vibe than Apple which has all the charm of a Ikea store.
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lostarchitect
11/25/09

@Aetius: it's a gadget blog. sometimes the posts are a little silly. no one is calling for anyone's head. relax.
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Aetius
11/25/09

@lostarchitect: Lol true. I guess Gizmodo got what it wanted. Today's flame thread

#tips
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Kaiser-Machead
11/25/09

In reply to The PC Lounge at Saks Fifth Avenue Looks Uncomfortable
I don't see what's so uncomfortable about this. I think it looks rather nice.

I should go there with my old Inspiron 8200. That thing is the club sandwich of laptops, and would probably get more looks than the sveltest Vaio. It'll be 8 minutes of laptop goodness before the battery dies.
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Friedhamster
11/25/09

@Kaiser-Machead: It looks nice, sure, but comfy? Like a nice home to sit and sip and type? Not so much.
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Kaiser-Machead
11/25/09

@Friedhamster: Eh, it doesn't look so bad really. What would be even more uncomfortable are when the Gawker staff come in and start smashing the place like The Who does to their hotel rooms.
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Friedhamster
11/25/09

@Kaiser-Machead: I can totally see that happening, and did, and laughed. All I could see was that Vanillia Ice interview on MTV when he destroys the set in a rampage and the hosts just sit there, bewildered.

'Do we laugh? Should we run? Is he supposed to do this? What's goooing ooon?'

Awwwwkwaaard....

#speakup
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met2art
11/25/09

@Kaiser-Machead: Heheh my Satellite weighs in at a little over 8lbs and when going full-tilt gets about 20 to 30 minute sof battery time. Beautiful 17" screen though, and still going strong, even after 3 years of extremely serious use!
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Kaiser-Machead
11/25/09

@met2art: My 8200 is roughly 7 years old now, and weighs in at a little more than 10 lbs with just a 15" screen. Has two large swappable bays where I could put dual batteries, for an added playtime of maybe 10 minutes lol.
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met2art
11/25/09

@Kaiser-Machead: Nice... I bought mine exclusively as a desktop "replacement" for when I needed to do Photoshop and illustration work away from home, though mostly in places where I could plug in and sit down to work. In that capacity it performs incredibly. It even handles most games really well, although on some games I need to dial things back a little bit. Overall, it's a monster, and I admire Toshiba's build quality. The only thing I don't like are the blue "grill" lights from the front speakers... wish I could disable them easily (without opening her up). Otherwise, she's perfect.

#tips
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Hello Mister Walrus
11/25/09

In reply to The PC Lounge at Saks Fifth Avenue Looks Uncomfortable
Well, they don't want you to get too comfortable. Otherwise, you will be spending more time using free internet than browsing their store.
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BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2
11/25/09

@Hello Mister Walrus: I was at a Sony Style store at the GSP last night - a woman came in twice with what appeared homework, walked up to a laptop and started typing away on MS Word -- very amusing. The staff couldn't care less.
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Hello Mister Walrus
11/25/09

@BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2: Sony Style has the most apathetic/non-existent staff I've ever seen for such a shiny store. The last time I was at the SF store (before it closed down), I just sat on their couch and watched Fantastic Four 2 on their big TV for an hour.
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Kaiser-Machead
11/25/09

@Hello Mister Walrus: I went to a Sony Style store in Ottawa and it was the same deal. The Rolly they had in there was more concerned about what I was doing than they were. When I actually bought something (mic set for my SE), they looked at me like I was loitering. Not going back. Freaking Canadians lol
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Gordonium
11/25/09

In reply to The PC Lounge at Saks Fifth Avenue Looks Uncomfortable
Bleh. I'll be sure to put in some time there to justify my Back's Fifth Operation.
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BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2
11/25/09

In reply to The PC Lounge at Saks Fifth Avenue Looks Uncomfortable
Looks comfortable to me. Reminds me of Starbucks and anything that reminds me of Starbucks is a good thing.
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OCEntertainment
11/25/09

@BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2: Interesting. That was my first reaction, too. Except, you know, the exact opposite.

OC = can't stand coffee, can't stand Starbucks.

Does look comfortable, though.
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BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2
11/25/09

@OCEntertainment: OC = runs on Dunkin Donuts?
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OCEntertainment
11/25/09

@BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2: OC = 60% Mountain Dew, 10% Amp/Jolt (on the weekends), 30% Pizza and Ramen.

Or, if we want to simplify that equation:

OC = in his mid-twenties.
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BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2
11/25/09

@OCEntertainment: IC OC
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BeyondtheTech
11/23/09

In reply to Sony Vaio UX Becomes a Killer Hackintosh UMPC
I remember having the UX180P and 280P, and the battery life was the most depressing part of it. Sucked the cells dry within 90-140 minutes flat. I'd get this again in a heartbeat if they could at least double it without doubling the size or weight of the unit.
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