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    Dell U2713HM

    I was tempted by this when Newegg had it for $600 a few weeks ago. Now it's $550 and I couldn't resist. Replacing an HP LP2475W. Dell monitors used to be on my 'cannot consider list' because of overly aggressive anti-glare but reviews state the anti-glare is now much more subdued. I haven't...
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    Walmart To Offer Price-Matching On Black Friday

    They probably hve special 'Walmart SKUs' of otherwise identical products that make them 'not identical enough' to be matched. I'm going to spend BF with family not out doing some shallow unfulfilling consumer-whoring, but best of luck to everyone who does!
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    Twitter Death Premonition Comes True

    Looks to me like he was up there to get his hairstyle looking extra good. Too early?
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    Texas Sends Amazon.com a $269 Million Tax Bill

    Something for a whiney immature child I DIDANT GET MY TOY to cry about.
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    Backing Up the Human Brain

    I thought of something like this in ninth grade which was quite a while ago. I guess I should be an ivory tower do-nothing futurist too then?
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    US & Canada Have Priciest Cell Phone Plans

    countries with more competition and more regulation tended to have the best pricing. More regulation and more competition, together? Say it ain't so laissez-faire capialists!
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    Brits Vote iPhone Eighth Greatest Invention

    At first I was thinking 'maybe it's "IT/tech inventions"' then I thought 'maybe it's "inventions of the last ten years".' I knew America had managed to export obesity to the UK but apparently there's a brisk trade in stupidity and superficial simplistic thinking too. So many of those things are...
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    Google Compares Apple to 'Big Brother' From Iconic 1984 Ad

    Google is much more 'Big Brothery' than Apple so this is just silly catchphrase news bs'ing. They want to know *everything* you do, their whole business is based on that, they just don't care about what it is you do as long as they're able to log it. Apple is like the government in 1984 as a...
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    Undercover Report From Foxconn's Hell Factory

    The USA had muckraking about Chicago meat factories, steel factories, and other early 20th century industrial working conditions. China is starting to do the same and the same workplace changes will eventually take place there. It was inevitable, the government can only crack down so hard...
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    BFGTech Exits Graphics

    Wow that sucks. I wonder what the underlying reason for graphics being unprofitable was?
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    MSI P55-CD53 Motherboard Review @ [H]

    Hmm so a 4+1 phase power section made with quality parts can overclock pretty decently. So much for MOAR PHASES marketing b.s. (the real reason mobo makers push that is it allows more parts that are in sum cheaper than fewer more expensive ones.) Soo, it's clear that tons of space isn't needed...
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    What Chrome OS Will Probably Look Like

    Yeah no kidding. Some of their services are one thing but giving them full control of your computer via OS is kind of crazy.
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    The Laser Turns 50

    Laser just needs some laser cosmetic surgery and it will look 25 again!
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    Study Claims Technology is Linked to Happiness

    Slightly misleading headline on [H] because it implies that *all* technology makes you 'happier' just by being there when the real point of the article is that basic connectivity technology makes people happier. So do gaming computers, PMPs, game consoles, flat screen TVs and surround sound make...
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    Mark Zuckerberg Called Me Names

    This article, which was linked from the news piece article, is much more daming. I set up a FB account once on a whim but never did anything with it and never posted any info otther than my name really. I deleted it a few weeks ago and I'm thankful I never used and posted stuff because I have...
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    Video Game Sales Plunge in April: NPD

    I don't think NPD ever has and it's a fault that's always mentioned. However, I love bad news when it will affect short-term prices for good companies creating a buying opportunity. Thinking about buying some ATVI when the news hits the stock price.
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    RIAA Wins Big in LimeWire Lawsuit

    Shoot...7 million songs and you're talking bailout money! lol, anyway wtf is the point of these rediculous amounts, there's no way that an individual will ever be able to pay that amount especially once the burden of the judgment is there sucking up every dollar possible. Scaring others in to...
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    Facebook’s Darth Vader Grip On Game Publishers

    Yeah he should take it public, sell out, and cash out asap.
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    When did Apple Become Uncool?

    Why did you even write 'because there is a niche' as a reply to my post? I posted no questions whatsoever, rhetorical or otherwise, so there was nothing to answer with a 'because...' I was not discussing why Apple products sell pretty well whatsoever, I was asserting that Apple has not 'defined...
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    When did Apple Become Uncool?

    I think it shows how shallow and materialistic a society can be. It's a sad thing when possessions define a person and people define their self-worth and value by some consumer bauble.
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    When did Apple Become Uncool?

    Apple hasn't found nor defined a new niche in a long long time. What they do is look at existing products and slick them up and then market the hell out of them. There were mp3 players before the iPod, smartphones before the iPhone, and tablets before the iPad.
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    Foxconn Defends Labor Practices After 8th Suicide

    You're correct, one would be very hardpressed to get a computer, whether a prebuilt or DIY parts, with 0 Foxconn parts. They makes *tons* of little stuff like connectors and housings so you're almost certain to find at least one part in a given PC.
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    Interview: The Man Who Really Built Iron Man

    Yeah, get pumped to see some unoriginal brainless mainstream action movie crap! Wheeeee....
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    Microsoft's DigiGirlz Program: A Decade of Inspiration

    Yeah calling it 'Girlz' almost seems to go against the point of the program which is to give females serious opportunities to go in to a field in which they are underrepresented.
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    Surprised Employer Fires Sex Blogger

    What's the name of the non-profit?
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    GIGABYTE H55M-USB3 Motherboard Review @ [H]

    Nice review. I remember when the mATX i5/i7 boards first came out there was serious concern over the long-term reliability of their CPU VRMs with overclocked CPUs, especially 4c/8t i7s. A number of sites had blown VRMs with those CPUs, at least when overclocked. I don't think you guys tested...
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    Apple to Charge $1M to Put Ads in Mobile Apps?

    So basically it's Apple wanting to further lock down their platform by providing ads too. Just watch, eventually they will lock out third-party ad services in the Dev EULA too just like they did for Dev tools.
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    PDF Exploits Explode, Continue Climb in 2010

    So are these exploits just a way to inject viruses and malware that are otherwise detectable by decent anti-virus? If so that would at least add a lwayer of defense.
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    Foldaway Aluminum Office

    If you'd bothered to click the link you'd see it is 1350EUR so yeah, pricey.
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    Foldaway Aluminum Office

    The chair in the article is rediculously unergonomic...not surprising it's French they love their design fashion even if it compromises basic utility. Otherwise it's an interesting idea but one made of wood would be nicer imo. That is extremely impressive.
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    Principal Asks Parents To Ban Social Networking

    Yeah, getting them involved and letting them know issues that are affecting their children which is precisely what he should be doing. But he's making suggestions to solve the problems not going 'KGB/Gestapo abusing government powers' to change things.
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    Principal Asks Parents To Ban Social Networking

    Having substitute taught over the last <2 years (woot, economy) I agree with the principle completely. It would have been nice if he hadn't gone all 'save the children' fearmongering but he is correct wrt social networking. ===== When it comes to children, you're damn straigth they need to...
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    Hollywood Wants Its Money From The Pirate Bay

    ^ny that I mean friends renting a movie doesn't count as 'no one paying'
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    Hollywood Wants Its Money From The Pirate Bay

    Ok, but have you watched or 'consumed' any where no one paid? (By means other than clearly above-the-board ones like movies on TV or streaming on Hulu or the like.)
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    Hollywood Wants Its Money From The Pirate Bay

    I wonder how many of the people railing on Hollywood here still 'consume' (purchased or not) the crap they shovel. I'm guessing most of you, I can smell the hypocrisy through my screen.
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    DIY Hardware Racing Sim

    Ahg, my mistake, I wasn't paying close attention at the start and only watched a little bit because it quickly got repetitive.
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    DIY Hardware Racing Sim

    Nice mod but what's up with doing all that and having a 15"(?) monitor?
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    NVIDIA Exec Says Intel Hindering Graphics

    Such silliness that depends upon little to no technical knowledge...just a bunch of chest beating. Last I knew there were PCIe lanes on the CPUs which is perfectly suitable for graphics chips (sorry NV but no sane person prefers your chipsets for I/O to Intel's) So NV, quit crying and just make...
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    ASUS Eee Keyboard Unboxing

    While obviously niche this isn't as badly priced as people are making it out to be. Wireless HDMI is *not* cheap. Of course a more regular computer+wireless accessories is better but *shrug* If this hadn't been so severely delayed it would be a lot more interesting too...maybe a refresh will do...
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    Steam Client UI Update to Release on Monday

    You just think it's stupid because you assume that different than before = better. Talk about false logic. No where did I say a website absolutely under no circumstances should ever be changed, I said that updates aren't automatically great when "when in fact it was working perfectly well...
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