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Great - all OK. I can now play that Region 2 DVD I was given..-IainB (August 23, 2012, 06:39 AM)
Anyone who has ever uttered the words "For The Children" in sincerity forgot what school hallways were actually like.-TaoPhoenix (August 22, 2012, 11:40 AM)
You Damn Straight! 
Does anyone know if windows 8 banned the alt-tab or if we can't have two windows side-by-side? Or does the "desktop app" work pretty much as in previous versions and this reviewer just doesn't know how to use it?-jgpaiva (August 22, 2012, 10:13 AM)
In the end, the success or failure of a movie depends on critical mass and the ability to hit a cross-section a combination of things, not the opinion of one particular person. Even hitting that, it still doesn't allow for individual tastes.-wraith808 (August 22, 2012, 09:47 AM)
In fact, here's my estimate. Given the 16 or so clones of my one DaysTo Christmas app, I'd guess that for every "real" app, there are something like 10-20 bad clones. Apple's 500,000 apps claim? My guess is there are probably less than 30,000 apps of anything resembling quality.-The Article
In the context I was referring to, it's a manipulative thing. Imagine pointing after every syllable: "You..will..do..as...I...say...or...else." You try the same without pointing and it's not as intimidating.@superboyac: Sorry. I'm not sure I can make sense of all that.
And I thought pointing wasn't "accusatory", but a dominance signal.-IainB (August 21, 2012, 09:53 AM)
Hell, I thought pointing was a way of identifying one think out of a group of others - i.e. I would like that lemon filled chocolate doughnut. - Now I'd hardly be planning to dominate the doughnut by pointing at it ... I'd merely be identifying the focus of my interest.-Stoic Joker (August 21, 2012, 11:26 AM)-superboyac (August 21, 2012, 12:14 PM)
Really? ...I usually just start laughing when people do that shit. They just look spastic to me...and I can't take them seriously. Seems like we've gotten really really good at bullshitting and the content is nowhere to be found. But they tell me I'm just getting older.-superboyac (August 21, 2012, 12:14 PM)
@superboyac: Sorry. I'm not sure I can make sense of all that.
And I thought pointing wasn't "accusatory", but a dominance signal.-IainB (August 21, 2012, 09:53 AM)
^ I hate all the 4.whatever screens, they're too big for something to have in your pocket all the time.-superboyac (August 20, 2012, 09:43 AM)
And thinking about it more, I wonder if the break down in diplomatic actions and language are just a mirror of the breakdown in communication in every other area in current times. I think in the days of the Cold War, there was an unspoken etiquette between all sides in addition to a lack of a forum for such things, so the idea that a country would have even had to threaten to storm an embassy would never have even occurred because things would never have even gotten this far- a media outlet wouldn't have touched anything like this, and there was no open internet.-wraith808 (August 17, 2012, 09:09 AM)
I personally find that it "only" runs 1080p resolution a benefit compared to the iPad3, which wastes a lot of battery on running a ridiculously high resolution for it's physical size.-f0dder (August 16, 2012, 03:07 PM)
Damn Straight! ^ I thought that was the way that most of these worked.-wraith808 (August 16, 2012, 11:32 AM)
I wonder when Microsoft will bring out their own.-Tuxman (August 16, 2012, 02:16 AM)
Most of the problems I've seen relate to issues between the new Windows security model and XP.-40hz (August 14, 2012, 02:21 PM)
