Posts by bigmc6000

Quote: Originally Posted by Askew He's gay? So what? I'm hetero. Why should anyone care? That depends, are you absurdly rich?

Quote: Originally Posted by pmz Are you kidding me? As good as the rest of WHO? This is the type of attitude that's a problem, where people stupidly pretend that gay people are "different", and need to be pedestalized. It's...

Quote: Originally Posted by pmz It's such a big deal to homophobes that it requires an entire article. Look he's gay and successful! I gasped out loud, stopped short, and spilled my coffee this morning when I saw the headline AI...

Quote: Originally Posted by Archos In our country, we don't even allow gays to marry, let alone have basic equal rights in terms of taxes and other benefits. So that in itself makes being gay a newsworthy story. You do know that...

Isn't the Mi-Fi the better deal? I mean, if you have that you have a Wi-Fi signal and you can then 1) have a FaceTime chat on your iPhone while on the road, 2) can share that wi-fi with up to 4 other people, 3) not drain the battery as...

This is the kill shot... "Publishers continue to struggle with Apple, as the company is not willing to allow publications to access users' personal information. However, the print business relies on demographic information to...

Quote: Originally Posted by insike It's crapware. It apparently spies on the user. The company even stated that they thought not collecting personal information was "outside the norm." That may be true but, seriously, let's...

I don't get the hate for this. I think it's actually both cool and useful. I can't even begin to tell you how many times I get links to something that's in Flash and I'm just SOL. I don't know if I'll pay $3 for it but I might and it...

Quote: Originally Posted by DocNo42 Exactly. It's failed miserably at saving energy - never mind the costs associated with screwups like this over some bone-headed artificial manipulation of time. Assigning time-zones is, in itself,...

Quote: Originally Posted by DocNo42 Actually, we changed it - not Europe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_...ht_saving_time And thank God we did - the only thing that's stupid is "Standard Time" - wtf is the point in...