Re: A shame in one sense
Not really. Every time I've gone over to Best Buy for something I *need* immediately, they don't have it anyway. I'm talking basic stuff like hard drives, network cards, etc.
Posts by Gene Cash
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Wednesday 11th April 2012 17:53 GMT 
They can screw my email over hard if they want
Facebook can do all the wacky stuff they want, but one important thing they can't touch is my email.
When Google went through their temper tantrum about usernames, I yanked my G+ membership in a heartbeat and I am never going back, as long as my gmail account is my primary address. I've had enough people tell me "Cash? No, we need a real last name..." TYVM.
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Friday 30th March 2012 17:55 GMT 
THANK GOD!
My network card died this week on my PC, so I headed over to BB a block away for a new one. There was a Netgear gigabit PCI one for $30 on their website.
So I'm wandering around and see lots of routers, wireless stuff, but no NICs. I saw a network-over-powerline thing for $80, and I picked it up so I wouldn't need to run cable to the garage.
I didn't see any sales staff either, so I headed up front and asked for help. The manager came over, so of course about half a dozen staff showed up.
I asked about an ethernet card, and one of the morons points to a wireless USB dongle. I said I wanted wired, and he said "oh we haven't stocked WIRED since OCTOBER!" (wired is so '90s! tsssh! get with the picccccturrrreeeee)
The manager calmly nodded and said "yup" so I set my $80 impulse purchase down and left.
Staples across the street had the card for $21.
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Re: If you really have too much money ...
The NASM has 1/4 of an F-1 mockup, set into a mirrored corner in a lame attempt to make it look like the real thing. Having also seen the real thing, I think it's a major ripoff and rather surprised they'd do such a poor exhibit.
If you think that's impressive, you should see the real thing.
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Monday 26th March 2012 01:51 GMT
By whom?
By Verizon & T-Mobile, at least in the US. They block it, make it very expensive to purchase, put a tiny data cap on it, and if you get around your blocking and they find out about it, your connection stops working and they try to charge you the $350 ETF.
I vastly regret buying my 4G Xoom. What a waste of money.
US broadcasters put the squeeze on small-town cable TV
Friday 23rd March 2012 18:42 GMT
Considering the amount of ads...
It should be free to the end-user as well. From midnight onwards, it's mostly no-content paid advertising programming for things like "Celeb Hair Styling Tips with the Amazing Rotating InStyler!!!" or "Shark Steam Mop - Best Deal Ever!" or "Firmer Skin in 10 Minutes"
And that's real crap cut'n'pasted from my channel guide, not an exaggeration. I'm actually paying for this garbage.
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Friday 23rd March 2012 18:34 GMT
I still think this is a stupidity/trustworthiness test
Anyone I interviewed who DID had over his password would quickly find his application in the round file as a security risk. Plus it would be interesting how they would phrase the "no, I don't think so" because that would show how well they deal with conflict.
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Tuesday 20th March 2012 16:04 GMT
Re: So is this like the Unix® story?
No, you don't. What you really have to do is write robust code that doesn't depend on a screen size. And I've never had to handle the physical keyboard on my Droid any different than the virtual one... that is what the OS is for.
Also, the emulator doesn't take 5 minutes to start even on my POS Pentium D box, and that doesn't matter since you can leave it running and just redeploy as necessary.
What the hell are you doing?
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Tuesday 6th March 2012 21:45 GMT
Ugh. Shovel that crap on there
To me, that screen is just an annoyance that it didn't go directly to "My Apps"
If Google is going to push their books, why don't they spend time on writing a reader that can display basic things like footnotes, and isn't a usability showcase of horrors?
And of course there's the thoroughly beaten dead horse where Google has an app store where you can't find anything unless you already know the name.
How about policing the hundreds of apps that are simply warmed-over examples from the SDK with a price tag and adware (maybe some malware too) added? Or the couple hundred apps that are a rotating cube with various Playboy copyright violations horribly pixelated onto them? Then perhaps I can take the "contains 450,000 apps" bit seriously.
And if I hack it, can I say I was only playing around?
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Wednesday 22nd February 2012 17:18 GMT
Postscript?
For me, the ability to toss the shitty CUPS crap and just run lprng is important, so I want a printer that does Postscript. This also gets around "does my driver/setup know how to handle duplex" too, as PS deals with this natively.
My old Brother HL-5240 does PS just fine and cost <US$120, so it's not a high-end feature.
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Run out of real stories/things to review?
You know, I realized when Creative Computing did a review of Bukka-Bukka Bath Toys that they were not far from going out of business, and sure enough, they only lasted another 4 issues.
I hope this doesn't mean El Reg is circling the drain in similar fashion, as I liked them.
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Monday 6th February 2012 01:21 GMT
Sony are dicks
Just about every single product aside from their excellent monitors have been "proprietaried" and DRMed to hell. They make one-off non-standard stuff like memory sticks, and make implementing the technology a living hell of licensing, so it never gets used outside their own product line.
Things like cameras will have their own unique cables and protocols. They make the Vaio PCs incompatible and strange on purpose, making it really difficult to run anything other than Windows on them. Same for their cool little Vaio UX pocket PCs.
Anything they make is awesome at what it does, but it'll be hell to pay trying to get it to play nice with anything else. They don't ever want to cooperate with the rest of the planet.
"Fail" icon because I hope they do.
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Friday 3rd February 2012 19:19 GMT
Hardware stores
They've started using them as well, which means you're totally out of luck with a bagful of miscellaneous hardware, or a large unscannable item like a ladder. I can write the price/sku/stock# on the bag for the cashier to verify, but I certainly can't do a barcode.
The local Home Depot recently went to automated checkout ONLY, and now wonder why their parking lot is empty, and the Lowe's across the street is full. "It must be the poor economy!"
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Tuesday 31st January 2012 20:24 GMT
Americans only care about price
Americans haven't given a damn about quality for at least 12-15 years that I remember. All they care about is price. Given a choice between a good tool/boot/laptop for $100 and a crappy one that'll break in a week for $95, they'll take the $95 one in a heartbeat. I've seen friends buy 3 of a crappy $60 car jack, when the $80 one would not have broken.
This is why places like Walmart prosper.
It makes it difficult for folks like me willing to fork out a little extra for something that'll last and function well. For example, Sears now stocks mostly off-brand crap tools and the good Craftsman stuff is now hard to find because it doesn't sell.
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