Posts by Jeremy

MS takes Windows 3.11 out of embed to put to bed

I was using until three years ago

Our POS system couldn't run its back end software on anything but DOS. We had an AMD K6-3+ @450 Mhz w/ a whopping 256 MB RAM running LanTastic 8.0. Also had DR-DOS 8 for a little while.

Worked great.

Available to buy: your own frakkin' 7ft Cylon

Lets have a vote

American spelling: 300 million for, 30 million against. We win. 8-P

American football power nabs phone numbers for 13,000 StubHubers

This is not fair to those who did nothing wrong, but...

I live twenty minutes away from Foxborough, MA (Where the Patriots play) and am familiar with this issue so here are my thoughts:

1. Massachusetts law says you cannot charge more than $2 over face (as stated) and Stub Hub, and others, charge ridiculous fees that often brings up the price to $500-$1000+. The same thing happens with the Boston Red Sox (Baseball team), 5 years of sold out games means tickets are hard to come by. Sox fans find it cheaper to go to away games in Tampa Bay, FL and Baltimore, MD than see a game at Fenway Park in Boston. Scalpers and scalper sites make life a pain for people like me.

2. The Patriots policy, which is a contract you agree to when you purchase the tickets, is that they can only be resold for the face price on the NFL\Patriots website. No additional profit is made by the team. You sell them through a third party and you have violated contract law, and are subject to penalties set forth in the contract and any legal ramifications that come with the violations.

3. The Judge was plain wrong in regards to those who only bid for tickets. Only those who committed a crime of scalping or sold the tickets in violation of the policies regarding the tickets, including those who unsuccessfully attempted to sell, should have been gone after. Everyone else committed no crime.

4. American Football is a $50b business (with stadiums, ad revenue, TV rights and actual team values), so allot of people care. Some European principalities are worth less.

Jeremy

US car thieves floored by manual gearbox

I getting rid of my auto

I have a 21 year old Saab 900 that has a three speed auto that is dying, I am in the process of replacing it with a manual. My wife had an 82 Honda Civic with a manual transmission that she had replaced twice because she did not want to go to an automatic.

When we visited Ireland for our honeymoon we got a cool Nissan with a manual, it took me less than five minutes to get to know its shift points. I can say that I hate automatics and always have because there is a complete lack of control.

We live in the US