Big deal. My fish talk to me all the time.

Fletch

Good thing Blue forced everyone to register for these forums. It's really cut down on the trolls, flaming, and bad language. And boyhowdy!... it sure is sweet not to have to read those idiotic "anon" posts anymore! (Although there was, and still is, a way to filter them)

Fletch

Didn't Corel have a quite nice Linux distro before being assimilated? I vaguely remember reading very favorable reviews about Corel Linux. Well... Corel Linux is no more, MS still has loads of cash to burn even with the loss (a relatively small loss when compared to MS's huge reserves). Methinks mission accomplished. I'm not laughing/mocking their loss because (I believe) the intent (or, at least, one very oportune dividend) behind the investment in Corel was served.

Fletch

Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.

Pencil in 17, marshmallow in 28. I figured it would get "pencil", but it wasn't even in the ballpark on question 27 with "marshmallow", and then it just guessed it. Eerie.

Fletch

Unless someone knows of a mirror, you need to register with f*ckin' Fileplanet to get the mod.

Fletch

Hey, it's Abuse in 3d!

Fletch

I see six fingers.

Agreed. Irritating as hell.

What product are you talking about, Blue? Cold-Eaze? If so, I've tried it and swear it makes a difference, especially if you start taking them when you first notice symptoms. You can even buy Cold-Eaze gum now. I always keep a supply on hand. YMMV, however.

Fletch

"If your ticket was in some really small town, ask for a trial by jury... "

I thought that put you at greater risk. Can't a judge then impose a LARGER fine/punishment if you are found guilty? I'm not positive about this. Anybody?

Fletch

This comment was edited on Oct 30, 16:40.

Yeah, nice to see something original and interesting. Compare it to the Crazy Taxi review. I stopped reading after:

"...the actual programming appears to have been done by a group of Africanized monkeys who have just returned after having their brains fried in space."

Huh?

Fletch

"To be fair, it is somewhat longer if you read the first page"

You're right. I didn't notice that it was linked to the second page. My bad. It is longer (double! :o) when read from the first page. IMHO, still sorely lacking in info, but better than before.

Fletch

"Btw,Fletch u a hardware nut? I usually read hardware reviews only if it's a major product release or near my upgrade cycle,which is oh,i guess another two years or so down the road. Otherwise reading about all the goodies can be rather detrimental to the health of my wallet"

I do a lot of system building/upgrades and like to keep up on what's out there. As far as my own system goes, I know what you mean. More times than I care to recall, a review has convinced me that I "need" something.

I'm just getting frustrated with all these sites/reviewers putting up crap cut/paste jobs that have no more information than I could get at the manufacturer's website just so they can score some free swag that they can sell and pay for their crap site and thus enable them to put up more crap reviews. Many of these sites are GAMING-oriented sites that obviously have no clue what their game-playing readers want to know. Of course, there are a lot of hardware-centric sites putting up their share of dross too. I'd almost like to see a site that does reviews of reviews just so there is some pseudo-accountability of sorts. Hmmmm.....

Sorry for ranting.

Fletch

Sheesh... another one.

Fletch

That's funny.

If he ever gave a bad review, he'd have to come up with a new rating. "KickAss!" is obviously his highest (only?) rating, but what if a product really sucks? How about just "Ass"? Or, "Half-Ass" if it's just an ok product? "Back-Assed"?

Fletch

I'm curious, has Rodney ever NOT given a "KickAss!" award to a product? Admittedly, I haven't seen all his video reviews, but the 25% or so that I have seen have ALL have been "KickAss!" products. Has he ever ripped on something a vendor has so kindly provided to him for free?

Fletch

This is a review? Sheesh. So many of these kinds of hardware "reviews" nowadays. Page upon page of cut-and-paste lifted from a vendors' site and very little "review". I'm just surprised it got past the BluesNews QC department.

Fletch

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