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• Most people I know who weren't able to get a Wii, just moved on to Xbox360 and PS3 out of desperation... If people needed a phone and Pre doesn't have any stock, they'll just buy iPhones or Blackberry Bold/Storm or some other phone... only the fan boys will wait for it... '
  
  As for iPhone, if they ever did go out of stock, it wasn't for more than a week, they were practically giving it away in some cases... In reply to: "Manipulating the Palm Pre supply is just wrong"

  May 1, 2009

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• " If you like it, it?s worth your money. Kapish?"
  
  And if you don't like it, you feel that you just got robbed? In reply to: "Study: P2P thieves buy more music"

  April 21, 2009

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• what about ym voice? does it have voice chat support? In reply to: "Yahoo Messenger gets its own iPhone app"

  April 7, 2009

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• It's been a few years since Johnny Lee (who made the wiimote head tracking demo on youtube) made the challenge for developers to come out with interactive head tracking games... Doesn't seem any? In reply to: "Nintendo's Iwata opens GDC with games, Wii storage news"

  March 25, 2009

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• I have good experiences here in Bestbuy Canada. They send a confirmation if your order is ready for pick up, and 100 percent of the time I get the item I bought (upon confirmation). There were instances that I get an email saying it is out of stock, but I think it only happened once, and they did honor the price as soon as they had stock (even when it was a price error although it was the difference was less than $20)
  
  All in all, they were consistent with my in store pickup experience, as since a confirmation email is usually REQUIRED to be able to pickup your order (although sometimes I just show them my online order receipt without a confirmation)... In reply to: "In-store pickup needs to work every time. It doesn't"

  March 18, 2009

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• Ever since they have been churning out bloated Norton Products, I've avoided everything Symantec... Even in some apps like Adobe Flash, they piggyback themselves as Norton Security Scan, defaulting the checkbox, forcing their install to unwary people who just want to play Flash movies or games... unknowingly installing another "antivirus tool" even though they already have one....
  
  Removing the Norton Security Scan would sometimes be impossible unless you download a utility from Symantec's site!!! They're slowly becoming the evil that they are suppose to get rid off!
  
  If you do a search on Norton Security Scan, you will find lots of people asking why it showed up on their desktops without their knowledge and how to uninstall... In reply to: "Symantec creates havoc with unsigned Norton patch"

  March 10, 2009

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• 1. I agree about the silliness of having the form factor as a wall plug as since most geeks would probably plug this to a UPS for uninterrupted power... an AC/DC adaptor would've been nice as I have a cordless phone UPS (a universal and small battery backup for cordless phone that outputs 3 to 12VDC), that I use for routers and switches...
  
  2. 1GB storage limit? What are you talking about? Are you talking about the Gigabit Ethernet port? I have a NSLU2 running 32MB RAM, and it's my file server for a 1TB USB hard drive...
  
  3. Yes.. but if you want you can design a GUI interface that connects to the Sheevaplug remotely, but it already has a webserver so it's simplier to do that than create a windows app that does the same thing... something that small doesn't have space for your ATI 4870 video card... :-)
  
  4. The form factor really is a bit strange, but 5 watt of power required, it can run in your car using an inverter... or possibly bypass the AC circuit and supply direct DC current using a solar panel...
  
  5. I'm just waiting for confirmation if it runs USB TV tuners, and if it does, then bye bye Media Center PC... In reply to: "Masses to Marvell at tiny wall plug computer?"

  February 24, 2009

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• This is a nice replacement for my Linksys NSLU2 which currently is running Openwrt and uNSLUng firmware. I'm currently using it as webcam server, file server, torrent client, print server, asterisk PBX, etc...
  
  For those complaining about the 512MB firmware and 512MB RAM of the SheevaPlug, compared to my NSLU2 memory (running 32MB) , the Sheevaplug has massive memory... remember this is running LINUX, and 512MB is already huge for a non-gui system. Only Windoze users will need more memory but this is not designed to run Windows (although it probably can, I just repaired a friend's computer running Windows Vista on a 512MB P4 PC)
  
  Hopefully, this device would replace does expensive NAS or print servers... also thinking this would do a lot of good for those running their PCs 24/7 for torrents, file services, media center, etc.. USB based multimedia devices like TV tuners, audio servers, etc can now run on a low powered server like this and no need to waste electricity... In reply to: "Masses to Marvell at tiny wall plug computer?"

  February 24, 2009

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• You do... lots of Indian Nationals who owns multinational companies... one fine example of outsourcing is probably the Oscars... Slumdog Millionaire just won best picture... :-) First Jobs, next Movies... In reply to: "31 cities with outsourcing potential"

  February 23, 2009

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• Yeah, but most of the time you can't understand them and you'll only aggravate the foul mood of the customer... Whenever I call for support and encounter someone who speaks un-intelligible english I usually ask to just be transferred to someone else. Don't get me wrong, there are lots of Indians with understandable accents, but I have bad luck when it comes to companies like Dell Support...
  
  I have Indian friends who have good accents, but they normally came from the big Indian cities though... As for China, english is not their second language too... The best countries are probably Philippines, Canada, Ireland, etc. when it comes to customer interaction... In reply to: "31 cities with outsourcing potential"

  February 23, 2009

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