Posts by Matthew LaShure

Here's the free tool

If you want a tool that works even better, and costs absolutely nothing, head over to SourceForge and check out the offering from ibeltchev

http://sourceforge.net/projects/classicshell/

The program is called Classic Shell, and you can choose between 3 different types of Start Menu depending on what your favorite past time menu was to use.

Really?

Foxconn... there goes any hope that it would be a decent piece of hardware.

Favorite?

I don't know about other people, but foxconn has become one of my least favorite due to there unbelievable fail rate.

Would be great

But in the US, RIM screwed up any chance of making this the next popular BlackBerry when they went with AT&T as the only carrier for this next paperweight.

It's already here, just from a different company.

I hate to burst everyone's bubble that thinks this is a new innovation, but mini touch tablets are already here.

http://www.myviliv.com/eng/

They offer it in both a 5 and 7 inch version, fully capable of connecting to your cell providers network. Available with either Win XP or Win 7 on a SSD, the later being the more touch friendly. Unlike anything apple would ever support, this even has a built in slot for an SDHC card, also a 2 way USB connection to connect to another computer to share files and whatever else directly.

If you aren't happy with just the standard windows touch system, don't worry. Viliv has built in a fully supported touch menu themselves.

@magnetik

"It makes me even angrier to think they could *buy the ingredients and make the pie themselves* for much cheaper !!! :-D"

That's the thing, you can't buy the ingrediants for a Mac and make it yourself. OSX is not sold retail, and the terms of using OSX state that you can only use it on a Mac branded machine.

He forgot...

He completely forgot the color category of "No way in hell would they ever"

One of the ones that falls under that is the built-in FM Transmitter. I think we can all agree that apple would never build in a feature for free that would eliminate the need for you to buy an accesory.

Is that an iPhone in my pocket? Oh wait... I was scared there for a second. There's my Crackberry.

YaWho!?

I figured this company signed there death notice when they refused the Buyout from M$

From experience...

From my experience, it is always the thing that seems least likely, and the most remote of possibilities, that always happens.

No way...

I live in New York, My salary is paid by New York State tax dollars, I pay tax ontop of all that. So as it is I am already paying part of my sallary. I do a good portion, if not most of my shopping on Amazon.com. I figure I can make up a little where I get charged out the arse every other way in this. I don't think New York should get a penny from Amazon.

Standard Union Workers

You can just tell... They're a union... One person working, two people watching, one more person on a beer run.

Pushing factors

While I would personally agree and hope for the Xbox 360 to win the console wars, I don't think that games alone will decide there fate. Microsoft while making the Xbox 360 went with a backwards compatabile strategy and HD availability. Sony on the otherhand went for a bold move that has been tried before.. Blue Ray. For some reason, every time I think of Blue Ray, BetaMax enters my mind. IF the Blue Ray tech manages to suprise everyone and beat out HD DVD, Sony will have a good shot at staying in the game. But if it doesn't... can we hope that sonys reign of terror is at an end?

I know comparing Sony and Microsoft is like comparing satan and the devil, but atleast MS went with full backwards compatability. Can we say the same for sony? Especially when looking at there most recent budget version of the PS3....

Lets just be honest

Come on Sony... get it over with, scrap your gaming system and admit you screwed the pooch on this one....