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1. Comment - RSS Guru Niall Kennedy Quits Microsoft

   (Aug 9, 2006 - 7:28 PM)

   Edited... My comment was just rude. Sorry about that.

2. Comment - Microsoft Adds Human Side to Search

   (Aug 8, 2006 - 12:30 PM)

   PC Rat, if you're so brilliant, why don't you submit a paper SIGIR? http://www.sigir2006.org/
   
   Information retrieval is a *very* complex topic. I'm glad a lot of research is going into it. Kudos to Microsoft and others who are advancing this area.

3. Comment - 12 Patches Coming for Patch Tuesday

   (Aug 4, 2006 - 2:24 PM)

   GCoder, your sarcasm actually has me cracking-up... No sarcasm here. Just funny... :)

4. Comment - Dell Giving Away 432 Notebooks

   (Aug 1, 2006 - 2:34 PM)

   Thank you NateBBG. I can see how relevant your post is. Btw, what did you add to this thread?
   
   No, I wouldn't say "**** off", but I was commenting on what I think of Dell's "skinning". I was on topic and, as such, the post is relevant.
   
   Your logic is brilliant NateBBG, but what does accepting something for free have to do with whether something is a quality or aesthetically pleasing product? ... That doesn't make any sense. Who wouldn't take a free laptop? But, my post was about how Dell's skins look bad. Care to comment on that? Care to say something relevant? ... btw, I've bought several Dells (4 PC's and 2 laptops) in the last several years. I'm using an XPS Gen4 right now. It's a solid machine, but what does that matter... Their laptop skins still look horrible.

5. Comment - Dell Giving Away 432 Notebooks

   (Jul 27, 2006 - 4:07 PM)

   Ok, I applaud any company giving away laptop to kids, but I have to say that the whole "skin" concept is lame. I'm a PC guy, but with Mac's booting both OS's I'm very intrigued. Regardleses, I think the Apple laptops are beautifully designed. They almost look like a works of art. My point? Snapping-in some plastic "skin" doesn't make a laptop/PC "cool". Makes it look crappy and cheap to me... I know this makes a laptop/PC more expensive, but Dell should consider custom form-factors, highly integrated software and hardware solutions, not to mention, innovative things which would make people want to buy one... (i.e. things Apple or other hardware/software designers haven't done). Sadly, this probably won't happen, but this post is here in case someone from Dell is reading this.