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Heheh, no. It is XP with a couple of things tacked on.

Would you have to pay to have the hamster put down? If so then I'd probably improvise.

I'd wager that almost every satellite navigation user has, and nowadays that's a lot of people.

It will live for 5 more years? That is some sort of super hamster, given that the average hamster lifespan is 1.5-2 years. I would not save it. The benefit I would get out of keeping it alive would not be 'worth' $2100. I do not consider a hamster's life to be worth that much, nor do I think it would be worth sacrificing that much money of mine in order to save it.

A64 3700+ 1GB GeIL DDR400 Sparkle 8800GTX ASROCK Dual SATA2 motherboard OCZ GXS 700W PSU 820GB storage over 5 physical discs 2x 21" trinitron monitors XP Pro SP2

Probably an even worse idea to watch Hostel. I watched SAW 3 the other day, I thought it was better than SAW 2 but not better than SAW 1 - simply because number 1 had the air of originality about it.

I didn't look at the applications for the multi-touch technology on the site, but I'm positive that it won't be required for something as simple as making a call. Given Apple's talent for intuitive interfaces I'm sure they'll make something of it sooner or later. Right now it may be a technology looking for its killer application though.

My fianc̮̩̉̉e and I don't go places. 4 years and less than 5 'dates' - all I remember are going for a meal on two of our anniversaries and going to the cinema once, all of which happened since we've been together more than 2 years. We enjoy each other's company, why should we have to spend money to do that?

Ahh yes, 'crappy' games that, as of September 2006, have sold more than 193 million units. It seems you are in the minority in thinking they are 'crappy', so using that as an argument against the platform is flawed.

It makes a difference because you are disparaging games for children yet you are a child. You are desperate to play 'adult' games to show how grown up you are, rather than focusing on playing games that are fun. However, in truth it doesn't matter whether games are 'for children' or not. Just as it doesn't matter if they're 'for boys' or 'for girls'. I am an adult male yet I very much enjoy playing games which have been accused of being for both children and girls on this topic - presumably BY children. The same goes for my other adult male friends who enjoy playing the same games - it all just goes to show that you are flat out wrong in your assertions that a) they are for children/girls and B) it matters who they are 'for'.

How old are you? I need to enquire as to how old you are to proceed with the rest of this line of discussion.

Shows how much you know. Again, I refer back to what I said about caring about who games are 'for'. You must be very insecure. You feel the need to play games for 'adults' even though I assume you are a child. Are you trying to prove something by doing that?

You could try resetting the CMOS, that may remove the password. To do that, look in the manual to find out which jumper it is, then switch it over. Normally the CMOS jumper will be a jumper connecting 2 of 3 pins - a middle one to an outside one. To reset it you move the jumper to connect the middle one and the other outside one. Leave it there for a few seconds then switch it back. Or you could try taking the battery out.

The way I see it, if all people get out of the discussions is entertainment then that's enough. It's all this forum is here for. People aren't here to better themselves or do work, they are here to pass the time - and if participating in debates that get them nowhere in the long term does that then it is still worthwhile.

Where you can touch it in more than one place at any one time and it will recognise all touches. Normally touch screens can only recognise and track one touch, however recently there has been work on multiple-touch displays, and I believe this is the first to become commercially available.

Yes they do: Entertainment. If it wasn't somewhat entertaining, we wouldn't bother doing it.

If he hadn't changed the default username and password he could find them in the router's manual.

Battery Up to 5 hours Talk / Video / Browsing Up to 16 hours Audio playback No mention of idle / sleep battery life - which is the important thing. I'm thinking it's going to be somewhere around a day - max. And I'm being hopefull about that. PDA phones do not get turned off. They are constantly on, just the screen gets turned off. I have had 2 PDA-phones so far and on each, with normal usage (approx 1-hour of PDA-usage a day) the battery will last 3 days. Because they are bigger, they can fit a larger battery. The one I have now has a 3.7v 1620mAh battery - what about normal mobile phones? The iPhone's battery, if used as a phone and PDA, will last far longer than a day. I don't know about audio usage, so I couldn't comment on that, but I have used my phone to watch videos and that has consumed the same amount of power as normal PDA-usage. The sort of user who will buy an iPhone is the same sort of user who will buy other PDA-phones. If phone functionality was so important to them they'd buy a plain vanilla mobile phone. They value PDA functionality more though, so they get a PDA-phone.

Immortality would get so very boring. You'd probably end up acting like Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged.

Phone, yes. Anything else, no. It is a fine phone with a terrible UI & crippled bluetooth (file transfer disabled). Both my parents have them.

I doubt their claims are true - they are very easy claims to make when you know that the relatives will never be checking to see if they're getting what they paid for. What's more, decomposition happens faster in tombs above ground due to the higher temperatures. There's an episode of Penn & Teller - Bullfaeces that debunks many of these myths concerning funerals/caskets/embalming.

Look in the manual to find out how to do a hard reset of the router. That will wipe all your settings, including the admin password.

Multi-touch screen. I'd call that pretty revolutionary. It's a PDA-phone - other PDA-phones do offer that. Plenty of those made by HTC, for example. I'm from rip-off Britain and my PDA-phone (the most expensive one on the market here) cost ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâã150 on a ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâã20/month contract. I'd be pretty surprised to see it going for more than $300 over there, given that you normally don't pay the direct conversion amount in dollars over there.

Where did you get that information from?

Why not focus on what games are fun rather than what games are for what gender (which is a puerile concept anyway)? Do you need to prove your manliness by playing games 'for boys'? That would be pretty insecure. I have played on New SMB, Electroplankton and Brain Age on a friend's DS - does that make me a girl?