I understand the sentiment. I left plenty of forum sites and blogs because having to sort through the hateful rants of some folks is just too much. It take only one, um, individual, who like to see himself printed here to sour it for the rest of us.

I usually enjoy the comments on Engadget posts, they tend to be witty and sometimes refreshingly funny.
I didn't read the particular comments on the storm post, but I have seen others slide though that I personally
would have simply deleted.

Engadget is correct, posting here is not subject to free speech. You are in someone elses place.
If you don't like what you see, leave quietly and politely. If you want to point out what you dislike,
think of what type of language you want to be associated with.
Some folks here type things that surely makes their mothers proud..... :-)

Those who just post rude, accusatory and obnoxious comments, just to annoy people,
please realize no one wants to read your stuff. Take your medication and relax.
Use decaf instead of regular coffee. Unbunch your undies. At the end it's just a blog....

"Overweight" and "Obese" are the medical terms your doctor would use if you would ask him about your weight.

It didn't say, "Hey lardass, get off of me" or something like that. It simply states a fact. Your bathroom scale and your mirror deliver the very same message and you are not mad at them.

I suppose you all already knew your "state" and that's why you got a Wii Fit in the first place. So stop jammering and start working out. :-)

Hmm, a failure huh? I have one and I wouldn't call it that. Works well enough for me. The name calling really makes you look all grown up :-)

I am appalled that people reading engadget can find this sort of completely unacceptable behavior funny.
You people probably stand around and clap when a woman gets raped or take pictures with your camera phone if somebody is in a car wreck, rather than helping.
You are just as evil as the perpetrator and I sincerely hope someone, somewhere
will give you taste of your own medicine.

If all those ignorant "we are to samll to affect the environment" people would shut their mouth and stop breathing, we'd have a lot less Carbon Dioxide to worry about.

Cellular provider experience are still very regional. Where I live, Verizon has good coverage, Sprint is meh and anything GSM plain sucks. Specially when you are inside a building.
Customer service expericence are also mixed depending on region. I had idiots and smart people alike on the phone with Cingular, AT&T, Sprint and Verizon. It depends on the person as well as the companies policy.

I always got easily out of contracts without penalties by writing a friendly but stern letter, cancelling my contract while pointing out that the providers declining coverage (Cingular then AT&T) represents a breach of contract on their part, see call logs complaining about lack of connectivity from this date and that date (had 7 or 8 such calls within a month).
If you wish to pursue any penalties for early termination please use the court system.
Blah blah blah, pseudo legal babble, yadda yadda
Of course if you just want out because someone else has shinier phones, that will cost :-)

Highly ranked, dunno what you mean? Anyway, Orcas is in beta and of course we have it. Not released. It doesn't matter how nice it is as you can't use it in a production environment.
...the fact that no RELEASED Microsoft development environment...

Vista *could* be great if they can work out the kinks.
Right now it is a bug infested mess, so much that my Verizon phone has a better OS.
As a software developer I am dealing with API calls that work well and fast under XP
(or even ME) but completely fail, do the the wrong thing or take minutes to complete
under Vista.
All the while you need to be aware of the fact that NO released Microsoft development environment runs
under Vista. There is a Vista patch for Visual Studio 2005, but it suffers from the same symptoms.
Most things simply don't work or take forever.

Case in point, Install VS 2005 on XP: 20 minutes, Vista Ultimate:6 hours, same computer.

How would I change it? Put the flashy UI elements on the XP kernel, incrementally introduce the
new features originally promised (like WinFS) AFTER debugging them.

Oh Lord, help us. Searching was built into XP and Google wasn't complaining.
Searching is an integral part of any OS since computers had anything more than dip switches, may I say GREP???
I love Google as a search engine, but if another piece of software comes with google this and google that I'll start reconsidering.

MS makes the OS, Google makes the Internet search engine, leave each other alone.
Go to your rooms and write an essay why you need to play nice with each other :-)
It's like raising kids for crying out loud....

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