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Can We Trust CNET Again After a Scandal This Shady?
Yahoo/Atlantic Wire ^

Posted on 01/14/2013 6:19:27 PM PST by nuconvert

CNET, one of the Internet's first and most influential authorities on gadgets and tech news, watched its editorial integrity spiral out of control Monday, with staffers quitting and editors left to explain themselves in the wake of explosive new charges over its annual Consumer Electronics Show awards — a scandal, it would appear, that goes all the way to the top of its corporate umbrella, and could shake the entire ecosystem of online tech journalism.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cbs; cnet; cultureofcorruption; pravdamedia; seebsnews; technology
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To: nuconvert

Most of these young techies voted for Obama....Nothing Obama does gets them all worked up but this slingbox affair does. Idiots!


41 posted on 01/15/2013 4:31:45 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Blue Highway

I think it was 1985, but could have been 1987.


42 posted on 01/15/2013 5:35:09 AM PST by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: nuconvert

CNET is the LAST place I would ever go for advice. Everyone knows what political junkies they are.


43 posted on 01/15/2013 5:37:40 AM PST by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off.)
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To: gunsequalfreedom

486? Wow, that was ages ago.

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There was a 386 before there was a 486.


44 posted on 01/15/2013 5:44:08 AM PST by Chickensoup (200 million unarmed people killed in the 20th century by Leftist Totalitarian Fascists)
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To: gunsequalfreedom

Man that’s old! Actually, at 60 i am probably old enough to remember the modem but i was not into computers until about 1999, with 166mhx cpu and a HD of maybe 500mb, if that large. I once gave away a HD that was about 30mb thinking, “why would i ever need that much?

Now how about Jenny gas and (the old) Ipana toothpaste?


45 posted on 01/15/2013 6:42:55 AM PST by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: Chickensoup
There was a 386 before there was a 486.

Yep. I think I had one but remember the excitment when the 486 came out.

Even at that, the hardware could not keep up with the software. Word in DOS was faster than the new Word in Windows. I kept wondering why anyone would want to switch.

Now I've got this Google Nexus 7 tablet and the dang thing is faster than my desktop computer. So fast that when I dictate in voice-to-text it keeps up word for word and gets very, very few words wrong.


46 posted on 01/15/2013 9:51:44 AM PST by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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To: daniel1212

I am 74. I got into computers in 1979 before there were any pc.


47 posted on 01/15/2013 9:53:35 AM PST by Dan(9698)
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To: ADemocratNoMore; advertising guy; aft_lizard; AJMaXx; Alice in Wonderland; american colleen; ...

Bonus ping to the HDTV ping list..


48 posted on 01/15/2013 3:08:24 PM PST by Las Vegas Dave
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To: ADemocratNoMore; advertising guy; aft_lizard; AJMaXx; Alice in Wonderland; american colleen; ...

Bonus ping to the HDTV ping list..


49 posted on 01/15/2013 3:08:45 PM PST by Las Vegas Dave
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To: ADemocratNoMore; advertising guy; aft_lizard; AJMaXx; Alice in Wonderland; american colleen; ...

Bonus ping to the HDTV ping list..


50 posted on 01/15/2013 3:09:43 PM PST by Las Vegas Dave
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To: Dan(9698)
I am 74. I got into computers in 1979 before there were any pc.

I am 74 also.

5 incn floppies were 128k, PC's later wrote on both sides of the 5 inch floppy making them 256k.

The 3.5 inch floppies in the hard case were 400k then Apple upped them to 800k. I think they were advanced to 1.4 meg later.

To think that we used to run a Mac on a 400k floppy that held the operating system, MacWrite and MacPaint with room left over to hold all your documents.

I think there were 8086 and 8088 chips before the 286 and 386. </C>

51 posted on 01/15/2013 4:04:38 PM PST by itsahoot (Any enemy, that is allowed to have a King's X line, is undefeatable. (USS Taluga AO-62))
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To: itsahoot; Dan(9698)

I’m not 74 but I remember that stuff and had a lot of it.

I was cleaning up before Christmas and I found a 286 processor, which is now sitting on my dresser.

I built my first machine from a kit in ‘76. It had a Z-80 and 26k or ram. Cost me more than I want to say. An 8k memory card cost me $440, I believe.


52 posted on 01/15/2013 9:21:18 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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53 posted on 01/16/2013 10:05:00 AM PST by Squidpup ("Fight the Good Fight")
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To: gunsequalfreedom

IOmega had 10MB floppies that were Mylar inside a rigid plastic frame. I think they then went to a 20MB version with its unique drive. The 20MB drive could R/W the 10MB too, which I believe was only single sided, versus the double sided 20 MB that looked very similar. We really thought we were cookin’ back then (~1985?).

HF


54 posted on 01/17/2013 11:21:21 AM PST by holden (Alter or abolish it yet?)
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To: philetus
To the top . . .
AGENDA: Grinding America Down http://vimeo.com/52009124

Thanks for the link, The film it has speakers with impeccable Christian conservative credentials. Looks like it is professionally done film.

In His name and service.

55 posted on 01/18/2013 10:19:44 AM PST by jokar (The Church age is the only age man will be able to glorify Christ, http://www.basictraining.org/)
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To: jokar

You’re very welcome. I hope you can spread it some more.


56 posted on 01/18/2013 12:27:51 PM PST by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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To: battousai

http://www.anandtech.com. Almost as old as Tom’s Hardware. Full agreement on CNET. What a joke it has been. And this “scandal” is truly meaningless.


57 posted on 01/18/2013 12:35:10 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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