Jesus Christ, Josh. Three simple hints:

1: Bring a tripod. It's an interview, not a short experimental film.
2: Bring two lav mics. It's an interview, not your kid's birthday party.
3: Shut up and let the interview subject answer your questions.

FFS. You get paid for this?

@Vlad Savov there's no conspiracy. you just manage to get paid for writing crap. congratulations! you make bloggers everywhere look like pulitzer-winning journalists.

@simpleFabian Congratulations. You just did more research than the mope who got paid for writing this blog post. At least he didn't manage to confuse 'input' and 'output' this time.

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Damn, i guess this thing won't work with any of my monitors; all they have are INPUTS.

You know, for a technology website, you guys really do suck at technology. Case in point? Your continual inability to distinguish between a connector type (RCA) and a signal format (composite video). You say the SD box has RCA video outputs. Guess what? The XR does too, on it's component video outputs.

Similarly, I can't count the number of times that you've noted different "output" ports on the billions of undistinguishable LCD monitor "reviews" you post. Multiple times! On a technology blog!

I don't know if it's ignorance or simply sloppy writing and proofing. But it shows a profound lack of respect for your readers. I thought that I'd find more professionalism when I switched from Gizmodo; but I guess the bar's pretty low industry-wide.

Your upgrade to Snow Leopard was painful? I've done it a few times now, and it was on the order of three clicks for me. You might be doing it wrong..

I call BS. This leak clearly came from MS/Danger, and tries to shift the blame to HDS. Let me tell you who runs the backups- not the poor schmucks from Hitachi. How the heck are they supposed to know how the backups work? That's not how they work at all. HDS tells MS/Danger what needs to be done. MS/Danger runs the backups and then tells HDS to go ahead with the work.

It's close to inconceivable that MS didn't do some sort of backup before this work. Most likely, it was a snapshot copied to another set of disks on the same SAN. And we can all see how well that plan worked.

You really should consider editing this story. I also thought the offer was for 20 free song credits, not 20 promo songs that nobody wants.

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