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Watch this space. The Slevin was the number one watch in the RT Watch Polls for Silix-Prime. Yes, it won me my Fiddy. With any luck, it'll be Silix's entry into the 1:1 Super-rep market.

"Shut the [censored] up, Donny! V.I. Lenin. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov! "

Or, you let it settle in. Did you run the watch for a few days or a week before testing/calibrating it? ps. That's an ETA movement.

Welcome back, Bres.

Whereas anyone that remembers the early days of MP3 piracy would be able to tell you that MP3 was invented by the clever Germans at the Fraunhofer Society. They would also be able to tell you it's not called MPEG3, contrary to popular belief, but is MPEG1-Layer3. Early pirates remember that it's Fraunhofer, because the Codec most commonly used on Windows was the pirated Fraunhofer one.

You have no idea how wrong you are in your above statements. Xerox Parc sold Apple the GUI, for a start. They did very well out of the sale. The Eiger was an OEM version of the SaeHan system. The Eiger Labs MPMan F10 was merely the first on the US market and it didn't really do too well. It was the Rio 300 that was the first successful MP3 player and neither the Rio nor the Eiger had what was the one killer feature that made the iPod the success it was today: The click-wheel interface. It was this interface that is patented up the wazoo by Apple that allowed MP3 players to become as ubiquitous as they are today. To call the iPod a copy of the Eiger is ... well, I can't think of a polite way to put it.

Nice advice.

Um, Truth is not God. Or are you claiming to have found the truth?

I didn't say that. I said I have a problem with it when their owners react in a certain way.

Not yet ...

Oh, and I must admit, I absolutely hate it when a dog I don't know jumps up at me, licking and climbing playfully and the owner says "don't worry, he's only playing".

While I understand dog lovers, if I ever have to choose between the life of a dog and the life of a person, the person wins every time. If I have to choose between the life of a dog and the maiming of a person, the person wins every time. If a dog is turned into a vicious fighting dog by people, it's not coming back. If that dog then poses a risk to innocent human beings, I would rather it got shot, as upsetting as that could be. I hope your dog lives a long and happy life as an example of what these dogs should live like.

Are you a vegetarian?

You paid to promote it. If you're the kind of person that buys RL, you're a good advert. If you're the kind of person that buys fakes, you're devaluing it. Yes, I'm generalising a lot, but I hope my point isn't lost. I agree, as I too would buy a Rolex, but how many times are people on these very forums steered away from buying a Rolex as it'll be assumed to be fake. And yes, the market isn't suffering, but how much better would it be without as many fakes as there are out there? I suppose I'm saying that we, like people who pirate movies and music, should at least admit we're stealing a little. Don't try to hide the fact we're ripping these brands off, because we are. Having said that, I'm looking which company to steal brand value from next. I can live with that.

Sure, but to say justice was done is a little premature.

How are you promoting it? Were you asked to promote it? How many people here would not buy a Rolex because everyone would assume it's a rep?

Yes, you're devaluing the brand.

I had the same sort of response when I posted my first crown guard pics. I think yours look fine, but I'm really no expert.

wtf? The guy had this dog three days. That's not enough to turn it vicious.

ps. We've been here before.

Because it's French.

It's just you. We've not even recovered from Chinese New Year yet.

Anne-jen-YEAR

What do you think?

I have the one from River: