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  1. Re: Why am I not surprised? on Automakers Are Asking China To Slow Down Electric Car Quotas (electrek.co) · · Score: 2

    They are well aware of the challenges. Handwaving about it on blogs doesn't change that. It isn't just "everybody is picking on Tesla" that has kept the company from instantly becoming the new Toyota.

    It's rewarding to rage on blogs like that is the case, though.

  2. Isn't that what Pulseaudio is for? Or is there still no sound mixing subsystem on Linux to pipe sound from more than one source to the speakers?

  3. Re: the confusing sound of wet rubber boots on AMD Unveils Ryzen Threadripper 1950X 16-Core and 1920X 12-Core Specs and Pricing (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    They beat Alpha and PPC, at least in the desktop market. And Windows ran on Alpha and PPC. I ran NT 3.51 on both those archs.

  4. Re: Interesting quotes from TFA on Apple Sets Up China Data Center To Meet New Cybersecurity Rules (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Most Apple customers would suck it up and adjust, and keep buying the shiney.

  5. Re: You know what else is the biggest ever recorde on Iceberg the Size of Delaware, Among Biggest Ever Recorded, Snaps Off Antarctica (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll fetch my scissors.

  6. Re: Three different sources, three different units on Iceberg the Size of Delaware, Among Biggest Ever Recorded, Snaps Off Antarctica (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Is that original or super beetle?

  7. Re: Three different sources, three different units on Iceberg the Size of Delaware, Among Biggest Ever Recorded, Snaps Off Antarctica (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed, the failed French Revolution that established the Metric system and reset the year count over to zero should be the rule.

  8. SeaMonkey. on We Need To Reboot the Culture of View Source (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    The SeaMonkey suite still includes a Composer component. And you can cut and paste from the browser window to the composer and preserve the underlying markup.

    There is also an 'edit' menu choice in the browser that pulls up a local copy of whatever page you are on in the Composer. The composer has view tabs to look at and fiddle with the source and snap back to the wysiwyg view.

    Seriously, do none of you even know SeaMonkey still exists? I keep wondering, because it feels almost criminal how easy it is to drag and drop and save web content using it.

  9. Re: Glad on Windows Phone Dies Today (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I remember, though, the "Get a free iTunes song" bottle caps on Pepsi bottles. It reminded me of Jobs' comment to Scully about "selling sugar water to kids".

    The Apple Phone success wasn't very technical at all. Like most of the Apple aura it was slick pop marketing. The tech people at Apple are no different than those at any other company. Like Google, it's a marketing operation. (Cues up that Rush song: "...salesmen. Salesmen!!")

  10. Re: Missed Opportunity on Windows Phone Dies Today (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Microsoft could have leveraged Blackberry into something-Exchange and captured the entire business market. The only people who would now be using Apple phones in business would be the guys with tasseled shoes.

  11. Re: A death march from start to finish on Windows Phone Dies Today (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    So as consumers get more and more of a clue, it's inevitable. Apple adopted the x86 and commodity pc components (the ide inferface hard drive!!!) It will be marvelous to see them forking Android (a bent fork with only one tine, it's the Apple Way!)

  12. Re: Developers, Developers... on Windows Phone Dies Today (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Windows Phone had an official app for The Register. I found that amusing, and for a time, useful.

  13. Re: Story icon on Windows Phone Dies Today (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    A couple years ago they quietly retired the bill-borg icon for Microsoft. I am sure a whole branding team at Microsoft worked for years to make that change happen.

  14. Re: Glad on Windows Phone Dies Today (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple just leveraged their iPod success. In the clamor to claim the smart phone market they've brushed that fact off to the side.

  15. Re: Recipe for success on Tech Boss Attacks 'Whiners' in Angry Email (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Grandparent commenter was expounding their personal formula for success. Which is fucked up, but oh well. At least they were only able to do so anonymously.

  16. Re: Did I just get teleported to the supermarket? on Tech Boss Attacks 'Whiners' in Angry Email (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Or complain if the newspaper you are used to buying seems to have more and more lurid content lately. Just "not buying it" abandons something you might have a part in correcting.

  17. Re: But isn't he right? on Tech Boss Attacks 'Whiners' in Angry Email (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You explain why you watched and did nothing. It isn't that difficult. It's a little humbling but it builds character. To do anything else ropes you in, in a bad way, as we see here.

  18. Re: Fuck the whiners! on Tech Boss Attacks 'Whiners' in Angry Email (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Just a rough fish, though. Lots of those drying along the shoreline already. Only good for fertilizer or to give to the cats.

  19. Re: Sociopathic freedom on Tech Boss Attacks 'Whiners' in Angry Email (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If there were activities, rather than braggard locker room talk, to use to take Trump down, he wouldn't be President. He is vulgar and boasts of things he is seriously not capable of, and he is a media personality, which means the groupie effect comes into play.

    Clinton meanwhile, is a documented serial sexual predator. Similar to how Microsoft is a documented monopoly, with an established body of evidence.

    There are too many spring-loaded mechanisms in place these days that would pin Trump down, like a bug on the collectors cardboard, for him to be anything more than a loud vulgar braggard. Actually he's kind of a cuck in that regard. Bill Clinton is NOT a cuck. He's more of a monster. Swinging dicks can and do admire him for how well he's gotten away with it. Women who profess to be feminists admire him. What the fuck, eh?

  20. Re: He must be ugly on Tech Boss Attacks 'Whiners' in Angry Email (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It would be called flirting by the guy's expensive lawyer.

  21. Re: Sure I could find the money on Would You Buy the iPhone 8 If It Cost $1,200? (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 2

    Do a little fucking soul searching about not spending $xxxx on a phone?

    You're scary, man. If I had that spare cash I could get one hell of a nice used oscilloscope.

    This is still Slashdot, I think. All you people who "went into IT because it pays good" better watch out, because you're on the list for replacement.

  22. Re: Question mark abuse on Bruce Perens Warns Grsecurity Breaches the Linux Kernel's GPL License (perens.com) · · Score: 1

    They have trained their dog to bump the ? key with it's nose periodically. The dogs nose is softer and wetter than a finger, meaning there is less wear to the keycap.

  23. Re: Queue the NJ jokes on Silicon Valley's Latest Desperate Housing Idea: On A Landfill (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not the line in front of the Apple Store. No siree, it isn't.

  24. Re: Better suggestion on Silicon Valley's Latest Desperate Housing Idea: On A Landfill (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you going to put these people in ovens so their material existence can waft up to this next level? It's always a good idea for us to force people like you to detail out you plans, so we can identify you early.

  25. Re: What could go wrong on Silicon Valley's Latest Desperate Housing Idea: On A Landfill (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    I went to a Rush concert in about 1980 in Minneapolis where I was carrying in a single jount I had rolled. I put it in a little plastic box, a box that Vandoren clarinet Reed's had come in. When we got to the arena entrance they were checking everything people had. SO I showed the guard it was a joint in the reed case and they let me through. I am not sure what it was they were checking for. The early 80s were a innocent time.