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  1. Re:What if on Canonical To Divert Money From GNOME · · Score: 1

    Congratulations on adding yet another ignorant comment to this non-discussion. The 25% now is on both the Ubuntu One store _and_ the Amazon store, so Gnome will now also get money from the Ubuntu One store as opposed to only getting money from the Amazon store.

    I love your comment: it is the perfect combination of snideness and lack of knowledge that I've come to expect from Slashdot. Well done.

  2. Re:Flamebait on Canonical To Divert Money From GNOME · · Score: 1

    Oh, certainly. But definitely not when the person on whose behalf you're enraged doesn't see a problem.

  3. Re:Well duh on Why Is Linux Notebook Battery Life Still Poor? · · Score: 1

    Not in India, it won't. When power goes out, the Internet connection dies too. I know because we have a generator and while the modem and router stay up, the DSL connection dies. Airtel FTL.

  4. Re:Because Cisco would never do such a thing on Senators Want To Punish Nokia, Siemens Over Iran · · Score: 1

    But Pakistan does threaten to attack India, has done so in the past without provocation and has admitted in the past to be funding militants. Pakistan was still sold F-16s. Pity that Lockheed Martin make so much on government contracts.

  5. Re:Let me get this straight... on Desktop As a Cellphone Extension? · · Score: 1

    Ah ha, so you're formless?

  6. Re:Best multiplayer on 1 keyboard game EVER! on FreeDOS Turns 15 Years Old Today · · Score: 1

    And I've always loved Marshmallow Duel. Was loads of fun to play with my brother when we were young.

  7. Re:It is better to travel hopefully on Why Don't MMOs Allow Easier Transportation? · · Score: 1

    or stolen if you are a rouge character

    This explains why you're spilling your coffee. I've heard of people driving and putting on make-up, but doing both of that while drinking coffee? That takes style.

  8. Re:Automated transportation on Why Don't MMOs Allow Easier Transportation? · · Score: 1

    > If it is more interesting to have a bot play instead of you all the time, then the game simply sucks.

    That's not necessarily true, there are people who will see any game like a sort of competition, no matter how much fun it is to play on your own. For instance, I really enjoyed Battlefield 2 (and the only reason I don't play it any more is that I can't be bothered having to put the DVD in each time) but there are people who insist on playing it with an aimbot! In MMORPGs there is probably even greater motivation, you can have multiple machines focussed on obtaining elite gear for you.

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    > Moreover, if farming is required, the game sucks even more.
    >

    Can't disagree with you here.

  9. Re:KDE is very usable on The Open Source Design Conundrum · · Score: 1

    My laptop has Vista and Ubuntu (GNOME-version) installed and I prefer using Gnome (and I use it most of the time). The best part is that the UI is much more consistent and I like that. In addition, I absolutely _love_ Scale and Expo and the idea of workspaces in general. Then again, I'm one of those people who still has the brown-orange theme that everyone rails about. I just like it, it's nice and comforting.

  10. Re:Window managers on The Open Source Design Conundrum · · Score: 3, Insightful

    CompizConfiguration Settings Manager's interface isn't great, but you really shouldn't use the 'Advanced Search' as an example. The window you are showing is the final result of the actions. In the beginning it only has a few UI elements. As you search and select stuff, more tabs and boxes come into view. So while you're using it, it isn't as bad as that screenshot shows. Also, that is not the default search. There is already a simple search on the main page of that program and you have to choose Advanced Search to begin your journey to the screen you depict.

    Really, there are more legitimate things to complain about. The fact that the means of activating different effects isn't consistent, for instance, really annoys me.

    Example: You can set a Screen Edge/Corner, or a Mouse Button or a Keyboard button for most plugins in the plugin's own dialog. However, for Show Desktop, you have to go to the General section because the Show Desktop plugin only has other settings in its dialog.

  11. Re:A success? Some people disagree... on The State of Munich's Ongoing Linux Migration · · Score: 1

    No. It means that he is agreeing with the statement, "Some people always disagree". It doesn't have to be him doing the disagreeing.

  12. Re:Microsoft's excuse for not updating on Ksplice Offers Rebootless Updates For Ubuntu Systems · · Score: 1

    I was just about to mention Firefox. I have updated other software while it's running, though, and those don't have any problems. Firefox just seems to do things differently.

  13. Re:Voting Codes and the Secret Ballot on Canada Considering Online Voting In Elections · · Score: 1

    In a secret ballot, it is of paramount importance to ensure that the person casting the vote is unable to prove which vote he cast.

  14. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on Canada Considering Online Voting In Elections · · Score: 1

    How does that ensure a secret ballot? I could still tell my employees to vote a certain way in front of me on a BSD machine. The great advantage of polling booths is you can tell any employer trying to pull this that you did it his way, and still vote for whoever you want.

  15. Re:Wow on Atari Sub-Sub-Contractor Used ScummVM For Wii Game · · Score: 1

    What?! I wish I could mod this, "-1, Clueless". So all I have to do to cause Nintendo trouble is to link a GPL program with their libraries? Awesome! See you later, I'm off to create a GPL program using Microsoft libraries. Windows will soon be open source. All hail!

    What beats me is how you managed to write that comment without having an iota of common sense, let alone some knowledge of the subject.

  16. Re:DamnSmallLinux on OLPC Fork Sugar On a Stick Goes 1.0 · · Score: 1

    It looks nice, and is rather interesting and I'm downloading to see but it really bothered me that all the text was crammed into the centre. The easiest part of the page to read is the Tags section, unfortunately. Wouldn't it be nicer to widen the central column and make the font larger?

  17. Re:Where's India's domestic economy? on Indian CEO Says Most US Tech Grads "Unemployable" · · Score: 1

    On the top of the page, you'll see Help & Account Click that, and on the right-column you'll see 'Discussions'. Click that and change your 'Comment Post Mode' to Plain Old Text or something else. Otherwise, use p and br tags.

  18. Re:Proof of that Statement? on Sothink Violated the FlashGot GPL and Stole Code · · Score: 1

    Anonymous Cowardon bullshits again. The GPL requires that copyright notices not be modified. Proof from the horse's mouth..

    You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's
    source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you
    conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate
    copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the
    notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty;
    and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License
    along with the Program.

    If the modified program normally reads commands interactively
            when run, you must cause it, when started running for such
            interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or display an
            announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a
            notice that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you provide
            a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program under
            these conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy of this
            License

    The FSF has also made clear that you must preserve copyright notices of previous authors.

  19. Re:There's cheaper and less limited way... on Best Handset For Freedom? · · Score: 1

    You can get Chinese phones without IMEI numbers that connect on the networks of some countries (India just banned them recently). Iran's networks may allow IMEI-less phones.

  20. Re:Finally... on Memory Usage of Chrome, Firefox 3.5, et al. · · Score: 2, Informative

    Plus, on Windows at least, the way it's made seems to let old tabs go to swap. That way it sometimes suddenly takes a lot of time to open up a tab you last used 8 hours ago, but it doesn't take as much RAM at any particular point. Can't say about Chromium on Linux, because I don't use swap there.

  21. Re:Finally... on Memory Usage of Chrome, Firefox 3.5, et al. · · Score: 1

    Which makes me wonder, really. What is the advantage of running in root? It sounds to me like if you're using sudo many times a day, then you're doing it wrong.

  22. Re:Abuse on Google Voice Grabs 1 Million Phone Numbers · · Score: 1

    The obvious way. Have you ever used Google Calendar's SMS notifications? To enable them, you are sent a code to the number that you registered. The code then has to be entered on the Google page within a certain amount of time.

  23. Re:Phone Viruses on Hackers Find Remote iPhone Crack · · Score: 1

    Surely you're joking? You could not exchange files between different iPhones before? I'm sure you'd be able to do so using Bluetooth.

  24. Re:13? Didn't they read Harry Potter? on Lucky Thirteen On the ISS · · Score: 4, Funny

    Shit! You're right! As a matter of fact, the sum of the letters in the names of the three Shuttles still operational is 26 which is 2 times 13. If you take that two and multiply it by the difference in the number of letters between the Endeavour (9) and the number of people who will be on the ISS now (13) you get 8 which is the number of letters in the name 'Columbia'. We're all doomed.

  25. Re:I thought... on Will AT&T Charge Extra For MMS & Tethering? · · Score: 1

    That would make Apple products, Veblen goods. That's actually quite possible, considering a lot of their advertisements seem to emphasise the difference between Apple products and mainstream goods (Think Different, for example). I just felt the need to share because I read about this term for the first time today :)