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  1. Re:Is there even a prototype? on $99 Moby Tablet As Textbook Alternative · · Score: 1

    If anything I'd have thought they'd be pushing these things as web pads/multimedia devices.

    But you can't PR an educator into buying 30,000 multimedia devices for their students. Electronic Textbooks yes, web-tablets... not so much.

  2. Re:Indeed. on Asus Takes Another Stab at Revolutionizing Netbook Market · · Score: 1

    Or you could get the software developers to design their software better?

    I play World of Warcraft on my Netbook all the time. Not too bad when you're running dailies that include mostly flights back and forth.

  3. Re:Push them further away on Space Junk Getting Worse · · Score: 2

    Maybe they should make a space barge that goes around taking care of space junk...

    There's a movie there somewhere, I know it!

  4. Re:Crap, what next on Microsoft, Amazon Ink Kindle and Linux Patent Deal · · Score: 1

    Walmart inks a deal to take over every state's welfare department?

    Yeah, I think it'll be located between shoes and electronics, right by the bathrooms. :-)

  5. Re:Talk about the ultimate makeout spot! on NASA Astronauts To Open New Space Station Windows · · Score: 1

    You sound like an idiot when you say it wrong.

    Now, make like a tree... and get out of here!

  6. Re:Easy on Stay Off the Grid, Win $10,000 · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three.

  7. Re:Applications on Membrane That Turns Any Surface Into a Touchscreen · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but you only get a 16 squad total battle at 8 squads per army army on a 120" diagonal play mat... But I hear ya. :-)

  8. Re:Honest! on FAA Computer Glitch Causes Widespread Airline Delays · · Score: 1

    It's an artifact type in the CM system. Don't feel bad, we don't have any of those around here either.

  9. Re:Club Bing on Bing Gains 10% Marketshare · · Score: 1

    Combine simple users like your Mother in law with some of the power users I've heard of and you'd have a pretty good bump indeed. There are bots out there to play those games for you. Assuming a search on each word entered * 35 words per puzzle * 50 puzzles a day you're looking at 1750 searches per account per day. Some people run multiple accounts on there so lets say 10 accounts * 1750 searches and you've got a computer making 17,500 searches a day.

    Some of this might slow down since they're requiring tax information for anyone receiving more than $600 in prizes per year, but most people I know of on that site are just hoarding tickets 'till the new calendar year.

  10. Re:Smart move! on Facebook To Preserve Accounts of the Dead · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wasn't able to keep either my Father or my Father-in-law on my console after they died.

    Part of me really felt bad about deleting their Miis, but I didn't want to see them walking around every time I booted up my Wii.

  11. Re:Wife 1.0 on What is the Current State of Home Automation? · · Score: 1

    There's a version after Mom 1.0?

  12. Re:Original Blog Posting on Postmortem for a Dead Newspaper · · Score: 2, Informative
  13. Re:Heroku link broken on Clojure and Heroku Predict Flight Delays · · Score: 1

    Burma Shave There, FTFY. :-)

  14. Re:Just my imagination? on Looking For a Link Between Sci-Fi UFOs and UFO Reports · · Score: 1

    Well, maybe if it happened in Tijuana, but still...

    They're not aliens if they're in their own country. :-P

  15. Re:Auto Pilot on Can Unmanned Aircraft Mix With Commercial Planes? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Auto landing has been around since the 70s. I remember a full page newspaper ad announcing that "Auto-landing is here." IIRC, in order to be able to prove their Auto-pilot is capable of auto-landing the airlines are required to have periodic auto-landings done. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoland

  16. Re:Split article on The Mice That Didn't Make It · · Score: 1

    OK, now that moderation is funny. Don't Mod Parent up, keep the troll tag. :-)

  17. Re:So what? on Windows 7 vs. Windows XP On a Netbook · · Score: 1

    they'll learn.

    Been working in IT long have you? :-P

  18. Re:Economy is a Subset of Ecology on Electricity From Salty Water · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Taco Bell always backs me up...

  19. Re:RIAA model on Applying a Music Business Model To a Blog · · Score: 1

    requiring souls for payment.

    And Kittens! Don't forget the kittens.

  20. Re:A fool and his money are some party on Pickens Calls Off Massive Wind Farm In Texas · · Score: 1

    No one would EVER build a golf course in a desert.

  21. Re:Cap & Trade = Energy Rationing on US House May Pass "Cap & Trade" Bill · · Score: 1

    Wait wait wait, I don't get this whole Clogging thing...

    Could you do that again with a car analogy?

  22. Re:Which System? on Cassini Spots Geysers On Saturn's Moon Enceladus · · Score: 1

    How self defeatist is that? We name our own sun S.O.L.

    (Knew it was referred to as Sol before this guys post, but it's funnier this way.)

  23. Re:Humph... on Security Firms Fined Over Never-Ending Subscriptions · · Score: 1

    You know who else was Anti-Symantec? He even made them wear pieces of flair.

  24. Re:Lousy screen, Low Storage on Zune HD Unveiled, Set For Fall Release · · Score: 1

    Perhaps not entirely what you are looking for as you would need to have a Windows OS in some form or fashion but I think the XNA Creators Club http://creators.xna.com/en-US is a good start at helping people develop. XNA Game Studio 3.0 allows you to develop for the Zune without paying for it. Then if you want to distribute it you just get a Premium Membership, get it peer reviewed, and away you go.

    They have Visual C# Express for free download. So all you have to come up with is a computer running some flavor of windows.

  25. Re:I know you slashdotters hate to hear it on MS Suggests Using Shims For XP-To-Win7 Transition · · Score: 1

    It's called 'transition', and it's much less disruptive, esp to businesses, than quantum leaps.

    Yeah, besides, do you remember how long it took Ziggy to figure anything out? Like half an hour on a good day. If all my applications ran like that I'd be pissed too.