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  1. Re:It's gay on Microsoft Wants Your Feedback On Its New Python IDE · · Score: 1

    If it were gay, it would be well designed, clean and would live in a great neighbourhood with good services.

    But it would cost twice as much, be only in one color, and you would have to be careful about how you hold it.

  2. Re:try 24h first on Ask Slashdot: Could We Deal With the End of Time Zones? · · Score: 1

    Yes, but if you start your argument with such a ludicrous proposition, 24h clock will seem like a good compromize. The same might work for DST and metric system.

  3. Re:Killing time zones makes it more arbitrary on Ask Slashdot: Could We Deal With the End of Time Zones? · · Score: 1

    How is the Date Line more natural that Greenwich? Isn't the former defined merely by being just opposite of the latter?

  4. Re:Prime Hours on Ask Slashdot: Could We Deal With the End of Time Zones? · · Score: 1

    England! The Queen has dominion over time!

    No, England's resident time lord is The Doctor.

  5. Re:This is News? on Tribute To Steve Jobs: a 21km Apple Logo in Tokyo · · Score: 1

    Of course it's news, it has Apple in the title.

  6. Re:Stopgap till Wayland on X.Org Server 1.11 Released · · Score: 1

    So X is Robert and Wayland is Joffrey? Of so, I really hope Unity is Ned.

  7. Re:whatever happened to on 25,000 Danish Hospital Staff Moving To LibreOffice · · Score: 0

    Maybe its not. If you had a large pool of staff who needed to edit the occasional office document (say a doctor who needs to fill out an HR form) then a free office package makes a lot of sense.

    If their medical staff are filling out medical or office forms stored in Word format, their IT staff has no say in what the medical staff are doing.

    Somehow I find this scenario more likely.

  8. Re:150 million per ticket? on RKK Energia Confirms Private Trip To the Moon · · Score: 1

    Yeah, luck. Luck is totally the only way anyone ever becomes rich. All of them are lottery winners, or something.

    It is the only way to get that rich.

  9. Re:If you don't like it on Pricing: Apple Defies Australian Government · · Score: 1

    In the example of a club where young women get in free or get free drinks, they are not actually getting something entirely free that the men are paying for. They are providing a service in exchange for entry and/or drinks instead of handing over cash. The service? Attracting men to the club who the club hope will spend silly amount of money to compete with each other to try impress the girls.

    This is a slippery slope. It could be argued that white (or black, I don't know which are now more popular in US highschools) people using your products would attract others to it.

  10. Re:Been done on What If Aliens Came To Save the Galaxy From Mankind? · · Score: 1

    Also many times in Star Trek, especially in Enterprise when both Xindi and Romulans try to prevent the forming of the Federation.

  11. Re:It's our own damn fault on What If Aliens Came To Save the Galaxy From Mankind? · · Score: 1

    But we'd need manned space flight for that. NASA isn't doing much to help us here, our best hope is SETI finding Beeblebrox in time.

  12. Re:Everything costs more in Australia on Pricing: Apple Defies Australian Government · · Score: 1, Troll

    It's quite simple. The companies want to ship directly from China to Australia. However, the cheap Chinese workes only see "ship to AUS" and read that as "American United States". So every component has to go to America first. Once there, expensive, inefficient and union-protected workers have to unload it, load it again and finally ship it to Australia.

  13. Re:If you don't like it on Pricing: Apple Defies Australian Government · · Score: 1

    They must make up for all the money they spent bribing the officials. Or did you expect them to pay for bribes out of their own pocket?

  14. Re:If you don't like it on Pricing: Apple Defies Australian Government · · Score: 0

    I'm not a racist, but in a normal (not obsessed with PC) society that would be acceptable. Just like those discos where girls get in free, while guys have to pay.

  15. Re:I dunno if they can replicate the success on Ridley Scott To Direct New Blade Runner Movie · · Score: 1

    Well, if Ridley Scott is successful, the only way to tell the two films apart would be to apply the Voight-Kampff test.

    Yes, but how many questions would it take?

  16. Re:More Apple-specific connectors? on Apple Patents Cutting 3.5mm Jack in Half · · Score: 1

    A large MALE connector cannot fit into a smaller FEMALE jack.

    You must be new to the internet.

  17. Re:Honest Mistake on Samsung Tablet Ban Lifted For Most of EU · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, it produces a farting sound whenever you use it.

  18. Re:Corporate Spyware for the win on The Death of Booting Up · · Score: 1

    Every morning it takes a good 30min for my machine to become useable after booting/logging in. The sick thing is that this is a brand new core i7 laptop

    Let me guess, a Gentoo user who recompiles his system at every boot?

  19. Re:Well... on Reaction To Diablo 3's Always-Online Requirement · · Score: 1

    Has anyone ever attempted to come up with a good open sourced game thats Diablo like?

    NetHack?

  20. Re:All your rectangle are belong to Apple on Apple Files Suit Against Motorola Xoom In EU · · Score: 1

    Euclid

    Do you ever wonder how Euler pronounced that?

  21. Re:Prezi on Old Arguments May Cost Linux the Desktop · · Score: 1

    Prezi will only catch on when they remove the retarded "Create game-changing presentations online" tagline from their front page.

    Things that were game-changing: revolutions, the car, flight.

    Things that are not game-changing: presentations.

    No, you don't understand. Revolutions and new forms of transportations changed life. Presentations can only change games.

  22. Re:Hardware support.... LOL on Old Arguments May Cost Linux the Desktop · · Score: 1
  23. Re:Old? on Old Arguments May Cost Linux the Desktop · · Score: 1

    There are not many Linux distributions that would use BSD kernels. I don't really know why :D

    Well, there is at least one: http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/

  24. Re:Scotty is dead Jim on $1.5 Billion Star Trek Theme Park Coming To Jordan · · Score: 1

    Or Geordi.

  25. Re:Stupid on KDE Plans To Support Wayland In 2012 · · Score: 1

    https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio.

    If you still don't know how, there's a card I want you to turn in.