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  1. Re:insane on Apple's Market Cap Exceeds Google's · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure that the risk of "suddenly uncool" has been adequately factored into Apple's share price.

    Nor the risk of Jobs getting hit by a bus...

  2. Re:insane on Apple's Market Cap Exceeds Google's · · Score: 1

    Please take an entry level econ course, and convince Ron to as well.

    I have great economy lesson!

    If you convince at least three of your friends to take it also, you will get lesson for free!

  3. Re:DRM is a pretty lame excuse on Game Developer's Response To Pirates · · Score: 1

    If you want to quote some idealist, then put a downright out-of-touch-with-reality interpretation on it and justify that as "human nature", please go find somewhere else to do.

    Prisons are full, extraditing to Australia is long past :-)

    The point, it doesn't matter how you interpret the idealist, as long as you keep listening.

    And be honest, given GNU etc., one could easily choose a lot less idealist than RMS.

    (Disclaimer for VI users)

  4. kudos on Game Developer's Response To Pirates · · Score: 1

    Is this the start of a change for the wider industry? Or is this the only developer actively listening to the pirates point of view?

    We'll see.

    I know where to look if I have a job opening for a creative engineer.

  5. Re:Back away, slowly... on Google Has All My Data – How Do I Back It Up? · · Score: 2, Funny

    You don't appear to be the cautious type, Mr. Fucking Security man.

  6. Re:Uh, Google? on Google Has All My Data – How Do I Back It Up? · · Score: 1

    Correct, it's an unnecessary buzzword (is that an oxymoron?) to cover something that's existed since the days of mainframes and dumb terminals

    Correct, it's a necessary buzzword to sell something like next-gen virtual data centers and underpowered subnotebooks.

    Such a devious plot can only be concocted by the RIAA to hide the merits of grid-computing: torrents.

    No, the term Cloud is brilliant.

    :-)

  7. Re:Word processors on Origins of the Modern PC · · Score: 1

    - two level directories on floppy (document/page structure) - automatic read-after-write checks and re-allocaton of bad blocks (floppy media expensive)

    P2000, I remember mini cassettes?

  8. Re:Pretty good connection for developers on Origins of the Modern PC · · Score: 2, Insightful

    (1) (..) That bit lasted all the way through the Pentium line. (Could it remain in X86_64? I no longer work in the assembly language world and do not know.) (2) (...)(This is the genesis of the non-orthogonal register sets that compiler writers complained about all the way through IA32, which are fully rectified only with X86_64.)

    Am I too audacious in claiming that AMD cleaned up the mess?

  9. Re:Reason why? on 8 People Buy "I Am Rich" iPhone App For $1,000 · · Score: 1

    You know what though, this got me thinking. Why /doesn't/ Apple have a refund policy for the App Store?

    Trust yourself.

    The Richie-Rich appmaker understands the target audience.

    So does Apple.

  10. Re:It's being pushed anyway on New Study Finds Low Interest In Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    Commercialism is for businesses not for consumers.

    Mr.Slashdot, please provide me a save quote button.

  11. Re:Who Cares What Language, It Reeks of Poor Desig on Why COBOL Could Come Back · · Score: 1

    I think many people missed the point of the California problem.

    Pretty please, let's not miss the point for the solution:

    POSTDECREMENT COBOL BY 1

  12. Re:Shame on you slashdot on The Low-End Approach To Wireless Hacking · · Score: 1

    After watching the video, it appears that half of Slashdot has no appreciation for feeding the inner geek, and is just pissed off that this guy had live females stop and actually talk to him.

    No, I'm just impatient for the Segway port of this baby.

  13. Re:Drives already do this on Error-Proofing Data With Reed-Solomon Codes · · Score: 1

    Based upon this, I presumed that you would never get the defect rate to zero and that no one would trust a data medium with anything less than perfection - and thus predicted the CD-ROM would never catch on.

    You're lucky, I invested my life savings in vinyl.

  14. Re:Body Snatchers on Knights Templar Sue the Pope · · Score: 1

    (..), when I am struck cold by the realization that most of the people around me I consider friendly neighbors might as well be from that Body Snatchers movie.

    That story is possible for anyone who defers his responsibility to someone else.

  15. Re:Yes the Vatican Is So Pure & Holy on Knights Templar Sue the Pope · · Score: 1

    . Like Buddha or Gandhi, I'm a huge fan of this Jesus guy. It's 99% of the people who purport to follow him that manage to genuinely fuck up the world.

    Of course, nothing else can be expected without a rubber.

  16. Re:Really? on Linux Foundation Promises LSB4 · · Score: 1

    Thanks.

  17. Re:What about outside the USA? on iPhone Tethering App Released, Killed In 2 Hours · · Score: 1

    The thinking is... The U.S. is the only country that matters.

    Think different.

  18. Re:Really? on Linux Foundation Promises LSB4 · · Score: 1
    I've never understood the purpose of env.

    What shell needs a child to tell him about his environment?

    !/usr/bin/env enlighten me

    please?

  19. Do we want LSB? on Linux Foundation Promises LSB4 · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Formalizing the basis of a linux system seems awkward to me. It simply evolves, LSB is following.

    I've never had any need for a standardized linux environment except when I had to run Civ3 using libc5. The kernel never really freezes AFAIK.

    The beauty of linux, progress continues, just switch distros. If you need something comfy and reliable, use Debian.

  20. Re:You wonder? on Citizens Spy On Big Brother · · Score: 1

    C'mon. We're geeks. Use your imagination and the campus webcams.

  21. Re:Web 2.0 ftw on R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008 · · Score: 1

    A bigger problem (which web mail suffers from, as well) is that web forums are a way for a server operator to make decisions about the features you get (as well as how/if it is integrated with other content, whether for good (I won't go into that, here) or ill (ads)), rather than leaving those decisions to the client.

    I'm worried about the content the operator controls.

    With Usenet, it was porn.

    With Web 2.0, it's very personal pictures. (mom, I'm over 20 now).

  22. Re:Late to the party on Microsoft Bets Big On Computing For the Car · · Score: 1

    What i want instead, are the separate systems... Multiple separate units that each do one function well and work together, allowing me to replace one piece at a time.

    No prob. I've been using it over a decade. It's called: Linux.

    (oh mother, I'm posting this from a Windows machine).

  23. Re:Amazing on Google URL Index Hits 1 Trillion · · Score: 1
    This is a me too posting.

    I'd like a site with reviews, good articles and news specifically aimed at the youngster coming out of the basement.

    Can you help me?

  24. Re:How long till.. on Google URL Index Hits 1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    experts-exchange is a waste of time. the internetz wants to be free. -- where's my meds.

  25. Re:XP is slashdotted. Here is a mirror: on What Does It Take To Get a PC With XP? · · Score: 1

    Funny, interesting or informative? I'm so excited!! -- Where's my meds.