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  1. Re:Try NewEgg on Ask Slashdot: Buying a Laptop That Doesn't Have Windows 8 · · Score: 0

    Get a Dreamspark account from your college and download Windows 7 Pro, Windows 8 Pro, Windows XP Pro, and Vista Pro -- all for free. Full licenses. I'm in the proces of downloading about $5000 worth of software right now. Every Windows Server, SQL Server, Visio, Project, and many more. They have all versions posted for free from 2003 up to 2013. You need the paid Dreamspark account through onthehub.com. You get license keys and .iso files for most software, so print them out and put them in a safe place. I installed Windows 8 Pro on my laptop and got Classic Shell from sourceforge. Works good.

  2. Re:Brogramming??? on Is 'Brogramming' Killing Requirements Engineering? · · Score: 2

    ACTUALLY, as has been well established in many entomological analysis of the biblical translations Jesus' father was a stonemason and he basically shirked the whole gig to accept his maternal inheritance of local chieftain.

  3. Re:To hell with that, WE demand more!!! on As Music Streaming Grows, Royalties Slow To a Trickle · · Score: 1

    It's not your fault, it's not my fault, but that's the reality.

    Just got my new sig...thanks

  4. Re:To hell with that, WE demand more!!! on As Music Streaming Grows, Royalties Slow To a Trickle · · Score: 1

    Yeah, on the other hand we have Zomboy. Makes thousands of dollars a night, booked till the sun burns out, and giving away tracks left and right. Like it has been pointed out, you have to work....and this guy works his ass off.

  5. Re:This is why on Machine Gun Fire From Military Helicopters Flying Over Downtown Miami · · Score: 1

    Saw one on TV the other day....they sell loans now.

  6. You must not know any vets.

  7. Re:Provoking on Machine Gun Fire From Military Helicopters Flying Over Downtown Miami · · Score: 1

    I love these dirt-bag comment we have been seeing on /. recently. No one on a US sub is going to fire a missile onto US soil. The deterrent of a populace armed with small arms is an economic fact. Anyone wishing to control that population must take that into consideration. It brings a high degree of uncertainty (cramps logistics, increases cost of holding, etc...)--and I don't think anyone here can argue against the impact of uncertainty on an economic endeavor. "Economic" is just another way of referring to the decisions that people make based on cost and benefit (law of nature).

  8. Re:Provoking on Machine Gun Fire From Military Helicopters Flying Over Downtown Miami · · Score: 1

    Critical thinking? You mean like coming up with the idea that you could perhaps tell everyone you were going to do this so that people didn't perhaps wreck their car in order to gain cover? No, that is like asking permission for which permission would not have been given. This indicative of weak leadership and a weakened populace.

  9. Re:no surprise there on Can a New GPU Rejuvenate a 5 Year Old Gaming PC? · · Score: 1

    The biggest boost I have seen is after running a MyDefrag Data Disk Monthly script. Office opened before I could blink an eye. Nothing like a full defrag with directory reordering. Before that everything was running like molasses on my 3GHz 8GB DDR3 Hexcore (Phenom II/Black) with Seagate Enterprise HD and a $60 Sapphire GPU.

  10. Re:Dell on Microsoft May Invest $1B-$3B In Dell Buyout · · Score: 1

    That's nice Tommy, now go back to p.......laying with your....good. Make your trucks go vroom. Good boy.

  11. Re:proof on Microsoft May Invest $1B-$3B In Dell Buyout · · Score: 1

    The sky is blue, grass is green.

  12. Re:Well... on Microsoft May Invest $1B-$3B In Dell Buyout · · Score: 1

    Define significant. That is at most a 16% stake in Dell which makes it just another investment on the balance sheet for Microsoft. I would get in on the Dell deal if I could.

  13. Re:Enough Already on Latest Java Update Broken; Two New Sandbox Bypass Flaws Found · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why, after all this it will be unbreakable. Look at Windows and how it has improved. Hold on, Windows Store, locked down application environment....uh.

  14. Re:IOW, we're making it harder get a response... on We The People Petition Signature Requirement Bumped To 100,000 · · Score: 1

    But then you would need alternatives to all of those things. And no, the alternatives are not just "not doing them." These things happen for a reason. Newsflash: Corporations are beholden to banks and all major companies have a stake in most other companies because of major investments in each other.

  15. Re:IOW, we're making it harder get a response... on We The People Petition Signature Requirement Bumped To 100,000 · · Score: 1

    Not so much as a percentage of the total population, but a percentage of the population that participates or is willing to participate. I would rather count the statistic out of that group than say out of a group which really doesn't matter aside from their inalienable rights.

  16. Re:IOW, we're making it harder get a response... on We The People Petition Signature Requirement Bumped To 100,000 · · Score: 1

    Uh, as a sensible republic we are supposed to be insulated from the mob of democracy. But I see what you're saying.

  17. Re:Kill it with FIRE on Another Java Exploit For Sale · · Score: 1

    Dell not installing Java is equal to the computer not working for a lot of their customers. Not going to happen.

  18. Re:Oracle owns Java now? on Another Java Exploit For Sale · · Score: 1

    Wow Hairy.....your comments are sooo much better when you know what you are talking about. The JRE is awesome. The main problems, or issues rather, have been from the applet plugin and users clicking "yes" on every dialog box they see. Sun created extreme competition in the market by implementing a C-based language with powerful, simple, sensible APIs and a security model. If it had not been for Java then Microsoft would have never developed .NET to the point it is at now. For what it is worth from a Java lover, .net is freaking awesome and now surpasses Java as a software development "language" in many respects. Java is still awesome though. Minecraft and the proliferation of Java-based enterprise applications shows that it is awesome and that the ultimate goal was met.

  19. Re:Is this really a fix? on Oracle Ships Java 7 Update 11 With Vulnerability Fixes · · Score: 1

    According to ZDNet? Jesus, well that IS the last word on technology you know. Any slashdotter worth his skin only reads ZDNet to see what the Microsoft shills are saying at the moment--strictly entertainment (propaganda).

  20. Re:Is this really a fix? on Oracle Ships Java 7 Update 11 With Vulnerability Fixes · · Score: 1

    Yeah right. Troll. Tell us the other language with a built-in free, rock-solid 2D/3D graphics library that compares to Java's AND is easy to use AND will run on any decent computer.

  21. Re:Java used to be secure and sandboxed on Security Expert Says Java Vulnerability Could Take Years To Fix, Despite Patch · · Score: 1

    class bullshit?? What the hell? Objects are much easier to understand than dangling data structures floating about in a monolithic namespace. It certainly is overkill for a rinky-dink program, but large applications that solve major problems realistically need to be object oriented.

  22. Re:Java used to be secure and sandboxed on Security Expert Says Java Vulnerability Could Take Years To Fix, Despite Patch · · Score: 1

    AND people authorize everything that asks them for permission, so....

  23. Re:Java used to be secure and sandboxed on Security Expert Says Java Vulnerability Could Take Years To Fix, Despite Patch · · Score: 1

    agreed, the updater is a pain in the ass.

  24. Re:Java used to be secure and sandboxed on Security Expert Says Java Vulnerability Could Take Years To Fix, Despite Patch · · Score: 1

    Yeah, try running Minecraft without Java. You do realize that almost every family with kids is running Minecraft right.

  25. Re:Java used to be secure and sandboxed on Security Expert Says Java Vulnerability Could Take Years To Fix, Despite Patch · · Score: 1

    Maybe his website uses an Excel spreadsheet for the user and content database. That would be cool. Then you could pass requests to a servlet that would access an application server running an RMI application that uses JNI to access COM on a live version of an Excel spreadsheet running on a desktop somewhere in the enterprise so the president's secretary's secretary can easily update customer data for the website! Thanks /.