User: i_liek_turtles

Re:Microsoft's revenue schedule

On: Microsoft Submits Windows 7 for Antitrust Review

Could one of those years be the year of the Linux desktop, or will we have moved onto something more obscure by then?

Re:Good point, but...

On: Blu-ray Player Prices Hit 2008 Highs

Increasing in popularity, yes, but I doubt that those who are happy with XviD are the market that B]uRay is aiming for-- the HD enthusiast. In other parts of the world, even those with good broadband penetration, I'd still think that a 30+ GB file would be taxing. If they can actually compete, well, I feel nothing but envy. :(

Re:Check out the original

On: MIT Picks Top 10 Emerging Technologies

I only have 1.2 gigawatts.

It is an annual list, so...

On: MIT Picks Top 10 Emerging Technologies

Probably last year.

Re:Psst... you haven't won the war yet.

On: Blu-ray Player Prices Hit 2008 Highs

I find it funny that the same Slashdot that thinks the telcos are dragging their feet and barely keeping up with XviD downloads (US broadband sucks, don't get me wrong) is the same Slashdot that thinks HD discs won't last long because people will download their HD content.

Re:Oh exploitable

On: Paul Krugman's 1978 Theory of Interstellar Trade

I don't believe you. Your grammar is too correct.

Re:better analogy

On: DARPA Funds Development on Modular Satellite Network

A bus in the sky? It's just a really big car.

Does it:

On: Plants Use Twitter to Tell You to Water Them

reorder Brawndo when I run out?

Re:Why?

On: Ralph Nader Might Announce Run For President

Ralph Nader: Unsafe for any Democrat

Re:OK That's it

On: Steve Fossett Declared Dead

What could possibly go wrong?!

Re:We're doomed.

On: Rush Limbaugh Begs Steve Jobs For Bug Fixes

Linux users are the ignored Ronulans, as always. :(

Re:Story is tagged "gay"?

On: Canon Files For DSLR Iris Registration Patent

Who cares? Tags are gay.

Re:Mircro

On: Nanowires of Unlimited Length

One of the tags previously on there was "mircro."

Mircro

On: Nanowires of Unlimited Length

I fro won, velcum our knew mircro ovuhlawds.

Re:Hey I have no problem to by them

On: Tor Books Is Giving Away E-Books

It's such a bitch to use clit Slashdot: we understand.

Well

On: Amazon Erases Orders To Cover Up Pricing Mistake

I would welcome our new mispricing overlords, but I just ordered them off Amazon for about $20.

Re:That's what you get for making stupid rules.

On: W3C Gets Excessive DTD Traffic

Slashdot wouldn't let me use my new tags,

<goatse>, <sovietrussia>, and <overlord>

Re:That's what you get for making stupid rules.

On: W3C Gets Excessive DTD Traffic

I can write my own DTD (a modification of the HTML4 DTD, for example) that adds new elements. DTD write

Re:Swallows

On: Birds Give a Lesson to Plane Designers

Obviously African: this plane does migrate! Don't be silly!

Re:Say what?

On: Apple Updates iPhone and iPod Touch

You enjoying your 8 songs?

Re:WOW!

On: Femtosecond Lasers Used To Color Metals

Is it an African or European butterfly?

Re:People are fantastic

On: Tool Use Is Just a Trick of the Mind

Nonsense, they are tools themselves!

Hot damn

On: Star Trek-like 'Phraselator' Helps Police

Now when I bust out my Klingon skills, I'll get even more sex!

It'll be my first time.

Well, if they got their phone service from ATT

On: Pirate Bay Gets a 4,000-Page Complaint

They'd already be used to this crap!

Poor Sky Captain

On: Last Sky Commuter For Sale On eBay

He had to commute in this thing.