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  1. Re:Netbeans ( or others ) on IDEs With VIM Text Editing Capability? · · Score: 1

    viPlugin isn't free as in speech or free as in beer either. :(

  2. Re:A call for a White Paper on Following In Bing's Footsteps, Yahoo! and Flickr Censor Porn In India · · Score: 1

    ...the flawless democratic system would allows us to make sure we elect officials who respect it...

    I hope you were going for +5, Funny; I can't tell what you mean by that otherwise.

  3. Re:Wait a minute before the India-bashing begins on Following In Bing's Footsteps, Yahoo! and Flickr Censor Porn In India · · Score: 1

    His (her?) contention was that porn makes you not get pregnant by replacing actual sex.

  4. Re:Monty Python Engineering on Is Code Auditing of Open Source Apps Necessary? · · Score: 1

    King of Swamp Castle: When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone
    said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same,
    just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. And that
    one sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over,
    and then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what
    you're going to get, Son, the strongest castle in all of England.

    That sounds a lot like the development history of Windows.

    So the first one is DOS (except for the "built it myself" part), the second one is Win3.1, the third is Win ME, and the fourth is XP? Where do Vista and 7 fit in?

  5. Re:Say goodbye for XML on Microsoft Ordered To Pay $290M, Stop Selling Word · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Say goodbye for XML on Microsoft Ordered To Pay $290M, Stop Selling Word · · Score: 1

    [...]It runs like a charm on anything from windows 3.11 to Vista,[...]

    Microsoft: Oh dear, we're shirking our duties! Allow us to break that for you?

  7. Re:Two clichés that apply to web sites... on Website Owner's Manual · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Search:
    Success story: Google
    Failure story: Yahoo!
    Morales:

    • Don't fill your search home page with random crap.
    • Your first focus should be on the search algorithm--revenue is second to that.
    • Don't enter the search market now that Google controls it.
  8. Re:In my experience... on Website Owner's Manual · · Score: 1

    meta tags form a subset of HTML.

  9. Re:Xmas Present... on Website Owner's Manual · · Score: 1

    If you hate D2, turn it off. It's really that simple.

  10. Re:wait... on New Antifreeze Molecule Isolated In Alaskan Beetle · · Score: 2, Informative

    "so the ice would burst out of the cell ravaging the cell membranes and everything else at the same time." Plants have cell walls and cell membranes, animals only have cell membranes.

    FTFY

  11. Re:This definitely on Holy See Declares a "Unique Copyright" On the Pope · · Score: 1

    Tux is somebody's copyright, and I think it's trademarked as well. Believe it or not "open source" is trademarked, but fortunately by the good guys.

  12. Re:Both were at fault on D.C. Detective Pulls Gun At Snowball Fight · · Score: 1

    Presumption of innocence. He is treated as though he were innocent until either a court or the internal investigation finds he acted wrongly. Then they need to figure out why he acted the way he did and whether he can still be trusted with a gun. Until that time, they need to treat him as though he were innocent while removing him from the streets for safety reasons (which is exactly what they did)

  13. Re:But why would it be intentionally similar? on Microsoft Sued Over Bing Trademark · · Score: 1

    No, they were obviously naming it after this Bing (yes, you do have to (v)grep for "bing" in the list. I'm sorry that I can't help your laziness):

    Bing talks extremely fast and often employs circular logic.

    The Bing commercials are such obvious parodies of this!

  14. Re:Eh, the SITE is a parody, the registry isn't on AU Authority Moves To Censor Net Filtering Protest Site · · Score: 1

    Good for Australia, however, I think that ICANN might not mind quite as much.

    ICANN has a word for this sort of behavior. It's called "domain name squatting".

  15. Re:As evil as it sounds... on AU Authority Moves To Censor Net Filtering Protest Site · · Score: 1

    In (alleged) domain name squatting cases, the person whose name matches the domain is given precedence over everyone else, including trademark holders.

  16. Re:I guess you could call it a ... on A Requiem For Saab · · Score: 0, Redundant

    GM and so many other corporations are having problems because they have focused on maximizing short-term profit as the absolute top priority, and either forgotten their product, or sacrificed the product (with blind cost-cutting) in the name of profit.

    Stockholders won't let you focus on anything else.

  17. Re:IE8 displacing older versions! on Firefox 3.5 Now the Most Popular Browser Worldwide · · Score: 1
  18. Re:A new topic logo, perhaps? on Firefox 3.5 Now the Most Popular Browser Worldwide · · Score: 1

    The topic graphic is for the topic "msie". Thus it gets an IE icon.

  19. Re:so....? on Firefox 3.5 Now the Most Popular Browser Worldwide · · Score: 1

    There is a significant fraction of the market that has heard of Firefox but which has never heard of Chrome, Opera, etc. (it have heard of Safari though, thanks to Apple).

  20. Re:From The Book of Mozilla, 11:9 on Firefox 3.5 Now the Most Popular Browser Worldwide · · Score: 1

    Sacrificed crops refers to the firefox crop circle.

  21. Re:Browser down. on Firefox 3.5 Now the Most Popular Browser Worldwide · · Score: 1

    How about s/pico/nano/g ?

  22. Re:Just wow on DECAF Was Just a Stunt, Now Over · · Score: 1

    And of course, libertarians like small businesses, whereas Libertarians hate all businesses.

  23. ACTA on EU Demands Canada Rework Its Copyright, Patent Law · · Score: 1

    'nuf said (*ducks*).

  24. Re:more to the point, is this really necessary? on How Europe's Mandated Browser Ballot Screen Works · · Score: 1

    Sorry to double post, but changing the icon is a clusterfuck if you forget which icons you changed and/or someone else offers informal tech support afterwards.

  25. Re:more to the point, is this really necessary? on How Europe's Mandated Browser Ballot Screen Works · · Score: 1

    And why do you change things for people they clearly do not want?

    FTFY. Because afterwards they often realize how much they hate IE in comparison to "Foxfire, or whatever that thing is" (Yes, people do say "foxfire". It's really annoying! Fortunately the masses do seem to be learning, very slowly.).