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  1. Re:Obligatory on Myst Was Supposed To Change the Face of Gaming. What Is Its Legacy? · · Score: 1
  2. Re:What hosting company? on 1,700 Websites In Russia Go Dark In SOPA-Style Protest · · Score: 1

    Hostgator hosts mosts of its servers with bluehost now. ...

    Probably busy today looking at the forums.

  3. Re:More like autistic-savant 4 year old on IQ Test Pegs ConceptNet 4 AI About As Smart As a 4-Year-Old · · Score: 1

    Isn't it already past that point then?

  4. Re:The expense isn't the license, it's support on Spain's Extremadura Starts Move To GNU/Linux, Open Source · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Reminds me of what the trainers at work said.

    Sit a linux admin and a windows admin in a room together and tell them to walk away from their mail exchangers for 2 weeks. The linux admin will be indifferent and the windows admin will visibly twitch, snap, and kill everyone.

    Oh the stability of windows products.

  5. Re:web applications on Spain's Extremadura Starts Move To GNU/Linux, Open Source · · Score: 1

    So the companies have control over whats execu... damit.
    So the people can edit word doc.... damit
    So the people can play 3D Pinball! Thats it.

  6. Re:Try NewEgg on Ask Slashdot: Buying a Laptop That Doesn't Have Windows 8 · · Score: 2

    I have a co-worker who spent i think they said 4-5 hours total between 3 phone calls to whichever company produced their computer, i forget who it was.
    After complaining and yelling at them for 4 hours, they revoked the windows 8 licence and mailed them an OEM copy of windows 7 with drivers and they are quite happy now.

  7. Re:Intelligent Advertising on How Companies Learn Your Secrets · · Score: 1

    if you are really as sensible as you're apparently claiming, you wouldn't ever buy a new car at all ... people still buy new cars, because there is social and personal value in having a new car that no amount of economics can justify.

    Which is why i said 10-15 years. certainly it is more efficient to buy a used vehicle and i likely will but if you wanted to get anal, you could say advertisements effect your choice there to. There is no reason one can't buy a new vehicle and if i have oodles of money, I might just buy something nice. You also have to understand that i don't understand this "social" thing. Why would i care what people think of my car? If i think its nice then that's all i care.

    none of us (of the male persuasion) "see" ourselves buying tampons, but what if your wife tells you to buy tampons of a particular brand, and you forget which brand when you get to the supermarket? are you going to come home with no tampons even though you know there is a chance they will be the wrong brand and that you'll have to return to exchange them? this is what advertisers are counting on, and i think its possibly a more common scenario than you might think. if i have to remember more than 3 things i usually get my wife to write it down, but sometimes i think i should be able to remember 3 things and forget one of them anyway.

    Cellphone much? You really are trying to hard to make me thing that tampon advertisements are for me. Do you work for a tampon company in their advertisement department?

    Also, if you really want to get into "brand recognition", there are several brands i see heavily advertised that i will never buy or use. Why can't I opt out of these brands advertisements? I'm already very familiar with the name.

  8. Re:Intelligent Advertising on How Companies Learn Your Secrets · · Score: 1

    Certainly advertising is to target average people with money but I also thing your assuming i'm lumped in with the general population.
    Your also missing my point, Advertisements are designed to, as you said, give brand recognition. They also drive impulse purchases. Its no doubt that my dad decided he wanted to get a 2011 camaro because of advertising and he just had gotten his raise along with the his truck being paid off at the time.

    My original point was that I am not going to be buying a new car in the next 10-15 yeas. In the event that i do, its not going to be an impulse buy because i saw the car on tv the previous week.
    I also never ever see my self buying tampon brands that i choose plus a whole other host of items which lead us back to jmactacular's original post and how I would prefer to never see tampon and car advertisements.

  9. Re:Intelligent Advertising on How Companies Learn Your Secrets · · Score: 1

    and you think ill be choosing tampon brand when? If there is ever a situation where i'm buying tampons, im going to ask my girlfriend the brand first lest i have to return tampons...

    Also when i decide to spend $40,000 because "i like the name" ill give you the $40,000

  10. Re:Intelligent Advertising on How Companies Learn Your Secrets · · Score: 1

    because I'm a guy, i clearly want to be persuaded buy tampons or i'm 21 with almost no income, i clearly need to be persuaded to buy a $40,000 car

  11. Re:Microcenter? on The Gradual Death of the Brick and Mortar Tech Store · · Score: 1

    anytime I walk into Frys here, they (try to) hand me a paper guaranteeing their price is the same or lower than newegg or amazon.

  12. Re:$200 per device for the Windows license on Blockbuster Trying To Woo Disgruntled Netflix Customers · · Score: 1

    What legal fees revolve around having a proper licence and not an OEM(The normal version was $120, OEM was $100)

  13. Re:$200 per device for the Windows license on Blockbuster Trying To Woo Disgruntled Netflix Customers · · Score: 1

    Yes I meant OEM. I looked and a normal copy is only like $120 on newegg if you want to get anal over licencing terms.

  14. Re:$200 per device for the Windows license on Blockbuster Trying To Woo Disgruntled Netflix Customers · · Score: 1

    Windows 7 home OME is like $100 on newegg.

  15. Re:Facebook Vs. Google+ on Google+ Account Suspensions Over ToS Drawing Fire · · Score: 1

    I didn't say that you have to. If your willing to pay money, there are plenty of places you can go. I was referring to people who don't want to pay for it or have money(Although co.cc on a business card is just as bad)

  16. Re:Facebook Vs. Google+ on Google+ Account Suspensions Over ToS Drawing Fire · · Score: 2

    because someone has to actually host the mailserver. Not everyone knows how to do that themselves.
    You have the option of paying a company to do it or use a free service like hotmail/gmail/yahoo(not sure if yahoo or hotmail let you use your own domain, I don't touch them)

  17. Re:Sure, send me an invite! on Google+ Already At 10 Million Users · · Score: 1

    Thanks! Got an invite

  18. Re:Sure, send me an invite! on Google+ Already At 10 Million Users · · Score: 1

    would not mind an invite myself, matthew.r.cash(gmail)

  19. Re:OSX on AppleCare Reps Told To Skirt Malware Questions · · Score: 1

    I'll admit I had a box pwned.

    Setup a VPS with a bunch of software and forgot about it for a few months so it never got updated. Logged on and one of the daemon users had a bunch of stuff running on it(Chinese spam going to Chinese boxes, so no real damage occurred) It wasn't rooted or anything but i wiped the machine anyways.

  20. Re:think again? u aint thunk yet on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Leave My Router Open? · · Score: 1

    I think you are more likely to have a swat team shot first and ask questions later.

  21. Re:A better idea on Rep. Bill Posey Introduces 'Back To the Moon' Bill · · Score: 2

    Flagless Ship in the middle of the ocean. Solves that issue.

  22. Re:Not bothered on Why Has Blu-ray Failed To Catch Hold? · · Score: 1

    I haven't and won't upgrade until VLC can play blueray natively which isn't going to happen due to all the DRM shit.

  23. Re:Whose enemies? on Iran Says Siemens Helped US, Israel Build Stuxnet · · Score: 2

    The US is actively dismantling nuclear weapons. US has moved from huge stockpiles of tends of thousands to thousands now. They also have moved from multiple warheads on a launch vehicle to a single warhead. Just because the US still has nukes doesn't mean they aren't working toward disarmament. The only issue not stopping the US from dismantling all at once is the fact that other countries like Russia still has a shitton of nukes. Might I also note both sides still have teams on full alert, like back in the cold war days, ready to press a button and fire a couple thousands nukes within 1 minute and their entire arsenal in 15 minutes.

  24. Re:Nothing but respect... on Heroism Is Part of a Nuclear Worker's Job · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Fukushima_nuclear_accidents

    I find that fairly useful, as it shows a new chart for particular times so you can see how different things have progressed.

  25. Re:MySQL went wrong direction long time ago on Drizzle Hits General Availability · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As someone who has dealt with both, I can say the reason postgresql isn't as popular is because its more involved in its setup. Mysql is simpler for new people. You install it, download phpmyadmin, login as root and then start creating databases and stuff. postgresql isn't as simple. Creating a new database is a bit more involved and when i first was confronted with it, I wondered why it was so complex.

    I don't even know how to take advantage of more complex stuff in postgresql either.

    This is coming from someone who is mildly experinced with mysql and set up a postgresql server not knowing anything.

    Its like taking a Ubuntu person and sticking them on slackware/gentoo or something. Although its similar its still radically different.