User: scialex

Re:Microsoft Office

On: Ask Slashdot: What Video Games Keep You From Using Linux?

That's what PDF's are for.

Re:Paid for

On: Windows 8 RTM Benchmarked

Nah Gnome3 already called it.

Re:Ubuntu 12.10

On: Windows 8 Release Date: October 26th

Seeing as Cannonical is aiming to have Wayland as the default windowing system I doubt that.

Ubuntu 12.04 on the other hand...

Re:Blah

On: Web Exploit Found That Customizes Attack For Windows, Mac, and Linux

We'll show them; The year of the Plan-9 desktop is at hand.

Re:And none with a decent interface.

On: Chromium-Based Spinoffs Worth Trying

But OTOH it is consistently inconsistent. On any OS/platform you can be fairly certain that if you fire up chrome/chromium it will look almost exactly the same.
Furthermore the fact is that chrome's ui is quickly becoming the standard browser ui. Both IE 9 and Firefox whatever the hell version they are at now look very similar to it.

Re:And when the car breaks down?

On: Autonomous Vehicles and the Law

"How well will it do in a Minnesota blizzard?"

This one question will probably be what keeps these cars from being sold until at least a decade from now.

Re:Objective C

On: 2011's Fastest Growing Language: Objective-C

It is when you realize that for every other platform with even a microscopic amount of market-share the price is $0. ;)

Re:Raspberry Pi

On: Doctorow: the Coming War On General-Purpose Computing

I disagree. I think that what would happen would be more similar to whats happened in gaming. Big shops make the big things and indie shops and hobbyists make the original, innovative stuff.