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  1. Adwords == buggy and slow on Is Google Too Smart For Its Own Good? · · Score: 1

    A major problem in working with AdWords is that the adwords team are inefficient. Also, the adwords admin system is slow, and generating reports is slow like hell.
    Minor point: the Adwords team I use is the local (danish) team, but that should not leave me with service that is of lesser quality.

  2. Re:So, what's the problem? on Is Google Too Smart For Its Own Good? · · Score: 1

    [...] the point at which google jumps the shark. WITH FRIGGIN' LASERS ON THEIR FRIGGIN' HEADS!
  3. Re:WinXP/2K 'incubation'? on Vista — CIOs' First Impressions · · Score: 1

    *duh*
    Upgrades cost money
    Bankers are jews

    (What? My richest friend is a Jew. Stereotype != wrong)

  4. Re:Have you tried clicking the triangle? on Greatest Task of Web 2.x: Meta-Validation · · Score: 1

    While it obviously needs some work (and apparently a lot better instructions for use) But... it's in beta. C'mon. You know you want to rub the shiny beta.
  5. Re:Speaking of Slashdot's metadata... on Greatest Task of Web 2.x: Meta-Validation · · Score: 1

    What about the removal of accurate metadata, such as Slashdot's disabling of the "dupe" tag? I was actually wondering about that...
  6. Re:new os out the door? on Get on the 'Gates for President' Bandwagon · · Score: 1

    Bush was the MS funded lapdog, so this would mean status quo. President would change, originator wouldn't....
    Seriously, that's just dumb. The Mad King has a whole host of masters; Microsoft is but a piece in the puzzle of his dependencies.
    Hell, even buying a Marabou bar indirectly supports Bush/GOP, and why should Kraft Foods/Unilever support someone who didn't do as they wanted?

  7. One of my favourite quotes... on Get on the 'Gates for President' Bandwagon · · Score: 1

    ... is from a Danish book taking place during the Nazi occupation of Denmark.
    It's one of the nazi-sympathising townspeople who is confronted about this, and his explanation is this: Before the Germans, this town was known for two things; that lake, and unemployment. They can't take the lake from us, and the unemployment is gone"... Good times, good times.

  8. [Offtopic] New Asterix movie == teh suxx0r on Apple Releases 31 Security Fixes · · Score: 1

    Seriously, I just can't stop hating that movie. 15 minutes into the movie I considered getting up, walking to the nearest train station, catch a train to France (I live in continental Europe), and skin Uderzo and Goscinny alive for allowing that story to see the light of day.
    I considered strangling them, but peeling the skin off of their arms and forcing them to eat it seemed so much closer to just. And I'm usually a pacifist...

    Then again, their last album should have been a warning.

    Taking this further and further off-topic: I miss the old days...

  9. Re:That's hilarious on History Proves That Videogame Ads Are Awful · · Score: 1

    I ain't that good an actor. I tried, but I seriously can't shut up about all the things that are wrong with it. I have to listen to music to not listen to their incoherent, rambling dialogue.
    Not putting down their show is much better for the mood of the house than...
    Never mind, one of them just went out to put in a tampon.

  10. Re:That's hilarious on History Proves That Videogame Ads Are Awful · · Score: 1

    I've been smiling non-stop for weeks now.

  11. Re:That's hilarious on History Proves That Videogame Ads Are Awful · · Score: 1

    Sorry, it's Charmed . I am still considering the dual-homicide an option, though.
    Seeing them with translated titles makes me lose track of the original titles. (At least they never (*ugh*) dub them over with translated lines, like in Germany. Danmed Germans)

    OTOH, they're my only chance of sex tonight, so I might be lenient.

  12. Re:Breaking news.. on History Proves That Videogame Ads Are Awful · · Score: 1

    I did say ex. Besides, I live in Europe.

  13. Re:Breaking news.. on History Proves That Videogame Ads Are Awful · · Score: 1

    Ads for video games are like pictures of women in magazines like Maxim -- they're air-brushed extravagances of the real thing that in no way resemble what the actual woman would look like without all the extra work. Of course, YMMV.My model ex-GF IMHO looked better off-print than on. I actually don't have any pictures of her from magazines because they looked so fake.

  14. Re:That's hilarious on History Proves That Videogame Ads Are Awful · · Score: 1

    My GF and her friend also just looked at me as if I was mad. After all, my laughing blocked out the audio of their 'Bewitched' DVD-athon.

    (Godsdamn that they're only on second season. They seriously will keep going)

  15. Re:Why RTFA? on Why Vista Took So Long · · Score: 1

    Are you joking or do you have a source?

  16. Too tasteful on The Lost Art of the Game Company Newsletter · · Score: 1

    I prefer the Running with Scissors-flavoured newsletter.
    Too bad the past three have been sent to me twice each, without much content, and not online. The linked one has Steve Irwin, though. Tasteful stuff. Like that horrible new movie.

  17. [Offtopic] Translation on The Great Firewall of Canada · · Score: 1

    This... translation program of yours that handles Danish... Do you have a link?

  18. Re:Obligatory /. Jokes on Do You Own Your Native Language? · · Score: 1

    Nono, I was not trying to put your example down; I have very much enjoyed reading Banks (in both his personae), up to and including the Algebraist. Hell, almost all fiction is consisting of old ideas, rewashed, revamped, and redone for a new audience (or at least a novel interpretation or view).

  19. Re:slownewsday on Mystery of Ancient Calculator Finally Cracked · · Score: 1

    You got it.

  20. Re:absolutely crazy on Do You Own Your Native Language? · · Score: 1

    Look, I don't like Microsoft, but these people are fucking morons. Linguistic piracy? Are you shitting me?!!? This tribe sounds like the RIAA. What a bunch of chumpsFight fire with fire?

  21. Re:Profit from language? on Do You Own Your Native Language? · · Score: 1

    Nah, but I bet they'd get into hot water if they didn't adapt to the French language, seeing as France have laws against using other languages (at least in commercials, but that still shows a lot of lingual conservatism)

  22. Re:Obligatory /. Jokes on Do You Own Your Native Language? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If the language was crafted for a purpose and the use of the language enforced (and use of other languages punished), you could probably get at least some desired effects.
    Of course, if you're good enough and spend enough ressources, the "old languages" can be pretty much eradicated within about 3 generations.

    *sigh*. To be a dictator...

    At any rate, Banks was just doling out old soup in new cans; the concept is aging to say the least. (And I'm betting he was flogging a horse-skeleton, at that)

  23. Re:Yes. Yes i do. on Do You Own Your Native Language? · · Score: 1

    I am the one who owns the English language. I get the final word on how it is used. Why do you ask?Seeing as I have the patents covering fire, water, air and earth, I mock your useless patent claims.
    We'll see who has the most important patents in court!

    Until then, stop breathing, drinking and heating your stuff. Oh, and the electricity? Comes from coal or oil burning power plants.
    Also, get of my earth.
    It's ok, I can stop speaking English until the disputes have been settled, weil ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch et un petit peu francaise.

  24. Re:Obligatory /. Jokes on Do You Own Your Native Language? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In a way, yes, language owns you.
    It's been pretty firmly established that the way we talk affects the way we think, which also goes a long way in explaining why the prisoners of war in Gitmo are called 'Enemy Combatants'. See, they're completely different because we call them something else

  25. Re:Real geeks only please on Top Ten Geek Girls · · Score: 2, Funny

    What do you mean, the 1? That girls is all about ones. And I don't mean cold ones, either.