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  1. Re:No, this is typical for virtually anyone sellin on What The Banned iPhone Ad Should Really Look Like · · Score: 2, Funny

    You forget that those burgers are paid professional models (I mean, take a look at their buns!) Do they have to be taken up close? And those bottled drinks...do they always have to glisten with small drops of sweat?

    I heard some of them were real bitchy divas too...

  2. Re:More than 1 on NVIDIA's $10K Tesla GPU-Based Personal Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    Owooooo.... (at the full moon)

  3. Re:Graphics on NVIDIA's $10K Tesla GPU-Based Personal Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    If you can find some way to get the video out to a monitor

    Yup, time to break out those ol' CGA monitors out from the garage...knew they'd come in handy again one day, and with Linux' oh-so-retro CLI mode, I'm set!

  4. Re:Microsoft will play hardball on Google Chrome OEM Strategy To Take On IE · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Hey! There can only be one monopoly, and that is us! Your Honor? Hello?"

  5. Finally! on Adobe Releases C/C++ To Flash Compiler · · Score: 1

    I've always wanted to post my classic Quake screenshots in pdf format. Yup, been waiting. All. These. Years.

  6. Re:Don't be silly on AIX On the Desktop Is Getting the Boot · · Score: 2, Funny

    Who on earth would need a 5GHz CPU on the desktop?

    Me, because I don't want an applet that shows me the weather today in a teeny tiny window, I want to simulate today's highs and lows right here, on my desktop!

  7. Wait! Wait! on The Trap Set By the FBI For Half Life 2 Hacker · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is the position still open?

  8. Re:Replacement on (Useful) Stupid Vim Tricks? · · Score: 1

    Thanks for that last one; I didn't know about u to undo. My undo has always been :q! since I don't really code, just edit text or config files with vi :-)

    However I use vi as my chat client once in a while heh. Talk about minimalist.

  9. Re:Why would China do this? on How China Will Use Cyber Warfare To Leapfrog Foes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Except that your short list does not really have countries with an abundance of resources that the US would want...unless you count white sandy beaches with drinks with little tiny umbrellas as resources.

  10. Of all the quasi reality shows I want on MTV Launches Music Video Site · · Score: 1

    No it's not Real World or Road Rules or Jackass or Cribs. I want 'Pimp My Car' because you guessed it...I want them to Pimp My Car!

  11. Re:Which videos? on MTV Launches Music Video Site · · Score: 2, Funny

    Uhura: Captain? They want to know if you want to pay by credit card or Paypal.

    Captain: (Searches uniform) Ehrm I seem to have left my wallet at home. THis thing doesn't even have pockets! Spock?

    (Spock nerve pinches the first red-shirted guy on deck, gets that guy's credit card and hands it to Kirk)

    Captain (to Spock): Did you just nerve pinch that guy...

    Spock: I believe the proper term is 'identity theft', Captain.

  12. Guys! RTFA! Go visit the link, NOW! on World First Review of Dell's 12.1in Netbook · · Score: 1

    It's all ON ONE PAGE! Even the photos! Not spread out across 12, 11, or 10 ad-filled pop-up strewn pages!

    Go check it out! This is a sure sign, The world is coming to an end in 30 minutes!

    Seriously!

  13. Re:What normal users can expect on What Normal Users Can Expect From Ubuntu 8.10 · · Score: 1

    If you don't like brown, then change it to the color of coffee, or a hot cup o cocoa.

    Oh wait those are still brown...

  14. Re:What normal users can expect on What Normal Users Can Expect From Ubuntu 8.10 · · Score: 1

    I'm going to shoot the next guy who hates brown http://shedied.deviantart.com/art/Quit-messin-with-the-shirt-101719893

    Put that on your desktop!

  15. Let's make a penny go to more research on Researchers Developing Cancer-Fighting Beer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...from the sale of each beer. Doesn't necessarily have to go towards cancer research; it could defray the cost of printing the new labels. We'd still buy 'em, drink 'em...in the name of research, get it?

    "Helping to find the cure, honey."

    It's for the rest of us armchair jocks that can't run for a cause, unless it involved dashing to the fridge for the next one.

  16. Re:What changed? on Yahoo Changes User Profiles, To Massive Outrage · · Score: 4, Funny

    all the crazies who roll out a new persona with every new boy/girlfriend,
    check

    bad hair day,
    check

    full moon,
    check

    EMO issue,
    check

    Hey, you guys get your own stalker. I've found mine already.

  17. Re:oblig on Why the Kill Switch Makes Sense For Android · · Score: 2, Funny

    Even worse, what if the Android phones grew stick-figure arms and legs? We'd be pointing at them, mockingly saying: "Look at those stick figure android phones, with their funny-looking heads, trying to overthrow their mas--eeeeeiiiiyeeeeaaaaw"

  18. Re:Running E17 full time. Wouldn't use anything el on E17, Slimmed Down For Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    I've tried blackbox (with its bbpager) and E and what blew me away (this was e16) was that the pager on high quality actually was a snapshot of what was on the workspace. I was told it was a hack but the best thing about that feature was that come back to your pc after a couple of hours and you remember where everything was when you left. I truly miss that on e17.

    I have not seen anything to match that. And hands down it can make an ancient Thinkpad out-mac a Mac when it comes to eye candy.

  19. Re:Mac vs. PC vs. Xbox 360 vs. PS3 on Top Apple Rumors, Bricks, Low Price, NVIDIA · · Score: 1

    What about when I pick up the chainsaw? Do I actually switch? I haven't found too many of those at the gamestores. I'd like to be Ash...Housewares, even for a short while :-)

    Shop smart! Shop S-Mart!

  20. Re:Who am I supposed to hate more? on In Response To Restraining Order, Real Networks Pulls RealDVD · · Score: 1

    Real Networks is taking the bullet for whom, exactly? Is there someone else with a product that can do the same function, or even improve on it (think JarJar-less Star Wars)?

  21. Re:Relevance? on Linux Turns 17 Today · · Score: 1

    Because here in the US, most college kids celebrate the day they need no steenkin' ID to purchase alcohol and/or cigarettes, and that alone is cause for celebration and wearing women's underwear.

    Oh, wait that last part was *my preference. My bad...

  22. I like the part where it says on Linux Turns 17 Today · · Score: 1

    "For a definition of Linus Torvaldis, see Merriam Webster"

    OMG! I read TFA all the way to the end! And on this day of all things!!
     
    /me hides

  23. You know what this means, of course on Birth of a New African Ocean · · Score: 5, Funny

    That 10 million years from now, the split will be complete. Slashdot will report this, and one /.er will complain, "It's a dupe! This story appeared 10 million years ago! What's up with the cyborg editors?"

  24. Re:Not the big deal... on "Netbooks" Move Up In Notebook Rankings · · Score: 1

    a problem that can't be fixed without making the netbook bigger to fit a better keyboard

    Wish that IBM or Lenovo would ride this bandwagon too. They have a good-sized case in the workpad z50 back then (not the palm, the subnotebook wannabe http://www.hpcfactor.com/reviews/hardware/ibm/workpad-z50/), so why not resurrect it. This way, they got the "low-end" covered too :-)

  25. Re:More Accurate Summary on iPhone Antitrust and Computer Fraud Claims Upheld · · Score: 1

    Lawyers and judges always get blasted by techies

    Yes but in these forums? It's like if a tree falls in the forest when no one's around, will you still hear your ex-wife talk?

    Oh, wait...that's not how that goes...