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  1. Re:anons: never failing to troll firstposts on Android Ice Cream Sandwich Source Released · · Score: 2

    They were never evil. MS was never evil. Apple was never evil.

    It's just that sometimes they make bad business decisions. Sometimes these decisions come forth from a particular manager in the company being corrupt (ie. evil, I suppose). Sometimes, shareholders have terrible ideas. This does not make the company itself evil. Hundreds, thousands of people work there. Calling the company "evil" makes it sound like anyone who works there is, too, and at that point, you're just sounding ignorant.

  2. Well! on Mario's Raccoon Suit Enrages PETA · · Score: 1

    This is the biggest load of bullshit I've seen in a while. I suppose all the cute animal pajamas and hats in Japan should be banned, too?

  3. Re:Well... on What's Keeping You On Windows? · · Score: 1

    I have some tools in place to make window management better in Windows. In any case, I was only mentioning the main things I'd boot into the other system for, anyway - I like Linux for a few other things too.

  4. Dammit. on Valve Announces Massive Steam Server Intrusion · · Score: 1

    This has been annoying the shit out of me. I've been meaning to check the forums to see if other people have problems running SEGA Genesis & Mega Drive Classics, and I simply can't. Forums are always the quickest and easiest ways to solve these kinds of problems, but I guess I'll just contact SEGA support or whatever.

    Thanks, intruders.

  5. Well... on What's Keeping You On Windows? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Games. And sometimes, random apps that don't want to work well in Wine.

    Also, I honestly don't mind using Windows. I'll just work with whatever OS I happen to be in. I dual boot, so I will occasionally reboot my system as the urge to do something that works better in the other OS grows (Windows for playing games, Linux for developing stuff).

  6. Grammar! on Pirate Party Invited To, Then Banned From Gaming Exhibition · · Score: 1

    *A* party, so the party *has*.

    Good night.

  7. Re:More importantly on Google+ Opens To Businesses With 'Pages' · · Score: 1

    I found a list of limits on the Google blog, I believe. Can't be bothered to check it now, but it just involves stuff like "pages can't receive notification emails; they can't subscribe to other people unless they subscribed the page; pages can't use hangouts on a mobile phone"... Nothing that you'd actually really need on a page.

  8. Re:Academic Steriods on Survey Finds Cheating Among Students At All GPA Levels · · Score: 1

    Whaa? Seriously? This is the first time I have heard of THAT.

  9. Re:i wonder on Linux Mint 12 to Blend GNOMEs 2 & 3 · · Score: 1

    RPM-based distros also have one-click repositories. So sharable package repos are common in other distros too, yet also split as completely different software (which is expected).

  10. Re:new firefox release schedule moved me to Chrome on Firefox 8.0 Released · · Score: 1

    You don't have to restart the browser. Just close and re-open the tabs that had YouTube open, if you had any.

  11. Re:new firefox release schedule moved me to Chrome on Firefox 8.0 Released · · Score: 1

    But the magic drawing system in FF8 sucks. ...Sorry. Couldn't help myself.

  12. Re:CD? on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Won't Fit On a CD · · Score: 1

    And Are still cheaper than DVDs.

  13. Re:MAME? on 10k Raspberry Pi Units Available In December · · Score: 1

    I smell an interesting homebrew project...

  14. Re:Is it really open? on 10k Raspberry Pi Units Available In December · · Score: 1

    4 days later...

    Simply put, BroadCom's hardware is pretty much closed. Everything that the Raspberri Pi foundation creates or contributes is open. So you'll end up with a lot of openness on a fairly closed device (it's mostly, or only, the driver part that will be closed, from what I read on their site).

    This does showcase a difference between the RasPi foundation and Broadcom's management. Me, I support Eben & Co.'s vision more. But I understand perfectly well why they'd go with such a locked down piece of hardware, and for me personally, it doesn't really matter.

  15. They can't do that. on Apple Threatens Bistro Over "AppleADay" Name · · Score: 1

    They can't do that. It's been clearly established for a long time that the food is not related to the company. And the restaurant's name is obviously based off a phrase off the food. Nobody will think about the company Apple when they see that name.

    Dumbest lawsuit I've seen on here yet.

  16. Re:When do we get compression? on Fedora Aims To Simplify Linux Filesystem · · Score: 1

    There's another advantage to compressing the data, though. A lot of the boot and load times on software and distros is spent reading files from disk. Compress these files, and there's less to read, which is good. The CPU will take over the task of uncompressing the files, which is a lot faster than loading the full file (depending on how large it is).

    Thus, I'd see compression as something that can be very beneficial to load times.

  17. Re:So what? on Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than · · Score: 1

    The reason that software is bigger these days is that it does more for you.

    Not quite true. The main reason a lot of software is so much bigger than back then is because they include a bunch of libraries, which may require a few more libraries, and none of them are especially optimized to be small.

  18. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN!!! on Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than · · Score: 1

    Sounds like something wrong happened. Reinstall Windows.

    Of course, with software being so much more complicated these days, problems like these may happen sooner. Heck, the Apples at school are as fast as how you describe your install of Windows 7 to be.

  19. Re:Dealextreme? on China Hires 1 Million People To Fight Fake Products · · Score: 1

    I assume it's a case-by-case, uh, case. In these cases. In any case, I think it's likely that some of the products may disappear from DX, if this initiative has any effect.

  20. Re:Ye Gawds! on How Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma · · Score: 1

    Finally? It's much more common practice in Europe...

  21. Re:What about the power regression on Linux 3.1 Released With Support for the OpenRISC CPU · · Score: 1

    Hasn't it been resolved for quite a while now? I did read about a few of the major power issues being solved months ago...

    Then again, if there are still power issues, I'm sure cpupowerutils will be here to assist in that whole mess.

  22. Re:Just in time? on Portal 2 Getting Map Editor · · Score: 1

    Let's make that a three-evening long game, at least. And now that they released an editor, you can make that an infinite-evening long game since the game brings such good concepts to the table that I'm sure many people will want to make levels for.

  23. Re:How do we work this on Jobs Wanted To Destroy Android · · Score: 1

    Somebody give this guy a medal. I wish everybody in the business world was like this.

  24. ...Oh. on Jobs Wanted To Destroy Android · · Score: 2

    I completely misread the title at first. Like someone wanted to hire people who can creatively destroy robots.

  25. Relational items, huh? on MC Hammer Launches a Search Engine · · Score: 1

    I'm sure there was a Google Labs experiment that focused on finding relational items. But oh wait. Labs support has been dropped.