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  1. Re:Bad Design on Ask Slashdot: Is the Rise of Skeuomorphic User Interfaces a Problem? · · Score: 1

    And there was me agreeing with GP, not realising that the iPhone is actually geared towards recording studio professionals.

  2. Re:year of the? on Microsoft To PC and Tablet Makers: You're Not Our Future · · Score: 1

    Moving? That ship sailed many moons ago.

  3. Re:Validity? on For Windows 8 Users, Stardock Revives the Start Menu · · Score: 2

    Check out Classic Shell - its Classic Start Menu allows you to completely customize the Win 7 start menu.

    I've killed the Programs / Favorites / etc in favour of categorized menus directly off the root of the menu. Sooo much nicer!

  4. Re:This is like GM removing the spare in trunk on Microsoft Killed the Start Menu Because No One Uses It · · Score: 1

    ClassicShell has a "classic" start menu that's completely customizable. It blows away the Win 7 start menu.

  5. Re:Uhm... DUH. on Anonymous Vows To Destroy Facebook · · Score: 2

    > a crook will not post that he is a crook on facebook. You won't find that ANYWHERE.

    Unless they're in London, of course.

  6. Re:Or use Ghostery on Visualizing Behavior-Tracking Cookies With Firefox · · Score: 1

    Lots of sites use Flash cookies (LSOs) to track you in addition to the good old fashioned HTTP cookies.

    Ghostery does a pretty good job of deleting Flash cookies, but it takes a brutal all-or-nothing approach; it'll delete them all if you enable the option.

    If you want finer control over your Flash cookies you'll also need Better Privacy. Now you can save your progress when playing Kongregate games but not get tracked while you do so :)

  7. Re:Which dumbass analysts are these? on Mozilla Ships Firefox 5, Meets Rapid-Release Plan · · Score: 1

    All well and good until you show the bookmarks toolbar which appears *beneath* your address bar, despite having less to do with the address and content.

    The correct positioning should be

    Bookmarks
    Tabs
    Address bar
    Content

    I was able to do this with a custom userchrome.css and now I'm happy as a pig in shit.

  8. Re:Link to Wikipedia on Palin Fans Deface Paul Revere Wikipedia Page · · Score: 1

    The title is clearly a poorly punctuated printing of a quote from Yoda, when asked by a journalist how he would act.

    Yoda, of course, considers the supporters of Sarah Palin to be merely an inconvenience. To resolve the situation, he would use the power of the Force to communicate across time with Paul Revere, then armed with that primary source he would write an authoritative history on Wikipedia.

    Yoda, as usual, put this more succinctly, if rather enigmatically; "Palin fans? Trying. To edit Wikipedia, Paul Revere page!"

  9. Re:Misleading headline on Robots Successfully Invent Their Own Language · · Score: 1

    No wonder you're posting as an AC, Dr Chomsky. Next you'll be telling us that you support US Foreign Policy.

  10. Re:I want to get excuses out of the way on Why the New Guy Can't Code · · Score: 1

    YES, pull out that laptop. What type of laptop is it? What are the specs? Why did you choose that particular setup? Do you do your development on the laptop or on a desktop? What are the pros and cons of each? Bam... Another set of questions that I can use to assess your suitability for the position. Poifect.

  11. Re:News that matters? on Mono Comes To Android · · Score: 2

    Sounds like MonoTouch on the iPhone. All ticking along nicely until you hit an unexpected exception in one of the core Novell libraries. Typical open source project; push out a half baked solution and expect the "community" to fix it for you.

  12. Re:And which of these can't be extensions? on Firefox 5 Details: Sharing, Home Tab, PDF Viewer · · Score: 1

    OK, if "there's an actual penultimate in terms of a natural progression from dumb phone to smart phone" out there, that means there's an actual ultimate one out there, too. Which one would that be?

  13. Re:you hit a major pet peeve of mine there you did on The Encroachment of Fact-Free Science · · Score: 1

    "I would be surprised" counts only for anecdotal evidence, which you cannot use to back up an argument. Prove your point with empirical evidence, or stfu.

  14. Re:Watch FarScape for free with Amazon Prime on Does Syfy Really Love Sci-Fi? · · Score: 1

    You do realize that if you're paying for amazon prime you're not getting that delivery for free right?

  15. Re:Strong Bad said it best. on Learning From Gawker's Failure · · Score: 1

    Think of "its" as the gender neutral version of "his" and "hers" and everything just magically falls into place.

    You wouldn't use "hi's ball" to mean "the ball belonging to him", so you shouldn't use "it's ball" either.

    At least I hope to god you wouldn't use "hi's ball".

  16. Re:Fools and their folly on Copyright License Fees Drive Pandora Out of Canada · · Score: 1

    I discovered so many bands using Pandora - when it was available in Canada - that my CD collection doubled in the space of a year. Why can't/don't they realize this!? Pandora especially is superb for discovering music that you will like *and that you will pay for*. Since it went US only, I just fired up my US proxy... and downloaded a bunch of tunes, because, well, fuck your lack of a business model.

  17. Re:American Kids can't write in cursive on Wired Youths In China & Japan Forget Character Forms · · Score: 1

    Do you consider learning correct spelling to be a waist of time as well?

  18. Re:Saying double u double u double u a billion tim on Tim Berners-Lee Is Sorry About the Slashes · · Score: 1

    In your mother tongue would the translation of "World Wide Web" still have three Ws?