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  1. GREAT SCOTT!! on Japan Plans $21B Space Power Plant · · Score: 1
    one jiggawatt, twentyone billion dollars?!!!

    Filter error: Don't use so many caps. They've got ELECTROLYTES.

  2. Re:Seperate partition. on Company Laptop, My Data — Can They Co-exist? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, sounds like his software for work is installed on Windows anyways. This problem never would have occurred to me.

  3. Re:Good news for others on Windows 7 To Sell In UK For Half the US Price · · Score: 1

    That's $30 to upgrade (on top of) 10.5. That means, from no OS X at all, it's actually $30 /more/ than other releases ($160 or something).

  4. Re:Good news for others on Windows 7 To Sell In UK For Half the US Price · · Score: 1

    If you succeed, please let me know how exactly you did it. As I can tell it's not actually possible.

  5. less sleep = longer life on Genetic Mutation Enables Less Sleep · · Score: 1

    If you only live x years, then increasing the percentage of that time that you spend awake means that you basically live longer. Sleeping is existing, certainly, but I wouldn't call it living. If this doesn't shorten human life spans significantly.. then it's a very good thing.

  6. How about making it work with gnome-globalmenu like a REAL native gnome application before you go making its platform integration even worse (if possible)? Apple comes up with good ideas. Microsoft comes up with solutions to problems generated by their own ridiculous oversight. If you're going to copy one, copy Apple. Give us globalmenu compatibility.

  7. I wonder. on Goodbye Apple, Hello Music Production On Ubuntu · · Score: 2, Interesting
    How much would you pay for a professional music suite from Canonical if they promised to release the source code under the GPLv2 after 18 months?

    Me, I'd feel a lot better about that, because paying money for proprietary software.. it seems like it's just going into some black hole. For code that will be Free some day? That strikes me as more palatable. Like it's an investment in something bigger than just 1's and 0's on my own machine. Makes it seem more worth it, to me.

  8. [madatory subject] on 11.6" Netbooks Face Off · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Any machine with an Intel GMA500 is pure garbage. ..but both of them come with Windows and there don't seem to be any Ubuntu options, so I view this more as two clear losers rather than one clear winner. I know, I know. We're outnumbered.

  9. Re:Streaming services on The Music Industry's Crisis Writ Large · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I get my music from jamendo. It's creative commons licensed and awesome. As for software, I do it with Ubuntu. --and let me tell you, Freedom IS the way to go.

  10. In school, they tought us how to on 26 Years Old and Can't Write In Cursive · · Score: 1
    write checks. How to write in cursive. How to spell. How to mail letters.

    It's all worthless to me now. At the end, they taught us to type in qwerty on Windows, but I use colemak and Ubuntu now, so even that's of no use to me. If none of the girls I met at school marry me, I may consider it to have been a waste of my time.

    Get rid of public schools, give us free internet instead. Curiosity has always been the most powerful learning force, and it always will be.

  11. Set your twitter time zone on Statistical Suspicions In Iran's Election · · Score: 1

    to that of Iran, to make it harder for the Iranian government to filter tweets from their citizens.

  12. Re:My office mate from India on Microsoft's Bing Refuses Search Term "Sex" In India · · Score: 2, Informative

    You got it. Induction stoves. About time, eh?

  13. Re:Life imitates art? on Human Language Gene Changes How Mice Squeak · · Score: 2, Funny
    I hear the rats of Nicad were pretty dense.

    /me ducks

  14. I set up a dual user computer on Using 1 Gaming Computer For 2 People? · · Score: 1

    ..wtih Ubuntu 8.04 and userful. I had to use the same gpu for both seats, and neither had 3d accel. Doing what you want seems like it may require having multiple identical gpu's. You may have to wait for MultiDisplay Manager to make it into Xorg, in addition to WINE supporting the game you want to play (Maybe Direct3D gallium frontend or something.) Right now? Rent a rig or something.

  15. Do they realize on Google To Air Chrome Ads On TV · · Score: 1

    how much word-of-mouth advertising they're sacrificing by shafting OS X and Linux distributions?

  16. Good. on Shuttleworth Says Ubuntu Can't Just Be Windows · · Score: 1

    I trust we'll see gnome-globalmenu in the default panel configuration soon then?

  17. Re:Find me Free alternatives to these on Windows 7's Virtual XP Mode a Support Nightmare? · · Score: 1

    They may not exist yet. I'm saying that Windows developers should reduce the risk of competition by having multiplatform applications.

  18. If you're going to break compat on Windows 7's Virtual XP Mode a Support Nightmare? · · Score: 1

    go POSIX with MacOS X and Ubuntu. Switch to Qt, Cocoa, or GTK, then build your app against winelibs, and then factor winelibs out and take more advantage of the native features of KDE, Aqua, and GNOME. Either that or we _will_ replace your application with a Free alternative that, sooner or later, will make its way back onto the Windows platform to bite you, really hard, in the butt.

  19. It's just their way of saying on Microsoft Begs Win 7 Testers To Clean Install · · Score: 4, Funny

    'We still don't have a decent package manager.'

  20. Re:Second hand market? on Stardock, Microsoft Unveil Their Own New Anti-Piracy Methods · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Of course they haven't forgotten-- Digital Restrictions Mongering. They're on it.

  21. Learn to say on .CA Registrar Trying To Preempt Conficker · · Score: 1

    'no.' Let the show begin.

  22. Re:my app on Bands Bypass iTunes With iPhone Apps · · Score: 1

    I do read the entire summary, but as for the comment section, I only read the +4 and +5 Funny comments. If there aren't very many at all, I just close the tab.

  23. Re:This will revolutionize transportation... on Two Big Tests For Personal Rapid Transportation · · Score: 1

    Only if they patentmonger it.

  24. Colemak/Dvorak patterns? on Passwords From PHPBB Attack Analyzed · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How many key patterns are used by people who type with dvorak or colemak? I've always liked the extra security that comes with using an obscure (albeit superior) keyboard layout ;)

  25. Re:No its just that : on Torvalds Rejects One-Size-Fits-All Linux · · Score: 5, Funny

    alias frigging='gksu' alias fricking='sudo' alias install='sudo apt-get install' alias uninstall='sudo apt-get remove' alias check-update='sudo apt-get update' alias update='sudo apt-get upgrade' alias murder='sudo killall' alias get='wget' alias GET='sudo wget' alias enter='cd' alias up='cd ..' alias home='cd ~/' alias unmount='umount' alias restart='sudo shutdown -r now'