Slashdot Mirror


User: big-giant-head

big-giant-head's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
317
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 317

  1. Re:Experience-based opinions on Perl is the Most Hated Programming Language, Developers Say (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Clearly ... Alot of these folks have never written any Lisp. I would take Perl hands down over Lisp any day. Lots of Idiotic Stupid Parentheses.

  2. Re:KDE vs GNOMElets on Linux Mint Is Killing the KDE Edition (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I may have to give Dolphin another shot. I've been looking at Neon as a distro and it looks quite nice.

  3. Re:KDE vs GNOMElets on Linux Mint Is Killing the KDE Edition (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    My thing Is I just prefer Nautilus over Dolphin .. I realize you can install Nautilus in KDE .. but it just a little weird. There's alot about GNOME I do NOT like. Hence I use Fedora Cinnamon spin. The problem with GNOME is they keep wanting to have a ui that for something other than desktops... Everyone wants it as a desktop. I don't lay awake at night hoping for tablet running GNOME. I do wish GNOME would be more desktop friendly. I actually ran Elementary OS for a bit, however they really dumbed that distro down, so back to Fedora.

  4. So are they mounted on Friggin Sharks ?? on The US Army Finally Gets The World's Largest Laser Weapon System (bizjournals.com) · · Score: 1

    Or Hungry Mutant Sea Bass, Hmm I guess that would have be the 'Navy' .... So Angry Mutant Moose would be what the Army would mount them on ..

    BTW I want 1 Million Dollars ..................

  5. Re:Easy answer on Ask Slashdot: A Point of Contention - Modern User Interfaces · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Bingo we have a winner .. At work if we have a choice the developers use Linux and the customize the UI the way they want it... Usually a Gnome 2 , a KDE ( like windows with the menu and apps pinned to the bottom) or similar interface. I realize all the hipsters think this minimalist ui with a very small, dull color palette is cool, but it isn't. It's very limiting and very boring and 99% of the users are not hipsters ... so we are not impressed ..

    Make UI's Great Again !!!!

  6. Re:Squirrels spread their attacks conveniently on Are Squirrels A Bigger Threat To Our Critical Infrastructure? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You have obviously never watched squirrels for any length of time .. They do coordinate attacks and can be darn pesky if they and racoons convert to ISIS we are DOOMED!!!!

  7. Obama expanded the Drone Strike program to Mars? on Laser-Armed Martian Robot Now Vaporizing Targets of Its Own Free Will (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Man ISIS is every where .....

  8. Whats her slogan? on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Considering US Presidential Run · · Score: 1

    Whats her slogan ? I ran HP into the dirt and I can do the same for the US ?

    No Thanks.... She makes the Plastic Man, Mitt Romney look like a good idea.

  9. HELP!! a slashdot reader !!!! on AT&T Officially Ends Plans To Acquire T-Mobile USA · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    URGENT!!! Please help a family facing cancer!!! My FIL has stage 3 colon cancer and is currently undergoing chemo. My wife, who is a stay at home Mom has entered a craft into a contest. She’s currently in second place to a professional craft blogger with a huge fan base. If she wins, she will turn the prize into cash for her father who lives on a very low budget. The hospital is 75 miles each way which is a lot of gas money. As you know, there are expenses associated with chemo. Her father will need medicine and supplies. PLEASE, vote for my wife’s craft by leaving a comment. That’s all we are requesting. You can vote/comment as often as you like. Just keep it, clean. (It’s a family website) We would appreciate that so much and it would make my in-laws Christmas a happy one to know that others care. The contest ends December 31st. Thanks in advance for your help!
    http://moneysavingqueen.com/December-2011/Frugal-Christmas-Gifts-Day-9-Christmas-Bath-Bombs/

  10. HELP!! a slashdotter whose family's facing cancer on Apple Wins Injunction Banning Import of HTC Devices · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    URGENT!!! Please help a family facing cancer!!! My FIL has stage 3 colon cancer and is currently undergoing chemo. My wife, who is a stay at home Mom has entered a craft into a contest. She’s currently in second place to a professional craft blogger with a huge fan base. If she wins, she will turn the prize into cash for her father who lives on a very low budget. The hospital is 75 miles each way which is a lot of gas money. As you know, there are expenses associated with chemo. Her father will need medicine and supplies. PLEASE, vote for my wife’s craft by leaving a comment. That’s all we are requesting. You can vote/comment as often as you like. Just keep it, clean. (It’s a family website) We would appreciate that so much and it would make my in-laws Christmas a happy one to know that others care. The contest ends December 31st. Thanks in advance for your help!
    http://moneysavingqueen.com/December-2011/Frugal-Christmas-Gifts-Day-9-Christmas-Bath-Bombs/

  11. HELP!! a slashdoter whose familiy is facing cancer on FBI Cybercrime Director Comments On Hacktivism · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    URGENT!!! Please help a family facing cancer!!! My FIL has stage 3 colon cancer and is currently undergoing chemo. My wife, who is a stay at home Mom has entered a craft into a contest. She’s currently in second place to a professional craft blogger with a huge fan base. If she wins, she will turn the prize into cash for her father who lives on a very low budget. The hospital is 75 miles each way which is a lot of gas money. As you know, there are expenses associated with chemo. Her father will need medicine and supplies. PLEASE, vote for my wife’s craft by leaving a comment. That’s all we are requesting. You can vote/comment as often as you like. Just keep it, clean. (It’s a family website) We would appreciate that so much and it would make my in-laws Christmas a happy one to know that others care. The contest ends December 31st. Thanks in advance for your help!
    http://moneysavingqueen.com/December-2011/Frugal-Christmas-Gifts-Day-9-Christmas-Bath-Bombs/

  12. Re:And What ??? on Senator Arlen Specter Becomes a Democrat · · Score: 1

    Look .. You don't decide now.. Your insurance company does. Unless you are very wealthy you just go along with them and hope for the best.

  13. Cease and Desist letter on American Red Cross Sued For Using a Red Cross · · Score: 1

    I Understand that as we speak, the Pope is sending J&J a Cease and desist statement under the DMCA.. Since the Pope is historically viewed as Christ's representative on earth (please spare the protestant retorts, I am a protestant myself, we are talking western history here). He is the one that would hold the IP rights to it, until Christ returns of course.

  14. Re:Iowa == Kenya == Oklahoma ?? on Google Setting Up a Presence In Kenya · · Score: 1

    They are also building a data center in pryor oklahoma.... Oklahoma and Kenya are third world countries so they have that in common... hmmmm Oklahoma has cows, Iowa corn, Kenya Coffee??? Don't know, if they open a data center in Wisconsin then they are clearly going to start making their own beef nachos ( corn, beef and cheese) to go with the coffee from kenya...

  15. Re:I'm still waiting ...... on How Big Will the iPhone Become? · · Score: 1

    Id be happy with something similar to what PC's offer. I Have an athlon64 3200, 1 gig ram, DVD RW and 160gig hard drive. I bought 18 months ago for $495 with XP on it. It now has Ubuntu on it. Why should I have to pay almost $700 for a crappy little mac mini with half the memory and hard drive space and no Keyboard or Mouse?? I know I can hook up any old USB keyboard and Mouse to it but for 700.00 you would think they could include those? Form factor should not cost and arm and a leg.

  16. I'm still waiting ...... on How Big Will the iPhone Become? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For one of those 'lower cost' Macs and it's been 20 years??? How long do we have to wait for a lower cost iPhone again??

  17. Big Blue Gorilla on Microsoft Says Free Software Violates 235 Patents · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Exactly MS probably violates several hundred IBM patents.... Remember They're were writing OS's before Bill Gates parents were born. Also now that they no longer sell desktop pc's I doubt they care how much M$ charges them for a copy of windows. They make more money off servers now. Yes it may be 1000lb Big Blue Gorilla that ultimately determines the outcome of this one. Another important one here is the other 500lb Gorilla, Oracle. They have quite a bit invested as well. Wonder how many Oracle patents SQL Server violates ...

  18. wouldn't that be the tooth phairy?? on Thieves Find Cemetery of Pharaoh's Dentists · · Score: 1

    NM

  19. Mr Troll, is it dry under your bridge??? on Globalization Decimating US I.T. Jobs · · Score: 1

    So are you a bridge troll or a Forest Troll??

    Answering your question about the salary.. the US did fine for almost 200 years using a system of tariffs.... It worked go read a freakin history book. The one world neocons got into office everything went crap.

    You figure it out.....

  20. Duh... on Globalization Decimating US I.T. Jobs · · Score: 1

    Are we being manipulated? If so by who...

    You have to be freakin kidd'n me. Saddam has WMD, Saddam has direct ties Al Qieda... US invades.. no WMD, neither the 9/11 taskforce, not the senate report, nor any combination of the CIA/NSA/DIA/FBI can find any substantial link between Saddam and OBL... Yet we invaded and are now occupying another country.

    The rethuglicans got into office on a platform of terror mongering and Gay bashing..
                      well guess what it's 2years later and both Osama and the Gays are still here, while
                      america's middle class is vanishing faster than bag of pork rinds at Ramadan.

    We need tax cuts to fix the economy... So tax cuts went mostly to the top 3% , in terms of income, and corporations got a 25% tax cut. Oh yeah and the oil companies got billions in tax credits... All in the name of jobs.. well look at the numbers... there aren't more jobs... We just have more debt..

    W's tax cuts created millions of new jobs, unfortunately they were all in India and China.

    JUST WHO THE HELL DO YOU THING IS MANIPULATING US, I'll give you a hint it ain't Lou Dobbs and CNN

  21. Re:Until push comes to shove. on IT Careers in 2010 - Learn a business · · Score: 1

    Geez the trolls are out

  22. No this doesn't make sense on FAA Space Tourism Guidelines Draft Published · · Score: 1

    the ATC is much of the FAA. To be be specific the ATO, air tracfic organization is like 80% of the FAA. The are other Groups AVN (Aviation Systems and Standards) who actully create flight procedures, there about 14,000 flight procedures that tell pilots how to land and take off from every airport in the US, as well as layout the air routes. This is very very complex. Where do Old ATC go ???? they leave the ATO and move to AVN and work on flight procedures. Also the FAA maintains a small fleet of aircraft that flight inspect all of these flight procedures to make sure they are accurate. It would not be efficent to split these up.

    IN fact the group that does flight inspections is also CONTINOUSLY upgrading thier aircraft to test out new avionics, They gut and rebuild all the time. Manufacturers don't put in the avionics till the FAA tests them out in thier flight inspection planes. In fact the FAA shop where they do this is one of the few places that can tear aircraft down to the airframe rebuild them and then have expertise to recertify the aircraft, most other shops, the Manufactuer must recertify the aircraft. To write off the FAA is stupidity.

    O BTW for all this talk of the Great European ATO... The FAA creates the flight procedures and flight inspects them for half of Europe... And ARE PAID TO DO SO..... Also when the Space Shuttle lands, they use Flight procedures Created and inspected by the FAA as well.

  23. Orcs & Trolls????? on More Evidence For Hobbit Sized Species · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When they the jaw bones of some Orcs and Trolls THEN I'LL BE IMPRESSED!

  24. Re:Deal with the devil..... on Music Industry Threatens to Pull Plug on Apple · · Score: 1

    I'm an AMD fan, however, I think Intel is quite a bit more honest than the Music labels.

  25. Deal with the devil..... on Music Industry Threatens to Pull Plug on Apple · · Score: 1

    I feel for Jobs and Apple, but he had to know when he got involved with these guys, he was making a deal with the devil.... Now the devil wants his soul, or in this case a large chunk of the profits from Apples' iPods.