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  1. Re:Vodka on A Tale of Two Windows 7s · · Score: 1

    Mac doesn't hide their commands in obscure locations.

    Corrected for ya

  2. Re:Vodka on A Tale of Two Windows 7s · · Score: 1

    This person is not a newbie and has used linux for a while. If this was a major usability issue, then Windows has it, too, and this person has complained a couple of times after people told them how to...

    The only OS that is intuitive in that regard is macos :p

  3. Re:I'm not about to trust this one... on No Cheap Replacement For Hard Disks Before 2020 · · Score: 1

    They're replacing laptop hard drives, which are 20-50c the GB. MLC drives are already about 2-3$ the GB.

  4. Re:Vodka on A Tale of Two Windows 7s · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Specs or gtfo

  5. Re:Vodka on A Tale of Two Windows 7s · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How long before your dumbass litany gets modded troll: holding alt and moving the windows around, it's just as easy as in Doze if you're not too stupidly set in your ways. PEBKAC.

  6. Re:Saving lives?? on Android Goes To the Battlefield · · Score: 1

    He also said something about fixed fortifications and stupidity and yet managed to get bogged down by undermanned third-rate forts on the rear-guard of the Maginot line. I wouldn't exactly quote him for anything related to military matters. Bombast, bluster and looking like a pimp, maybe. After all, he was a cavalry officer who derided dragoons around ww1.

  7. Re:With SSDs, who needs it? on Apple Discontinues ZFS Project · · Score: 1

    For a bigger desk, most people would need a bigger office, they don't make buildings with spare dimensions yet.

  8. Re:Programmer Thinking on Open Source Voting Software Concept Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's why votes are counted by groups of people who make sure they are valid and, in some cases, will have counters making sure the counting remains politically balanced. Not by a single person.

  9. Re:Don't worry on Ubuntu "Karmic Koala" RC Hits the Streets With Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    And in some cases recycling their exact name in the unix world, like this coincidentally named protocol called SMB.

  10. Re:I'm still waiting for on Ubuntu "Karmic Koala" RC Hits the Streets With Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Then we see the nonstandard characters like germanic eth, or weird diacritics.

  11. Re:Win7 wtf?! on Ubuntu "Karmic Koala" RC Hits the Streets With Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    I think the question is more - "Koalas on Man? Were the devs drunk?"

  12. Re:Win7 wtf?! on Ubuntu "Karmic Koala" RC Hits the Streets With Windows 7 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Windows 95 was 4.5 ish with an absurdly long build alphanumeric id and Win 98 was 4.9 with all that.

  13. Re:Simple test on When Libertarians Attack Free Software · · Score: 1

    They both relied on research that was being done since the 1820s to replace the Chappe telegraphe, under the auspices of militaries and the limited public upper education available at the time.

  14. Re:Free software is good, net nutrality not so muc on When Libertarians Attack Free Software · · Score: 1

    Nice and all, except for one thing: you, the private individual, have become a government by regulating how to use the service provided by you because of the power relationship involved. And to top it off, your type of government is feudal manorialism or hydraulic imperialism - why, again, should anyone have that power?

  15. Re:Hear, hear! on When Libertarians Attack Free Software · · Score: 1

    Libertarianism in the tradition of Ann Rand

    So, you mean pure unfettered fascism as envisioned by its "theoricians" - and it's Ayn.

  16. Re:Libertarians calling others a 'radical agenda'? on When Libertarians Attack Free Software · · Score: 1

    There is no difference, Libertarianism is a word that was coined by Proudhon, one of the philosophical fathers of anarchism, moronic pedant.

  17. Re:who's freedom? on When Libertarians Attack Free Software · · Score: 1

    Ah, so they're in favor of land reform, I get it.

  18. Re:"Heartland Institute"? on When Libertarians Attack Free Software · · Score: 1

    Ron Paul isn't a libertarian either, and the Libertarian Party is a party of plutocrats who like to handwave the fact that corporate entities are just as bad as the government and figured that an ideology name they grabbed from people like Proudhon, Thoreau and Rothbard sounded nice enough for them.

  19. Re:EB on History In Video Games — a Closer Look · · Score: 1

    It's beyond awesome, the sole reason I chipped on my flatmates' desktop and the sole reason I bothered to make Rome: Total War work on Wine when I swore that I wouldn't install a single game that was more than 1GB on my laptop

  20. Re:Historians talk about history very differently on History In Video Games — a Closer Look · · Score: 1

    As a RTS, if you start early enough, there's Hearts of Iron II from Paradox. Well, or Victoria with the Revolutions addon with the Great War scenario, but it will stop in 1934 just in time for the Nazis to take over.

    As a RPG/FPS/First Person something, it could make an epic game of intrigue. And it would be pretty damn bleak, then again, if you like bleak...

  21. Re:The solution is clear on Court Orders the Pirate Bay To Delete Torrents · · Score: 1

    There's a few unclaimed uninhabited islands: they're pretty shitty, but in international waters (of course, Britain and France might disagree, but they don't even have presence on these rocks :p )

  22. Re:And In Other News on Court Orders the Pirate Bay To Delete Torrents · · Score: 1

    Never had the slightest problem, but then again, I'm on private trackers.

  23. Re:As I've said before. on Court Orders the Pirate Bay To Delete Torrents · · Score: 1

    The same way most people do when they don't have an army of leeches screaming bloody murder at the slightest copy: performance.

  24. Re:Mojave Experiment 2.0 on Engineers Tell How Feedback Shaped Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    A bit like XP service packs.

  25. Re:Mojave Experiment 2.0 on Engineers Tell How Feedback Shaped Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    WFM for Windows, now Vista/7 compatible.