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  1. Re:The oracle is never wrong! on USPTO Rejects Many of Oracle's Android Claims · · Score: 1

    Wasn't the The Odyssey though? (Which is a different Greek story all together?)

  2. Re:The oracle is never wrong! on USPTO Rejects Many of Oracle's Android Claims · · Score: 1

    He'll just suffer Agamemnon's fate and be murdered by his wife and Lieutenant after a triumphant homecoming.

  3. Ubuntu One on Open Source Alternative To Dropbox? · · Score: 1

    Not to state the obvious but... is Ubuntu One what you mean?

  4. Re:How about... on More Malware-Infected Apps Found In Android Market · · Score: 3, Informative

    They aren't listed in TFA either

  5. Growing up on the internet myself... on Why Doesn't 'Google Kids' Exist? · · Score: 1

    I have to wonder if anybody else remember Yahoolagins (Now Yahoo Kids) and how it changed after to become an all-encompassing web portal of kids stuff and a search engine?

  6. Too bad we're already forced into LVM on Fedora 16 To Use Btrfs Filesystem By Default · · Score: 1

    it means that major Btrfs features such as RAID and LVM capabilities will not be forced onto users."

    It's too bad that the default fedora setup wants to set up an LVM already even with ext4, and yells at you when you try to not use an LVM

  7. Re:First post on IBM Now Officially Worth More Than Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Correction: System 7 introduced free multitasking on the Macintosh OS, which had previously needed Multifinder to do. (although GP was talking about AppleOS which is a different beast entirely)

  8. Re:MacApp on Apple: an 'App Store' Is Not a Store For Apps · · Score: 1

    Just because i'm spewing Marketing's reasoning doesn't make it sound =P

  9. Re:Imagination? on Apple: an 'App Store' Is Not a Store For Apps · · Score: 2

    Part of the difference between Apps and Applications as soon as Apps made it into the mainstream Macintosh OS not just i[Phone] OS, was that Apps are trusted pieces of software through the App Store, while Applications were dirty malware ridden software you got off of the internet that isn't trusted and signed by Apple. To allow App to mean a shortened version of Application again means for it to be okay to download software that Apple doesn't approve of.

    Also, if you ask some people, it has always been "Executable Binaries" on *nix systems based on different terminologies used between UNIX falvors and Kinuix distros, and occasionally just to be contrary and start a fight.

  10. Re:no substitute for the real thing on Ask Slashdot: DOSBox, or DOS Box? · · Score: 1

    Armada is a weird game with newer software. In my experience, it will run perfectly in Windows 98, but anything after 98 except ME and certain Win7 installations (haven't dicked around enough to get a pattern) don't ever get the sound properly working in combat (cut scenes still work for the most part though). I've never had a crash problem except when alt+tabbing though...

  11. Re:Just in time to close up shop. on Ruling Confirms Postal Service Discriminated Against GameFly · · Score: 1

    If house in question was painted by somebody with an MFA or similar art degree, it begins as soon as you take a picture, despite the public display of their art ;P

  12. Re:Mouse vs Cursor on Tobii Releases Eye-Controlled Mouse For PCs · · Score: 2

    But it's an HID (specifically a mouse) that is controlled by eyes.

  13. Re:What's average Netflix datarate? on AT&T To Introduce Broadband Caps · · Score: 1

    Because it's like Verizon's FiOS TV, in that it's an internal network and a way of serving primary television service, not an always on-demand service. Would you wnat to limit your customer's television watching?

  14. Re:Tales of old. on Stopping the Horror of 'Reply All' · · Score: 1

    But then it's difficult when you say "Please hit reply-all" to an e-mail with less tech savvy-people

  15. Not Frontpage News on Dragon Age II Released · · Score: 1

    This story just isn't front page news, nor is any video game unless it made ungodly amounts of money on release day, or has been delayed for over a decade.

  16. Re:A no go on PS3 Piracy Threats Cause Phone-Home DRM · · Score: 1

    these aren't PSN games though. These are games that come on a Disc. Most newer XBL Games phone home once every set period of time (which is a pain if you want to move your 360 and play castle crashers) but that;s DRM that is EXPECTED, not "hey lets DRM your disc"

  17. Re:So let's see: on VP8 Decoder Implemented In Flash Using Alchemy · · Score: 1

    OGG container is patent-free, but it's probably the issue with most open-source adoption, where because it's pre-existing and has is open-source, they don't trust it

  18. Re:What about the law that says you have the right on Microsoft To Disable Windows Phone 7 Unlocking · · Score: 1

    I think it was only addressed directly because it made use of a flaw that potentially could have been more than just letting your phone run non-marketplace things. However, judging by the article, i wouldn't be surprised if there was an product in the future for doing this in a legitimate fashion for enterprise customers, or something similar to XBLA Indy development.

  19. Re:The good and bad... on Verizon Finally Unveils Apple iPhone · · Score: 1

    why are you sending e-mail from your phone on the highway?

  20. Re:The good and bad... on Verizon Finally Unveils Apple iPhone · · Score: 1

    if you're on a conference call like that, you should either be at a computer, (thus presumably on a real phone) or too busy focusing on the call so you can say "I'll send you that e-mail once we're done here"

  21. University Application on Thin Client, Or Fat Client? That Is the Question · · Score: 1

    In my university, IT uses thin clients all over. They're placed as computers in residence halls, in the libraries (along with a lab of dual-booting Macs in each library), and in the campus center. They use ~3 different servers that different buildings connect to, but it makes it easy for them to manage software things especially considering i imagine it saves on licensing costs

  22. Re:PETA on Tofu Activists Spoof Meat-Based Indie Game · · Score: 1

    Back in the old days when everyone killed their own animals for food you didn't have more vegetarians.

    I think you actually had Less vegetarians then. Clearly what this leads me to believe is that not slaughtering their own animals has made people weak.

  23. EduBuntu on What To Load On a 4-Year-Old's Netbook? · · Score: 1

    EduBuntu. Also, wait till he's six.

  24. Should have chosen a different carrier on Windows Phone 7 Sales Continue To Struggle · · Score: 1

    If they wanted to make any sort of splash, they should have released the OS several months ago AND chosen a different carrier.

  25. Re:IP sold to MS-led consortium = UNIX? on Attachmate To Acquire Novell For $2.2B Cash · · Score: 1

    You say that like everybody hasn't been dumping Novell for MS products anyway since Windows 9x has died