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  1. Re:How stupid do they think we really are? on Islamic Hacker Group Resumes Attacks On Banks · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So... making ignorant threats against an entire culture is okay when you do it?

  2. Re:Were people really upset about the size? on The Wii Mini Is Real, Arrives December 7 — In Canada · · Score: 1

    The Wii U is an entirely different console, it's not the Wii with a touchscreen controller (gamepad). A Wii U game, that comes on a disc, that doesn't even require the gamepad would NOT play on the Wii/Wii Mini

  3. Re:How about a new console already? on The Wii Mini Is Real, Arrives December 7 — In Canada · · Score: 1

    You mean the Wii U that came out 10 days ago?

  4. Re:To all Office Naysayers on German City Says OpenOffice Shortcomings Are Forcing It Back To Microsoft · · Score: 1

    The tech nerds are/were the ones building the websites in 2003/2004 that decided to use w3c standards in favor of proprietary Microsoft code. Those same tech nerds could create their documents in .odf, but it won't matter when everyone else is creating .doc(x).

  5. Re:Can I Fund Unity a Negative Amount? on Ubuntu Asks Users To Pay What They Want · · Score: 1

    That's exactly how Unity was born. Canonical knew GNOME was planning big things for 3.0, so they wanted to contribute with ideas/code. GNOME wouldn't let them (and/or some ideas were diametrically opposed), so Canonical made Unity.

  6. Design Summary on Design Principles Behind Firefox OS Explained · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Here is the entire design document in one sentence:
    Make the app look like an Android app, make the home screen look like iOS (but circles instead of rounded squares).

  7. Re:Incidentally... on Beer Is Cheaper In the US Than Anywhere Else In the World · · Score: 1

    Can you tell me where, so I can laugh and enjoy the $3 Guinness?

  8. Re:People hate Vista/7. They have no choice. on Maybe With Help From Google and Adobe, Microsoft Can Kill Windows XP · · Score: 1

    "People hate Vista/7" By 'people' do you mean 'you' or 'people that hate anything Microsoft'? Plenty of people hate(d) Vista, but Windows 7 is generally well liked.

  9. Re:This is going to get ugly on DHS Gets Public Comment, Whether It Wants It Or Not · · Score: 1

    I think the GP was referring to the 'terrorist' being trained so as to not have any behavioral tells that security would spot.

  10. Re:Marketing on Why Are Operating System Version Names So Absurd? · · Score: 1

    GP said "anything", not just computers. If you want to talk computers, talk consoles. In 1993 there was the Atari Jaguar, 9 years before OS X Jaguar. Yes, that's the hardware, not software, but again GP wasn't just talking about the names of operating systems.

  11. Re:How is it even possible to innovate these days? on In Wake of Samsung Verdict, HTC Does Not Intend To Settle · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nikola Tesla also died long before all this patent happy business the GP is talking about.

  12. Re:Good... on Google Distances Android From Samsung Patent Verdict · · Score: 1

    As far as '381, stock Android doesn't bounce back. It has a line and gradient shadow when scrolling past the edge.

  13. Re:It was me! on Project To Turn Classical Scores Into Copyright-Free Music Completed · · Score: 4, Funny

    This statement has done nothing but fall on deaf ears of those who still actually attend live orchestras.

    If they're deaf, why are they attending an orchestra performance?

  14. Re:Great, sort of on Ubuntu Unity Ported To Fedora Using OpenSUSE · · Score: 1

    First Apple, then Microsoft, and now Canonical seem obsessed with making their desktops "pretty" rather than functional.

    False Dichotomy

    Take a look at cars: They've kept the same standard interface for as long as I can remember (back to the 60s at least). The shifter moved from the steering wheel to the floor, but otherwise I could drive an old 60s car or a modern 2013 car without difficulty.

    And as far as Unity, the launcher moved from the bottom to the left. Yes you could list other changes, but I could list other changes to cars in the past 50 year as well.

  15. Re:It's not complicated on On the iPhone and Apple's Meteoric Rise To the Top · · Score: 1

    This is technology. There can only be one, and when there is, everything else must be branding as an x-killer.

  16. Re:Not even the same thing. on Asus Joins High Density Display Club With New Transformer Tablet · · Score: 1

    The iPad may be higher, but the Transfomer Inifinity could still be called "Retina" going by Apple's own formula.

    Since "Retina" has to do with what the eye can (or can't) see, you wouldn't notice the difference in PPI between the two devices in normal use.

  17. Re:Poetic Justice on Georgia Apple Store Refuses To Sell iPad To Iranian-American Teen · · Score: 1

    So a clerk shouldn't sell alcohol to someone who is 21+ because the customer might know someone under 21 that he might give the alcohol to?

  18. Re:Finally on Judge Suggests Apple, Motorola Should Play Nice · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Catastrophic effects are good. That will lead to changes in the patent systems which will benefit everyone...

    You're assuming that second part would happen...

  19. Re:7-inch? on Google's Nexus Tablet To Be Unveiled Next Week · · Score: 1

    Will the Nexus 7 have a retina display? No, absolutely not, because there is no way they could hit the $199 price point.

    Actually, yes.
    Given Apple's own formula, a 1280x800 7" device viewed at 15" IS Retina
    http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/44196/does-the-ipad-2012-3rd-generation-have-the-most-pixels-of-any-tablets-displa/44222

  20. Re:7-inch? on Google's Nexus Tablet To Be Unveiled Next Week · · Score: 1

    I wonder if they'll market it as *~Retina~*

  21. Re:Hopefully they start selling apps soon on Canonical Announces Ubuntu App Showdown · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can sell apps on the Ubuntu Software Center and have been able to for some time.

  22. Re:Is it because of IE rounded corners on Windows 8 Pre RTM Metro UI Leaked · · Score: 1

    IE supports rounded corners (border-radius) as of IE9

  23. Re:Steam For Linux Will Launch In 2012 (9 days ago on Windows 8 Pre RTM Metro UI Leaked · · Score: 1

    Don't believe anything from Valve with regards to dates, even if I comes from Gabe himself.

  24. Re:Is this Metro? on Windows 8 Pre RTM Metro UI Leaked · · Score: 1

    That's the 'normal' desktop pictured. Metro applications don't have a close button, title bar, etc. So can't really show Windows 7 vs Windows 8 in that regard.

    If you're referring to Ubuntu Unity, what makes that a single app desktop? I've been using it since it was made default.

  25. Re:IPV6 is BROCCOLI!? on After Launch Day: Taking Stock of IPv6 Adoption · · Score: 1

    Broccoli and Brussels Sprouts are both cabbages anyway