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  1. I preferred the Transformers.

  2. Re:Unchanging UIs? Not just for old people on How Bad User Interfaces Can Ruin Lives · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "People still need it enough that we won't actually drive them away. Usually." What a ringing endorsement of a design philosophy.

  3. Re:Varoufakis on Software Devs Leaving Greece For Good, Finance Minister Resigns · · Score: 1

    Dropping out of the Euro, or even the EU, wouldn't be a problem.

    Turning to Putin for help, that would be a problem.

  4. Re:Varoufakis on Software Devs Leaving Greece For Good, Finance Minister Resigns · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Putin can't afford to pay anything--Russia's broke too (if not quite as broke as Greece). But if they're stupid enough, the Greek government might not figure that out until it's too late.

  5. And so it begins.... on Software Devs Leaving Greece For Good, Finance Minister Resigns · · Score: 2

    The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.

  6. Re:One Must Fall 2097 on Japanese and US Piloted Robots To Brawl For National Pride · · Score: 1

    If you're remember aircraft carriers in old dubbed anime, you're probably remembering Robotech; the Macross had two aircraft carriers attached to it as arms.

  7. So, then... on First Windows 10 RTM Candidate Appears · · Score: 1

    I have to read the manual before I try installing this one?

  8. Re:One Must Fall 2097 on Japanese and US Piloted Robots To Brawl For National Pride · · Score: 1

    Actually, it reminded me of G Gundam.

  9. Re:Good for greece on Greece Rejects EU Terms · · Score: 1

    The Greeks will never accept an exit from the Euro.

    With this vote, the Greeks have lost the power to make this decision. It's now up to whether the ECB thinks there's more pain in stringing this along more or cutting them loose. The Greeks no longer have a say in it, unless they want to use a currency they no longer have any say in or support from, like Zimbabwe uses the US Dollar.

  10. Re:Speaking of TV shows on Researchers Study "Harbingers of Failure," Consumers Who Habitually Pick Losers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not long ago, Longmire was canceled by A&E for bizarre reasons. It had good ratings and was pulling in a few million viewers. They said "the demographic is too old." Uh, ok, anyone in your marketing department notice that young viewers (ie millennials mainly) are the poorest generation in the market right now?

    The older demographic may have the money, but the common marketing wisdom is that they're set in their buying habits--advertising to them won't generate sales. They want the younger audience, because they feel that that's the one they can hook.

  11. Re:Dune was good just took a few chapters to grab on Frank Herbert's Dune, 50 Years On · · Score: 1

    You may want to remember that Frank Herbert wrote only first six--and the last two were done a couple of years before he died. After that it was his son, Brian Herbert, in conjunction with Kevin J. Anderson, work about which some people, well, have a rather low opinion.

  12. Re:Another piece in the puzzle... on Turing Near Ready To Ship World's First Liquid Metal Android Smartphone · · Score: 4, Informative

    Terminators are made out of nanomachines, not "liquid metal".

    The movie seems to disagree with you:

    John Connor: So this other guy: he's a Terminator like you, right?
    The Terminator: Not like me. A T-1000, advanced prototype.
    John Connor: You mean more advanced than you are?
    The Terminator: Yes. A mimetic polyalloy.
    John Connor: What the hell does that mean?
    The Terminator: Liquid metal.

  13. Re:Thank God! on Samsung Faces Lawsuit In China Over Smartphone Bloatware · · Score: 2

    Ah, found a guide at http://forums.androidcentral.c.... Apparently my Android OS is too old to support this, darnit.

  14. Re:Thank God! on Samsung Faces Lawsuit In China Over Smartphone Bloatware · · Score: 1

    How do I do this thing? I can't find any such function on my Android phone, and I'd really like it.

  15. Re:Penalty for obvious false claims on Rumblefish Claims It Owns 'America the Beautiful' By United States Navy Band · · Score: 2

    You can sue for anything. Why not sue for harassment + triple legal fees?

    Because they generate enough legal business to have lawyers on retainer and thus pay no incremental costs for more suits. You, of course, enjoy no such advantage.

  16. Re:No on Windows 10 Shares Your Wi-Fi Password With Contacts · · Score: 1

    Me--because my wifi router is entirely private. Only I use it.

  17. Re:Mincraft is for cows. on Microsoft To Launch Minecraft Education Portal For Teachers · · Score: 1

    Yes, but what does the fox say?

    "No, I won't go out with you."

  18. Re: Drone It on Test Pilot: the F-35 Can't Dogfight · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You mean "Oft times better than a master of one"?

  19. Re:That's normal business transaction on When a Company Gets Sold, Your Data May Be Sold, Too · · Score: 2

    Private customer information is as much inventory as is the fish tank in the hall.

    Except that the company never told people nobody else would ever have the fish tank in the hall.

  20. Re:Nude == Rude? on Detecting Nudity With AI and OpenCV · · Score: 2

    [citation required]

  21. Re:What is it? on iPhone 6S New Feature: Force Touch · · Score: 1

    THAT IS NOT MY COW!

  22. Won't work for me... on iPhone 6S New Feature: Force Touch · · Score: 1

    ...I'm not a Jedi.

  23. Re:A little late to complain on Protesters Block Effort To Restart Work On Controversial Hawaii Telescope · · Score: 1

    Mauna Kea is larger in the sense that it is higher, and that's the only sense that matters to a telescope. How much area it covers is utterly irrelevant.

  24. Re:It redefined the RTS genre?? on Reverse-Engineering a Frame of "Supreme Commander" · · Score: 1

    Well, Total Annihilation 3. Total Annihilation 2 was Kingdoms.

  25. Re:Ve Arr Gohing sthrooooo!!! on Black Hole Awakens After 26 Years · · Score: 1