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  1. Re:Other options? on Mozilla Downshifting Development of Thunderbird E-Mail Client · · Score: 1

    What other clients are people using on windows?

    You can try Eudora if you want wallow in some "used to be great".

  2. Re:I can't wait! on Mozilla Downshifting Development of Thunderbird E-Mail Client · · Score: 2, Funny

    Want the "Reload" button back where it used to be? Right-click, "Customize", drag the reload button where you want it, click "Done". You're welcome.

    Thankyou, so now I understand. They just moved the the reload button to a stupid place to force everybody to learn their new customization interface. Right, that's it.

  3. Re:I can't wait! on Mozilla Downshifting Development of Thunderbird E-Mail Client · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure Firefox OS is the right move either.

    I'm sure it isn't, but maybe Mozilla foundation will figure that out faster than Googlers, who have a nasty ingrained habit of ignoring the evidence before their eyes, such as 99% of ChromeOS trials coming back with "this is stupid, why cripple the computer and brick it when the connection drops".

  4. Re:They might as well kick all the developers. on Mozilla Downshifting Development of Thunderbird E-Mail Client · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Firefox is officially trash now.

    I beg to differ. I always have Firefox *and* Chrome open, but I spend most of my time in Firefox. 1) Firefox can scroll tabs. 2) Firefox will open a pdf or other document just by clicking on it. Chrome insists on downloading it and littering my Downloads directory with things I don't want to keep, besides requiring an extra step to open. 3) I use a Firefox plugin to remove Google's evil link obfuscation, so I can open search results much faster and cut and paste links in a way that makes sense. Not to mention making my eyes hurt less.

  5. Re:I can't wait! on Mozilla Downshifting Development of Thunderbird E-Mail Client · · Score: 2

    With all the developers moving, they will finally have the resources necessary to change the Firefox UX all over again. Hurrah!

    I would like Mozilla to put the "reload" button back where it used to be. What do you think, Mr Anonymous?

  6. Don't be crazy on Mozilla Downshifting Development of Thunderbird E-Mail Client · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Thunderbird is the only effective way to restore the functionality on Windows that Microsoft took away by removing Outlook Express, short of being frog marched by Microsoft into its own creepy cloud.

  7. Re:A Microsoft engineer? on Microsoft Engineer Discovers Android Spam Botnet, Google Denies Claim · · Score: 1

    I believe that Microsoft engineers are great emailers, facetimers and backstabbers.

    Oh, please excuse me. I believe that Microsoft engineers are super great emailers, facetimers, backstabbers and astromodders.

    Correction: Microsoft engineers are super great emailers, facetimers, backstabbers and astromodders, and resent being told that.

    Correction: Microsoft engineers are weenies.

  8. Re:Nothing new on Former Microsoft Exec: Microsoft Has "Become the Thing They Despised" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...clearly as a founder he's part of the old boy's club and not going anywhere soon unless Microsoft's board finally says enough z'nough.

    Ballmer's position is secure because he excels at the one thing that actually counts: complete, unquestioning obedience to Bill Gates, who as the largest shareholder still controls the company.

  9. Re:Reliability and usability count, too on Former Microsoft Exec: Microsoft Has "Become the Thing They Despised" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    why would regular users (not OS junkies) want to upgrade at all?

    Few do, however that is not Microsoft's meal ticket. Microsoft's big meal ticket is now, as it always was, illegal market control of PC OEMs. Microsoft's second biggest meal ticket is illegal tying of servers to client operating system.

  10. Re:Mother of All Dupes on Former Microsoft Exec: Microsoft Has "Become the Thing They Despised" · · Score: 1

    I also liked "...and the company has driven innovation for decades." That made me chuckle.

    Ah but you overlooked that fact that in Microsoft's lexicon "innovation" has always meant "illegal trustmaking activity".

  11. Re:Oblig: TED Talk on Apple-Motorola Judge Questions Need For Software Patents · · Score: 1

    Tax marijuana.

  12. Re:A Microsoft engineer? on Microsoft Engineer Discovers Android Spam Botnet, Google Denies Claim · · Score: 0

    I believe that Microsoft engineers are great emailers, facetimers and backstabbers.

    Oh, please excuse me. I believe that Microsoft engineers are super great emailers, facetimers, backstabbers and astromodders.

    Correction: Microsoft engineers are super great emailers, facetimers, backstabbers and astromodders, and resent being told that.

  13. Re:A Microsoft engineer? on Microsoft Engineer Discovers Android Spam Botnet, Google Denies Claim · · Score: -1

    I believe that Microsoft engineers are great emailers, facetimers and backstabbers.

    Oh, please excuse me. I believe that Microsoft engineers are super great emailers, facetimers, backstabbers and astromodders.

  14. Re:The Only Newsworthy Item on Linux Played a Vital Role In Discovery of Higgs Boson · · Score: 1

    Linux Is Not UniX

    Whoever modded that down has issues.

  15. Re:Validates the Higgs mechanism on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Implications of Finding the Higgs Boson? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Antiparticles, though I am not sure whether they count as distinct, and counting them up is complicated by some of them being their own antiparticle.

  16. Re:The sad part on Microsoft Engineer Discovers Android Spam Botnet, Google Denies Claim · · Score: 1

    Microsoft still exercises monpoly control over PC OEMs. A rather big segment of the technology market, still growing in fact. But the margins are shrinking.

  17. Re:The sad part on Microsoft Engineer Discovers Android Spam Botnet, Google Denies Claim · · Score: 1

    Microsoft has never really been very good at FUD either. The only thing they really excel at is protecting their monopoly by illegal means while paying only modest fines for the privilege.

  18. Re:A Microsoft engineer? on Microsoft Engineer Discovers Android Spam Botnet, Google Denies Claim · · Score: -1, Troll

    I believe that Microsoft engineers are great emailers, facetimers and backstabbers.

  19. Re:Just link to the ACTUAL blog entry on Microsoft Engineer Discovers Android Spam Botnet, Google Denies Claim · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I get the anti-MS sentiment (although jeez, quit living in the 90s)

    Microsoft remains as evil as it ever was, two decades later. Anti-MS sentiment is not only richly deserved, but prudent.

  20. Re:Validates the Higgs mechanism on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Implications of Finding the Higgs Boson? · · Score: 1

    What a creative interpretation. Well then, I cordially invite you to discover your own particle too.

  21. Re:Validates the Higgs mechanism on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Implications of Finding the Higgs Boson? · · Score: 1

    This is where the standard model fails - it's decriptive, and predictive, but does not describe a simpler system from which the properties of the dozens (hundreds?) of "fundamental" particles could be derived.

    Seventeen elementary particles, including the Higgs.

  22. Re:Validates the Higgs mechanism on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Implications of Finding the Higgs Boson? · · Score: 1

    I prefer duck analogies, and I will bet you $100 that the new scalar boson discovered at ~125.5 GeV/cc is confirmed as the Higgs before this Christmas.

  23. Re:If it was Apple... on Linux Played a Vital Role In Discovery of Higgs Boson · · Score: 5, Informative

    Apple did not play any role in the discovery of the Higgs because it is too busy launching new patent troll lawsuits.

  24. Re:Vital? on Linux Played a Vital Role In Discovery of Higgs Boson · · Score: 1

    But it wasn't "one operating system or another", it was Linux. By your argument, collider rings are also interchangeable, and that is in fact true. Which is why the Higgs was discovered in the US of A by the Superconducting Supercollider... oh wait, that didn't happen because there isn't one.

  25. Re:Obligatory... on Linux Played a Vital Role In Discovery of Higgs Boson · · Score: 1

    A Beowulf cluster of LHC rings would likely be able to vaporize an incoming asteroid.