User: jo42

Re:Phone or Platform?

On: Google's Open Source Mobile Platform

Its the Java platform part that sucks the most - give me C/C++

Re:Java on the G-phone.

On: Google Announces "Open Phone" Coalition, No gPhone [Updated]

Yup - and all your contributions, no matter how well written, will run as slow as molasses in the middle of a Siberian winter on said devices.

Re:OpenSocial = Google freaking out

On: Redmond's Heavy Guns Go After OpenSocial

Welcome to The Latest Internet Fad (c)(tm)*.

* Copyright/Trademark may or may not include bold lettering.

Re:The importance of this race cannot be overstate

On: Carnegie Mellon Wins Urban Challenge

new Lexus self park Obviously you don't watch Top Gear. It's rubbish. It doesn't work in The Real World (c)(tm).

Re:MS and Google Culture... separated at birth?

On: Google's Young Brainiacs Go Globe-Trotting

Ah ha. This explains just why and how bad Vista is...

Yes, butt...

On: Recreating Cities Using Online Photos

What will this software do with all the goatse images on the World Wide Wibble?

Re:Electronic Warfare

On: DARPA Looks To Adaptive Battlefield Wireless Nets

And just one EMP pulse to take them all out.

Re:matching ids

On: Database Finds Fugitive After 35 Years

> Why is /. using the wheelbarrow symbol for database?

What is missing from the wheelbarrow is a huge pile of steaming bull poop.

Re:Load of Crap

On: Google's OpenSocial Platform Releases

Google is trying to get a cut of the action in hopes that someday, someway, they will make $$$$$$$$$ off of it.

Say wot?

On: China's President Hu Talks IT Warfare

No more Big Red Button hooked up to a Big Red Nuke?

Re:Beginning to comprehend...what, again?

On: Breaking Open Facebook With FOSS

Correct. Some of us have grown up, left mom's basement, have a job and a Real Life (tm), i.e. mortgage, bills, etc.

It's not the hardware...

On: Intel's 45nm Patch Machinery Exposed

> Merom team, that had managed to boot Windows on the A0 version of the Core 2 Duo in under thirty minutes ... Penryn worked, but it took six hours to get Windows to boot properly on it

Quite obviously a software problem. Now if they had used Linux...

Re:Oh the horror!

On: Apple Makes $831 On Each AT&T iPhone

Never underestimate the herds of sheep [people] buying the latest over-priced Shiny Thing (tm)...

Re:on stupidity

On: US Democrats Accidentally Publish Whistleblowers' Email Addresses

Goes something like "Never underestimate human stupidity and ignorance."

Re:NASA waste

On: NASA Ikhana Assists SoCal Firefighters

Imagine what You Could Really Do (tm) with the billions being p*ssed away in Iraq by the current regime...

Re:Great, more Ajax

On: How-To On Ajax Code To Show Movies and Slide Shows

KISS(S)

Keep It Simple Straightforward (Stupid!)

Re:Wall building?

On: A Run Through Windows Server 2008

> as good as or better than Linux in many respects

Horse poopies.

Until the day you can download it for the cost of bandwidth and run it without paying Micrsoft a single peso, Linux will always be "better".

Re:Of course it's slow

On: A Run Through Windows Server 2008

> Monad ...and the Open Source version will be called Gonad, nyet?

Re:From Beanies

On: eBay's Lobbying Efforts May Include the CIA

To "Fight The Facist Future".

Re:Back in the day when I was the young guy

On: Airlines Have to Ask Permission to Fly 72 Hours Early

Heil Bush!

Re:boots in a matter of seconds

On: Intel X38 High End Chipset Launch and Benchmarks

Eh, you must be running that Vista POS Thing...

Re:it's the law

On: End of Moore's Law in 10-15 years?

Digg did a complete bung-up of that rule of thumb. In one year they caused the average IQ of the Internet to be less than 1/100th of what it used to be...

Re:The answer is...

On: 10,000 Cameras Ineffective At Deterring Crime

> will prefer the logical argument

Then explain religion...

Re:why do they need the verb?

On: Cory Doctorow's Fiction About An Evil Google

This is why my gmail account is used for throw-away stuff (i.e. spam laden) and most of my Google searches are bogus.

Re:A practice that could save us from rereleases.

On: Heinlein Archives Put Online

The sequels create a rather larger vacuum than the prequels...