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  1. Re:Not a monolith, huh? on Microsoft's Forgotten Mistakes · · Score: 1

    Agent virus detected. Open, save, cancel?

  2. Oh yeah, this too on Microsoft's Forgotten Mistakes · · Score: 1
    spurious Windows errors to raise FUD about possible incompatibility

    Error messages in the beta version of Windows saying that they didn't support DRDOS. FUD perhaps, but justified. "Hello, I am havink problems with beta Windows over IkkyDos. Fix this now!"

  3. Re:Rhetoric on Microsoft's Forgotten Mistakes · · Score: 1
    they lost the law suite

    I'll get you, and your mini-bar too! Hahahahaha!

  4. Re:How about OS/2 and IBM on Microsoft's Forgotten Mistakes · · Score: 1

    And OS/2 would have been OS/2 if IBM had stayed with that.

  5. Re:So, what's the news? on Microsoft's Forgotten Mistakes · · Score: 1
    Visual Studio

    Hmm, a third-party wrapper around MSC 7 or so. Sucked big time when it ran out of DOS memory.

  6. Re:So, what's the news? on Microsoft's Forgotten Mistakes · · Score: 1
    IE was not bought, but legally stolen, similiar to SQLServer (from sysbase).

    From Mosaic, just like Netscape/Mozilla.

  7. Re:MS Failures... on Microsoft's Forgotten Mistakes · · Score: 1
    they have a stake and own their software

    For small values of own? Generous licencing, but own, no.

  8. Re:MS Failures... on Microsoft's Forgotten Mistakes · · Score: 1
    it's one of those unwritten rules

    Is there an RFC for that?

  9. Re:MS Failures... on Microsoft's Forgotten Mistakes · · Score: 1
    Let's put it in the lower left, where NO language or culture deems a good "starting" place.

    So move it. Which edge of the screen do you want the task bar to be on?

  10. Re:It was better than Cats... on Blakes Seven To Return · · Score: 1
    It could get pretty bad if you were talking about an SF comedy about a rag tag bunch of renegades in a stolen ship on the run from who knows what.

    It could get really really bad.

  11. Re:Easy to beat on Hyperion Rover, 1 km On One Command · · Score: 1
    I imagine it could make it 1km in the freakin middle of the desert before it hit something/ran out of gas.

    Another car on cruise control, duh!

  12. Reference: It was better than Cats... on Blakes Seven To Return · · Score: 1
    It occurs to me that the SNL "It was better than Cats..." reference is older than many Slashdoters. Scary.

    Promo for a hypnotist's show, lots of people saying in a robotic $cientologist monotone, "It was better than Cats.", "I laughed, I cried..."

  13. Re:It was better than Cats... on Blakes Seven To Return · · Score: 1
    Hey, and don't forget the intellegent mind-control butt carrot. Stanley still doesn't get any, but at least there is symmetry.

    The Lexx (ship) is disturbing. Sort of like Geiger meets Benny Hill.

  14. Re:It was better than Cats... on Blakes Seven To Return · · Score: 1
    I've only seen a scattering of Lexx shows (invariably when I do watch, I've already seen the episode), so it's hard to tell. There might be a plot in there somewhere. Maybe Stanley finally gets laid?

    I think I've seen two Farscape episodes, didn't impress. (It might have been another rag tag bunch show.)

    Hey, at least in Andromeda they are a friendly benevolent fascist police state. And now that Tyr (of Barbra Rosa, etc...) has split, and Rev is now humanish (translation: fsck four hours in makeup prep!) who knows what will happen next? (And who cares? Gene must be spinning.)

  15. Re:It was better than Cats... on Blakes Seven To Return · · Score: 1
    Nah, that was a SF drama about a rag tag bunch of survivors in rag tag ships on the run from evil alien robots. (Although in the movie premere they had an organic component.)

    Now if you want a SF drama about a rag tag bunch of renegades in a stolen ship on the run from a fascist police state, you don't have to look far. (Not stolen per say, just in hock to the eyebrows.)

    Just can't get enough of those "rag tag bunch" series/movies, not like those boring old "20th century Earthmen are so cool!" or "And what if it wasn't really a game?" plots.

  16. Re:It was better than Cats... on Blakes Seven To Return · · Score: 1
    as great an influence on the genre

    Didn't say a thing about which was the better show. But you go ahead and do your Steve Ballmer-like dance anyway. (Cranky mood, it's the caffeine talking.)

  17. Re:It's a good thing that... on Corporate Fallout Detector · · Score: 5, Funny

    How about Universal Political Codes for politians?

  18. Who shaves the barber? on Corporate Fallout Detector · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, what happens if you scan one of these detectors with another detector?

  19. Re:I'm not holding my breath... on Interoperable Remote Controls · · Score: 1
    I'd be happy just to see a universal remote that actually did replace all the other remotes

    How about a PC with an IR module? (Emitter mounted to spray TV, VCR, etc) A little learning software, and Bjorn Stronginthearm's your uncle.

  20. Re:The Semantic Web? on Interoperable Remote Controls · · Score: 1

    Be a shame if the speaker phone had a "volume control" property eh? :^P

  21. Re:It was better than Cats... on Blakes Seven To Return · · Score: 1
    Are you sure you didn't mean a SF drama about a rag tag bunch of renegades in a stolen ship on the run from a fascist police state? :^P

    It's become a standard gimick to get away with a tiny cast. Even Herc in Space sort of uses it, except they forgot the fascist police state or any excuse to still have a tiny crew. Oh well...

  22. It was better than Cats... on Blakes Seven To Return · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Darrow said: "The programme had such a gritty and dramatic style that was every bit as great an influence on the genre as the original Star Trek."
    I know he's trying to pump his project, but that's really quite an overstatement of its importance.
  23. Re:Inductive coupling on Another Beer Please · · Score: 1

    And I used to think that the ZX-81 was a hardware haiku! (Especially when it used the IN instruction to output the A reg to A8-15 for keyboard scanning.)

  24. Re:RFID tags on Another Beer Please · · Score: 1

    Real Friend, I'm Drunk? Tag, you're it!

  25. Re:Citizen #24601 on Another Beer Please · · Score: 2, Funny
    JavertScan is online.
    Increased beer drinking by #24601 noted, profile trigger, escalating.
    Cross-indexing library list.
    Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
    Possible federal crime detected, alerting FBI.
    Robert Louis Stevenson, author, deceased 1894.
    Ammending FBI alert: Murder, consider dangerous...

    Of course, this was all done better in Computers Don't Argue by Gordon R. Dickson. How nice that we can now turn an idea from 1965 into reality!