Slashdot Mirror


User: smittyoneeach

smittyoneeach's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
5,145
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 5,145

  1. Re:Notice the differences though on Google's New Personalized Homepage · · Score: 1

    But it looks great in lynx, when I'm too lazy to start an X server, so I got that goin' for me...

  2. Re:just like ballmer said on Google's New Personalized Homepage · · Score: 1

    No, MSN didn't immediately collapse.
    Nor is Google's collapse imminent, trolltard.

  3. Re:There it is! on Google's New Personalized Homepage · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hopefully, they take it the rest of the way and incorpoate groups-beta.
    Google could go the full Yahoo! monty, and have an interface that looks like "an Australian's nightmare", but I'd be very surprised.
    They seem to grasp the strategic non-value of such a turdberg.

  4. Re:Oh geez, thin clients again. on Microsoft Developing Windows for Low-End Machines · · Score: 1

    Occasionally, though, a brain is required.

  5. Re:Should have been a criterion all along on Microsoft Developing Windows for Low-End Machines · · Score: 1

    Yes, but do the objectives of the systems developers and the marketing people correlate?
    Microsoft has always been about power and ease of use. Need performance? Buy more hardware.

  6. Re:Thinking. on OpenID - Open Source Single-SignOn · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Given the amount of Microsoft, Apple, Google, and other big-name-company stories that, otherwise inexplicably, have been termed "news", and "stuff that matters", yes.

  7. Re:We have seen it before from MS on Google Might Disappear in Five Years · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes, but in those cases, MS controlled the platform.
    See, "DOS isn't done until Google won't run" lacks a certain...reality...

  8. Re:Hahaha on Google Might Disappear in Five Years · · Score: 0

    Naw, Mike Myers provides better imagery than Kruschev:
    "Tsha, and (honey)monkeys might fly out of my butt".

  9. Re:yup, anti-capitalisism on Cuba Switching to Linux · · Score: 1

    Smacks of a reasonable business decision to me.
    Or, can you produce any anecdotal evidence that SmartTags have somehow improved your revenues?
    I'm happy to admit that MS Office is a swell product, if we can, in the same orgy of objectivity, admit that it was feature-complete around Office97 or so.
    Oh, wait...that would hurt the value of my MSFT shares. Never mind.

  10. Re:Star Wars part II? on Military Seeks Approval to Develop Space Weapons · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you could give it a try, then. :)

  11. I say on Microsofts "Honeymonkey" Project · · Score: 4, Funny

    Put these honemonkeys on a network with a bunch of other computers running Firefox/greasemonkey, and let them fight it out.

  12. Re:If it's so new... on Consumers Union Wants You to Share Your Story · · Score: 1

    They finally got the advertising budget to hoist themselves up to the esteemed level of a slashdot story?

  13. Re:Well... on Effects of China's Software Policy on World Economy? · · Score: 1
    possibly challenge US Superiority in what we do best.
    I got upwards of 5M hits on Google sez your friend's research into the topic may be incomplete.
    For starters: http://www.fas.org/spp/guide/china/
  14. Re:but I did not shoot the deputy... on Ebert Gives 'Sith' Positive Review · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cry, audience, and let slip the dogs of franchise!

  15. Re:Time to fight back on USPTO Issues Email Address Patent to Microsoft · · Score: 1

    You don't seem to grasp the situation.
    What we need to do is convince, say, Lessig, to run for office, with the following platform:
    <Joker voice>
    This government needs an enema!
    </Joker voice>

  16. Re:Not Accurate on Hyper-Threading, Linus Torvalds vs. Colin Percival · · Score: 1

    I like the phrase: "I feel your research into the subject may be incomplete".

  17. Re:Overall, a fun hack. on Playing with Sony's Linux-Based Networked Media Player · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, wasn't Osama made by US?

  18. Cents and Suppressability on New Lucas Headquarters To Open in San Francisco · · Score: 2, Informative
    From TFA:
    At the same time, Lucas himself will concentrate on a long-suppressed ambition to make smaller films, even documentaries.
    I, for one, pity Poor Wee George, so unable to make the smaller films he has so craved.
    Too, we must take comfort in the fact that has gathered sufficient moss that he won't be hitting the road next year, when he turns 62
  19. Re:96% were men. 97% of Slashdot readers are men on Before You Fire the Company Geek · · Score: 1

    Dude, that image was entirely unnecessary.
    I'm not in favor of censorship, but I make a strong appeal to good taste in this case. Please, be careful in the future.
    --The Mismanagement

  20. Re:Potential difficulties on High-Definition PC Video Conferencing? · · Score: 2, Funny
    Only several 'pro-sumer' HD video cameras exist nowadays, and neither of them could be classed as small.
    Me and my monkey are making tracks to the Mandalay Bay Hotel
    to see those non-small pro-sumos this fall, in fact.
  21. Re:Brought to you by the letters A, B, C and D(vor on Dvorak on the LinuxWorld Fracas · · Score: 1
    You appear to have overlooked this gem:
    If anything is going to kill Linux and the open-source movement, it's the presence of certifiable lunatics in the ranks representing the users. It may be that this is actually a deep Astroturf PR campaign orchestrated by Microsoft to discredit open source and Linux. It sure seems like something weird is going on.
    Possibly the bolded portion of the quote has found its way into the good Mr. Dvorak's pipe. If he thinks the FOSS community is 'imploding' over this, his take on the BitKeeper kerfluffle must be truly parabolic in its hyperbole.
  22. Re:Scared? on IE7 Will Have Tabbed Browsing · · Score: 1
    IIRC, Microsoft used to have this option in the Office programs. Until they somehow decided that opening an entirely new window for every document was somehow a good idea. :/
    Tabbed browsing and Mutliple Document Interface (MDI) are kinda the same, only different.
    Changing the Alt+Tab behavior to imply a separate Word instance for each .doc was a welcome simplification of the interface.
  23. Jethro & Cletus on Unmanned Aircraft Clustered via Bluetooth · · Score: 1

    Jethro: That vee of flyin' gadgets yonder: ya'll know why one leg of the vee's longer'n t'other?
    Cletus: Nope. Why?
    Jethro: Got more gadgets in it.

  24. Re:Oh great, both at once on Unmanned Aircraft Clustered via Bluetooth · · Score: 1

    Except in Soviet Russia, where overlords fly you, of course.

  25. Re:LISA on Apple's First Flops · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Och, he was a splendid Pppe, despite vowel prrblems...