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  1. Re:Um on Linus Shares the Millennium Technology Prize · · Score: 1

    sorry, "knew"

  2. Re:Um on Linus Shares the Millennium Technology Prize · · Score: 2

    ...and may I ask, from what OS is linux cloned from? as far as I new, he wrote it -based- on the minix kernel...

  3. Re:Hmm on F-18 Fighter Jet Crashes Into Virginia Apartment Complex · · Score: 1

    sorry - modern fighter jets use JP8 - something akin to kerosene - and I have yet to see an american motor use that.

  4. casinos do it too on Google 'Wasting' $16 Billion On Projects Headed Nowhere · · Score: 1

    I dunno, I like the Cave Johnson approach - "we're throwing science against the wall, and seeing what sticks." - applying rules of probability to innovation makes as much sense as a casino's business - lots of losers, and a few big winners, and the house always wins.

  5. Re:Is the desktop still gonna suck? on Linux Of the Future May Be About Which Environment, Not Which Distribution · · Score: 1

    hmm... I'm playing rage just fine with wine. it's the only reason I installed wine on my desktop.

  6. Re:With all due respect to Fermi.... on 11 New Multi-Planet Star Systems Discovered · · Score: 1

    calvin and hobbes: "The surest sign that there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universes that none of it has contacted us."

  7. Right Idea, Wrong approach on Ask Slashdot: Assembling a Linux Desktop Environment From Parts? · · Score: 2

    IMO, I think that a linux user trying to cobble together unstable releases of DE software would consider attempting to fix the software that one likes - I'd make a safe wager that most of one's problems stem from configuration issues. I say that because with my 4 years of limited experience with the linux desktop, I spent plenty of time distro/DE-hopping to find a remedy to having to edit default settings to get usability to the point were I like it. Then I learned that not all software is created equal, and not a single developer out there has the ability to read my mind. I tend to find - in my limited experience - that linux software tends to not "break", but is simply mis-configured for my unique situation by default.

  8. Re:First Post from an HP on HP Keeping Their PC Business · · Score: 1

    no no no. He has lost the PSU three times already, and just the experience gained by that led to a very swift diagnosis.

  9. Re:First Post from an HP on HP Keeping Their PC Business · · Score: 1

    The AC would have said more in his post, but the PSU/AC Adapter in his hp went out... again...

  10. same as it ever was... on Cloud Driving Microsoft To Open Source? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft will most likely keep their business model that they have had for almost 40 years - in its very nature, their business model does not shift to new Ideas, but shifts the new Ideas into that model.

  11. Re:It Isn't Just Gaming on Are Games Worth Complaining About? · · Score: 1

    that's the beauty - you can handle divide by zero errors, can't you?

  12. Re:It Isn't Just Gaming on Are Games Worth Complaining About? · · Score: 1

    Satisfaction == Reality / Expectation. Expect less and your satisfaction will be higher.

    This expression is some of the best code I've seen in my life.

  13. I am reminded... on Steve Jobs, Before the iPad, On Why Tablets Suck · · Score: 1

    ... Of bill gates saying something along the lines of nobody would ever need more than 640k to run a program...