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  1. Re:Can I Fund Unity a Negative Amount? on Ubuntu Asks Users To Pay What They Want · · Score: 2, Insightful

    they are getting flak not for forking or rolling their own but for putting an immature gui on most used linux desktop, they are getting flax for the same thing gnome has as well not listening to users and having a sever case of NIH syndrome.

  2. Re:Pay for Ubuntu? on Ubuntu Asks Users To Pay What They Want · · Score: 1

    enjoy your playskool interface i will stick one that works without hiding everything

  3. Re:Three laws of robotics on US Navy Funds 'MacGyver' Robot · · Score: 2

    sure it will but its definition of human will be much more solarian (see robots and earth, where on the planet solara the definition of human was solarian) than the standard calvinian robots in the rest of foundation universe

  4. Re:And Then There's World Hunger on Facebook Tests 'Want' Button To Hoard User Data, Save Its Stock Price · · Score: 3, Funny

    i used to get similar results but that is because i marked all of the ads as "sexually explicit". for a while i didn't have any ads now i don't because of adblock and noscript

  5. Re:Final Version? on Firefox 16 Released: More HTML5 Support · · Score: 1

    um you can simply install iceweasel on ubuntu its in the repo if memory serves me. last i looked at debian (in a vm) it had some odd behavior with gksudo, and no easy way to get all of the media codex installed and the proprietary drivers. While ubuntu has its problems (the break psychological breaks with reality which spawned unity) the sudden surge of interest in new areas that are just as suddenly forgotten, (android on ubuntu, ubuntu netbook, ubuntu tv and soon ubuntu for android) but it is overall still fairly easy stable problem free desktop once you run

    apt-get install {Insert Desktop Environment of Choice}
    apt-get purge *unity*
    apt-get install synaptic

    from a command line then log out and back in. in debian you have to add repos for codexes another for you drivers in ubuntu they are there and just need enabled.

  6. Re:NOOOOOO on The Case That Apple Should Buy Nokia · · Score: 1

    Is a Troyan Horse similar to a Trojan Horse but from Troy rather than to Troy?

    I think he was trying to avoid jokes about calling Elop the Trojan man (mascot of Trojan Condoms) and M$ raping Nokia.

  7. Re:NOOOOOO on The Case That Apple Should Buy Nokia · · Score: 1

    really? apple seems to do just fine with just one phone and one tablet

  8. Re:Mesa Same As Me on Mesa 9.0 Released With Open Source OpenGL 3.1 Drivers · · Score: 1

    thats how i read it the first time too.

  9. Re:C is the epitome of a programming language. on Linus Torvalds Will Answer Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Why was i modded down for being offtopic? i was responding to parent (that was modded into oblivion) that said we should be writing everything in machine code.

  10. Re:The Absolute Death of Software Copyright? on Linus Torvalds Will Answer Your Questions · · Score: 0

    You could of added Plan9 QNX Darwin (not the closed Apple variant) and Minuet but I agree along with you that they and Haiku and ReactOS are to minor to mention in the desktop space along with BSD Windows Solaris and OSX, but I do take issue ChromeOS, it as a full Linux that merely has a browser as its primary gui although later versions have added more traditional desktop features.
    I think I can answer why he has chosen not to include a static abi. Apple Windows and Solaris are all closed proprietary OS's with relatively few versions supporting very few architectures, here a proprietary driver is the norm, and seeings as it will only need to be supported by on average 2 maybe three architectures at the most on probably two OS releases a time so a stable abi makes since. Now lets look at Linux, Linux supports most every 32 and 64 bit processor available. It has countless distributions each running a slightly different kernel and software for it is expected to just work on most of them. This cannot work with a proprietary binary blob system where a driver or program is complied for only x86, x64, (for OSX and Windows) and spark (for Solaris). So to insure that Linux programs work across kernel versions, distro, and possessor lines the source code is needed so that it can be recompiled and work with relatively little tweaking. If they were to have a static abi software vendors would compile for once and be done and everyone else would be screwed and be stuck with an old kernel on one processor on one distro until the vendor felt like recompiling.
    Whether or not it has succeeded, help or hindered Linux adoption is debatable but i think that is the reasoning. As for the BSD having it which I left out above they have a major focus on stability and hardware comparability not as high as any of the other big 5 OS's, if they did not have it they could lose much more hardware support then they are willing to trade off for the rapid change. that said what they do support they do a very good job of supporting.

  11. Re:C is the epitome of a programming language. on Linus Torvalds Will Answer Your Questions · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    because humans have a problem reading that quickly. (i would have posted it binary but slashdot filters won't let me?

    typo noted after post please no grammer nazi

  12. Re:C is the epitome of a programming language. on Linus Torvalds Will Answer Your Questions · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    because humans have a problem reading that quickly. (i would have posted it binary but slashdot filters won't let me?

  13. Re:Hobbit life expectancy skewed on Student Publishes Extensive Statistics On the Population of Middle-Earth · · Score: 2

    also Sam after the death of his wife Rosie left for the grey heavens and sailed to the west as he was also a ring bearer, thus possibly having immortality as well further skewing hobbit age statistics.

  14. Re:Face recognition on Google Puts Souped-Up Neural Networks To Work · · Score: 1

    I like the unplug the web cam method or in case of latops black electrical tape over the camera.

  15. Re:Personally don't care what CmdrTaco thinks on CmdrTaco Looks Back on Fifteen Years of Slashdot · · Score: 1

    i thought it was only emos and hipsters that complained about "selling out" when it really means being somewhat profitable

  16. Re:That's more like it! on Apple Acknowledges iPhone 5 Camera Flaw · · Score: 1

    so jj abrams came back using red mater from the future (jnow present) and filmed the new star trek movies with an iphone it all makes since now

  17. Re:That's more like it! on Apple Acknowledges iPhone 5 Camera Flaw · · Score: 2

    I have a $50 lg dumbphone with camera that does not have a lenses flare problem yet a $600 Iphone is supposed to get a free pass?

  18. Re:Stupid human! on Apple Acknowledges iPhone 5 Camera Flaw · · Score: 1

    no your just holding it wrong... or maybe you didn't notice the problems during the jobs era because he was a very charismatic conman, I mean salesmen (it so easy to mix those two up)

  19. Re:This makes me happy on Report Slams DHS Fusion Centers: No Terrorists Nabbed, Civil Rights Violated · · Score: 1

    yeah unfortunately those in power are perfectly fine with it being a broken money bleeding bloated wreck because being for it gets you a couple anti terrorism point on the next election.

  20. Re:Politics on You Can't Print a Gun If You Have No 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    I don't think that that would flag you as having a gun though, a spring and pin are not very big and probably would send a signal about as strong as your metal zipper does on your pants in a metal detector but this is all just conjecture of course until some one tests it.

  21. Re:really ? on The US Navy's Railgun Program · · Score: 1

    since the last several wars if collateral damage were not a factor the entire Mideast would probably be radioactive molten slag right now.

  22. Re:Fear it Iran on The US Navy's Railgun Program · · Score: 1

    Its called politic when you are in charge of a superpower, trolling when your on a forum kidding around. go figure

  23. Re:no general shortage of workers more like on Microsoft Calls For $5B Investment In U.S. Education · · Score: 1

    you mean people actually want paid for high pressure and stress jobs?

  24. Re:Ah, Fanbois on Intel Debuts Clover Trail For Tablets, Launches New Atom Inside · · Score: 1

    i thought troll or flamebait was disagree

  25. Re:Hmmm... on Intel Debuts Clover Trail For Tablets, Launches New Atom Inside · · Score: 1

    away from prying eyes but potentially not just that of malware.