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  1. Re:Anyone who thinks they can predict the future.. on IBM's Five Predictions For the Next Five Years · · Score: 2

    no they just are not a player in the consumer computer or mobile market they are still big in other markets, they for example make all of the processors for all three major gaming consoles, they also build servers, workstation, mainframes which while they are not the growth market they are still selling.

  2. Re:General usability should be one of the choices on Examining the Usability of Gnome, Unity and KDE · · Score: 1

    "nobody has the time to customize everything."

    one word: gentoo.
    (also linux from scratch)

    no one has time to write everything, customize of everything on the other hand can be gotten away with by, some people with patients and no female distractions.

  3. Re:First post from firefox on Chrome 15 Overtakes IE 8 For Top Browser Spot · · Score: 1

    and for a very good reason and operating system is a much more complicated thing than a web browser and when it comes to embeded systems like phones they are often highly modified and customized to run on that hardware if you just flashed every phone with android using the same image you would have a tremendous amount of breakage and incompatibilities i mean what would happen if mickysoft updated every xp computer to vista? or worse yet automatically to say vista 64bit and suddenly a program you used every day that depended on a 16 bit dll no longer worked. you would throw a shit fit wouldn't you? same story *10 for a phone

  4. Re:First post from firefox on Chrome 15 Overtakes IE 8 For Top Browser Spot · · Score: 1

    dude why the flash hatred, not just you on this site especially and growing else where flash is not the devil. i like flash it lets me watch copyrighted drm'ed movies and shows on linux, apple, windows or any other major system while i do not like drm i realize it is a necessary evil at this point and flash is the most benign form of it because it at least will run on my free/open-source operating system. if it were not for flash i could not watch hulu without loading windows in a virtual machine and i could not then get my fix of chuck and merlin without breaking the law or paying Microsoft. long live flash!

    (i know i will be modded troll for this but i am not)

  5. Re:First post from firefox on Chrome 15 Overtakes IE 8 For Top Browser Spot · · Score: 2

    unless they use debian

  6. Re:First post from firefox on Chrome 15 Overtakes IE 8 For Top Browser Spot · · Score: 1

    firefox + adblock pluse + https everywhere + no-script = mine

  7. Re:Energy Depleted on Comet Lovejoy Plunges Into the Sun and Survives · · Score: 2, Informative

    nice Stargate Universe reference

  8. Re:Better title: on Comet Lovejoy Plunges Into the Sun and Survives · · Score: 1

    hmm, lovejoy is that a new name for chuck noris?

  9. Re:Power companies on Innovative Use of Plastics Could Cheaply Double Solar Cell Output · · Score: 1

    would not be very useful for me where i live it is cloudy and rainy or fogy most of the year but the idea has marret . if only tesla and edison had not bee so apposed we would have dc power in our homes and every device would not need its own intagrated converter, but dc is bad for long distant transmission if only we had dc in home and ac betwen source and the power box on the house

  10. Re:space mission requirements? on Ask Slashdot: Technical Advice For a (Fictional) Space Mission? · · Score: 1

    if the ship is as large as described in the above comment another good idea would be for the landing craft be a base station for a space elevator conecting to the above space station/ship/colony.

  11. Re:Only "a few years?" on Ask Slashdot: Technical Advice For a (Fictional) Space Mission? · · Score: 1

    if it is far enough in the future mixed race is most likly going to be the norm.

  12. Re:The crew needs women. on Ask Slashdot: Technical Advice For a (Fictional) Space Mission? · · Score: 1

    hmmm zero g sex? you would need a restraining devicee though so that your first pelvic thrust dose not send you flying across the cabin of the space craft. after all for every action there is an equall and oposite reaction. also if i rember correctly astronauts experience a drop in hormons responible for sex drive. so zero g sex maybe out but low g like on the moon or mars may still be possible and very interesting/fun

  13. Re:So what do we call these things? on Google Awarded Driverless Vehicle Patent · · Score: 2

    AutoBots and when microsoft comes out with a competing product it will be the decepticons

  14. Re:DOH! on House Panel Moving Forward With SOPA · · Score: 1

    "Their are no nationality of a website on the Internet, a website is a part of the Internet, no matter where it is hosted."

    you obviously have never used the flagfox add-on for Firefox then have you. it shows a small flag of the country that the site site is hosted in at the corner of your address bar and when you click it it shows you its ip address and the approximate location on Google maps, in one case accurate to across the street of the servers that i was ftping one of my projects to. it seems to lose acuracy once you start looking at chinesse sites.

  15. Re:And money changes hands... on Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option · · Score: 2

    there is a way to fix that its called will power. i love samples but i simply never buy what they are giving me, but then again they don't give you alchole samples at the grocery store in the US.

  16. Re:And money changes hands... on Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option · · Score: 1

    i used to like physical junk mail it made great fire starter until i moved to a house without a wood stove oh well.

  17. Re:And money changes hands... on Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option · · Score: 1

    /dev/null the digital municipal dump

  18. Re:Salt in the wound? on Internet Explorer Users Have Low Risk Intelligence · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    so what is web os Ron paul, and tezin/mego/moblin/or_what_ever_the_hell_it_is_called_now would be nader. none of them have a chance of winning but the all keep trying and wasting resources that would be better spent elsewhere.

  19. Re:There will be no GNOME 4. on GNOME 3 Wins Linux Journal's Readers' Choice Award · · Score: 1

    one person hardly equates a small mass or a flocking, also gnome can be compiled and run on a mac. secondly i have shown people with gnome 2 with compiz and they are interested in it. again two or three people do not constitute a flocking and i have installed and run gnome 3 and unity and people i showed them were not impresses. but everyone has there own tastes and some will like gnome 3 others will not. mind you i am not questioning your story but my experience's have been the exact opposite of yours.

  20. Re:details? on World's First Programmable Quantum Photonic Chip · · Score: 1

    yes exactly the same as as every other processor

  21. Re:There will be no GNOME 4. on GNOME 3 Wins Linux Journal's Readers' Choice Award · · Score: 2

    mate = gnome 2.32 fork

  22. Re:There will be no GNOME 4. on GNOME 3 Wins Linux Journal's Readers' Choice Award · · Score: 5, Insightful

    in this particular case yes the slashdot opinion is important. because it is us not the general public that use desktop linux bsd or other non-fruity unix. the problem is gnome thinks by making a more "intuitive" tablet / web bastardization that the masses will flock away from there proprietary shackles of mac and windows and fly to their gnuniverse. but lets be honest the average person just wants to be able to stick a cd in the drive or click the .exe and have their program run, most people are afraid of even installing the os, it is only people like us who install *nix and thus only us who use this product they are making, but gnome has shown that they want to chase people who hate and fear the idea of them instead of listening to their user base and making a functional desktop . desktops are not tablet they are not smart phones. the idea that people will want one gui to rule them all is flawed it was tried b4 by pushing the desktop onto the mobile devices that failed apple saw it first and they built new products with a new interface that would not work on a desktop. now everyone thinks that because it works on mobile it will work on the desktop and it will fail to. when it comes to different devices the need different interface because they do a different job

    servers work best with a cli
    desktops work with toolbars icons or the traditional desktop,
    tv's tablets and phones work best with widgets and thumbnails

  23. Re:Cyber Monday at IDC! on Will Windows 8 Be Ready For Release In 2012? · · Score: 1

    unfortunately we only have herd left to make jokes about and that may not be for much longer they have released public betas and Debian and Gentoo are working on ports of it, what will we mock then?

  24. Re:This is what you get with golf course deals on Apple, Android Devices Swamp NYC Schools' ActiveSync Server · · Score: 1

    I think that i some areas unions of labor unions are needed but i think that it others they cause more harm than good i think for example of the local independent grocery store here in my town, there was a move to unionize it came to a vote and the workers voted by a very large majority to stay nonunion, unfortunately the union had decided to picket the store until it unionized, they picketed for over two years, the workers would every so often vote and each time would down unionizing by a larger percent. why i ask, if the union is supposedly there for the protection and help of the workers, did they continue to push for unionization when the workers didn't want it? that was surly not to have the voice of the workers heard.

  25. Re:Meh on San Francisco Team Wins DARPA's De-Shredding Contest · · Score: 1

    and that is why a wood stove is so nice, you have a warrent to go through my home, or you break in to steal confidential information, fine and if you want my documents they are in that bucket of ash i haven't had the time to dump in the woods behind my house. go to.