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  1. Re:This is sort of what Windows 8 should have been on Windows 8.1 Rolls Out Today · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Enterprise customers held with contempt are evaluating third party vendors they never would have considered before. If you force people to use a new interface regardless, than it's an opportunity for your customers to pick what that interface is going to be. Sales of Mac's to the Enterprise have hit record highs, Linux is breaking through where it never did before. People are even toying with Chromebooks.

    This seems a tad hysterical. Enterprise users will continue to use W7 for a while yet. It still works, is still supported and is less of a headache to maintain for the tech guys than upgrading everything to work with W8. Businesses aren't clamouring to upgrade all their machinery just because MS has a newer OS.

  2. Re:Facebook has products? on How Noah Kagan Got Fired From Facebook and Lost $100 Million · · Score: 0

    Google+ is pretty niche and trust me, not that interesting.

  3. Re:Facebook has changed a LOT on Facebook Denies Leak of Users' Private Messages · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't be silly, you don't have a girlfriend!

  4. Re:Wow. on Apple Confirms iPhone 5 Preorders Top 2 Million In 24 Hours · · Score: 1

    On the basis that the 4 and 4S came nowhere near 9 million and that it's a well documented phenomenon that the bulk of preorders will hit in the first 48 hours when excitement overrides rational consumerism.

    They won't break 9mil. Whatever fruit you want to talk about.

  5. Wow. on Apple Confirms iPhone 5 Preorders Top 2 Million In 24 Hours · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not sure why they're bragging about it, they're way behind the Galaxy S3 on this particular metric.

    Not a troll, just interesting to see the enormous difference in preorder sales between two companies that are constantly at each others' throats.

  6. Re:No sympathy on Large Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme Collapses With a Loss of $5.6 Million · · Score: 1

    Holy crap, a Jimmy Buffet fan is even worse in my books...

  7. Re:No sympathy on Large Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme Collapses With a Loss of $5.6 Million · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe this is a bit obvious, but if a guy going by the handle pirateat40 is asking to invest my money, I'm a retard for not being justalittlefuckingbit sceptical.

  8. Re:Read Error on The History of the Floppy Disk · · Score: 2

    28 floppies if memory serves. Win98 was like comparative nirvana for me; a floppy to boot and a CD to install.

  9. Re:No shit? on Cats Not Linked To Brain Cancer After All · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wait, you mean I CAN'T haz brain cancer??

  10. Re:Statistics on Obama Finally Beats Bieber Fever According To Klout · · Score: 1

    What has Obama got to do with it? I said POTUS is a more influential person than some Disney channel popstar. It doesn't matter who POTUS is. Get back under your bridge, troll.

  11. Re:Why do people still use Sony on Anonymous Claims To Have Hacked Sony PSN Again · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Statistics on Obama Finally Beats Bieber Fever According To Klout · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, in fairness having a millions of tweens hanging on your every word is hardly 'influence' compared to, oh I don't know, being POTUS.

    Influence is as much to do with the nature of your 'followers' as the influential person themselves.

  13. Re:etch a sketch? on IBM Claims Spintronics Memory Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    This is a troll, right?

  14. Re:begone rational thought on Ask Slashdot: Personal Tape Drive NAS? · · Score: 1

    This is primary school IT right here... Crap as those lessons where, they did teach us tape drives had limited uses.

    This ain't one of them.

  15. Re:Benefits of free services on How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led To Mat Honan's Identity Theft · · Score: 1

    Unless you have your backup email address set as an iCloud address somebody already got access to...

  16. Re:So why not old computers? on MARCH Presents: Apple I Reproduction In Action At HOPE 9 · · Score: 1

    Mercedes were way ahead of the curve, they were making OHC engines back in the 50s :)

  17. Re:So why not old computers? on MARCH Presents: Apple I Reproduction In Action At HOPE 9 · · Score: 1

    True that. Nothing more stylish than waiting for your C64 to spool the tape...

  18. Re:So why not old computers? on MARCH Presents: Apple I Reproduction In Action At HOPE 9 · · Score: 1

    Even with each machine's contemporary software, old stuff is still slower. Windows 98 is contemporary for my 1Ghz P3, Windows 7 is for my 3.3Ghz i5. It's not just clockspeeds at the CPU either - faster buses, solid state drives, better code, more hardware optimisations in the software.

    There is always the nostalgia case, but in terms of practicality, usability and user sanity, most of it is just old hat. Frankly speaking, I'd apply the same logic to most classic cars and audio equipment too. If I have a component break on me, I can source a replacement within a day for a reasonable price. If the cam shaft on a 1963 Mercedes breaks, you're shit outta luck - and that isn't practical.

  19. Re:Not sure... on Speed of Sound Is Too Slow For the Olympics · · Score: 1

    Will it matter that much if Usain Bolt destroys the field, as is the most likely outcome?

  20. Re:I deeply dislike the end-run aroudn the courts on Valve Removes Right For Class Action Claims From EULA · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's not about getting rich

    Tell the lawyers that.

  21. Re:What for? on An Olympic Games For Enhanced Athletes? · · Score: 1

    Sadly this is a continual reality for my beloved Mets, regardless of whether or not the opposition are doped up to the eyeballs on 'roids...

  22. Re:What for? on An Olympic Games For Enhanced Athletes? · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can take your fundamentals, sir, and stick them where the sun don't shine. I want Hulk-like men who can make relativistic baseball a reality!! http://what-if.xkcd.com/1/

  23. Re:What for? on An Olympic Games For Enhanced Athletes? · · Score: 2

    Well for starters baseball was a hell of a lot more interesting when they were jacked up enough to blast the ball out of the park...

  24. Re:critical thinking on Obama Wants $1 Billion For "Master Teachers Corps" · · Score: 1

    Wait, the lefties at the Washington Post said that their opposition on the Right is nuts? Crap, it must be true! If we apply the same logic, that means FOX News has been right about the lefties all along!!

    Get a grip.

  25. Re:thickness on Sony's Thermal Sheet Good As Paste For CPU Cooling · · Score: 1

    Better yet, get lapping that mofo to a point where thermal paste actually impedes thermal conduction!!