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  1. Re:Ok, this line says it all on Acer Ferrari 1100, One Large Disappointment · · Score: 0

    If I'm dropping $1800 on a laptop, I'm expecting design AND performance at the expense of affordability. Um. $1800 isn't worth what it once was.

  2. And we care because? on Acer Ferrari 1100, One Large Disappointment · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    PC magazine have a dozen astroturfers here trying to make them appear like relevant, useful and interesting resource?

  3. It means they are going to copy Google on How Open Source Has Influenced Windows Server 2008 · · Score: 1

    Hire tens of thousands of engineers throw some projects into the mix and see what comes out.

  4. Re:Persuade me I need Windows Server on Steve Ballmer on MS Server, Linux, Yahoo & More · · Score: 1

    If you want to develop with Visual Studio, C#, and .net So... What you're saying is that if you insist on developing exclusively on windows and for windows, you are largely restricted to windows server? Really...

  5. Persuade me I need Windows Server on Steve Ballmer on MS Server, Linux, Yahoo & More · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because, frankly, Debian is making my life easy.

  6. Re:Drop Gnome on Ubuntu Brainstorm Launched · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah, but you killed it and so have to suffer my opinions instead...

  7. Drop Gnome on Ubuntu Brainstorm Launched · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Definitely, drop Evolution.

    Replace with XFCE and Claws. Or simply make Kubuntu the default, it's impressively snappy and sparing on memory in comparison.

    What on earth were they thinking making Evolution core to the Gnome desktop?

  8. Want to know how to kill a bank? on Bank Julius Baer Issues Statement On WikiLeaks · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Transfer all your money to them, then take it out as cash. Actual physical paper and metal.

    Because of the fractional reserve multiplier it has a currently 10 fold (in the USA, 30 fold in the UK and 50 fold in the EU) effect on their ability to generate further loans.

  9. I currently have on Critical VMware Vulnerability, Exploit Released · · Score: 1

    A load balanced network of highly available virtual servers running on my laptop...

    Does that make me a bad person?

  10. Re:Are there any MBAs at Microsoft? on Microsoft Internal Emails Show Dismay With Vista · · Score: 0, Troll

    Intro Managing IT Low 500 level class. First Day of class. They show us a chart. Showing the statics of the more money quoted for an IT Project the higher chance of it failing. Vista tried to hard to make the Ultimate OS of all times and ended up with one that looks fancy but people rather use the old version. Hey, it works for Gnome too.

  11. Amateurs... on Where's Our Terabit Ethernet? · · Score: 1

    Should have thought of that when you were buying your tape libraries...

  12. Why would I bother on Microsoft Trying To Appeal to the Unix Crowd? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When I can install VMware, and then run a full Linux system to get real work done.

  13. The manufacturers don't make the maps on Open US GPS Data? · · Score: 2, Informative

    They buy them.

    You can buy them too. Very expensive, and most of the US maps are completely shite anyway. If you were to create a good database of routes, streets etc, the PND and phone manufacturers would love you.

    The only really updatable maps I've come across are Google maps, and of course Nokia have Ovi on the way, where the whole point is to be able to sync routes/locations with your friends.

  14. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear on Preload Drastically Boosts Linux Performance · · Score: 1

    And then you go and run Gnome on it...

  15. Don't bother. Buy an ER650 instead on Linux At the Point of Sale · · Score: 1

    Purpose built for the job, it'll be cheaper than the combination of hardware required to give similar functionality, never mind the time spent integrating it.

  16. The banks chose their beds on Banks, Wall St. Feel Pinch from Computer Intrusion · · Score: 1

    Isn't this largely because you are basically running fundamentally insecure systems? Systems which simply cannot reasonably be operated without giving the end user the authority to install "Malware, trojans etc. are used to steal identities og businesses or persons."

    What do you want now? Sympathy or praise for choosing expediency over security?

    The problem is not and never has been the end user. We have know for decades that a significant proportion of end users are thieving sociopathic scum. We've had systems designed with this in mind for about the same amount of time. The problem is that nobody is being fired/prosecuted/sued for negligence.

  17. Re:Emacs bloat on RMS Steps Down As Emacs Maintainer · · Score: 1

    I like mg, which is a tiny, fast clone of emacs. Sorry... You lost me...

  18. Re:Stallman is still around? on RMS Steps Down As Emacs Maintainer · · Score: 1

    "We have 3 bids, all about the same price, but one of them is also giving us the source code." - gee, which one would YOU deal with? The largest best known one...
  19. Re:Stallman is still around? on RMS Steps Down As Emacs Maintainer · · Score: 1

    Hence the fact that I taper off from agreement when the discussion gets abstract: his philosophical basis leaves me unmoved. To be honest I think that a philosophical basis gives you a substructure to build the rest of your actions upon. Without it you are blown with the wind... Which is fine, but you're never going to change the world.
  20. A great leap forward in broadband usage on Increased US Broadband Adoption Could Create 2.4 Million Jobs · · Score: 1

    That's what's needed in America today.

  21. What can I say? on Growth of the Underground Cybercrime Economy · · Score: 1

    Javascripters building "enterprise" applications.

    You get what you pay for.

  22. The desktop is dead, Microsoft lost. on Mozilla Opens Thunderbird Email Subsidiary · · Score: 1

    The PC is the mainframe... The people worrying about MS Exchange are like mainframe developers predicting or worrying about some obscure business application. It's irrelevant. You're 3, 5 years behind the times already.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(mobile_phone_platform)
    http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8591201260.html
    http://www.symbian.com/phones/index.html

    This is the now, not the future, Microsoft have already lost, and they have admitted it. All their Windows mobile devices?

    http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/pocketpc/default.mspx?curPg=All

    Almost all, industrial applications.

  23. OkCupid on Hi, I Want To Meet (17.6% of) You! · · Score: 4, Interesting

    mathematical dating.

    http://www.okcupid.com/faaaq.html

  24. Re:Bank Patent #3 on Lawmakers Debate Patent Immunity For Banks · · Score: 1

    It's a huge leverage machine. There's nothing wrong with that in general Yeah... That's what a guy called Ponzi thought too.

    In the US, normal banks don't "create" money as much as they multiply it. And for the rest of us, the act of multiplication is simply the repeated act of addition... Credit is as much money as dollar bills are. Banks "create" and destroy money on massive scales.
  25. The people vs the banks on WikiLeaks Under Fire · · Score: 1

    "The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is The People vs. The Banks." - Lord Acton, Historian, 1834 - 1902