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  1. Pure propaganda, or whatever... on Airbus A380 Under Fire · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Let's just hope at least slashdot does keep its hands out of the propaganda war already started between Boeing (US) and Airbus Industries (EU). It's a dirty economical struggle, its about jobs and profits in the US, or jobs and profits in Europe. And because of that, plus the military aspects of aircraft research and development, both companies are, and will always be heavily funded by the respective governments.
    Keep that in mind before making mindless posts about A. vs. B. . Thanks for your time.

  2. Re:Publicity on Adult Site Sues Google, Google Compared To MS Again · · Score: 1

    But you wish you had.

  3. Re:Didn't follow Firefox? on IE7 Bugs and Reviews · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yes, and what's worse: MS' anti-phishing technique involves sending each link you click to Microsoft for verification against a blacklist. Scary, if you ask me.
    'We advise you not to click on that link to cracks.am, which is a well known phishing site.' Oops, or is it?

  4. Completely wrong... on Russia's Biggest Spammer Brutally Murdered · · Score: 1

    It should rather be:
    In Soviet Russia, SPAM deletes YOU!

    Hopefully the only In Soviet Russia... post I'll ever do.

  5. While we're at it... on .tel Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    So, when will the slashdot crowd be heard and .teh be made available?

  6. Re:A revolution too late I'd say on Nintendo Revolution Details Emerge · · Score: 1

    Doing DS multiplayer parties would be mad, indeed, but maybe not in the sense you seem to presume.

  7. Re:first? on Hitchhiker's Guide Reviewed · · Score: 1

    yes, congratulations!

  8. LIVING HELL!! on Xbox 2 To Be Unveiled on MTV May 12 · · Score: 1

    Like what? Everyone reading a book, or something?

  9. Re:Mice on Why Apple Makes a One-Button Mouse · · Score: 1

    Well, then maybe his thinkpad's second trackpad button was defunct...

  10. Re:He has plenty of other interests too! on One Last Campout for Star Wars Fans · · Score: 1

    And I can't believe anyone to be so stupid as to do this for _any_ movie. Is there no internet access where these folks are living, don't these cinemas accept reservations?
    Is wild camping in front of cinemas even allowed anywhere? Just kidding, but I say, let's confront these depraved young people with reality, let 'em have some of what a zero tolerance policy tastes like.

    But spare me with their blog entries afterwards.

  11. Re:But also don't forget... on Microsoft Developing Linux Policy, Plan of Attack · · Score: 1

    In German you say the same ('Geld stinkt nicht.'), yet it doesn't mean [b]you must find it[/b] at all, rather, it doesn't matter where you got it from once you got it...

  12. Re:Two words... on Tablet PCs Enter Reality · · Score: 1

    Please drop the quotes. I'm actually doing a lot of my reading on the throne.
    Then there is the thing about the best ideas coming to mind right there, so it doesn't hurt to have a PC with you.

    Provided the ventilation works, that is.

  13. Re:We are not impressed on Tablet PCs Enter Reality · · Score: 1
    Oh, and the fact that "chicks dig tablets!" for some reason.


    Confirmed.
  14. Well, we are on Tablet PCs Enter Reality · · Score: 1

    You don't seem to get it. No need to 'type' (be it virtual or whatever) on a tablet pc, if you exclude passwords, email adresses and URLs (and I guess coding, read: everything that leans toward the cryptic. Recognition works word wise, not letter by letter), because the handwriting recognition is well enough already.

    My tablet runs everything I need it to, and is simply the best choice for learning Japanese I ever found: you come across unknown kanji in some text, e.g. a newspaper, you input them by pen and immediately get the reading without spending 10 minutes looking it up in a paperbased or electronic dictionary. And after that I just copy that word into my vocab drill application so that I won't forget it the very next minute.

    Yet the device is handy enough to rest in my lap while trying to read said newspaper or literature. That's why tablets would be every students wet dream, were it not for the small instabilities that plague them, as in my case: using digital ink might crash Word or One Note, hibernating doesn't work properly and the graphics/digitizer driver will cause a total freeze every now and then... Actually, that driver issue is what's responsible for all the trouble, so that might only be temporary.

    Do I need to mention that running Trek games or the good ole ST Encyclopedia on a slate tablet is one of the ultimate geek experiences available right now?

  15. Re:Much cooler tag lines on Ten-disc 'Matrix' DVD Box Set Planned · · Score: 1

    My fav line from Reloaded was 'We're all here to do what we're all here to do.'. Unbeatable.

  16. Tablet PCs on Best PDA To Read e-Texts On? · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've been reading 'Shogun' on my Jornada cover to cover (if you can say that in this case), and it was okay, while not perfect. The perfect reading devices these days nevertheless are of course tablet PCs, although the slashdot crowd does not seem to subscribe to that. If you get a slate like the Fujitsu Stylistic or a Motion, then they are portable and lightweight enough, they got real screens from 10 inches onward, do in fact run all the reading apps you might ever need, sport reasonably sized hard discs and will, if you so desire, run linux with only minimal discomfort. Original poster of article didn't name price limits, but if that's a problem, try to get a good deal on a refurb or via eBay, obviously. Worked for me, works great, I hardly ever need to leave my machine alone now, reclining chair, terace, uni, bed (yes indeed), bathtub. Better strike out the bathtub, though...

  17. Re:No longer for sale. on Build Your Own Imperial Star Destroyer · · Score: 1

    Sure, he sold it to ten people off ebay, and all of them came around to pick it up and hand over the money. Notice something?

  18. Re:No longer for sale. on Build Your Own Imperial Star Destroyer · · Score: 1

    Not exactly for free, especially not supersized pictures, but worth the price obviously and a nice idea none the less.

  19. Re:It's hopeless... on WiX Project Lead Interviewed On CPL Licensing · · Score: 1

    I wonder what Honda would have to say about that...

  20. Re:Thanks, Microsoft! on MS Hotmail Offline For Hours · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Not that funny anyway. Looks like you were trying hard, though...

  21. What the heck? on Lord Of The Rings - Oscars, We Loves Them · · Score: 1, Insightful

    From scrolling down the page I get the impression that I might be rather alone and lost concerning my view that this was one of the worst movies I ever saw...
    [keeps silently hitting his head on the desk]

  22. Re:Aww mod parent up on Weird Presents Anyone? · · Score: 1

    > Great, now you can moderate me -1 Redundant.

    No, he can't.

  23. Re:I got on Weird Presents Anyone? · · Score: 1

    While I was your age, I might have thought like that, too.

  24. Re:How to make Windows Better... on Microsoft Sends Linux Survey · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For starters: how about issueing online surveys that don't demand cookies to be accepted?

  25. Re:About the ending--**SPOILER** on 'Matrix Revolutions' Opens Today · · Score: 1

    But it's been explained - Smith's program was affected by Neo's hack (read: entering him and 'turning on the light'; file under: religious acts, folder _enlightenment_) at the end of M1. 'You did sth to me then, Mr. Anderson, I can't understand _what_, but ...' That would make Smith Neo's antithesis. I have yet to go see the movie to learn where (or if) the synthesis fails.