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  1. Re:Interesting, very interesting +1 on First Impressions of Windows 8 Powered Nokia Lumia 920 and 820 · · Score: 1

    It's interesting that Google can't find another instance of anyone ever writing out that command before.


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    How to Use Zune with Ubuntu | eHow.comwww.ehow.com ComputersCached
    You cannot install the Zune program out of the box, however, though your Ubuntu ... sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa ... sudo apt-get install wine1.3 ...

  2. Re:Interesting, very interesting +1 on First Impressions of Windows 8 Powered Nokia Lumia 920 and 820 · · Score: 5, Informative

    You have to have a Windows machine.

    Listen, I like the Nokia phones, and that's what I was going to buy. I brought my Ubuntu laptop into the store to check it out, see if it was compatible, but it isn't. You absolutely must have a Windows install, and a virtual machine won't cut it. (This was the quite-new 610, but looking around online shows that the 700 and 900 have the same issue.)

    It uses the Zune file system, and nobody but MS has been able to figure out how to mount it. You can't transfer files with Bluetooth. You can't put music on it. You can't sync to anything. It's a completely stand-alone device unless you're running Windows.

  3. Re:And in the future... on UK Paraplegic Woman First To Take Robotic Suit Home · · Score: 1

    Sure, if you sit down at the stationary bike and ride it for 30 minutes, it's kind of boring.

    If you get into a spin / freewheeling class, the right instructor can make it a lot more fun and it's a better experience in a group.

    Sure, you're still riding a stationary bike, but it's not the same as going for a bike ride. Same muscle groups, but you're at a hilariously high pace. It has made my daily bike ride quite a bit easier.

  4. Re:45,000 Pounds? on UK Paraplegic Woman First To Take Robotic Suit Home · · Score: 1

    Battery pack.

  5. Re:And in the future... on UK Paraplegic Woman First To Take Robotic Suit Home · · Score: 1

    I taught a spin class at lunch today, so I'm getting a YOU CAN DO IT! PUSH YOUR LIMITS! out of your replies.

  6. Re:Stiffness an issue? on Wood Pulp Extract Stronger Than Carbon Fiber Or Kevlar · · Score: 2

    Nope, Adam West.

  7. Re:Stiffness an issue? on Wood Pulp Extract Stronger Than Carbon Fiber Or Kevlar · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm always thinking of Batman's suit.

  8. Re:sure I'll pay creative works on BitTorrent Tries To Appease Users By Making Torrent Ads Optional · · Score: 1

    Hire some fucking writers and a scientist / engineer. Less sparkle, more substance.

  9. Re:free = you are the product being sold on BitTorrent Tries To Appease Users By Making Torrent Ads Optional · · Score: 1

    So, what did I give up when I downloaded linux for free? what did I give up when I got a free sandwich?

    You've spent hours configuring and tweaking and getting drivers to work properly, when in all reality your dumb-ass Windows shovelware computer would have been enough to post on /.

    Sent from my Ubuntu netbook on "free" public wifi.

  10. Re:Canada's service options are terrible for trave on Ask Slashdot: A Cheap US Cellphone Plan With an Unlocked Phone? · · Score: 1

    The best deal I can find in Canada is Koodo, and even they suck.

    It's $20 a month for 50 minutes / 50 outgoing texts, and I owe them the balance on the phone price when I leave them.

    I I lived in a different city, I could get Wind for unlimited text / talk / data for $29.

  11. Re:Sad on Sci-fi Author Harry Harrison Dies at 87 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I agree, that's pretty close to winning the Internet.

  12. Re:well.. on Detecting Depression From How (Not What) You Browse · · Score: 1

    Hell no, if I'm making a FP I want to put my name on it.

    I've had ONE since I signed up in 2001.

  13. Re:Great for rentals with caveats on Google To Start Punishing Pirate Sites In Search Results · · Score: 0, Troll

    FUCK APPLE

    Seriously, I'm not giving them a fucking dime for any reason, not now, not ever. I've got a Walkman, an Ubuntu netbook, and my smartphone will be a Nokia (if I do actually get one)

    Saying "iTunes has it" is like not having it at all.

    FUCK APPLE

  14. Re:Real reason on Poll Finds Americans Think the TSA Is 'Doing a Good Job' · · Score: 1

    I'm 35 years old, recently separated, and I can't think of any time in my life that anyone has _asked_ to see me naked.

    I'm looking forward to my flight next week.

  15. Re:Sounds familiar on Vaporizing the Earth In the Name of Science · · Score: 1

    Apparently those were Oppenheimer's actual first words after the atomic bomb tests.

  16. Re:Fox hunt? on 'Wi-Fi Police' Stalk Olympic Games · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's not the size of the boat, nor the motion of the ocean, but whether the captain stays in port long enough for all the passengers to disembark.

  17. Re:Short translation on 'Wi-Fi Police' Stalk Olympic Games · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "We want more money."

    Actually, a good portion of human activity can be explained by that simple phrase. In this case, it's about enforcing rules guaranteeing BT certain amounts of money.

    BT paid to be the sole wifi provider of the Olympic games and at Olympic Venues, if the Venues are private property they have done nothing wrong.

    THEY ARE NOT PRIVATE PROPERTY! The games are paid for with public coffers.

    All that infrastructure wasn't paid for by BT or McD or Coke or the IOC, it was all the local municipalities or provinces or federal government. It took Montreal 30 years to pay off their Olympic debt, British Columbia is four billion in the hole after 2010, and the same will happen to London in two weeks.

  18. Re:Fox hunt? on 'Wi-Fi Police' Stalk Olympic Games · · Score: 1

    As funny as the idea is, those of us who actually suffer with penile gigantism know it's no fun. As one point of interest, for example, vaginal, anal, and oral sex are all out of the question.

    That's why I'm happy with mine. 15cm goes anywhere.

  19. Re:But...but... on Images Show Apollo Moon Flags Still Standing · · Score: 4, Funny

    The government was behind the moon landings!

    No, seriously, the landings were faked, but they were filmed on the moon. We've had a base up there since 1958. "We can't film the dark side... for some reason."

    It's a contrail factory.

  20. Re:Time for a new king of the Hill. on Google Wants You to Use Your Real Name on YouTube · · Score: 1

    Duck duck go.

  21. Re:what I heard on Movie Review: The Dark Knight Rises · · Score: 0

    This is the Internet. It's never too soon.

    Fuck man, we were making 9/11 jokes by lunchtime.

  22. Re:0xB16B00B5 on Microsoft Apologizes For Inserting Naughty Phrase Into Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but not like in Scott Pilgrim.

    It's just a flaw, Picky Eater. Taking it once puts you on a vegetarian diet, twice puts you on a vegan diet. So you can pick up two feats pretty easily if you're willing to put up with some logistics problems when you go out to dinner.

  23. Re:Willing to bet.. on 12 Dead, 50 Injured at The Dark Knight Rises Showing In Colorado · · Score: 1

    First: you may run. I may not. Bravery is sometimes described as not the absence of fear, it is the control of it.

    I disagree. "He who turns and runs away, lives to run another day."

  24. Re:0xB16B00B5 on Microsoft Apologizes For Inserting Naughty Phrase Into Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    Yes, I eat vegan and 0xDEADBEEF is my favorite constant,

  25. Re:Dungeons and Dragons, really? on Slashdot's Rob Rozeboom Interviews D&D Designer Mike Mearls (video) · · Score: 1

    I'd impose a -4 penalty due to it being improvised, but allow the attack (with AoO, if applicable) with the sword's damage + STR bonus if it hits.

    There's a "Throw Anything" feat if they wanted to be able to throw anything.