Slashdot Mirror


User: WallyL

WallyL's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
484
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 484

  1. Re:Stupidest thing I've ever heard of on Microsoft Sees the Future of Windows 10 as Sets, Ditching Windows For a Tabbed App Interface (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd take the Windows XP look and behavior over Windows 10 behavior.

  2. Re: IT'S A TRAP! on Microsoft Office Now Available On All Chromebooks (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I hate to say it, but they could try making a snap or flatpack or appimage... Now, that would appeal to the casual desktop GNU/Linux users.

  3. What should we do, since we fight with kid gloves but the rest of the world already doesn't like us?

  4. Re:GCSE? on Computer Science GCSE in Disarray After Tasks Leaked Online (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I initially read this as team sprint and thought, "I thought King Arthur was a myth, not a workplace warning!"

  5. No, that would be Klingon.

  6. Re:Why do you expect the world to coddle your chil on YouTube Says It Will Crack Down On Bizarre Videos Targeting Children (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure I'm mostly undamaged.

    Well, you're posting here, so...

  7. See subject. It's people like you that keep me coming back, for the giggles. Oh, and learning things on occasion.

  8. Re:I just read them all as, "blob" on Scientists Prove Emoticons Are Not Universally Understood (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    The first time I read through anything, my eyes gloss right over the collection of punctuation marks that make emoticons. I generally don't even notice their existence until a second or third reading. And then I ignore them.

    I chalk it up to learning proper and American English in school, where punctuation marks end sentences or separate clauses, items in a list, etc.

  9. Re:Article content on CIA Releases 321GB of Bin Laden's Digital Library (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a good thing for them the United States government is not part of the UK or EU.

    That being said, I don't think the subjects in home videos owned by bin Laden will ever want to take a case to court. It doesn't seem to be the style of the company he kept.

  10. Re:Perl Is Hated Because It's Difficult on Perl is the Most Hated Programming Language, Developers Say (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You're just people googling your way to a paycheck anyway.

    Parenthetically, what's wrong with googling your way to a paycheck?

    If you can find information, effectively apply it to a task, do it well enough to get someone to pay you for it, and inevitably learn along the way, what's wrong with that?

    Because if you can, somebody else can, for less than you.

  11. Re:Use a "free" service, get what you pay for. on Google Docs Is Randomly Flagging Files for Violating Its Terms of Service (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously you've never used Microsoft Word with an older format .doc file.

  12. That sounds like a great article heading: "Your human brain will HATE waiting forever for the computer to provide this answer..."

  13. This bugs the bug people! Bugs in your bugs while you debug your debugger. Bugs!

  14. Re:To Table something - US vs Brits on Comcast Tries To Derail Fort Collins Community Broadband (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    Your understanding is thorough, and because of it you are missing the point, that the slashdot summary is usually inconsistent with the content of the article.

  15. Re:As a KDE user. on Linux Mint Is Killing the KDE Edition (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I picked Cinnamon, on a Fedora spin titled Korora" and fell in love with it. I still haven't gotten around to trying Linux Mint, but I've been meaning to.

  16. Re:Just say no to Engare on The Geometry of Islamic Art Becomes a Treasure of a Game (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Whoa, you used the R* word! Tell me about your communist sympathies.

    Never go full red?

  17. Re:Funny how this always happens. on Google's Sentiment Analyzer Thinks Being Gay Is Bad (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    No, they're just using Tay as the input, and we all know about GIGO.

  18. Re: I hope they make a Buzz add-on on Google Launches Gmail Add-ons and Brings a Range of Business Tools To the Inbox (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Before you could count to five, it had already fizzled.

  19. Re:Same guy causing the problems in first place on Bitcoin Pioneer Says New Coin To Work on Many Blockchains (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Still a better love story than Twilight.

  20. Comment on TV News 'Hack' Sees Bitcoins Swiped (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So, the people on the show offered a small prize to whomever scanned the code first. Somebody did, and gained the prize. How is this news?

  21. News for nerds, stuff that matters. Slashdot is reporting on the slashdot effect!

  22. Re:I don't get it... on Hong Kong Has No Space Left for the Dead (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't care at all about what happens to my body after I die, and I'm a Christian (lit. "little Christ"). I believe in the resurrection of the saints when the Son of God returns, and what that means exactly about the dust my bones will have turned into/been paved into Oak St./spread across the ocean/sniffed by a druggie, I trust He can take care. I guess I'm not a typical Christian-- I mean, I "read" slashdot. How can I be a typical anything?

  23. Re:Get the AI to write comments on When an AI Tries Writing Slashdot Headlines (tumblr.com) · · Score: 1

    Obligatory xkcd.

  24. Re:Give up anonymity if it saves just one life on Why Are We Still Using Passwords? (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    Whoosh!

  25. Re:A place to avoid on Toronto To Be Home To Google Parent's Biggest Smart City Project Yet (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd hate to be a part of that smart city project when Google kills it, like Reader, Notes, Picasa, Google chat, and everything else they've shot in the head.