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  1. Re:How often can i be rolled? on LG Introduces Rollable OLED TV (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If it can be rolled without breaking for 1000 times, it will last only little more than two years, maybe three when you can limit it to one view per day. I want to use devices for at least 10 years.

    LG is claiming 50,000: https://www.engadget.com/2019/...

  2. autoexec.bat on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Doom Story? · · Score: 2

    Back in high school, a classmate had set his computer to boot directly into Doom.

  3. Eight-Core Processor Says Qualcomm is dumb dumb... on Qualcomm Says Eight-Core Processors Are Dumb · · Score: 1

    dumb
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  4. Onion Becomes Real on Romney Campaign Accidentally Launches Transition Web Site · · Score: 1

    This sounds like an Onion-perpetrated prank to continue their "Romney not giving up just because he lost the election" schtick.

  5. Why not use finger now for living people? on Telehack Re-Creates the Internet of 25 Years Ago · · Score: 1

    $ finger slashdot@twitter@any.io

  6. At least it wasn't a first cavity search on Baby's First TSA Patdown · · Score: 1
  7. Not just the users, but the government on Ballmer Says 90% of Chinese Users Pirate Software · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I visited MS campus about 15 years ago and at the time they were fond of claiming that the Chinese government was actively pirating MS software for distribution and resale. They even went so far as to say that they owned the equipment necessary to duplicate their holographic license stickers to produce physical pirated copies for resale outside the country.

  8. Re:Correction. on The Finns Who Invented the Graphical Browser · · Score: 1

    Indeed.

    Maybe they'd have the record for the second one, though.

  9. They should get Brita to sponsor next Mars trip on Lots of Pure Water Ice At Mars North Pole · · Score: 1

    Surely they could do better than just 95% pure!

  10. Listen Jerry. on Jerry Seinfeld Will Plug Vista · · Score: 1

    Listen Jerry. Bania's voice is the voice of a new generation. My generation.

    Look, I live Seinfeld's standup and the series, but he's not exactly cutting edge anymore and not a great way to combat the Get a Mac ads.

  11. When all you have is a hammer... on Same Dev Tools/Language/Framework For Everyone? · · Score: 1

    ...you're going to have a lot of things forced into place.

  12. Re:Airborne Laser Cannon on How The Latest in High Tech Works · · Score: 1

    I have to agree, especially after we caught you naked with that bowl of Jell-O.

  13. Re:Great! on Analog Cell Phone Network Shuts Down Monday · · Score: 1

    Yes, indeed they have. I purposely chose my previous phone because it (a) was on VZW, (b) had Bluetooth, (c) had analog in addition to digital. The V710 was made in the 2004-2005 range.

  14. Re:My Suggested Meta Tag on Microsoft Confirms IE8 Has 3 Render Modes · · Score: 1

    Indeed. Oops.

  15. My Suggested Meta Tag on Microsoft Confirms IE8 Has 3 Render Modes · · Score: 5, Funny

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  16. TS1000 is the worst! on The 10 Worst PC Keyboards of All Time · · Score: 1

    I really can't believe the TS1000 didn't win, hands down. The article does a good job of describing the pain involved in typing on this thing - membrane, flat, nearly no throw or feedback, and tiny. And programming on it was just awful. While the article mentions that when programming in basic you use a wacky series of modifiers and single keys to put in a basic instruction, but what it doesn't point out is that wasn't just a shortcut - you *have* to do it that way. You can't just type in "print", you *have* to use ctl-alt-shift-p or whatever the combination was. Effectively, the BASIC interpreter didn't have to tokenize, because it made the programmer do it.

    Incidentally, I still have the TS1000, as well as another on the list, the MC-10. They keyboard on the MC-10 is MUCH better and, as I recall[0], the BASIC shortcuts were indeed shortcuts rather than tokens.

    [0]: It has probably been 15 years since I used either of these machines, so hopefully I'm not mixing up which one made you use the shortcuts and which one didn't.

  17. Dogs and cats, living together... on IE 8 Passes Acid2 Test · · Score: 1

    ...mass hysteria!

  18. Re:obligatorily on Paying People to Argue With You · · Score: 1

    If websites are the "rooms" in that skit, Slashdot comments are obviously the "abuse" room.

  19. Re:I prefer IMAP on New Version of Gmail Being Tested · · Score: 1

    IMAP supports server-side search, so it could be plenty fast (since Google/GMail would actually be doing the search). What I don't know, though, is whether any IMAP clients actually support that or if they all just sync up all the emails and search locally.

  20. 49GB! on Firefox Working to Fix Memory Leaks · · Score: 1

    Yes, I sure hope that I won't have to deal with massive memory usage anymore: http://moore.cx/images/firefox.png

  21. Re:I don't think you need NASA to say that on Mars Rovers Return to Exploration · · Score: 1

    Where is my cane?

    Get off my lawn, you damn kids!

  22. Re:Lightman! on Female Sharks Can Reproduce Alone · · Score: 1

    Alright, what moron moderated this as -1 redundant? My comment is #19238413 (11:57AM), and the first other one is #19238705 (12:09PM) which would make *that* one redundant, not mine.

    And I was going to make whoever it was King of the Winter Carnival...

  23. Lightman! on Female Sharks Can Reproduce Alone · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Who first suggested the idea of female sharks reproducing without sex?

  24. Guide gone, but MS isn't out of the TV business on Comcast Drops Microsoft · · Score: 1

    As TFA notes, MS certainly isn't getting out of the TV and STB business, only the relatively trivial software that just shows you guides and changes the channel for you. Their software is being used by a disturbingly high number of IPTV installations, so the chances that MS software will be ruining your (wired) TV experience is only going up.

  25. Lightman! on Organism Survives 100 Million Years Without Sex · · Score: 1

    Who first suggested the idea of an organism living for 100 million years without sex?