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  1. Re:A success? Some people disagree... on The State of Munich's Ongoing Linux Migration · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't your agreement mean that you are disagreeing?

  2. Re:A success? Some people disagree... on The State of Munich's Ongoing Linux Migration · · Score: 5, Informative

    RedHat had a 30% revenue increase. Last year. How many other IT companies were able to accomplish that (maybe except for Apple)? DUH.

  3. Re:The main Disadvantage of Linux on A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux 2nd ed. · · Score: 1

    The biggest disadvantage of Linux is, it's so good you feel unworthy of using it.

  4. Re:Ubuntu needs an icon on A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux 2nd ed. · · Score: 1

    No, that's the Windows logo you're describing.

  5. Re:Who? on Panasonic Begins To Lock Out 3d-Party Camera Batteries · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes and the pro and semi-pro market is totally Pwned by Panasonic, SONY and JVC (aka Nihon Victor). It's a totally different picture in the 'sumer market, though.

  6. Re:UnXis on Predicting SCO's Actions Post Bankruptcy · · Score: 2, Funny

    If they state that they're not Unix (hence the spelling) maybe GNU and the FSF can sue them for not being Unix?

  7. Re:Not everything is money on Apple's Obsession With Secrecy Grows Stronger · · Score: 1

    Not before the media crucify him.

  8. Re:Things about linux that still anger me. on Fedora 11 Is Now Available · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't work that easily, he'd have to enter his password. And you know that's the first thing users forget, having set up automatic logins and everything.

  9. Re:Answer on Why Isn't the US Government Funding Research? · · Score: 1

    Yees, but zat doesn't matter, ve still haf ze plans to the UFOs and all ze ozer toys from ze Nazis. Zat should last us for anozer 60 years, and final WORLD DOMINATION. MWUHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahohoho.

  10. Re:Unix is over the hill on Unix Turns 40 · · Score: 2

    Mach kernel, I intended to say, not Mac kernel. Damn typos.

  11. Re:Unix is over the hill on Unix Turns 40 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It doesn't suddenly want to comply with UNIX (actually it is a certified UNIX since 10.5), but OS X is just todays version of NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP which used to be BSD running on top of a Mac kernel. So that made it UN*X in the first place, since 1986. Forget about Mac OS (sans X), that's a dead horse in many ways. What we are looking at now is NeXTSTEP with a different marketing name, which was better than Mac OS to begin with because SJ had the chance to avoid the stupid mistakes done with Mac OS, when he created NeXT

  12. Re:Mac clone companies on Mac Clone Maker Psystar Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    I've never seen any worse piece of shit than the PowerComputing Macs in the company I worked for at the time. So if people really want to get shitty hardware and cases constructed in the most thinkably braindead way, why don't they also get an OS that suits that mindset and stay on Windows?

  13. Re:Reasons on Google Earth Raises Discrimination Issue In Japan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Even better: if your ancestors where white people from South Africa, are you an African American then? I'd say by definition, yes.

  14. Re:The cost of freedom on Google Earth Raises Discrimination Issue In Japan · · Score: 1

    I think it would make more sense to say "Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it"

  15. Re:Six day old and questionable on Ancient Fossil Offers Clues To Primate Evolution · · Score: 1

    Six days old? Why would anything that's 47 Million years old be called news?...

  16. Re:It's weird on Ancient Fossil Offers Clues To Primate Evolution · · Score: 1

    It's even more shocking that people who put science as the be all and end all of all wisdom of humanity fail to do the tiniest bit of proper research when it comes to religious beliefs. That actually make you fail by your own standards, I'm afraid.

    Christianity is not about arbitrary whims of a giant invisible daddy figure. Actually no religion really is. That is merely the version that is told to complete morons who will never ever understand anything that is not said in imperative form and will stand no chance of a more esoteric transcendent insight into life, being and gnosis (you know "pearls before swines etc.").

    If your only source of knowledge about Christianity is Monty Python's Holy Grail then I dare to say YOU, sir, are slightly biased.

  17. Re:A good thing? on Next-Gen Nuclear Power Plant Breaks Ground In China · · Score: 1

    Yes but all those human batteries have turned out to produce too much CO2

  18. Re:Miro on Why There's No iTunes For Movies · · Score: 1, Interesting

    It's more like an iTunes Store for Movies without the store and the movies. It's basically a souped up Firefox (XUL) customised to be used for audio and video podcasts. Your point? None. My point? None either, just wanted to mention that Miro brings nothing, nada, zilch to the table here.

  19. Re:Honeymoon is over on Microsoft Boasts 96% Netbook Penetration · · Score: 1

    No it's more likely to be because the Linux Acers come with a totally castrated and dumbed down version of Linpus Linux, rather than putting Ubuntu on it and be done with it. I'd return that Linpus beast, too if I didn't know I could just pull a proper Linux distro from the web and install it myself for beer- and freedomfree.

  20. Re:Windows on ARM on Microsoft Boasts 96% Netbook Penetration · · Score: 1

    Well if it can run OS X on an iPhone/iPod it should be pretty darn good enough.

  21. Re:Rehash... on Mac Tax, Dell Tax, HP Tax · · Score: 1

    So you say: 2.4GHz and 2.66GHz are equal, you also think that having a FSB speed of 800MHz is just as fast as 1066MHz. DDR2 RAM and DDR3 is all the same wtf, and the two DVD burners are also equal? Do you have a problem with numbers and the alphabet as well?

    Let's not even talk about the battery that right now gives you about the longest battery life thinkable (8h) for a computer of that size (17" LCDs usually suck so much power their battery usually lasts not as long as their 15"brethren).

    So is that some kind of really deep, deep, irony I'm not getting, or are you just completely talking out of your arse?

  22. Re:more then Americans on Shouldn't Every Developer Understand English? · · Score: 1

    No, no, no you've still got it all wrong: Americans actually do think that they speak English. Whereas they speak a dialect one should call "American", but there's another word for it: wrong English.

  23. Re:Neil deGrass Tyson said... on Shouldn't Every Developer Understand English? · · Score: 1

    Yes and even many important mathematic terms come from Arabic (like algorithm and algebra).

  24. Re:no need to make the point, its automatic on Shouldn't Every Developer Understand English? · · Score: 1

    Funny enough still the larger part of programmers in Japan are more or less incapable of communicating in English. They also tend to comment their code in Japanese.

  25. Re:Unilaterally speaking... on Shouldn't Every Developer Understand English? · · Score: 1

    As has been said above the number of Mandarin speakers dwarves the numbers of English speakers, even as a second language.