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  1. I have a theory... on 20 Years of MS Word and Why It Should Die a Swift Death · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why did this end up on the front page of /.?

    i believe /. is automated in such a fashion that if you submit a story that contains the text "MS Word" and "die", it skips the moderators and is automatically posted under the "ScuttleMonkey" account.

  2. No chance MS Word is gone ... on 20 Years of MS Word and Why It Should Die a Swift Death · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Maybe the traditional office will die out soon in favor of an online version such as Office Live, but in general MS Word is here to stay ... not going away anytime soon.

    For example, there was a small business daycare that I know of that had Open Office installed on their work computers. Keep in mind that OO is free ... no cost. Still, the owners hated it so much, they just weren't used to it and got frustrated enough that even in these tough economic times, they went out and forked over the cash for a copy of MS Word. Of course that's sad, but it happens every day with non-techies.

    MS Word dying is simply wishful thinking ... but it's not reality.

  3. could it be ... on British Start-Up Tests Flying Saucers · · Score: 2, Funny

    Aesir doesn't appear to have any paying customers yet -- and is reportedly bankrolled by a single investor

    CSG?

  4. more info on School System Considers Jamming Students' Phones · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    the school, the superindendent jim woodward, his phone number : 641-713-4681, his email jwoodward@st-ansgar.k12.ia.us, his office hours 7:45am to 4pm, and the next school board meeting is 08/10/2009 7:00 pm, the last meeting minutes discussing jamming of cell phones

    The board discussed jamming cell phones during school hours. IASB does not have a legal opinion on it. Kleinwort moved duly 2nd by Shupe to spend up to $5,000 to jam cell phones during school hours for the 2009-10 school year. Ayes-Hatten, Hertel, Gordon, Stelpflug, Shupe, and Kleinwort. Nays-None.

    plus how to get to the next meeting

  5. Re:hey guys, no more sysadmin bashing ... on 10th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day · · Score: 1

    Most developers get hot way to easy. ;)

    per the responses i'm getting on my post (which by the way was simply humor ... i love my sysadmins), i think the opposite may be true! :-P

  6. hey guys, no more sysadmin bashing ... on 10th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day · · Score: 0, Troll

    but seems to me that ...

    all developers could be sysadmins
    not all sysadmins could be developers

  7. Summary of the Article on 10th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sysadmins setup the web server to host www.sysadminday.com
    Sysadmins setup the networks that allow you to view www.sysadminday.com
    Sysadmins protect your networks to make sure you're really viewing www.sysadminday.com
    Sysadmins make backups of www.sysadminday.comin case it has issues.
    Sysadmins ensure there is no viruses on the www.sysadminday.com
    Sysadmins wakeup at 2am to reboot the servers and ensure www.sysadminday.com is up.
    Sysadmins would will gladly help you navigate to www.sysadminday.com
    Sysadmins really just want a friend, but if that's not possible they are satisfied with you going to www.sysadminday.com
    Sysadmins would also be very happy if you post a link to www.sysadminday.com on other sites

  8. Isn't an apology enough? on Student Suing Amazon For Book Deletions · · Score: 3, Interesting

    per the /. story i read 4 days ago

  9. For some reason I am reminded ... on Emacs Hits Version 23 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    of a recent /. article entitled the amazing world of software version numbers

  10. I'd use ... on Stopping Spam Before It Hits the Mail Server · · Score: 1

    a baseball glove.

    But I'd first have to question why somebody is throwing spam at my mail server in the first place?

  11. synchrotron on Transparent Aluminum Is "New State of Matter" · · Score: 1

    The discovery was made possible with the development of a new source of radiation that is ten billion times brighter than any synchrotron in the world

    A synchrotron is a particular type of cyclic particle accelerator in which the magnetic field (to turn the particles so they circulate) and the electric field (to accelerate the particles) are carefully synchronized with the travelling particle beam.

  12. the announcement on Google Open Sources Wave Protocol Implementation · · Score: 3, Informative

    here from 4 days ago

  13. A more general statement ... on 92% of Windows PCs Vulnerable To Zero-Day Attacks On Flash · · Score: 1

    9 out of every 10 Windows users are vulnerable to the XXXXXX vulnerability.

  14. 2.5 inches? Are you sure? on Western Digital Announces 1TB Mobile HD · · Score: 1

    I look at the My Passport Essential SE specs and see length of 3.1 inches. I look at the WD Scorpio Blue and see 2.75 inches. Nowhere on their site do I see 2.5 inches. Unless they're doing some horrible rounding.

  15. No Customers on Patent Trolls Target Small East Texas Companies · · Score: 1

    Nate Neel, a Longview, Texas resident with a small open source software company called CitiWare, was sued by Bedrock Computer Technologies in June despite (he claims) having no customers or other meaningful operations of any kind.

    It's no wonder he has no customers! Just look at that god-awful poorly designed website that wouldn't even get a passing grade in an HTML 101 course! the colors, the font ... makes me wanna puke

  16. HI, FU! on Using Sound Waves For Outpatient Neurosurgery · · Score: 1

    High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is different from the ultrasound used for diagnostic purposes, such as prenatal screening. Using a specialized device, high-intensity ultrasound beams are focused onto a small piece of diseased tissue, heating it up and destroying it.

    this sounds like it could be a good video game!

  17. dictionary on New Binary Diffing Algorithm Announced By Google · · Score: 2, Informative

    courgette (kr-zht)

    n. Chiefly British

    A zucchini.

  18. really late to the party on Huge Unidentified Organic Blob Floating Around Alaska · · Score: 1

    you think you're late to the party? Marc Sanford is still trying to get a plane ride out of South America!

  19. gore power on Huge Unidentified Organic Blob Floating Around Alaska · · Score: 0, Troll

    ... and al gore will try to capitalize by connecting it to global warming, second flooding of the oceans, the sinking of our coastal cities, and the extinction of man-kind ... unless of course we all buy a prius

  20. forgive me on Firefox 3.5's First Vulnerability "Self-Inflicted" · · Score: 1

    but isn't every application vulnerability self-inflicted? unless perhaps somebody hacked in and wrote the code for you!

  21. gesture recognition on Bill Gates Puts Classic Feynman Lectures Online · · Score: 3, Funny

    Microsoft doesn't just want to bring gesture recognition to the Xbox with Project Natal. It also wants the technology in Windows, according to a very good source--Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates.

    Here's what I want ... if I flick off my windows pc, it will automatically hit ctrl-alt-delete. That would allow me to release stress, and save me a few keyboard clicks.

  22. scale & quality on Microsoft Readies a Rival To Spotify · · Score: 1

    In what is becoming an increasingly competitive marketplace, Mr Bale thinks Microsoft can bring "scale and a quality of product" to the music streaming scene.

    is this the same microsoft i know?

  23. Don't Delay, Just Rename on Faulty Marvell Chips Delay SATA 6G Launch · · Score: 4, Funny

    >> The only information we have gotten from anyone revolves around some hardware AND software issues that are preventing the SATA 6G speeds from actually reaching 6.0 Gb/s

    Instead of delaying the launch, they could just rename the chip. SATA 5.5G for example.

  24. Re:Comparison shop on 6 Reasons To License Software Under the (A/L)GPL · · Score: 1
  25. why didn't they provide the bailout? on AMD To Spin Off Fabrication From Design Work · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In addition, the company said two Abu Dhabi investment firms would inject at least $6 billion into the two firms, mostly to finance a new chip factory that A.M.D. planned to build near Albany, N.Y., and to upgrade one of the company's existing plants in Dresden, Germany.

    Why didn't they step in and help with our financial bailout? Every little bit helps. Funny how the tables turn and now we're the country needing financial aide.