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  1. Re:Well Huawei need a better consumer brand name on Chinese Smartphone Invasion Begins · · Score: 1

    Rename Huawei to Chuck Norris - then it will really kick ass!

  2. Re:Astroturfing on Symbian Sells Millions, Despite Nokia Pushing Windows Phone · · Score: 1

    Stuffed peppers are a lot tastier, and more fun!

  3. Re:Good bye on Symbian Sells Millions, Despite Nokia Pushing Windows Phone · · Score: 0
    I have tablet that is at least 5 years old and runs some evil form of Windows, and it is definitely not good enough. There were older ones, and they were definitely worse.

    Consider your wish granded, and appoint me your firey godmother!

  4. Re:First posting? on Samba: Less Important Because Windows Is Less Important · · Score: 1
    That is not even slightly likely.

    "Servers" meant Unix machines for about 10 years before Windows had networking capability. Oracle reached version 5 on Unix before it was ported to DOS (Oracle 5 for DOS never really worked anyway).

  5. Re:I dunno... on Ask Slashdot: Are Timed Coding Tests Valuable? · · Score: 4, Funny
    elegant, easy to read, and maintainable

    You mean rewrite it in another language?

  6. Re:These CEOs need to learn about Agile... on Change the ThinkPad and It Will Die · · Score: 1
    The problem with 3D printing is the same as with any low volume production process: each part costs 1,000 times as much.

    Much as I love my T series laptops (I have 4), I would not pay $1,500,000 each for them.

    Nor will I replace them with a W series. Several members of my family have W series, and they are not the same class of machine.

  7. Re:Microsoft is finished on Microsoft R&D Burgled: Only Apple Products Stolen · · Score: 1
    3 billion in debt since inception

    Yes, but they are very small billions!

  8. Re:Vigil on What Are the Unwritten Rules of Deleting Code? · · Score: 2
    What mechanism prevents those assertions from being wrong?

    Drinking sufficeint alcohol before pressing [Enter] is the standard mechanism. (It has been known to fail, but the results are not normally painful at the time).

  9. Re:Your VCS should manage this on What Are the Unwritten Rules of Deleting Code? · · Score: 2
    I have news for you: some code is not actually written in c.

    Also some code's functionality is sufficiently complex that it is unclear what the functionality is. (eg depends on the external world in a complex manner).

    Some code works correctly despite/because of compiler/processor bugs, and changing the code in a manner that should not affect its behaviour, actually does, for undocumented, and possibly previously unknown, reasons.

    PS not everyone writes code for Windows.

  10. Re:The more..... on What Are the Unwritten Rules of Deleting Code? · · Score: 1

    I have not tried that, and it didn't work when I did try it!

  11. Appointment on USPTO Asks For Input On Software Patents · · Score: 1

    I cant attend, but I'd like to appoint Pamela Jones and RMS to represent me.

  12. Re:This is a rare breed of human. on Anti-GMO Activist Recants · · Score: 1

    No one complains about smoke more than someone who has just given up smoking! Dont mention abstinance.

  13. Re:Once the phone has a OS that on Who Would Actually Build an Ubuntu Smartphone? · · Score: 1

    Stability? So you are asking for an OpenBSD phone?

  14. Re:Why would anyone want this phone? on Who Would Actually Build an Ubuntu Smartphone? · · Score: 1

    We dont - we want LibreOffice on Android, but that is the closest we will get!

  15. Re:The real question is on Who Would Actually Build an Ubuntu Smartphone? · · Score: 1
    theres no 'must use root' cases within Ubuntu.

    well, maybe not must but its none too easy to get NFS to work with OpenBSD just using sudo!

    The real problem is getting netowrk printers to work at all since Unity was relased. Sometimed it can be done, sometimes it caint! No rhyme, no reason, Just caint! - Yes I did file a bug report. After a year I got back an email saying "since this but has not been fixed in over a year, we will mark it closed"! MS is not the only evil in town! Be afraid (and keep those godammed flies out of my disk drive, I said FILES not flies!)

  16. Re:The real question is on Who Would Actually Build an Ubuntu Smartphone? · · Score: 2

    I dont know what "he" is saying, but I say that, as it WAS, I could install Ubuntu on older machines that were brought to me with death by virus syndrome, and know the user would go away happy and not bother me for a year or so. NOW I have to install, and spend half an hour installing gnome-shell and synaptic and a bunch of other stuff, and its still p*ss awful because the half-finished tools for adjusting things like printers keep leading you into dead-ends from where their is no escape. If i wanted that, I would play collossal cave.

  17. Re:Car copycats on The Copyright Battle Over Custom-Built Batmobiles · · Score: 1

    That was only because the Chinese version was more reliable!

  18. Re:Nothing to celebrate if it's true on Microsoft Says Google Trying To Undermine Windows Phone · · Score: 1

    The same could be said of MS Word format documentation! This is just an example of the school bully losing a fight with someone who was in a position to fight back, and then crying like a baby.

  19. Re:Fair for the goose... on Microsoft Says Google Trying To Undermine Windows Phone · · Score: 2
    You mean do what they have refused to do to everyone else?

    I think it is time to administer their medicine: a red hot poker up the posterior!

  20. Re:Fair for the goose... on Microsoft Says Google Trying To Undermine Windows Phone · · Score: 1
    you can always support both.

    Nope: Only Captain Sensible can do that!

  21. Re:Fair for the goose... on Microsoft Says Google Trying To Undermine Windows Phone · · Score: 2

    It is still the most widely used (though maybe only outside the USA).

  22. Re:FAT??? on Microsoft Says Google Trying To Undermine Windows Phone · · Score: 0

    Mod parent +infinity, and shoot the b*stard that removed RS232 from laptops so they wont connect to stuff in the engineering lab.

  23. Re:Honestly? on Antivirus Software Performs Poorly Against New Threats · · Score: 1

    I recall recent research at a University near me showed "Alcohol makes students drunk". You can find out anything if you try hard enough!

  24. Re:It's a matter of time, stupid! on Antivirus Software Performs Poorly Against New Threats · · Score: 1
    I'm not sure what "comprehensive solution" is being called for.

    1) Use OpenBSD
    2) Launch Rocket Propelled Grenades
    3) ???
    4) Prophet!

  25. Please Mr Balmer... on Windows 8 Even Less Popular Than Vista · · Score: 1

    Can we have our Gnome-shell back?