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  1. Re:Browsers aren't magic on Browser Wars Redux: This Time It's the Apps · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just install Chrome and don't worry about it.

  2. Re:Usefulness on Browser Wars Redux: This Time It's the Apps · · Score: 0

    Yeah, he cut out all of the Chinese pirates and mailroom-clerks of the world.

  3. Re:Cloud of Feathers on DARPA Loses Contact With Hypersonic Glider · · Score: 1

    As long as they were Canadian Geese I'm completely ok with that.

  4. Re:Better them than us on Browser Wars Redux: This Time It's the Apps · · Score: 1

    W3C? Faster?

  5. Re:Only Safari?? on Browser Wars Redux: This Time It's the Apps · · Score: 1

    Show me where I can download Firefox for my iPad.

  6. Re:General Purpose Device... on How Apple Is Beating Nintendo At Its Own Game · · Score: 1

    Well there is that, but PCs have a complexity that iPhones don't have. Living room video game consoles are successful probably because they offer operational simplicity compared to a PC.

  7. General Purpose Device... on How Apple Is Beating Nintendo At Its Own Game · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because iPhones & iPod Touches can do a lot more than just play games?

  8. Save the Planet! on CERN To Tap Unused Desktop Power To Help Find Higgs Boson · · Score: 1

    This will prevent PCs worldwide from sleeping, thus requiring new fossil-fuel power plants to be brought online, thus accelerating global warming, thus destroying the Earth.
    I hope it's worth it.

  9. Re:is it any useful? on Wireless Charging On the Droid Bionic? · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't that be considered a problem with the operating system?

  10. Re:Gotta love capitalism on North Korea Accused of Hacking Online Games For Profit · · Score: 2

    It's more interesting that this was done in South Korea, where government-sponsored high-speed data lines mean that the entire population has a better running connection than anyone but the uber-rich in the USA, and the USA pays for their national defense leaving the nation with nothing else to do but play games online all day.

    No kidding. It's not like those wussy South Koreans are conscripted into the Army for two years or anything like that. O wait...

  11. Re:Good, maybe. on Office 15 Development To Go JavaScript, HTML5 For Extensibility · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You probably didn't know that Tools > Macros >Visual Basic Editor is the world's most popular IDE.
    There are full blown Win32 applications that run out of Excel spreadsheets.
    Crazy, but true.

  12. Good, maybe. on Office 15 Development To Go JavaScript, HTML5 For Extensibility · · Score: 1

    Javascript itself would be an excellent "macro" language for Office, but I'm not so sure about the HTML5 part. I sure hope you don't have to use DOM to alter spreadsheets. That would suck.

  13. Re:Ahh yes... on World Wide Web Turns 20 Today · · Score: 1

    I don't remember thinking 300 baud was fast, but it worked. It was great for reading long textfiles as the characters appeared on the screen just about as fast as I could read them. Getting the 1200 baud modem, though, changed everything. Suddenly you could download software without tying up the phone line for half the day.

  14. Re:prediction on Saudi Arabia Constructing World's Tallest Building · · Score: 2

    The contract to construct the building was signed with The Bin Laden Group, a Saudi Arabian construction firm.

    hierophanta = _______ : fill in the blank...

  15. Re:Salty water seeping out of Mars in the summerti on NASA Announces Discovery of Salty Water On Mars ... Maybe · · Score: 3, Funny

    Mars doesn't sweat. It glows.

  16. An alien spacecraft on NASA Briefing on New Mars Finding This Afternoon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...mysteriously pinned to the bottom of a dust-filled crater.

  17. Re:A system and method for preventing virus infect on Microsoft To Pay $200k Prize For New Security Tech · · Score: 1

    So every time you click on a non-malware site, then.... what?

  18. $200,000 on Microsoft To Pay $200k Prize For New Security Tech · · Score: 1

    Awesome! That'll pay for 15 graduate students!

  19. Jobs & Ellison : Best Friends on Apple Removes MySQL From Lion Server · · Score: 1

    I don't think this is about Oracle. It's more likely security and licensing as some posters have mentioned above. Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison are big buddies and I doubt Apple is worried about lawsuits from Oracle over Oracle's free software product.

  20. Heat Sink on Limits On Growth of Energy Use and Economies · · Score: 1

    He's not taking into account what a really big CoolerMaster can do for that heat problem.

  21. Audit? on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With the Business Software Alliance? · · Score: -1

    Could you invite them to come do an audit of your software?

  22. Re:Obligatory xkcd on Unified NoSQL Query Language Launched · · Score: 1

    If you buy Belkin, you have only yourself to blame.

  23. Re:Google's war against Apple on No Set-Top TV Device Market Domination For Google · · Score: 1

    All you have to "do with it" is make the same stuff look a lot better, and that's what the iPhone 4 does. Back in 1985 when the 300 DPI Laserwriter was introduced were you bitterly attacking people for spending $7000 on a printer because, after all, it's all just letters and your $500 9-pin Epson did letters just fine?

  24. Re:Punishment for enjoying speed? on The End of the Gas Guzzler · · Score: 1

    Physics doesn't prove that global warming will kill millions.

  25. So... on New Type Of Artificial Lung Created · · Score: 1

    Does that mean it's ok to keep smoking now?