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  1. I'd like to thank you on Microsoft Axes 'Get The Facts' · · Score: 2, Insightful
    2010:

    I'd like to thank Mr. Microsoft for his contribution by sending bug-reports and wishlist items for linux in the form of a comparison back in 2007. Without your help we would not have surpassed the geek-approach of software.
  2. Re:Marketing Translation on AMD Multi-Core G3MX DRAM Interface Details Emerge · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow! For a moment I doubted my own intelligence there, trying to get anything specific out of the press release. Then I realized I had read similar sentences on the 'Dilbert Mission Statement Generator'.

    http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/games/career /bin/ms.cgi

  3. Re:I love old news... on Linus Torvalds Speaks Out on Future of Linux · · Score: 1

    I only read Slashdot and I hate that you broke my bubble of thinking this was written today.

    Keep the spoilers for yourself, will ya?

  4. Re:Debian would satisfy him today on Linus Torvalds Speaks Out on Future of Linux · · Score: 1

    I completely agree with what you are saying, but I do not like the tone at which you just said it.

    If Linus likes redhat; why would he need to give some distro a second chance.

    Anyway, sometimes I try KDE because if Linus likes it, I want to like it. I often get the feeling that I did not give KDE a fair chance. But I must face it; KDE is not my thing.

    Guess it is the same with Debian; I love it.

  5. Re:Oblig... on MIT Startup Unveils New 64-Core CPU · · Score: 1

    Indeed; for personal computers there is hardly ever need for more than, say, two cores.

    For the average slashdotter though; if you have 512 cores, your fingers begin to tickle and you get excited and you will find a way to use them all.

  6. Conclusion? on Thoughts on the Social Graph · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I always skip to the conclusion before I optionally read the whole article.

    quote:

    Conclusion:

    I'm excited about this. Start thinking about how you can take advantage of stuff like this. It's going to be cool.


    How 's that for a conclusion?
  7. Re:All you need to know on the subject is: on Thoughts on the Social Graph · · Score: 1

    Here in Holland, hyves.nl is much bigger than the two you named. And before it got big cu2.nl was ruling. I suppose many other countries have similar sites.

    I, for myself, would like to have the possibility to merge my social webs.

  8. Right. on Does Going Digital Mean Missing Music? · · Score: 1

    So lossless audio codecs are less value for your money than the original even if you can put twice the amount of information on a gigabyte?

    Oh, and with compression you have something like 99,7% of the valuable information in 10% of the data.

    Less is more, more or less.

  9. Re:OOOOhhh on The Linux Networking Stack Exposed · · Score: 1

    How does she handle brute force attacks?

  10. Re:Mom, Pop and Girlfriend Effect on Only 25% of Firefox Downloaders Are 'Active Users' · · Score: 1

    Remove the E.
    Place the Fox.
    Change icon of the fox to the E.

    Proven effective here.

  11. In other news on Only 25% of Firefox Downloaders Are 'Active Users' · · Score: 2, Funny

    Only 5% of Internet Explorer users intentionally use Internet Explorer over alternatives.

  12. Re:Probably overblown on Replacing Atime With Relatime in the Kernel · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yes, and linux is free for me because my time is worthless.

    So it doensn't even matter!

  13. Re:Not the luck of the Irish... on Next Version of Windows? Call it '7' · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, it will be a countdown.

    The first service pack will be called 6.

  14. Re:Theseus, by name, is doomed to fail on EU Google Competitor Project Gets Aid Worth $166 Million · · Score: 1

    And google is no word that you have to look up?

    wikipedia: "The name "Google" originated from a misspelling of "googol,"[16][17] which refers to 10100 (the number represented by a 1 followed by one-hundred zeros)."

  15. Re:Theseus, by name, is doomed to fail on EU Google Competitor Project Gets Aid Worth $166 Million · · Score: 1

    Theseus is a name that you can not make any jokes about. If you get a child and you know from birth; this is gonna be an ugly mother f*cker; then you give him a name like Theseus. That being said, Theseus might be doomed to fail, but at least they won't call it names.

  16. Re:uh... on EU Google Competitor Project Gets Aid Worth $166 Million · · Score: 1

    I haven't heard the name before but his contributions seem rather important.

    "The NeXTcube used by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN became the first Web server."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

  17. Re:What are the odds? on Safest Seat on a Plane, Or How to Survive a Crash · · Score: 1

    No, that chance is exactly 0.

    People die right AFTER their whole lifetime.

  18. Re:What are the odds? on Safest Seat on a Plane, Or How to Survive a Crash · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Because that would be boring:

    - Don't drive while drunk
    - Don't drive while tired
    - Don't call while driving
    - Don't verbally fight while driving
    - Don't speed
    - Fasten seatbelts
    - No sex while driving

    Who want's to read that, heh?!

  19. Re:Then it is true on OLPC Used to Browse Porn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes we HAD brought the joys of the internet to the less fortunate.
    It's not fair.
    These fortunate black males will now also see ads for penis enlargers. We will never be able to catch up with them... ever.

  20. Good! on OLPC Used to Browse Porn · · Score: 2, Funny

    We will see a tremendous AIDS drop within a few decades.

  21. Could somebody clear this up for us? on Linux Gains Two New Virtualization Solutions · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What are the pro's for heaving two implementations of, seemingly, the same solution?

  22. Re:So do lots of other things on Magnetic Wobbles Cause Hard Drive Failure · · Score: 1

    Some years ago I wanted to place a bigger cooler in my system. The drive-bays were in the way. I though using a grinding machine was a good way to remove some metal.

    I did not take the 3 minutes to take the back off and take the drives out.

    I'm not sure if it were magnetic whobbles that destroyed my drive though.

  23. Misleading title on Magnetic Wobbles Cause Hard Drive Failure · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Should be something like:

    Magnetic Wobbles Cause Data Loss

  24. Re:Source code? on Making Old Sound Recordings Audible Again · · Score: 1

    That is what they try to recover here; the analog source code information of the audio on the broken phonograph.

    I was not able to find any transcodings of the audio, to answer your question.

  25. Re:Not your grandfather's Hi-Fi on Making Old Sound Recordings Audible Again · · Score: 1

    There is probably just noise in the depth measurement. That is technical information-loss; even if the source is of bad quality.