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  1. It's not important that ... on Some Journals Rejecting Office 2007 Format · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's not important that people will use open-source software for writing documents.

    It's more important that MS supports ODF.

  2. Toothbrush on Twenty Five Intel CPU Coolers Tested · · Score: 1

    You greatly reduce the noise production by, twice every year, wiping all dust off the cooler-fans and fan-blades (especially onderneath where it's hard to reach) with a toothbrush (not your own).

    You 'll be surprised.

  3. The important part on A New Global Memory Card Standard · · Score: 3, Informative

    Although it's sort of a technical duplicate; it looks simple and sturdy. But more important:

    "Officials expect local companies to save $40 million in licensing fees thanks to the card, in addition to profiting from sales."

    If enough companies use this, it will be the standard for, say, at least ten years. So everybody complaining 'great, just wat we need; another standard'; please think again.

  4. Re:Of course on Microsoft Sees No Conflicts With Patent Initiatives · · Score: 1

    It's sort of a paradox.

    They could just file the use of patents as bug-reports so the FOSS community can actually be aware of it and DO something about it.

    But I guess it would be against their strategy to avoid people from using their patented ideas.

  5. Re:Hmmm... on Computers Outperform Humans at Recognizing Faces · · Score: 1

    Or even if it is your own mustache that you grow?

    And cheap plastic surgery application will skyrocket; not with the goal to become 'prettier'.

  6. Re:Yes but on Computers Outperform Humans at Recognizing Faces · · Score: 2, Funny

    And I'm pretty sure the computer won't be able to recognize the face after the facial.

  7. I'm lucky on Computers Outperform Humans at Recognizing Faces · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's a question of time 'till there 's a law that forbids to wear anything that partially covers your face in certain public areas.

    I think I have about ten years 'till computers are able to interpret my front-head as a 'face' so I'm safe.

  8. Re:The Blue Car of Death on Linux (Car) Crashes At Indy 500 · · Score: 1

    I'm sure it was a user error.

  9. Watch out on A Windows-Based Packaging Mechanism · · Score: 1

    Watch out if you use this.

    Don't set your repository list to 'stable'; cause it will only leave you a notepad and a calculator.

  10. Re:The "War Department" on How the Pentagon Got Its Shape · · Score: 1

    From the Homeland-security-dept.

  11. Re:Missing an important element! on Handmade Steampunk Rayguns From the F/X Guys at Weta · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I don't agree with you. All auxilery modular options an an 'mech' with extensions make it look kooler.

    http://images.google.nl/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=nl &q=mech

  12. Re:where's Linus? on Gates and Jobs to Share A Stage · · Score: 1

    I would instantly loose trust if Shuttleworth were on stage with them.

  13. Re:Hrm.. on Firefox 3.0 Makes Leap Forward · · Score: 1

    It's not really bloat. It is a fast and efficient way to store the bookmarks. I hope SQLite is going to be used for many more programs as people will have it on their systems anyway.

    Once you have installed SQLite you don't have to configure anything. I used it for a tiny guestbook that I wrote for fun.

    People that have sqlite and php-sqlite installed with their apache can drop the files on their webserver and they have an instant databased guestbook that is easy to backup.

    http://home.deds.nl/~tribbin/pub/guestbook-0.1.tar .gz

  14. What you pay for ... on Dell PCs with Ubuntu Are A Little Less Expensive · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What you pay for is garanteed hardware compatibility.

  15. Re:[Switching distribution] ^ 3 on Is Linux Out of Touch With the Average User? · · Score: 1

    Etch for practice, Sid for fun/bugreporting; Ubuntu for my friends/family.

    No reason to switch.

  16. Re:so did he write them for free or didn't he on Update On Free Linux Driver Development · · Score: 1

    Oi, I found the tone of your post quite disturbing so I looked up your other posts.

    You have very nice ratings and your posts are insightful but some are quite disturbing, to me.

    Take it easy on the potential hypocrites. People are just people.

    http://slashdot.org/~timmarhy/

    Is it really worth offending and accusing people?

    http://slashdot.org/~timmarhy/freaks/

  17. [Switching distribution] ^ 3 on Is Linux Out of Touch With the Average User? · · Score: 1

    About seven years ago I switched to linux. I locked myself up in my room and forced myself to RTFMs. It was new, hard and exciting to me.

    I used to be a slackware user. At some point, about four years ago, I decided to use debian and debian-based distributions.

    I hated it and it felt stupid. Lot's of things I was used to worked differently. I kept trying and a few weeks later I had it sorta under control.

    Now, I can really understand that somebody who is not geek, sees no reason to learn things that they know again on another platform. People like to do what they are good at. People don't like to feel stupid. You only learn new stuff when you find it important, interesting or need it to reach a higher goal.

  18. No; it's the other way around: on Is Linux Out of Touch With the Average User? · · Score: 1

    "Is Linux out of Touch With the Average User?"

    No; it's the other way around:

    It's because the avarage user is out of touch with linux, in the logical sense. At least in Soviet Russia.

  19. Re:Problem with identifying by browser habits on MS Wants To Identify All Web Surfers · · Score: 5, Funny

    OMG, you might be identified by your fetish!

  20. Already 'sort of' happens? on Rerouting the Networks · · Score: 1

    Don't do routers already 'efficiently devide' amongst the intermediate nodes, if necessary, by monitoring used/free bandwidth? Isn't the effect the same?

    I might be wrong; I just though this already sort of happens.

  21. Re:Amazing? Amazingly criminal... on Disney Video Used to Explain Copyright · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "It seems that the creator missed the point entirely."

    Or you missed the intentional joke of finding the edge of what the creator can/can't do.

  22. Re:I dislike MS on Microsoft Cracking Down On Indian Retailers · · Score: 1

    I was joking about the stereotypical big-muscled-black-guy-phobia.

  23. Re:I dislike MS on Microsoft Cracking Down On Indian Retailers · · Score: 1

    Wow, you dared to reply that non-anonynously?

    Bet you didn't check his website. Scared the shit out of me.

  24. Re:I'm confused on Microsoft Cracking Down On Indian Retailers · · Score: 1

    To MS:
    The customer will not switch (and get used) to open software thus MS has more time to adjust their prices to India's market and retain their income.

    To customer:
    Does not have to ask an aquintence to burn the CD.

  25. BSOD on Optimus Keyboard Pre-Orders In Mere Hours · · Score: 1

    It would be cool to have the buttons go blue, with in the middle the white letters on your keyboard.