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  1. notice too late on Celebrate the XML Decade · · Score: 1

    Celebrate the XML Decade:

    Bah, it's too late to tell us to celebrate during the decade of XML because that decade is now over!

    Yeah, should have done that; celebrating.

  2. Re:Ridiculous. on EU Gives Microsoft 8 Days Until Fines · · Score: 1

    ... I still will never understand ...

    If you previously would never understand, doesn't that already say that, forever, you would not understand?

    Yesterday I installed Ubuntu for a roommate. I left her Windows partition just so she can video-chat with her MSN buddies.

    So she actually needs a Windows license ($$$) only because MS did not open it's protocols.

    I don't believe the EU has something agains Microsoft; I think that now, for example, linux is by far enough developed that closed standards become a real issue for many people that might switch. I think it's about fair competition.

    You might not agree, but do you understand now?

  3. Re:Slashdot: Now in Dutch! on EU Gives Microsoft 8 Days Until Fines · · Score: 1

    RTFA

  4. Re:They seem to be forgetting something... on Oceans Empty By 2048? · · Score: 1

    1. Fish seas empty; higher prices
    2. Fish seas empty !!!
    3. PROFIT !!!
    4. Fish seas empty !!!
    5. Fish eating illegal
    6. FISH SEAS EMPTY !!!
    7. PROFIT $$$ !!!

  5. New market-rules. on Is the Microsoft/Novell Deal a Litigation Bomb? · · Score: 1

    Ofcourse they can cooperate as they will and develop software under any license. I would not complain if they would do just that.

    But why, do they have to threat with suing commercial opponents?

    I guess Microsoft by now is only used to playing the monopolist and only wants to operate in the linux market with the rules they have become used to.

  6. Re:I knew my graphics card would kill me on Keeping Cool May Be the Key To Longevity · · Score: 1

    It's the other way around. You better keep the heat in you computer and processor instead of having it blown into your room!

  7. Better know as ... on Keeping Cool May Be the Key To Longevity · · Score: 1

    Yeah, better known as cryogenetically freezing.

  8. I for one ... on Keeping Cool May Be the Key To Longevity · · Score: 1

    I for one welcome our 15% longer living, micro-cryo-frozen mutantmice!

  9. Re:Easy... on Transitioning From Small Shop IT To Enterprise? · · Score: 1

    First read before being smart-ass.

    "..., and hiring competent IT staff has been difficult."

  10. Boot time on OLPC Inspires Open Source Projects · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you speed up a computer's boot time by one second. And every PC in the world (aprox a billion) starts up every day. You would save ~12000 human years every year. Every year you would save ~150 lifes!

    Every millisecond speed increase a day of software everybody uses every day would save 12 lives!

    NOW GO BACK TO WORK! You murderer!

  11. License on Java To Be Opened For Christmas? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Under what license?

  12. Re:Slow News Day *YAWN* on Ubuntu 6.10 is Out · · Score: 1

    Well, that was because the 6.06 LTS you could order 10 CD's delivered at your door for free. And you know we all like everything that only costs other people's money and time!

    What I do miss is another notification that we can, and will, order 6.06 CD's delivered at your door FOR FREE!!!

  13. Re:48 bits and color management on GIMP's Next-generation Imaging Core Demonstrated · · Score: 1

    Grammar check you mean?

  14. Advantages over XFS, for example. on Ext4 Filesystem Enters Experimental Kernel Tree · · Score: 4, Informative

    My question is why they don't mention why it is better to use ext4 then XFS.

    XFS can do 9 exabytes (exabyte = 1024 petabytes).

    They mention that ext4 is not faster than other filesystems.

    Ofcourse people can do whatever they want, but why not spend their time making XFS easily resizable for example?

  15. Re:GTK+/GNOME file chooser disaster. on GUIs Get a Makeover · · Score: 1

    But isn't that the beauty of FOSS? The fact that you can actually choose? Sort of like democracy,


    Nopes, even better. You can have what you want without having majority ruling?
  16. Re:Can't it be both? on Counter-Strike Opens Weapons Market · · Score: 1

    Even some president uses this fallacy, why shouldn't we?

    "Eighter you are with us or you are with the enemy!"

  17. More agressive software not necesary on Microsoft's Video Site 'Soapbox' Disappointing · · Score: 0, Troll

    Just get plenty of links in Windows software to their own service.

    Who needs agressive software when you have a monopoly in desktop OSs?

    I just hope enough people notice their strategy.

  18. Patterns by discrimination; not racism. on You Have Been 'Randomly' Selected? · · Score: 1

    I've never been in a fight...

    Until I grew big and strong, in school I was the quiet guy that people liked but most forgot about.

    Once I walked through the door into school (I was about 15 back then) and got kicked and punshed at by all Marokkan guy's in school (they always gathered at the door during lunchbreak). I didn't know a single one of them. My cloathes were neatral. They could have picked the next guy but I was unlucky. I clearly remember myself looking at them and knowing what they planned to do by 'profiling' them on bodylanguage and colour. But I refused to give in to my discrimination.

    Since then I don't trust young Marokkan people in groups.

    A month ago I was on vacation in Turkey. Around 1AM my girlfriend and me walked to a quiet place to take pictures of each other. There was a group of five Turkish guys wise-cracking. Because they got quiet after a few minutes I didn't trust them. I just felt that when we would walk away, they would follow us. As soon as I saw a taxi I started to walk and the guys indeed followed us.

    I've been lucky many times because I totally give in to profiling now.

    I totally agree with profiling at airports and such. As long as the profiles come from patterns (thus; discrimination) instead of racism.

  19. Doubling halve life on Halving Half Lives · · Score: 2, Informative

    When you double the halve life the radiation is halve.

    And also, first we need to build a fusion reactor to have energy to cool that shit.

  20. Re:Quotation Fingers on A Humorous Introduction To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Sounds a bit like Dr. Evil to me.

    We will punch a hole in the so-called "ozon-layer".

  21. Re:Sub $100 Video Card Recommendation? on Tom's Hardware Reviews ATI and Nvidia on Linux · · Score: 1

    Geforce 6200 does it for me, compact, passively cooled XFX card.

  22. Tomorrow's news: on Microsoft Hit With 280m Euro Fine · · Score: 1

    Microsoft sentenced to death.

  23. BIG difference on WinFS' Demise Not a Bang Or a Whimper · · Score: 1

    It's not like you can try OSX with a free live CD on your Pentium or something.

  24. Comming soon on OpenFrag - An Open Source FPS · · Score: 2, Informative
  25. Re:Embrace and Extend on Microsoft to Support ODF via Plug-In · · Score: 1

    OK, so which of these is easier now?