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  1. Re:Boot directly to desktop? on Windows 8 Sales Below Projections · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I agree it would be nice, for the sake of completeness, to totally bypass tiles, but if I was Micro$oft I wouldn't either. People need to move forward, otherwise keep using Windows 7.

    This same strategy has worked well for GNOME.

  2. Re:Idea on Windows 8 Sales Below Projections · · Score: 3, Informative

    How about a Windows 8, Developer Edition? A version that doesn't have Metro, just the basic start menu and trimmed-down version of their operating system specifically designed for software developers and gamers who want power and efficiency, not pretty sliding menus. I would rather my computer's RAM be occupied by the far-odd blocks on Minecraft than a smooth windows frame for some gidget that I never wanted, nor will I ever use.

    We'll just have to wait for eXperience to release TinyWin8. His TinyXP, rev.09 still rocks

  3. Bwahahaha! on Microsoft Complains That WebKit Breaks Web Standards · · Score: 2

    Bwahahaha! Microsof Bwahaha ! Bwahahaha! Bwaha ! Bwahahaha! Bwahahaha! Microsoft Bwahahaha! Bwahahaha! Bwahahaha! Standards Bwahahaha! Bwahahaha!

  4. Re:Stop renting DVD's on Ask Slashdot: How To Make a DVD-Rental Store More Relevant? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps he could open a waterbed business.

    Or buy shares in Facebook.

    cheers,

    I hear MySpace is quite the thing with the kids.

  5. Re:Hey Guys on Ask Slashdot: How To Make a DVD-Rental Store More Relevant? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yeah, unless you have access to a time machine, I think DVD stores (of any kind) are not great ideas anymore.

    He would need to fulfill the needs that the online services can't or won't fill, namely hard-core and fetish porn. That's about all that's left to him.

  6. This is why ... on Man Arrested At Oakland Airport For Ornate Watch · · Score: 3

    ... we can't have safe things. Morons.

  7. Re:States Needs on Indian School Textbook Says Meat-Eaters Lie and Commit Sex Crimes · · Score: 1

    much of the world is very healthy with minimum or no meat. Not all economies are built on selling junk to kids.

    Those are two very different things, but you imply that meat and junk food are equivalent. You also imply that bigotry against an idea (like eating meat) is the equivalent of a 'little white lie" and that lying to children is OK.

    You know how I know you're an idiot?

  8. Bad textbook writers on Indian School Textbook Says Meat-Eaters Lie and Commit Sex Crimes · · Score: 1

    Textbook writers easily cheat, tell lies, forget promises, they are dishonest and tell bad words, steal, fight and turn to violence and commit sex crimes.

    Bad textbook writers.

  9. Re:Sadly it makes sense :-( on German City Says OpenOffice Shortcomings Are Forcing It Back To Microsoft · · Score: 0

    Sadly , that is the goatse site of a MS Office user..

  10. Re:What about LibreOffice on German City Says OpenOffice Shortcomings Are Forcing It Back To Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Well, libreoffice could fullfill their all dreams. It's amazing! Using it every day with my cute Ubuntu 12.04

    "Cute Ubuntu 12.04"? That's an Enterprise environment? Good argument.

  11. Of Course, Stupid. on Will It Take a 'Cyber Pearl Harbor' To Break Congressional Deadlock? · · Score: 1

    That's how politicians work.

  12. MySpace? on Mark Cuban: Facebook Is Driving Away Brands — Starting With Mine · · Score: 4, Funny

    So the Mavs will be offering nude player pics and I-Pod playlists?

  13. Screw Them on Tesla Motors Sued By Car Dealers · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the Tesla outlets in more open-minded neighboring states will not care.

  14. Re:And that will also mark on GNOME 3.8 To Scrap Fallback Mode · · Score: 1

    Quit complaining about something you don't even use anymore.

    You sound very much like someone from the central politburo committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

    Or an impotent old man.

  15. 15%? on Windows 8 Defeats 85% of Malware Detected In the Past 6 Months · · Score: 1

    This is a lot like saying "This is great news! We only need to remove 15% of your penis! You should be grateful."

  16. Re:And that will also mark on GNOME 3.8 To Scrap Fallback Mode · · Score: 2

    Then someone decided "options are bad" and started taking it all away. .

    IIC, that would have been the GNOME devs at RedHat/Fedora. The idea was to create a workstation desktop that would be accepted by corporate system admins who hate configurabilty on the part of the end-user.

  17. Automatic Payments on Microsoft's Hidden Windows 8 Feature: Ads · · Score: 1

    From Microsoft Wallet.

  18. Re:sales tax is always on the FULL PRICE on Amazon Charges Sales Tax On "Shipping and Handling" · · Score: 2

    Not in Virginia; no sales tax on services.

  19. Same Old Same Old on Constant Technology Use May Hamper Kids' Ability To Learn · · Score: 1

    I'm sure they said the same thing about the technology miracle of post-WW2 that would revolutionize eductaion: the overhead projector.

  20. Very Simple on Want a Security Pro? Get Politically Incorrect and Learn Geek Culture · · Score: 1

    The first Boy Scout who develops "elite hacker skills" and is willing to spell it that way gets the job.

  21. as "COSTCO".

  22. Re:Pot, kettle... on Inside Social Media's Fake Fan Industry · · Score: 0

    You do not use AdBlock?

  23. Just Because on Huawei Offers 'Complete and Unrestricted' Source Code Access · · Score: 1

    Just because you can see the source code doesn't mean the binaries were compiled from it.

  24. What? on 3-D Printing Enables UVA Student-Built Unmanned Plane · · Score: 0

    I though UVA was supposed to be a party school. They do actual science there? Who knew?

  25. Re:Finns actually stole from Finns, sold to Netfli on NetFlix Caught Stealing DivX Subtitles From Finnish Pirates · · Score: 1

    To be fair, Netflix didn't steal the subtitles - a professional Finnish translator did, before selling them to Netflix as their own work.

    Those datstardly Finns!