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  1. Re:It's the only way on Sun Is Giving Away Solaris 10 DVDs · · Score: 1

    Cheap shot. Anyway, we have this this!

  2. Re:Zork + GPS on Apple and Google to Blog the World · · Score: 1

    if I see you "standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door - in front of small mailbox" with an open MacBook, you aren't playing Zork, yer playin' Dork (and winning!).

  3. I don't think Genghis would'a done it... on Father of Instant Ramen Passes Away · · Score: 2, Funny

    First, you would have gotten a call from one of his 'people'. Then after many forms and interviews with more lower mid-level 'managers', and lots and lots of waiting in tiny little rooms you might catch a glimpse of Khan but after they were finished, he wouldn't even ever know your name. And God help you if you get trapped in an elevator with him afterwards...

    wait. That's 'trying to get on at Apple.'

  4. I love my OS X hammer... on Mac OS X Versus Windows Vista · · Score: 1

    I have a Mac hammer,
    I hammer in the morning,
    I hammer in the evening - my mouse in my hand,
    I hammer without danger,
    I hammer without BSOD,
    I hammer out the love between my iMac and my iPod,
    I think X is grand!

    I'm so sorry...

    Now if I had a Bell...

  5. now I can sleep... on How a Pulsar Gets Its Spin · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ..zzzzzzzz..

  6. Vista realeased in it's current form, on Looking Beyond Vista To Fiji and Vienna · · Score: 1

    ...is roughly equivalent to someone pleading with you to stay married to them because if you do, you are going to receive a gift of the "wonderful flying car". Well, years pass and the promise is repeated many times. Dates for the unveiling are set and broken countless times. Then one year, a few days past Christmas, Microsoft makes good. The car is rolled out and to the casual observer, it looks kind of different; short wings, more aerodynamic, lots of features and gadgets, but it doesn't really look like what you'd dreamed a flying car would look like! Instead it looks a lot like some of the other cool cars on the road from companies that have been turning out new models every year (and you've had fantasies of owning). Still you're intrigued. Does it really fly, you ask? And you're assured: "this is the wonderful flying car". So you put aside your doubts and get in. Driving it is different but familiar. It's even a little dangerous because many of the knobs and switches are new or repositioned. Still, you want to believe. So you get up your courage and take it to a small cliff with a hairpin turn. Gathering speed, you go into the turn much too fast to make the hairpin, and off the end you go. To your surprise, you're floating! Kind of. The short wings and aerodynamics kick in and for the first 100 feet off the cliff the car actually only loses a foot or two of altitude. Then your worst fears kick in. The car plunges into the ravine below.

    At the bottom, an EMT who looks remarkably like the soon to retire Jim Allchin uses the Jaws of Life to pull you out. During the rescue, as he straps you to a backboard, he explains that this is only model 1.0 of the flying car and they only had time to perfect the gliding. The flying will come on an unspecified date and model in the future. He slides you into his Macintosh ambulance and you fly to the hospital.

  7. Re:Windows, vista on Looking Beyond Vista To Fiji and Vienna · · Score: 1
    Also, the, author of the snippet, uses a few too, many, commas, and comes up, with wonderfully original, sentence, structures.
    Shatner!
  8. Re:Slashdot shows its skirt again on Microsoft Laptop Recipient Auctioning Laptop · · Score: 1

    tone deaf is tone deaf... in any community.
    Despite what you see on YouTube, people are smarter than you think.
    Oh, and make sure to turn this post in with your application. You'll get the job for certain.

  9. Well on Microsoft Laptop Recipient Auctioning Laptop · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You can't un-ring a bell
    once the sound waves get out.

    When I read a review
    there always be doubt.

    Were the words to critique?
    Were the words to describe?

    Is that glowing review
    the result of a bribe?

    They sent Ultimate insults
    with Ferrari toupees

    When they should have
    just let the chips
    fall where they may.

  10. Re:Could it be all the Macbooks? on Microsoft Bribing Bloggers With Laptops · · Score: 1
    every single Blogger showed up with a Macbook.
    And I'll bet they weren't free either.
  11. This is nothin' on Microsoft Bribing Bloggers With Laptops · · Score: 1

    Think of the poor bloggers who got a lap dance from Ballmer!

  12. Re:RTFA - for the chick on Inside Apple's iPhone · · Score: 3, Funny

    She's a Heek (hot geek). A creature of fable, second only to the unicorn in it's rarity. Capable of singing a siren song that tends to compel creatures from basements and dark places. If you see one, an easy test would be to gather your courage, scramble your Rubiks and hand it to her. If she completes it in under a minute, propose to her. If she accepts, you may also be a Heek. Congratulations!
    If she refuses, she's just a nice looking lesbian.

  13. Re:Appeal to the Ump... on Inside Apple's iPhone · · Score: 1

    I stand corrected! Is this a new development?

    No, been this way for a long time but maybe not the beginning. The PC software wasn't always at parity with the Mac version, but it is now.

    Either way, it sucks to require any app, as opposed to allowing an Apple or PC to administrate it via a browser.

    Well - true and not. I've configured many Airport and non-Airport wireless networks. Apple's software makes things go a little faster and easier than most web based tools. I don't know how hard it would be to implement in a browser - maybe with AJAX - etc. they'll do it. Especially with the new stuff coming out in January.

  14. Re:Appeal to the Ump... on Inside Apple's iPhone · · Score: 1

    Umm. On Airport, Windows uses the same application that OS X does (it's on the installation disk). You have to have WZC service on the Windows box - included in SP2.

  15. Re:Ruggedized MacBook on Mac OS X May Go Embedded? · · Score: 1

    Something that can get tossed around, dusty, and wet.

    That's what your mother said Trebeck!

  16. I read that as Z.P.M... on ZFS Shows Up in New Leopard Build · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I thought, "That'd be powerful"...

    I'm such a geek.

  17. I think we'll find out... on iTunes Sales Not 'Collapsing' After All · · Score: 1

    who's behind this faulty report very Zune.

  18. Re:Good - Down with DRM! on iTunes Sales 'Collapsing' · · Score: 1

    Hippie.

  19. Sometimes... on Vista an Uneasy Sleeper · · Score: 1

    Vista may have trouble sleeping
    or
    Vista BSODs on waking are causing me to lose data
    or
    Vista is terribly broken with completely pitiful support for waking Vista up from a Deep Sleep or hibernation.
    or
    Death never sleeps.

  20. It's a Chairity case on Is Microsoft An Innovator? - The Winer-Scoble Debate · · Score: 1

    An innovating Microsofty starts out with ideas so lofty
    watch him write his code without a care!
    But bureaucratic corporations aren't attuned to innovation,
    Google waits so learn to catch a chair.

  21. No OS... on Apple Releases 31 Security Fixes · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ...will ever be perfect (except for GODOS). All we can hope for is the most amount of intuition and the least amount of irritation.

  22. Re:What they *didn't* say... on The Dolphin With Leftover Legs · · Score: 1

    ...and danced when he heard a tuna...

    (I'm here all week)

  23. What they *didn't* say... on The Dolphin With Leftover Legs · · Score: 1

    was that it had tap shoes on...

  24. How about the Magic Eight Ball Earth theory? on Research Supports "Snowball Earth" Hypothesis · · Score: 1

    ...God just shook it and the window on top said, "Cannot Predict Now".

    (he'll shake it again soon)

  25. Let just assume global warming doesn't exist... on A Sunshade In Space To Combat Global Warming · · Score: 1

    and let a smile be our umbrella.