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  1. Desktop OS on Google Announces 2,000 Schools Now Use Chromebooks, Up 100% In 3 Months · · Score: 1

    Can these make Google Chrome the Linux distro that isn't just a plaything for a million undirected tinkerers, but a real desktop OS to replace Windows? I hope so. It is a shame BeOs is dead. I liked it.

  2. Shilling on Steve Jobs Was Wrong About Touchscreen Laptops · · Score: 2

    This article reads like something a cheerleader on Microsoft's payroll wrote. It it is, that should be disclosed. I am not impressed with Windows 8 at all.

  3. Re:Laws against science-fiction are stupid. on OH Senate Passes Bill Banning Human-Animal Hybrids · · Score: 1

    Big man, Pig man, Ha ha! Charade you are.

  4. Re:Check the HDD on How To Diagnose a Suddenly Slow Windows Computer? · · Score: 1

    Do you have an HP printer? All the crap that comes bundled with those slows computers to a crawl. If so, uninstall all the crap that came with it, then install drivers only after downloading them from HP.com. You don't want all the junkware on the CD.

  5. Re:In other news... on Dell Abandons Its Customization Roots · · Score: 1

    They never really did much customization anyway. Dell would ask a few questions to clients who can't tell storage space from ram, and would either send out the basic package with integrated video and sound, or the multimedia package with video and sound cards. Either way, most people only got 256MB of ram when XP needs 512. Some poor suckers only got 128.

  6. Re:FUD campaign? on A Campaign to Block Firefox Users? · · Score: 1

    I would wager that the only purpose of the site in question is to feed spyware. Webmasters who do that deserve to do time, not be paid. They are a public nusiance.

  7. Re:Where to start. on $298 Wal-Mart PC Has OO.org, No Crapware · · Score: 1

    My guess is that having a video card has made the difference for you. My Lenovo 3000 N100 Laptop with Intel graphics was a dog until I upgraded to 2GB. Getting rid of the unwanted trialware and adding an SD card for Windows Readyboost made no real difference. Only a ram upgrade did, and I still feel like XP ran faster on my old HP laptop with an Athlon XP 1500+ and 768 megs of SDRAM.

  8. Re:Where to start. on $298 Wal-Mart PC Has OO.org, No Crapware · · Score: 2, Insightful
    A gig was a substantial amount of Ram in XP, more than most users would need. In Vista however, it's a bare minimum. Vista may say on the box it works with 512MB, but try it. It is crazy slow! You need 2GB to have a system that is usable.

    Everyone who has made a negative comment so far has gone quickly to -1 land, but I had to put in my two cents worth. Doesn't it say in the guide to moderation that if you disagree, don't mod down, respond?

  9. Re:Don't sell the students short on $298 Wal-Mart PC Has OO.org, No Crapware · · Score: 1

    It should have come with Linux!

  10. Re:hmm on Legal Online Gambling May Return to US · · Score: 1

    Yeah! To hell with the nanny state. Do as thou willst should be the whole of the law. Society itself was a mistake, and before it was invented, man was free.

  11. Re:Oh well! on HP to Acquire Voodoo PC · · Score: 1

    I am not confusing two companies, I am comparing them. Hewlett Packard PCs are junk and Packard Bell PC when they were on the US market were junk. Packard Bell was the epitome of a junk computer, so I didn't think an explanation of the joke name, Hewlett Packard Bell would be needed. I stand corrected. Even on Slashdot, things need to be dumbed down for the masses.

  12. Re:Oh well! on HP to Acquire Voodoo PC · · Score: 0, Troll

    Now a Voodoo will be a Hewlett-Packard-Bell. Manufactured junk designed to be replaced in 18 months. There is nothing like planned obsolescence.

  13. Re:I don't know what it is either on Poll Says No Voter Support for Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    The public has a knee jerk reaction when asked if they are for or against something they have never heard of. "Against" wins every time. This reaction can always be relied upon for "push polls" and other kinds of false statistics.

  14. Re:Pink Floyd tour on Duke Nukem Forever in Production · · Score: 1

    That article inluded a picture with Syd Barret, one of the original founders of the band who went insane and left the band soon after they were formed in the '60s. Even if they do reunite, Syd won't be there. David Gilmour will be. They should have used a picture with him in it.

  15. Re:Anticipation... Anticipayaytion... on Duke Nukem Forever in Production · · Score: 1

    So, if they have decided to go ahead with Duke Nukem Forever I guess they gave up on using Chinese Democracy by Guns N Roses as the soundtrack for it.

  16. Re:Obligatory cliche on China to Build World's First "Artificial Sun" · · Score: 1

    Have you seen Spiderman 2?

  17. Re:Have they solved the ballast issue yet? on New Aircraft is Part Blimp and Part Airplane · · Score: 1

    Oh the humanity!!

  18. Re:Mix fav beverages? on Coca-Cola's Coffee Soda · · Score: 0, Troll
    I work for The Coca-Cola Company, so I am really getting a kick out of most of these replies. Some of you guys are very good at making it sound like you know what you are talking about. But trust me.... You don't.

    I think you just want to make yourself sound smart, when in reality you don't know what you are talking about.This is how bad info gets passed around. If you don't know about the topic, don't make yourself sound like you do. Cuz some slashdotters believe anything they hear.

  19. True geeks... on Top 20 Geek Novels · · Score: 1

    True geeks will not read these books until they are published online. Print is dead.

  20. Re:As always, the US is anti-science on U.S. Scientists Call for a Time Change · · Score: 4, Funny

    Stop being singularity stupid! The answer is not to change what kind of ridiculous single day derived counting system to use, but to abandon the brainless lie of singularity and embrace the truth of nature's harmony, the 4 simultaneous day Time Cube!

  21. Article summary.. on Cow Tipping is a Myth · · Score: 1

    Stories about cow tipping are bull!

  22. Re:Security on Microsoft to Ship New Malware Protection Utility · · Score: 1

    There are two anti-malware apps I can personally recommend: Linux and Mac OSX.

  23. Re:Die MPAA on Movie Studios Unveil New Anti-Piracy Lab · · Score: 1

    Avast ye scurvy dogs! Hollywood wants to make us all go belly up! First they're be making movies about us like Pirates Of The Carribean, and now they're wanting to keelhaul us. Shiver me timbers, maytee!

  24. The Microsoft Shuffle on Major Microsoft Re-Organization · · Score: 1

    Sing this to the tune of Super Bowl Shuffle: We are the Windows Shufflin' Crew Shufflin' on down, doin' it to you. We're so bad we know we're good. Blowin' your mind like we knew we would. You know we're just struttin' for fun Struttin' our stuff on everyone. We're not here to start no trouble. We're just here to do the Microsoft Shuffle. Feel free to add to this!

  25. Re:Science is complex. on Bad Science in the Press · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nearly every media outlet in the US has an astrology column. That alone should reveal that even trying to write about science is a wasted effort. No one would understand or believe it anyway. Americans believe in so much nonsense that a new dark age can't be far off.