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  1. Re:Snowing ? on Report That OS X Snow Leopard May Include Antivirus · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's currently "SCO is not dead yet", with a 25% chance of "Microsoft acts with integrity".

  2. Re:What better MMO? on BlizzCon Keynote — New WoW Expansion, Diablo 3 Details · · Score: 1

    Warhammer was also cool but [...] it's too PVP focused

    Yes it's irritating, based as it is on a tabletop game of compelling story and roleplay.

  3. Re:Worst ask slashdot ever on Suitable Naming Conventions For Workstations? · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'd advise against it. I told my workmates that RonJeremy went down on me yesterday, and they moved my office to the broom closet.

  4. Re:Mods, please be responsible. on Arizona Judge Tells Sheriff "Reveal Password Or Face Contempt" · · Score: 4, Funny

    After checking the definition of 'insight', I decided you were off your rocker.

    After considering the full meaning of "most of [the] people here", I changed my mind again. When dealing with the majority of Slashdot, useful definitions for words have pretty much no place in the proceedings :)

  5. Re:That's no moon on Strange New Objects Seen In Saturn's Rings · · Score: 3, Funny

    The movie was originally shot to finish at Saturn but Kubrick changed his mind.

    I bet it was the commute that did him in.

  6. Re:Assembly on The Best First Language For a Young Programmer · · Score: 1

    Assembly teaches basic important concepts that apply to all (current) computers. The instructions may be specific to an architecture, but not the ideas.

  7. Re:Be Afraid! Buy Our Product! on Symantec Exec Warns Against Relying On Free Antivirus · · Score: 1

    I use a closed source solution on all systems I use - it's called "not being a dumbass". As soon as I can find a way to install it on other human brains, I'm going to make a fortune.

  8. Re:How Pointless.... on Amazon Wants Patent For Inserting Ads Into Books · · Score: 1

    History only shows that you apparently don't remember the times it does work. I can remember a large number of free, ad-supported software packages, and a number of extremely cheap newsprint examples.

  9. Re:How Pointless.... on Amazon Wants Patent For Inserting Ads Into Books · · Score: 1

    One guy says "I'd like to buy a $10 product at half price, with the other half subsidised by ads", and you reply with "Publishers make a profit at the current prices, this is just greed at work". Good God, people, this is what you mod up as 'insight'?

    This idea has the potential to reduce the price we pay for books, possibly even to zero in some circumstances. There's no reason it has to be applied to all books, and no reason not to believe the ad-free version would be available at the typical price. It also has the potential to be abused for greed. It might be best to consider all options before condemning the idea out of hand.

  10. Re:Eclipse and Netbeans on What Free IDE Do You Use? · · Score: 1

    +1, duplicate anecdotal experience.

    Maybe I am just lucky, having not really tried NetBeans before v6.5...

  11. Re:Noo!!! on Video Game Adaptation In the Works For A Song of Fire and Ice · · Score: 1

    You expected something, but you got something else. Sounds like you just described A Feast for Crows...

    I don't agree that it "made no difference" in book 10. The story has gotten so sprawly that a book covering the missing characters was basically due next. I can understand that that upsets some people, but I don't feel that way myself. I liked the idea that the very act itself had a huge impact throughout the world, even before the consequences could be dealt with.

  12. Re:Noo!!! on Video Game Adaptation In the Works For A Song of Fire and Ice · · Score: 1

    book 10 made virtually no mention of the "very big thing"

    Say what? It was mentioned almost every chapter.

    Book 10 is basically parallel to book 9 time-wise. Anywhere there were Aes Sedai, they would all suddenly stop what they were doing and stare off into the distance as they felt the huge use of saidar.

  13. Re:Ignoratio Elenchi on Scientists Create RNA From Primordial Soup · · Score: 1

    Yes, Star Trek V is definitive proof that there is no God :(

  14. Re:Media Center? on Options For a Laptop With a Broken Screen? · · Score: 1

    but when said AC is calling somebody a 'tard

    Cease your vile slander! The poor soul was just signing his request for information.

  15. Re:The basement?!? on Where's Your Coding Happy Place? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Please don't ever tell me about your childhood.

  16. Re:2012 on Tickets On Sale In Sweden For Space Tourism, Starting In 2012 · · Score: 3, Funny

    we also have SNSB

    Which, if I recall correctly from my childhood, stands for SWEDEY NATIONY SPACE BORK BORK BORK.

  17. Re:Good thing it's a beta on UAC Whitelist Hole In Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    If we had to unlock doors to look out the window, to make a new style of breakfast, to move from the living room to the bedroom, then FUCK YES locks would not work for humans.

  18. Re:not a question on Open Source Usability — Joomla! Vs. WordPress · · Score: 1

    I don't know about emacs, and definitely not the original vi, but the help in vim is excellent. It even tells you how to get to that help if you run vim without specifying a file to edit, and has a step-by-step tutorial to make sense of the madness.

  19. Re:comparing prices of xPhone apps on Japanese "Hate" For the iPhone All a Big Mistake · · Score: 1

    Fuck, my killer feature, MISSING!

  20. Re:Classic Apple performance claim inflation on Safari 4 Released, Claimed "30 Times Faster Than IE7" · · Score: 1

    What version of OS X was this? I have a similar machine (slightly more RAM), and it seems to me 10.4 would rather stay in bed. I would happily put an older version on there, but I don't know which one would run well on this machine (and I don't currently have any versions to test with).

  21. Does a bear shit on the pope? on We're Just Not That Into You, iPhone Apps · · Score: 1

    Holy crap! Find me a bunch of free applications where this ISN'T true.

    Goddamn, 90% of the stuff I try for the first time via apt gets shitcanned five minutes later.

  22. Re:Somewhere in Redmond... on MS To Offer Free Windows 7 Upgrade To Vista Users · · Score: 2, Funny

    Jack Bauer gets played by no man.

    This season, Miranda Otto is Jack Bauer!

  23. Re:It's my computer on Google Earth 5.0 Silently Changes Update Policy · · Score: 1

    Worst of all it can not be simply removed, since it is downloaded and installed again once Google Earth is launched. Users really have only two choices: live with it, or uninstall all Google apps.

    Wow, am I actually reading Slashdot? Because that sounds pretty fucking easy to get rid of.

  24. Re:Kill!!! on Tales From the Support Crypt · · Score: 1

    I left it in the machine and turned off the laptop.

    You did what to the laptop?

  25. Re:Three?? on Is the Gaming PC Dead? · · Score: 1

    Hyperbole: the lost art.