User: sproketboy

Been there, DUNG that

On: Beetle Naturally Builds Photonic Crystals

NT required.

most annoying web site

On: The Most Annoying Software Out There

zdnet

WinForm

On: Mono's WinForms 2.0 Implementation Completed

WinForms is so 2 years ago. It's MPF now. Here's a good article on the failings of .net.

Same story as .NET

On: Microsoft Prefers Flash To Silverlight

I just installed my MSDN copy of Vista on VirtualBox - 5 CDs and NO .NET on it. How sad... When I buy a machine from Dell it does have Java on it though....

what?

On: First Release Candidate of Wine 1.0 Released

Before Duke Nukem?

Re:Good Luck Watching It Outside the UK

On: Blake's 7 Remake In the Works

Get the torrent. Oh sorry did you say Legal?

Dead in the water.

On: Web 2.0, Meet JavaScript 2.0

JavaScript 2.0 is neat but M$ ain't gonna support it so it's basically dead in the water. Sucks butt...

Use mainstream languages

On: When Should We Ditch Our Platform?

Like Java or .NET. Avoid poo like Ruby.

Weakly typed languages saves the day

On: 2.5 Years in Jail for Planting 'Logic Bomb'

FTFA: "It was designed to trigger at a certain time and date. That didn't happen, though. The first time the logic bomb was set to go off, a coding error kept it from working."

Weakly typed languages saves the day again! We don't need no stinking types! ;)

Anytime

On: Apricot Team Selected For Fully Open Source 3D Game

after duke nukem right?

Re:Modern attitude to bugs

On: First Look At Firefox 3.0 Beta 2

You are dead on. I live with the same pain. I've done a yearly analysis of our customer cases to support (always reported as 'bugs') and it always comes out to about 80% NOT bugs. 50% are RTFM and 30% are WAD but the customer wants an improvement.

Can we say losers?

On: Guitar Hero Maker Sued - Cover Song Too Awesome

Yes - we can say that.

All's fair

On: China In the Habit of Copying and Redirecting US Sites?

"This is a fairly serious accusation; anyone else have first-hand experiences that would back this up?" Who cares? China is allowed to do whatever they want. Neo-cons say so.

White collar

On: US Bot Herder Admits Infecting 250K Machines

He'll get 5 years at a country club and a bunch of great job offers after he gets out. You heard it here first.

Or you could use it to power a Starship

On: NC State Creates Most Powerful Positron Beam Ever

You insensitive clod!

I WANT ONE!

On: Home-made Helicopters in Nigeria

NT required.

Not worth it.

On: Team Fortress 2 - From Old To New

10 years of development and it's basically the same old 2fort4 maps with better graphics. Whoopeee...
Now QuakeWars is another story. That game rocks.

ECLIPSE ADVERTISEMENT?

On: Eclipse Makes Java Development on the Mac Easier

WTF.

Then explain why

On: Fork the Linux Kernel?

Then explain why Linux is still years behind OSX and Windows on basic things like playing video with sound without performance problems?

Seen this before

On: New Failsafe Graphics Mode For Ubuntu

Didn't Microsoft do this with windows in like 95? ;)

Re:Client-Side IDEs ??

On: GWT in Action

You have no cred posting this lameness as an AC. Visual Studio is primitive compared to IntelliJ.

Wordpad?

On: Wine 0.9.44 Released

LOL improvements to Wordpad? Thanks!

The non-evil one.

On: Which Google Should Congress Believe?

But they should only believe the evil Microsoft. ;)

A picture is worth a thousand words

On: Armed Police Bots with Stun Guns

A picture is worth a thousand words
From: How to survive a robot uprising

Thanks

On: Five Ideas That Will Reinvent Computing

Thanks for mentioning them all in the headline. Now I don't have to RTFA. :)