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  1. Re:I don't get steampunk. on Early Look at Steampunk Action-Adventure Game Dishonored · · Score: 2

    How so?
    Steampunk could be on any planet, at any time, with little to no problem. All it needs are fancy clothes, overly elaborate gadgets and some dirigibles.

  2. Re:I don't get steampunk. on Early Look at Steampunk Action-Adventure Game Dishonored · · Score: 2

    There are 20+ dune novels, even more books about dune, and comics. There are also movies and tv shows.

    How is a steampunk setting any different than a post-apocalyptic setting or a space setting or an alien world setting?

  3. Re:I think they can reinvent themselves on Former Microsoft Exec: Microsoft Has "Become the Thing They Despised" · · Score: 1

    I don't see that as a problem. I also do not see why you would see that as a problem.

    Innovation, like quality often has very little to do with success in business. Microsoft is a great example of that. Access is an even better example, it is a terrible product with no innovation and even worse on the quality front. Every single time I have seen anything done in it, it had to be done again with a real DB and at a cost higher than just doing that way to begin with, since we often had to support design decisions made by people who had no idea what they were doing. It is however a very successful product in the business sense.

  4. Re:I think they can reinvent themselves on Former Microsoft Exec: Microsoft Has "Become the Thing They Despised" · · Score: 1

    I agree it is what many companies do, but it is not innovative in the least.

  5. Re:Need a niche on Telefonica Shows Prototype Firefox OS Phone · · Score: 1

    Use the plugin Phony.

    I use it to always get the desktop version of sites on my galaxy nexus with firefox.

  6. Re:Need a niche on Telefonica Shows Prototype Firefox OS Phone · · Score: 1

    Get a Nexus.

  7. Re:All charity ends on A Critical Examination of Bill Gates' Philanthropic Record · · Score: 1

    So letting people die in the gutter is moral?

  8. Re:The Foxconn monopoly on Amazon Reportedly Plans Smartphone · · Score: 1

    Foxconn is not the only builder of phones, by a long shot.

  9. Re:Value to the company on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Old Commercial Software To Be Open-Sourced? · · Score: 1

    Why would that be a problem?

    The game engine can be GPL and actual interesting parts the art and scripts can be under some other license. This is the same boat DOOM1-3 are in now.

  10. Re:I dont have a smart phone. on Amazon Reportedly Plans Smartphone · · Score: 2

    T-mobile $30/month if you are ok with only 100 minutes of voice. If you also want unlimited minutes it is $60. Only a portion of the data is at 4G(not really 4G , just like the rest of them), but they do not cut you off.

  11. Re:Patents on Amazon Reportedly Plans Smartphone · · Score: 1

    They innovate in the field of selling your supposedly secured data to tinpot dictators.

  12. Re:I think they can reinvent themselves on Former Microsoft Exec: Microsoft Has "Become the Thing They Despised" · · Score: 1

    So now buying products and gluing them together is innovative?

    What would be innovative is if they let people glue their own stuff together by opening up those protocols for interoperability.

  13. Re:Microsoft did more on Linux Played a Vital Role In Discovery of Higgs Boson · · Score: 1

    Obvious troll is obvious.

    Guys, for the good of the internet don't respond to these kinds of posts.

  14. Re:The Only Newsworthy Item on Linux Played a Vital Role In Discovery of Higgs Boson · · Score: 0

    Why? Do you think powerpoint was critical in getting actual work done?

    If so I have a bridge to sell you.

  15. Re:The Only Newsworthy Item on Linux Played a Vital Role In Discovery of Higgs Boson · · Score: 2

    Looks great, where do I find cocoa and all that graphical jazz?

  16. Re:All charity ends on A Critical Examination of Bill Gates' Philanthropic Record · · Score: 1

    I learned how much of a dick you are and how foolish you are. Go ahead and not pay the IRS, let me know how that works out.

    If something is really worth doing, it is worth doing it without the profit motive.

  17. Re:All charity ends on A Critical Examination of Bill Gates' Philanthropic Record · · Score: 1

    Not too old for care, but likely too old for any of the care those tests would indicate.

    What exactly is a 70 year old going to do when an EKG shows he needs open heart surgery he will not survive?

  18. Re:Patents laws on In UK, HTC Defeats Apple's "Obvious" Slide Unlock Patent · · Score: 1

    No, I read the design patent. Its biggest design feature seems to be the rounded corners. I am not sure how they even qualify as non-functional. Sharp corners would be uncomfortable to hold.

  19. Re:No doubt... on First iOS Malware Discovered In Apple's App Store · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What stops that dev from spending another $99 on another dev account?
    Not that hard or expensive to kill your old corporation, start another and get a new AMEX.

  20. Re:No, it isn't misleading on Nexus Q Stretches "Made in USA" Label · · Score: 4, Informative

    It might have been obvious, but it was also wrong. The majority of it is made in the USA. Even the power supply and the PCB.

  21. Re:Smart but not nice on China Begins Stockpiling Rare Earths, Draws WTO Attention · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Better yet, give her gold or silver.

    They can be bought and sold via the oz price and she could get a fair price for them. Resale value of jewelry is horrible.

  22. Re:Smart but not nice on China Begins Stockpiling Rare Earths, Draws WTO Attention · · Score: 3, Informative

    Because there are lots of them and more and more would open.

  23. Re:Another Apple first on App Store Bug Corrupts Binaries; Angry Birds Crash · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So then they did not test it after building it?

    Dev sends app and hash to apple. Apple distributes and has end devices check hash at install time, if hash no match download again.

    Exactly where does this problem slip in without anyone noticing?

  24. Re:Patents laws on In UK, HTC Defeats Apple's "Obvious" Slide Unlock Patent · · Score: 1

    I actually did read that patent and I am not sure how "patent on rounded rectangles" is not a decent summary. I even looked at the diagrams.

    Please elaborate on what you think a simple summary of the pantent should include.

  25. Re:Patents laws on In UK, HTC Defeats Apple's "Obvious" Slide Unlock Patent · · Score: 1

    I would imagine they would differ, it is hard to convince someone to act against their own pocketbook.