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  1. Re:I fail to see how it's any worse than other UIs on The Uncanny Valley of Voice Recognition · · Score: 2

    I just do not think you have had enough experiment with. delete that, delete that, dear mom let's set so double the killer delete select all

  2. Re:The HDMI dongle I want on Kickstarted Firefox OS HDMI Dongle Delayed, DRM Support Being Added · · Score: 1

    It's called a PC. Hook it up to the TV

    Am I missing something here? How do you do that without having a big ugly PC sitting next to the TV?

  3. Re:Firefox users: 86% sad, 14% happy. on Firefox Succeeded In Its Goal -- But What's Next? · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind that happy users are silent users.

    Oh STFU with that. What the heck is the point in getting feedback if all you're going to say it "screw it, most users are silent and happy"? What we KNOW is from the feedback, and it's overwhelmingly negative. Here's my feedback:

    I don't like tiny icons.
    I don't like black and white icons.
    I don't like the reduced toolbar customizability of Australis.
    I don't like the lack of a status bar.
    I don't like a popup for my bookmarks by default instead of a sidebar.
    And I definitaly Do Not Like tabs on top!

    All of those changes were tested before major release, and major opposition to them was voiced. On every occasion, people opposing the change were told to fuck off. So I (and many others) did. Fuck you, Firefox, with your shitty UX changes.

  4. Re:Speaking of agendas... on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 1

    Yeah, they should rename it to what we call it in the UK: oilseed rape.

  5. Great!! Now what are we gonna use it for? on BT Unveils 1000Mbps Capable G.fast Broadband Rollout For the United Kingdom · · Score: 1

    I've already been lucky enough to get FTTC, and my connection varies between 50/5 and 20/2, I'd say. Other than some improvement in my upload speeds, I'm pretty much happy with the bandwidth. Why would I need more? I have an uncapped connection, but if I had 500Mbps I rather doubt my ISP would be willing to offer THAT uncapped... if I could even find anything that big (legally) to download on a regular basis.

    This just seems like a big PR thing BT are doing so they can tell simpletons like David Cameron that "the UK now has super-mega-ultra-uber fast broadband". I'm with the rest of ya; finish the FTTC rollout, get that too ~100% of the population.

    FTTC should be enough for anyone. :-)

  6. Re:So they've finally fixed Pause & Resume? on YouTube Ditches Flash For HTML5 Video By Default · · Score: 1, Funny

    Using Chrome latest here.

    Why??

  7. Re:LOL ... on Opera Founder Is Back, WIth a Feature-Heavy, Chromium-Based Browser · · Score: 1

    And it still has a way better UI than Firefox or Chrome for high resolution desktops (ie. desktops).

  8. Re:Browser performance on Windows 10 IE With Spartan Engine Performance Vs. Chrome and Firefox · · Score: 1

    Still has a broken flexbox implementation.

    And its devtools suck ass. Just my opinion.

  9. So what was the result?? on Science By Democracy Doesn't Work · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is it a hoax? I'm on tenterhooks.

  10. Re:Only for the first year on Microsoft Reveals Windows 10 Will Be a Free Upgrade · · Score: 3, Funny

    Not really. If you're the kind of person who builds custom computers, when you call them up just say you replaced the motherboard. If they really push (and I've never had a problem with that) then just say the previous one went bad and had to be RMA'd or replaced. They're happy to remove the old motherboard from the license and apply the license to your new one.

    Yep. My machine has had 3 new motherboards, 4 new gfx cards, 10 new RAM modules, 2 new hard drives, a new PSU, 2 new cases (one with additional go-faster stripes upgrade), 3 new montors, 4 new mice, a new keyboard and 5 new surround sound speakers. It's still going strong with the original OS.

  11. Re:Standing desks on Regular Exercise Not Enough To Make Up For Sitting All Day · · Score: 1

    How is that adjustable? Do you always have to work standing up?

  12. Re:I *have* read the text on 19,000 French Websites Hit By DDoS, Defaced In Wake of Terror Attacks · · Score: 1

    I have read the text a couple of times. And it clearly states that Muslims are to DEFEND themselves against oppressors without mercy, but to live amongst them in peace if they are not being attacked.

    But they can interpret ridicule or criticism as an attack or an oppression, can't they? That's the trouble with interpretation, anyone can put their own spin on it and use it to justify their actions.

  13. Re:Qualifications on Fighting Tech's Diversity Issues Without Burning Down the System · · Score: 2

    I have no issue with pushing for diversity,

    In seriousness, why? If the people in your office are mostly white males and they're doing a competent job, while the women and minorities who do choose to go into IT manage to get work at the same rate as white men do, where is the problem? Why is there this arbitrary need for "more diversity"?

  14. Re:Which is stupider, the book or the game? on Is 'SimCity' Homelessness a Bug Or a Feature? · · Score: 1

    But are they as bad as RollerCoaster Tycoon 4?

  15. Re:Why didn't they take them alive? on In Paris, Terrorists Kill 2 More, Take At Least 7 Hostages · · Score: 1

    Except that 4 hostages did actually die.

  16. Re:What I'd expect now from the muslim world on In Paris, Terrorists Kill 2 More, Take At Least 7 Hostages · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure he is now close to Allah while the fundamentalists burn.

    I'm pretty sure that he's either just gone or, if alive in some sense, certainly not in any of the senses of the human-invented religions.

  17. Re:Once Upon A Time In 1980 At Boeing Airplanes on The Open Office Is Destroying the Workplace · · Score: 0

    Where I used to work, we had 1000 people in the same open-plan room, 4 to a desk. Everyone shouted at each other to communicate and we often had to walk over a mile to a colleague's desk on the other side of the room, uphill both ways. We got showered with cold water every hour to wake us up, and sometimes this caused people to get electrocuted by their computer equipment.

  18. Re:How ghey on NuSTAR Takes Beautiful X-ray Image of Sol · · Score: 1

    If we start doing major exploration of deep space we're gonna need to use less ambiguous names for the sun and moon, as other planets may have a sun and moon.

  19. Re:Not all bad, some middling to good-ish reviews on Ars: Final Hobbit Movie Is 'Soulless End' To 'Flawed' Trilogy · · Score: 4, Funny

    It will feel that long.

  20. Re:LOL ... w00t? on Amazon "Suppresses" Book With Too Many Hyphens · · Score: 0

    So, on a standard US keyboard, is this sign a minus or a hyphen?: -

  21. Re:I blame Microsoft on Critical Git Security Vulnerability Announced · · Score: 1

    Right, because it's a daily problem I have that I want to put files called Polish and polish in the same directory. And I can't think of any way to differentiate them other than capitals.

    What a dumb argument.

    By the way, what about when you can't distinguish them by capitals? What if I want a file about my new table in the same directory as my table of figures? What do I do then?

  22. Re:I blame Microsoft on Critical Git Security Vulnerability Announced · · Score: 1

    Despite the fact that I think case-sensitivity is a Good Idea

    Why? I've never heard a single good argument in favour. With programming, you often want case sensitivity to distinguish between a public Name and a private name, but the same need isn't there with files, and case-sensitivity is just more likely to lead to mistakes. I say POSIX should be changed to prefer case-insensitive filesystems.

  23. Re:SVN? on Critical Git Security Vulnerability Announced · · Score: 2

    I have source trees that I can't check out of an SVN server on windows because either the files get overwritten by different case filenames being aliased onto the same file

    Windows' behaviour makes sense. What doesn't make sense is having Readme and readme in the same directory. What possible reason could one have for differentiating 2 files on nothing but case?

  24. Re:Georgia on To Fight Currency Mismatches, Steam Adding Region Locking to PC Games · · Score: 1

    I do not consider myself to be US-centric nor uneducated, but prior to the incident at the Winter Olympics in 2010 where a luge athlete from Georgia was killed during a training run [wikipedia.org], and here in Vancouver, the host city for the Olympics that year, this incident was pretty major news. I had no idea previously that there was evidently a country that was also called Georgia, although I had certainly heard of the US state by the same name.

    Sorry, but you sound pretty uneducated.

  25. Re:Open-source is no longer a threat to them on What Will Microsoft's "Embrace" of Open Source Actually Achieve? · · Score: 1

    But today, Microsoft doesn't care about Windows

    Them's pretty big words considering they still spend a huge amount of money developing and maintaining Windows on various different form factors.