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  1. Re:Don't you know... on Motorola Is Listening · · Score: 1

    yes it was. It was blur without the ui. Which is exactly what it is. I looked into buying the phone back in the day. I didn't because of blur.

  2. Re:Well, on Steve Ballmer Replaces Don Mattrick As Xbox One Chief · · Score: 1

    Thsoe aren't the good old days of MS. The good days are when they made Basic for every possible PC. And licnesned DOS to anyone who wanted it. That was good software back in the day.

  3. Re:Could it work as a runtime on other phones? on Firefox OS Smartphones Launching, But Will Anyone Buy One? · · Score: 2

    What Mozilla really wants to do with Firefox os, is to allow that to happen. It wants to push open web standards to the point where a "native" app and a html 5 app are equally capable. its not trying, nor does it want to create a Firefox runtime. Its trying to make HTML5 better for all HTML5 capable browsers.

  4. Re:To heck with the WOPR! on Buy the WarGames IMSAI 8080 and Possibly Impress Ally Sheedy · · Score: 1

    Even as a 4 year old watching the movie I was confused about that...

  5. Re:Long story, short... on Monty Suggests a Business-Friendly License That Trends Open · · Score: 1

    It will make sense, if the software it licenses is any good. No one would care about GPL or BSD if there weren't already many good programs licensed by them. I mean, how many people really use the PHP license outside of PHP?

  6. Re:Still not Stallman-approved. on AMD Overhauls Open-Source Linux Driver · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't understand why simply putting the closed source firmware on the card suddenly makes it ok for free software. Same code, just different home.

  7. Re:Oh, gag me. on Why Engineering Freshmen Should Take Humanities Courses · · Score: 1

    Everyone that didn't go there, yes.

  8. Re:Oh, gag me. on Why Engineering Freshmen Should Take Humanities Courses · · Score: 1

    My University did require everyone to take two semesters of Calc and two science courses. Calc was watered down a little, it was the same calc that bio majors had to take. There was also an odd Physics for Nurses class that was so very very wrong on basic kinetics. Humanities for non majors were also watered down for us however. Intro to visual arts was a slide show class, and Intro to music was just listening and talking about music. Overall I think it was a good mix.

  9. Re: A great win for FreeBSD on PlayStation 4 Will Be Running Modified FreeBSD · · Score: 0, Troll

    You expect, but it's not at all required. If you want code back, use a different license.

  10. Re:Gentoo on Are You Sure This Is the Source Code? · · Score: 1

    -funroll-loops, the breakfast of champions.

  11. Re:If ever there was a role for drones... on U.S. House Wants 'Sustained Human Presence On the Moon and the Surface of Mars' · · Score: 3, Interesting
  12. Re:Can't they get him out on One Year Since Assange Took Refuge in Ecuadorian Embassy · · Score: 1

    Getting into a limo would be possible. What would he do after that? If they see him go in, and he leaves the embasy, the Brittish can pull over the limo. Even if they don't he has to leave the country somehow, and they control all the exits

  13. Re:Microsoft killed FoxPro at 1,500,000 users. on Google's Crazy Lack of Focus: Is It Really Serious About Enterprise? · · Score: 1

    Microsoft supposedly surveyed Visual Foxpro devs prior to the .NET rollout. They preferred not changing the language to make it .NET compatible. That signed its death warrant. We aggressively migrated away from it at that point.

  14. Re:Slashdot has plenty of fanboys and trolls... on KWin Maintainer: Fanboys and Trolls Are the Cancer Killing Free Software · · Score: 1

    Yeah, this ^. Slashdot would be much better off, if it had a better moderation system. I know the original operators tried hard to strike the right balance, but they did not come to the realization that Martin did. Slashdot would have been much better, if they had.

  15. Re:Verizon does have the best coverage on 2013 U.S. Wireless Network Tests: AT&T Fastest, Verizon Most Reliable · · Score: 1

    Why do you want to keep you plan? Grandfathered unlimited data? The "discounted" phone is supposed to be the carrot that keeps you on a two year contract, not the contract being the carrot for the phone purchase.

  16. Re:Which one is more NSA-friendly? on 2013 U.S. Wireless Network Tests: AT&T Fastest, Verizon Most Reliable · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The one without wires.

  17. Re:And? on MS To Indie Devs: You Have a To Have a Publisher · · Score: 1

    Microsoft has been funneling everything through their marketing, so we don't have much of a choice. Due to this, What they are saying is dependent on how they are saying it.

  18. Re:Great for some apps (see netflix blog) on SSDs: The New King of the Data Center? · · Score: 1

    1995 Civics do not go 0-60 in 6.8 seconds. Maybe they did in 1995, but not now. At least *mine* did not. It was much closer to 15 seconds. I guess you had to be my passenger to get that reference, s/Civic/yugo/g

  19. Re:Great for some apps (see netflix blog) on SSDs: The New King of the Data Center? · · Score: 1

    I don't understand the confusion, maybe a car analogy will help.

    John smith is switching to a new Mustang from a mid 90's civic to reduce his merge time. This represents a huge savings over buying a Porsche. Make sense now?

  20. Re:iRobU on Cisco and iRobot Create Sheldonbot-Like Telepresence System · · Score: 1

    They're not over my head, they're just not funny. The level of intelligence required to understand the premise of a joke is in no way corrilated to the humor. It just provides cover and a sense of eliteness for people who don't understand commedy to say "It must go over your head".

  21. Re:Awesome on AMD Making a 5 GHz 8-Core Processor At 220 Watts · · Score: 2

    i think it would work better running a heated swimming pool, or a grill. But to each their own.

  22. Re:iRobU on Cisco and iRobot Create Sheldonbot-Like Telepresence System · · Score: 1

    You're example of the show's wonderful humor is the line "With all due respects, Dr. Cooper, but are you on crack?" ? wow. That's a great one there... I'm sure you had to be there. ... OR ON CRACK*.

    *See what i did there? Not funny at all.

  23. Re:iRobU on Cisco and iRobot Create Sheldonbot-Like Telepresence System · · Score: 2

    Obviously you're going to get flame baited here, but those of us that enjoy art would agree. The show sucks. Can't watch it. Its the worst sitcom I've seen in years. It has the quality writing, acting and directing of a Disney Channel show.

  24. Re:What a Simple World You Live In on India To Develop Military Robots For Warfare · · Score: 1

    Your reading comprehension sucks. His point was that we didn't start the war in Afghanistan, not that Afghanistan wasn't a foreign country. The argument is that 9/11 was effectively started by Afghanistan that supported the terror network that launched the attack.

    Not that I agree/disagree with any other points either of you made.

  25. Re:India? Robots in the front line? on India To Develop Military Robots For Warfare · · Score: 1

    No, when there is no political cost to body bags, you develop a strategy similar to China's Korean war strategy. Send waves of unarmed soldiers towards the enemy until the enemy runs out of bullets, then send in the soldiers with bullets. That's a zero political cost for body bags offensive. India has never done that. But they could, with robots!