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  1. Re:Linux needs to get its act together on Linux's iPod Generation Gap · · Score: 2, Funny
    Apple puts out a proprietary, defective-by-design consumer electronics product and won't port the required software to platforms other than Mac OS or Windows and it's somehow a Linux shortcoming?


    Well, yes. The strength of the OSS movement is that, technically, anything can be done. The fact that this has yet to be done points at a larger problem - the people who can, don't.

    Say iPod support is created by this time next year. By then, the Next Cool Thing will be around. How long for Linux support for that? And the next one?

    The goal posts move quickly. Linux needs more people to erm...kick balls.
  2. Re:Interesting interpretation via Bungie on The Indie Game Commandments · · Score: 1
    Can't comment. Maybe Stubbs suffered from this.

    Stubbs suffered from being a bit dull and boring. But hurrah for fabulous cut scenes! Add more shiny!
  3. Solution. on Compress Wikipedia and Win AI Prize · · Score: 5, Funny

    Removing all the incorrect and inaccurate data from the Wikipedia sample should "compress" it down to at least 20mb.

    Then just apply your personal favourite compression utility.

    I like lharc, which according to Wikipedia was invented in 1904 as a result of bombarding President Lincoln, who plays Commander Tucker in Star Trek: Enterprise with neutrinos.

  4. Re:These...are...great on Star Trek... Inspirational Posters? · · Score: 1

    They're a bit hit and miss. The ones which are just nerd jokes or mocking things like 1970's television production values compared to those of today are rather weak.

    http://echosphere.net/star_trek_insp/insp_sarek.jp g Sarek is just great though, obviously.

  5. Re:Typos on DIY Random Number Generator · · Score: 5, Funny

    The "article" was clearly written by a Random English Generator, powered by tritium and chapstick.

  6. Re:Digitimes is not a good predictor. on Merom in MacBook and MacBook Pros in September? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Digitimes may be rubbish, but nothing beats a self-submitted story which is basically just a link to your own advert-covered blog with a few extra words arranged around a link to...Digitimes.

  7. Correction. on Google Launches PayPal Rival · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "The service allows you to track all your orders and shipping in one place"

    Should read as:

    "The service allows Google to track all your orders and shipping in one place"

  8. Re:Wanna bet? on ISPs to Create Database to Combat Child Porn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anyway, it's just another case of "think of the children!!1"

    If anything, I think the point is to NOT think of the children. At all. STOP IT SCUMBAG.

  9. Re:Advertising opportunities on Internet Giving Homeless a Home · · Score: 1
    "if you have some change give generously"

    No. Give generously to certified charities with proven success records in assisting the homeless. Throwing money at street dwellers might make you feel good during the remainder of the walk from your office to Starbucks but it achieves very little else.

  10. Be careful! on Google to Launch Government Search Site · · Score: 5, Funny
    It is just a phishing site! Once you search for stuff, it will inform you that the information is only accessible by Government employees.

    "Please enter your employee login and password to continue."

    Those sneaky Googlers...

  11. Huzzah! on RIAA Claims P2P Has Been Contained · · Score: 1

    Digital downloads may be growing but the rife-with-piracy analogue download sector TOWERS over it! What cunning monkeys the RIAA is, with their words!

  12. Luckily... on Nuclear Agency Worker Information Hacked · · Score: 5, Funny
    "An NNSA spokesman was not available for comment."

    Shouldn't be too hard to track down now, though. Phew!

  13. Missing some other stuff from the 1920's. on Dvorak on Our Modern World · · Score: 1

    Like weird rambling twits being locked up by the State and electrocuted back to "health".

  14. Re:Hmmm on On Orbital Fuel Stations · · Score: 5, Funny

    "$9 a gallon? Let's just orbit a bit longer till we find a cheaper one."

  15. In other news... on Sun to Cut 5000 Jobs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Remaining Sun employees to be paid in Grid computing hours.

  16. An open letter to Sweden. on ThePirateBay.org Raided and Shut Down · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please let me finish freeing the flow of information, specifically Season 4 of Family Guy. Thank you.

  17. Re:mmmm monopolies... on Microsoft in Talks To Acquire Ebay · · Score: 2, Funny
    I am hereby continuing to withhold the £13.57 of eBay fees I have outstanding. That will teach them to displease people on Slashdot!

    But how will I sell my fabulous Xena: Warrior Princess merchandise now?

  18. Re:Are there TWO track pads? on First Photos of MIT $100 Laptop · · Score: 1

    It is for pen input, to practise handwriting.

  19. Poor old Sun. on Sun Announces $100k Contest for Grid App Developers · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I don't think even $100k of hooker time would generate any interest in their platform.

  20. Re:Only 512 MB of RAM on Apple Unveils New Macbook · · Score: 1

    Piffle. I run 10.2.8 in 192Mb on a G3 - it is fine. And for the last few days I have been running 10.4.6 on a G5 with only 256Mb and that is entirely usable too.

  21. Re:New MacBook pretty close to the Pro in specs on Apple Unveils New Macbook · · Score: 1
    The biggest difference I see is the display resolution.. 1280x800, like the older PowerBooks.

    1280 x 854.

  22. Re:OGG support on New Windows Media Player Leaks · · Score: 2, Funny

    WMP users don't care about things like OGG. The most pressing question is - will there be loads of supercool skins to download? Phwoar!

  23. What Word 2007 really needs. on Word 2007 to Feature Built-in Blogging · · Score: 3, Funny

    1) More fonts. 2) More clip art. 3) Themes. Then it can tap into all that teeny blogging energy. "It looks like you are whining about your life. Would you like me to set your "Now Listening To:" music tag to something appropriate?"

  24. I rock, all else sucks. on Ex-AppleCare Employee Describes Life Inside Apple · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hello and welcome to my blog. Just want to whine about how I work in a crappy job I think I am too good for. Not only am I too good for the job, I am way better than everyone else there. Which explains why I have not risen so fast to the top of the company that the resultant nosebleed is dripping onto Steve Jobs' hair (which is a toupe, by the way - YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST FROM THE BEST GUY IN THE WORLD).

    Not only am I great at everything, I am such a cold chap that I make everybody else cry due to my brilliance. I would laugh at their weakness but hey...I am just too cool.

    Urgh.

    What is the difference between this guy and waiters who snigger at customers who choose bad wine? The former has a blog, that's what.

    I am now going to go click on his Google ads a couple of hundred thousand times and have his account suspended for click fraud. He made me waste four and a half years reading his Maddox-style crap.

  25. Re:I hate defending MS, but.. on Windows Defense on IE7 Search is No Defense · · Score: 1
    Google should go out and make it's own browser, then put it's search engine as default if they don't want to pay money for that right..

    Then make the Google site accessible only using their own browser and deploy IE bugs and holes to hijack and trick visitors into stalling GBrowser. IT'S CRAZY ENOUGH TO WORK!