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  1. Re:OOo failings on The Myth of Upgrade Inevitability Is Dead · · Score: 1

    I wasn't trolling.

    Just frustration at the excuses to continue paying the M$ tax and proliferate the closed format files on everyone else.

  2. Re:OpenOffice.org on The Myth of Upgrade Inevitability Is Dead · · Score: 1

    I don't know what features pugdk is missing, but I did have an experience with an Excel file from a client where a macro I needed to run wouldn't work

    Yes, that is a common excuse to continue lock in with M$.

    Insert rant about relying on macros instead of running your business reliably on a database.

  3. Re:OpenOffice.org on The Myth of Upgrade Inevitability Is Dead · · Score: -1, Troll

    What features do you think you need?

    Aside from being a M$ fanyboy?

  4. Re:Strange leap in logic... on The Myth of Upgrade Inevitability Is Dead · · Score: 0

    Yep, if Windows XP is "good enough", why would people flock to Linux anymore than Vista?

    Lack of virus?

  5. Re:OpenOffice.org on The Myth of Upgrade Inevitability Is Dead · · Score: 1

    Your failure is running M$ Office.

    Go get a copy of OpenOffice. http://www.openoffice.org/

  6. PhD from India is Cheaper on IT Job Without a Degree? · · Score: 1

    No degree?

    Shipping in a PhD is more cost effective than hiring you.

  7. Re:So shouldn't we just ignore them? on Greenpeace Slams Apple For Environmental Record · · Score: 1

    Why was this posted, then?

    Why indeed.

  8. Re:Mod up on Greenpeace Slams Apple For Environmental Record · · Score: 1

    I wish I had mod points for this.

  9. Re:How Music Used to Be on At Atlantic Records, Digital Sales Surpass CDs · · Score: 1

    I simply don't like the music produced right now, and I don't think I'm alone.

    You mean you didn't buy the Dr. Horrible soundtrack?

  10. Re:Tough shit. on At Atlantic Records, Digital Sales Surpass CDs · · Score: 1, Troll

    So there were NO good acts or albums from the late 90s? Seriously? None?

    Nope. Nothing at all. Complete wasteland.

  11. Re:the consumers just need to do their part on Bay Area To Install Electric Vehicle Grid · · Score: 1

    Also note that many charging stations that were put in around the bay area for those EVs are still in place and working.

  12. Re:Any bets for the first major blackout? on Bay Area To Install Electric Vehicle Grid · · Score: 1

    The build-out we really need is an interstate-HVDC grid to deliver renewable power across the country from wherever it's generated. This can't be done at the state level, and will require action by Obama.

    The utilities are already asking for govt money to do this.

    Why can't the utilities use their existing profits for this?

  13. Re:Note to non-Americans on McDonalds Files To Patent Making a Sandwich · · Score: 1

    The non-Americans come into McDonalds and ask for a Whopper.

  14. Re:Just what we need, a robotic McDonald's. on McDonalds Files To Patent Making a Sandwich · · Score: 1

    Don't you think you get that standard anyway?

  15. Re:Indeed PD Greed Needs Speedsters to Speed on New iPhone Apps Help Drivers Beat Speed Traps · · Score: 1

    If you are rich, you sign up for "traffic school" and the point never appears on your license.

  16. Re:Sergeant Stronginthearm says... on New iPhone Apps Help Drivers Beat Speed Traps · · Score: 1

    You must not drive in California. You'll never see anyone from "law enforcement" driving slower than the speed limit. Especially when they are late for lunch.

  17. Re:Too Many Traps on New iPhone Apps Help Drivers Beat Speed Traps · · Score: 1

    Drive up Hwy 101. Between King City and Salinas the Monterey division of the CHP usually have a half dozen cars doing nothing but sitting with radar guns waiting to see who doesn't notice the speed limit change to 65.

  18. Re:I refuse to believe.... on Torvalds's Former Company Transmeta Acquired and Gone · · Score: 1

    Worked on?

    More like he was hired to sit in an office and be their "star" power.

  19. Re:Should it really cost as much as it does? on The ISS Marks 10 Years In Space · · Score: 1

    And the Apollo program was shut down due to all the funding going into dropping bombs in Vietnam.

  20. Re:Young Star Trek on New Star Trek Trailer · · Score: 1

    I really DON'T want to see you in spandex.

  21. STARGATE!!!! on Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now we just need to find Daniel Jackson.

  22. Re:jabber on Good Open Source, Multi-Platform, Secure IM Client? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sssssh. Sun employees don't know that Java isn't the center of the universe.

  23. Re:jabber on Good Open Source, Multi-Platform, Secure IM Client? · · Score: 5, Informative
  24. Re:Ground troops and the state's ability to enforc on Kentucky Judge Upholds State's Gambling-Domain Grab · · Score: 1

    sitting around drinking coffee and eating donuts.

  25. Re:Cause & Effect on UK UFO Sightings Declassified, Still No Intergalactic Relations · · Score: 3, Funny

    Jesus was an alien pregnancy experiment?