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  1. Re:Do RTFA on Woz Worries Microsoft Is Now More Innovative Than Apple · · Score: 2, Funny

    Read?

    Wasn't it a video?

  2. Re:Gift horse = Mouth on Oracle Makes Red Hat Kernel Changes Available As Broken-Out Patches · · Score: 1

    One are of course free to not use GPL code if one doesn't like it.

  3. Re:Careful what you wish for on Microsoft Makes Direct X 11.1 a Windows 8 Exclusive · · Score: 1

    You don't use Linux right?

    Isn't the Intel driver within the kernel? So hard to be without that one.

    Personally I wouldn't care much about versions.

    And all distributions will run all the drivers or you've put yourself into the situation by running something utterly crazy and stupid just because you more or less wanted it.

  4. Re:By the time version 1 arrives, in 10 years ... on BeOS Clone Haiku Releases R1 Alpha 4 · · Score: 2

    Legion of the undead?

    We have that in the Amiga camp to. :D

  5. Re:Maybe he'll share a prison cell with Hans Reise on John McAfee Accused of Murder, Wanted By Belize Police · · Score: 1

    Big deal.

    You can always run defrag.

    (You might have to develop a utility for it yourself though.)

  6. Re:China will be an increasingly untenable place . on Google Outage Shows Risk of Doing Business In China · · Score: 1

    Gold is priced in anything.

    I can buy gold for SEK, I could likely trade gold for silver and if I offered you enough gold you'd sell me a house.

  7. Re:China will be an increasingly untenable place . on Google Outage Shows Risk of Doing Business In China · · Score: 0

    All mighty dollar?

    Somewhat of a stretch isn't it?
    http://goldprice.org/gold-price-history.html#10_year_gold_price

  8. Missing information on Samsung Hits Apple With 20% Price Increase · · Score: 1

    Also the contract is a long-term one running until 2014.

  9. Re:names are so cool, not! on The Release Candidate For Linux Mint 14 "Nadia" Is Out · · Score: 1

    No English or US one here:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin-derived_alphabet

    The idea wasn't to say US got a special one and voila, it happened to be the same as the English one.

    The idea was rather to point out that there existed a shit-load of alphabets of which US just happen to be using one combination of letters.

    There's no the alphabet.

  10. Re:names are so cool, not! on The Release Candidate For Linux Mint 14 "Nadia" Is Out · · Score: 0

    Here's a hint for you: N is the 14th letter of the alphabet.

    Depends on what alphabet you use.

    Which is relevant considering how short the US one will last.

  11. Re:It looks dated, is there a Unity option? on The Release Candidate For Linux Mint 14 "Nadia" Is Out · · Score: 1

    Why would you want that? I thought the point of Mint was having a Linux desktop with an interface that is not a piece of shit!

    Oh so it comes with VNC as desktop environment? :D

  12. Really, Slashdot on Color-Screen TI-84 Plus Calculator Leaked · · Score: 1

    I had the TI-85.

    You insensitive clod!

  13. Re:So what? on Microsoft Surface Touch Cover 'Splits Within Days' · · Score: 1

    A little about each. I don't take Slashdot too seriously. That would be hard. And I like joking. I don't like to be moderated troll but I won't care enough to not joke about it :)

    I run a Linux desktop myself atm :)

  14. Re:So what? on Microsoft Surface Touch Cover 'Splits Within Days' · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yeah, I thought that too.

    Phones with no reception and tablet and keyboard solutions which doesn't work as they should.

    Sounds like the rest of the world is finally catching up to the Linux desktop! Now all they need to do is to get the same mentality. "IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT YOU'RE FREE TO BUILD YOUR OWN / FIX IT YOURSELF!"

  15. Re:Almost infinite? on 'Treasure Trove' In Oceans May Bring Revolutions In Medicine and Industry · · Score: 1

    Guess Slipknot got this one right:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFJIBtqunHY

  16. Re:Not allowed! on 'Treasure Trove' In Oceans May Bring Revolutions In Medicine and Industry · · Score: 1

    Regarding the later picture I suppose fatter and older chicks.

    Anyway, vegan since 15+ years and lacto-ovo-vegetarian since about 25 year here but European and I think Peta is lame and have never understood this nudity crap.

    Guess it may be how US society and culture work but it's lame. "Look! Nude chick! I agree! Chicks should be nude!"

    Over here the information would be about actual animals. And back in the good days people would --removed due to shitty spying governments-- than get nekkid.

  17. Re:This is FUD on Nike+ FuelBand: Possibly a Big Security Hole For Your Life · · Score: 1

    pedometer

    o.0 That's disgusting!

    And a huge breach of my privacy. Now everyone can see it only reads 3 inches.

  18. Re:And that will also mark on GNOME 3.8 To Scrap Fallback Mode · · Score: 1

    The problem is this one only got 1 atm and that's not really enjoyable.

    With a new machine 8 or 16 GB wouldn't matter much since RAM is cheap anyway.

    And yeah, I can see how KDE would be very nice with enough RAM to run all that integration of data.

    Currently I run Razor-Qt with openbox as window manager (it can run with multiple ones) and I to have settled with Firefox for now. I used to dislike it due to the memory requirements but Opera is a much bigger offender now regardless of what they say about "bla bla adjust its memory usage", because it doesn't. If I break Firefox and restart it all the tabs shows up again but none of them LOADS until I click it. So the browser become leaner for a while. If I kill Opera and restart it it just reloads everything in the background and I'm back to what I previously killed.. And well, Chrome would be worst by design I suppose so no need to comment on that one.

    Guess I don't need the menus of Razor-Qt either and something even lighter would had worked but at least I prefer to have a clock and sound mixer because sometimes some video clip may have higher volume or whatever and it's convenient to have both for me. And Razor-Qt (and Enlightenment) are both pretty light-weight anyway. What I don't like about Enlightenment is that I can't choose to lock all widget settings or whatever to get rid of all those menus everywhere. It's ok that I can move and put things on top and such when I need it but I don't need to have all those options always available. And it make Enlightenment harder to use for someone not used to it because they get so many options. It would be better if I could leave them with a kiosk mode setup so to speak.

  19. Re:And that will also mark on GNOME 3.8 To Scrap Fallback Mode · · Score: 1

    You may also like to check Enlightenment and Razor-Qt. ... or if you have unlimited RAM KDE.

  20. Re:Shipping costs are rising that much? on Foxconn Sees New Source of Cheap Labor: The United States · · Score: 1

    It tends to fall apart after about a week for me so that sounds like a good deal.

    The (Foxcon made) iPhone?

    Would it really hold together longer if it was put together in the US?

  21. Re:poor choices for enforcement. on Foxconn Sees New Source of Cheap Labor: The United States · · Score: 1

    Doh.

    Close enough?

    Not even the same state it seems.

    Damn :)

    Oh well, they sound the same! To me :D

    I think cars and somewhere *removed due to ashamed from googling it*

  22. Re:And the next step? on Why Would a Mouse Need To Connect To the Internet? · · Score: 1

    My DeathAdder multiclicks and has done for years.

    Enjoy.

  23. Re:Learn design in Asia? on Foxconn Sees New Source of Cheap Labor: The United States · · Score: 1

    Oh, and ignorancy is a bliss.

    I suppose. Or a huge mistake?

  24. Re:Learn design in Asia? on Foxconn Sees New Source of Cheap Labor: The United States · · Score: 1, Informative

    Joke all you want but I bet today you'd be happy if the Japanese copied American cars rather than designing their own?

    And regarding the Lenovo vs Toshiba post above yours remember where each country is from.

    And while their new stealth jet may be copying of an American design and they got their high speed train designs by building parts and later copying them now they build their own. And got fast trains.

    They own what was once our Volvo cars. Huawei is about the same size as Ericsson. They do high voltage designs, construction equipment and so on.

    They are of course not inferior to any other people. They are many and they are up and raising.

    Soon you'll wish they was copying your designs rather than build better products.

  25. Re:poor choices for enforcement. on Foxconn Sees New Source of Cheap Labor: The United States · · Score: 1

    And that shoe seller we all know and love :)

    And Peggy doing the shopping!