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  1. Re:Burnt by early adoption, again. on Mozilla Will Stop Developing and Selling Firefox OS Smartphones (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I have no desire to go back to Android and an iPhone is out of my price range, so I guess I'll cross over to the dark side and get a cheap Lumia when the current handset dies. :(

    Better be quick. Windows Phone's market share keeps slipping, it's now under 2%, no one should be surprised when they discontinue it in a year or two.

  2. Careful with the "black fraud day". on 'Twas the Week Before the Week of Black Friday · · Score: 1

    Here's an example of how deceiving those ads can be. Best Buy will have a 128GB flash drive for $19.99, discounted from the regular price of $99.99. Great deal, huh? Not really, as Amazon has the same drive right now for $32.44, and the list price is $52.99. Meaning, Best Buy had marked up their price to make the discount look much better than it actually is.

  3. Re:Using 'fewer' in sentence. on SteamOS Gaming Performance Lags Well Behind Windows (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Ugh, you grammar nazis. I really couldn't care fewer.

  4. Anyone surprised? on Explosions and Multiple Shootings In Paris, Possible Hostages (cnn.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    They let the muslim hordes in, it was clear that some nasty shit would happen. But noooooo, to state the obvious is prejudiced.

    Reconquista 2 when?

  5. Re:ATTENTION PEOPLE OF SLASHDOT on Boot Camps Introducing More Women To Tech (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    GIBLET MONI PLOS

  6. JJTrek != Star Trek on New Star Trek TV Series Coming In 2017 (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    >new Star Trek series
    Yay.
    >from the producer of JJTrek
    Boo.

    To hell with this crap. Better just watch the fan-made New Voyages.

  7. Re:Anything can be stable with enough drugs on Linux 4.3 Released As Stable; Improves On Open-Source Graphics, SMP Performance (lkml.org) · · Score: 1

    Drugs, violence, and duck tape. Any of them is the solution to anything.

  8. Re:On "concentrating on more than just arcade game on MAME Emulating a Sonic the Hedgehog Popcorn Machine (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    And the word "concentrate" is used in the opposite sense of what concentrate actually means.

  9. Re:Makes sense on Square Enix To Concentrate On Remaking Their Back Catalog · · Score: 1

    They'd rather just exploit those famous brands on pachinko machines, I guess.

  10. Re:Makes sense on Square Enix To Concentrate On Remaking Their Back Catalog · · Score: 1

    >Konami
    >doomed

    People get this wrong. Konami is a rather large corporation. They're getting out of gaming because their other business are safer and more profitable: real estate, vacation resorts, fitness clubs, and so on.

  11. Forget Square, gimme Enix on Square Enix To Concentrate On Remaking Their Back Catalog · · Score: 1

    I'd rather have a modern remake of the Soul Blazer series. (Yeah, I know it was actually developed by Quintet.)

  12. Re:Psh on Square Enix To Concentrate On Remaking Their Back Catalog · · Score: 3, Informative

    There are composite / S-Video to HDMI converters, have you tried those? Check on eBay, they're not too expensive.

  13. Re:buy apple, macs don't need service on Ask Slashdot: Good Subscription-Based Solution For PC Tech Support? · · Score: 0

    Only difference between them and a PC is the OS.

    Yeah, and? The OS was always the point of a Mac.

  14. Re:It's not an error on Vostochny Launch Building Built To the Wrong Size · · Score: 2

    Well, it is rumored that the Concorde team put in circulation a set of blueprints with errors because they expected the Soviets to steal those designs for the Tu-144.

  15. Re:America on DHS Detains Mayor of Stockton, CA, Forces Him To Hand Over His Passwords · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The war is over. The terrorists won.

  16. Re:No microSD slot. No, thanks. on Google Shows Off 2 New Nexus Phones, a New Pixel, and More · · Score: 2

    Ditto here. I would never buy a phone without microSD.

  17. Re:Have you tried Mozilla Firefox OS? on FTC Begins Investigating Google For Antitrust Violations Over "Home Screen Advantage" · · Score: 1

    Should you blame the OS, or the fact that the hardware is atrociously low-end?

  18. Re:Cause of death on RIP: Tech Advocate and Obama Advisor Jake Brewer · · Score: 1

    Mind you, Segway had a glitch that could cause the wheels to reverse direction suddenly.

  19. Re:No Mac? on Apple Product Event Highlights · · Score: 1

    Well, if the Mac dies, there goes the only reason why I'd ever give Apple a dime.

  20. No Mac? on Apple Product Event Highlights · · Score: 0

    > Apple Watch
    > iPad
    > Apple TV
    > iPhone

    Zero fucks given.

  21. Re:Are you selling another browserbook? on YouTube Reportedly Bypassing Ad Blockers On Google Chrome · · Score: 1

    Don't they make Android-based netbooks anymore?

  22. Re:Fuck Microsoft on Windows Telemetry Rolls Out · · Score: 1

    In Soviet America...

  23. Re:Greatest OS that got no respect? on The Long Reach of Windows 95 · · Score: 1

    IBM was really to blame for that failure.

    Indeed. I remember reading about how OS/2 was far more sophisticated than Windows... then I saw IBM selling PCs loaded with Windows. Something was clearly wrong there: if they wouldn't put their weight behind their own system, who would?

  24. As we joked back then... on The Long Reach of Windows 95 · · Score: 1
  25. What's the big deal on GitHub Desktop Launches To Replace Mac and Windows Apps · · Score: 1

    So they replaced two apps with two other apps... it's called an update, everyone does it all the time, what's the big deal?