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  1. Re:Get rid of printers on Campaign To Remove Paper From Offices · · Score: 1

    No, they just connect the printer they brought in to the notebook.

  2. Re:They died when the definition of Netbook change on Does 2012 Mark the End of the Netbook? · · Score: 1

    Yup, it was Windows CE all over again *winces*

    FTFY

  3. Re:Why I never bought a netbook... on Does 2012 Mark the End of the Netbook? · · Score: 1

    >>Touchpads suck

    >- You are an idiot who can't use a keyboard.

    What does not liking touchpads have to do with not using a keyboard?

  4. Re:A Mature Local Machine Product vs Immature Clou on Google Docs Vs. Microsoft Word: an Even Matchup? · · Score: 1

    PSTricks is quite good for graphs as well. You have pst-plot and others for graphing functions. It also has support for bar graphs and pie charts.

    I'll post such an example if you want.

    Another, "Not in my big moment!" bug is that PowerPoint will not consistently render the same fonts in the same presentation if you move between computers and/or PowerPoint versions. It's a really nasty bug, and creeps up in the wierdest places.

    Oh, yeah, just let me use Beamer and no one gets hurt.

  5. Re:What constitution is this? on New Documents Detail FBI, Bank Crack Down On Occupy Wall Street · · Score: 1

    And the Intel 386 processor was not developed to run Linux, but dang if that Finnish guy didn't make it so.

  6. Re:A Mature Local Machine Product vs Immature Clou on Google Docs Vs. Microsoft Word: an Even Matchup? · · Score: 1

    Why do you use GnuPlot instead of PSTricks with LaTeX?

  7. Re:X10? on Linux, Apache, Perl, X10, Webcams... and Christmas Lights · · Score: 2

    To clarify my previous acknowledgement, I thought it meant X10 as in precursor to X11.

    Again, my bad.

  8. Oops on Linux, Apache, Perl, X10, Webcams... and Christmas Lights · · Score: 1
  9. X10? on Linux, Apache, Perl, X10, Webcams... and Christmas Lights · · Score: 3, Funny

    Was X10 even active when Linux was developed?

  10. Re:I've felt like this for years, too on Has Lego Sold Out? · · Score: 1

    Why should Americans take language advice from the losers at Yorktown?

  11. Re:I've felt like this for years, too on Has Lego Sold Out? · · Score: 1

    Even if "legos" weren't a word ( a position I would not take), the OP's reaction was wrong.

  12. Re:You're full of shit. Ever hear of RAII? on GNU Grep and Sed Maintainer Quits: RMS and FSF Harming GNU Project · · Score: 1

    I'd like to know which languages can automatically determine when a weak pointer can be used.

    In a language without pointers, never.

  13. Re:I've felt like this for years, too on Has Lego Sold Out? · · Score: 4, Informative

    >> I'm glad I kept most of my legos for when my son's old enough for them.

    > I take it you threw the grammar book out?

    As "son's" can be a contraction for "son is", I fail to see the problem.

  14. Re:man, that is stupid. cyber think crime, no than on NYPD To Identify 'Deranged' Gunmen Through Internet Chatter · · Score: 1

    Against second graders, maybe. Against an unarmed adult, not so much.

  15. Re:man, that is stupid. cyber think crime, no than on NYPD To Identify 'Deranged' Gunmen Through Internet Chatter · · Score: 1

    Except that the guy in China who tried to stab children didn't kill very many of them.

  16. Re:Not for jacking off? on Your Hands Were Made For Punching According To New Study · · Score: 5, Funny
  17. Not for jacking off? on Your Hands Were Made For Punching According To New Study · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not for jacking off?

  18. Re:I can relate. on Is the Flickr API a National Treasure? · · Score: 2

    Perhaps you should have done so when you were still in Congress, Mr. Wiener.

  19. Re:NCTC on NCTC Gets Vast Powers To Spy On U.S. Citizens · · Score: 2

    At least you can throw a rock at a terrorist.

  20. Re:Some of these IE bugs are things of beauty. on IE Flaw Lets Sites Track Your Mouse Cursor, Even When You Aren't Browsing · · Score: 1

    What, the Surface doesn't run Linux yet?

  21. Re:Time to send on North Korea's Satellite Is Out of Control · · Score: 1

    Only if he knows the password!

  22. Re:Some of these IE bugs are things of beauty. on IE Flaw Lets Sites Track Your Mouse Cursor, Even When You Aren't Browsing · · Score: 1

    Well, that pretty much solves the problem, doesn't it?

  23. Re:But on Darling: Run Apple OS X Binaries On Linux · · Score: 2

    Like WINE, Darling would provide the capability without Apple's OSX files. From the article:

    Darling must provide an ABI-compatible set of libraries/frameworks as those on OS X so it can parse the executable files for the Darwin kernel, load them into memory, and execute them without needing any code recompilation or other modifications for Linux.

  24. Re:oh boy ! on How Corruption Is Strangling US Innovation · · Score: 1

    Wasn't Bill Gates born with a million-dollar trust fund? Hardly middle class.

  25. Re:Non-renewable resource on Dirigible Airship Prototype Approaches Completion · · Score: 1

    But how does using helium in a dirigible consume the helium. It may be tricky to prevent it from escaping, but is it insurmountable?