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  1. Re:Er.. on Microsoft Will Allow Vista Reinstalls · · Score: 1

    Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software.
     
    Well, now that he has left Microsoft, lets hope he can fulfill this dream.

  2. Really? on Blu-ray's Hardware Woes Stacking Up · · Score: 1

    I hardly think that a few delayed drives are much of a woe for Blu-Ray. And the fact that the Playstation won't be arriving initially in as many units isn't too much of a problem.

    HDDVD has had delayed drives as well.

    I mean, I hate Sony as much as the next person, but this is really a non-story. I really hope Blu-Ray fails, but I not running around making up shit to help it on its way, and if I did, it would be better than this.

  3. Re:I love you... you love me... please bugger off. on Spam That Delivers a Pink Slip · · Score: 1

    Because the French are such a loving people.

  4. Re:Examine the code for themselves on Does Offshoring Threaten Combat Software? · · Score: 1

    Yes, obviously this guy should have none to never enter a zero. Or leaving it blank, that will kill the ship too. Or putting in a word, don't ever do that. And of course, everbody knows don't enter a exclamation mark, or a comma, dire consequences then. And don't press tab, that won't work. It is really the user who should take all responsibility, you can't expect the producer of the software to take into account stuff like this. There is a manual for a reason! I mean, if the guy hadn't have pressed anything, then the ship would be fine, so it is not Microsofts fault.

    At least, that is the way it works in the playground.

  5. Re:Hysterical rubbish on Does Offshoring Threaten Combat Software? · · Score: 1

    It is easy to fly of the handle on things like terrorism, and that is the reaction that the US had. Invading over countries doesn't automatically stop terrorism, in fact it may create more terrorism. Simply because most over countries deal with it in a different way, isn't really a case of abjecting their responsibility.

    The US is considered a bully because of the way they handled the events after the WTC attack. The US leaders had their own reasons for invading Iraq, and nothing to do with terrorism.

  6. Re:Hey asshole on Game Breakers · · Score: 1

    Maybe the should put a warning on the box - WARNING: half of the game is cutscenes.

  7. Re:Nuh-uh! on Venus's Surface May Be 1 Billion Years Old · · Score: 1

    It is easy to laugh at peoples' beliefs, much harder to understand them. (I should know, I laugh at them all the time!)

    Sheesh, I doubt the wafers cost 3 cents. What sort of mathematics are you doing there? More like 10 for a penny.

  8. Re:Colbert Report on YouTube Restores Comedy Central Clips · · Score: 1

    it's interesting that no one was batting an eye when the Colbert report freely used the Youtube clip of the guy riding his bike down the hill on fire. TV is free to "borrow" from us, but they don't want us to do the same?
     
    Your playground economics intrigues me, I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

  9. Re:GOOD NEWS! on IE7 Released As High-Priority Update · · Score: 1

    Please people, think about the tubes? They can't handle the pressure.

  10. Re:Bias in small claims court judges on How To Sue the Auto Dialers · · Score: 1

    You are being a little pedantic, that is why. Judges utilise common senes, and 7 days isn't that much? Were you out on the street, starving because of the delay? Maybe then you would have a case, but the 7 days worth of interest you would have missed out on at the bank isn't really a food reason to sue someone.

    The only bias is against pedantic little fools who love to sue everybody.

  11. Has this guy ever watched UK TV? on Google Ad Revenue To Top UK Broadcaster's · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Some of the best short films of the last century have been television advertisements... Even if some of these make the transition... online, they'll lack the spectacle of their TV equivalent."
     
    What a load of rubbish. Art, indeed. Yes, the high art that is Car Insurance adds and refinancing company adds - I swear, 50% of adds on UK tv consist of these two "products". A nodding dog, a red car... has art really become this?

  12. Re:Woah thalk about hypocrits on Microsoft Considers Pulling Out of China · · Score: 1

    Why is it that on Slashdot that Microsoft and the US are always considered the most evil anybody can ever be?
     
    When will you people stop spouting this rubbish? Slashdot is a bunch of people with different beliefs and opinions. Even you, Microsoft shill that you appear to be, are a part of Slashdot. Do you consider this to be true? If you really want to make a difference, then argue a particular point.

  13. Re:Y2K a joke?!?! on Prepared for Next Year's Time Change? · · Score: 1

    Before Y2k, a lot of systems were worked on to bring them to Y2k compliance. But, there were a lot of systems that weren't, outside of the USA and the UK. These systems had no problem with the date change, so therefore most people think Y2k was not a problem.

    I thought most people agree on this, that it was a waste?

  14. Re:The Internet Now has Over 100 Million Web Sites on The Internet Now has Over 100 Million Web Sites · · Score: 1

    Really? How can 99 Million Pron sites be bad?

  15. Re:I can't help but wonder but... on Bot Nets Behind Recent Spam Surge · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just to clarify, you can lose 8% a day, the Scammers can make 4-6% a day. I thought that I need to point this out, in case some silly fool gets the idea of following the scammers advice.

  16. Link? on Classified Wiki For U.S. Intelligence Community · · Score: 1

    ...and login details pleass??

    I would love to see what they have on this. I wonder if they use it to track individuals, each agecny adding their own knowledge. Could be useful.

    On another issue, I wonder if these Agencies have really adopted a mandate to co-operate. It is really in their interests not too, and claim the glory themselves. Even when they fail, they just blame it on lack of funds, and get more money.

  17. Re:Not noticing the increase on Bot Nets Behind Recent Spam Surge · · Score: 1

    Don't know if your are just talking rubbish or really lucky. I used to get about one a week with gmail, now I wouldn't be surprised to get 1 everyday. At least 4 or 5 a week.

    However thought of these stock tips spamming was a genius. There is no way they can be traced to a company, and still a chance of making some money. Bastard.

  18. Re:Well that's funny on Google Winning By Losing? · · Score: 1

    Yes, what hipocracy. One company does something, it is good. A different company does something else, it is bad. Please explain how is the hypocritical.

    People are wary and dislike Microsoft becuase they haven't buried there heads in the sand for the last 20 years. They have seen what Microsoft has done, the good and the bad, and they generally don't like it. This colours everything that Microsoft now does, as it should.

    If somebody beats you up everyday at school, and one day offers to carry your bags, what are you going to do?

    This has to be one of the most interesting comments I have seen in a while,
     
    Maybe you are reading the wrong site if you think this is interesting? We don't like slashdot, most people here don't hide their bias.

  19. Re:Except it rarely works that way on Google Winning By Losing? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, that is the problem with games like Chess and Go, they tend to even out over time. That is why the best way to test this theory is with a game like Scissors-Rock-Paper, since it is all over in one turn. A newbie can really surprise you there!

  20. Re:We have one of those on my block on Halloween Roundup · · Score: 1

    Don't take a picture, or upload a video to youtube or anything. Telling us what is on there has the same effect, why waist your time.

  21. Re:This makes me happy. on Microsoft Partners With Zend · · Score: 1

    If you know PHP, you can do pretty much anything, Python, asp, C#, coldfusion - they aren't that much different. Once you get the basic, it isn't that hard to move around (coming from someone who has done asp, coldfusion, ASP.NET in the last year for 3 different jobs)

  22. Re:WMP on Windows Media Player 11 Released · · Score: 1

    Well, to be fair that is trickt, unless you have the controls over the content playing.

    But, WMP has been ugly ever since 7, the ugliest POS that I have ever used. So much so, that someone actually went out and produced there own version of WMP6, called Media player classic

    This is what WMP should be.

  23. Re:You can already do this in IE7 on Google To Microsoft — Give Users Choices In Vista · · Score: 1

    Come on, nobody deserves to use that Microsoft POS (and I am not talking about cash registers here), by default or overwise. Sure, I understand that society is filled with all types, and some people like to be punished, but they should have to go out of the way to do it, not the other way around.

    Maybe in YOUR world, you use your Microsoft OS to load up your Microsoft browser to search the Microsoft search site and get in your Microsoft car and drive on Microsoft roads to go to the Microsoft shop and pick up a new version of Windows, but the rest of us don't want that.

  24. Re:I'd care more if... on Google To Microsoft — Give Users Choices In Vista · · Score: 1

    Agreed. The only thing worse that McAfee and Norton software is Microsofts software. And herein lies the problem.

  25. Re:No sympathy for McAfee and Symantec on Google To Microsoft — Give Users Choices In Vista · · Score: 1

    They are the biggest, the other really amount to nothing in the Corporate world. They could complain, but it wouldn't mean a great deal.

    The issue comes down to do you trust Microsoft to secure its OS or not - personally I don't. Micrsoft has made claims about secure OS before, but if the number and sophistication of vulnerabilites released is anything to go on, then it seems to be getting less secure, not more secure.

    Do you trust Microsoft, well do you, punk?