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  1. Re:I, for one, welcome our... on Apple Updates iMac, iLife, .Mac · · Score: 1

    So gushingly glad you made the effort to post that.

    New iMac looks pretty sweet, though not yet convinced by that keyboard.

  2. Re:Translation: on Spore to Ship 'When It's Done' And Not Before · · Score: 3, Funny

    My accountant?

  3. Re:Uh... What? on Music From DNA Patented · · Score: 2, Funny

    Make that Barry White, thankyouverymuch.

  4. Re:Fedora Red Hat on $150 Linux Laptop for the Masses · · Score: 1

    SPLITTERS!

  5. Re:Hear, hear. Build a regular damned computer on The Next-Gen iMac With Brushed Aluminum In August? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Fortunately, you're not alone in this, and that's why the G4 Cube sold so well. Oh, wait.

  6. You want another example? on Swarm Theory Makes National Geographic · · Score: 2

    See how many "I for one welcome our hivemind overlords" type posts we get with this story.

  7. Re:Some Wiis did have issues on The Man Who Went Through 11 Xbox 360s · · Score: 2, Funny

    And IIRC one very dead puppy.

  8. Re:Even funnier. on Windows-Based iPhone Rival for Business Users · · Score: 1

    So, when folding the tin foil, did you go under or over the main crease?

    I'm making a hat just like yours!

  9. Re:no alternative on Alternatives To Adobe's Creative Suite? · · Score: 1

    Photoshop has a learning curve too. I guess that's because it's professional grade software, and not an upgraded version of mspaint.

    It isn't for "Programmers who want to draw some icons" unless those programmers are also properly trained artists or designers who happen to hold a license, and saying that PS sucks because you can't use it is ridiculous.

    What, should we ban helicopters next because you don't hold a pilots license?

  10. The source.... on Holocaust Dropped From Some UK Schools · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...is the Daily Mail. The most hate-filled right-wing rag we have here (it's referred to locally as the Daily Hatemail).

    This is the sort of "journalism*" wiling to blame paedophilia for rising house prices, and frankly I would never believe a single thing they say, nor anything their readers say unless it was backed up by at least 3 independent sources.

    And even then, I'd still take it with a metric ton of salt

    *Any good editor would call it an opinion piece, and any good editor would bin it and sack the writer responsible.

  11. Re:Messenger on the 360 on Xbox 360 Spring 2007 Dashboard Update Hands-On · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, its something I'll use. Complaining about a free feature you may or may not use is somewhat pointless, don't you think?

  12. Ehh? What's going on? on 3-D Virtual Maps For the Blind · · Score: 5, Funny

    Force fields? Holographic maps? Invisibility cloaks?

    How long was I asleep?

  13. Re:Monty Python anyone? on Talking CCTV to Scold Offenders in UK · · Score: 1

    Yeah, except nothing like this is being proposed. The only way something like this would happen is if smoking in a public place is made illegal, and at that point it doesn't matter if it's a camera, a policeman or a seventy foot tall mechanised horror telling you not to.

    And FWIW, I actually live in the UK, have done since birth and war permitting will die here. Personally I find the CCTV makes me feel safer, regardless of whether or not I actually am, and this is an interesting progression (though perhaps not the one I'd personally go for, as only people who normally obey the law will obey the cameras)

  14. Re:The BLOB! on DARPA Planning Liquid Robots · · Score: 1

    No, they were funny.

  15. Re:Does Vista do anything right? on HardOCP Spends 30 Days With Vista · · Score: 1

    Somebody clearly hasn't used Spotlight.

    I organise my stuff properly too, but there is something uniquely nice about finding documents that are literally years old and 10 folders deep using a single well-chosen word.

    Of course, this is /., so the fact it has a GUI and wasn't written by punchcard means it's the devil. *sighs*

  16. Re:Billie Piper on Doctor Who Series Four Is A Go · · Score: 1

    The worst thing to happen to comedy in the last five years, and I include Little Britain in that.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_TateIf you must...

  17. Re:But will Microsoft buy Konami? on Microsoft Says Live Intact, No Interest in Take Two · · Score: 1

    *facepalm*

    Microsoft Game Studios. Not Metal Gear Solid (though I would like MGS4 on 360, so I have no reason at all to buy a PS3. But that's a different subject altogether)

  18. Re:"That's an `i', you idiot!" "Oh, right. `Bingle on Microsoft Says Live Intact, No Interest in Take Two · · Score: 1

    Yes, but it is a Rare event for a MGS buyout to actually turn out a good thing.

  19. Re:Billie Piper on Doctor Who Series Four Is A Go · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well - As a sensible human being who pays a TV license - Billie Piper was a pretty good assistant IMHO, but I think Catherine Tate should die in a fire.

  20. Witches? on Gangs on the Internet · · Score: 3, Funny

    "In order to understand any subculture, be it al-Qaida, witches, devil worshippers or gangs, you have to be able to know their own language."

    Witches? Devil-worshippers?

    Is this from the Nation Gun Crime Research Centre or the Ordo Hereticus?

  21. I nearly went for an MSci in Robotics... on Preparing for a Career in Robotics? · · Score: 1

    ...in fact, I did. Got accepted too.

    Then a bit of further research revealed there were literally fuck all jobs in the field, and the univeristy s star Robotics student had only managed to get a job a Stationery factory. The same company that provided all of the University's stationery, I might add.

    I'm now about to embark on a Degree in Conservation Biology and Ecology. There may be just as many jobs (read: zero), but at least I'll be doing something worthwhile.

    Unless you are deadly serious and know you can find a niche in a sector where there are no niches, I wouldn't bother mate.

  22. Re:Lawsuit on iRobot Scooba Exposed · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't that be:
    "Sarcasm is ward"?

  23. Re:and then what? on Using Laptops to Steal Cars · · Score: 1

    I live here (England), and have done since birth, and I assure you, you are either talking shit, or never ventured out of Central London.

  24. "Americans Are Seriously Sick" on Americans Are Seriously Sick · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whereas Canadians are "x-treme", and the French are "to the max"

  25. Re:Brilliant! on Microsoft May Delay Windows Vista Again · · Score: 1