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  1. Re:BSOD as a replacement feature? on The State of ReactOS's Crazy Open Source Windows Replacement · · Score: 1

    bigger than margin of error, Linux Desktop has about half the market share of Windows Vista (1.6% vs. 3.3%) Which is also the same as market share of Mac OSX 8D

    People were forced to take the Window 8 with new machines, those who can choose will take the 7 every time. That's the funny thing about any win 8 market share numbers, 80% of that are pissed they have it. I work with mostly Windows IT professionals and the ALL say windows 8 is rubbish.

    I speak as user who had choice. I have Win 7 in a vm for taxes and to run an old film scanner. I'll run that until 2020 when it's EOL too. If Win 9 fixes the botches that 8.1 did not then I'll consider upgrading.

  2. Re:Not sure who the target audience would be. on The State of ReactOS's Crazy Open Source Windows Replacement · · Score: 1

    mobile Linux might just sneak around behind and bite the desktop in the butt

  3. Re:BSOD as a replacement feature? on The State of ReactOS's Crazy Open Source Windows Replacement · · Score: 1

    Strange, on the planet where I live and have a job with servers of both linux and windows, the ms windows sometimes need rebooting.'

    I notice there are many stable mobile devices not running windows but the linux kernel

  4. Re:An opportune time on Typhoon Haiyan Continues To Scourge Southeast Asia · · Score: 1

    not irrelevant, we're speaking of reality versus the ideals between your ears. the police have no obligation to protect you, already decided in court. the Federal government has no obligation to take care of you in emergency, nor to protect you as individual, nor to reimburse you for lost property. very deep truths there.

  5. Re:Don't worry guys on Chinese Bitcoin Exchange Vanishes, Taking £2.5m of Coins With It · · Score: 1

    bitcoins aren't money, at best they are coupons taken by some stores. you can only sell them as long as their is a buyer

  6. Re:Recurring theme? on Chinese Bitcoin Exchange Vanishes, Taking £2.5m of Coins With It · · Score: 1

    very much tied together, some banks were liquidated instead of being bailed out. Depositors paid from the insurance

  7. Re:Recurring theme? on Chinese Bitcoin Exchange Vanishes, Taking £2.5m of Coins With It · · Score: 0

    bitcoins aren't money, bitcoin exchanges aren't banks, bitcoins "value" (assuming you either have a buyer or a place willing to take them) fluctuates.

    those that use them deserve what they get, even lower on the chain of that which can hold value than a central bank's fiat

  8. oh yes, Windows is much more complex, needing about twice the resources and memory to get the same job done as a Linux or BSD, in between siezeups needing a reboot. truly a powerhouse.

  9. Re:An opportune time on Typhoon Haiyan Continues To Scourge Southeast Asia · · Score: 1

    oh, where in the Constitution does it say that the Federal government is to respond to disasters (other than attack by enemies) at all? Most of its history, it had no means to do so anyway.

  10. Re: Whatever on Physicists Smash Record For Wave-Particle Duality · · Score: 1

    but it is turtles all the way down, so like electrons, we really only observe a turtle-shaped hole in the sea of turtles

  11. Re: Whatever on Physicists Smash Record For Wave-Particle Duality · · Score: 1

    no, you are confused. this is not the size of an object, but uncertainty in position. for a turtle at normal velocities, and for your body, that "de Broglie" wavelength is quite small

  12. Re:Jingoism on World War II's Last Surviving Doolittle Raiders Make Their Final Toast · · Score: 0

    puppet state - any time I saw Bush holding hands with arab leader, it seemed, not to put too fine a point on it, that our president was what in baseball parlance would be called "the catcher"

  13. Re:Funny that on Thor: The Dark World — What Did You Think? · · Score: 1

    $5 and wonderful slashdot karma will get you a coffee at starbucks

  14. Re:An opportune time on Typhoon Haiyan Continues To Scourge Southeast Asia · · Score: 1

    FEMA hands out bags of ice. As we learned from Katrina, the national guard keeps people who would help out of the area with guns, because they are there to preverse the Order (with a captial 'O', in the sense as Hitler used the word) Get a clue pal, if you're looking for The Government to save you, you're fucked.

    How long would it take We the People to rebuild, is the question. How prepared are you for a disaster?

  15. Re:Donation link on Typhoon Haiyan Continues To Scourge Southeast Asia · · Score: 1

    what utter nonsense, there are people managing organizations with much more complexity for 1/4th the wages.

  16. Re:Funny that on Thor: The Dark World — What Did You Think? · · Score: 2

    when your ad blocker is adjusted correctly this site disappears entirely. best of luck with that

  17. Re:it lacked extensionalism on Thor: The Dark World — What Did You Think? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    but it will make a wonderful overnight $1 DVD rental? that's how I watch any blockbusters, if I watch them at all

  18. Re:I don't know how to feel about this. on EPA Makes Most Wood Stoves Illegal · · Score: 1

    I like the smell of neighborhood burning wood, and used to heat my house that way before I moved. It could very well be the issues of allergies and respiratory infections due to circulating air systems are worse than any wood combustion particulate pollution

  19. Re:Stop subsidizing junk mail on US Postal Service To Make Sunday Deliveries For Amazon · · Score: 1

    those businesses are the majority customers of the USPS, you are not. thus, the junk mail will continue

  20. Re:London Or Pea Soup Fog Caused By Fine Particula on EPA Makes Most Wood Stoves Illegal · · Score: 1

    you are the one in needing of a couple neurons to rub together between your ears. The health warnings on that page are nebulous at best. For all anyone knows, second hand cigarette smoke might be causing more health problems in B.C. than your "fine particulate matter".

    there are much worse types of pollution in this world

  21. Re:Jingoism on World War II's Last Surviving Doolittle Raiders Make Their Final Toast · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You are the ignorant one. So the Soviet Union was bad, that justifies warring on a SE asian country? and using a defoliant on the crops of *our allies* in that war to drive people to cities more under our propoganda, so that hundreds of thousands (again of *our allies*) starved and had horrible birth defects

    As for Korea, look at the real history, where the U.S. took part part in war crimes including a slaughter of 100,000 "leftists", innocents and political prisoners.

    First gulf war, we caim to aide of ally. That I'll agree is justifiable.

    Why do you reference a fictional novel as justification for warring against people who *did not* attack us on 9/11. On 9/11 we were attacked by a group of Saudis who were formerly U.S. agents/mercenaries in Afghanistan.

  22. Re:Horrible for the rural poor on EPA Makes Most Wood Stoves Illegal · · Score: 1

    get off of you "particulate polluter" high horse, there are much, much worse and more deadly types of pollution that modern industry makes.

  23. Re:I don't know how to feel about this. on EPA Makes Most Wood Stoves Illegal · · Score: 1

    yes.

    you do understand there are many more dangerous and deadly kinds of pollutants than your inert "particulates"?

    Look up the life expectancy of those in Fairbanks. Seems your "particulates" aren't doing much to cut short people's lives

  24. Re:microwaves at what field strength? on Duke Univ. Device Converts Stray Wireless Energy Into Electricity For Charging · · Score: 1

    actually, on ships the radar techs have all manner of entertaining tricks they do near the antenna pulling power out of the ether. 'course, their rate of eye and testicular tumors is a wee bit high compared to the populace

  25. Re:That's Why MY Wood Stove on EPA Makes Most Wood Stoves Illegal · · Score: 1

    plutonium is expensive. now on the other hand just toss some powdered natural uranium in a drum of heavy water, now there's the ticket for a couple decades of toasty warm heat. when it starts to get cold, just shake the drum. if it gets too hot, just toss in some graphite pencils and moderate that bitch. if it starts to get a bit too feisty (you see the drum glow red in the dark), just lob in a tin of grandma's borax for the scram.