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  1. Getting Old on Ask Slashdot: What Practices Impede Developers' Productivity? · · Score: 1

    No, not the age of the developer, but rather the topic of "If only my workplace conformed to my every whim and just let me work my way I do best, what a invaluable and productive developer I would be!" There is a reason that the unfortunate stereotype of developers being Prima donna's exists. /rant

  2. Dejavoo all over again on Review: New Super Mario Bros. 2 Illustrates Nintendo's Greatest Problem · · Score: 1

    The State of Slashdot Today: Haven’t I Already Read This Article? TFTFY

  3. Re:Worse? on Human Water Use Accounts For 42% of Recent Sea Level Rise · · Score: 1

    That's no satellite....

  4. Re:What an Unreadable and Horrible Summary on A Custom Objectionable Word List Ate My Homework · · Score: 1

    I also see 'honkey', 'cracker', and 'white bread' are perfectly acceptable...

  5. Walking Tree Harvester on Where Jules Verne Meets Star Wars: GE's Walking Truck · · Score: 2

    Commercial example of this technology here

  6. Essential Camping Equipment on SolarNetOne Wants Stable Internet Connections For Developing Nations · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now I just need a trailer to tow this baby along on our next family "camping" trip. God I love the great outdo.... wait! someone is wrong on the Internet! Kids your going to have to go hiking on your own.

  7. Re:I don't know about all that on Hacker Uncovers Chinese Olympic Fraud · · Score: 1

    You can watch the ref's signals all you want, I'll keep my eye on the singals.

  8. Re:That's an AVERAGE?? on Spam Hits 95% of All Email · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind that what you see in your Inbox / Junk Mail folders is only a fraction of the total amount of mail that was targeted for you. The majority of SPAM is dropped as it enters the network (mostly due to matching a blocklist like Spamhaus or a light content filter) long before it reaches your mailbox.

  9. Re:Did anyone else read this as... on Germans Pursuing Kiddie Porn In Second Life · · Score: 1

    Not me. Apparantly because I cannot read.

  10. Would somebody think of the janitors!!! on Google's Growing Love For the Mac · · Score: 1

    If what the OP is alluding too, a possible merger/purchase involving these two companies, actually happened, there simply would not be enough rolls of paper towels to stuff down the ./ communities collective pants to prevent a catastophic biological speciman spill. Oh the humanity.

  11. The Last Star Fighter... on Real-Time Computer-Based Translation in Iraq · · Score: 1

    technology cant be far off now, plug it in your ear and the universe speaks english. Guess we Americans won't care anymore if they "learn the language!".

  12. Re:Not really that serious on Microsoft Bracing for Worm Attack · · Score: 1

    In my organziation, I use Group Policy to enforce the following: When on-network (secured behind corporate firewall) the windows firewall is disabled and not allowed to be enabled. When off-network (anywhere else and not connected to the VPN) the windows firewall is enabled and cannot be disabled. It helps me sleep better at night for sure.

  13. Re:Brilliant! on No Virtual PC for Intel-based Macs · · Score: 1

    I dont think that Apple moving onto the Intel platform is a threat to Microsoft. If anything, more hardware that runs MS Windows (ie. Intel Mac's + Bootcamp) is an upshot for MS. Now, if Apple decided to allow Mac OS to run on non-apple hardware, (I dont see this happening, ever) MS may have a reason to be concerned.

  14. Re:Whatever on AOL Won't Budge on Email Tax · · Score: 3, Funny

    Especially if it is sent to a PO Box.

  15. The inevitable oMS Office on Ubuntu On The Business Desktop · · Score: 1

    I often wonder why this doesnt come up more ofter during discussions of this nature, but here goes. Seems to me that if the only roadblock to a desktop linux change at a given company is MS OFfice, why not setup a terminal server wirh or without citrix. Then use rdesktop or citrix to run Office? Just wondering why I havent heard this suggested before.

  16. Scar on Search for Copernicus Over · · Score: 2, Funny

    Gassowski said police forensic experts used the skull to reconstruct a face that closely resembled the features -- including a broken nose and scar above the left eye
     
    In the computer generated image, the scar is actually above his right eye.

  17. Re:Argh on The Microsoft Protection Racket · · Score: 1

    He has actually gone out and complained in a column about the System Idle Process taking up 98% of cpu on his Windows machine and making the box thrash.

    I know I should have known better, but I couldnt believe this at first, so I had to go look. This guy is clearly not qualified to discuss anything more complicated than a sundial. Here is his exact quote http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1304348,00.as p

    When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, I see that the System Idle Process is hogging all the resources and chewing up 95 percent of the processor's cycles. Doing what? Doing nothing?

  18. Re:age on 20th Anniversary of Windows · · Score: 2, Funny

    Windows is not old. UNIX is old, and behaves as many older people do, working calmly and quietly in the background, running everything.

    That is until they (kernel) panic ans shit the bed....

  19. Re:Unwanted DVDs sales will go up, MovieTheaters d on Pay-Per-View to Provide DVD After Viewing? · · Score: 1

    The movie houses said the same thing when betamax and vhs came out.

  20. Rookie Cards on Apple Upgrades Mac mini, Doesn't Tell Anybody · · Score: 1

    Takes me back to my baseball card collecting days.....

  21. OSPQ on Nessus Closes Source · · Score: 1

    "Screw you guys, I'm going home."

  22. Re:Did I miss something? on Bugzilla Delivered to the Desktop · · Score: 1

    whoops, i got that backwards. Told you I was confused!

  23. Did I miss something? on Bugzilla Delivered to the Desktop · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I thought we were moving away from fat client technology. So let me get this straight:

    We went from decentralized, to centralized back to decentralized...... now back?

  24. Re:Not the same. on Clustering vs. Fault-Tolerant Servers · · Score: 1

    Unless you are running NSK on a Tandem system that is.

  25. Of Course... on Major Retailer Chooses Linux for its Tills · · Score: 1

    Otherwise it would just be a crash register... *ducks*