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  1. Re:Nah, they copied Microsoft on How Jobs Played Hardball In iPhone Birth · · Score: 0

    Wait... I thought the throwing chairs episode didn't actually work out.

    But you might be write, given how they copied... and made it better.

  2. Re:Sick Software "Patents" on Microsoft Copies Idea, Admits It, Then Patents It · · Score: 0

    I have been told that British English often sees a company as a group of people. And thus it reflects how Britons address a Corporation or a Company.

  3. Proposal on Send a Name to Mars for Christmas · · Score: 1, Funny

    Will it be possible to send people you hate to Mars? Cause I would pay for that.

    It would save them trouble on clarifying that they were send.

  4. Non-techies must be really stupid people on Give an Internet Freedom Disk · · Score: 0

    If you require to talk to them like that, or perhaps I don't know any non-techies then? Seriously though, why the hell have he written the article like an advertisement?

    You can almost see Steve Ballmer shouting that... except, of course, you can't, because he wouldn't.

  5. Do like the Mozilla foundation on What Embedded Linux Distros Would You Support? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Firefox comes in single binary tarballs. But yet the work on every distro. Why can't you just do it like them?

    You could also have some special binary packages for a range of distros.

  6. Re:so, on Games Come To the Colbert Nation · · Score: 0

    Why do you hate america?

    I don't know any more. :(

    After I discovered the Daily Show and the Colbert Report. I finally found a part of the USA I liked.

    There are still reasons to be critic against your government though, though the entertain us very much. :>

  7. Re:Don't do what china does on Judge Says U.S. Money Violates Rights of the Blind · · Score: 3, Informative

    Exactly what they should do. Most currencies today are done like that, stacking currency is only done in the same bill, so you can tell the difference. Hence most other currencies uses different colours for each note.

    The US is behind.

  8. Tux Racer on The Last Games You'd Play? · · Score: 1, Funny

    It is beyond my imagination that anything since Tux Racer should have been made, because they should just have ceased making games. I can't stop loving this game. Whenever I get that PS3, my first action will be installing Linux to play Tux Racer.

  9. Re:New slogan on French National Assembly Embraces Open Source · · Score: 0

    As opposed to French software?

  10. Re:Yay. The cats are saved! on Every Time You Vote Against Net Neutrality, Your ISP Kills a Night Elf · · Score: 0

    No no, the kittens still die when you masturbate.

    But now you can feel good by killing some night elves afterwards.

  11. Re:Just 2.0 ? on Firefox 2.0 Password Manager Bug Exposes Passwords · · Score: 0, Interesting

    Firefox 3.0 does not seem to have the problem. But Firefox 3.0 is still in Alpha. So yeah.

  12. I won't expect reviews for a good while on The PlayStation 3 Launches In the U.S. · · Score: 3, Funny

    Seriously, those who have the console now will probably be away for a good week, because who needs friends when you have a PS3?

  13. Re:Steve Balmer wants to squirt you his pictures?? on Zune Not Compatible With Windows Vista · · Score: -1
    Honestly, what strange part of his brain thinks that even SOUNDS right?

    Perhaps he threw it away when he ran out of chairs. Or perhaps he squirt the chairs with that part of his brain? Or I am mixing to words together!

    Oh noes, I am not compatible with Steve Ballmer!

  14. Re:Is she legal yet? on The Web Is 16 Today · · Score: 0, Funny

    How can a series of tubes be female?

    Or more importantly, how would you do it with a series of tubes?

  15. Gecko 1.9 on 4 Seconds Loading Time Is Maximum For Websurfers · · Score: 0

    The new engine from Mozilla (found in the Firefox 3.0 nightly build trunk) seems to render pages almost instantly. However, some pages seem to load slowly (sites in Quirks mode). Perhaps it is a mixture of site and render engine. Sadly for the webowners, people disregard the sites before trying their sites in another browser.

  16. Re:I figured it out on Quasi the Intelligent Robot · · Score: -1

    Can I just add to that. I saw the discovery video, and now I feel like a computer idiot. Sorry! :(

  17. Re:I figured it out on Quasi the Intelligent Robot · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Someone posted the exact same thing on YouTube. But seriously though, if you listen a bit carefully, you will notice that some of the words appear alike in different sentences. Also, I think it is likely that some of the sentences are premade or rather each word have been inserted a number of times for different situations.

    If there really was someone under the table, then he has been seriously good at it, to do things that you usually wouldn't do. For instance, during small pauses in conversations, the robot seemed to pick up some random "advertisement" lines. Also, it seemed to remember the camera holder's name, and how could one under the table see *and* remember that, when he had to take care of all the other stuff?

    It may be fake, but given from that video, I wouldn't agree.

  18. Good stuff... on Python 2.5 Released · · Score: -1

    I should be getting my hands on python as soon as possible. According what I've read thus far in the updates, it looks promising, and the fact that they manage to continue with such features in a whitespace/tab/line feed based language. :)

  19. Re:Or it could be used on Police Launch Drones Over LA · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Don't be so surprised if paparazzies gets their hands on one of these. Those celebrities will just think it is a computer looking. Computers have never done anyone any harm? Now have they? :)

  20. Re:Hmm.... on New Caldera Promised · · Score: -1

    I gotta admit, I was hoping for the big action. It would have at least been fun seening it all go up in pieces. Instead of just installing a crater. I guess that is how they're building it.

  21. So this is how it turns out on The Pornographers vs. The Pirates · · Score: 5, Funny

    And you thought it was just pirates vs. ninjas?

  22. Oh, PHP is by far not that painfull on Why the Light Has Gone Out on LAMP · · Score: 0

    I'd say that PHP is yet not as painfull as this article claims. Besides, it is way to early to predict that the "light has gone out on LAMP." What is to replace it... right now?

  23. Isn't the Universe accelerating in size? on One Big Bang, Or Many? · · Score: -1

    Some years, I think they discovered that the Universe was accelerating in size, and thus could not get smaller. Which means that this theory cannot work, unless the acceleration takes off and goes negative. I think they call it the 2003 model.

  24. Re:May be risky, but... on EU Says Microsoft Still Not Compliant · · Score: 1, Insightful

    As already explained, this would be the worst move Microsoft could make - exactly why they don't.

    Microsoft knows the European market is a big market, and if they removed themselves, they would meet resistance in other parts of the world as well.

    Why? There are some main reasons other systems than Windows is not so much in use, one of the main one is the application barrier, most applications works under the Windows platform, but not on others.

    If Microsoft closes its doors in Europe, third party application makers would quickly start porting their applications to Linux among other systems, since it would be the only that made sense.

    This would most likely lead to other people doing the same in other parts of the world, cause 350 million people is not a small market.

    No, Microsoft cannot do anything but follow the EU's requirements or they may pay with their "life".

  25. About time he realised on The Softening of a Software Man · · Score: -1

    I don't suppose that Bill Gates would do well having a large bag of money and not sharing it. Microsoft itself might act like a bitch, but Gates have to share some of his "well earned" money.

    I remember Bill Gates being critised for not sharing his money for charity. When you are rich, you cannot take over the world, unless you live a secret island somewhere in the Atlantic and has a direct phone to the UN.

    Besides, Google will probably take over and rule the galaxy.