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  1. Re:idiotic politically correct fears indeed on Torvalds Uses Profanity To Lambaste Romney Remarks · · Score: 1

    There's an even older saying: there's the truth, there's being mean, and it's being Finnish.

    Seriously, Torvald's a meek lamb compared to his countrymen.

    I don't expect any American to understand what 'culture' means, but in reference to Torvald's "outbursts" he is being funny in Finnish.

  2. Re:idiotic politically correct fears indeed on Torvalds Uses Profanity To Lambaste Romney Remarks · · Score: 1

    You are both generalizing from single events.

    And off-topic at that. You may have a lot of great people in Mormonism, but that doesn't mean their ideas are not crazy.

      People getting out of Scientology also say one of the reasons they joined were all the great people.

    Mormonism is a telltale sign of wanting to change the center of the world from the old Empire in Rome to the American Empire in the west. That's what it is.

  3. Re:Ask Slashdot: How To Fight Copyright Violations on Ask Slashdot: How To Fight Copyright Violations With DMCA? · · Score: 1

    Ad 2. Laws don't shoot straight. Might just as well end up shooting yourself.

  4. Re:That's the way the cookie crumbles on Ask Slashdot: How To Fight Copyright Violations With DMCA? · · Score: 1

    Not sure if it's correct, but I also thought "fair use" here.

    The second best thing you could do is to post an informative video reply, showing the original, their version, and then perhaps deal with the flaws of theirbelief.

      Best thing was menmentioned already; counter with science and humor.

  5. Re:Oh wait, I get it now... on 180k-Year-Old Mutation Allowed Humans To Become Vegetarians, Move Out of Africa · · Score: 1

    It had nothing to do with vegetarians, the sumitter is probably one of those PETA vegan nuts.

    You seem to have misspelled PITA there, sir.

  6. Re:Unfriendly? on NVIDIA To Publicly Release Some Tegra GPU Documentation · · Score: 1

    Apparently he mistook Linux-friendly for OSS friendly.

  7. Re:He just used a German name... on The Man Who Hacked the Bank of France · · Score: 1

    Or perhaps they keep up the barricades for 11 hours, only for the US to enter at the 12th..

    The US constitution would not exist as we know it without the French.

  8. Re:Simple answer on Ask Slashdot: Taming a Wild, One-Man Codebase? · · Score: 1

    Which part of asking for advice is so hard to understand?

    Yes, he knows all the details, but we may know a method that is more successful in this scenario.

      (Actually, I wouldn't, since IANAP. But I'd _still_

  9. Re:How much dough does this man have!? on Richard Branson 'Determined To Start a Population On Mars' · · Score: 1

    I'm a seed factory.

      Reporting for Mars mission, sir!

  10. Re:Windows RT + Office on Leak Hints Windows 8 Tablets May Be Dearer Than Makes Sense · · Score: 1

    Dear means expensive. Dear-bought means bought at steep price. Also in "a victory bought at great cost".

    I am Norwegian, and AFAIK our "dyr" is the forerunner for dear. The pronunciation is still pretty close.

    When you say "Dear Mary" you exactly point out how valuable she is to you.

    Of great value, in context of purchasing in a transaction, would be expensive.

    Expensive sounds Latin. What does it mean?

  11. Re:...... so? on Wikipedia Scandal: High Profile Users Allegedly Involved In Paid-Editing · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? Any social species do these things.

      Did it not occur to you that perhaps your "moral compass" is out of date with regards to scientific facts?

    Go read News from Nowhere.

  12. Survival of the fittest (e.g. all of them) on Ask Slashdot: Teaching Typing With Limited Electricity, Computers? · · Score: 1

    Focus on the students. Find the 10 best typers, teach them everything. Then each of them (with help, of course) can teach 10 more.

    Many third-world countries are technocratic.

  13. Re:Wine on Are Commercial Games Finally Going To Make It To Linux? · · Score: 1

    There are so many details and tweaking to be done.

    I have a nVIdia gtx with a gig of RAM, I have a Steam account and want to play Fallout 3 + New Vegas, and a little L4D2. I followed every instruction to get it working, everything was correct, but it was a no go.

      I finally realized it may be something in the distro - Open SUSE 12.1 - that fails. I'm crossing my fingers that Fedora 17 or Linux Mint will get me up to speed.

      Now, I am patient, but we can't expect a new user to understand this. He will blame Linux.

  14. Re:Linux has no advantage over windows.... on Are Commercial Games Finally Going To Make It To Linux? · · Score: 1

    It has a more stable, more effective and more powerful kernel.

    Real statistics runs on Linux. Google runs on Linux. The damn LHC runs on Linux. It runs on Linux AND NOT Windows for a reason.

    The only sane reason for running games in Windows is driver support.

  15. Re:Not a NPE, Is it a Troll? on Red Hat Fights Patent Troll With GPL · · Score: 1

    Some are homonymous, others are not. If you don't differentiate you will not be talking about reality.

  16. Re:Not really... on Star Trek Tech That Exists Today · · Score: 1

    A fucking communication channel?

    What hospital is this, then?

  17. Re:iPhone on Star Trek Tech That Exists Today · · Score: 1

    It is hard though, to determine corner curvature on old VHS tapes..

    Research grant, here I come!

  18. Re:Ha, the joke's on them! on Russia Builds World's Largest Nuclear Powered Ice-Breaker · · Score: 1

    The northern route, its promises and political changes have all the markings of a new war. As a Norwegian I feel like an insect in a party of elephants.

  19. Re:Cool specs, but hubble? on Scientists Built the 'Hubble Telescope For the Ocean' Using the Cloud · · Score: 1

    Well, it floats... so it sort of hubbles along the surface...

    Ehh..

  20. Re:Fall in line on The Linux Desktop and ISVs/OEMs · · Score: 1

    If he talks about upgrading between major Ubuntu releases it may be difficult.

    But in that regard, Windows sucks phenomenally.

    I always just reinstall on both.

  21. Re:He's not even the author on Amazon Blocks Arch Linux Handbook Author From Releasing Kindle Version · · Score: 1

    Amazon and B&N have a separate task force whose only mission is to gather the legal consent of an infinite number of monkeys. So yes, they're in the clear.

  22. Re:Let's just say Tesla on The Galileo Thermometer Was Not Invented By Galileo · · Score: 1

    Everyone knows the Egyptians traveled to the future and got their stuff from Tesla. All the talk about Atlantis is just what they _want_ you to believe. DUH!

  23. Re:Another thing to worry about... on Mt. Fuji May Be Close To Erupting · · Score: 1

    Also, icelanders have bigger

  24. Re:2 out of 3 on The Lies Disks and Their Drivers Tell · · Score: 1

    So I take "cheap" and "fast and reliable".

    Thanks!

  25. Re:Universal Installer on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Fix the Linux Desktop? · · Score: 1

    I experience the contrary. Let's say I want to install some 3rd party (not in the HUGE universe repos) app in GNU/Linux:
    1) Find (dubious?) repo
    2) Add repo to distro
    3) Update and install. Free auto-update functionality!

    OR

    1) Find (dubious?) .deb or .tar.gz source
    2) Install it using package manager or make/make install in cl
    3) Must update self.

    In Windows 7:
    1) Find (dubious?) website. Locate .exe or .msi file.
    2) Run .exe or .msi file or self-extracting zip .exe
    3) If no virus, then you are good to go
    4) + 1 month, you need to update the software.

    OR

    0) Nothing. there is no other way.

    In Windows 8:
    1) Stare blankly at the screen
    2) Computer shuts down

    + for Linux: Linux has repositories, Linux allows to compile from source (with Gentoo you can run ancient source from scrolls with a mixture of gcc libs), Linux is not corrupted or infected by a bad choice of software (repo/file). All good things. If repos are out of date, you may be running the wrong distro (a stable vs unstable release), using a deprecated repo (some other repo takes presedence) aso.. Oddball software: You're on your own. Find source and compile it. Maybe you'd like to try Gentoo if you only want to deal with one thing (source). Me, I prefer somebody doing it all for me so I can get on with my stuff.

    + for Windows: Windows has marketshare. This means that you will find specialized software (CAD comes to mind). Usually, software packages that are not among the biggest will be horribly out of date and you have no way of getting a new version. Oddball software: You're on your own.

    The problems I have using Linux relate to: Java (jre + plugin as used by all banks in Norway), Flash (mostly skip it these HTML5 days..), games (Wine can be very time-consuming). Of this only the first is really necessary for me to get my everyday life together.*
    * I run Fedora 17 and for some reason it suddenly had the latest Java.. I don't like it when stuff just works when I don't know why... Nerd alert.