WinGlet? Once again we have a Windows-only manufacturer. This sucks. Sorry Toyota, come back when you have a cross-platform Glet, then we'll talk. Go F/OSS!
Cash-strapped airlines could end up charging some passengers to use their phones while charging others to sit in a phone-free section of the plane
BZZT! wrong! How about you only charge passengers to use phones and seat THEM in an appropriately equipped area? Don't make this shit opt-out.
Or naaah, they can just start charging extra now for passengers to not get hit by stewards/stewardesses with fly-swatters. Or maybe for a tiny extra fee, you could be seated in an area where they don't randomly throw passengers out..
officials may share copies of the laptop's contents with other agencies and private entities for language translation, data decryption, or other reasons
Coming on the heels of the Higher Education Act, wanna bet other reasons might include "The War On Piracy"?
Corporations have been allowed to infiltrate your nation's educators, so they might as well be let into the nation's gatekeepers as well, eh?
Like another commenter said, Ctrl + Tab is convenient 'cos it's a single hand action. And this is how Alt + Tab works for open windows (in Windows 2k/XP and KDE, last I checked) anyway.
Also, personally, Ctrl + PgDn/Up makes sense to me, that being the key combo for moving back and forth between sheets in a large MS Excel file..
And not so much artificial as an actual living organism. And not so much intelligent as something that would claw your eyes out when possessed by the Demon Cat Master.
'In deference to fans' my ass! Scrabulous was launched in 2005. WTF were Hasbro doing then? Oh I know..
"Hmmm...here's this clone thingy of one of our games. Meh, nobody will want to play that, we are TEH RULEZ!!11"
Then after it gains like 2M+ users..
"WTF? How did this happen? People actually *want* to play this online? Quick, we need to make money off this! License it to a big name! Lynch the little guy"
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It sounds flamebait-y, but come ON. I would still say the creators of Scrabulous were in good faith. If Hasbro had walked up to them early on and said, "Hey you're kinda stomping all over our trademark, so, well, don't" I'm sure they'd have stepped back. As it happened, Hasbro stood twiddling their thumbs, saw someone had a better business model than their legions of MBAs and ran whining to the mommy-courts for protection.
I'm not saying the creator chaps weren't stupid to cross swords with Hasbro, but in their defence, when they saw no great backlash, they decided it's all good and forged ahead.
This stinks.
Um... No, because in Constitutional cases the Ex Post Facto clause has always been interpreted to mean that you can't make a previously legal action retroactively illegal, then charge someone with a crime for taking the action during the time in which it was legal.
Uh..I'm not sure you're being sarcastic..but here goes anyway:
GP was listing out the sockpuppet accounts used on Slashdot by a user called 'twitter'..
I realize being a language Nazi is nerdy, even by Slashdot standards, but this summary is just shockingly awful!
The headline reads "\"New\" Words From The Geek Culture". So the summary starts off with a single line on it, then randomly rambles on about CNet focusing on 'mondegreens'. Bzzt! Summary-headline mismatch already! Now it's possible that kdawson is just mimicking TFA, which does the same, but that's a frcikin' blog post! Somehow, a rambling blog post has been distilled into (if it's possible) a fumbly summary as well!
All this meandering is topped off with a quite inexplicable question: "Would you believe, Merriam-Webster's?"
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I would mod you up :( I really wish this were higher ranked so more people could see and respond to this.. I've been scratching my brains out!
They also happen to be the chaps who engineered the "Algorithm" campaign for Ask.com. Not that great, IMO...
As does Ars..
That's Randy Marsh, Stan's dad..
Wait, what? Oh...
BZZT! wrong! How about you only charge passengers to use phones and seat THEM in an appropriately equipped area? Don't make this shit opt-out.
Or naaah, they can just start charging extra now for passengers to not get hit by stewards/stewardesses with fly-swatters. Or maybe for a tiny extra fee, you could be seated in an area where they don't randomly throw passengers out..
Coming on the heels of the Higher Education Act, wanna bet other reasons might include "The War On Piracy"? Corporations have been allowed to infiltrate your nation's educators, so they might as well be let into the nation's gatekeepers as well, eh?
Okay now you've gone too far..
What about were-cars?
Like another commenter said, Ctrl + Tab is convenient 'cos it's a single hand action. And this is how Alt + Tab works for open windows (in Windows 2k/XP and KDE, last I checked) anyway. Also, personally, Ctrl + PgDn/Up makes sense to me, that being the key combo for moving back and forth between sheets in a large MS Excel file..
And not so much artificial as an actual living organism. And not so much intelligent as something that would claw your eyes out when possessed by the Demon Cat Master.
Not strictly true.
That man is scary-stunning-awesome. If you haven't already done so, go read "The Nine Billion Names of God".
Many thanks for this. Murphy's law of mod points, sorry ;)
Two words: Timothy McVeigh.
'In deference to fans' my ass! Scrabulous was launched in 2005. WTF were Hasbro doing then? Oh I know.. "Hmmm...here's this clone thingy of one of our games. Meh, nobody will want to play that, we are TEH RULEZ!!11" Then after it gains like 2M+ users.. "WTF? How did this happen? People actually *want* to play this online? Quick, we need to make money off this! License it to a big name! Lynch the little guy" ran It sounds flamebait-y, but come ON. I would still say the creators of Scrabulous were in good faith. If Hasbro had walked up to them early on and said, "Hey you're kinda stomping all over our trademark, so, well, don't" I'm sure they'd have stepped back. As it happened, Hasbro stood twiddling their thumbs, saw someone had a better business model than their legions of MBAs and ran whining to the mommy-courts for protection. I'm not saying the creator chaps weren't stupid to cross swords with Hasbro, but in their defence, when they saw no great backlash, they decided it's all good and forged ahead. This stinks.
..knowing that the vast amounts of porn just keep getting vaster. And more searchable. Amen. *sheds a tear or two*
I think the *real* reason he/she didn't pick her was BECAUSE she had a myspace profile..
Dude..you totally pissed all over GP's joke there..
That must be one weird family...
It's more like:
Yeah you're right, but these are *OUR* marbles, so up yours.
Nazi war-crimes..?
Uh..I'm not sure you're being sarcastic..but here goes anyway: GP was listing out the sockpuppet accounts used on Slashdot by a user called 'twitter'..
I realize being a language Nazi is nerdy, even by Slashdot standards, but this summary is just shockingly awful!
The headline reads "\"New\" Words From The Geek Culture". So the summary starts off with a single line on it, then randomly rambles on about CNet focusing on 'mondegreens'. Bzzt! Summary-headline mismatch already! Now it's possible that kdawson is just mimicking TFA, which does the same, but that's a frcikin' blog post! Somehow, a rambling blog post has been distilled into (if it's possible) a fumbly summary as well!
All this meandering is topped off with a quite inexplicable question: "Would you believe, Merriam-Webster's?"
Seriously, WTF?
And I have vowels in my real name! Welp!