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  1. Re:Mere mortals need mroe toy budget on Optimizing Linux Systems For Solid State Disks · · Score: 2, Funny

    Surely, if you can't hear over 9kHz, that makes you the insensitive one?

  2. Re:SSD's should have no problem with fragmentation on Optimizing Linux Systems For Solid State Disks · · Score: 1

    If you'll pay $400 for 256*MB*, I think you've got a little too much money and should give me some....

  3. Re:Mac reliability on Ma.gnolia User Data Is Gone For Good · · Score: 1

    As someone not in the industry: can you define what you mean by sigma here? I assume reliability or similar, but...

  4. Re:Mac reliability on Ma.gnolia User Data Is Gone For Good · · Score: 1

    An HP printer tech came to my workplace today to look at one of our printers. The only part he didn't have was the network device, which turned out to be the issue.

    He discovered this very fast, but his control insisted he replace everything else to check... surprisingly enough, it was the network adapter still.

  5. Re:Protection? on Restauranteurs Say Yelp Uses Extortion To Ply Ad Sales · · Score: 1

    What was it doing in her?

  6. Re:Restoring the balance on EU Commissioner Wants Standard For Mobile Phone Connectors · · Score: 1

    Only if they perceived the benefits of standardising to be greater than the benefits of not doing so. They make a lot of money from charger sales, as has been stated repeatedly throughout the replies to this newspost.

    Also note the word "perceived". What companies think is best for them might not be.

  7. Re:One way to get more registered voters on Iowa Seeks To Remove Electoral College · · Score: 1

    There is the obvious issue of ensuring the One Man is the right man.

  8. Re:What about on The Tech Behind Preventing Airplane Bird Strikes · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't necessarily say "survive just fine". I've handled the unserviceable blades from several minor bird strikes, and the impact in some cases is enough to dent three or four adjacent blades. Not to the point where it damages the rest of the engine, I believe, but enough that they need changing.

  9. Re:Epic fail on CCP To Discontinue EVE Online Support For Linux · · Score: 4, Informative

    They, uh, did.

    That was why it worked better in Wine. Cedega wasn't anywhere near good enough.

  10. Re:Competing with itself?! on CCP To Discontinue EVE Online Support For Linux · · Score: 1

    The client already works very well under wine - better than the "native" client (which wasn't) did.

    As mentioned in the summary, the windows client under wine was preferred by most users. Makes sense for them just to support that and put perhaps a little effort into making it work even more smoothly than support a separate client.

  11. Re:I had a little glimmer of hope on Microsoft Caves, Will Change UAC In Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    However true, you said something anti-linux. With such a low uid, you really should expect to be modded down by now... ;)

  12. Re:I had a little glimmer of hope on Microsoft Caves, Will Change UAC In Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    But to continue on from that question, you need to find out which of the particular options available to you can do what you need it to. That does require knowledge, to an extent, of the options.

  13. Re:Childish on Obama's Proposed Space Weapon Ban · · Score: 1

    A nuclear deterrent probably won't be much use against the dead, either.

    Unless you sanctify the uranium or something first. Might work then.

  14. Re:Childish on Obama's Proposed Space Weapon Ban · · Score: 1

    Kim Jong Il is also reputedly not the most... stable of individuals. A nuclear deterrent is good against rational geographic opponents, but not quite so effective against either non-geographical or irrational enemies.

  15. Re:"in response to an FoI request"?!? on UK Can't Read Its Own ID Cards · · Score: 1

    There's also an exemption that basically covers "We can't be bothered", to an extent. The TVLA/BBC loves that one.

  16. Re:Look at Belgium on UK Can't Read Its Own ID Cards · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Delicious sausages.

  17. Re:It's not "PDF stuff" on Software Piracy At the Beijing Branch Office? · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't have a clue; I'm no graphics expert.

    Sometimes it seems things are done the way they are simply because they *used* to have to be done that way, rather than they still do.

  18. Re:Set a policy and enforce it on Software Piracy At the Beijing Branch Office? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That phrase has never made much sense. Apple pie isn't especially american.

  19. Re:Nitpick on Software Piracy At the Beijing Branch Office? · · Score: 1

    Mind you... if I care enough to state my lack of care, I probably *could* care less.

  20. Re:It's not "PDF stuff" on Software Piracy At the Beijing Branch Office? · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's related to the print method. A design company needs to know exactly what they will be printing, and their printers work on CMYK, not RGB like your screen (and therefore most programs). They therefore prefer to work with CMYK and are limited in their program choice.

  21. Re:I'm in Canada...the web is the only way for us on Web Rescues Un-Aired Super Bowl Ads · · Score: 1

    That... what the...

    *sound of a squishy explosion and brains splattering everywhere*

  22. Re:Counter-intuitive on Web Rescues Un-Aired Super Bowl Ads · · Score: 1

    Some meat benefits from being beaten (tenderised) before cooking, too.

  23. Ummm... on New Paper Offers Additional Reasoning for Fermi's Paradox · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one who felt that "they might be too far away" was obvious before?

  24. Re:Volume on Making the "Free" Business Model Work In a Tough Economy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I believe what he was saying is that he'd be perfectly happy to pay extra for a premium account, but none of those relevant to him actually offer anything that matters to him. Personally, I mostly *read* slashdot, not comment on it, so a paid account is worthless to me. A lot of places offer ad-removal as a paid benefit - but ABP and appropriate filter lists make that irrelevant for free.

    There is a difference between being willing to pay for something that gives you something for the money, and being willing to give money without receiving anything in return. I'm not saying it's necessarily a good difference, but it's still a difference.

  25. Re:Science includes BOTH strengths and weaknesses on Texas Board of Education Supports Evolution · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In my experience, the guy who your manager worked with a few years ago, despite being less qualified for the job and keeps screwing up his current job, gets promoted.

    Nevertheless, I prefer my nose to not be brown.