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  1. It's True! on Warning On Office 2007 "Try-Before-You-Buy" · · Score: 1
    I "tried" 2007 from a torrent site when I got my new computer and typed up my resume in it. I then sent the resume to a friend to look over after I'd already been sending it out to a lot of companies. I must have looked like a complete idiot to be sending out a .doc file that won't open in anything but Word 2007. Changed how I saved it and got a job right away.

    Also, part of my profession is being extremely literate in Word, and they changed so damn much that my years of daily usage now leave me fumbling about. Figuring out where all my menus went is a colossal pain. There were plenty of things worth updating in Word, but the user interface hasn't significantly changed for the last 10 years. Who decided this was a good idea?

  2. Genius! on Minisode Network Condenses TV Shows to Under Six Minutes · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is the perfect thing for anime!

  3. Re:Stick to poker -- fewer variables... on CNBC Software Flaw Worth $1 Million? · · Score: 1

    Gaming the blackjack table is one of the quickest ways to get black-listed at a casino. Nobody cares if you win a lot in horse racing or poker. The house gets its take either way.

  4. Re:Stick to poker -- fewer variables... on CNBC Software Flaw Worth $1 Million? · · Score: 1

    Everybody knows all the variables in poker though. It's hard to get an edge when the only real variable is whether your opponent is bluffing or not. The stock market and horse racing are the only two places I know of where your intelligence and the quality of your information can make a significant difference in your returns.

  5. Re:lasting effects? on Scientists Create Artificial Blood · · Score: 1

    Parent is considering the hypothetical situation where this artificial blood is introduced to a ninja body, which would undoubtedly flip out and attack the artificial blood.. and the doctor.. and everyone in a 10 mile radius.. Ninja bodies flip out all the time.

  6. One Word: on Serenity Trounces Star Wars · · Score: 1
    Relevance.

    It came out so much more recently that the polls are bound to be skewed. When a horror movie currently in the box office is making more than some older one, we don't automatically say it's better than Halloween.

  7. Stupid on Top 10 April Fools Stories · · Score: 1

    Did anyone else notice that bumping this article's date to April 1st bumped all articles for the 31st to April 1st? Isn't there some rule about no April Fool's jokes until the actual goddamn day? It's like when Xmas took over Thanksgiving and then Halloween.

  8. GPOW on What is the Best Bug-as-a-Feature? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I remember getting Godly Plate of the Whale in Diablo at the sacrifice of a single potion with the duping bug. I can't think of anything better than that.

  9. Re:Clueless = Post on Slashdot on VR Game Ties Depression To Brain Area · · Score: 1
    But there have also been studies that tie video game playing to increased abilities in map reading and spatial perception.


    Frankly, I think the whole thing's off. I'm constantly depressed and frequently drink myself into a stupor, only to wake up the next day having miraculously made it back to my apartment/hotel/whatever with absolutely no memory of how I got there. Kidneys intact, no less.

  10. Hmm... on Scientists Hope To Settle "Hobbit" Debate · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Wouldn't it be interesting if we hadn't likely killed off all these competitors in prehistory and some were left around. What kind of rights would neanderthals get? Surely they wouldn't be treated like animals. And if they were still around, I think religion would be a very different thing.

  11. Tripping over wires to get to the bathroom. on Boeing Drops Wireless System For 787 · · Score: 1

    And think of how long the cord from the plane to the ground must be!

  12. Re:Debunking on Time Warner Cable Runs Out of HD DVRs · · Score: 1

    It's America. You need to say "MORE squat and fat".

  13. Eh? on BBC To Host Multi-OS Debate · · Score: 3, Funny

    So, the BBC is just too burnt out to cover this one themselves? I don't know about you, but I don't feel like watching some inexperienced laymans' debate unless they're required to drink a beer every 10 minutes and are given the ability to electrically shock eachother which they are strictly told to "only use as an extreme measure".

  14. Re:People are just too damn stupid for their own g on Microwave Experiments Cause Sponge Disasters · · Score: 1

    Newsflash. Stupidity is NOT genetic. Intelligence may have some genetic links, but what you call "stupid" is people acting on incomplete or incorrect information, which is what we do EVERY DAY OF OUR LIVES.

  15. Re:The real question is... on Scientists Unveil Most Dense Memory Circuit Ever Made · · Score: 1

    Why are your three-dimensional objects being measured in square inches? Are you dimensionally dificient?

  16. What? on Cod Enzyme Kills Bird Flu · · Score: 1

    It's not snake oil, you insensitive cod!

  17. Re:What? on Who won? · · Score: 1

    Spelling it "Godwinned" would imply that the name was originally "Godwinn". What scares me is that instead of "Godwon", you went with "Godwinned".

  18. Re:Can't say I wasn't expecting Robo Armor. on Inventor Slims Down Exoskeletal Body Armor · · Score: 1
    When they kick out your front door

    How you gonna come?

    With your hands on your head

    Or on the trigger of your gun.

  19. SED Projector? on Canon-Toshiba Joint Venture On SED Collapses · · Score: 1

    Will SED technology be making it to the projector market? I mainly just watch movies, so projectors are really where my interest lies.

  20. So... on Three HD Layers Today, Ten Layers Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    170 gigs per disk? Make it writeable/cheap and I'm on that train/boat/whatever.

  21. CRM? on Microsoft Offers Peek At Next-Gen CRM · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    On the keyboard and alphabetically it's only one letter off of DRM (not to mention it rhymes)... Something tells me this is targeting big business and not the consumers... That or marketing needs to be shot.

  22. Re:No Roo bars? on Solar Powered Car Attempts to Break Record · · Score: 1

    I wanted to give the whole quote he does at the beginning about the nature of outback ending with "THE LEOPARD QUEEN" and then going on about how he wishes it was time for Cheers, but my downloaded copy is at home and I am at work. Is there a relavent The Maxx DVD petition we can post around here? I don't see how Aeon Flux beat it to the punch.

  23. Re:No Roo bars? on Solar Powered Car Attempts to Break Record · · Score: 1, Funny

    Worry more about the roaming packs of isz, the mountains the breath fire, giants, trolls and air whales.

  24. Doesn't matter on Cisco Sues Apple Over iPhone Trademark · · Score: 1

    Whatever Apple calls it, we'll just call it the iPhone anyways. Let them call it the ip078xcd so we can all just say "fuck it, it's the iPhone".

  25. Re:This is news because... on Wii Outselling PS3 in Japan · · Score: 1

    The PS3 isn't sold out in Japan... I could go buy one right now at any number of electronics stores in Tokyo (arguably where demand is highest). The Wii, on the other hand, is sold out at everywhere but Don Quixote (because nobody thinks to look there... oops..)