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  1. Connecting to the real world on Inside OS X Mavericks · · Score: 0

    I wonder if their SMB2 implementation is any good. MacOS and SMB have not been a good combination and it needs fixing.

  2. What about us fanbois? on Microsoft Office 2010, Dissected · · Score: 0

    Office 2010 will be a HUGE improvement for Mac users as it will include Outlook at last! Few people know the pain we suffer from Entourage, probably the world's worst email client. My company uses Exchange and I have to use Outlook to be able to share calendars and use meeting invites. I hate Outlook, but it is a business tool I have to use. Unfortunately, I have to have a Windows VM running in VMware Fusion all the time to be able to use it. What a waste of resources. Office 2010 for Mac ETA Christmas 2010.

  3. Re:Well... on Microsoft Office 2010, Dissected · · Score: 0
    Luddite! Progress is inevitable and I consider this to be progress.

    as long as Outlook continues to encourage top-posting and HTML formatted content, and discourage quoted reply trimming, it will still suck.

  4. Final Nail in the Coffin on Oracle/Sun Enforces Pay-For-Security-Updates Plan · · Score: 0

    So long to Solaris as a viable alternative to Linux and so long to OpenSolaris. Who's going to bother using an operating system that you have to pay to ensure it's secure.

  5. Obviously not an American Mammoth on Major Cache of Fossils Unearthed In Los Angeles · · Score: 0

    I was wondering why they called it Zed and then I remembered - The United States is only a couple of hundred years old, so it couldn't have been American and that's why they called it Zed rather than Zee.

  6. Re:fist? on Fly Me To Which Moon? · · Score: 0

    Mmmmm Donuts!

  7. Re:The things you have to go through.. on AMD Phenom II Overclocked To 6.5GHz · · Score: 0

    It isn't the processor that makes Vista run badly, it's just that Vista is totally pants.

  8. Re:Now I see the problem on The State of Video Game Regulation · · Score: 0

    That's just it, he argues when told to stop reading and go to bed or to stop playing with other toys, but he doesn't have an agressive paddy like he does when he's been playing on his computer or DS. He really is disoriented by playing these games. However, I don't think that his loathing of brussel sprouts can be blamed on computer games.

  9. Now I see the problem on The State of Video Game Regulation · · Score: 0

    I always wondered if there was any truth in the, "TV and computer games are bad for you" story until my son was born. When he was 3 and was told to turn off the TV, he had a paddy. He's grown out of that, but now he's 6 and plays on his PC and Nintendo DS, when he's told to finish and switch it off, he gets quite agressive and shouts and makes threats. Even he realizes later that it is ridiculous and unacceptable, but he is so disoriented from being immersed in the game (Lego Star Wars and Lego Indiana Jones if you must know) that he can't see reason at the time. I guess it's all part of learning and growing up.

  10. Science Project or Phishing? on Rubber Duckies For Global Warming Research · · Score: 1, Interesting

    So do you need to send any personal information to report a rubber duckie finding? If not, how can they verify the finding? If so, and had you not read this posting, would you believe that this was a genuine scientific experiment and not a phishing attempt?

  11. I want to be Sportacus on You, Too, Could Be Batman In 10 To 12 Years · · Score: 0

    How long would it take to be Sportacus? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportacus It would be much easier to stay at the top of your game as you only have to impress the kids.

  12. Patent this! on Patents Don't Pay · · Score: -1, Troll

    I am a newbie. What does this button do?

  13. Re:... and the reason is: on Europe Building Their Own GPS · · Score: 1

    [Rant] So because the Pentagon has "intelligence" that the US is under threat, the rest of the world has to suffer degraded GPS operation. The problem is that the Americans seem to think that America IS the world. I used to work for an American computer company and the number of times that an invite to a local event in California was sent out globally was ridiculous. The rest of the world, which the Americans seemed to call ROW as if it was a colony belonging to them, need to be independent of the gun crazy, megalomaniacal Americans, lead by that lunatic Dubya Bush. BTW, I don't live in EMEA, I live in the UK if you must use acronyms. [/Rant]