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  1. Re:irrelevant on Zune Sales Not So Bad After All · · Score: 1

    Nicely said, am I the only one feeling the same can apply to Linux vs Windows?

  2. Re:anything special? on Laser Turns All Metals Black · · Score: 3, Informative

    Low power (so low cost) makes it an ideal alternative to traditional coating/painting.

  3. Re:Lost in Space on Mars Probe Probably Lost Forever · · Score: 1

    Mars? Are you implying that the probe will always land on Mars?

  4. Say it's a fake on Students Put UCLA Taser Video On YouTube · · Score: -1, Troll

    Is there a way to prove that a video is genuine beyond reasonable doubt?

  5. Re:Sorry to say on Making the Sounds of Vista · · Score: 1

    There's 18 months of your life you'll never get back.

    Who cares? That's 18 months of high salaried life that most people will never get.

  6. Re:Prove it... on Blind Mice See Again After Cell Transplants · · Score: 1

    Did you read the friendly article?

    They placed a mousetrap (this type) and a plate with cheese, next to each other, and the mouse lived to give us two squeeks.

  7. Re:Start your biding... on Verifiable Elections Via Cryptography · · Score: 1

    No no, what is better:

    Vote, and get stuck with a bad government for four years, or

    Get paid to vote, and get stuck with a bad government for four years

  8. Re:All these quotes... on Oceans Empty By 2048? · · Score: 1
  9. Re:LOL IE Users! on Another Denial of Service Bug Found in Firefox 2 · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter how long.

    I'm sure Microsoft will still get hammered even if it issues 0-day patches.

  10. Only if 99,999 other will too on $100 PC Pledges Fail To Meet Minimum · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wonder if there is a special reason that requires 100,000 participants (that is, 200,000 OLPC, 300,000 altogether).

    Does that mean they can't produce and sell these laptop if there were only 5,000 orders?

  11. Re:Real importance beyond jewelry? on Lab Created Diamonds Come to Market · · Score: 1

    From the Wikipedia article:
    And from another article:


    Well, I guess that's part of the reasons why most of us don't get too many girls, because when females talk about serious facts like 'eternity', 'love' etc., we start bringing out nonsense from completely unreliable sources.

  12. Re:Real importance beyond jewelry? on Lab Created Diamonds Come to Market · · Score: 1

    You said you tried to "think like a lady", and you stated "Plus the fact that she can "trade-up" her softened jewelry for something else really captivates her -- the last ring she wore we "exchanged" for a set of earrings that was traded for bangles a few years later. With the diamond, she's mostly stuck."

    I guess you haven't watched many Diamond Ads, where the key word is "Diamond is For Eve R?".

    So the fact that gold can be melt away doesn't give much confidence to girls, because their boyfriends or husbands can get a breakup/divorce and take the ring to trade up for a new, better ring for their new, better partner.

    With the indestructive nature of a diamond, and its low resale value, there isn't much a boyfriend or husband can do about it.

  13. What free really means on How Much Does a Vista Upgrade Cost? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Some companies, such as Dell, charge $45 for converting to Vista Home from XP home.

    So it's similar to some open source service providers charging for installation and support, even the software itself is free.

    This deal is not meant for bargin-hunters, but for people who really need a new machine right now, and the only thing holding them off is the operating system.

  14. Re:Old news. on World of Warcraft Comes to South Park · · Score: 4, Funny

    But it is not 2010 yet.

  15. Re:You're doing it wrong on Using Your Laptop In Bed · · Score: 1

    A reason? You mean like beating her over some networked games to a point she gave up and put her laptop down?

    Other than that, I can't think of anything else.

  16. Re:Hehe on Dell Issues Laptop Battery Recall · · Score: 1

    Well, from the summary, that would be about 4 million units in roughly two years, and consists of 18% of the total production, which means Dell was selling more than 20 million laptops during that period.

  17. Google? on Yahoo Rejects Microsoft Search Offer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "The search business has been formed", that was what I heard when Yahoo was teh king, and guess who came in and took over the search business?

  18. SLA? on Making the Most of IT support? · · Score: 1

    We just had a discussion on over-demanding end-user, is this end-user now asking slashdot how to deal with SpaceNeeded?

    Honestly, while it's easy to say each side should try to understand and respect each other's work and schedule, there is always going to be inter-departmental conflicts.

    So maybe a well-drafted SLA?

  19. Re:But..... on Self-Censoring 'Chinese Wikipedia' Launched · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sorry to be a spelling nazi, but everyone knows that you should use "m" if a word starts with "p", like impassable, impotent....

    So it should be umpossible, not unpossible.

  20. Re:Leaving Differently on Leaving Early May Cost You Time · · Score: 4, Funny

    I usually wait longer than that, primarily because it has happened more than once that my car was following his out of the carpark, or we waited side-by-side at the next set of traffic lights.

  21. Late April on Leaving Early May Cost You Time · · Score: 4, Funny

    That is why I am leaving in late April.

  22. Games on Useful Apps for First-Time Windows Users? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Play as many PC games as you like.

  23. Moon Missions on NASA's $73 Million Water-Finding Trick · · Score: 2, Insightful

    One thing I like about Moon missions is we can see the results pretty much immediately, we can even see the mission via a telescope!

  24. Re:O2 on Homemade Cell Phone Call Blocker? · · Score: 1

    I got a XDA Mini, but I'm not sure if it comes as a factory software, or something the shop I bought it from installed for me.

  25. Re:Serious question. on Mozilla Foundation Donates $10K to OpenSSH · · Score: 1

    Based on the wording itself, I guess "Non profits" means an organization does things that don't generate profits. For instance coordinating food relief operation, and it acts like a middleman collecting and distributing donated items.

    As for "Not For Profits", it sort of implies an organization is not set up to make a profit, but it does not necessarily mean that it is not making profit. For example, a group of people get together to develop an Open Source application, their main objective is to provide a free tool to everyone, but they can still get paid for setting things up for a company.