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  1. Re:Finally on Linux 3.11 Officially Named "Linux For Workgroups" · · Score: 2

    MinGW or Visual Studio?

    If memory serves, MinGW is just gcc, GNU make, and assorted friends compiled natively for Windows. I'd say go with that if you're already familiar with GNU things.

    Does VS support autotools/autoconf scripts?

    I strongly doubt it.

  2. Re:Scratch on Khan Academy Chooses JavaScript As Intro Language · · Score: 0

    That's more of a jigsaw puzzle than any real programming - sure it helps get the idea down but doesn't really teach *progamming*

  3. Re:To the Bone! on GNOME 3: Beauty To the Bone? · · Score: 1

    Someone get a hold of George Thorogood, because GNOME 3 is nothing but bad to the bone.

  4. Re:facepalm on Researchers Find Big Leaks In Pre-installed Android Apps · · Score: 1

    This is why you root your phone and remove this software if--no, when it causes problems. Make sure you keep a backup of it though - you'll need to restore it and unroot if for some reason you need to send it in under warranty.

  5. Re:Sickening! on BBC To Dispose of Douglas Adams Website · · Score: 1

    Just what I always wanted! To be charged with a crime for failing to publish my journal (shelving), or for deleting Note-To-Self files off my computer (destruction)!

    Since you own the copyright, you could still do that.

  6. Re:BBC? on BBC To Dispose of Douglas Adams Website · · Score: 1

    still better than Fox News

  7. Re:Great, but... on Apple App Store Hits 10B App Download Mark · · Score: 1

    touché

  8. Re:I'm more interested in... on Pope Promotes Christian Netiquette · · Score: 1

    Whoever shopped it did an amazing job. I thought it was real as well.

  9. Re:the app store censorship drives jailbraking and on Apple App Store Hits 10B App Download Mark · · Score: 1

    OSX isn't as locked as iOS, though. The Mac App Store conveys the idea of "Hey! If you get stuff from here, it's guaranteed not to screw things up! Sure, you can get apps off the net or off a disc, but we can't guarantee safety!"

  10. Re:Great, but... on Apple App Store Hits 10B App Download Mark · · Score: 2

    Am I the only one who mods down all the participants of OS wars, regardless of side?

  11. Re:Well done, Gearbox on Duke Nukem Forever Release Date Revealed · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but now we'll have to look for a new nerdy injoke that is the equivalent of "When hell freezes over".

    Episode 3.

  12. Re:Naming conventions on Sony Says PSP2 "As Powerful as PS3" · · Score: 1

    the YBox

  13. Re:Dual core smartphones on Dual-Core Chips Coming To All Smartphones In 2011 · · Score: 1

    That doesn't count, as iPhone4 wasn't introduced in 2011. Even if Verizon's support for it was.

  14. Re:Of course on Sony Says PSP2 "As Powerful as PS3" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hard drive, Blu-Ray drive, ethernet, I think there might be some Bluetooth in there...

  15. Re:So ... on 'SMS of Death' Could Crash Many Mobile Phones · · Score: 1

    Oh, additionally, the second group of three digits (the 555 in a 555-XXXX number) can't be 0 anything or 1 anything, so the phone doesn't get confused and try to do an operator assisted or long distance call.

  16. Re:So ... on 'SMS of Death' Could Crash Many Mobile Phones · · Score: 1

    (000)000-0000 isn't a valid number. The lowest number the area code can be is 201 (first digit [2-9], rest [0-9]). However, the area code can't end in 11, to avoid confusion with 911 and similar numbers.

    Also, 555-0100 through 555-0199 are reserved for use in fiction (though other 555 numbers are valid).

    Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Numbering_Plan#Current_system

  17. Re:Chill on Mac App Store Apps Already Hacked · · Score: 1

    Don't be so conceited: computer users all bow to someone. It is only a matter of changing the names and the nuances of the bow.

    The bow (before it became associated with totalitarian/monarchial government) is shown as a sign of respect. And I only bow in that context - if someone does something I respect, I bow. In that vein, if someone makes a program (or even an OS) I like, I bow.

    So stop trying to change the definition to "On one's knees, moving their torso towards the ground and back with hands straight up repeatedly."

  18. Re:Scourge? on Tobacco Virus Could Boost Li Batteries · · Score: 1

    I have a gut feeling that tomatoes are inspected and cared for a lot more than tobacco is. Mostly because more people consume tomatoes and tomato products than tobacco and tobacco products anyway

  19. Re:The caps lock key doesn't bother me on Chrome Does Have a Caps-Lock Key After All · · Score: 1

    Play Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and say that again. Trust me, with Num Lock on, the numpad won't be able to control units, meaning you'll have to remember which of the Ins/Del/etc keys control the diagonal moves. I doubt it's the only program that does this, but it's the only one I can think of.

  20. Re:WOT? NO CAPSLOCK? on Chrome Does Have a Caps-Lock Key After All · · Score: 1

    I prefer using Shift over Caps Lock for any LONG STRING OF CAPITALS IN ANY CONTEXT. So on my laptop I told KDE to turn Caps Lock into a "Compose" key (where a" gives me ä...or maybe it's "a. I'm on Windows, which only has US International keyboard mappings and no Compose key settings so I can't remember).

    I'd rather have a dedicated compose key than a Caps Lock key. However, the mechanical Shift Lock previously mentioned as well as a dedicated Compose key sounds like a good idea.

  21. Re:delete key? what? on Chrome Does Have a Caps-Lock Key After All · · Score: 1

    or press i in Vim instead of Insert if that's really a problem.

  22. Re:antipiracy on Vuvuzelas Blare On Pirated Copies of Music Game · · Score: 1

    I've only run into it with one game. And that was because the game itself was broken - not Steam.

  23. Re:antipiracy on Vuvuzelas Blare On Pirated Copies of Music Game · · Score: 1

    I will say that of all the DRMs I've ever had to deal with, Steam has been least annoying. Sure, the client itself has a slight case of Downs, but once you have the game installed and a desktop or Start menu shortcut (or however Wine would translate that in your case), the most you'd see out of the actual client is "Preparing to Launch" and "Oh! There's an update!". Once you're [b]in[/b] the game, the game itself will work perfectly most of the time. And in cases where it doesn't (not often but it happens) it offers a few tools if it's the game itself, and mostly painless remedies for when it's Steam.

  24. Re:decent touch screen keyboard? on Microsoft Patents Shape-Shifting Display · · Score: 1

    sunburns

  25. It's just a statistic on Claims About China's April Internet Hijack Are Overblown · · Score: 0

    And 21.36% of all statistics are made up on the spot.