Re: Should simply say

So - you haven't played it in three years, yet you agree the game is still bad?

You've missed too many changes to espouse on it's merits.

Re: @Dave 126

Also, weasel words like "can help hide the appearance of wrinkles."

ie. In a study of 10000 women, one of them thought her wrinkles looked better. So it *can* do it!

My comments are proven to reduce weightloss

when combined with an active lifestyle and a healthy diet.

Register DoS

At that point a border controller should be saying "erm... 10 failed registrations in a minute? Ok, you're getting blocked for an hour."

Re: For [Insert Diety here] sake

>Just changing the port SSH runs on doesn't make it anymore secure.

Yes it does.

It doesn't make it *secure*. It's certainly 'security through obscurity', but it is a mite more secure than leaving it on the default 22.

>If you must expose SSH services at least lock them down to known source locations.

Great! Now can you tell me the IP source address of the wifi access point in Terminal 7 of Amsterdam airport, because my boss has just called to say that mail is down, and I need to ssh in quickly to reboot the server.

Re: Freeware?

Windirstat is a great alternative to Treesize - free, and you can scan network drives.

Re: Not so zen

Ah! That Tribe Called Quest song must've been about a printer tray.

Re: Still buying CDs?

That's something of a false dichotomy - it's becoming increasingly common to use .flacs for ripping, which are lossless. It's a great format if you want to move all your physical media into something digital.

Re: So many words...

The article doesn't say that it's a paradigm shift, and I didn't say it's a paradigm shift. We both asserted that Microsoft believes it to be so.

I just wanted to make a stand against the idea that using a flourish of vocabulary was distasteful, superfluous or redundant.

If it is not the case, perhaps "Mickysoft" and "windoze" could be added to the Commentards Bingo?

Re: So many words...

Just because you don't understand the words, doesn't mean it's "wankword bingo".

[Microsoft is] demonstrating their belief that we are on the cusp of a paradigm shift in computing.

[Microsoft is] showing everyone that they think that the our whole way of doing things with computers is about to change.

The first sentence is a shorter, intelligible and perfectly cromulent way of expressing the same idea as the second.

While we spend our lives surrounded by marketing buzzwords & creaking acronyms, but not everyone believes that a paucity of vocabulary is doubleplusgood.

Enum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enum

Really?

*citation needed.

re:Re: beautiful creatures

wait... we're talking about cats now..?

*top

I think that for the purposes of this discussion, a laptop PC that plugs into the coporate network *is* a desktop computer, albeit a small one.

RIP

Countdown has a Filth-O-Tron now? Gosh, it really did go downhill after Richard Whitely passed..

re: An unmanned firm?

Maybe they're ladies.. :) (or eunuchs - as in, a bloke who has recently been 'unmanned'.)

re: Medic

I agree! At first I wasn't sure, but then I've been further even more decided to use even go need to do look more as anyone can.

Straw man

a) Noone accused them of having a monopoly

ii) Of course they have the vision and resources to do what they do. Every has the vision and resources to do what they themselves do. Otherwise they wouldn't be able to do it.

pfsshh..

Yeah, right.. If that were true then the porn industry would be a massive, multibillion dollar economy that drives technological advances like camcorders, vcrs, broadband and the Internet..! Dream on...

Gareth

San Fernando Valley, CA

Semantics

No, you dunce, that's the wrong version of profiling!

What the article clearly talks about is lining people up and viewing them from the side in order to work out how to place their desktop.

aptget =/= appstore

Lawks yes - they're exactly the same..

Do you remember that time that Redhat remotely pulled postfix from everyone's PC because they realised it could be used to send emails containing boobs? Or all those times Suse denied publishing apps because the clouds were a certain shape & the leaves in bottom of their tea settled into the shape of a skull..?

No...? hm.

If they banned all the porn on the internet

Then your landlord is a secret Scrubs watcher.. :) He stole it from Perry Cox.

slo-mo cavort

worked for me twice.. :)

fact

My grandad used to stick ferrous down his trousers..

Evilosity

The evil angle..? That's easy. A site as large as wikipedia - would be a lovely purchase for Google, surely.. Think of all the data they can mine from edits, impressions, etc..

Oh! They can't buy Wikipedia..? Well, how about they do the next best thing then, and graciously give them a bundle of cash. Then 10 years later, Google will be the *only* ones giving them substantial cash, which will put them in quite a nice position to start dictating terms..

do no evil =/= increase shareholder revenue

Kettle

So.. we're not allowed to criticize Bono unless we too are lead singers for multi-million dollar irish rock bands?

I just read a story by Bill Ray about the imminent lacklustre success of the googlephone. I'm just sure he's in a great place to cast aspersions on that, given that he's done more for the greater good and suchlike that google has. I mean, it's self-evident.

etc.

Bachelor, eh?

You've got to stop buying those 'specialist' magazines then.. : )

re: "often?"

..or subtle humour..?

(Wikileaks has not yet confirmed rumours that it is about to release the tragic sound of a near miss as a loud whooshing sound passes several feet over Jimmy's head.)

@@Is there a demo

No worry, I'll just start banging out a lipogram. :)