Merk42 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Dear Microsoft, (Score 1) 417

by Merk42 on Thursday January 16, 2014 @10:16AM (#45975487) Attached to: Microsoft Extends Updates For Windows XP Security Products Until July 2015

9 is too early to say, but 8->8.1 is a completely free upgrade.

Comment Re:Dear Microsoft, (Score 2) 417

by Merk42 on Thursday January 16, 2014 @10:14AM (#45975461) Attached to: Microsoft Extends Updates For Windows XP Security Products Until July 2015

Yet if they had STOPPED selling XP years prior people like you would complain they killed it too soon
Microsoft is damned if they do, damned if they don't.

Comment Re:...Right (Score 1) 141

by Merk42 on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @09:41AM (#45964207) Attached to: Google Chrome 32 Is Out: Noisy Tabs Indicators, Supervised Users

So if Google introduced a 'one click more' way to mute a tab, that'd be fine then?

Comment Re:Sigh, G+ hate is fashionable, isn't it? (Score 1) 339

by Merk42 on Friday January 10, 2014 @06:22PM (#45921695) Attached to: Google Begins To Merge Google+, Gmail Contacts

You like {thing}? Clearly you are a shill for {maker of thing}!

Comment Re:Does it matter (Score 4, Funny) 207

by Merk42 on Monday December 30, 2013 @10:28AM (#45818107) Attached to: Unintended Consequences: How NSA Revelations May Lead To Even More Surveillance

Yeah I can't believe all this stupid PATRIOT ACT shit Bush is doing, I mean his administration won't last forever. I tell you what, next election I'm voting for the other party, this Obama guy promises transparency.

Comment Re:Dear Users... (Score 1) 336

by Merk42 on Thursday December 19, 2013 @10:04AM (#45735363) Attached to: Apple Pushes Developers To iOS 7

Like those people that bought a phone that was both a Samsung and a Nexus? I'm sure those Galaxy Nexus owners are enjoying 4.4, oh wait.

Comment Canonical Haters = Double Standard (Score 1, Insightful) 208

by Merk42 on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @04:45PM (#45663653) Attached to: Canonical Moving Away From GNOME Control Center

Canonical is forking something?? NIH syndrome! They should totally use something that already exists.
Canonical is using something that already exists? How dare they use something someone else made!

Comment Re:Betteridge's law for "may" statements (Score 1) 92

by Merk42 on Monday December 09, 2013 @02:16PM (#45641527) Attached to: New Superconductor Theory May Revolutionize Electrical Engineering

You should write an article on it with the headline "Is Betteridge's law always true?"

Comment Re:production and development cost (Score 1) 333

by Merk42 on Thursday December 05, 2013 @12:00PM (#45608339) Attached to: China Prefers Sticking With Dying Windows XP To Upgrading

China already has moved (or is moving) to Linux with Ubuntu Kylin http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/ubuntukylin As far as people in China still using Windows, the majority of them are pirated copies. That's why they want extended support, they won't buy Windows 8.1 or even 7 because they never bought XP in the first place.

Comment Re:ABANDON SHIP (Score 1) 278

by Merk42 on Friday November 22, 2013 @12:11PM (#45491729) Attached to: Mozilla's 2012 Annual Report: 90% of Revenue Came From Google

Yet if they added all those features, people would complain of bloat.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't

Comment Re:Interesting for a different reason (Score 1) 111

by Merk42 on Thursday November 21, 2013 @10:03AM (#45480729) Attached to: Mir Won't Ship Even In Ubuntu 14.04

Considering a lot of the people working on Wayland are those that worked on X, I don't think NIH applies.

Comment Re:All right (Score 1) 257

by Merk42 on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @10:28AM (#45268929) Attached to: Chrome Will End XP Support in 2015; Firefox Has No Plans To Stop

It may be more complex, but IT departments have had ample time to figure out said complexities. April 2014 has been known about for YEARS.

Comment Re:Come on, google! (Score 2) 37

by Merk42 on Thursday October 24, 2013 @02:17PM (#45226511) Attached to: HP Seeks Buyer For WebOS Patents

Like that card UI? They should totally get the designer that did that...

Comment Re:Who Owns Key? What Signs Upstream? (Score 1) 140

by Merk42 on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @05:32PM (#45206585) Attached to: Google Wants To Help You Tiptoe Around the NSA & the Great Firewall of China

I want no part of "Google freedom". Their self driving cars? If these are the norm, they'll know where you are - all the time - and be queriable for your violations of speed limits...

but if they're self driving cars, wouldn't it be the software that is guilty of going over the speed limit?

Comment Goverment Related News? (Score 4, Funny) 501

by Merk42 on Monday October 14, 2013 @03:46PM (#45124905) Attached to: Lessons From the Healthcare.gov Fiasco

Clearly this is all because of {current President} and all the rest of the {President's affiliated party}. If only this were done by {opposing party to that of the President} instead none of this would have happpened!

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