Comment Payback is a... (Score 5, Funny) 241
Dear Microsoft,
It sucks when people spread FUD, doesn't it?
Comment Re:Good luck with that. (Score 1) 80
The more I think about this, the more I think you're right. I'll have to rent the movie tonight just to rewatch that scene which means this is going to eat away at me all day. I have got to stop coming to Slashdot.
Comment Re:Good luck with that. (Score 1) 80
Perhaps you're correct although I did draw my quote from the actual screenplay as written by David Franzoni so I'm going to defer to him in this case.
Say, how many times have you seen Gladiator?
Comment Good luck with that. (Score 1) 80
"A people should know when they are conquered." -Maximus from the movie Gladiator
Churches Use Twitter To Reach a Wider Audience
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In an attempt to reverse declining attendance figures, many American churches are starting to ask WWJD in 140 or fewer characters. Pastors at Westwinds Community Church in Michigan spent two weeks teaching their 900-member congregation how to use Twitter. 150 of them are now tweeting. Seattle's Mars Hill Church encourages its members to Twitter messages during services. The tweets appear on the church's official Twitter page. Kyle Firstenberg, the church's administrator, said,"It's a good way for them to tell their friends what church is about without their friends even coming in the building."
Comment Re:"commercial UNIX" (Score 1) 699
I'll go you one further. Try logging in as >console some time.
Comment In Non-Soviet Russia, the OS Writes You! (Score 1) 242
Why would they base their OS on somebody else's distribution? I thought Russia didn't need help, weren't invalids and didn't have limited mental capacity? I figured that a bare chested, gun totin' Putin would write the OS from scratch himself after using his mad Judo skills to teach a bear why nobody should talk wise to the past and future President of Russia.
Comment Midnight Commander is nice; Worker is better. (Score 3, Interesting) 304
While I'll be glad to see the resurrection of Midnight Commander, I'm not chomping at the bit because I think that the Worker file manager is a much better alternative. Its design will be immediately recognizable to those who have spent any time with the Amiga because it is based on (which is a nice way of saying it's a virtual copy of) Directory Opus. Check it out. You won't be disappointed.
Comment Re:Can Palm do anything right? (Score 2, Interesting) 617
Might I inquire as to the nature of your disappointment with the Palm TX? I'm a long time Palm (and Sony Clie) user and I feel that the Palm TX, anachronism aside, is the best Palm-OS device I've ever owned. Unfortunately, it will probably be the last Palm-OS device I ever own.
Comment Opt Out (Score 1) 225
Yes, it's obnoxious and offensive and worth pointing out that at the bottom of their 'helpful' page is a link marked LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS PAGE which gives the following explanation:
These search results were provided because the domain name you entered into the address bar is either improperly formatted, currently unavailable, nonexistent, or part of a key word search. Rogers Supported Search Results is a service designed to enhance your web surfing experience by eliminating many of the error pages you encounter as you surf.
No software was installed on your computer for this service to work.
Click here if you would no longer like to receive the Rogers Supported Search Results service.
Now for the best part. All that links does is display this custom error page (with the help of a delightful cookie, no less). Rogers has dug out a crawl space under their all time low. What a bunch of idiots.
