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Comment Re:Nothing does (Score 1) 276

by lokedhs on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @10:12AM (#44165127) Attached to: Join COBOL's Next Generation

Pretty much, although it's probably even more accurate so say it's been replaced by Excel.

Comment Re:Who cares? (Score 1) 277

by lokedhs on Thursday May 30, 2013 @12:49AM (#43857511) Attached to: Apple Leaves Journalists Jonesing

The stock price was set based on those same third-party analysts analysis, so once the real numbers come out, the stock price adjusts. This is economy 101, and it'd be good to look it up before randomly commenting (I know, I know. This is Slashdot and I shouldn't expect that).

Comment Re:Need Clarity (Score 1) 264

by lokedhs on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @07:16AM (#43848707) Attached to: Debian GNU/Hurd 2013 Released

Clearly you never experienced the 70's...

Comment Re:A quote from the authors (Score 1) 50

by lokedhs on Friday May 17, 2013 @12:32AM (#43748557) Attached to: Groklaw Turns Ten

Actually, it's technically not even over yet. The case is still there.

Comment Re:Microsoft Word Sure Sounds Fantastic (Score 1) 346

by lokedhs on Wednesday January 02, 2013 @11:55PM (#42457599) Attached to: Google Docs Vs. Microsoft Word: an Even Matchup?

Just to pick one feature at random: The ability to customise the look of text styles? What if I want to change the font of all headings? Another one, for bonus sake: Can I do pivot tables in the web-based version of Excel?

Comment Re:Microsoft Word Sure Sounds Fantastic (Score 4, Informative) 346

by lokedhs on Thursday December 27, 2012 @01:05AM (#42401501) Attached to: Google Docs Vs. Microsoft Word: an Even Matchup?

Well, if you actually tried it you will see that the Web version is so feature-limited that it might just as well not even exist. I think the original release of Google Docs was more feature-complete than Skydrive Word, and that's saying a lot.

Comment Re:Good luck with that (Score 1) 274

by lokedhs on Monday December 24, 2012 @02:49AM (#42379853) Attached to: GNU Hands Out Trisquel At a Microsoft Store

Most people have no access to Netflix anyway since it's a US-only thing.

Comment Re:64-bit? Bah (Score 1) 209

by lokedhs on Sunday December 23, 2012 @04:17AM (#42373889) Attached to: Mozilla Brings Back Firefox 64-Bit For Windows Nightly Builds

Actually, that would be 16 EB. You were off by 4 orders of magnitude.

Comment Privacy? Bing? (Score 5, Insightful) 266

by lokedhs on Thursday September 20, 2012 @10:09PM (#41407011) Attached to: Microsoft Urging Safari Users To Use Bing

Bing, that integrates with Facebook, who are the champions of privacy, of course.

Comment Re:No linux client (Score 1) 323

by lokedhs on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @08:32PM (#39789825) Attached to: Google Drive Goes Live

There is an open API. This API has been around forever, since it's the same as Google Docs. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if a client already exists (I'm too lazy to google for it right now).

Comment Re:Huh? (Score 3, Funny) 312

by lokedhs on Monday September 26, 2011 @01:02AM (#37512302) Attached to: A Few Million Virtual Monkeys Randomly Recreate Shakespeare

I also doesn't reproduce Shakespeare in its original Klingon...

Comment Re:Also appears to contain typical RIM.. (Score 1) 260

by lokedhs on Saturday April 23, 2011 @01:57PM (#35915864) Attached to: RIM BlackBerry PlayBook: Unfinished, Unusable

Last I looked the i-devices were unable to sync without a proprietary application that only works on Windows or OSX.

Comment Re:As John Gruber said (Score 1) 260

by lokedhs on Saturday April 23, 2011 @01:52PM (#35915838) Attached to: RIM BlackBerry PlayBook: Unfinished, Unusable

No Gruber, it makes you a fanboy.

Comment Re:Browser market share (Score 2, Informative) 290

by lokedhs on Tuesday August 03, 2010 @09:29AM (#33122478) Attached to: Firefox May Soon Overtake IE In Europe

Indeed, Korea really loves their activex. It's so bad that you really can't use the Korean Internet without activex. One example: try to even see the front page of one of Koreas major banks without ie: www.kdb.co.kr

Comment Re:fixed (Score 1) 394

by lokedhs on Sunday January 17, 2010 @01:11PM (#30799308) Attached to: Programming With Proportional Fonts?

Wow. Given how much I hate Python's syntax, I never thought I'd see myself typing this: Python's forced indentation is not as bad as Fortran's actually.

Fortran (and COBOL) has traditionally designated different behaviour to different columns. A character in a specific column has a different meaning than if the same character is in a different column. A variable-width font in that situation is completely unmanageable.

Nowdays, both Fortran and COBOL has changed this stupid design and you are now allowed to indent any way you want. If only Python could grow up too...

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