Comment Re:Not an open platform? (Score 1) 768
Exactly.
Comment Re:Just greed. (Score 0) 768
Thank you! My sentiments exactly. Valve hates the idea of the Windows store with dirt cheap apps, that's ALL it is. Linux doesn't have this, so naturally it's "just better" than Windows 8. Whatever.
If Linux is really better than Windows, for gaming, then they would've had a real Linux client over 5 years ago. I call BS.
Comment Ha, whatever. (Score 1) 228
Whenever I have to deal with HP or any other company that farms out their support to India, I'll use chat EVERY TIME, because I don't have to constantly ask "I'm sorry, could you repeat that?", or have to spell out almost every word, due to the language barrier (not blaming the people, I know that English is a 2nd, 3rd, 4th language for many people outside of the US).
Sorry that this guy decided to use Slashdot to rant on how he hates Live Chat, but whatever.
Comment Thank GOD! (Score 0) 202
Someone needs to put a bullet in the head of GNOME 3. What an abomination it's become...and it sucks too.
Comment Title made my brain hurt... (Score 2) 128
seriously, it did.
Comment The community failed on ATi (Score 3, Insightful) 497
So ATi opens up, and the community COMPLETELY failed to deliver a usable solution. WTH should Nvidia care? The FOSS community has already shown that they can't do it. Mod me down if you want, but I speak the truth. We failed.
As long as Nvidia continues to provide a driver that works, and works well (which it does), then I will always use Nvidia cards.
Comment If porn has taught us anything... (Score 1) 403
then YES!
Comment Windows Phone will become the best (Score 3, Insightful) 267
Mark my words, and I can't believe I'm even saying this, but Windows Phone, will soon be considered the best mobile platform, due to it's unification with the desktop, and XBOX. Unfortunately, it won't mean much because people will still want shiny iPhones and will clamor to the numerous free Android phones that they can get.
From a technical standpoint, there is nothing about Android that is good. The reason it is so popular, is because it is cheap and most people can get one. There, I said it. /standby to be marked as Troll in 3, 2, 1
Submission + - German police seize Pirate Party servers (arstechnica.com)
fph il quozientatore writes: The German police have seized today the servers from the German pirate party after an attack to the French company EDF. Apparently they are looking for evidence of allegiance with the Anonymous group. In completely unrelated news, the website of the German police was down this afternoon.
Submission + - EEF pressed Apple to indemnify developers (networkworld.com)
Julie188 writes: "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is calling on Apple to indemnify its developers from Lodsys — a patent troll that's alleging patent infringement on the in-app purchasing used by iOS apps. (That's the technology developed by Apple and forced on many of its developers.) The letters Lodsys has been sending out came to light on May 13th, and apparently developers have been asking Apple for help to no avail."
Submission + - Sprint/Google Voice users seeing overage charges (zdnet.com)
ndtechnologies writes: "Sprint users are reporting overage charges after integrating Google Voice to their Sprint phone. The charges occur after the user integrates using Option 2. Sprint/Google did not notify users that this could happen, before integration, but have verified it in their respective forums after the service has launched."
Submission + - Sony hacked again (computerworld.com)
mcgrew writes: Computerworld is reporting yet another breach of Sony's laughable (it must be) security, saying $1,200 worth of "virtual tokens" have been taken.
The same article notes that F-Secure has discovered a phishing site in Thailand that's hosted on Sony's servers.
The same article notes that F-Secure has discovered a phishing site in Thailand that's hosted on Sony's servers.
Submission + - 10 things IT groups need to know about The Rapture (networkworld.com)
alphadogg writes: If May 21 is really the end of the world, as preacher Harold Camping predicts, here's how IT can cover its butt. For starters, don't panic, wait on installing Windows 7 and automate everything. Network World's John Cox has you covered in this piece.
Comment Why don't they.... (Score 1) 294
just go ahead and rename it "OracleOffice" and just get it over with.
I put LibreOffice on my work laptop months ago, and haven't looked back. Suck it Oracle.
Comment I like it! (Score 1) 2254
It's scaled down a little bit, and overall, I like it much better.
With that said, let's hope this goes better than Digg v4 did...I'd hate to see /. die a slow death too. Then I'll have nowhere else to troll on the internet. I've been banned from 4chan, and Reddit won't have me. Facebook and MySpace both left me and I burned the bridge with Friendster and Classmates, and Twitter just won't shut up. I don't know what I'd do without you /.
