Comment Re:Patent disputes (Score 3, Funny) 377
They will never make something with a form factor that can be mistaken for an iPad.
Now that the form factor of a rectangle is taken, they could always make a tablet in the shape of an "L".
Comment Re:The Hamsters get tired (Score 1) 615
But if he were to go on a diet, he would be getting smaller would he not? Therefore, the effective rate of growth would be even greater!!! He should eat like there is no tomorrow in order to outpace the rate of growth. However, that would likely lead to an early death and so the time gains would be nil.
Comment Re:I'll say it again.. (Score 2) 427
Couple got caught in the airport's bathroom on a blowjob.
Former Senator Larry Craig?
Comment Re:First country that (Score 1) 76
"Yer teh fuct"
Comment Special Offer! (Score 1) 222
If you upgrade now, Steve Ballmer will throw in a chair with your purchase!
Comment Re:Can't Wait (Score 5, Funny) 178
This is slashdot. There won't be hot singles ads flashing up on the folks that hang out here. There will be ads for "Fleshlight" popping up.
Comment Re:Wow (Score 1) 420
Or he is talking about the upper 35% of the G20.
Comment Re:Less eye candy (Score 2) 426
There's an option in Windows to adjust the border width (it defaults to 4 but can be lowered all the way to 0).
Appearance -> Window Color -> Advanced appearance settings.. -> Border padding
Control Panel->Appearance and Personalization->Personalization->Window Color and Appearance->Advanced appearance settings.. -> Border Padding Default was 5 on my machine
Alan Turing Papers On Code Breaking Released By GCHQ 78
peetm writes "Two 70-year-old papers by Alan Turing on the theory of code breaking have been released by the government's communications headquarters, GCHQ. It is believed Turing wrote the papers while at Bletchley Park working on breaking German Enigma codes. A GCHQ mathematician said the fact that the contents had been restricted 'shows what a tremendous importance it has in the foundations of our subject.'"
Comment Re:Normally C but... (Score 1) 525
Plenty of 11 year olds got their start coding a mix of BASIC and 6502 assembly. C shouldn't be much worse.
Isn't that how Bill Gates got started? Look what that got us.
Comment Reward Failure? (Score 1) 146
"Paper products maker Kimberly-Clark drove the morale of its IT infrastructure group into the ground after massive firings and outsourcing."
They rewarded failure by doing this in the first place.
They rewarded failure by doing this in the first place.
Comment Alternate motive? (Score 5, Funny) 234
I wonder if they plan use this to charge people for skipping Windows 8?
Comment Re:That's what America needs to be competitive! (Score 5, Insightful) 969
All major public accounting firms have 60hour minimum work-weeks for Jan-April ("busy season") every year....
So what are you doing fucking off reading Slashdot for?
Comment Let me get this straight (Score 2) 188
These are the same people who dumped the United States as HQ for Dubai...
Comment Re:I HAD to buy it... Once... (Score 1) 113
I was given a very nice Compaq Deskpro series computer with about a 1.5G P4 (this was a while ago!)
Is the reference to time based on the fact that it was a 1.5G P4, or that it was a very nice Compaq? For the later, it must have been a very long time ago indeed!
