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Comment: Re:I don't understand what went wrong (Score 1) 218

by Dr. Evil (#38739016) Attached to: Research In Motion To Be Sold, Possibly To Samsung

How the f** can they screw up an alarm clock? It happened to me too. It just blew my mind.

I swapped my Blackberry 9700 for a Nokia C3. The Nokia does half as much, but I was sick of wasting my time with my unreliable POS Blackberry. The C3 was supposed to be temporary, it's not perfect, but I'm getting good at working around its quirks.

Comment: Re:Ouch! (Score 1) 210

by Dr. Evil (#38562920) Attached to: NYT: IBM PC Division Sold To Advance China's Goals

Gerstner saved IBM from irrelevance and possible bankruptcy. Palmisano turned it from a hardware company into a services company, a services company particularly adept at outsourcing.

It is not lithe. These guys steer the company 5 years into the future. They have an advantage in that where they move, they tend to change the future, but if they pick a bad direction, the company is screwed for at least a decade.

The sour grapes you're hearing are not from people who were OS/2 or Thinkpad loyalists, they're from present and former employees.

Comment: Disinformation (Score 2) 417

by Dr. Evil (#37366646) Attached to: North Korea Forced US Reconnaissance Plane To Land

"I'm sure the US isn't pleased about this"

Or maybe the U.S. *wants* North Korea to think that the U.S. is not pleased.

Although... North Korea showing their hand by jamming a signal in peace time is a pretty stupid move. Maybe North Korea *wants* the U.S. to think that North Korea is pleased about jamming a U.S. plane, when infact they have a much more powerful jammer which they didn't use. Hmm....

Comment: Re:What an Unreadable and Horrible Summary (Score 4, Insightful) 386

by Dr. Evil (#37233290) Attached to: A Custom Objectionable Word List Ate My Homework

"screw" is on there too.

As are serious words like "rape"

Sexuality themed words are in there. pube, vagina, homo, anus, dildo, orgasm, clitoris. It sounds like some unimaginative school board operator just did a mind dump of every word he or she could think of. Some therapist should have a chat with them.

Comment: Re:So make the road less monotonous (Score 1) 77

by Dr. Evil (#37151378) Attached to: Car Makers Explore EEG Headrests

Or... remove all markings, signs and traffic controls!

"The goal of shared space is an improvement in road safety, encouraging negotiation of shared areas at appropriate speeds and with due consideration for the other users, using simple rules like giving way to the right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_space

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