Comment: Just looked at the beta site (Score 0) 193
Fuck Beta!
Comment: Yahoo going downhill (Score 2) 292
I had been a faithful Yahoo up until about six months ago. MyYahoo was great, and I liked the classic version of Yahoo Mail. Then Marissa Mayer came along and wrecked everything, adding bling and fancy colors while stripping away everything I liked about Yahoo, including the fact that I had it set up to look the same for about the past 10 years.
I guess some people think it was time to spruce up the place. Not me. It's Mayer's Mayhem now.
Comment: Re:Excellent (Score 1) 341
Agree. Honestly, I'm not a MSFT shill, but I do own a Surface Pro. It's replaced both an Android tablet and a netbook. With the clicky keyboard I've even used it to write code and geeky stuff, but as soon as you rip the keyboard off you're left with a fine (if not a bit heavy) tablet for watching Netflix and surfing the web.
Nice little machine.
Comment: Re:Price Adjustment (Score 1) 330
I've got the 64GB Surface Pro, and I actually think it's a great machine. Admittedly, I virtually always use the desktop, and the only Metro apps I have are a couple of games. It's already replaced both my Android tablet and the small laptop I used to travel with. Once you get used to it, it really is a nice little machine, if not a bit pricey.
Comment: Anonymity (Score 1) 164
From the article:
"If a consumer walks into Home Depot today and pays with cash. Home Depot has no idea who that customer is, how many times they've been in the store and what they've actually purchased," said Darrell MacMullin, managing director at PayPal Canada.
That's precisely why I use cash much of the time. I'd rather not have every retailer in the country tracking my every purchase.
Comment: Re:Too many and not enough. (Score 1) 502
Alden shoes are a clear step up from Allen Edmonds. I've had both, and I think the Aldens are definitely worth the extra money.
Comment: Thanks Taco! (Score 1) 1521
I first started reading slashdot in about 1999, and I've been reading it everyday since. I don't know cmdrtaco or any of the other editors here, but after a dozen years it feels like a fraternity or family. Best of luck in your future endeavors.
Comment: Too Early (Score 1) 462
The election's not for 17 months, and some candidates have been going for several months already. Why can't we cut this down to a six-month cycle instead? Politicians spend too much time campaigning. Pundits are already saying we will see nothing out of Congress or the WH because it's an election year. Even for Representatives who serve two-year terms, it seems like a third of their time is spent in campaign mode. If the D's and R's are at a standstill, fine, go fishing or something. But constant campaign mode just elevates the divisiveness in Washington.
+ - AIX 7 Open Beta is here!->
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dreamtripper writes "IBM has started offering its new version of AIX UNIX as an open beta."
Link to Original Source
Link to Original Source
Comment: Re:IOS == Cisco Internetworking Operating System (Score 1) 282
Oh, so it's more like i OS, IBM's midrange OS.
Comment: Libraries (Score 3, Insightful) 222
Is it me, or are the libraries in Windows 7 stupid? I prefer Vista because it doesn't have those damn things. I've read about registry hacks to disable them, though I've not had any luck getting those hacks to work.
Comment: Not dead yet (Score 1, Insightful) 227
In addition to HPUX, OpenVMS and NonStop both require Itanium hardware. Itanium might be relegated to a role like IBM's Power chips, but it's not dead yet, Jim.
Lawyer Jailed For Contempt Is Freed After 14 Years 408
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from the all-we-need-is-a-little-patience dept.
from the all-we-need-is-a-little-patience dept.
H. Beatty Chadwick has been in a staring match with the judicial system for the past 14 years, and the system just blinked. Chadwick was ordered to pay his ex-wife $2.5 million after their divorce. He refused to pay saying that he couldn't because he lost the money in a series of "bad investments." The judge in the case didn't believe him and sent him to jail for contempt. That was 14 years ago. Last week another judge let Chadwick go saying that "continued imprisonment would be legal only if there was some likelihood that ultimately he would comply with the order; otherwise, the confinement would be merely punitive instead of coercive." Chadwick, now 73, is believed to have served the longest contempt sentence in US history.
Comment: Only the nasal version (Score 2, Interesting) 452
This warning only applies to the version of Zicam that you stick in your nose. When I have a cold, I use the lozenges that dissolve in your mouth, and I swear they really do help control the symptoms of a cold.
Comment: System i (Score 1) 655
Move everything to an entry-level IBM System i machine with a couple of terminals. The hardware will last 15 years and the OS is as reliable as a tank.
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/i/?cm_re=masthead-_-products-_-sys-iseries