PoiBoy - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Other way around (Score 1) 711

by PoiBoy on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @11:05AM (#47155445) Attached to: Apple Says Many Users 'Bought an Android Phone By Mistake'

I'll admit I bought a Nokia 920 when it came out, thinking WP8 along with the supposedly great camera would make for a great phone. Long story short, I'm going to get an Android phone this weekend. WP8 has a lot of nice ideas, but like everything MS, they managed to throw in enough lemons to make it a mediocre product overall.

Comment: Just looked at the beta site (Score 0) 193

by PoiBoy on Thursday February 06, 2014 @06:16PM (#46179039) Attached to: New Type of Star Can Emerge From Inside Black Holes, Say Cosmologists

Fuck Beta!

Comment: Yahoo going downhill (Score 2) 292

by PoiBoy on Monday November 25, 2013 @10:42PM (#45522195) Attached to: Only 25% of Yahoo Staff "Eat Their Own Dog Food"

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

by PoiBoy on Sunday August 04, 2013 @07:40PM (#44472847) Attached to: Microsoft Cuts Surface Pro Price By $100

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

by PoiBoy on Sunday July 14, 2013 @05:43PM (#44279867) Attached to: Microsoft Slashes Prices On Surface

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

by PoiBoy on Friday July 13, 2012 @12:58PM (#40640251) Attached to: Canadian Banks Rushing To Offer Virtual Wallets

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

by PoiBoy on Sunday February 26, 2012 @01:23PM (#39164811) Attached to: The correct number of shoes to own:

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

by PoiBoy on Thursday August 25, 2011 @10:09AM (#37205576) Attached to: Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot

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

by PoiBoy on Wednesday June 15, 2011 @02:14PM (#36453312) Attached to: Re: the U.S. 2012 election campaign, I am:

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!-> 0

Submitted by dreamtripper on Monday July 19, 2010 @04:15PM

dreamtripper (1670350) writes "IBM has started offering its new version of AIX UNIX as an open beta."
Link to Original Source

Comment: Re:IOS == Cisco Internetworking Operating System (Score 1) 282

by PoiBoy on Monday June 28, 2010 @02:36PM (#32720070) Attached to: iOS Update May Tackle iPhone 4's Antenna Problems

Oh, so it's more like i OS, IBM's midrange OS.

Comment: Libraries (Score 3, Insightful) 222

by PoiBoy on Friday June 04, 2010 @02:58PM (#32461930) Attached to: Windows 7: The Missing Manual

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

by PoiBoy on Monday April 05, 2010 @05:54PM (#31741714) Attached to: Microsoft Announces End of the Line For Itanium Support

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

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @10:56AM
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

by PoiBoy on Wednesday June 17, 2009 @10:11PM (#28368799) Attached to: FDA Says Homeopathic Cure Can Cause Loss of Smell

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.