BvF7734 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:My experience shows a short path (Score 1) 727

by BvF7734 on Thursday May 21, 2009 @02:23PM (#28043237) Attached to: Ubuntu 9.04 For the Windows Power User

I agree. Being around computers as a teenager with pre windows OS'es (DOS, OS2, etc.), through the minefield of Win9x, and all the way up to my current stint of 7 years in Corporate IT officially, I am very experienced with every flavor of the MS spectrum. With the alleged DRM and negative impact items in Vista and Win7 from what I have read, I actively WANT to switch to Linux in one form or another. Yet every time I play around with a distro whether it be Slackware or Ubuntu or Red Hat or any number of other distros of ranging sizes and capabilities, I always come back to XP.

It is hard being a gamer and not being able to enjoy a decent game while in Linux. Even WINE is limited in the games I wish to run so that is a limitation there as well. I would hate to see Linux become more like Windows simply for the sake of getting Win users but alas it is about the only way.

I never have any problems with my XP installs and even my family who abuse Windows can't seem to break it within a year of building a machine for them. I want to switch but until it is close to the user friendliness that Windoze offers I won't make a permanent switch anytime soon.

Comment Re:Never underestimate a motivated engineer (Score 1) 340

by BvF7734 on Tuesday July 15, 2008 @02:37PM (#24200493) Attached to: NASA Engineers Work On Alternative Moon Rocket

After all, it not rocket surgery.

So easy, even a caveman could do it?

That describes the Air Force and not NASA...

Feed news.com: The RIAA speaks--and it gets worse (news.com)

From feed by cnetfeed on Monday January 14, 2008 @05:33PM

Don Reisinger had the chance to sit down with the RIAA for a frank interview. Unfortunately, the answers he received make the organization look worse.

CES 2008 Hall of Shame 179

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday January 14, 2008 @05:01PM from the natural-financial-selection dept.

Romana Reynolds writes "The CES 2008 Innovations Design and Engineering Awards Showcase honored the Atom Chip Corporation, which was exhibiting the same 100GB, 500GB, and 1TB 'quantum optical' memory chips back in 2006. We actually wandered by, but long gone are the 'SolarMemory' chips, and he didn't know anything about Duke Nuk'em Forever. A little easy digging shows that they'd been making the same extraordinary claims and exhibiting prototypes at CES during the past three years, long enough to make 'atom chip hoax' the fourth suggestion on typing 'atom chip' into Google. I'm amused that the 'preeminent' panel of judges failed their vetting and gatekeeping functions. But I fear that Atom Chip will gather investors based on their recognition at CES, and continue in the game for many years to come, while honors at CES become a Hall of Shame."

Submission + - Spacecraft Flies by Mercury (jhuapl.edu)

Submitted by

Riding with Robots

on Monday January 14, 2008 @04:39PM

Riding with Robots writes: "Today, more than three decades after the last spacecraft visited Mercury, MESSENGER buzzed just 200 kilometers above the planet's surface. During the encounter, the robotic spacecraft conducted a range of scientific observations, including imaging swaths of Mercury's surface that have never been seen up close before. A few of the first pictures are now available, with many more to come in the next few days."

Submission + - ODF group drops ODF? (commandprompt.com)

Submitted by

poet

on Tuesday October 30, 2007 @03:41PM

poet writes: "According to this article over at Computer World, the Open Document Foundation has dropped support for Open Document Format, in favor of the Compound Documents Format put out by the W3C?"

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