Ruger - Slashdot User

Comment We will have them in 100 years, but... (Score 1) 606

by Ruger on Friday October 08, 2010 @04:08PM (#33840102) Attached to: How Long Until We Commonly Use Flying Cars?

...most people will still be too stupid to "drive" them.

Comment AGREED!!! All downhill since Westwood sold it. (Score 1) 159

by Ruger on Tuesday October 13, 2009 @05:20PM (#29737381) Attached to: <em>Command & Conquer</em> MMO a Possibility?

The original C&C by Westwood had an AWESOME story line...with Michael Biehn, James Earl Jones & Kari Wuhrer in some of the title roles.

Comment The Chinese have already... (Score 1) 159

by Ruger on Tuesday October 13, 2009 @05:17PM (#29737337) Attached to: <em>Command & Conquer</em> MMO a Possibility?

...harvested all the Tiberium on my server :-(

Comment People still use Yahoo? (Score 3, Funny) 319

by Ruger on Monday June 08, 2009 @11:45AM (#28251723) Attached to: Has Bing Already Overtaken Yahoo?

Didn't even know they were still around.

Comment Re:In the words of an ancient tagline... (Score 1) 592

by Ruger on Monday May 18, 2009 @10:41AM (#27996425) Attached to: What Did You Think Of The New Star Trek Movie?

Star Wars is a western, Trek is an old WWII Navy saga. The captain goes down with his ship and stops the invasion/attack by the enemy fleet (in this case one massive powerful ship).

While I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, I've always though employing time travel in any plot was a bit of a Sci-fi cop-out...unless it's crucial to the story (e.g. Terminator).

Comment Dood, how much time do you spend... (Score 3, Funny) 605

by Ruger on Friday March 13, 2009 @03:34PM (#27184947) Attached to: My longest stretch without sleep (catnaps count) ...

...playing World of Warcraft? I would have sooo many lvl 80 toons if I had your problem :-)

Comment Am I the only one who still counts in potatos? (Score 1) 599

by Ruger on Thursday February 26, 2009 @04:58PM (#27003523) Attached to: I Count In

One potato, two potato, three potato, four...

The only drawback to this system is after 7 you jump to infinity (e.g. 7 potato, more).

Comment Only certain Vista titles are eligible for down... (Score 4, Informative) 315

by Ruger on Wednesday February 18, 2009 @02:23PM (#26904539) Attached to: Microsoft Says No Profit In Vista-XP Downgrades

...grade. An XP "downgrade" can only be purchased with a Business or Ultimate version of Vista. So if a customer is looking at a configure-to-order laptop such as with Dell or Lenovo, then in many cases customers have to upgrade their OS from Home Basic or Home Premium in order to get the XP downgrade option.

Is this charging more for XP...in many people's minds, yes. But legally (Full disclosure: IANAL), they are paying for the Vista upgrade, not for the XP downgrade.

Obama To Name Melissa Hathaway Cybersecurity Chief 188

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 09, 2009 @06:44PM from the how-do-i-get-tsar-in-my-title dept.

hargrand writes "President Obama has found the cyber tsar to head his new White House office of cybersecurity. According to US press reports this morning, an announcement expected later today will confirm Melissa Hathaway is to come in as cyber chief, after being cyber coordination executive for the director of national intelligence."

Comment Re:Not even close to the same (Score 1) 935

by Ruger on Monday June 30, 2008 @10:56AM (#24000747) Attached to: Apple Laptop Upgrades Costing 200% More Than Dells

Everything in an Apple (aside from the OS/software) is basically the same as what's in any windows PC. In fact, in some cases, Apple uses older/inferior components. The SSD in their Air laptop is a generation older than the SSDs in the Thinkpad X300.

It seems pretty clear that they are charging a premium for the CTO service, and not really charging more for the parts. The factory install is what you're paying for.

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