Comment Re:Zany Zebra (Score 1) 92
[#(%@! [$(@! obviously, followed by \)@#$ \$&^ and ]^#$^ ]~#(.
Comment I'm conflicted about this (Score 3, Insightful) 175
On one hand I'm not too keen on these exclusive deals. On the other hand at least Disney isn't opening their own streaming site and making their content available only through them.
Comment Re: Not optical, not fast, not 3DXP (Score 2) 77
I once suggested that for Earth Day, the St. Louis Post Dispatch could state they are going green by wrapping copper wire around the corpse of Joseph Pulitzer and powering their printing presses by him spinning in his grave.
Comment Re: Not optical, not fast, not 3DXP (Score 3, Funny) 77
I once suggested that for Earth Day, the St. Louis Post Dispatch could state they are going green by wrapping copper wire around the corpse of Joseph Pulitzer (founder of STLPD in addition to having journalism award named for him) and powering their printing presses by him spinning in his grave.
Comment Re: Meh. (Score 4, Interesting) 175
I expect that soon cable companies will just increase the price of internet service by the amount a basic tv subscription costs and say that basic tv service is "free" with an internet plan.
Don't want tv? Fine, but it won't lower your bill.
Don't want tv? Fine, but it won't lower your bill.
Comment Re:Look on the bright side (Score 1) 207
Look on the bright side - two more and they'll be out of letters.
After that The Artist formerly known as Prince will get a Ubuntu disto named after him.
Fortunately Zebra will be getting that honor before Prince.
Comment Re:That breaks down to... (Score 1) 334
$413 dollars in developer time to create the app and $336,000.59 in corporate overhead and bloat, the additional $1,000,000 is just for Evil
Much more than that. The requirements document was probably several thousand pages and required a dozen rewrites before it finally met specs.
Comment Re:And in other news, Satan buys a down jacket... (Score 3, Interesting) 314
They have been doping for quite a while.
Linux is actually pretty important for Microsoft's Azure cloud platform.
Did you know that Microsoft even has a Linux certification? They do
Linux is actually pretty important for Microsoft's Azure cloud platform.
Did you know that Microsoft even has a Linux certification? They do
Comment Re:how would we know? (Score 3, Funny) 212
So what? Americans vote based on how the candidates look anyway.
Good, I can relax now. I was worried that Donald Trump was going to get elected there for a minute.
Unless he somehow finds a better looking toupee before November we're all safe.
Comment Re:Open source SCO (Score 4, Funny) 231
Have you ever used SCO?
I have. It wasn't a bad system. I didn't like it as well as Solaris, but it was stable and reliable and pretty well documented. For a long time, they had a good product and supported it pretty well.
It was kind of like Debian stable but not nearly as cutting edge.
Comment Re:That's a Plus (Score 1) 89
Easy to do, don't connect it to a network.
Plug in a Roku or similar device instead.
Plug in a Roku or similar device instead.
Comment Re:oh no. not that. (Score 1) 196
13. You will press the 'start' button to shut off the engine.
I already do this. Technically, it's a 'start/stop' button, but I do this.
I already do this. Technically, it's a 'start/stop' button, but I do this.
Comment Re: When they outlaw cash... (Score 1) 440
Illegal stuff?
Comment Re:That bad... (Score 4, Funny) 261
mv Justin_Beiber /dev/null
Comment Re: No thanks (Score 2) 402
Not much of an achievement as Windows 8 set Windows UI back 20 years.
