Comment Re:more then Americans (Score 1) 1077
That's a bit of a misconception. Most Americans don't really speak English at all.
Comment Re:No Case Under US Law (Score 1) 378
Exactly, RailCorp wants to be the ones lying to you about when the trains are coming. The BEST app in the category is the one that takes the supposed train times and adds half an hour to them to make them more realistic.
Comment Commercial Idea (Score 1) 460
Another good commercial might be one featuring the animal mascots (possibly animated) of some of the many Linux distributions - i.e. an Intrepid Ibex, a Puppy for Puppy linux, a sneaky lookin guy in a red hat for Redhat, a lizard for SUSE, and of course a Penguin named Tux. I think that would be a bit of fun, and also pretty representative of what Linux is about :)
Comment Marketing is not a product feature (Score 1) 460
Also note that Marketing is NOT a product feature and has nothing to do with the quality of the software represented. I know this may come as a shock to someone like you whose only source of product information is marketing material.
Comment Re:Behind The Times Much? (Score 1) 460
There's more things that OSX/Windows have copied from Linux Distros then Linux has copied from OSX/Win. This is partially because updates and features make it into Linux upgrades which are released far more frequently then OSX/Win upgrades. ( eg, every 6 months for Ubuntu ).
Comment Should get the teacher who thinks sw isn't free (Score 1) 460
They should get the teacher who said "there's no such thing as free software" to do an ad. ( http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/10/001236 )
Comment Ad fail (Score 0, Troll) 112
Universities like Stanford and Cornell are leading the way in providing students with real world experience and giving us useful products!
Also, fail ad is fail.
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Comment Re:What a surprise (Score 1) 234
It's pretty blinking obvious Microsoft is getting desperate to limit the reach of Linux to the masses. They certainly don't want 4 million kids learning that Microsoft is irrelevant, and taking that knowledge with them into the work force in the future.
Comment Re:Too bad there won't be a useful (Score 2, Insightful) 234
If the students get OLPC's maybe they can use the ad-hoc wifi capabilities and make Australia's best internet :P
Comment Re:Fine with me (Score 1) 213
Me either ;) ;) Tough nuts for this chap :P But really though, I invented this smiley :Oo It's FOSS though.
Comment Re:Credit where credit is due (Score 1) 444
There are a few really nice little things that are already in Chrome. If you're used to FF, it may take a little re-learning, but that's half the fun of using software imo, is playing with it and learning what it can do.
I love my Chrome. I'd love to have Ubiquity on it.
Comment Re:Collision Theory (Score 1) 355
Robinson not Robbins. hehe
Comment Collision Theory (Score 3, Funny) 355
I thought that a number of scientists had run simulations explaining the earth/moon systems creation via a collision. I even saw it on TV on a special narrated by Tony Robbins, so it MUST be true!
Comment Re:Inspiration..Star Wars robot C3-PO? (Score 1) 469
LOL and EW all at once.
Inventor Builds Robot Wife 469
Inventor Le Trung must really like the book "The Stepford Wives," because he has built the dream of every lonely man without hope, a robot wife. Le's wife, Aiko, starts the day by reading him the newspaper headlines and they go for a drives in the countryside. Le says his relationship with Aiko hasn't strayed into the bedroom, but a few tweaks could turn her into a sexual partner, even redesigning her to have a simulated orgasm. *Shudder*
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