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Unimpressed with Ubuntu 16.10? Yakkety Yak... don't talk back

Have you tried . . . ?

If you don't like Ubuntu, you might consider Windows 10. It uses the cloud, which is nice.

Booming sales of flippy detachables offers hope to glum PC market

Re: Laptop sales down

My $179 Asus kicks butt . . . considering reverting back to Win 8.1, or Xubuntu, as it uses 1.7 gigs RAM just to hold my desk down.

UK.gov pays four fellows £35k to do nothing for three months

Re: Been caught both ways on this one

He also said that the Russians captured a great deal of food from the Germans, who had been starving.

Microsoft's equality and diversity: Skimpy schoolgirls dancing for nerds at an Xbox party

That does it!

I'm installing Windows 10 ! ! ! !

After-dinner Mint? Stylish desktop finale released as last of the 17 line

Re: My only problem was the installer

Did a clean install of Mint over Christmas a few hours ago. It's rubbish . . . back to Win10 for me thanks!

Windows 10 makes big gains at home, lags at work

I'd love to know what registry settings you're modified in order to preserve a cordial relationship with your ex. . . .

Debian Linux founder Ian Murdock dead at 42

Re: Fuuuuuu....

Take care of your health, amigo. This is a good reminder that we should ask for help if we need it.

Windows 10: What's coming in 2016?

I like Vista, myself. I think it's the high-water mark of Microsoft's aesthetic design, what with aero, and the start button poking out of the taskbar, with its symmetry in the Office 2007 button/ribbon. Not for me these flat icons, fingerpaint UI. Good old mouse-and-keyboard UI for me, thanks. Hang tough Dan. . . I got your back!

US Presidential race becomes Wi-Fi password snark battle

" only around 85,000 issued each year"

QUOTE:

"That the visa has become a political football is remarkable in itself, seeing as there's only around 85,000 issued each year, a drop in the ocean of the US workforce. Yet with political “debate” happy to include Wi-Fi passwords, fights over small migration programmes shouldn't surprise."

Gee, that's only hundreds of thousands of middle-class jobs, if you recognize that government policy includes the past and the future, in addition to the present.

Scarface's explosive 'Little Friend' goes under the hammer

Re: Gun nut

Mr. Goldstein,

In the good old days, I'd give you a full 60 seconds of hate. Since we're both phoning it in, how's several seconds of mild peevishness?

openSUSE Leap: Middle ground between cutting edge and conservative

Re: A few things were not entirely current in the beta...

There's a frood who knows where his towel is!

How to build a server room: Back to basics

Dell Dimension 2700 . . .

Boring old Brocade just sits there making money. Damn them

I thought goodwill was the value of the brand. . . like here in the US everyone buys Heinze catsup, even though every other brand and brandless catsup tastes exactly like it. So the value of the Heinze company isn't the buildings and trucks and piles of tomatoes; it's the value in the mind of the consumer associated with the product, loyalty, etc. You have to pay extra when purchasing a brand like that. . .aka "goodwill." Doubtless this is some kind of accounting legerdemain (get it. . . "ledgers" ?) meant to avoid ascribing a loss to any particular part of the company, for tax purposes.

Netflix: Look folks, it's net neutrality... HA, fooled you

Yes Mr. Welch,

Jack Welch commands me to remind you filthy lime-sucking POMs that you'd be reading this in German if it wasn't for us.

Android users are massive wan … er … smut consumers

I'd love to get a technical overview of their content management system, CDN's , etc.It's quite a tech success story, delivering that amount of data as reliably as third parties have informed me that they do. Anyone know if they're using a COTS system or something home-grown? They must have a magnificent tech team. Great story waiting to be told there, with opportunities for data visualization.

Space geeks' resurrected NASA Sun probe ISEE-3 now on collision course with THE MOON

Re: Working 'out of'

The part of speech that "out" occupies is the runcible genetive.

Q.E.D.

Firefox, is that you? Version 29 looks rather like a certain shiny rival

That new all-in-one menu needs some fancy branding to differentiate FF - perhaps they should call it the "start" button?

Why 2014 might just be the year of the Google Chromebook

Re: HUGE flaw in these stats that people keep missing

School districts in the US are going nuts with the Chromebook, for good or for ill. We should consider them when talking about corporate adoption.

Android will ship more than ONE BILLION mobes+slabs in 2014

Re: all we need now

Purchasing a pre-made tinfoil hat really defeats the purpose. . . you should really make your own.

Amateur image-wrangler reveals stitched snap of Saturn's splendour

Re: Well

Wait a sec! Didn't Anglocents traditionally used to orient their maps to the Orient? Did that disorientate Orientals? Is the Orient a fallacy? Is Garcia's painting as fabulous if you stand on your head?

Kindle Fire demand hits iPad rivals not iPad

Re Nook Tablet: 16 gigs of RAM, 15 reserved for B&N purchases only. 1Gig available for non B&N purchases. Purchasing a 32 gig micro sd card makes a nook tab cost $300, vs $200 for a kfire. For that price, might as well go another $50 for a samsung galaxy tab plus. Now, you're paying almost 2x as much as the $200 kfire. kfire is not the better machine, but it delivers a pretty good experience for its rock bottom price point.