Man, it really is "damned if you do, damned if you don't" around here. Someone else would have complained if they had, labeling it a Slashverstisement.

Oh I just checked. They did provide the link. It's a tricky one though. The link to the company, XYZprinting, is hard to find. Check back in the summary and look for the underlined word "XYZprinting". Click that and you should go to the company website. I know, its weird, but there you have it.

A 'more polite society' indeed.

Uh huh... and how about the people who went during the other 18 days in the attack window? I've never shopped Black Friday (and sure as shit not Thanksgiving) but I'm one of the above.

From the first line of the article:

WRT to the women in leadership roles: I don't have it in front me, but I seem to recall several mayors/governors of Terminus and other planets (the one that was formerly named after Elijah Bailey?).

Not to say I disagree with your point, but... dude, the Daily Mail is not a source. Wikipedia would be better. Hell, Cracked would be better. It weakens your argument to link to it.

What continuously baffles me is that they haven't managed to screw up VirtualBox yet (that I know of, I could be misinformed). Is the project just below the radar?

Bill

There simply aren't enough mod points.

I just imagined installing Server 2003 on an i386 and had an aneurpiuhheahlkaeg

No, what we need is for Nvidia to buy Via which would give Nvidia an in for x86 processors as well as many other similar markets.

Also, Nvidiavia. Awesome name.

I see plenty of credit card machines at stores which support NFC payment. Sure, you probably won't see it in Kansas, but in my neighborhood in San Diego, California its not uncommon at all.

Software defined radio basically shifts the processing from hardware to software.

So what you're saying is that we need hardware accelerated software defined radios?

Yes, yes it does sound like the Apple approach. Which is largely disapproved of on /.

Don't buy it is fantastic advice. I wasn't going to buy it in any case, but now thanks to this article, I have it in the back of my head to be sure to recommend that others do not buy it either.

So, to paraphrase...

"You don't like this article? Well then don't fucking comment on it then."

Seriously. This complaint is so tired.

Excel? PowerPoint? Even "Word" isn't all that informative. Flash, Acrobat, Java, etc, etc. And these are the ones that everyone's mother might have heard of.

If someone cares enough to try an application they aren't familiar with, they'll probably hear about these alternatives and add them to their vocabulary. I've never once overheard someone actually complain or become confused by a name that wasn't in the form of "[Application Domain] [Verb]", *except* on forums.

Next up, lets complain about KDE, Gnome and Apple all putting K, G, or an 'i' in front of all their apps (and conveniently ignore the ones that don't use that convention to appear to make an insightful point.

Um, actually, I'd like that.... slashfood.com^Whuffpost.com/food is boring :o(

Really? You don't think that a company the size and shape of Google might have a slightly more complex network than a shop of, say, 100 people?