In my mind, I like to picture this spat ending with them shouting "INDUBITABLY!" at each other and throwing tea.

This is good news: Because obviously Oracle hired mentally challenged lawyers.

Not only is what their lawyer said obvious hyperbole, but it is totally irrelevant. I don't care how much time it would take for a non-programmer to do it: how long does it take a real programmer to do it.

The answer to that is of course on the order of seconds, since validating input is something every programmer has done thousands of times.

$15 for a downgrade does not equal good.

If they are delivered that way, I don't care what they cost. But yes, sooner, please.

Not sure if this story is anti-Mac, or just a sales pitch from Sophos to an untapped market that doesn't generally need their product.

Logic dictates that if Mac-affecting viruses were at all common, people write news stories out of the few that happen - and they particularly wouldn't play down the fact that the same trojan affects Windows by not mentioning it in the title.

>> Task bar is a must.

The launcher on the left side of the screen shows running apps.

>> Moving tray items is a must.

Grab the items in the launcher, drag to the right, and re-insert them back into the launcher wherever you want.

>> Synaptic package manger [sic] is a must.

If you want that, use the much prettier Software Centre to install it with a simple click.

>> It's so complicated to make it look like my 10.10 desktop.

Then install your old desktop manager or don't upgrade.

As a long-time KDE user who couldn't stand working with Gnome for extended periods, I actually find Unity quite enjoyable. Of course, I customize it with things like cairo-dock and make it fit my own workflow - rather than just bitch that the default is too simple for me to use.

I'm pretty sure this is just viral marketing from Microsoft's secure-boot.

>> "Why the hell are people so obsessed with the OtherOS crap?"

Because we paid for it, and then got treated to a surprise game of Sophie's Choice with OtherOS or network connectivity for the games we already owned.

If Sony came into your house and disabled even just a seldomly-used button on your remote control, I'll bet you'd bitch about it every time their name was mentioned - regardless of whether you could go out and buy a separate remote for that button or not.

It's not so much about OtherOS as the principle of ownership.

Apparently someone misunderstood when we said Microsoft needs a new CEO for Windows 8.

Maybe I'm being too cynical. And, maybe someone can find a single owner that doesn't describe the Playbook as "horrible".

A Canadian study performed by a Canadian research group, most likely paid for by a Canadian company whose name rhymes with "Sim".

That sounds like a smaller version of my company's test environment.

It's great that they have such an environment dedicated to a single product, but seems incredibly small compared to the number of open-source developers and testers building the competition on the *real* internet.

"We oversold our network and can't keep the agreements we made. But rather than sueing us for breach of contract, blame yourself because that works better for us."

"Spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time."

Don't feel left out: they won't work on Linux either. :)

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note: The compiler hit an unexpected failure path. This is a bug. Try running with RUST_LOG=rustc=0,::rt::backtrace to get further details and report the results to github.com/mozilla/rust/issues
make: *** [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0/lib/rustc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/librustc.so] Error 101