koick - Slashdot User

Comment Bootcamp (Score 1) 519

by koick on Tuesday March 03, 2009 @01:28PM (#27053153) Attached to: Apple Store Reopens With Many New Products

I think you're neglecting to consider that many gamers are using (want to use) Bootcamp to dual-boot their Apple boxes into Windows.

Comment Re:The solution.. (Score 1) 408

by koick on Sunday March 01, 2009 @03:15PM (#27031777) Attached to: Obama Helicopter Security Breached By File Sharing

> If a .ppt file is shared, then in 99 cases out of 100, > it wasn't supposed to be shared. Non-tech-savvy friends and relatives often send me "funny" ppts. It's not unusual to share this kind of files.

Those people wouldn't have the need (or know-how to setup even) for his suggested cures. We're talking about companies here.

Comment Re:Not Surprising (Score 1) 426

by koick on Monday February 16, 2009 @05:29PM (#26877473) Attached to: Facebook's New Terms of Service

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Beacon

Comment And, what about cost? (Score 1) 647

by koick on Tuesday February 10, 2009 @06:34PM (#26805133) Attached to: WSJ Says Gov't Money Injection Won't Help Broadband

CodeBuster's main point about cost still stands.

Comment You can filter by cost! (Score 1) 201

by koick on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @10:53AM (#24932877) Attached to: Google To Digitize Millions of Old Newspaper Pages

You can start here: http://news.google.com/archivesearch

To get past the ones with a cost (esp. from New York Times $3.95) and get free sources, click on 'Advanced archive search' next to the search button, and choose only articles with 'no price'.

Here's an example: http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=rosenbergs&num=10&as_price=p1&sa=N&sugg=d&as_user_ldate=1950&as_user_hdate=1959&lnav=d3&hdrange=1980,2008

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