Comment Re:A Microsoft Nokia bad-analogy award (Score 1) 475
Hint: get your facts right otherwise you just look stupid, the XBox division has been turning a profit for years. In fact the year to June 08 netted almost 1/2 a billion dollars in profit for that year alone and has been turning a healthy profit ever since. So yes it *is* a phenomenal success.
Recent profit yes: But $10B loss + $4B profit still leaves them $6B in the hole...
Comment Re:She's not dead (Score 1) 2166
She voted for the healthcare bill despite knowing that 67% of her constituents opposed it. She's no "representative." Just a political whackjob
...and yet she was reelected by those same constituents, so apparently they think she represented them well enough.
Comment Re:This is why I refuse to buy apple products. (Score 2, Insightful) 754
It's suddenly Apple's fault that the developers squabble over GNU license?
Comment Re:Come on... (Score 1) 207
yes
Comment Re:Come on... (Score 1) 207
Seriously? There's a $10 difference between 200M and 2Gb and you want verizon to get that glandular with their plans?
Comment Re:Look at the DroboPro (Score 1) 609
I second the drobopro solution. Add a droboshare for network access
Comment Re:I didn't miss them at all ..... (Score 1) 944
Flash runs well on Windows. I'm just going to assume that many of the people here don't use Macs so don't really understand how poorly flash runs on OS X.
This is a typical flash game on facebook (a typical use-case for an iPhone/iPad user if flash was available) . That's 70% of CPU for a single flash instance.
Comment Re:Justifying the real reasons (Score 1) 944
This is one of many, but probably the main reason there's no flash on the iPhone.
Comment Re:Next step... (Score 1) 497
Software companies generally follow the installed base. When their internal marketing tells them that existing linux users won't shell out for their software, what makes you think they're going to sink development money into the hope that if they build a linux version, mac customers are going to get a linux machine? Adobe is a public corporation, and they have to answer to their shareholders. How are they going to explain that they're dropping 40% of their revenue because they're pissed at Apple?
Comment Re:Next step... (Score 1) 497
Because the Linux consumer doesn't like to shell out $500-1000 for software when they can use GIMP
Comment Re:12 year old product compares to iPad, and couri (Score 1) 293
I'm pretty sure if Apple doubled the width and weight of the iPad to match, it could get, oh, 20 hours you think?
Comment Re:I don't believe it (Score 1) 507
I think the far more likely explanation is that these high-profile individual with public email (which also serves as their appleID) had people attempt to hack into their accounts. Enough failed passwords, and all accounts get locked out.
Mars Images Reveal Evidence of Ancient Lakes 128
Matt_dk writes "Spectacular satellite images suggest that Mars was warm enough to sustain lakes three billion years ago, a period that was previously thought to be too cold and arid to sustain water on the surface, according to research published today in the journal Geology. Earlier research had suggested that Mars had a warm and wet early history but that between 4 billion and 3.8 billion years ago, before the Hesperian Epoch, the planet lost most of its atmosphere and became cold and dry. In the new study, the researchers analysed detailed images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which is currently circling the red planet, and concluded that there were later episodes where Mars experienced warm and wet periods."
Comment Re:History repeats itself.. sort of (Score 1) 186
$1 million in pre-IPO stock, which was worth $17.6 at IPO.
