Comment Re:apple - the most anti-open company (Score 0, Flamebait) 600
Your debating skills are only exceeded by your rudeness. You, sir, are a moron. Grow up.
Comment Re:Eyecandy in cost of usability (Score 1) 1124
Hit the nail right on the head. At the risk of being modded down, I will say that that is the exact reason I switched from Windows to OSX (with a brief and unsatisfying foray into linux). All the menus, for all of the programs, are in the same place and very little effort is required to "learn" a new application. YMMV.
Submission + - Apple offers Snow Leopard Server evaluation
LostCluster writes: "Apple let slip through its news channels that it was ready to offer a free evaluation-licensed version of Snow Leopard Server, but the URL they point to is apparently overloaded. Apple seems to have pulled down the original, but not before several Mac-centric sites copied the news."
Submission + - Quake Live released for Linux and Mac (quakelive.com)
destuxor writes: "Quake Live has been officially released for Mac and Linux, although an unfortunate issue with the most recent build of Firefox has reportedly broken the Linux client for a small number of users. From Wikipedia: Quake Live is a a FPS browser plugin-based video game by id Software that first appeared in 2007. It is a browser-based variant of its predecessor, Quake III Arena (Q3A)."
Submission + - iTunes Captures 25 Percent of Music Sales (appscout.com)
adeelarshad82 writes: The Apple-owned music store now accounts for 25 percent of music units sold, according to data from the NPD Group. The most surprising bit of news is that people are still buying physical CDs. While iTunes is popular, CD purchases made up 65 percent of all music sold in the first half of 2009, while paid digital downloads came in at 35 percent. In 2007, downloads accounted for 20 percent of music purchases. That jumped to 30 percent in 2008, and is now sitting at 35 percent. But when it comes to overall units of music sold, iTunes tops the list with 25 percent, up from 21 percent in 2008 and 14 percent in 2007.
Comment Re:I guess this could make sense (Score 1) 539
Quick question. What the hell were you doing in order to have your watch stop a rifle round? I'm honestly curious - I've never even seen a rifle, let alone be shot at.
Comment Re:a netbook? (Score 1) 238
Bluetooth mouse.
Comment Re:Dream on (Score 1) 333
"Well, Microsoft can't just ignore the risk"
Perhaps "risc" instead? Talk about laugh, I nearly did.
Comment Re:Mersenne Primes correspond to Perfect Numbers (Score 1) 89
Euclid proved it in approx 300BC
http://primes.utm.edu/notes/proofs/infinite/euclids.html
http://primes.utm.edu/notes/proofs/infinite/euclids.html
Comment Re:24 hour charge?? (Score 1) 196
A really, really long extension cord.......
Comment Re:"Power Users"? I don't think so... (Score 2, Insightful) 727
"Nobody will argue with me when i say that there are tangible benefits to switching to linux and linux based apps for 80% of what a user does on a computer"
Oh really? I have tried a number of distros on several laptops over the years, most recently the last 4 incarnations of Ubuntu. I grew heartily sick and tired of things working (yay!) then breaking on the next update (boo!).
I switched back to Vista because it was reasonably reliable, and I could run all of my apps with no trouble. Recently switched to Windows 7, and I can't see myself ever going through distro hell again.
Please be careful with broad statements like "nobody".
Oh really? I have tried a number of distros on several laptops over the years, most recently the last 4 incarnations of Ubuntu. I grew heartily sick and tired of things working (yay!) then breaking on the next update (boo!).
I switched back to Vista because it was reasonably reliable, and I could run all of my apps with no trouble. Recently switched to Windows 7, and I can't see myself ever going through distro hell again.
Please be careful with broad statements like "nobody".
Comment Re:Now If We Could Just Get ... (Score 1) 485
This is anecdotal, I know, but I have a DELL XPS M1330, came with Vista. I just installed Windows 7 and everything worked perfectly, I didn't have to install any drivers.
BTW, it's Intel WIRED NIC and Broadcomm WIRELESS, at least on my laptop.
There is some fairly interesting hardware involved (DELL Webcam, Fingerprint scanner) and everything, absolutely everything works perfectly. I am amazed.
BTW, it's Intel WIRED NIC and Broadcomm WIRELESS, at least on my laptop.
There is some fairly interesting hardware involved (DELL Webcam, Fingerprint scanner) and everything, absolutely everything works perfectly. I am amazed.
Comment Need more coffee (Score 1) 171
"with a new tool to help them cull information instead of Web pages"
Thought it said 'CUIL' there for a moment.....
Thought it said 'CUIL' there for a moment.....
Comment Re:Yes Minister (Score 1) 211
Thank you, TapeCutter. Absolutely spot on. I am surprised that this wasn't raised during the SBS Insight show by one (any) of the opponents.
Cheers
Comment Re:Yes (Score 1) 1077
SAP. Definitely not obscure. Everything is in German. All of the column names in the database are 5 letter German abbreviations of the particular entity. BUKRS = Company for example. All of the comments in the ABAP code are in German. I've picked up quite a lot of German from working on SAP, which isn't a bad thing.
Cheers
