Comment Re:Eh? BBC can't export? (Score 1) 161
really you enjoyed the US version of the office.... god it was so bad it almost made me cry.... That said I like quite a lot of american shows, but they killed the office
Comment weird fail (Score 1) 357
mine, is weird, it started brining back the wrong parts of files, so you copy a file there, when you try to read it all you get is part of the file and part of another file on the drive. its been formated a couple of times now, and still does it.
Comment Re:But how does it do in the crash test? (Score 1) 119
What they don't have to brake when going around corners... wait I think they do! :D
Comment Guttered (Score 1) 219
Damn I'm gutted about this, I was planning to buy one of these, the usb controler is the killer hardware bit was the best, not to mention the open source nature.
Comment Re:China is the real enemy (Score 1) 345
I've lived in China and I can say that is not the case, BUT that said it helps if you have friends in the government but not every company has them, and certainly not generals... as there would have to be a hell of a lot of them.
Comment Re:well, DUH (Score 1) 399
America had several advantages, a larger number of people united by one language and culture with open borders for a longer time.
That's what I thought till i got there and tried to order some take away food and they couldn't understand a word of English I said, seriously when I'm in China(they all speak a bit of English, at said fast food places) I can order food much more easily at a macdonalds or kfc than in America... weird. I'll also point out that I've tried in a few cities! all seemed to speak Spanish(no 100% sure but it sounded like it)! I'm a native English speaker btw.
Xandros Reportedly Buys Out Linspire 153
2muchcoffeeman writes "Former Linspire president and CEO Kevin Carmony — whose relationship with his former employer has turned acrimonious, to say the least — reported on his blog that Xandros and Linspire signed an agreement in principle for Xandros to buy Linspire June 19. Carmony includes a scan of the memo to Linspire shareholders announcing the deal, which requires the former Linspire company to change its name. According to the memo, the stockholders voted to change the company's name to Digital Cornerstone, Inc. Despite the wording of the Linspire memo to stockholders, this deal apparently came as a surprise to Carmony and other stockholders. Some here may remember that both Xandros and Linspire signed patent protection deals with Microsoft in 2007."
What Do You Want On Future Browsers? 628
Coach Wei writes "An industry wishlist for future browsers has been collected and developed by OpenAjax Alliance. Using wiki as an open collaboration tool, the feature list now lists 37 separate feature requests, covering a wide range of technology areas, such as security, Comet, multimedia, CSS, interactivity, and performance. The goal is to inform the browser vendors about what the Ajax developer community feels are most important for the next round of browsers (i.e., FF4, IE9, Safari4, and Opera10) and to provide supplemental details relative to the feature requests. Currently, the top three voted features are:
2D Drawing/Vector Graphics, The Two HTTP Connection Limit Issue, and HTML DOM Operation Performance In General . OpenAjax Alliance is calling for everyone to vote for his/her favorite features. The alliance also strongly encourages people to comment on the wiki pages for each of the existing features and to add any important new features that are not yet on the list."
