Comment Re:Ho hum? (Score 1) 531
You quoted Duke Nukem? You clearly win my dear sir, I cannot compete with intelligence at your level.
Comment Re:Ho hum? (Score 1) 531
Oh I've gone from fan-boy to fanboi? Hurrah, you have managed to upgrade me. Hopefully without injuring yourself.
*Stares at hand built (hand put-together? I dunno, it's not like I designed anything inside it) PC running W7 64/Ubuntu, is typing on a ThinkPad X61 running Vista, notices MacBook Pro happily sitting in the corner, printing out my fanboi badge*
Oh wait. I run Vista, Win7 64, Linux and OSx. Arg, can I still be an Apple fanboi? Please??
Comment Re:Ho hum? (Score 1) 531
"presumably because he needed a new machine." Or he might have wanted an upgrade more significant than just memory or HDD. Or he broke his last laptop by dropping it. Who knows. Remember what they say about assumptions, it's asses all the way down. Or something. Anyway, how about this one:
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in. ~ Alan Alda
Comment Re:Ho hum? (Score 1) 531
Well done, you. Nice and thrifty, plus no laptop in a landfill. Though I'm unsure of the point you were making with that post.
Was it to say that Dell laptops don't ever need replacing?
Comment Re:Despite this, Apple will make billions of sales (Score 5, Insightful) 531
You now have to be a fan-boy to buy Apple products? They are no longer available to the public? Since when? Do I need a badge? To join some kind of club?
Oh wait, maybe Apple came around your house and clubbed your puppy to death? No?
Perhaps take a deep breath and relax. People are free to choose Apple, Linux and even Windows. Each has strong points and reasons why they are good at what they do, so no need to start dropping both your IQ and elitist tech wang on the table by throwing the term 'fan-boys' around.
Comment Re:Ho hum? (Score 1) 531
Wait, didn't you get the memo? We now have to dislike Apple!
Sarcasm aside, I agree with you, I think the update that just happened was the biggest leap forward since the introduction of the unibody enclosure. Big enough to make me sell my 2 year old MacBook Pro and upgrade.
Comment Re:Nope, not kidding. (Score 1) 2058
You're trying to reason with someone who believe that a fairer society is 'communist.'
After all all fair societies have a wall around them to prevent people from 'escaping', right?
Comment Re:The more I hear about it... (Score 1) 803
You are aware that the EU is a larger, and richer, market than the USA, right?
No company wants to blow off the main users of its product.
Comment Re:if it was me (Score 1) 803
"If I made a product and Europe told me I HAD to include other people's 3rd party software in my software product, I'd tell them where to shove their 3rd part code."
And you'd lose the world's largest business market. Congratulations.
Comment Re:not likely (Score 1) 245
The Russian economy is pretty large now thanks to the natural resources it has, specifically gas and oil. in fact it is the 9th largest in the world.
The USA does not have a bigger economy. Of course it depends on how you are measuring that. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)
Rank Country GDP (PPP) $m
EU European Union 14,953,057
1 United States 13,543,330
2 China 11,606,3361
3 India 4,726,537
4 Japan 4,346,080
5 Germany 2,714,469
6 United Kingdom 2,270,884
7 France 2,040,109
8 Brazil 2,013,893
9 Russia 1,908,739
10 Italy 1,888,492
The USA does not have a bigger economy. Of course it depends on how you are measuring that. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)
Rank Country GDP (PPP) $m
EU European Union 14,953,057
1 United States 13,543,330
2 China 11,606,3361
3 India 4,726,537
4 Japan 4,346,080
5 Germany 2,714,469
6 United Kingdom 2,270,884
7 France 2,040,109
8 Brazil 2,013,893
9 Russia 1,908,739
10 Italy 1,888,492
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