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Comment the article is obviously a troll (Score 0) 261

First Microsoft has a lot of explaining to do as why anyone should license the FAT file system.

TomTom didn't write the code, they licensed it from, well not sure. They are following the gpl, and that is the end of the story. Microsoft needs to be talk to the licensor, not suing one of their own customers, besides.

Microsoft didn't learn squat from their puppet SCO.

This isn't the strategy of a company in it for the long haul.
Handhelds

Submission + - iGoogle Changed for mobile devices last Thursday

cozytom writes: Last week, some junior genius at Google, decided since they can't make iGoogle perfect on every device, they made it awful for every device. iPhones, Androids and others. There seems to be quite a buzz that this is the beginning of the Yahoo-ization of Google. The beginning of evil. There seems to be little response from the Google support from Google, no too bad, no we made a mistake, no anything, just sort of an implied "we're google and we know best, live with it".

Some of the forums are: android http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=284c499a6f739003&hl=en,
iphone http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web+Search/thread?tid=6ff62ce418848f69&hl=en&fid=6ff62ce418848f69000460acf957862a

 

Comment Mattel can only screw up software! (Score 1) 216

Back in the day Mattel used to sell spy ware infested programs (Printshop). It was hard to
use and just funky as can be. It got better over the years, but the spyware would make me
not want it.

My daughter got my boys a Fisher Price digital arts and crafts studio (more Mattel software).
It barely installed (see amazon reviews, not too many people can get the POS installed). Wow
what a pile of crap. Hardly usable. The kids can draw their pictures but can't print them, it
takes tricks to save, print and recover them. Way less than intuitive. Makes it obvious they
don't think kids understand computers, turns the multitasking machine back to one task at a time
DOS like.

Okey so now they think they can build a game that will be as popular as some people who get the
net. Good luck with that. Watch it be built by committee, with featuritis explosis (every
feature a group marketing dorks can imagine added on). It will be unusable, to the point where
people will complain, and marketing will blame everyone else.

They should shut up, and pay the kids who know what they are doing, and keep marketing out.
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - Linux in Retail for under $200 for real. (pantagraph.com)

cozytom writes: Walmart has a Linux PC for under $200 made by Everex pre loaded with a version of Ubuntu Linux, called gOS. Includes a VIA procesor, 512MB of memory, and 80GB HD. They are only for sale in only 1 in 8 stores, so not wide spread.

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