Phurge - Slashdot User

Comment Re:The editor was never a problem (Score 1) 175

by Phurge on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @08:08AM (#38368378) Attached to: Wikipedia Debates Strike Over SOPA

I was going to give this another +1, but instead I'll comment.

Firstly I'm a windows user and will never be a mac or linux user. I know my way around computers but when it comes to wikipedia's markup - I'm sure I could learn those obscure symbols if I really wanted to, but really I just can't be fucked. I bet I'm not the only one.

+5 agree on everything else - bots are cause more damage than good, deletionism is a problem, and YES - some form of community (not appointed experts) peer review is needed.

Comment Re:Wow! Cheating in advertising! Something new? (Score 0) 381

by Phurge on Thursday November 24, 2011 @05:49AM (#38156474) Attached to: Dell's Misleading Graphics Card Buying Advice

You're getting it all wrong.

Hi, you must be new here, so sorry for being a meme-nazi, but

You're doing it wrong

TFTFY

Comment Re:What's with all the music services lately? (Score 1) 240

by Phurge on Thursday November 17, 2011 @08:06AM (#38084072) Attached to: Google Music Goes Live With Google+ Integration

Yes, but I want my music IN THE CLOUD!!!

Comment Re:What's with all the music services lately? (Score 1) 240

by Phurge on Thursday November 17, 2011 @08:02AM (#38084056) Attached to: Google Music Goes Live With Google+ Integration

Yes, there's no way they're fooling me into buying The White Album, AGAIN!

Comment Re:Only in the U.S. (Score 1, Informative) 240

by Phurge on Wednesday November 16, 2011 @10:46PM (#38081874) Attached to: Google Music Goes Live With Google+ Integration

Last I checked, pirating music was way easier than buying it legitimately and no one cares which country you are in. Could the music industry, just perhaps, stop being a joke?

Hear Hear. When will the music industry wake up?

Comment Re:US Only :-( (Score 5, Informative) 240

by Phurge on Wednesday November 16, 2011 @10:42PM (#38081844) Attached to: Google Music Goes Live With Google+ Integration

I'm in Australia, but access the internet at work via US servers. Just tried to buy music through Google Music - but it requires a US credit card. My Australian and UK credit cards didn't work.....

Submission + - Barnes & Noble Exposes Microsoft's "Trivial" P (groklaw.net)

Submitted by Phurge on Wednesday November 16, 2011 @06:01PM

Phurge writes: Barnes & Noble has done the world a tremendous favor, by pulling aside the curtain and revealing Microsoft's patent campaign tactics against Android in lurid detail.

It reveals the assertion of "trivial" and "invalid" patents against Barnes & Noble and some shocking details about an "oppressive" license agreement that would have controlled hardware and software design features that Microsoft presented, thus limiting to what degree Barnes & Noble could offer upgrades and improved features to its customers if it had signed it, features it says none of Microsoft's patents cover. Microsoft worked so hard to keep it all secret, and I think you'll see why. It's ugly behind that curtain.

The patents, we read, "cover only arbitrary, outmoded and non-essential design features" and yet Microsoft is demanding "prohibitively expensive licensing fees", in effect asserting "veto power" over Android's features. One aspect of the license, Barnes & Noble tells us, was a demand to control design elements, requiring designers to adhere to specific hardware and software specifications in order to obtain a license. That, Barnes & Noble says, is "oppressive and anticompetitive". I think it's accurate to say that the company believes it is illegal.

Barnes & Noble asserts that Microsoft is attempting "to use patents to drive open source software out of the market," saying it, in essence, is acting like a patent troll, threatening companies using Android with a destructive and anticompetitive choice: pay Microsoft exorbitant rates for patents, some trivial and others ridiculously invalid or clearly not infringed, or spend a fortune on litigation.

Comment Re:Touchscreen? (Score 2) 125

by Phurge on Sunday November 13, 2011 @08:40PM (#38044228) Attached to: Army Plots Its Smartphone Strategy

Bingo!

Can I get a "phone that just makes calls" post?

Comment Easy (Score 1) 1880

by Phurge on Friday November 11, 2011 @10:43AM (#38023748) Attached to: What's Keeping You On Windows?

I had a whole essay ready to go but I will distill it:

1 - Microsoft products are an order of magnitude better than is the crap that is google docs or libre office

2 - Its not the 90's anymore. Bill Gates has done an extraordinary amount of good with his money

(ps, yes I can't wait untill Ballmer is retired either)

Comment Re:Not many people want you to support consumer te (Score 1) 533

by Phurge on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @10:07PM (#37929180) Attached to: Consumer Tech: an IT Nightmare

As a guy not in IT:

Becuase us users resent your petty fiefdoms. Its 2011 now, the technology exists.

Comment NEWSFLASH (Score 1) 676

by Phurge on Thursday October 27, 2011 @10:35AM (#37855404) Attached to: Why Economic Models Are Always Wrong

Doctors haven't cured cancer

Physicists haven't made a fusion reactor

Brain Surgeons can' t operate on Alzheimers

Rocket Scientists can't fly us to Mars and Back

News at 11

Comment Re:Great probably more reality tv (Score 1) 119

by Phurge on Tuesday October 18, 2011 @06:33AM (#37748116) Attached to: Original Content Coming To YouTube?

yes and what about phones that JUST MAKE CALLS!!

Comment Office Use? (Score 1) 692

by Phurge on Thursday October 13, 2011 @06:36PM (#37707312) Attached to: Apple's Siri As Revolutionary As the Mac?

Can you honestly see this being used in an office environment?

Or for that matter, on a plane?

Comment Depends on your email program. (Score 1) 434

by Phurge on Sunday October 09, 2011 @11:48PM (#37658892) Attached to: Putting Emails In Folders Is a Waste of Time, Says IBM Study

Yes, if you use gmail because search actually works.

No, if you use Outlook because their search is a dog.

Comment Re:Would have been nice for Nexus One (Score 1) 172

by Phurge on Sunday October 02, 2011 @07:29AM (#37582614) Attached to: Google Opens First Retail Outlet In London

Agree - if they had physical stores take up would have been a lot higher (also if they had provided a plan for it - Joe Sixpack is not used to paying $XXX upfront). The main reason for physical stores is that these days phones are quite a personal item. (does it fit in my pocket/hand/handbag/purse/?. Does it look "cool"). I think both factors combined meant that Nexus 1 was an underperformer, despite it being the leading phone of its time.

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