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Comment Re:The new Axis of Evil has formed... (Score 1) 675

Microsoft has become largely irrelevant in the consumer space... Apple and to much smaller scale Canonical about the only major tech company I can think that is actually do anything customer centric anymore... Oracle, well as I've said becore, "Oracle hates you and wants your stuff." Google... google has done a slew of bad things in the last few years. (1) Android is awesome, however Google was Apple's partner when the first iPhone was announced. Eric Schmidt stood on stage next to Jobs and talked about how cool it was. Less then a year later Google is talking about their own cell phone that will compete with iPhone. (2) the whole underhanded closed-door meetings resulting in google doing a full 180 on net neutrality (3) do a google search for "Tiananmen Square" on google.cn . If anything I'd say the new Axis of Evil is Oracle and Google. The Allied forces would be Facebook, Apple, Microsoft Canonical is the neutral

Comment "imprisoned, student, time out room!?!?! (Score 1) 11

"imprisoned a student when they put her in a time-out room," Um, why does the school have a time-out room? If I locked my kids in the closet when they were bad I'd goto a time-out room. Except they would it call it solitary confinement, at a place called jail. The school does it and it's ok? If they kid is so bad she needed to be locked shouldn't the school resource officer have gotten involved? I think so.
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Harry writes "Most folks think that Microsoft Office's Clippy, Microsoft Bob, and Windows XP's Search Assistant dog were perverse jokes — but a dozen years' worth of patent filings shows that Microsoft took the concept of animated software 'helpers' really, really seriously, even long after everyone else realized it was a bad idea. And the drawings those patents contain are weirdly fascinating." The article, a slide show really, spreads over 15 pages.

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