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Submission + - Google buys Motorola (cnet.com)

anshulajain writes: "The smartphone wat just got a lot more interesting with Google's reported acquisition of Motorola Mobility. So we all know who's going to be the manufacturer of the next Nexus series of phones."

Comment Re:DOA? (Score 1) 87

+1, its the only distro that doesn't give up during boot and displays a blank screen, flickers after suspend to RAM (Ubuntu Lucid) and doesn't crash while working (Fedora 14).

Submission + - Charlie Sheen Fired From 'Two and a half Men' (blogspot.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Warner Bros. Television announced today that it has dropped the actor from its hit comedy Two and a Half Men. “After careful consideration"

Comment Re:Anyone know... (Score 1) 520

They're deploying their huge cash reserve (approx 60Billion + or so) and utilizing some of the money back from the 30% app store cut, to subsidize the procurement of critical components. In short, they're ensuring that the competition doesn't get hold of flash devices, LCD parts etc by locking up suppliers by ordering in bulk. Its something like, they taking a huge hoard of cash to Sams Club and buying up everything...

Comment Re:And I thought Office 2010 was hard to use (Score 5, Interesting) 403

Bubbles reminds me of the original vision for KDE4, except that "Bubbles" was/is referred to as "Widgets". Information flows to and from the internet into these
"widgets" in the KDE4 desktop. They have stuff like Facebook/Twitter feeds directly accessible and writable through these widgets and something like an OpenSocial framework for social interaction. Not exactly the same, but the idea seems to be very similar to KDE4.

Comment Facebook+Email=More fun & stories on Lamebook (Score 1) 240

I look forward to more hilarious stories on Lamebook...one receives a job offer through email from a prospective employer and it immediately gets posted on the user's wall...if your current boss reads it...you're out of the door..

The possibilities of such snafus are endless...(/me adds lamebook.com to bookmarks)

Comment Re:I like Yellow (Score 3, Insightful) 336

I'm writing this on my Ubuntu laptop (corporate), my work systems are all Linux (Ubuntu, Mandriva) and I administer a large number of Linux systems deployed for mission-critical manufacturing test...oh my work is all on LabVIEW, besides using Linux for all "other" corporate work (I'm among the senior management at work)

I edit my pics with Shotwell and Picasa and drive the latest Honda to the local supermarket. I like to relax in the evening with some nice music and enjoy time with my family.

I use Linux to be productive and be happy. I dislike smug people who think that Linux users have little or no life. They're just trying to act intellectually superior compared to others.

Comment Re:Why not just merge with Fedora or Ubuntu (Score 1) 206

Fedora's way too experimental compared to Mandriva. There's no reason for MDV to merge with Fedora as Mandriva has always been a lot more stable and conservative as compared to Fedora. What this fork needs is to bring something new to the table like sharpening their desktop focus by bringing in an attention to detail that was lacking earlier, longer support lifecycles (unlikely but is needed), bringing on board the excellent (but unknown) PLF repositories...officially etc. They're working on all of this...and many more. This fork needs to survive...

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