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Comment So instead of WIndows, what's the choice? (Score 3, Insightful) 488

There's really no alternative to Windows for most desktop and laptop usage, and there are "apps" to hide or disable the silly touch UI in Win so that the reasonable Win 7 UI can be used. Trying to use Linux on a laptop or desktop in a real work environment is a deadend, and Macs are a niche - so what's left?

Submission + - Should this be touted in an Apple iPhone 5 ad? (telegraph.co.uk)

billrp writes: "Hidden web code means hackers 'can wipe Samsung Galaxy S3'. Malicious hackers can hide a code in a web page that will trigger a full factory reset of Samsung’s best-selling Galaxy S3 smartphone, deleting contacts, photographs, music, apps and other valuable data, security researchers have discovered."

Comment Re:Perhaps that is why there's a new focus... (Score 1) 406

AT&T has the second-best thing: SMS.

The funny thing is - they used to.

With iOS5, any iPhone owner who sends an SMS to another iPhone owner actually sends it through Apple, not over SMS! So suddenly the vast numbers of iPhones they are selling mean a dramatic drop in SMS revenue.

It makes you wonder if that's why the sudden squeeze in other areas, as they need to adjust for making less money from the same customer base.

That's the initial, default behavior in IOS5, but it's possible to disable that and send messages with normal SMS.

Comment Some help with "Morgen regnet es" in TFA (Score 1) 297

The article says "Morgen regnet es" in German translates to "It will rain tomorrow". But translate.google.com says it translates to "Tomorrow it's raining", which does not requre the "will", which seems critical to TFA's thesis. Can a German-speaker please say what is the common sentence to express the possibility of rain tomorrow? Google translates "It will rain tomorrow" to "Es wird morgen regnen".

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