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Comment Re:Do You Even Literate, Bro?! (Score 2) 376

Slashdot: The place where the most "interesting" and "insightful" comments are completely made up fantasies about what actually happened.

No, this is really Slashdot, so we need to figure out how to blame the victim. Then we'll be good. Bonus points if you can spin it to appear plausible that it was her fault (which it wasn't, of course.)

Comment Re:Please develop for my dying platform! (Score 1) 307

I'm sure he knows what net neutrality is, be he rightly knows that 99% of people have no clue what it is. He's trying to get some free press from a current topic that has nothing to do with his near-death company. It's what we call a desperation move: they have nothing remaining except the ability to make comments to the press.

We had clients ask for a BB version of our app. No one asks anymore because almost everyone has dumped BB.

Comment Hmm (Score 1) 1

Not sure why this one didn't get picked, since its more interesting than most of what made the front. Good to hear Apple can somewhat respond to urgent requests. Now if they could only get the approval process to a few days from two weeks.

Comment Re:No, it isn't. (Score 1) 222

Indeed, she's doing better than I thought possible. Merging with AOL is an absolutely brain dead moronic idea. There is nothing of value in AOL. That's like merging Tesla with a maker of horse buggies. Merging Yahoo and AOL has got to be the stupidest idea I've heard in corporate maneuvering. I guess the thinking goes, "lets take these two near death companies, merge them, sell our stock based on the excitement to cash out, then let them die." That's the only possible reason behind something so inane.

Comment Re:Deals? (Score 1, Insightful) 191

That's silly. Making products work with only your products is legal and has been going on for at least 100 years. If you get razors from company X you can't get blades from company Y. Like video games (that Apple mentioned in their argument) that work only in their console, if you get a DVD it won't play in your VCR, your AT&T phone won't work on Verizon, if you get HBO you can't record it without DRM in HD, only certain garbage cans fit into my cabinets trash drawer, etc. It's stupid to expect a company has to make their products universally compatible just because they have the industry-leading product. We have hand sanitizer dispensers and, guess what, they only let you use their packaged liquid. Only an idiot would think companies should be compelled to do otherwise.

And regarding the record companies, it was "use music with your DRM only or no music for you". So the alternative would be NO iPods or downloadable music. You'd be back having to buy a crappy album for a single good song.

Comment Re:UPS (Score 3, Informative) 236

Every UPS I've used, from cheap home ones, to full rack APC units, I've found that the batteries last about 4-5 years. The home unit needed $40 for new batteries (same OEM, not APC-branded.) They lasted 8 years, which I thought was pretty good. (And, yes, I do test it every year or sooner.) It's pretty cheap insurance and you can use the power in an emergency for things like inflating an air mattress if you have to sleep in the basement due to tornado warnings (yes, I've don that!)

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