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Comment Re:Android is NOT a useable tablet experience (Score 1) 740

by reverius on Thursday December 06, 2012 @01:55PM (#42205729) Attached to: Windows 8: a 'Christmas Gift For Someone You Hate'

When someone likes iOS or Android, it's because those things are good and they like them, but when someone honestly likes Windows, it's because they "believe the propaganda" or are a paid shill in their spare time?

Comment Re:This is a good thing (Score 1) 712

by reverius on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @05:18PM (#42122441) Attached to: Windows Blue: Microsoft's Plan To Release a New Version of Windows Every Year

I don't know where you live, but Microsoft's now 7-year-old console outsold Nintendo's brand new one by a 2-to-1 margin over Thanksgiving weekend: http://gamerant.com/xbox-360-wii-u-black-friday-sales/

Comment Re:You can't eliminate them (Score 1) 825

by reverius on Friday February 17, 2012 @06:18PM (#39079995) Attached to: Obama Pushes For Cheaper Pennies

Sounds like a 3rd world country. Maybe they should try having more taxes and less riots.

Comment Re:Uneducated advice line guy... (Score 1) 282

by reverius on Thursday February 16, 2012 @06:52PM (#39067215) Attached to: Microsoft's Killer Tablet Opportunity

The Fujitsu Stylistic ranges from 1.7 to 1.9 lbs. The iPad 2 is 1.33 lbs. At worst, this is 42% heavier, not "1.5-2x heavier". Fujitsu claims over 8 hours of battery life on their midrange model (1.9lbs total with that battery). Apple claims 10 hours, about 25% more. These numbers make the iPad look incrementally better, not insanely great.

http://store.shopfujitsu.com/fpc/Ecommerce/buildseriesbean.do?series=Q550
http://www.apple.com/ipad/

Comment Re:If selling is legal.. (Score 2) 281

by reverius on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @07:20PM (#38974259) Attached to: Selling Used MP3s Found Legal In America

Umm, Spotify?

Comment Re:Thanks for nothing, SC... (Score 1) 380

by reverius on Wednesday January 18, 2012 @08:30PM (#38743460) Attached to: US Supreme Court Upholds Removal of Works From Public Domain

Don't the assholes at Google have way more money than the assholes at Disney? Why is Disney seemingly winning this war?

Comment Re:Missing data (Score 1) 319

by reverius on Thursday December 22, 2011 @05:33PM (#38464952) Attached to: Average Web Page Approaches 1MB

user contribution based sites like YouTube and Wikipedia were nonexistent.

Maybe Youtube wasn't around, but according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia, Wikipedia was started on January 15, 2001 (almost 11 years ago).

Comment Re:I for one, hope they get this right (Score 1) 365

by reverius on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @09:04PM (#38443012) Attached to: HIV Vaccine Approval For Human Trials

From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a lentivirus (a member of the retrovirus family) that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS),[1][2]

Either Wikipedia is wrong, or you're wrong. It doesn't help your credibility that you're posting as AC.

Comment Re:Microsoft and open source (Score 2) 333

by reverius on Monday December 12, 2011 @06:09PM (#38348312) Attached to: Windows 8 Store Will Allow Open Source Apps

FireFox come from Mozilla not Netscape. You've lost all credibility with that comment.

And Mozilla came from Netscape: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla

You've lost all credibility with that comment, indeed.

Submission + - Linux devicemaker sued in first U.S. test of GPL

Submitted by on Thursday September 20, 2007 @04:45PM

An anonymous reader writes: For the first time in the U.S., a company is being taken to court for a GPL violation. The Software Freedom Law Center has sued Monsoon Multimedia over alleged GPL violations in the Hava, a place- and time-shifting TV recorder similar to the SlingBox. Interestingly, Monsoon Multimedia is run by a highly experienced international lawyer named Graham Radstone. According to his corporate biography, Radstone has an MA in Law from the University of Cambridge, England, and held the top legal spot at an unnamed "$1 billion private multinational company." He also reportedly held top management positions with Philip Morris, Pfizer, and DHL. Sounds like the makings of a good old legal donnybrook ahead.

Submission + - HCI blogger discusses the widspread misuse of mice

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 08, 2007 @05:58PM

An anonymous reader writes: Recently launched blog "The New Interface Advocate," has an entry about how mice are being applied to situations they are intrinsically poorly suited for. It also has an interesting proposal for how to keep most of the current paradigm of GUIs and still take advantage of the other control devices, such as the keyboard.

Submission + - English Wikipedia adds nofollow

Submitted by

Althazzar

on Saturday January 20, 2007 @07:12PM

Althazzar writes: "After being hit by another surge of spam because of a new SEO contest, Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales has ordered rel="nofollow" to be placed on all outbound links in the english part of Wikipedia to prevent SEO spam."

Submission + - OS software for the music educator

Submitted by

ari gold

on Saturday January 20, 2007 @04:17PM

ari gold writes: "i'm a high school music/CS teacher who is (and has been) looking around for some quality open source music software. music for music classes — open source so we can develop things and work with others on projects. where better to ask then right here? what DAWs are out there? audacity? rosegarden? are there software instruments/synths/modellers? can lilypond help where finale cant?

once we get it down here, people search the slashdot archives and enter the fantastic world of open source music.."

Submission + - Gonzales denies Americans have habeas rights

Submitted by

TrumpetPower!

on Saturday January 20, 2007 @03:42PM

TrumpetPower! writes: "This past Thursday, in response to questioning by Senator Arlen Specter (R, PA), US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told the Senate Judiciary committee that ``The Constitution doesn't say every individual in the United States or citizen is hereby granted or assured the right of habeas corpus. '' The exchange between Mr. Gonzales and Senator Specter has received virtually no attention from the press; Google News currently has all of a dozen or so stories. Habeas corpus is the right, in America guaranteed by Article I, Section 9, of the Constitution, which ensures that people are not unjustly imprisoned and tried."

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