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Comment Re:Dear Nintendo (Score 1) 189

by berglin on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @05:50AM (#30281018) Attached to: Nintendo Upset Over Nokia Game Emulation Video

Because owning a computer doesn't give you any inherent rights to anything. Why would owning a generic piece of hardware entitle you to anything Nintendo at all?

And, perhaps most importantly, because the software owners say so.

Comment Re:What Is The Upside To Reusing The Booster? (Score 4, Interesting) 226

by berglin on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @03:46AM (#27308869) Attached to: NASA Tests Heaviest Chute Drop Ever

But then we wouldn't have known how to build a reusable shuttle, which I'm sure left some residual science in other fields as well.

Some things are worth doing just for the sake of it.

Comment Re:I don't get it... (Score 1) 184

by berglin on Thursday January 22, 2009 @05:03AM (#26557623) Attached to: Microsoft Donates Code To Apache's "Stonehenge" Project

What do you mean "Microsoft isn't exactly known for backwards compatibility." I'd say that's one of the things they are extremely known for.

Usually, people complain about MS not ditching backwards compatibility in favor of "cleaner" implementations and here you are, saying that they are well known for doing exactly that.

I don't get it...

Submission + - Lawsuit Fears Prompts Dark_Alex to Leave PSP Scene (dark-alex.org)

Submitted by wamerocity on Tuesday July 03, 2007 @09:55AM

wamerocity writes: Dark_Alex, the PSP Homebrew God who has been delivering his "Open-Edition" firmware upgrades to the PSP has decided to leave the homebrew scene for fear of retaliation from Sony, reminiscint of what happened the the PS3 Hackers who found a way to load games from ISO images.

Rumors are beginning to arise on forums whether he was paid to leave or has already been threatened by Sony. Regardless he will be sorely missed.

Submission + - Dell censors IdeaStorm Linux dissent

Submitted by thefickler on Thursday March 01, 2007 @08:05AM

thefickler writes: It seems pointless seeking ideas and feedback if you 're going to ignore and delete the ones you don't like. That's exactly what Dell is doing with its IdeaStorm web site, which has been set up by the company to solicit ideas and feedback. It deleted a post that linked to an article that criticized its handling of the "preinstalled Linux" issue.

Submission + - Computer Pros Debate Windows Vista

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 01, 2007 @07:48AM

An anonymous reader writes: As a follow-on to John Welch's widely read review arguing that Mac OS X is superior to Vista, IWeek is running the first in a weeklong series of roundtables where a programmer, networking consultant, and 3 IT managers have a serious technical debate on the pros and cons of Vista. Among the comments:

(negative) "As to the Vista interface and features, I am having problems making the switch from my old XP habits.
(negative)"The Administrator mode that doesn't have all permissions."
(positive)"I am glad to say that the final product is a thousand times better than the beta products I used through the end of last year."

What's been your experience with Vista? More importantly, do you think it will ever gain traction among corporate users, or is its glitzy Aero interface destined to make it mainly a consumer OS?

Submission + - How to turn your iPod mini into a flash based iPod

Submitted by

mistermark

on Thursday March 01, 2007 @05:23AM

mistermark writes: "In this little proof-of-concept I was eager to try out if I could swap the Microdrive inside an iPod mini for a Compact Flash-card. These cards are getting bigger and cheaper by the day so my idea was, if this works out, we have a great way of extending the life of this little MP3-player..."

Comment Re:This is all fine... (Score 1) 379

by berglin on Tuesday November 08, 2005 @05:23AM (#13977374) Attached to: No More Lunar Land for Sale

And "anywhere else" in this case is defined as "anywhere else in the U.S."?

You know, there are places that might have different homesteading laws, which makes it a moot point. Which homesteading law should you implement? Canadian? Australian? German? Chinese?

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