Comment Google must be terrified... (Score 1) 331
If BING was one of the attempts to "screw Google" then Microsoft are playing Pee Wee Morris to Google's Lassie.
Comment Re:Does this come as a surprise? (Score 2, Informative) 369
Amongst other things, they got caught with their pants down after they paid a market company to create a fake PSP fan site a couple of years ago:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/820/1041820/sony-fakes-psp-fan-site
Comment Re:All that trouble... (Score 1) 848
Personally, I'm going to find things very interesting when VII actually hits the streets. Will the masses jump? Are the masses just as tired of dancing the Redmond Slide like most of us
Unfortunately for Microsoft shit tends to stick, and the shit that accompanied Vista was very sticky indeed.
If the same people who avoided Vista in round one get it into their head that Windows 7 is Vista part deux, then it won't matter how much better/faster/prettier/resource-friendly (delete as applicable) it is. They'll continue to remain apathetic and stay away.
Comment Re:It is just WASTE. Fuck the E! (Score 1) 249
I suppose its better the iWaste
But who's going to pay the $50 required to salvage the battery from the iWaste?
Comment Re:if no sale, 10% cut in 280K salary (Score 2, Funny) 290
Wow. Only 66 employees? I wonder how many are actually working on products they sell?
I expect most, if not all, of the employees that are capable of finding alternative jobs will be long gone. The remaining 66 are either in golden-handcuffs or are drooling morons.
Maybe they should produce their own, reality-tv, version of "The Office" to raise extra funds...
Comment Re:Next up! (Score 1) 380
... then what better time to invest heavily in a Vietnamese furniture manufacturer.
Submission + - AMD Releases Open-Source R600/700 3D Code (phoronix.com)
lldmer writes: Phoronix has reported AMD released open source code for 3D acceleration on R600/700 GPU's:
Since earlier this year we have been waiting for AMD to release documentation and/or code on the ATI R600 series concerning 3D acceleration so that the open-source Linux drivers can begin to support the newer ATI graphics processors. It has taken longer than expected for AMD to complete and release this information, but it's now available. AMD has released the fundamental Linux code needed to begin fostering the development of an open-source R600 3D driver. Furthermore, this code also concerns the latest R700 series of graphics processors! The microcode for the newest GPUs has also been released.
MoBo Manufacturer Foxconn Refuses To Support Linux 696
Noodlenose notes a thread up on the Ubuntu forums, where a user is questioning the practices of hardware manufacturer Foxconn. The user describes how his new Foxconn motherboard caused his Linux install to freeze and fire off weird kernel errors. He disassembles the BIOS and concludes that a faulty DSDT table is responsible for the errors. Even though the user makes Foxconn aware of the problem, they refuse to correct it, as 'it doesn't support Linux' and is only 'Microsoft certified.' The user speculates darkly on Foxconn's motives. Read the forum, read the code, and come to your own conclusions. "I disassembled my BIOS to have a look around, and while I won't post the results here, I'll tell you what I did find. They have several different tables, a group for Windows XP and Vista, a group for 2000, a group for NT, Me, 95, 98, etc. that just errors out, and one for LINUX. The one for Linux points to a badly written table that does not correspond to the board's ACPI implementation.' The worst part is Foxconn's insistence that the product is ACPI compliant because their tables passed to Windows work, and that Microsoft gave the the magic WHQL certification."
