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Comment Re:I really wish they would try this (Score -1) 858

The country is already divided pretty equally down the middle. Religious zealots want pro life, guns, war, and no Gubberment. Non religious sensible folk want universal health care, no war, no class warfare, etc. Basically you can choose to progress to the future or regress to a cave, depending on which side you choose.

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Submission + - Nvidia loses huge order due to binary blob (phoronix.com)

David Gerard writes: "Phoronix reports: The Chinese, who also developed the Loongson MIPS CPU, were looking to order at least ten million graphics processors. The problem is that the GeForce/Quadro driver from NVIDIA is only available for Linux x86 and x86_64 architectures, not MIPS or even ARM (only the Tegra driver is for ARMv7). NVIDIA refused to release the source-code to their high-performance feature-complete cross-platform driver to the Chinese, and it would cost them millions of dollars to port the code-base, so they went to AMD for their GPU order."

Comment Re:Curious about their future (Score 1) 148

No! Diversifying is the worst idea! One phone, one model, keep it simple. Android is too fractured, iPhone has one model, with a service pack released about every 9 months. Apple success is because of the simplicity, one model with slight hardware variations over the course of what like 5 years? Which means most apps on the 3GS works on the 4S. OS5 apps don't always work well with OS6, and wont even run on OS7. I love my Blackberry (Have the Torch 8910, wish I had a Bold 9900...) and my Playbooks! OS2 is amazing!

Ditch the Curve, Torch, Storm, Pearl, That silly flip phone thingy, and stick to the Bold. Keep the Qwerty, more battery life and security hype, and hammer it home that App World has just as many app's as any other App store out there (Take away the 1000's of duplicates and you have about 33,000 unique apps, about the same as BB App World.)

Go #TeamBlackBerry!

Comment Q.Q (Score 1) 375

All I see is a bunch of pew pew and QQ. All these features iPhone and Android either just got, don't have, or might get in the next release are all the same secure feature Blackberry has had forever. Why do droves of idiots flock to iPhone and Android? Malware ridden, data snooping/stealing/selling, billboards in your pocket that you pay a premium for just sounds horrendous!

I guess 5000 fart apps and 1000 apps that when I shake my phone sounds like a shotgun is worth it?....

Comment Re:Lovely and Intuitive? (Score 0) 500

Currently in college finishing off degree, and had to take an office 2007 class, also use word and excel several times a week for school related projects.

I prefer using LibreOffice but Microsoft just does Office so well, its like if all you do is spreadsheats and word processing than Microsoft Office is where it is at. Luckily VirtualBox saves the day and allows me to stay in a comfortable work environment and still use those silly Microsoft softwares.

Not seen any studies, I have seen end users machines I work on ask for office 2003 to be installed because they don't want the ribbon, I have heard from teachers and classmates in and out of the class who have a great distaste for the ribbon, I have also heard my mother nag at me because of the ribbon when I installed Office 2007 on her laptop.

Not saying NO ONE likes it, just haven't found anyone who does...

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