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Comment Sonofabitch!! (Score 1) 168

I L O V E D that machine... My parents let me loose in the Science Centre throughout the late 70's and early 80's. It's been an inside joke between my wife (also a geek) and I for years... To this day, when she makes coffee she pronounces it like the machine used to when we last saw it - "COHEE?" What a blast from the past!

Comment Re:Windows 7? Nope, Ubuntu. (Score 1) 1213

On my personal machines, absolutely. However - I'm the continental head of IT for a large global retailer and I've been pushing hard to switch our POS environment to Linux for 2 years... Unfortunately, even though our JPOS software and all related apps and middle-ware will run in a Linux environment AND I've been able to prove that our support overhead would decrease significantly, I still cannot get buy-in from from the overlords. There is still a lot of fear out there, and in some cases an attitude of "if it's free it must be worthless".
Technology (Apple)

Submission + - So much for Apple, innovation and hype

mitack writes: June 5th: HTC, company based in Taiwan, listed on
the Taiwan stock exchange announces phone with touch
screen interface:
http://www.htc.com/press_room/03-press-070605.htm
the actual product:
http://www.htc.com/product/03-product_htctouch.htm

24 days later...

June 29th, Apple launches iPhone with touch screen
interface... (no links to 2nd place loser's products).

So, the Chinese have won in both technology and time
to market. In that light, I have a question:
What will happen when the Chinese master (Apple and
the likes's) ability to create legends and hype ?

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