Comment Re:I'll take Christmas Grumbling (Score 1) 422
It's not exactly a new phenomenon either...
There are those who act rich, yet have nothing; and those who act poor, yet have great riches.
(Proverbs 13:7)
Comment Re:Confusing naming (Score 3, Funny) 152
...and a 9xxx card is older than either of them. It's all perfectly logical. :-)
Comment Re:Secrecy (Score 4, Insightful) 870
Whatever happened to justice against people who commit (war) crimes?
That "justice" only ever existed for the war criminals on the losing side. Silly.
Comment Re:Easily swappable parts (Score 1) 151
Not necessarily. Apple's machines are generally very well designed but are generally a pain in the ass to dissemble and service.
That depends on what you mean by "well designed". Apple's offerings look good, and are decently sturdy, sure. They aren't designed with serviceability in mind, though. If anything they're designed to be a pain in the ass to service, so that noone besides Apple service points will want to touch them.
There should be no reason why a laptop couldn't be well designed like an Apple, and easy to service. These are in no way mutually exclusive, which was the GP's point.
Comment Re:Easily swappable parts (Score 1) 151
Not only that, but this might finally be a way to not being forced to pay the M$-tax on laptops. At least in this country it's currently - for all practical purposes - impossible.
Also, I used to work for a computer repair shop. We would have eaten these things up. We really hated the typical laptops which were a RPITA to work with, and almost impossible to fix even when you discovered the problem. I've really been looking forward to something like this.
Comment Re:Fatally flawed!! (Score 1) 509
Let's take the "Pedestrian detection with auto brake" feature for example:
Let's also hope it works better than their vehicle detection with auto brake... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ6z3IArINI
Comment Re:My understanding is .... (Score 1) 357
While that's what the purely semantic meaning of the phrase would imply, it's not what the OSI means by "Open Source". Their definition http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd is far more narrow. So is the FSF's definition of "Free Software" http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html and these are the definitions most people use...
Comment Re:non-operating temperature range... (Score 1) 484
Perhaps Finnish winters aren't as frigid as I was led to believe.
Hmmm... (looks at thermometer). A nice brisk -24 C. I think I'll defrost my freezer today. Just toss the stuff out on the balcony, and I'm set.
(Posting from Helsinki, Finland)
Comment Re:I'm inpressed by the chemists who deduced ... (Score 4, Informative) 169
The funny thing is that the first person to deduce this (Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz) realized the solution to the problem of structure, after having a dream in which a snake bit its own tail.
Comment Re:A semantic quibble about these things (rant?) (Score 1) 461
No problem: "half life" is just the period of time that an atom has a 0.5 probability of surviving.
I believe that the GP was referring to the fact that the word "atom" means "undividable". But that's just my guess, of course...
Comment Re:Tinfoil hat wearing crowd said this was man-mad (Score 1) 249
But let's start spreading those conspiracy theories anyway!
Yes, let's. Business has been slow lately.
Submission + - Legal Action Against Students By their University
FSM_follower writes: I have recently read on http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/6 686619.stm about legal action being take against students writing on private friends linked site such as myspace. Surely it is for private use and expression of oppinions in a free and open way. How can you possibly take legal action when it is a private oppinion expressed to friends over a private linked site between friends.
Please read the link and comment, someone will know the full story and explain.
Submission + - It's real: Dell sells PCs with Ubuntu preinstalled
javipas writes: "Today could mark a turning point for the history of Linux. Dell will start today 4pm CST selling three machines with Ubuntu 7.04 preinstalled. The two desktops (XPS 410n, $899 and Dimension E520n, $599) and the notebook (Inspiron E1505n, $599)will be the first three machines with the popular Linux distribution installed by default. Dell has announced that they will provide hardware support, and they've created a new site devoted to give further Linux support and updates. At the moment the offer is available in the US, but we all hope the rest of the world can enjoy it very soon. Good luck!"
Submission + - Microsoft: 'XSS exploitable IE-bug is by design'
Robbedoeske writes: "Because of broken mimetype sniffing, a completely valid gif- or png-image can be used to run malicious scripts and xss exploits. Microsoft was informed on this matter, but it let us know that this behaviour is by design and won't be fixed untill Internet Explorer 8, somewhere in 2138."
Submission + - Microsoft will not sue over Linux patents
San Muel writes: In an official statement, Microsoft has said it has no immediate plans to sue after alleging patent infringements by open-source vendors for the time being.
"If we wanted to go down that road we could have done that three years ago," said a Microsoft spokesperson. "Rather than litigate, Microsoft has spent the last three years building an intellectual property bridge that works for all parties — including open source — and the customer response has been tremendously positive. Our focus is on continuing to build bridges."
"If we wanted to go down that road we could have done that three years ago," said a Microsoft spokesperson. "Rather than litigate, Microsoft has spent the last three years building an intellectual property bridge that works for all parties — including open source — and the customer response has been tremendously positive. Our focus is on continuing to build bridges."
