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Comment Re:All the fun of a recession (Score 1) 898

Microsoft's interests are pretty clear here. Vista is a non-seller, and every day that its out on store shelves Microsoft is losing potential revenue to its bad street-cred. Regardless of how many people actually buy Windows 7, it's still crucial to release it as soon as possible. It might not be something the masses will clamor for right away, but its the idea is to hush the people screaming and moaning about Vista.

Comment Re:Innovation pays (Score 1) 269

Except... most people don't want cut and paste. They WANT iTunes to manage their music for them.

Most people want to be able to cut and past AND have any media player installed on their computer be able to manage their music for them, they just don't realize it because they are caught up in the iPod craze. It will happen eventually, and people will love it.

Comment Re:Those that haven't already changed... (Score 1) 455

and whoever deals with the web interface gets licenses for virtualisation software and windows + kubuntu. This way, everything will be tested on Safarai, Firefox, Opera, IE, Konqueror and Chrome.

Not only can you run Safari in the virtualised windows installation (which you might use for IE and chrome anyway), but you can run Safari with Wine. So yes, can run Safari. I'm not aware of any rendering differences between the Mac and Windows versions.

Comment Re:Innovation pays (Score 1) 269

Whats the obsession with overloading old people with technology? How useful is a PDA/SmartPhone if you cannot read the screen? I'd wager that any 65 year old lady that truly needed a PDA or SmartPhone is probably innovative enough to be able to figure it out, regardless of which model or manufacturer you give her.

Comment Re:Still not safe to use Suse of any sort (Score 2, Insightful) 173

Google is such a terrible company. They go around pretending to be the good guys by helping open source projects, promoting an open-source browser, developing an open source browser and supporting webkit, pushing standardization and inter-communication between chat clients. pushing for the use of free (as in beer) software. It clearly won't be long before we were wishing Microsoft was back and those rat-bastards at Google had never touched the web!

Comment Re:Obviously sign of jumping to conclusions (Score 1, Insightful) 626

Are you really surprised? From the an article.

Dr. Miller's data reveal some yawning gaps in basic knowledge. American adults in general do not understand what molecules are (other than that they are really small). Fewer than a third can identify DNA as a key to heredity. Only about 10 percent know what radiation is. One adult American in five thinks the Sun revolves around the Earth, an idea science had abandoned by the 17th century.

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