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Comment: Re:Wait, what now? (Score 1) 390

by Aighearach (#40119473) Attached to: Free Desktop Software Development Dead In Windows 8

A bit off-topic, but people who are paid by companies to post in forums should be required by law to state that. It's like in newspapers where ads that look like articles are required to indicate that they are ads.

No. In newspapers that only happens when the ad is selling something. If they have a paid "article" to push a social or political agenda, or to say nice things about a company or a product, they don't tell you. It is only when the advertisement itself is directly selling something that they have to tell you.

Note that no law protects honestly. Only false advertising is prohibited. And pro-[company] astroturfing benefits a company, but it is not selling anything directly and so even if it is a lie it is legal.

Comment: Re:Why Forbes name Ballmer one of the worst CEO? (Score 0) 390

by Aighearach (#40119439) Attached to: Free Desktop Software Development Dead In Windows 8

You are now about to be bombarded with people calling you an idiot just because Linux suits their narrow needs and they're quite happy to spend ages fucking about with it.

Don't be such an idiot, if it suits my needs I don't need to spend ages fucking about with it. In that case you either enjoy fiddling and do, or don't and don't.

Comment: Re:Jobs would have found someone else (Score 2) 330

by Aighearach (#40013893) Attached to: Wozniak Calls For Open Apple

Jobs might have left lumps of gold in the toilet every morning, and yet, it would not somehow be some sort of argument against Woz, his accomplishments, or his current ideas.

Why do Jobs fans feel so threatened by the idea of a Wozniak? Is it not enough to worship Jobs as a Dead God, is it really necessary to tear down the people who got him there in order to do it?

Comment: Re:No one at Apple listens to that Steve anymore (Score 1) 330

by Aighearach (#40013843) Attached to: Wozniak Calls For Open Apple

I thought it was, Woz built the computer in his home office, and the garage involved was Jobs's parents' where they started the business.

The iPod is a copy of the Sony Walkman?! That is the best you do?? I would have thought he copied the Diamond Rio or the Creative Labs Nomad.

Actually if it wasn't for Jobs, Woz probably would have founded the Open Hardware movement instead of getting rich.

Comment: Re:And who were the attackers? (Score 1) 114

Waiting to see a repeat of the crime while it is in action, and watching in secret sometimes for years while additional felonies are being committed... is the normal way that crime is investigated. If there is not an immediate danger to people, they often prefer this more thourough approach.

If you don't know that already, it means you are ignorant of the topic. Knowing you are ignorant, then when something sounds "wrong" and you actually don't know, that is called a "learning opportunity."

"Who cares if it doesn't do anything? It was made with our new Triple-Iso-Bifurcated-Krypton-Gate-MOS process ..."

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