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Comment: Re:Microsoft Pledges to Sell More Macs for Apple (Score 1) 765

Fair enough.

At work, I get the choice of the Dell "Power User" Business Lattitude. - Or?

A MacBookPro.

I need to run ESXi virtualised on top of Workstation or Fusion. Dell killed me, trying to get this to work - 4 cores and all...

So Apple's limited choice in models, and non-responsiveness to IT requests for support features plays to the interest of the user.

The Media

Fox News Ties 'Flame' Malware to Angry Birds->

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eldavojohn writes "The title of this hard-hitting piece of journalism reads 'Powerful ‘Flame’ cyberweapon tied to popular Angry Birds game' and opens with 'The most sophisticated and powerful cyberweapon uncovered to date was written in the LUA computer language, cyber security experts tell Fox News — the same one used to make the incredibly popular Angry Birds game.' The rest of the details that are actually pertinent to the story follow that important message. The graphic for this story? Perhaps a map of Iran or the LUA logo or maybe the stereotyped evil hacker in a ski mask? Nope, all Angry Birds. Describing LUA as "Gamer Code," Fox for some reason (popularity?) selects Angry Birds from an insanely long list in their article implying guilt-by-shared-development-language. I'm not sure if explaining machine language to them would alleviate the perceived problem or cause them to burn their desktops in the streets and launch a new crusade to protect the children."
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What should we do about Wikipedia's porn problem?-> 3

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Larry Sanger writes "In 2011, the Wikimedia Board committed to installing a "controversial content" filter even weaker than Google's SafeSearch, as proposed by the "2010 Wikimedia Study of Controversial Content." Since then, after growing opposition by some Wikipedians, some board members have made it clear that they do not expect this filter to be finished and installed. Nevertheless, as TFA makes clear, Wikipedia continues to host an enormous amount of extremely gross porn and other material most parents don't want their kids stumbling across. And this content is some of the website's most-accessed. Nevertheless, children remain some of Wikipedia's heaviest users. Jimmy Wales has recently reiterated his support for such a filter, but no work is being done on it, and the Foundation has not yet issued any statement about whether they intend to continue work on it."
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Comment: Re:Who is receiving the money? (Score 1) 338

So what do you do, as an artist, when you think that the 15-year-old with a $20 weekly allowance should only have to pay you $5 for your CD whereas a DJ who makes his living playing the same CD at weddings should pay you $100.

I'd say you should see a shrink. That's like charging Hertz $500,000 for the very same car that a private person can buy for $10,000. It's insane, and so are you for thinking it's rational or reasonable.

It also says you're an idiot for not realising that hearing your CD is likely to result in more sales for you.

Comment: Re:Linux on the desktop, now? (Score 1) 351

by mcgrew (#40185447) Attached to: Windows 8 Release Preview Now Available To Download

Nope, sorry, Linux still has major issues with driver, upgrades breaking shit, and with the DE wars and pulseaudio being flaky.

Why do you keep repeating shit that simply isn't true, hairy? I haven't had had any driver issues in over half a decade (I understand that two video card vendors are pretty hostile to Linux), the only upgrade I had that ever broke shit was the latest upgrade; Flash will no longer work because the box only has 750 meg of memory and Flash now needs a gig, but a newer box wouldn't have that issue. As to pulseaudio, Wikipedia says you're full of shit.

Issues
Older versions of Pulseaudio sometimes started to distort the processed audio due to incorrect handling of buffer over-/underruns.

Comment: Re:What? (Score 1) 351

That's a vendor doing their own integration on PoketPC.

Microsoft didn't offer RIL for radio stack integration until 2002:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Mobile

All of this is pedantic. MS phones came with A STYLUS, until 2006! They made shit phone software for 4 years, with no market success and had to be SCHOOLED by Apple.

The Zune 2nd Gen would have been a beautiful "catch-up" point for MS. They could have used their finally elegant iPod knock-off to build the iPhone knock-off. But they screwed that pooch in the kennel. The Zune IP was ditched and users abandoned, in the mindless pursuit to keep "Windows" relevant, and build anew for the tablet "strategy" they'd also gotten TOTALLY WRONG since 2004.

After spending over 12 Billion on R&D labs between 1999-2010, you think they'd come up with something other than wannabe OS's, devices and me-too cloud services.

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