Comment: Re:copyright exempt? (Score 1) 297
Comment: Re:Meh (Score 1) 246
I don't even test new web designs in Firefox; only IE, Safari and Chrome.
You might consider starting, since FF's 20% market share is approximately equal to the combined share of Safari and Chrome.
What website is this with these numbers??
Comment: Re:My guess is that MS will compound their error (Score 1) 491
How is the start screen worse than the start menu other than "it's different"?
Don't give me some all change is good/bad response, that's not what I'm asking. Also I don't use Windows myself so I don't really have an opinion regarding Windows 7's UI to Windows 8's
Comment: Re:Look for all your save games to disappear... (Score 1) 78
Comment: Re:Will this make mobile games less awful? (Score 1) 78
Try doing that with a NintendoDS 4D ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha (or whatever they are called now)
I know right? They added one character to the name of the handheld and now it's soo hard to get right. Could you imagine if phones did that with later versions of their devices???
Comment: Re:Mac OS X (Score 2) 435
Comment: Re:Adobe. . . (Score 1) 658
...people using photoshop at their jobs are going to be editing huge files, and they certainly don't want to have to wait for those to upload before they can
get cracking.
Good thing all your files and the software itself is local then!
The 'cloud' name is because you have the option to have files remotely and also (mostly) a marketing buzzword.
Comment: Re:Income (Score 1) 684
That model only works because the company paying for the FOSS could use the features they are paying to be coded.
The music/movie labels don't want the song/film for themselves, they want the money it'll generate from sales.
Comment: Re:Art doesn't need remuneration (Score 1) 684
One set of people who would be hurt by this hypothetical perfect DRM are the poor who would never be able to afford to pay for it. One can argue back and forth about the justice of this but the fact remains that only the wealthy would be able to afford certain digital content.
So people are either "poor" or "wealthy" and nothing in between?
Comment: Re:I think I'll wait for something Free (Score 2) 274
Comment: Re:leave it alone (Score 2) 394
Comment: Re:Worst Company? Seriously? (Score 2) 346
Comment: Re:Simple (Score 4, Insightful) 346
Comment: Re:Disgusting! (Score 1) 96
It is sickening in the extreme to think that it's possible to deny other people access to information, simply because you thought of it first.
The default is to deny other people access to information because you thought of it first.
The patent system exists to help get the information into the public domain quickly, instead of having it kept as a trade secret for decades.
So when you're trolling on the patent system, try to understand its primary function first.
The problem is patent holders have forgotten the monopoly is supposed to be temporary, and then it's publicly available