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Comment: Re:Meh (Score 1) 246

by Merk42 (#43723843) Attached to: Firefox 21 Arrives

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

by Merk42 (#43723241) Attached to: Windows Blue Is Officially Windows 8.1, Free For Existing Users
I'd like to ask this question of you, and everyone else that feels the same:
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:Adobe. . . (Score 1) 658

by Merk42 (#43646713) Attached to: Adobe Creative Suite Going Subscription-Only

...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:Art doesn't need remuneration (Score 1) 684

by Merk42 (#43579979) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Are There <em>Any</em> Good Reasons For DRM?

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:Worst Company? Seriously? (Score 2) 346

by Merk42 (#43405113) Attached to: EA Repeats As 'Worst Company In America'
Worst consumer company. Of the four you listed, only one, Bank of America, was even in the brackets. It did come in second to EA. I didn't vote and I'm not a consumer of either EA or Bank of America, but what has Bank of America done in the past year? I'm not saying they are innocent, I just honestly don't know since I'm not a customer.

Comment: Re:Disgusting! (Score 1) 96

by Merk42 (#43392177) Attached to: Study Suggests Patent Office Lowered Standards To Cope With Backlog

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

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