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Journal Journal: What I wish was forthcoming from Apple

Journal by jonnycando on Saturday May 23, 2009 @12:38PM

So the pundits and slashdotters are supposing a tablet device will come from Apple next year. All well and good if so, and I hope it does well, but what I really want is a netbook. A reasonable priced netbook. Well we all know there'd be a premium to pay to have such a thing. Gosh, Apple spends millions just to design the cardboard boxes its computers come in. Still it's a good bet Apple could make plenty with a netbook, and I'd be happy to buy one. I know the rumour mill insists it's coming; an

Comment Re:old German cars? Bwahahaahah (Score 1) 280

by jonnycando on Saturday May 23, 2009 @12:25PM (#28067421) Attached to: Russia To Save Its ISS Modules

350000 miles? Why she'll be broke in soon!

Submission + - MySprint Internet Explorer Only 1

Submitted by rickyrick74 on Friday May 22, 2009 @10:59PM

rickyrick74 writes: Sprint's MySprint site was down recently for a few days. Later, the Vice President Mike Cooley sent an email to customers explaining the issue, apologizing, assuring everything was working now, blah, blah. To my dismay, I tried to login as I had been trying for days and it still did not work! I had a sneaking suspicion and fired up Internet Explorer and it worked. I sent an irate email to customer service saying that everything was *not* okay because it did not work with Firefox. Here is an excerpt of the response I got.

"At this time, the MySprint website is not compatible with Mozilla Firefox, therefore, we cannot troubleshoot this concern. Our website is only compatible with the Internet Explorer web browser."

What??? I was floored. Does anyone else see a problem with this? Curious to see Slashdotters' feedback.

Journal Journal: Head in the Clouds...not

Journal by jonnycando on Thursday May 21, 2009 @10:13AM

http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/67127.html This link points to a Linuxinsider article concerning among other things the beta of Ubuntu One, and makes much about cloud computing which many are talking about these days. I just want to say to anyone or no one, that I for one, do not wany my files and data stored online. Hello? If I fail to take backups or my computer goes up in smoke it's no one's fault but mine. But put my faith

Comment It's about time (Score 1) 138

by jonnycando on Thursday May 14, 2009 @05:48PM (#27957863) Attached to: Daydreaming Is Really Complex Problem-Solving

Vindicated at last!

Comment Re:Related (Score 1) 5

by jonnycando on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @06:14PM (#27944895) Attached to: Acer doesn't want to sell you a computer

I'm pretty sure there's more than enough room in this rant for the both of us.

Rant all you want, I'll rant more!

I have you bookmarked so I can read interesting things like this. Good luck with your Gateway but do let me suggest if you are willing Tiger Direct can sell you all the pieces you need for whatever you want, and their service is terrific. I am not bird dogging for them, but I do like to build my own box once in a while. At least then I don't have to pay the M$ tax! Oh had a Gateway laptop for years and gave it away still running. If you choose to go that way you should come out OK.

Comment Re:Great business plan! (Score 2, Informative) 70

by jonnycando on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @06:02PM (#27944767) Attached to: Linux.com Relaunched Under New Management

Does it to me too....logins one after another unless you can click cancel fast enough to dismiss them. Using Firefox 3.0.1 with Ubuntu 8.04 netbook remix on Dell Mini 9. Guess my Mac would do the same since the website appears to be ahem, faulty.

Comment Re:Simple Solution (Score 1) 500

by jonnycando on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @07:49AM (#27935597) Attached to: McDonalds Free Wi-Fi Users Soak Up Seating

Go to Panera Bread. They have free wi-fi there, too. The food is quite a bit better, and healthier, than all that fried and preprocessed crap that McDonald's dishes out,...

And they don't seem to mind if I sit there for 30 minutes......

Comment Re:This is why I have ~10 VCRs (Score 1) 165

by jonnycando on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @07:29AM (#27935481) Attached to: Can Cable Companies Store Shows For Us?

...I'll stick with technology I know will work, instead of frustrating me. That's why I never upgraded to Vista. (zing!)... This is why I don't do windoze!

Comment To reduce this to simpler terms......... (Score 2, Interesting) 165

by jonnycando on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @10:48AM (#27922073) Attached to: Can Cable Companies Store Shows For Us?

Bad enough my cable company can figure out what I watch: I don't want them storing my stuff for me. Even if it's legal to do so, it is not wanted, and I am sure the cable company will figure out how to make mincemeat of privacy once I allow them to store my TV shows and movies. The more you allow others to do for you, the more you let others control you.

Apple Freezes Snow Leopard APIs 256

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @05:25AM from the see-you-at-the-base-camp dept.

DJRumpy writes in to alert us that Apple's new OS, Snow Leopard, is apparently nearing completion. "Apple this past weekend distributed a new beta of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard that altered the programming methods used to optimize code for multi-core Macs, telling developers they were the last programming-oriented changes planned ahead of the software's release. ...`Apple is said to have informed recipients of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard build 10A354 that it has simplified the`... APIs for working with Grand Central, a new architecture that makes it easier for developers to take advantage of Macs with multiple processing cores. This technology works by breaking complex tasks into smaller blocks, which are then`... dispatched efficiently to a Mac's available cores for faster processing."

Comment AdBlock unblock? Hello? (Score 1) 615

by jonnycando on Monday May 11, 2009 @06:37PM (#27914629) Attached to: Adblock Plus Maker Proposes Change To Help Sites

The trouble with this plan is that; whether to see or not see adds is MY choice. Not an advertisers choice nor the choice of AdBlock's author. And not the developer of some website who allows ads to be placed. Yes, I understand ad space is sold to pay for the website, but the truth remains, the choice is mine if I want to see them. Maybe if ads weren't animated, weren't made with Flash, and just sat there like a magazine ad I wouldn't block many, in fact I might click on a few that looked interesting.

Comment Re:i can only hope. (Score 1) 3

by jonnycando on Sunday May 10, 2009 @02:41PM (#27898501) Attached to: Oklahoma not OK with Bailouts

I don't think there's any steps toward secession here. The truth of state sovereignty is understood well in many states. And to assert said sovereignty is not a prelude to secession. The several states are each and everyone sovereign. All rights are the rights of the States except those specifically reserved for the Federal government.

Comment Re:But... (Score 5, Insightful) 594

by jonnycando on Sunday May 10, 2009 @02:28PM (#27898423) Attached to: Warrantless GPS Tracking Is Legal, Says WI Court

So when/if I find such a device on my car it belongs to me doesn't it? And I'm not giving it back. And I'm not paying any bill they send me.

If I find such a device on my car, not only shall I not return it nor pay for it I shall feel free to destroy it, as I did not put it there, and do not want it there.

Trademarks Considered Harmful To Open Source 226

Posted by kdawson on Sunday May 10, 2009 @01:13AM from the say-pretty-please dept.

An anonymous reader touts a blog posting up at PC World titled "Trademarks: The Hidden Menace." Keir Thomas asks why open source advocates are keen to suggest patent and copyright reform, yet completely ignore the issue of trademarks, which can be just as corrosive to the freedom that open source projects strive to embody. "Even within the Linux community, trademarking can be used as obstructively as copyright and patenting to further business ends. ... Is this how open source is supposed to work? Restricted redistribution? Tight control on who can compile software and still be able to call it by its proper name? ... Trademarking is almost totally incompatible with the essential freedom offered by open source. Trademarking is a way of severely limiting all activity on a particular product to that which you approve of. ... If an open source company embraces trademarks then it embraces this philosophy. On the one hand it advocates freedom, and [on] the other it takes it away."

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