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Comment He's not totally wrong (Score 3, Insightful) 1147

by blackholepcs (#27280591) Attached to: Ballmer Scorns Apple As a $500 Logo
Well, I'd rather pay $100.00 for the Microsoft logo and whatever I choose to spend on hardware that I put together and be able to play every game I want to play than pay $500 dollars for a logo and be limited to canned hardware configurations and nominal game and software titles. Not trying to be anti-Apple or pro-Microsoft here. He just has a bit of a point. In today's economy Apple has to be feeling the sting. It's there own fault for being overpriced on pretty much every level. That said, I'd love to have a Macbook. But I can't afford even a Netbook right now.

Comment Re:Duh (Score 2, Informative) 746

by blackholepcs (#26549129) Attached to: Is Microsoft Improving Its Image?

I don't have much problem with memory on my Vista system. I run idle with 150 MB of total Kernel Memory, and 645 MB of total physical memory used. This includes 44 processes. Also includes background tasks of Incredimail, Truecrypt, Logitech drivers, Spybot-SD Resident, Nvidia driver stuff, and a couple of other small things. That's not really a big deal with 2GB of DDR2 800 running @ 4-4-4-10.

What a lot of people on here don't seem to realize is that while Vista is bloated by default, you can unbloat it quite a lot. Turning off services, disabling or un-installing unneeded features, and general tweaking make a huge difference with Vista.

I suppose that if I was doing a lot of heavy video/audio/photo editing/creation, it would be a noticeable issue. But then, if I were doing all that, I wouldn't be using Vista either.

I was one of the people who said "I'll never install Vista on my machine." until I got it as a gift from someone. It sat on a shelf for about 2 months, and I finally decided to try it just for the heck of it. Well, it's been almost a year, and I can readily say I'll never go back to XP. Sure, XP was slimmer and a slight bit faster (compared to the way I install and configure Vista), but Vista is much cooler to use and has more features that I like, and is actually more stable in my experience. I've never had a blue screen with Vista, and only one reboot-requiring crash. And that crash was because of a motherboard problem, not a Vista problem.

In fact, the only complaint I have about Vista is because of the version I have. Home Premium. You can't access/use gpedit.msc in Vista Home Premium. This miffed me a bit. But, other than that, no problems at all. And no, I don't work for Microsoft or spread FUD for them. I just haven't had a problem with Vista, and thought I'd share that with everyone.
Microsoft

Microsoft Investing In "Open Source" Lab In Philippines 95

Posted by timothy from the damned-publically-if-they-do-or-don't dept.
jaromil writes "Following up its cozying up to OSCON, now Microsoft is launching its first 'open source' lab in the Philippines, paying for a huge media coverage. From the press release it seems they are also advertising the issue of 'interoperability' to outnumber one of the strongest features of open source in Asia: recycling old computers. Any suggestions for good stories about MS interoperability so far? :)"
Movies

Lucas Researching Concept For New Indiana Jones Film 272

Posted by Soulskill from the indiana-jones-and-the-search-for-his-dentures dept.
Cycon writes "According to George Lucas, 'The franchise really depends on me coming up with a good idea. And that series is very research-intensive. So we're doing research now to see if we can't come up with another object for him to chase ... hopefully we'll come up with something.' Lucas 'scoffed at the possibility of passing the famed fedora from Ford to Shia LaBeouf,' instead stating, 'if [Harrison Ford] wasn't in it, you'd have to call it "Mutt Williams and the search for Elvis."'"
The Internet

Submission + - Bluehost and Copyright/DMCA

Submitted by nnn2007
nnn2007 writes: Without notice Bluehost has shut me down after a banking institute claimed that publishing international banking law violated their (!?) copyright.

Apparently on Thursday (11/29) my hosting service provider bluehost received a request from a banking institute that "ISP 98" be removed.

On my web site on international finance law I had posted a couple of articles I had written and published the underlying laws. Laws is not 100 % accurate since in international finance, there are few conventions (that is government to government agreements to implement the same set of laws) but "international standard practices" (ISP), a set of rules agreed upon by banks and other interested parties, which everybody follows.

When asking bluehost today for technical support (Saturday), they asserted that bluehost's abuse department had contacted me.

Under the phone number on file I have not received any message from bluehost and since the last email I had received from bluehost dates from two weeks back, their technical staff suggested that bluehost had sent the email after they shut me down.

The banking institute never contacted me.

The shutdown means that I cannot access any of my several domains unconnected to the allegedly infringing site or receive email from them.

The request by the banking institute raises an interesting question whether international practices/customs can be copyrighted.
Businesses

Submission + - Blizzard and Activision merge (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by
Vicksplace
Vicksplace writes: "The companies behind Call of Duty and World of Warcraft are merging in a deal which could shake up the global video games industry. Activision and Blizzard have said they will form "the world's most profitable games business" in a deal worth $18.8bn (£9.15bn)."
First Person Shooters (Games)

Submission + - Ubisoft's Mislabeling Frustrates Gamers--Lawsuit 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It appears someone on Ubisoft's forums has created a post to explore the possibility of a class-action lawsuit against the publisher for misrepresenting the maximum resolution of a game. Ubisoft has also publicly acknowledged the issue in a support article at http://ubisoft.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/ubisoft.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=11934&p_created=1183071491&p_sid=AZn3tcSi&p_accessibility=0&p_redirect=&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MSwxJnBfcHJvZHM9MTQ4MywxNTM4JnBfY2F0cz0mcF9wdj0yLjE1MzgmcF9jdj0mcF9zZWFyY2hfdHlwZT1hbnN3ZXJzLnNlYXJjaF9ubCZwX3BhZ2U9MSZwX3NlYXJjaF90ZXh0PTEwODA*&p_li=&p_topview=1. Has a video game publisher ever been sued for mislabeling a game? Granted, it's only a game, but what resource does a gamer/the consumer have when a publisher misleads their customers? Could this be a catalyst the video game industry in paying more attention to the defect levels of their products? The post is at http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/8971060175/m/2961038316.
Government

Submission + - Help me fight the swiss dmca. (no-dmca.ch)

Submitted by
pyalot
pyalot writes: "The swiss goverment has passed a law that would make it impossible to cirvumvent effective copy protection measures. I have created a page to inform and organize a resistance against this law. If we collect 50'000 signatures until the 24th of January however, we can force a national vote on this law. Help me in any way that you can fight this law. I was first made aware of this two days ago by this article on slashdot."
Government

Submission + - Government bristling at criticism over sentencing

Submitted by
An anonymous reader writes: When I first read this, I thought good, they caught the rapists, but punishing the victim? What century do we live in? MSNBC has the whole story.

CAIRO, Egypt — Saudi Arabia is bristling at international criticism over the sentencing of a rape victim to prison and 200 lashes, insisting the West should stay out of its legal system. But the case could empower voices for change in the kingdom's Islamic courts.

The punishment of the "Girl of Qatif" as the rape victim is known, after her hometown in eastern Saudi Arabia was labeled "barbaric" by Canada. In a rare criticism of its Mideast ally, the White House called the Saudi court ruling "outrageous."

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal, in the U.S. for a Mideast peace conference, was visibly annoyed.
He should not be annoyed, but embarrassed.

DS Games for Pre-readers? 256

Posted by CmdrTaco from the what's-wrong-with-puzzle-quest dept.
ProfJonathan writes "My daughter just got a DS from the grandparents for her 6th birthday. She's only beginning to read, but wants a bunch of games of her own rather than just playing her older brothers' games. She got Nintendogs with the DS, so that's taken care of, but other relatives are asking what she might want. Can anyone recommend some good DS games that don't require reading skill, that might be age-appropriate and interesting for a 1st grade girl?" Wouldn't it be creepy if the kid had a really good brain age?

Is Comcast Heading the Way of the Dinosaur? 340

Posted by CmdrTaco from the giving-your-customers-what-they-hate dept.
CasualRepartee writes "Comcast has been one of the most successful cable companies in the world; in many parts of the U.S., Comcast sits pretty on huge user bases that don't have many viable high-speed internet alternatives. However, poor customer service, slow speeds and generally poor business practices could make the once-great internet giant another extinct dinosaur, no ice age required. The fact of the matter is this: Comcast is no longer the biggest and the best. Cable is taking a distant back seat to Verizon's FiOS (fiber optic service), which delivers speeds up to 50 Mbps download and 10 Mbps upload speeds. Unlike Comcast, FiOS delivers the full range of bandwidth to each user, whereas Comcast users are forced to share bandwidth with other users on the same coaxial cable, causing speeds to fluctuate dramatically with usage."
United States

Submission + - U.S. Claims Right to Kidnap British Citizens (timesonline.co.uk)

Submitted by
boarder8925
boarder8925 writes: "The U.S. federal government has informed Britain that it has the right to kidnap British citizens suspected of criminal offenses. The Times continues: "A senior lawyer for the American government has told the Court of Appeal in London that kidnapping foreign citizens is permissible under American law because the US Supreme Court has sanctioned it.""
Television

Submission + - NBC Universal gone from iTunes Store (setteb.it)

Submitted by
setteB.IT
setteB.IT writes: "On December 1st, as announced three months ago, NBC Universal TV channels (Bravo, mun2, NBC, NBC News & CNBC, NBC Sports, Sci Fi, Sleuth, Telemundo and USA) disappeared from the networks available on US iTunes Store's TV shows. As noted before from setteB.IT some shows broadcasted in US from these channels are still available on US iTunes Store because they are produced from other Hollywood studios, like 20th Century Fox, ABC/Disney, Viacom... NBC Universal has recently opened NBC Direct and Hulu (with Fox) to distribute the shows over the web. Here is the article on setteB.IT in Italian and here the automatic translation from Google."

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