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Comment Re:And... (Score 0) 101

Chee thanks for stereotyping. I'm from India where calling a handicap just that doesn't bother him. Or calling a black person just that is no offense to anyone. So excuse me if I take your post with a pinch of salt. In the west we keep coming with terms just so someone is not offended, handicap becomes physically challenged and you can't even call your Christmas holidays "Christmas holidays".

Comment Re:pre-emptive stripping + unstrip with plugins (Score 3, Insightful) 243

I think a safe way would be to strip it and change the entire search framework to a plugin based system. later let third part apps put plugins into the search framework.

They already do this for sharing, facebook when install can add itself as a share provider and application wishing to share content automagically see facebook( or dropbox etc).

Comment Re:the fact that this worked is (Score 2) 181

I recalled watching some program where robber handed out a "hand me all your money" note on the back of his medical prescription.

Over time I realized that majority of these petty thief are doing what they are doing because they are too dumb or lazy to do anything else.

I mean it takes certain kind of an idiot to do stupid crime, the smart ones become bankers.

Comment Re:WTF? (Score 1) 251

I'm no apple fanboy, in fact I detest their close door policy bad enough not to own a single apple device. However, giving credit where its due, apple wasn't the first to any of those things. Apple nonetheless was the first to do it right. I used smartphone pre iPhone, Nokia's were great and WM5 touch interface was a joke. Apple did it right with their gestures and multitouch capacitive screens. Same with iPad, I played with tablets, but the tablet UI's "also a touch interface" mentality meant they were a joke.
  In terms of laptops, I don't like Apple ones at all, I don't see any innovation there except to make them pretty, I have seen feather light carbon fiber laptops equipped with top notch hardware at better prices than pretty little things from Apple.

Comment RIM is working on MDM (Score 1) 220

From all the rumors floating around and recent news that RIM hired Apple iOS developers, it seems RIM is building a BYOD mdm solution. From what I understand they are looking to partition the devices, BB, iOS and Android. The secure enterprise partition can be managed by RIM's BES or whatever they call it. Not sure how they will achieve this, sandboxing secure partition or what, but it sounds good on paper.

Comment 6000 HD movies (Score 1) 293

For the HD crowd
h.264 1080p video at 9kbps+1500kbps DTS channel is like 13634.8168 hours of video.

For the pirate people, thats like 6000 movies or so.

Sweet, at 3TB Raid at home, I'm already struggling to store videos from my HD cam. Fortunately I bought the MiniDV type so I always have tape backups.

Comment Wrong Science (Score 0) 324

To be honest, its science like this that does harm to global climate change initiatives.

I can't see humans drinking and then pissing changes ocean levels. Yah, I am exaggerating, but that is what we are saying. The same water that had got there anyway got routed and used, how does that explain sea level rise!

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