completely off topic because Fox is no getting any money from your cable provider that could pay for the programming, and this complaint is about a feature that turns the screen black and k skips thecommercials, the user doesn't even have the opportunity to see if he would like to not watch the commercial. it's a systemic way to block out the ads, not an individual walking out of the room during a single break

but they did rework the whole win32 stack, and apps won't simply work on Arm by recompiling. only metro apps will be accepted in the AppStore, afaik, and that's the only way to install apps on arm

wow my machine doesn't even have the shockwave player installed - that's how old that game is.

he's trying to say that phones are globally overpriced, and not onto in Apple world However, I think what's missing here is to factor in the complexity of these devices. they are computers, and are not really comparatively overpriced. But it seems the bozo who wrote that summary thinks that if a carrier can sell the iphone at 99$, then that is the price of the phone. Forgetting all how the the subsidies work

probably because at 399$ the iPad is slow at cost or below cost to education. for most product you have no idea what the cost price is, there is nothing unusual about the iPhone. Ho, and yes, a smaller device with a cell phone radio could be more expensive to product, that's also reasonable.

it's a bit dickish of microsoft to kill the store, but I think it was even more dickish to turn off the MyPhone backup service (it was like iCloud) basically, they gave cool things to Windows Mobile and took them away. They should have not bothered at all. Poor management, like the Kin.

there are many windows mobile app stores, you can install apps from any source from the phone

Microsoft has 90,000 employes, so hireling a few more lawyers wouldn't move the needle, IMHO. it would be smarter if you asked for the legal or lobbying budget compared to r and d! it's already known they largely got screwed because they were not politically savvy in the 90s, and rectified that after.

better money, better benifits, better position, perhaps moving out of washington? who can tell really.

No one said he was a on a personal cruisade against google just because he worked on that. he's a laywer and an expert in that domain.

whether the advertiser profited wrongly from the video depends on youtube's EULA which the uploader agreed to, not just copyright.

Was this rant written in 1999? On my home PC (not SSD or anything), outlook 2010, which connects to the office's exchange server, start in 1 second. So does Word. Photodoshop does scan a few plug-ins before starting up.. it takes 3 seconds. The demagogy part? basing things on prejudice rather than facts and claiming programmers don't care about startup time, and the splash is the symbol of our carelessness for the user. btw, I don't know where the summary gets this web thing.. it's not really what the article says

good luck with that.

you have no clue what the gpl is there for. tthe GPL is there is force source code to remain available to the user so we can modify the programs we use. without copyright law, we don't get that right to the source code.

bit worse in this case because MegaUpload offers cash rewards to user to upload very popular files, thereby slyly encouraging people to upload content that is understood to be pirated. And they have chat logs with the owners that prove they are aware of this and this is their business models. But that's not a legal argument and I can't see at this moment how that would invalidate safe harbour protection. It's not so different from youtube. then again the DOJ must have something if they think it won't fall on its ass futher down the line. Apparently they do have something on money laundering, and therefore may not be going for copyright violation at all.

I'm glad they are standing up for MegaUpload's right! The founder barely managed to make 46 million dollars last year with it, now how will be able to pay the mortgage with the accounts frozen?? How are they going to build the wells in Africa now? Having so much money is *hard*: a constant burden to stay ahead, avoid taxes, getting robbed, etc. Everyone wants a piece of you. The plight of the black people of america is nothing to compared to this. We should start up a site with donation through paypal to support MegaUpload's humanitarians. We could also have a service that allows you to donate faster (given a reasonable monthly fee).