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Comment Re:what the flying fuck? (Score 1) 140

by Droolster on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @09:25AM (#45279145) Attached to: RIAA Targets 21 Sites For Shutdown

The music industry was rather hoping that there would be a market for higher quality than CD, in the form of SACD an DVD-Audio.

Don't forget the Blu-ray album reported the other week. To me, it just smacks of trying to get rid of music which is portable; let's all go back to strapping hulking disc (or, god forbid, cassette) players to our belts with bags of the relevant storage medium on our backs. Not that I think this so-called hi-def audio is a bad idea, just the execution of it..

Comment Re:Well... (Score 1) 413

by Droolster on Friday September 16, 2011 @10:03AM (#37419718) Attached to: Microsoft: No Windows 8 ARM Support For x86 Apps

Surely this was the point of the .NET virtual machine, to compile to CLR run on *?

..and it undoubtedly will run (pure) .NET apps just fine given a version of the framework ships with Win8; TFA talks about x86 and ARM native apps, not .NET

Comment Re:Let's not forget ... (Score 1) 207

by Droolster on Friday August 26, 2011 @03:32AM (#37216358) Attached to: The Press Reacts To Steve Jobs' Departure — in 1985

I mean, I think a proper GUI, plug-n-play, 32-bit multitasking, etc. were reason enough to distiguish it from win 3.11, but man, chill.

On paper, yes. In practicality, no. Did you ever even (try to) use Windows 95? The GUI and multitasking was a very poor attempt at what other other systems had been doing better for years; the plug-n-play aspect was a joke - the plug-n-pray anecdote duly deserved, if you could get working drivers.

Wait .. why does it feel I'm describing Vista?

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