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Replacing a Thinkpad? 902

Posted by kdawson on Friday September 28, 2007 @10:33AM from the swimming-against-the-race-to-the-bottom dept.

An anonymous reader writes "As a very happy Thinkpad T20 user (still working after 7 years), I always planned on replacing it with another Thinkpad T-series. However, Thinkpads are now produced by Lenovo, a Chinese company, and I can't quite bear to buy Chinese while the Burmese military are shooting at monks with the Chinese Government as their biggest backer. Maybe this is silly, as whatever I buy is likely to be made (at least in part) in China... but still, what are my options for something as well built as the Thinkpad T-series?"

EU May Force iTunes Store To Accept Returns 252

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 12, 2007 @02:42PM from the putting-a-dent-in-the-bottom-line dept.

Sweet Harmony writes "ArsTechnica is reporting that the European Union may soon require online music stores to accept returns. A review of European consumer protection laws has highlighted online sales of 'digital content services' as an area where existing consumer protection laws need to be harmonized. 'The EC would like to standardize cooling-off periods along with other aspects of the EU's consumer protection laws. One of the issues being considered is whether the rules on consumer sales should apply to 'digital content services' like music.'"

Submission + - Motorola unveils phone that bends

Submitted by on Monday February 12, 2007 @02:23PM

An anonymous reader writes: According to CNET, who are out at 3GSM in Barcelona, Motorola has unveiled a phone that bends in order to make putting it up to your face more comfortable. The Motorola Z8, as the bendy phone is called, runs on a Symbian based platform and also displays video at up to 30 frames per second.

Submission + - The state of virtualizing OS X

Submitted by seriouslywtf on Monday February 12, 2007 @11:11AM

seriouslywtf writes: There's been a lot of speculation about whether people will eventually be able to run Mac OS X in a virtual machine, either on the Mac or under Windows. Well, it seems that both Parallels and VMWare have definitively told Ars Technica that until Apple explicitly gives them the thumbs up, they're not going to be enabling users to virtualize OS X even though it may be possible to do so. From the first article, Parallels said:

"We won't enable this kind of functionality until Apple gives their blessing for a few reasons," Rudolph told Ars. "First, we're concerned about our users — we are never going to encourage illegal activity that could open our users up to compromised machines or any sort of legal action. This is the same reason why we always insist on using a fully-licensed, genuine copy of Windows in a virtual machine — it's safer, more stable, fully supported, and completely legal."
And VMWare added:

"We're very interested in running Mac OS X in a virtual machine because it opens up a ton of interesting use cases, but until Apple changes its licensing policy, we prefer to not speculate about running Mac OS X in a virtualized environment," Krishnamurti added.

Comment Re:You've Got it Backwards (Score 2) 249

by Houyhnhnm on Friday May 28, 1999 @10:29AM (#1875843) Attached to: Deep Magic: Matrix, Menace and Virtual Reality

alkali wrote:

The philosophical antecedent for The Matrix is really the work of the French philosopher and mathematician Rene Descartes:

I disagree. The concept ("All the world's an illusion, and the only way you can transcend it all and attain nirvana is by truly believing that it is so") was propounded by the Hindu Vedanta philosophy of Shankara (first century AD). Shankara himself was re-stating the earlier Upanishads in a more consistent manner. Descartes was 17th century AD. It is also interesting to note how much of Hindu life is influenced by this concept ("Maya", we call it).

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