Comment Re:Advise (Score 1) 178
Also, please contact me if you want more information or you want to discuss your workstation.
Comment Advise (Score 1) 178
Hi gotfork,
I'm an assistive technology specialist and the it's a little hard to give advise without assessing your individual needs but I think a portable ergonomic platform simply does not exist. My advise is always to use the laptop on your lap. This will sacrifice your neck position but your wrists will remain in proper position. Also, read John Sarno's "Healing Back Pain." I've had great success with my clients and it has helped me get 100% back when I was injured.
Submission + - Is Foxconn deliberatley sabotaging Linux? (ubuntuforums.org) 3
Anonymous Coward writes: "A user on the Ubuntu forums posted a thread questioning the practices of the hardware manufacturer, Foxconn. From the Thread:
"I disassembled my BIOS to have a look around, and while I won't post the results here,I'll tell you what I did find.
They have several different tables, a group for Windws XP and Vista, a group for 2000, a group for NT, Me, 95, 98, etc. that just errors out, and one for LINUX. The one for Linux points to a badly written table that does not correspond to the board's ACPI implementation."
The worst part is Foxconn's insistence that the product is ACPI compliant because their tables passed to Windows work, and that Microsoft gave the the magic WHQL certification."
"I disassembled my BIOS to have a look around, and while I won't post the results here,I'll tell you what I did find.
They have several different tables, a group for Windws XP and Vista, a group for 2000, a group for NT, Me, 95, 98, etc. that just errors out, and one for LINUX. The one for Linux points to a badly written table that does not correspond to the board's ACPI implementation."
The worst part is Foxconn's insistence that the product is ACPI compliant because their tables passed to Windows work, and that Microsoft gave the the magic WHQL certification."
Comment Re:Style lawsuits.. (Score 1) 244
Defending style elements are critical to maintaining trademark protection, when that trademark is dependent on look and feel.
What are you talking about? Style elements? Trademarks do not cover 'style elements.' They cover words or symbols. You can trademark the name and the logo but you can't trademark a website. Unless they copied it VERBATIM then they don't have a copyright case either. The courts have been mixed on copyrights of GUI and, generally, they have been dismissed.
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